Michael Sternbach

Talk about boundaries...

What about the beautiful cock then that stands at the entrance of this website? Hmm...

Searched for 'bent' and 'kiwi' and got this funny picture, mate. Again, not really an answer at all... But it does cross some boundary, I suppose.

Who... Or what?

Rainbow (Cause I saw a beautiful one from my hotel room before)

I had a viewmaster too. It sure gave me a cosmic experience too as I was watching 'Planet of the Apes' on it.

Funny. I deteriorate everytime I've been staying on Earth too long.

Rather than thinking in absolutes, we should ask in what regards the geocentric view is valid (still or again). Even the tensor equations of Special Relativity can be solved for a static Earth. Indeed, Special Relativity may provide us with another hint, as it allows for objects to be at rest relative to a warp bubble around them, while moving at tremendous speed relative to external objects. I am quite sure that we will be able to connect the dots, eventually...

I fully agree to this. I am of the opinion that we even need to embrace a relative geocentrism, eventually. Keep in mind that even the idea of the Earth and the other planets moving on (near) circles around the Sun only holds true as long as we think of the Sun as resting in space, which today we know him not to be. Rather, he is orbiting the galactic centre, taking the planets with him; the galaxy has its own movement within its cluster, which in turn moves within the super-cluster, and so on. What curve the Earth really follows if we add up all her movements relative to her different frames of reference is something nobody can tell today.

Potentially, there are indeed no limitations to the possibilities. In actuality, there are limitations to the expression of the unlimited. It's as though there is a constant game of pushing and pulling at work. Who knows? Maybe one day it will be found that even the universe expands/contracts in erratic patterns..

Copernicus did accept the celestial spheres. As the Wikipedia article notes, they were generally thought of as consisting of rarefied (read: subtle, etheric) matter rather than anything physical. A concept that is still significant from the perspective of natural philosophy and spiritual cosmology, as long as it's not taken in too naive a manner.

No. The article concludes that the Earth (and other celestial bodies) carry their own local ether field with them. A conclusion that I have reached on my own long ago, using a quite different approach. I appreciate you providing additional evidence by linking this article, however, I don't agree that it refutes the heliocentric model. Heliocentrism and geocentrism are more a matter of perspective in my book.

Hey Lois, you do have a sense of humour! Well, um, assuming that you were joking... Just in case you were not: No, you can't have Nunger's liver. Sorry. He's part of TDB's inventory.

Hi Boundlesscostfairy Welcome to TDB! Glad that the Dao has washed you ashore.

I think Mickey Mouse is an immortal too. He doesn't seem to have aged at all since he was first seen 90 years ago! And while I'm not sure if he seeks enlightenment, he is known to act as a magician.

I adapted this tenet as useful too.

Talking about which...

Nice kind of Aussie humour.

Why is the game an illusion? Because the scriptures say so? Or are you talking from personal experience?

The German Natural Philosopher Jochen Kirchhoff regards gravity as more or less synonymous with the 'World Soul'.

There are other cases of people living relatively normal lives with most of their brain missing. This is evidence (if not proof) that the mind is more than a function of the brain. http://www.iflscience.com/brain/man-tiny-brain-lived-normal-life/ According to esoteric theory, the brain and other nerve centres are interfaces to the non-physical parts of a human being. These are known as subtle bodies and described in many traditions.

Einstein said that he wasn't sure what weapons WWIII would be fought with, but he knew what the survivors would use for WWIV: Sticks and rocks. As Daoism teaches, anything that reaches its extreme will tend to its opposite, eventually. Which will be the case here too. Unless a more or less stable balance between civilization and nature will be found in time... To end this short post on more of a utopian note.

https://youtu.be/E0g4GAN54og