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Originally posted by Anti-Tyrant
Perhaps our true individuality lies without, in the way in which our fellow humans perceive us and our actions towards others.
Originally posted by Buck Division
Why is it that you can perceive of someone else's pain, but you can't actually feel that person's pain? There is some sort of barrier there, and that barrier makes us an individual.
What is the nature of that barrier? When that wall is removed, do we still have any self awareness?
Originally posted by Anti-Tyrant
Don't forget, there is obviously more than 3 dimensions.
Originally posted by LastOutfiniteVoiceEternal
It would seem simple to just say that it's because we're two different beings, and probably that would be correct. But more elaborately and scientifically... what IS the barrier?! I don't know... Is there a barrier?
Originally posted by OptionToChoose
There may very well be a barrier. That barrier may very well be a unique spirit signature within reality (any, all reality, projecting into any point, at any time, or all time) causing two different beings to actually be so.
where self has dissolved into blissful Oneness.
As well, could not the ultimate Intended purpose of man and woman, land and sky, plant and cloud, bird and fish, all that exists be to ever search yet never find,
then finally realize that all is mind?
It is already known by some that One Mind comprises the many; do the many comprise the One?...
neither somehow somewhere beyond the other, ever.
First Source identity irrlelvant to the primary purpose of this particular paragraph.
Blissful Oneness, yes, unified with blissful Individuality. Always One, Always Many. I am, at this time, with absolutely no concept of how proof of this viewpoint should exist.
Originally posted by OptionToChoose
You noticed my absence...again impressed.
You're welcome, glad to contribute to the workings of the plight of enormous thought in the search for why, though we already know;
seeking when what may be, though no time exists.
I would go as far to say that I seek not to understand why, really (now) but simply to understand.
Why is this structure, this protocol the way...obviously it is, and I can't seem to find the voting booth.
For example, if it is all mind, then is it really true that all is perception?
Is "where" only a non-existent concept provided as a tool for navigation within the perception?
If so, could I even comprehend the very answer I believe I would so desperately like to find? Do I want to find the answer--this ultimate Truth (is there really just one Aspect)--to experience it, or to tell everyone I know, "I've found it!"
I'm curious again: may I know why you refuse a universe that may be called God? I'm not preaching, and will not (requesting stand-down),
because I respect your processes, and therefore you; what I may believe should not have bearing on colleagues in higher-level contemplation. If I knew everything, and had no need to understand anything, then I would be seeking nothing.
Which is, in some ways--yes, I agree--exactly what I am seeking, that "no-thing", out of which everything included within that which is called "something" has emerged. Dark matter? I think so, and if so, then certainly there is more nothing than something for our viewing pleasure in visible range.
The word "soul" defined fundamentally as "will" and "emotion"; however, you stray from the terminology...I tend to suspect for its ecclesiastical affiliation, though I think the definition would be found a bit more broad than that.
I don't understand this, but again I respect a fellow seeker's point-of-view. I feel confident, somehow, that you will clarify.
And one more thing: how do I accept that an infinite and eternal (you didn't use "infinite" but it seemed encapsulated within the context; correct me, if need be) condition can be known. Will the universe cease to be infinite, once known?
Originally posted by LastOutfiniteVoiceEternal
Contemporaneously it is me recognizing my own; it's ours, is it not?
Is sempiternal time, no time? Is time only defined as measurable? Time can be both eternal and preoccupied in its absence. As time does and does not exist, unasailably everything is and is not. A contradiction, but not a flaw at all, revealingly a perfection of a trichotomous perception; a mind of the universe, totally cinctured and synchronized to a simultanaeity of omniscient comprehension.
I think you already do.
Or are we stuck in this perpetually impervious, therefore static curiosity?
If it is, then what is perception? And what is all? To observe the wholes the obvious perception, but you do also see the unchosen joint conception?
A being once told me we are no-w-here. Now here. Non-local yet relative.
Either one would be the aspect of the experience of it, would not it?
Stand-down granted. There is a stigma that coats this religious terminology, this associated institutionalized prejudicism surceases any futuristic and Humanistic value that would come from such a name, henceforth downplaying any singificant revelation conglomerated to such a name. The powers and history of this diety and its inscripted incantatories into its biblical text through men do not match with exactitude the attributes of the eternal unitrio.
Per mod I also respect you more than you may know. Your esteemed intellect and fearless approach at using such renders me a joyous Man. I have sought nothing, and nothing I truly found to be something. I have sought energetical absence, and energetical absence I diligently uncover to be immeasurable presence.
There was no emergence of everything, nor was there ever an emergence of nothing, but it can also be said that there was ever an emergence of nothing (absences are dichotomous). What you seek you have already found. Ask yourself how nothing can or could have existed in front of you... it can't, and it never did, and it never will. There truly is not a void of existence called a "nothing" and there never will be, for this to be it must be as follows: only if this nothing is indubitably known as the something and the everything, that which it truly is. This nothing is eternal, and this everything is eternal.
Those who I ultimately wish to infinitely portion this knowledge to are the ecclesiastical. I agree and defer, the definition is found to be more broad, but for necessity of mental attraction and avoidance of foreseen consequences I will definitely suspend improvisation of such verbiage.
Respect and trust are earned and gained, not blindly given. You sir, currently have all of mine. I will always clarify with pedantic staunch for your pleasure and for your inquery as extended as this trust and respect should be proven to intermingle.
This one eternity defines in itself that is simultaneously everything and nothing. Its perpetuity is static.
Think of it like this. Just because you may one day know all the laws of the physical universe doesn't mean that there are a finite number of things to see and places to visit.
Though the structural blueprints (laws of physics) be finite, the things that comprise it are infinite (planets, stars, people, life).
Originally posted by OptionToChoose
A cosmic Galleria. Nice. But wouldn't the infinite qualities (the nouns within the structure) actually be part of the structure? Ex: I am not separate from the universe, so therefore my inherent connection to Infinite Mind causes a loop back out from participant to structure, which in turn causes structure to be found not yet deciphered-in-full if audited, if the quality of infinite comprises structure.
Originally posted by LastOutfiniteVoiceEternal
Originally posted by OptionToChoose
No. It is One Eternity. ONE eternity. There is no space/time for another eternity. There is only one eternity. This one eternity defines in itself that is simultaneously everything and nothing. Its perpetuity is static.
Think of it like this. Just because you may one day know all the laws of the physical universe doesn't mean that there are a finite number of things to see and places to visit.
[edit on 28-5-2008 by LastOutfiniteVoiceEternal]
Yes but those are the laws of this universe/reality or how ever you want to call it . But you cannot dismiss other realities/eternities with different laws of "physics/general ""conception"" of the grand design for that universe", which all come into the grand design . Or is there any grand design at this point in theory ?