Re: [FairfieldLife] Buddhist Logic, was The Hebrew Language is The DNA of Creation

2014-12-12 Thread Share Long sharelon...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Richard, for me it's summed up in the only statement one can make, imo, with 100% certainty: awareness exists. As far as I can tell, that's the only thing I can know for sure. What do you think? From: 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]

Re: [FairfieldLife] Buddhist Logic, was The Hebrew Language is The DNA of Creation

2014-12-12 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On 12/12/2014 6:26 AM, Share Long wrote: Richard, for me it's summed up in the only statement one can make, imo, with 100% certainty: awareness exists. As far as I can tell, that's the only thing I can know for sure. What do you think? We are aware of being aware is the same thing as saying

Re: [FairfieldLife] Buddhist Logic, was The Hebrew Language is The DNA of Creation

2014-12-12 Thread salyavin808
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote : Richard, for me it's summed up in the only statement one can make, imo, with 100% certainty: awareness exists. As far as I can tell, that's the only thing I can know for sure. What do you think? Well I agree. All we actually

Re: [FairfieldLife] Buddhist Logic, was The Hebrew Language is The DNA of Creation

2014-12-12 Thread Share Long sharelon...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
salyavin, I simply meant that if I am aware of anything, it is the presence of awareness which is certain. The anything, not so much due to limitations of our senses. From: salyavin808 no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, December 12, 2014 11:07 AM

Re: [FairfieldLife] Buddhist Logic, was The Hebrew Language is The DNA of Creation

2014-12-12 Thread seerd...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
imo, with 100% certainty: awareness exists. Opinions are fun. But are not fact. Exist have objective reality or being. to have being to continue to be Are we aware of awareness 24/7? Some claim they are, but really, how would they know for sure.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Buddhist Logic, was The Hebrew Language is The DNA of Creation

2014-12-12 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Re Yet, if awareness ceases in non-REM Sleep stages 3 and 4, we would not be aware of that gap: As you always hear your alarm clock when it goes off in the morning you must have *some* awareness even in the deepest sleep. Re How do I even know that my current awareness of awareness is

Re: [FairfieldLife] Buddhist Logic, was The Hebrew Language is The DNA of Creation

2014-12-12 Thread seerd...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
As you always hear your alarm clock when it goes off in the morning you must have *some* awareness even in the deepest sleep. Is my PC actually on, before it is turned it on? (And of course my alarm goes off in early morning hours when I am already habituated to begin wake up -- in

Re: [FairfieldLife] Buddhist Logic, was The Hebrew Language is The DNA of Creation

2014-12-12 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sharelong60@... wrote : Richard, for me it's summed up in the only statement one can make, imo, with 100% certainty: awareness exists. As far as I can tell, that's the only thing I can know for sure. What do you think? On 12/12/2014 11:07 AM, salyavin808

Re: [FairfieldLife] Buddhist Logic, was The Hebrew Language is The DNA of Creation

2014-12-12 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, seerdope@... wrote : As you always hear your alarm clock when it goes off in the morning you must have *some* awareness even in the deepest sleep. Is my PC actually on, before it is turned it on? (And of course my alarm goes off in early

Re: [FairfieldLife] Buddhist Logic, was The Hebrew Language is The DNA of Creation

2014-12-12 Thread Share Long sharelon...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
s3raphita, I've encountered here and there the idea that even though we individuals are aware, we are only aware of objective experiences. Meaning that the universe is aware through us. Personally I think awareness is BOTH subjective and objective (-:But maybe only because it's Friday!

Re: [FairfieldLife] Buddhist Logic, was The Hebrew Language is The DNA of Creation

2014-12-12 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Re Meaning that the universe is aware through us.: That's another theme from those 19th-century German idealists. Originally evolution was an unconscious act but the evolutionary process creates conscious beings (of which we humans are top dogs, natch)so that the World Spirit can become

Re: [FairfieldLife] Buddhist Logic, was The Hebrew Language is The DNA of Creation

2014-12-12 Thread seerd...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Woody Allen - The Atheist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pAObJ_rIU4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pAObJ_rIU4 Woody Allen - The Atheist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pAObJ_rIU4 A neurotic, pessimistic, Jewish atheist. I do find it somewhat surprising and odd that this iconic,

Re: [FairfieldLife] Buddhist Logic, was The Hebrew Language is The DNA of Creation

2014-12-12 Thread anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
There has been some research with anaesthesia that indicates that when the brain is shut down by the various drugs, when it wakes up again, it boots up something like a computer, with various functions coming 'online' one after the other. This is a bit more complicated than the booting of a

Re: [FairfieldLife] Buddhist Logic, was The Hebrew Language is The DNA of Creation

2014-12-12 Thread emily.ma...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
This is fantabulous! Loved it all the way to the end. Perfect for this forum. It is up to the artist in all of us..., imho. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, seerdope@... wrote : Woody Allen - The Atheist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pAObJ_rIU4

[FairfieldLife] Buddhist Logic, was The Hebrew Language is The DNA of Creation

2014-12-11 Thread 'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]
On 12/11/2014 1:24 PM, Share Long wrote: salyavin, I think the 2 simplest answers are: the universe never started; it just always was or, the universe is starting at every nanosecond. Which one of these is most wobbly, do you think? In order to answer this question you would have to apply the