I apologize for my preconceived judgement then, but i react ridiculously to the ridiculous. Let me explain. I have said previously that i am open minded.. but i also lack 'faith' because of what i have learned and experienced (nothing amazing, just think cause and effect) and what is in front of me, i believe. Now we all know what the human mind is capable of in its darkest hour (or so one may think) and it only takes a sane, logical and objective person to realize what is ridiculous and what isn't.
Theres a difference between capability and probability, and unfortunately you are deluded (for lack of a better word) to this idea which seems so finite, now you can argue all day about "if it weren't a possibility then why would XXXX people be arguing about the same thing?" well just look at any convincing voices ability to channel their idea to a collective - the comfort that can be found in other people with similar ideology and beliefs can bring people together.. and they can even end up believing their own stories. I just think that these ideas you present with Daddywaddy are from the same type of mind that thought up X-Men and Battlestar Galactica, sure i'm always happy and open to imagination and love dreaming and what can happen when the mind runs wild, but when it causes disruption to truth and reason then i oppose.
Oh and what i've highlighted in your post is fairly ironic i think.
It's clear to me that you're an open minded person. Your resistance to submitting to belief systems of any sort is probably the most divine act a person can do, and I respect that. And it's that kind of person, the critical thinker, who will shed light upon the dark world we live in by fighting for truth and justice.
Although I gratefully accept your criticism, I don't know exactly which ideas of mine you think are deluded. Ones I recall discussing with wadders recently was 2012, where I simply provided the evidence of physical changes in our solar system, which is interesting and might be relevant, but who knows. Certainly not I and I don't claim to know the answers to anything. Just throw out ideas. I also mentioned my belief that mankind is undergoing conscious evolution. The evidence for that exists and is all around us. That paradigms are being shifted on a growing scale.
More and more people are becoming like us and questioning things and seeking the truth and now, being in this information age, we have the answers to many of our questions at our fingertips. And that's helping to faciliate conscious evolution. And the more of us exist, perhaps the more we invade the collective.
So what ideas do I suspend my existence upon? None. I believe that the purpose of life is to simply live. I believe that the universe is an infinite being with no beginning no end, no concept of time whatsoever. And life for us, these creatures who are consciously aware and can explore the universe of which has created them, is to do just that: to learn and create. Learn and create. That's all there is to this ride.
My most compelling ideas come from recorded and shared mystical experiences. Near death (
www.mellen-thomas.com/stories), psychedelic trips (
), sensory deprivation (
), meditation, and other forms of "ego death", which I experienced myself. Many people would say that because there's no precise scientific instrument that can measure these experiences, they simply can not be, but they are frequently described as more real than the real we're aware of.
I don't believe these things because I'm easily duped. I've been an agnostic since I was 8 years old and in catholic school. I believe these things because one day I learned about this drug called DMT. A drug that induces the most powerful psychedelic trip known to man, yet is a chemical that's naturally produced by your brain during sleep and near death experiences and also exists in every living thing. A drug that makes you trip not into an altered state of consciousness, but into another fucking dimension. And it's been scientifically researched! Dr. Rick Strassman researched the effects of DMT for years and wrote DMT: The Spirit Molecule (amazing). Since then, I've been passionately curious of the mysterious.
