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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Cogito ergo sum is
« on: January 11, 2017, 04:23:32 PM »
Cogito ergo sum is. I think, therefore I am.
By accepting the sentence above as “truth”, our existence becomes a fact that one can prove by reasoning. Therefore, the fact I exist is true because I'm thinking it. But how under this light should we try to understand the purpose of our existence? Existence is understood by our minds as an ability to be aware of it: cogito ergo sum is. Do I reason when I’m not aware/conscious of my thoughts? When I’m in a state of sleep, am I able to reason my existence? Am I not being aware of my existence while sleeping?
Reason only accepts physical existence as truth, an event that needs a time and a place to be. Reasoning is a tool used by our mind. Cogito ergo sum is a materialist way of thinking, once it accepts reality just as something physical. This method of investigation per se does not allow us to perceive our existence through our senses, our body. And by reasoning we’re only feeling existence with our mind.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / The importance of writing by hand
« on: January 10, 2017, 12:39:39 PM »
One thing some may not remember is that writing by hand is how ideas are created through our whole body: it's our whole body transmitting an idea and this idea leaves the realm of the mind. Ideas only take form by means of expression, like writing using a code.  When we just read and think, we're using reason, and we are not expressing our self, because the information is only in the realm of mind. Writing is a form of expression and any human form of expression is art per se.
Art is outside the realm of the mind. Art is art; it is what it is, regardless what our mind think of it, our interpretation of it. Since we're mindful beings, we do not realize the importance of selfexpression.  Mind is a sense, just like smell, vision...

By writing by hand, our whole body expresses himself as well as our spirit. Our spirit is not our mind. To give voice to our whole senses, we just need an instrument, a pencil, for example. Our body, arms, fingers, nails, eyes, ears, spirit and mind are going to be part of something together, selfexpression, which can be accomplished with the alphabet. When we just think something over, we're trapped in the realm of mind, just one sense. Letting people read our thoughts and evaluate them gives us the chance to understand more about our self, about who we are. Discovering something can be done then through writing.
It's another realm, it's the realm of art, when our self encounters a way for expression. We can use someone else writtings to evaluate alzheimmer disease, for example, and it's obivous why.
 
For example, a typewriter machine dictates its own rhythm, which is fast, and it's not the speed of the human natural way of writing. See for example Friedrich Nietzsche's writings done by typewriters and the ones by hand. Changing the instrument alters the way we express ourselves. Writing using a keyboard and a monitor/screen doesnt allow us to have a good rythm, because we can write very fast using the distribution of letters of the keyboard, and our thoughts may get shuffled because we write so fast, and we do not have the patience to write slowly, because the keyboard and the computer are machines that were designed for speed purposes. Wrinting by pencil, feathers, anything that allows free hand movement, is an experience through which you reveal a part of your self, just like using any substance may revealsomething, because it triggers an experience. Writing by hand is feeling an experience and it demands years of practice but the reward is along the path and not at the end.

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Flat Earth Community / Galápagos and Antarctica
« on: September 05, 2016, 03:42:42 PM »
Accepted science believes that on the bottom of Galápagos Islands lays the biggest network of magma formation which connects itself to the exact center of the Earth. Sporadically these elements come out Earth forming land.

It also believes all animals on Galápagos once had to make a long journey to there, millions of years ago, eventually changing its physical characteristics by means of adaptation. It is believed an Iguana was able to find its way to Galápagos Islands carried by a piece of wood, floating at least 960 km to reach its destination.

Recent studies claim Galápagos is in a such special spot in terms of maritime convergence. Specific ocean currents coming from Antarctica flow to the Islands carrying rich nutrients to create and sustain the richest marine ecosystem in the world.

On the other hand, alternative hypotheses say Galápagos had been moving through centuries, detaching itself from Antarctica, where it was initially held, travelling according to Antarctica current (known as Humboldt). These currents contained several microorganisms invisible to our eyes, which are essential to bigger forms of life, establishing the whole species network on Galápagos, as if they contain the seeds for life creation.
I also read the hypothesis these microorganism emit specific light ranges, due their geometrical shapes. They interact producing a constant a glow. This is observable from satellite. As they glow, it is reflected by the sky back to us, functioning as a mirror. So when we look up we are seeing these microorganisms range of light. Since they move according to specific season conditions, this also would explain celestial movement.

Any thoughts?

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Flat Earth Community / Myth of the Cave analogy
« on: September 02, 2016, 03:28:17 PM »
The Myth of the Cave from The Republic by Plato, when taken literally, allows inferences of many kinds, like Planet being of a rather different nature from the one we’re used to living and thinking about. Look at this extract:

“(A1)Then, I said, the business of us who are the founders of the State will be to compel the best minds to attain that knowledge which we have already shown to be the greatest of all--they must continue to ascend until they arrive at the good; but when they have ascended and seen enough we must not allow them to do as they do now.

(A2)What do you mean?

(A1)I mean that they remain in the upper world: but this must not be allowed; they must be made to descend again among the prisoners in the den, and partake of their labours and honours, whether they are worth having or not.”

What “State” is the interlocutor referring to is my question. I pose it’s a hidden place, undiscovered and beyond discovery. The main interlocutor calls himself one of its founders and is pondering about the importance of “descending” again. They are above us. Descending would mean literally going down to Earth, where we live. He explains, in his narrative, how the prisoners are treated with false symbols produced by them, as put in the first passage of the text: "like the screen which marionette-players have in front of them, over which they show the puppets". Screen here would be suited for official information and “they” indicates the ones who act as the illusionists. They have the true knowledge about our nature. All founders know about our existence because they came from the same place we’re now, but the people who came after the founders do not know about us. This class who knows and holds knowledge is called “Philosophers”. The allegory of the cave was produced by one of them.

Contrasting light with shadows tells about their location. They are in a very illuminated place, where light is much more strong. The physical discomforts the interlocutor mentions, such as eye pain, are due to the different nature of light there, which makes the ones who ascend blind momentarily.

Going even further, I infer they are at a point in Antarctica. They’ve climbed it and found the true nature of the sun – a place where light shines differently revealing the true nature of the world. But contemplating this took them time, since their eyes pertained to our ‘Earth’ reality. As the interlocutor highlights, the mind and the body must change together in order to be able to understand it. There there is an organization similar to the one of our modern State, which is not good at the eyes of the narrator. The purpose of the text was not to inform us. It is the dialogue between a philosopher and a student, a dialogue about the importance of not believing the apparent world, a lesson they've learned from their previous experience. “[they] must be wrong when they say that they can put a knowledge into the soul which was not there before, like sight into blind eyes.”

What your thoughts on this? thx

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