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tomtrytostay
Hi. Welcome.

Please feel free to say here what you want, when you want, and I'll do the same.

I'd like to start this thread with a declaration. I won't be copy and pasting. I want this thread to be purely my own words.

I'd appreciate it if anyone that posts here also posts only their own words.

It makes for a better conversation and a purer combined consciousness.
fathamster

tomtrytostay: I give you my word I'll never be an op again

tomtrytostay
I've discovered I'm a materialist. A physicalist. I'm not particularly smart but basically that means that for me anyway all is nature . Evolution is all there is.

There is no God. There is no free will. There is no I.

All of these are an illusion.
tomtrytostay
I said that?! When?!
tomtrytostay
I love you fh.
tomtrytostay
Nice to start the thread with love.
tomtrytostay
I discovered through my experience free will is an illusion. I mapped my mind for years and years and eventually saw that .

Interestingly for me when I reviewed the science I found that both Einstein and Hawking came to the same conclusion.

I recently talked to a guy much smarter than I and he told me that actually the view that free will is an illusion is widely held within the scientific community.
tomtrytostay

And yet we hear so little in society about the non existence of free will. That's interesting to me . For if free will does not exist then what are the implications of that?

tomtrytostay
Anyway guys say what you want when you want about anything at all .

I'll do the same and together we'll see what happens.

Please though guys give me your own words and I'll do the same .
tomtrytostay
Everyone and anyone is welcome here.
tomtrytostay
I don't feel the need to gain new information from articles anymore because I've realised that everything has a natural explanation and just because I don't happen to know it doesn't make that any different.
tomtrytostay
Sometimes you wonder why a person does something . You ask them and they tell you but their answer makes little sense . I guess they don't know either
Stolen_Authenticity

Speaking, of wondering why I'm posting this.. D-u-h?! ..It suits me? .. while my old 'Mac' is well into, showing signs, of online entropy!? <- Not, thinking about that, '24-7.'  o:

mdinnerspace

Materialist: noun

1.

a person who is markedly more concerned with material things than with spiritual, intellectual, or cultural values.

The last thing you are tom is a materialist. Simply put, you are a confused dreamer, someone incapable of understanding human nature, someone who rejects all but his distorted perspective.

I come here for the entertainment value.

The tomisms.

I'm interested in this "map of your mind" that you spent years in the making. Is it a topo map, in 3D, destinations, is it like a Hollywood's guide to the rich and famous?

FYI tom equating your notion that everything is natural to meaning you're a materialist is nonsense. Try doing a little research and educate yourself. I'm aware you no longer feel the need to gain new information, but it's not to late to change your mind!

mdinnerspace

You're slacking off tom. Not a single new tomism as yet today. I know you can do better.

Stolen_Authenticity

There are many, many, Many levels, of dissatisfaction in our world today, {as Always}... And, I'm reminded of the quote - "I was feeling sorry for myself, because I only had one-pair of 'worn' shoes - Until, I met a man, with No feet." ..{my own chosen solace, is that I'm Not a 'refugee' 'in limbo' somewhere.. or worse perhaps - Malnourished ..though technically.. It's conceivable, I might be!?}. [ ;

Stolen_Authenticity

It almost, goes without saying - That there are also, Many levels, of Not knowing about something-or-other - Simply because, one isn't 'savvy' enough, to see it!  o:

tomtrytostay
Itude I accept you and everyone else too. As I say. Say what you want , when you want.

I'd prefer your own words though .
tomtrytostay
SA I liked that post about thoughts . We are more than the pattern of thoughts that run through our mind .
tomtrytostay
As for your restaurant scenario . What do you want me to do?!