I did not state the definition, I pasted third-party information. You inferred from my post what you like. I will not engage in debate with you sir. Find another wind-up toy.
Interesting. I have had 2 NDE's. One was also from drowning in the Clackamas river (I only mention that as you're from Vancouver and may actually know where that is...lol.)
I actually experienced a radical shift in reality after the drowning that aroused my interest in Quantum Mechanics. It was apparently a form of Involuntary Quantum Suicide.
I find the phenomenon known as Synchronicity to be extremely interesting, and the theoretical notion of holographic super-symmetry explains much of the mystical qualities of what Carl Jung defined as "temporally coincident occurrences of acausal events."
IMO, there is no such thing as "Super" natural, or "Para" normal. These are semantically meaningless in a universe that has 6 dimensions enfolded within the 4 that we can actually perceive.
Acausal events? This merely suggests a limit to what causes we can perceive within this limited 4 dimensional framework we like to think of as reality.
This thought process has been summed up in Littlewood's Law:
Littlewood's Law states that individuals can expect a "miracle" to happen to them at the rate of about one per month.
The law was framed by Cambridge University Professor J. E. Littlewood, and published in a collection of his work, A Mathematician's Miscellany; it seeks (among other things) to debunk one element of supposed supernatural phenomenology and is related to the more general Law of Truly Large Numbers, which states that with a sample size large enough, any outrageous thing is likely to happen.
Littlewood defines a miracle as an exceptional event of special significance occurring at a frequency of one in a million. He assumes that during the hours in which a human is awake and alert, a human will experience one event per second, which may be either exceptional or unexceptional (for instance, seeing the computer screen, the keyboard, the mouse, this article, etc.). Additionally, Littlewood supposes that a human is alert for about eight hours per day.
As a result, a human will, in 35 days, have experienced, under these suppositions, 1,008,000 events. Accepting this definition of a miracle, one can be expected to observe one miraculous occurrence within the passing of every 35 consecutive days – and therefore, according to this reasoning, seemingly miraculous events are actually commonplace.
Well, RH. My best advice is to practice what you preach. If you seek to be the more mature of the individuals present, and if it bothers you that much, initiate a respectful dialogue with them.
Yes them. It's not your place to single her out in this situation, because your relationship with them requires you to consider them as a unit. Your primary relationship is with your room-mate, but your room-mate is a package deal. So show respect for both of them by including them both in any dialogues about any issues you have. That way it's also both their responsibility to address and resolve any concerns you may express.
Even when our hearts and minds are overwhelmed by negativity, there is a place for happiness. The resolute faith that we have value, that our efforts mean something, and that our existence makes a difference is proven by the affect we can make on those around us.
Especially at these times, we should show appreciation for our friends and family. This appreciation, the recognition of the value these people hold in your life, brings in return an overwhelming resonance of the appreciation they have for us.
It also reminds us that, however much it may seem to be the case at times, we are not alone in our struggles, defeats and triumphs. As much as these friends and family affect our fortunes, we have an equal affect on theirs.
And how shall we affect their fortunes, and through the power of resonance, our own? By offering encouragement and an affirmation of worth and value. Each of us has a role to play in the unfolding of reality. Each of us has the power to affect enormous change in the lives of those we care about, often through very simple acts and words.
Remember, and reflect upon, on the power you truly wield in the world, and ask yourself what sort of impression you want to make on it.
Then, be mindful to act accordingly. You will be amazed at the results of exercising even a fraction of your full potential.
Welcome to my thread, Abram. Thanks for stopping by.
I worked in demolition for awhile for a plastering company. I meditated on the power of a sledge hammer to break the walls that people long dead had created, only to put up new walls for the same reasons. To enclose. It gave me insight into how human nature always builds new traditions on the foundations of old ones. Why do we do that? Because the foundations of faith can never be destroyed, and the reason traditions are built on them is for this very stability that they offer. The reasons for faith never change, merely the expression. The Laws of Conservation are inviolate.
