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originally posted by: SheepDipped
a reply to: tetra50
Now, this thread should be getting interesting soon. Can we try not to derail it with private conversations that are not on topic?
originally posted by: Kantzveldt
a reply to: Bybyots
At sundown in the GMT+5 Time zone it will be determined whether KPB is a shaman or not...
originally posted by: SheepDipped
a reply to: tetra50
Nothing you do is a cognitive response. Ever. You breath on impulse, your body moves on impulse. Neither are conscious or cognitive. Our brains just fool us into thinking that we are consciously in control, because that is a psychological defense mechanism that we have developed with consciousness. Those emotions you feel, they are all merely chemicals released and neurons firing in your brain. None are cognitive. We aren't 'in control' and never have been. So, stop fearing mind control and fearing that some omni present being is running your life and making decisions for you. It is already happening, to everyone of us. All the time. And has always been. At least in the physical sense.
Remember when direne said that humans can recognize the word being spoken before the muscles in the mouth have finished producing the sound?
To put it more simply, we only think that we are steering the ship. Science has told us that isn't the case. We aren't just not steering the ship; we barely have time to chart the course before our body makes the decision to embark on a new voyage.
Now, this thread should be getting interesting soon. Can we try not to derail it with private conversations that are not on topic?
originally posted by: Rosinitiate
a reply to: KellyPrettyBear
Ah! Free will, the most fascinating human construct.
originally posted by: KellyPrettyBear
originally posted by: Rosinitiate
a reply to: KellyPrettyBear
Ah! Free will, the most fascinating human construct.
It certainly doesn't seem there IS an 'on topic' except to discuss
some crazy stuff and to occasionally mention FL.
What IS the soupe de jour?
I'm perfectly able to play nicely if I know the topic; well
maybe. I do get excitable sometimes.
Kev
originally posted by: Rosinitiate
originally posted by: KellyPrettyBear
originally posted by: Rosinitiate
a reply to: KellyPrettyBear
Ah! Free will, the most fascinating human construct.
It certainly doesn't seem there IS an 'on topic' except to discuss
some crazy stuff and to occasionally mention FL.
What IS the soupe de jour?
I'm perfectly able to play nicely if I know the topic; well
maybe. I do get excitable sometimes.
Kev
I think the topic is fluid and seeing how this is a thread using language to discuss anti-language than everything is on topic. Right? *puzzled*
originally posted by: KellyPrettyBear
originally posted by: Rosinitiate
originally posted by: KellyPrettyBear
originally posted by: Rosinitiate
a reply to: KellyPrettyBear
Ah! Free will, the most fascinating human construct.
It certainly doesn't seem there IS an 'on topic' except to discuss
some crazy stuff and to occasionally mention FL.
What IS the soupe de jour?
I'm perfectly able to play nicely if I know the topic; well
maybe. I do get excitable sometimes.
Kev
I think the topic is fluid and seeing how this is a thread using language to discuss anti-language than everything is on topic. Right? *puzzled*
Then if there is no topic, then please no chiding me about being off-topic!
Well, if it makes you happy, i don't mind.
Us fake shaman's are very forgiving you know.
PS: but it would seem that language and 'anti-language' are definite
themes.
Kev
originally posted by: Rosinitiate
a reply to: KellyPrettyBear
Ah! Free will, the most fascinating human construct.
originally posted by: Rosinitiate
a reply to: KellyPrettyBear
To answer your question. 3
We are connected on more levels than most people will ever know, if not all of us. Unless of course someone was able to pluck me out of this...."reality" so I could be on the outside looking in, there's no way to really know.
I don't mean death. Even than, is there any guarantee you're out of the control system? Even if I were to be granted such an awesome privilege, how would I know I'm out of the system?