I have ideas that explain how it works, and why everything follows the pattern, and why we find is so attractive, and even how to use it practically and predicatively. It even relates to string theory, sound, perception, emotions, and a whole boat load of other things.
Could you elaborate further?
Same here, but I could not wake up at 4am every day and research candlesticks all day. Also, I wanted to do day trading but you need something like $30,000 grand in your trading account to do it legally. With the amount of money that I played with, the transaction fees would eat my profits... LOL
True, the stock market isn't really designed for the every day person, it's more or less a "game" for rich people.
Poker is an easier way to make money and it's under regulated, you play any time, and you can make good amount of money playing it. I don't like gambling, but I don't consider poker or the stock market to be gambling. Every once in a while I play slot machines and I win consistently, but this has to do with good ol' Fibonacci, floor layout, and how casinos work. I have been considering switching professions to poker recently but I haven't made the switch.
For some reason I could never quite get the hang of poker. :/ Although, I only tried playing it a few times in my life. With that said, I did play chess quite extensively when I was younger, unfortunately no one wants to play with me anymore because they all think it's "boring".
I haven't read much in my lifetime, but I want to start. I don't know who that is but I will make a note of it. The book that I want to read is "The Power of Movement in Plants" which I'm pretty sure is going to take me months to get through.
Just out of curiosity, what is this book about?
I just read a small clip about Alan Watts, and it sounds like he is into Zen. I haven't studied Zen or Buddhism so I am speaking from personal opinion.
I used to follow the Buddhist philosophy to a degree, it actually, really changed my life, I'm a pantheistic atheist now. I know that sounds contradictory, however, the reason I identify that way is for a few reasons.
1. I tell Christians, and generally all followers of the Abrahamic religions that I'm an atheist, since It's easier than explaining pantheism.
Also, if I said that I view nature as "god" (I'm using that term
extremely loosely here) they would essentially try to hijack my philosophy and say "Ah ha, so you
do believe", and personally, I find that shit, extremely annoying.
Plus, when people generally refer to "god" they are referring to the "god" of Abraham, and I am almost 100% certain, that the "god" of Abraham is a complete myth made up to control gullible people.
2. As for pantheism, I don't even like to refer to nature as "god", it sounds too simplistic, however, I do have a degree of respect (and possibly even reverence) for nature/the universe as a whole.
Nature and science is the same thing. Nature is created by a very simple set of rules which put together has virtually limitless possibilities. The fact that such a small set of rules can create a conscious being that can comprehend that it's possible is fascinating to me. Nature is beautiful, and so is the expression of the human product of nature. Zen to me means to flow with Fibonacci. Surrounding yourself with nature and art can produce Zen-like feelings. If you meditate, you are in perfect harmony when your brain is in sync with the natural flow (Fibonacci) of the universe and all things in it. It also allows you to communicate with animals and other living things. I think that is why Buddhists are so peaceful towards living things.
I agree with you on this, science, is essentially the study of nature, and is much more fulfilling then going to church could ever be. (in my humble opinion.)
There have been times, when I would spend night after night, doing scientific research, I would even have strange dreams regarding my research.
This might sound like woo, however, once I had a dream that I was traveling faster than the speed of light, the faster I traveled, the more spherical I would become, then, once I finally surpassed the speed of light, it was like I was no longer moving through the cosmos, but the cosmos was moving around me, then, I became the center of a beautiful star.
It was quite strange, however, after I woke up, I felt like I had an epiphany, later that day, I calculated the surface gravity of the sun, and played around with the numbers in hopes of discovering something new. I'm not sure why, but I had this intuitive feeling that, perhaps some sort of "force" was moving faster than light, at the center of stars, and essentially "powering them". It might sound strange, however, this was just my personal research I was doing one day, I didn't really even think about getting any ideas like that published, out of fear that they would be ridiculed.