There's nothing deterministic in the instantaneous way twin particles can communicate characteristics such as charge, spin, etc. across vast distances, and alter their own characteristics to suit.
The evolution of the wave function may APPEAR to be deterministic, but that is only when observation is undertaken. At rest, the wave rotates, meaning it is spinning its "wheels" as a "unit".
It doesn't evolve in any fashion until measurement occurs. When that happens, wave functions collapse, and determinism seems to propagate.
Until observed, the cat is neither alive, nor dead. It exists a "unit" with both potentials, and neither.
The same way we fall asleep with faith. Every night before we sleep, we do not wonder: will I die in my sleep tonight?
We have faith that tomorrow will come. We think we have all the time in the world, that tomorrow the sun will rise, and we will awaken to begin the tasks of a new day.
It never crosses our mind that today COULD be the last day. So we live in the "delusional" state that tomorrow will come, today as it did the day before, and the day before, and the day before.
Everyone has faith. As illustrated. Some people think that the last day of their life will be the first day of another sort of life. Is this any different than the faith we shall awaken tomorrow and go about our business?
This makes me wonder why people think their faith is better than anothers. What makes it any different? You may believe in something unseen. I believe in tomorrow. I cannot prove tomorrow, anymore than another can prove God. And yet, I have faith that tomorrow will come. Will God come? Some have faith He will. So be it.
Faith. A dirty word, only when applied to another persons tomorrow. Our tomorrow is always squeaky clean. And better than today. And certainly better than YOUR tomorrow.
Faith is what sustains us. In sickness or in health. Never allow anyone to limit your options, or tell you what your choices are. Everything changes. Even the bad times. What appears to be a no-win situation today is subject to change tomorrow. The important thing is to remain true to ourselves, and recognize our value, rather than letting others define or degrade that value.
Accept that you have value. Do not let the negativity of self or others to diminish that value. Shine your light on the world, and see that light reflected a hundred-fold back into your life.
Darkness wins when the light of faith diminishes. Faith is not a dirty word. It means different things to different people, because everybody is different. But its power is universal.
I recognize the value of everyone here. While we may not agree with each other, that does not diminish the value we bring to this site, and to the world at large, simply by being.
Most digital technology, including the internet, are based on quantum mechanics, and thus, the prediction of particulate behavior according to a matrix of probabilities. Semi-conductors play with uncertainty; will the electron go hither, or thither, and what happens when it refuses to make a choice without an observer?
Everything quantum is a matter wave accretion into particles of higher or lower probability. So what this means is its not our individual consciousnesses that dictate reality, but the preponderance of our collective perceptions that raises or lowers the probability of a manifestation. Nothing is for sure impossible, but some things definitely are asymptotic to a level of probability equaling zero. Not impossible, by definition, but for all practical purposes, certain things might as well be.
First of all, crime is not an ethnic thing. All races and creeds do things the law proscribes. Bottom line, illegal aliens are primarily illegal, thus criminals to begin with. From that point on, what do they have to lose? And a lot to gain besides. That's why people do crime. To gain.
And who pays? We do, every legitimate legal alien and citizen alike, by higher and higher taxes to support the Welfare state they've allowed to happen. Welcome to the new Tammany Hall.
I understand. I have several friends who are proud of their "fringe" status in terms of science. I still think words have power, however, and the connotation associated with lunatic is invariably derogatory. JMHO.
I prefer to call them irrational, rather than lunatic. I have a great number of friends of faith, because I accept their, in my view, irrational beliefs as but a PART of who they are.
If people of different or no faiths can't learn to accept their own humanity as well as the humanity of others, than there's no hope for us. But it has to start somewhere.
The interesting thing about Armageddon is the fact that its a place, and not a time. Most people seem to forget that the actual end times have nothing to do with the Place known as Armageddon.
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