

The link between cause and effect is specious at best.
The desire for profit inspires fiction.
The link between cause and effect is specious at best.
The desire for profit inspires fiction.
I can’t today, but maybe tomorrow. Like I said, no hard limits yet.
I have not yet encountered any hard limits.
That is a hasty conclusion.
It can by eliminated via a meditation technique. The Buddhists call it vipassana.
It, like “paying attention”, is a thing that you can do with your attention.
Yes, there are actually 2 things that you can do with your attention. The directing/focussing/concentrating etc of “paying attention” is just one of them.
Jesus. I had no idea. He was a superhero.
The edge of the continent curls over, everything gets dragged into the elemental garbage disposal of grinding rock and lava. Cities, cars, forests, buildings, everything. It takes a couple million years. But ya, everything gets digested. I think they call it the subduction zone.
Also, someday we will invent nanotrees. Plant them on ancient landfills. Bear fruit of pure iron, aluminum, gold. There is wealth there.
Wait. What was that pizza place called? With a Greek guy who said pizza pizza. And it was 2 pizzas. And the pizzas were impaled on a spear. And it was pretty good pizza.
You read my mind.
Those skates!
What are you talking about?
(I’m a sperg. Or post-sperg. I meditate a lot)
That makes sense.
I think that the biggest thing about paying attention and ignoring is the invisibleness of habitual ignoring. You could have an entire skyscraper of habitual ignoring, rendering an entire universe invisible, and never know it.
To be fair copyright is a disease. But then so is billionaires, capitalism, business, etc.
I mean, if there’s a war, and you shoot somebody, does that make you bad?
Yes and no.
I believe it.
Replace “number of basketball passes” with the dozen really important things that we all must pay attention to as adult members of our modern society.
Replace “moonwalking bear” with the various species of ghost, elf, pixie, fairy, spirit and little people reported in ancient literature.
In stage magic they call it “misdirection”. I suspect that it comprises the backbone of our reality.
When you ignore a thing it disappears. Like, you stop seeing it. It disappears from your reality.
Paying attention / ignoring can become a habit.
And habits are basically invisible. So if you had a bunch of attention-controlling habits, slicing and dicing your reality like this, you’d never know it.
In all probability this is the case.
So there could be a thousand elves and ghosts dancing around and you’d never know it.
I’m taking it the wrong way.
You’ve got a guy who can see better. Deeper or clearer or whatever. The seeing is key here.
And the seeing can be improved and cultivated. So you see even deeper and clearer.
One of the first things seen is beauty. A really good look at beauty. So good that it can be used as a guide.
When you use beauty as your guide when manipulating a medium like music or drawing or words or whatever, you get beautiful results and people call you an artist.
When you take that seeing further, you see other things, and gain the ability to do other things. “Magic” and such.
That’s the first counterargument on my mind too.
Me too. It’s called drafts. First draft, second draft, etc. It’s only natural that you will find bugs, think of better ways to say stuff, realize stuff. It’s organic and proper.
And he’s the moderator of “atheism”. Where’s the interest in the subject?
You’re a moderator of “atheism” but you don’t want to discuss it? Come on.
I hesitate to assume cause and effect. I mean it makes a nice story but I wouldn’t marry it.
Also, it’s like talking to medieval fundamentalists in here. You don’t see it because you all agree with each other.