There is only one reality and we are part of that reality. There is no existence apart the existence of the one reality. Our notion that we are individual separate entities having our own individual existence is illusory.
Why are we here?
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I've often been called insane among other things. In response to Mr. Kepler, I think "Why" is important to help our primative brains to understand the world in which we live. "Why" is the foundation of the language that our brains understand. It is then our responsibility to ask "why" in order to evolve our brains and ways of thinking.Thanks Amnesiac Those are some awesome quotes and I'm impressed with your knowledge of the Great Donnie Darko. I love everyone's responses! What about consciousness? Is our brain a safety mechanism for our physical bodies? I think we are capable of transcending our illusion of being individuals and realizing that we are all connected(kinda like what Mr. Morro says). I am not only myself but I'm also you. I'm the person typing but I'm also the color blue: the ringing in your ears, the love you feel and also the pain. the brain creates the illusion of seperateness and I like to imagine that when we exit our physical bodies we return to that state of oneness in the all. I know I sound ridiculous and I could probably ramble on for hours but I want to hear more of what you think. (beside the fact that I might be insane)
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FranktheRabbit wrote:
What about consciousness?
That's what it's all about imo 
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If it is our responsibility to ask "why" in order to evolve our brains who or what are we responsible to? Who (or what) sets us this task?
I can see the importance of "why" in helping us to understand our environment. I am a scientist and I am constantly asking "why" to increase my understanding of the universe. What I do not understand is why we humans have this constant urge to know the why of things. Why do we have this incessant need to ask "why"?
Mr. Kepler, I think that "why" is the great motivator. It is our nature to ask questions. "Why" has furthered medicine, given us shelter, tools. It has also caused war, created religion, racism and seperate nations. The question is powerful. I would hope that we someday stop creating these self-serving borders around us. These borders only grow tighter and tighter around us until we cannot see the truth before our eyes. Maybe we have this innate sense that a greater truth than what our minds can comprehend is "out there". We therefore, strive for some sort of spiritual perfection. If we learn the proper questions to ask, a greater level of truth will be revealed. We must take responsibity and accept that the truth may not be what we wish it to be. "Why" is the begining to self-realization. Our universe is a hologram that we have created in an vain attempt to create a utopian world. Damn, I don't know if there is an answer in my response, but it sure felt good to regurgitate those thoughts that swirl in my head. Keep asking Why.
Is nothingness something because everything is something so nothing must be an object must be anything.
There is more energy in one cubic centimeter of empty space than there is in all the matter in our entire universe. You are correct that everything is something. Nothingness is a made up word to explain what we don't understand about empty space. If you break down matter, you will see its molecules and atoms and electrons and quarks and so on. these particles (or waves) exist in all things even empty space. Every particle is in communication with every other particle around it. So you see, EVERYTHING is connected. We are connected to not only each other but also to the trees outside, the water in the lake, a hungry lion in Africa, the Empire State Building and the cob webs inside of it, the hamburger you ate this afternoon....EVERYTHING! There is no such thing as empty space. No such thing as nothingness.
Amnesiac wrote:
shadowslayer wrote:
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Wow, I've never heard that one before. :-p
You could have used much better quotes like:
"It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them. However, not every one of them is inhabited. Therefore, there must be a finite number of inhabited worlds. Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing as makes no odds, so the average population of all the planets in the Universe can be said to be zero. From this it follows that the population of the whole Universe is also zero, and that any people you may meet from time to time are merely the products of a deranged imagination."
"Now it is such a bizarrely impossible coincidence that anything so mind-bogglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as a final and clinching proof of the nonexistence of God. The arguement goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.""But," says Man, "the Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED.""Oh dear," says God, "I hadn't though of that" and promply vanishes in a puff of logic."
"He picked up the letter Q and hurled it into a distant privet bush where it hit a young rabbit. The rabbit hurtled off in terror and didn't stop till it was set upon and eaten by a fox which choked on one of its bones and died on the bank of a stream which subsequently washed it away.During the following weeks Ford Prefect swallowed his pride and struck up a relationship with a girl who had been a personnel officer on Golgafrincham, and he was terribly upset when she suddenly passed away as a result of drinking water from a pool that had been polluted by the body of a dead fox. The only moral it is possible to draw from this story is that one should never throw the letter Q into a privet bush."
There is a fallacy contained in the above when it says that because not all the infinite worlds are inhabited, the inhabited worlds are finite. For example, there are an infinite number of whole numbers, and not all of them are even numbers, but there are still an infinite number of even numbers (as there are of odd). Likewise there could be an infinite number of both inhabited and noninhabited worlds. . .
Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop. ~Lewis Carrol, Alice in Wonderland
Ulio wrote:
Is nothingness something because everything is something so nothing must be an object must be anything.
" Nature does nothing uselessly " - Aristotle
FranktheRabbit wrote:
The question of all questions. Are we just some random mistake in the evolution of the universe or are we part of some divine plan? Could our reality really be some sort of hologram in a quantum equation? Do we create the world we live in or does the world already exist outside of our consciousness? I think these types of questions are important to evolve ourselves and to further advance humanity. Ideas are important not belief structures. I want to hear your ideas and questions too. Let your inner philosopher out. No idea is too far out there!
" Science without religion is lame,religion without science is blind "- Albert Einstien
FranktheRabbit wrote:
I've often been called insane among other things. In response to Mr. Kepler, I think "Why" is important to help our primative brains to understand the world in which we live. "Why" is the foundation of the language that our brains understand. It is then our responsibility to ask "why" in order to evolve our brains and ways of thinking.Thanks Amnesiac Those are some awesome quotes and I'm impressed with your knowledge of the Great Donnie Darko. I love everyone's responses! What about consciousness? Is our brain a safety mechanism for our physical bodies? I think we are capable of transcending our illusion of being individuals and realizing that we are all connected(kinda like what Mr. Morro says). I am not only myself but I'm also you. I'm the person typing but I'm also the color blue: the ringing in your ears, the love you feel and also the pain. the brain creates the illusion of seperateness and I like to imagine that when we exit our physical bodies we return to that state of oneness in the all. I know I sound ridiculous and I could probably ramble on for hours but I want to hear more of what you think. (beside the fact that I might be insane)
I would never call you insane,However one day you shall come to know the truth,and the truth shall make you mad.
The question of all questions. Are we just some random mistake in the evolution of the universe or are we part of some divine plan? Could our reality really be some sort of hologram in a quantum equation? Do we create the world we live in or does the world already exist outside of our consciousness? I think these types of questions are important to evolve ourselves and to further advance humanity. Ideas are important not belief structures. I want to hear your ideas and questions too. Let your inner philosopher out. No idea is too far out there!