Thy Plague Doctor

Laughs I don’t think Alan Watts is particularly logical, but it’s a nice view of our place in the universe. It’s all speculation, and if there were to be an afterlife there’s probably a huge beurocracy with eternal waiting rooms, a la Beetlejuice 🙂

You should perceive “reality” however it pleases you to do so. If you find life easier to…[Read more]

@Gregg. You can drink beer at 18?

Probably the cost-effectiveness, because we can pretty much nanochip these days. You could add it to the gun price and promote it as a feature, maybe :). You know, the more you pay, the more it’s worth – and all that.

@Unseen. My last laptop had a fingerprint scan mechanism which substitutes as a password. I wonder how hard it would be to transpose that mechanism onto a gun trigger. It was really easy to add other people’s fingerprints when there was need, and just as easy to delete them.

You could transfer gun ownership really easily with such a mechanism…[Read more]

I find it interesting that guns and people co-exist where I live now (Vermont, USA) because I didn’t grow up in a gun-friendly country, and I kind of half expected everyone around me to be toting guns when I moved over from the UK.

In fact, I rarely see anything resembling a gun, despite Vermonts open carry laws. I’ve been trying to be as open…[Read more]

I used to have this short video posted on my TA account Lily, of Alan Watts talking on “sort-of” spirituality without a god 🙂

Why yes, of course! The lack of belief in a supernatural being does not imply the lack of spirituality. I, for one, do consider myself ‘spiritual’, as I experience awe and wander on a daily basis—when I see ‘miracles’ of nature, of the vast space out there and within ourselves or of science. When I look at my son growing up and learning new skill…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:

Of course, the other problem with Pascal’s Wager is which deity to place your bet on. What if it’s Ahura Mazda, Allah, or Odin and not Yahweh?

That’s a perfect rebuttal of Pascals Wager 🙂

@Lars. It’s always interesting to see a decline in religious avenues, but this one is not that, so what is it? Is Putin aiming for an atheist state? I very much doubt it, the Orthodox Church is pretty powerful over there. Is he aiming for a single state religion? Seems a bit more likely. Then we get to why?

Perhaps once he is operating in…[Read more]

If by spiritual you mean being aware of the kinds of interactions and connections you have with others and trying to understand how to better relate with others (with some help with epirical research) including some proven forms of meditation and breathing/stretching exercises…exposing yourself to as many experiences as possible, trying to stay…[Read more]

Winter Lily wrote:When someone is spiritual they are emotional about something like for example how most Christians feel a connection to there bible might just be them feeling emotional about it.

Absolutely. Faith and belief are very emotional fundamentally – and science is factual. They seem to appeal to different parts of the brain. When…[Read more]

Swastika Information, fantastic, the sign is at least 12,000 years old!

@_Robert_ that’s fascinating, and I had no idea the image commonly known as a Swastika was the Native American symbol. How cool is that? (the info, not the logo).