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What are you favorite philosophical and political quotes?

"row, row, row your boat gently down the stream
merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily
live is but a dream"


-unknown

Read the wikipedia article on the meaning behind that nursey rhyme, made me lol so much.

"This may in fact be a commentary on the paradoxical nature of time's arrow with respect to man's free will in a universe of materialistic causality"

^Those are literally just random words put together in a sentence.
 
"row, row, row your boat gently down the stream
merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily
live is but a dream"


-unknown

Accept Surrender & Keep Faith - That which is real will be retained.

merrily merrily merrily merrily

whats right is not a dream
.

:)

Read the wikipedia article on the meaning behind that nursey rhyme, made me lol so much.

"This may in fact be a commentary on the paradoxical nature of time's arrow with respect to man's free will in a universe of materialistic causality"

^Those are literally just random words put together in a sentence.

are they? i would search yourself before wikipedia.
 
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Accept Surrender & Keep Faith - That which is real will be retained.

merrily merrily merrily merrily

whats right is not a dream
.

:)



are they? i would search yourself before wikipedia.

Yes... Yes they are... It's claiming that man has free will in a universe of materialistic causality, which he doesn't so its not a paradox at all. Man has a very cool way of experiencing the universe imagining himself to have free will, but materialistic causality kind of by definition means that we react to the material around us. Our very conciousness is material, as someone who often changes it by ingesting psychoative materials should be aware of that.

As for what time not being able to go backwards as to do with it I don't know.... He just said words cause they sounded fancy.

I'm terribly sorry if I'm being inane and shallow and can't see past the literal meaning and into the magical metaphorical duality of the of the poem that explains that we are both at the same time manifestations of the universe observing itself as well as the perciever's of reality and therefore reality is defined by how we perceive it to be. Who can really say what reality is, if we hold a certain perception of it to be true then there is no way of knowning that it is not. If we can conciouslly control what we think, we can control what we believe and therefore we can control reality, finally we cannot escape the deduction that I am God. If I am both the universe observing itself and God at the same time it can be deduced that the universe is God and creates itself and therefore every act of physical laws playing out is actually a concious act produced by the universe influencing the the laws that influence the materialistically based percption of man so that man indeed does have free will for it is his free will that is constantly changing the laws of physics to allow for a free will to exist. Oh and also I can make time go backwards :p
 
i think the wiki statement is concise and accurate in its interpretation of the rhyme. you are mistaking it to be commenting on the nature, but it isn't. it's only about the rhyme.

either way the words are far from "random", neither literally or anecdotally.
 
Yes... Yes they are... It's claiming that man has free will in a universe of materialistic causality, which he doesn't so its not a paradox at all. Man has a very cool way of experiencing the universe imagining himself to have free will, but materialistic causality kind of by definition means that we react to the material around us. Our very conciousness is material, as someone who often changes it by ingesting psychoative materials should be aware of that.

As for what time not being able to go backwards as to do with it I don't know.... He just said words cause they sounded fancy.

I'm terribly sorry if I'm being inane and shallow and can't see past the literal meaning and into the magical metaphorical duality of the of the poem that explains that we are both at the same time manifestations of the universe observing itself as well as the perciever's of reality and therefore reality is defined by how we perceive it to be. Who can really say what reality is, if we hold a certain perception of it to be true then there is no way of knowning that it is not. If we can conciouslly control what we think, we can control what we believe and therefore we can control reality, finally we cannot escape the deduction that I am God. If I am both the universe observing itself and God at the same time it can be deduced that the universe is God and creates itself and therefore every act of physical laws playing out is actually a concious act produced by the universe influencing the the laws that influence the materialistically based percption of man so that man indeed does have free will for it is his free will that is constantly changing the laws of physics to allow for a free will to exist. Oh and also I can make time go backwards :p

its about going against the grain, and being yourself no matter what.

Mathew 18:11
11 “See that you do not despise one of these little ones. For I tell you that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father in heaven.

12 “What do you think? If a man owns a hundred sheep, and one of them wanders away, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the hills and go to look for the one that wandered off?

13 And if he finds it, truly I tell you, he is happier about that one sheep than about the ninety-nine that did not wander off.
 
i think the wiki statement is concise and accurate in its interpretation of the rhyme. you are mistaking it to be commenting on the nature, but it isn't. it's only about the rhyme.

either way the words are far from "random", neither literally or anecdotally.

I guess everyone takes their own meaning from things.
http://youtu.be/E7tM8XsaP1Y?t=7m32s (7:32)
 
"A monk told Joshu: 'I have just entered the monastery. Please teach me.'
Joshu asked: 'Have you eaten your rice porridge?'
The monk replied: 'I have eaten.'
Joshu said: 'Then you had better wash your bowl.'
At that moment the monk was enlightened."

-- The Gateless Gate



""

-- a snail
 
What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry combined with a belief that the torture of millions is not desirable, whether inflicted by Stalin or by a Deity imagined in the likeness of the believer.

Bertrand Russell
 
"Every kid starts out as a natural born scientist, and then we beat it out of them."

"A few trickle through the system with their wonder and enthusiasm for science intact."
- Carl Sagan
 
"Every kid starts out as a natural born scientist, and then we beat it out of them."

"A few trickle through the system with their wonder and enthusiasm for science intact."
- Carl Sagan

Have you liked the "I fucking love science" page on facebook? They posted that recently. It's a pretty cool page, they upload tonnes of cool photos of shit :)

"As Garp put it, "You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else." Even if these so-called endings are illusions." - John Irving
 
Have you liked the "I fucking love science" page on facebook? They posted that recently. It's a pretty cool page, they upload tonnes of cool photos of shit :)
I'm checking it out now! I actually saw it on the "The Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science (Official)" FB page. I see some awesome quotes on there.

Another one stolen from there is:

"I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day"
- Douglas Adams
 
I'm checking it out now! I actually saw it on the "The Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science (Official)" FB page. I see some awesome quotes on there.

Another one stolen from there is:

"I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day"
- Douglas Adams

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They uploaded that a little while ago. Also google image sand struck by lightening it's pretty whack.
 
"The wisest man is he who knows, that he knows nothing"
Aristotle

"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was only among the things you only hoped for"
Epicurus

"Everyone thinks about changing the world but no one thinks about changing himself"
Leo Talstoy
 
"I think it's very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not defined by another person."

-Oscar Wilde
 
“My technique is don’t believe anything. If you believe in something, you are automatically precluded from believing its opposite.”

I think we all know.
 
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