LOL...I didn't know this was a discussion about evidence. I didn't require evidence from any of your assertions. There is no wrong or right here. I'm just pointing out what one of the greatest scientific minds in modern times has said concerning the origin of Awareness.
he's intellectually dishonest, imperialism-cheerleading scum, but under the circumstances I feel I'm going to have to bite my pride, swallow the bullet and quote Christopher Hitchens
What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence
to say that it's not a discussion about evidence is to declare that one finds the truth or falsehood of the matter to be irrelevant. it's an anti-progress, anti-human way to think. anything doesn't go, statements are either true or they are false. even the ones that seem to be partway between break down into wholly true and wholly false compartments. I am a hard liner, this is my hard line
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Obviously, what he is saying is nothing new and it mirrors what the ancient gnostics have been preaching for thousands of years.
they were talking bollocks. sorry to have to break it to you like this.
also, how long something has been claimed for has nothing whatsoever to do with whether it's true or not.
But why would this great scientist include this in his writings? He must have had some sort of evidence himself, he was no idiot, and he took science seriously to say the least. Have you ever read his Bio or any of his works?
I only can tell you from personal experience , that "we" the awareness of ourselves are much more than just humanoid creatures inhabiting the earth, and maybe that is why we see paranormal activity. That "awareness" is connected to us in our physical lives and is incapable of death, even when the material body dies. Its like a small part of us doesn't belong to this dimension and sometimes when we pass on we get caught between what is physical and what is eternal.
you sound like David Icke. Now David Icke is someone who I have a lot of time for, in a strange way. He's closer to the truth than someone who believes that bourgeois democracy represents the majority or that our rulers have our best interests at heart. nor is he insane, shapeshifting alien lizards or no - his beliefs are no stranger than, for example, thinking that the unleaved bread you're eating has become the flesh of Christ. That said, the man is wrong about everything, that is wrong in everything he claims and also wrong in the way he goes about asserting them. Do not be like David Icke. We can aspire to more.
It doesn't hold much water from a scientific aspect
therefore it is NOT TRUE. that is what it means when you say that something doesn't hold much water scientifically. in fact we don't even need a "therefore" here. "It doesn't hold much water from a scientific aspect" and "It's not true" are exactly equal in meaning, it's just that one is more linguistically parsimonious.
because science can only explore that which is contained in the five sensory, three dimensional world, but you have to admit, anything in this universe is probable and most certainly possible.
what the christ, oh dear oh dear. NO. science has explored and continues to explore a reality with many more dimensions (as in up-down, left-right, past-future) than we have any chance of visualising. but to make things a bit simpler, can you detect radiation with your five senses?
no, everything is not possible and especially not probable. perpetual motion machines are not possible thanks to the laws of thermodynamics, for example. i use this example because it shows us some of the potential consequences of this kind of woolly thinking. there are con-men who make a living out of tricking others into investing into perpetual motion machines and by believing anything to be possible you leave yourself open to that sort of attack. what's worse, by propagating that kind of thinking you weaken the minds of others and so strengthen the most predatory and parasitic of humans.
no, I am compelled to do something but there's no admittance involved. you have to contemplate your failings and until you've done so for honour's sake you should not use a microwave, which after all works in a way not discernible to the five senses. nor should you use a digital watch as these days they too usually use radiation, if i remember right. if someone blatantly lies to your face you may not call them on it because after all everything is possible or even probable. and if you get injured by all that's real you better not have an x-ray done.
