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Originally posted by IAMIAM
Neat "Super Powers" my friend. It does make one wonder though:
1. How are these super powers going to help Mankind?
2. Is there anyone alive who can demonstrate these super powers and there effectiveness towards helping mankind?
If there are no answers to these two questions, I'll stick with the productive super powers of Love and Forgiveness. These powers can heal a broken world and bring people together to clean up the mess we have made of it.
With Love,
Your Brother
Neat "Super Powers" my friend. It does make one wonder though:
1. How are these super powers going to help Mankind?
2. Is there anyone alive who can demonstrate these super powers and there effectiveness towards helping mankind?
If there are no answers to these two questions, I'll stick with the productive super powers of Love and Forgiveness. These powers can heal a broken world and bring people together to clean up the mess we have made of it.
With Love,
Your Brother
SB 11.25.2-5: Mind and sense control, tolerance, discrimination, sticking to one's prescribed duty, truthfulness, mercy, careful study of the past and future, satisfaction in any condition, generosity, renunciation of sense gratification, faith in the spiritual master, being embarrassed at improper action, charity, simplicity, humbleness and satisfaction within oneself are qualities of the mode of goodness. Material desire, great endeavor, audacity, dissatisfaction even in gain, false pride, praying for material advancement, considering oneself different and better than others, sense gratification, rash eagerness to fight, a fondness for hearing oneself praised, the tendency to ridicule others, advertising one's own prowess and justifying one's actions by one's strength are qualities of the mode of passion. Intolerant anger, stinginess, speaking without scriptural authority, violent hatred, living as a parasite, hypocrisy, chronic fatigue, quarrel, lamentation, delusion, unhappiness, depression, sleeping too much, false expectations, fear and laziness constitute the major qualities of the mode of ignorance. Now please hear about the combination of these three modes.
Originally posted by IAMIAM
Neat "Super Powers" my friend. It does make one wonder though:
1. How are these super powers going to help Mankind?
2. Is there anyone alive who can demonstrate these super powers and there effectiveness towards helping mankind?
If there are no answers to these two questions, I'll stick with the productive super powers of Love and Forgiveness. These powers can heal a broken world and bring people together to clean up the mess we have made of it.
With Love,
Your Brother
I just thought - why do we think for granted that something should benefit human kind as a whole. Do we know what human kind really is at all, apart from what we concieved it as?
What is this mass of DNA based, self-aware, thinking machines really for?
Why did we form individuality in the first place and not remaining a swarm fo some sort?
Is the end purpose of our individual lifes to benefit the swarm? Why? (apart from apparent utilitarian reasons of common well being, peace, etc., that are reasonable, but yet not the answers to the end purpose...)
Anyway - I didn't meet anyone with those powers yet, so until shown or effectively and credibly proven otherwise - such persons don't exist.
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"The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained."
David Bohm
Originally posted by MrVortex
I just thought - why do we think for granted that something should benefit human kind as a whole. Do we know what human kind really is at all, apart from what we concieved it as?
Originally posted by MrVortex
What is this mass of DNA based, self-aware, thinking machines really for?
Originally posted by MrVortex
Why did we form individuality in the first place and not remaining a swarm fo some sort?
Originally posted by MrVortex
Is the end purpose of our individual lifes to benefit the swarm?
Originally posted by MrVortex
Why? (apart from apparent utilitarian reasons of common well being, peace, etc., that are reasonable, but yet not the answers to the end purpose...)
Originally posted by MrVortex
Anyway - I didn't meet anyone with those powers yet, so until shown or effectively and credibly proven otherwise - such persons don't exist.
Originally posted by Karmayogi11
The modes of goodness again here:
SB 11.25.2-5: Mind and sense control, tolerance, discrimination, sticking to one's prescribed duty, truthfulness, mercy, careful study of the past and future, satisfaction in any condition, generosity, renunciation of sense gratification, faith in the spiritual master, being embarrassed at improper action, charity, simplicity, humbleness and satisfaction within oneself are qualities of the mode of goodness. Material desire, great endeavor, audacity, dissatisfaction even in gain, false pride, praying for material advancement, considering oneself different and better than others, sense gratification, rash eagerness to fight, a fondness for hearing oneself praised, the tendency to ridicule others, advertising one's own prowess and justifying one's actions by one's strength are qualities of the mode of passion. Intolerant anger, stinginess, speaking without scriptural authority, violent hatred, living as a parasite, hypocrisy, chronic fatigue, quarrel, lamentation, delusion, unhappiness, depression, sleeping too much, false expectations, fear and laziness constitute the major qualities of the mode of ignorance. Now please hear about the combination of these three modes.
Thank you for re-emphasizing these modes of goodness again. I can agree that the modes mentioned here are good qualities to possess. However, seeking to perfect these qualities in the hopes of attaining super powers is a violation of them in and of itself. I put in bold the keys points I am referring to.