Silly note: I was about to edit the word "created" out of the last paragraph to prevent a creationist from claiming I believe in creation. But then I thought about it and I really did mean "created" but the creators would be small mechanical systems called atoms (or whatever scientific discovery in the future replaces atoms with a better explanation). This does not make any suggestions about the existence a god or intelligent designer. The fact that I feel like I have to point this out is ridiculous; but so are creationists so they made this necessary. I think that god would be existential which means non-existant, however I will concede to say that language does not provide me with a better word to call something that was beyond existence but was real.
I don't blame you, I don't like it when creationists hijack my arguments either, as I stated before, it infuriates me when they do that, it's sad that these things have to be pointed out.
With that said, as for intelligence, the god of Abraham seems to be bullshit. I don't know if nature itself is intelligent or not, I'm not qualified to give an opinion on that, however, anything is possible I suppose.
That is a brief of my personal philosophy anyways. I want to study Buddhism but I always think about everything first so that I have my own view so that I don't fall prey to information bias. I have done this for a very long time because I figured out really early in life that adults are wrong about almost everything so you can't trust the word of anyone until after you figure it out for yourself first. I am lucky that I figure this out so early, and I have noticed that many figure it out when they are old and already have been programmed by other people's knowledge which at that point is impossible to sort through. Heh, more of my personal philosophy in life.
I agree, most people who claim to know something (in terms of absolutes) generally don't know their heads from their asses haha.
To answer your question as to why people are so easily coerced into mob mentality, look up swam intelligence. Basically a group of people is another conscious entity that can make decisions separate from the group. It's just natural to act that way and those people are what I would call flowing with Fibonacci. They are just misguided and in appropriate circumstances it is helpful. For example if you walk in to a room and everyone is sitting quietly, you go and sit quietly. You know that doing that is appropriate because of mob mentality. If we didn't have that ability, humans may have been naturally selected and we wouldn't exist.
I've always been kind of aware that groups tend to become another conscious entity in and of themselves, although I didn't know there was a theory for it. I'll have to look into it later.
Also, you're right, it did help us from an evolutionary standpoint, although, there are many times when it can be extremely harmful to humans as a species, especially when logical reasoning suffer (or is outright dismissed!) because of it.
I think that my concept of relativity is different than the generally accepted concept of relativity. Relativity explains time in my opinion. Time is not linear; it is just a matter of perspective. We see time from our perspective. We can change our perspective by changing out location, and see everything from a different view. Also, because of our physical mass and size, we each have a slightly different perspective. When you imagine that a bug is really small, and that their brain can make connections faster than ours so they have a different perspective on time as well. Why do you think flies are so hard to swat? Their reflexology is inherently faster than a human’s because of mass. The same is true for the universe. It's just a larger version of what we see all around us. We each exist in our own relative space-time bubble. We take up a specific amount of space and time real-estate. If time can bend from large objects, then small objects also bend time, just to a smaller degree. So to me, as humans we can change space and time by drinking a glass of water. Even something as small as an atom would also have the same ability to bend space and time. With all of that said, an atom would probably see light particles pass by like falling stars. To us, it's the speed of light and time would have to freeze to match the speed. An atom would not realize it is part of a person because we are so large, and from its perspective it can only see other atoms. It's just all relative to mass and size, which gives you a different perspective on the universe.
I think if you can understand what I'm saying then you can also see the world from another perspective. It's like watching an episode of the Cosmos. They show you the universe from another perspective and it's truly a mind-blowing experience. I watch and episode of that and I have to take a break and let it all sink in.
I've known this for a while, since time and space are
relative to an object of mass, that object of mass (in this case, humans, or animals) will "perceive" time differently, for example, I'm a pretty big dude, so "my time" moves slightly slower then, lets say, the time of a small dogs'. (perhaps that's why I'm late for appointments so often lol.)
With that said, all that we can perceive is essentially, just light, when you try to perceive the in-perceivable, such as moving faster then the speed of light, or even just thinking about frequencies on the EM/light scale and how they form the world around us, it can be truly mind bending.
Also, sorry for the long response time, I just wanted to make sure that I would have a coherent answer before responding.
Also, on a side note, it seems I'm getting the intellectually stimulating conversation I came here for, this makes me happy. (not being sarcastic, since it's sometimes hard to tell online.
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