Monday 1:10 p.m.
I don't think Hindus or Buddhists want you to stick with a concrete view of reality. You have to realise that your senses aren't telling you the whole truth, that you're not getting the full picture, that you are, in fact, the subject and product of misapprehension.
You have an ashtray. It's called an ashtray and it's for putting your roaches in. It has a label and a function. You can say other things about the ashtray, like it's made of glass and so on. You can say that ashtray has a label and a function, but once you start describing anything else, you might hit shaky ground.
It said today that they had strong hints of the existence of Higgs boson. This will explain why things are heavy.
How smart can we be if we don't even know that yet?
Once you go into the molecular level and sub-atomic level, nothing makes any sense. We have the mad stuff like particles spinning both ways simultaneously, being in more than one place, etc.
From the two slit experiment with the electrons, people seem to have surmised that things operate the way we see them operating when there is some kind of observer or measurer or maybe awareness would do. Scientists don't like this because they have to posit an observer outside the universe and that's just the deux ex machina stuff they had in the middle ages and whatnot. Like God looking down on us.
From the wee realisation I once had of non-self and emptiness, which involves your awareness expanding from you into everything else ... well, I've seen the awareness. Or an awareness. So it seems that the awareness would be inside the universe and not outside it.
You do see something that is flowing in and through everything and somehow the most important part.
That's all I can saw about it. I don't know if this bigger awareness is aware of itself. I don't think it has to be, or that it should be aware of itself. In some way we may have its eyes and ears, or some of its eyes and ears.
So we have the planets flying around and we have a good idea about how that's happening, and we have the wee tottie things and we can see that they defy all the reasonable things we've managed to find out about the big stuff and .... never the twain shall meet. Well, if you stick in the bigger self (which might not know itself) ... well, it works for me a bit when it comes to emptiness. Nothing existing in the manner of its appearance. It also might solve the problem of how can things exist only in your mind when you know the moon will still be there when you die. It is existing in mind, just not your mind.
Like images seen in a dream
Thus must we regard all things
Can't remember who said that.
Lovely day outside. I'll have to go walkies!
10:15 p.m.
Just noticed I've got the day wrong. I don't know what day it is. That's got to be a good sign!
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I don't know about particles spinning both ways simultaneously, but Jimmy Anderson can swing the ball both ways, though not simultaneously, of course. It either swings to leg, or swings to off. Never heard of a ball swinging both ways simultaneously. If it did, it would end up being a straight ball, onto the wicket. Even a yorker wont swing simultaneously.
I think you've been reading the wrong manual.
MM III
Mingin'! Have you heard of boomerang throwing competitions where they throw them and have to stand still till they come back and hit them on the head? Hunting yourself! Fantastic sport! You should invent it. Hotboy
Hotters. Maybe you've been whiling away time with the Open University again? If it's any help, I can tell you it's just an ashtray! Dearie me, this is what happens when you let timheids retire early and put their brains in neutral. If only you had a Bavarian background and a solid grounding in teutonian physics: it's all concrete, except when it's reinforced concrete. That could help save you a lot of time. PS What is time anyway?
Albert? It's nearly half past one in the afternoon of a Saturday. It's the ashtray I got from you when you were trying to flog off your father in law's porn collection. Hotboy
Hotters. Dead chuffed the ashtray's providing so much food for thought. Just imagine if I'd given you the false teeth that were in it.
PS My father in law was a protestant minister. Not a priest!
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