Anyway, if it is your pursuit, may it be a blessed one. I just wnated to put some thoughts out for consideration. Be good for goodness sake.
With Love,
Your Brother
Originally posted by Karmayogi11
reply to post by MrVortex
Originally posted by IAMIAM
Neat "Super Powers" my friend. It does make one wonder though:
1. How are these super powers going to help Mankind?
2. Is there anyone alive who can demonstrate these super powers and there effectiveness towards helping mankind?
If there are no answers to these two questions, I'll stick with the productive super powers of Love and Forgiveness. These powers can heal a broken world and bring people together to clean up the mess we have made of it.
With Love,
Your Brother
I just thought - why do we think for granted that something should benefit human kind as a whole. Do we know what human kind really is at all, apart from what we concieved it as?
What is this mass of DNA based, self-aware, thinking machines really for?
Why did we form individuality in the first place and not remaining a swarm fo some sort?
Is the end purpose of our individual lifes to benefit the swarm? Why? (apart from apparent utilitarian reasons of common well being, peace, etc., that are reasonable, but yet not the answers to the end purpose...)
Anyway - I didn't meet anyone with those powers yet, so until shown or effectively and credibly proven otherwise - such persons don't exist.
signature:
"The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained."
David Bohm
Welcome , for someone who may have such superpowers or the small ones is this case here:
www.abovetopsecret.com...
Belive it or not!
And If you read carefully for the big Superpowers you need also a huge amount of time practicing it.
like en Satya-Yuga where humans lived longer. Is like a rememberance of the golden age of mankind.
Originally posted by IAMIAM
Originally posted by MrVortex
I just thought - why do we think for granted that something should benefit human kind as a whole. Do we know what human kind really is at all, apart from what we concieved it as?
We do not think that something should benefit mankind as a whole. This is why the world is the way it is. First we think of ourselves and how something will benefit us. Once we are satisfied at this level, we extend it to our family. Then our country. What this causes is hate and animosity from those who are not benefiting from something. Thus, they will either come take it by force, develop it themselves, or despise you for not sharing.
Human kind is one family. Thinking otherwise is why we have the seperation and conflict we now have in the world. Soon, we will destroy ourselves in a big family feud, or learn to love and forgive ourselves and recognise our familial ties. This is not prophecy, but rather simple observation of the world we have made.
Originally posted by MrVortex
What is this mass of DNA based, self-aware, thinking machines really for?
Finding out the answer to this question, together.
Originally posted by MrVortex
Why did we form individuality in the first place and not remaining a swarm fo some sort?
We did not form our individuality. Individuality is the result of our higher intelligence. We are what we experience and how we understand it based on our level of intelligence. Each has something to contribute that reveals a facet of the whole.
Originally posted by MrVortex
Is the end purpose of our individual lifes to benefit the swarm?
Yes, the swarm needs you and you need the swarm. The swarm is just having difficulty recognising the importance of individuality within the swarm. This is changing day by day.
Originally posted by MrVortex
Why? (apart from apparent utilitarian reasons of common well being, peace, etc., that are reasonable, but yet not the answers to the end purpose...)
To learn why.
Originally posted by MrVortex
Anyway - I didn't meet anyone with those powers yet, so until shown or effectively and credibly proven otherwise - such persons don't exist.
I haven't met such a person yet either. One would think that if such persons existed, there would be record of them demonstrating such powers in obvious and verifiable ways.
Excellent questions my friend.
With Love,
Your Brother
Originally posted by MrVortex
Nice answers... but still - only answers that guide to more questions...
I am getting tired of this constant questioning, I hope one day there will be some more tangible answers, too...
peace
Originally posted by IAMIAM
Originally posted by MrVortex
Nice answers... but still - only answers that guide to more questions...
I am getting tired of this constant questioning, I hope one day there will be some more tangible answers, too...
peace
All answers will only lead to more questions. That is how wonderful life is my friend. Every new discovery we make as a species only leads to more things to discover! We have an infinite universe above us and below us to discover. We were gifted with a mind that can unravel its mysteries one at a time. We were gifted an eternity to explore this vast creation. It is arranged in perfect order that we can find patterns and patterns within patterns all that lead us to even greater gifts!
Questioning is our divine birth right and our greatest gift. What thrill would there be in living if it was a life spent in a jar with all answers known?
If you get tired of the questioning, perhaps it is time to just relax and enjoy the answers you already have until you are ready to start the journey again.
Life is spectacular this way my friend. You can stop questioning when ever you choose and just enjoy the moment.
With Love,
Your Brother
We are bridging the gap to a LONG age of light, as we would term it.
supposedly, there will be quite a few wizards in the coming years
"A wise man always makes best use of his time".
BG 2.69: What is night for all beings is the time of awakening for the self-controlled; and the time of awakening for all beings is night for the introspective sage.