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Everything posted by Vanir Thunder Dojo Tan
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the equation is really quite simple: Every particle of every particle is a body. in other words, every person is a place made up of things; every thing is a place made up of people, and every place is a person made up of things, and etc. Every body/structure has free will within the means of that body/structure. Everything and everyone has a choice - they may not be the choices we WANT to make, they might not be the choices we like, but we all HAVE choices. Every structure is a person, every person has free will (choices) and every choice has a result and no one is beyond responsibility for the results of their choices, though many have found ways to transpose those responsibilities over time, but they cannot escape the consequences. Free will is not to mean the freedom to do anything we will; it is not omnipotence. Omnipotence is omnipotence. if free will were omnipotence, we'd just freaking call it that instead! (DERP!) Free will is simply the freedom to make any choice you are willing to expreience/endure. more often than not (in my experience) the choices are less experience and more endurance. Some people are lucky that they dont have to ENDURE their choices, but then again, endurance is growth while experience is intellectualism. topic split! lol
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i dont have a choice, i have to post to this thread, cuz free will, and stuff. no, wait...
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If you stop practicing, will you slowly become reconditioned?
Vanir Thunder Dojo Tan replied to woodcarver's topic in Daoist Discussion
practicing the good practice will nudge one closer to tao, but one will not fall from their progress when they quit. practicing okay practice will slowly nidge one closer to tao, but that progress can be lost if practice is cut. practicing poor practice will make no impact, but create the illusion that you are successful. you've moved nowhere, on a lot of effort. practicing bad practice will get you bitches and hoes, and lots of drugs, but your perception will be totally fuckered up and you wont know which way is Tao and which way is lies. -
rolling down the hill getting bigger every turn cultivation ball.
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i am attempting to cultivate more left handedness and eventually achieve ambidexterousness. but not much progress there.
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Objective Vs Subjective - How we can be more honest with ourselves, and then others
Vanir Thunder Dojo Tan replied to Rara's topic in General Discussion
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rubbing his belly.... Smiling with internal joy... Buddha's booming laugh.
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Freedom, free will, causality and chaos
Vanir Thunder Dojo Tan replied to FmAm's topic in General Discussion
I've done nothing of the sort, their minds preceed the minds of all organic life forms They're the oldest minds on Earth. (think about it) -
to be partaken ... World Wide Stoner Circle: Begin peace on Earth.
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Freedom, free will, causality and chaos
Vanir Thunder Dojo Tan replied to FmAm's topic in General Discussion
A rock does not have the same intellectual expression as the human brain, but that does not exclude it from an aware conscious mind. It is simply alien to the common human to concieve of the mind of an inorganic body. just as every individual body/structure is unique, so too are the associated minds. -
Freedom, free will, causality and chaos
Vanir Thunder Dojo Tan replied to FmAm's topic in General Discussion
It's all balance; Yin and Yang: Material and spirit, body and mind, ego and conscience, energy and awareness. You couldnt be materialistic without spiritual balance - even if materialism is to outright reject spirit, the spirit must exist to balance the matter. Matter and energy are physics, consciousness and spirit are metaphysics. both must exist if either one exists. You cannot have Everything(ness) without Nothing(ness). The Qi flows where the attention goes; why is this, if qi is not aware? -
Freedom, free will, causality and chaos
Vanir Thunder Dojo Tan replied to FmAm's topic in General Discussion
Qi/chi is conscious in and of itself though... your own argument beats itself. -
except the ego or you can accept ego; Indomitable.
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Freedom, free will, causality and chaos
Vanir Thunder Dojo Tan replied to FmAm's topic in General Discussion
consciousness permeates all matter and energy without exception or exclusion. Therefore all particulate matter and energy, all shapes, structures, tools, forms, cells, organs, and bodies must have individual free will - all within the capacity of the complexity of the particulate matter/energy shape/structure. -
O lord, i've no clue! "Four twenty", not "four two oh"! How could we miss that?
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Freedom, free will, causality and chaos
Vanir Thunder Dojo Tan replied to FmAm's topic in General Discussion
Free Will: Free to cultivate or spend as much Qi as you are Willing to endure (cultivation or expenditure of). Every action both uses Qi from the self, and channels Qi from the environment. It is your choice as to weather or not you would pursue Qi reserves, or simply act as a conduit. Free Will is the ability to make a choice, regardless of limitations or circumstances, it still comes down to the unrestricted decision making that all bodies have (animate and inanimate alike). A body has limitations. All bodies do. Within the limitations of the vessil, all individual bodies have the freedom of choice to pursue any available activity that their limitations permit. A stone does as a stone does by willful choice, a bird does as a bird does by willful choice. As humans, our conscious awareness of Free Will enables us to study this phenomenon and refine our decision-making. By and large, we "just dont", and go about our daily lives WITHOUT a free will, simply automating and putting responsibility for our lives in the hands of the state. "we" are retarded in our association with Free Will. -
in warm Mexico Chronic is the weed of choice (page 420, too)
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spirituality = individual(ity) religion = groups. stay on your own damn topic, eh?
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The point protector will deliberately miss is here.
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careful not to drool... easy... steady, careful now. there you go, all done.
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the spirit of resisting spirit is weariness; a futility.
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Thoughtological experimentation with consciousness is basically your most scientific approach to spirituality you could want. what DO you want?
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with the same surname... How much incest is too much? Kept in the family...
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The point is balance. you missed it again. Deliberately, i presume? There's making a point, and then there's ragging on your own point until it becomes numbingly asinine. If there must be science, then there must be balance by way of "ignorant faith". One extreme relies on its counterpart, and likewise, the counterpart is nothing without the other extreme. Why cant we combine, instead of single out and eliminate? What faith you must have in science. Testable experiments with consistent resuts are nice and all, but you cant have them without untestable experiments with inconsistent resultws, otherwise, what are you comparing "consistent results" with? What is your ulterior goal in denouncing spirituality?