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« Reply #30 on: July 01, 2009, 06:37:45 AM »

I'm a reader of basically every piece of literature on which I can get my hands.

I don't know if it's a possibility in my lifetime, but it's certainly plausible.
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« Reply #31 on: July 01, 2009, 02:19:01 PM »

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Are you a reader of Ray Kurzweill and believe in the possibility of the singularity then?

I personally don't for a few reasons. Number one, machines are already far smarter than us - just ask Gary Kasparov.  Smart has absolutely nothing to do with spirit or even genuine feelings.  The best you could do with regards to feelings and other intangibles such as love, passion, and inspiration would be to instill in them an emulation of these effects such that the appearance would be that they are in fact capable of feelings as humans are.  The problem I think is the missing initial elements that I refer to as "spirit" or simply a "life force."  Christ knows I'm no Christian or even a religious person but I've come to be open to the possibility of something similar to the Gaia Hypothesis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia_hypothesis).  This is not to be confused with any form of supreme intelligence.  It's simply that the organic process and development of living organisms is inherently different than anything non-organic.

Now if you consider cloning with a hybrid approach using technology to augment the capacities of man-machine creations - all bets are off  Devilish
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« Reply #32 on: July 01, 2009, 02:43:16 PM »

Interestingly, Buddhism does not preclude or deny the possibility of it at all, provided the machine was capable of sustaining the gross life of humanity (ie., the physical structures necessary to host a mindstream) then a person could actually be reborn into a machine (based on their karmic imprints). It's pretty far out there, but IMO any spiritual understanding that is as old, yet as capable of that much forward thinking, is worth a read.
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« Reply #33 on: July 01, 2009, 03:08:51 PM »

you guys ever read the Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny?

fishing coolest sci-fi buddha story ever
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« Reply #34 on: July 01, 2009, 03:10:44 PM »

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IMO any spiritual understanding that is as old, yet as capable of that much forward thinking, is worth a read.

Totally agree.  And wow, the concept of being "reborn" into a karmically compatible, inorganic vessel from a dis-incarnate state is a real noodle-baker bro.   

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« Reply #35 on: July 01, 2009, 03:22:14 PM »

Tis. I actually read that in a text I'm in the middle of. Blew my socks right off.

That Buddha guy, he got game. Wink
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« Reply #36 on: July 01, 2009, 04:03:50 PM »

I like the lovingkindness Buddhist meditation.

It's quite good.

I won't subscribe to any metaphysical mumbo jumbo though. I'm personally fulfilled by studying philosophy.
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« Reply #37 on: July 01, 2009, 04:18:25 PM »

That's the best part of it. Play it your way, live a good life.

"Kindness is my religion"
- the Dalai Lama
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« Reply #38 on: July 01, 2009, 05:52:30 PM »

Aye, by now I've read The Bible several times, cover to cover (as well as several commentaries, exegetical works, etc.), The Qur'an (almost finished the 1st time through), The Bhagavad Gita (taking a bit longer to get through), The Book of Mormon twice, and I'm looking to acquire a copy of the Tibetan Book of the Dead. They all have something interesting to say about human nature and human history. I'm just not the kind of guy who can read one book at a time though.
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« Reply #39 on: July 01, 2009, 07:13:21 PM »

@vs that's amazing.  I don't have the patience to read those texts more than once and I simply haven't been able to plow through the bible cover to cover.  It just pisses me off so damn much  Devilish

However, for perhaps the most influential work on western mysticism I would highly recommend Madame Blavatsky's Secret Doctrine.  It's freely available at: http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/sd/sd-hp.htm.

The Egyptian Book of the Dead is good but other books that discuss it held my interest a little more.  The book itself is more of a road map to the underworld and after a while it feels like reading a Thomas Guide.  The Bhagavad Gita was more interesting to me and I have the Qur'an on my to-read list.  Also of interest is The True and Invisible Rosicrucian Order by Paul Foster Case http://www.amazon.com/True-Invisible-Rosicrucian-Order-Interpretation/dp/0877287090

Don't forget the Zohar.  It's 23 volumes but the Old Testament could almost be assembled by cutting and pasting all the stories and myths from this original, according to some Jewish scholars.  It's also the basis for Jewish mysticism.

Perk's probably wondering why I haven't mentioned Aleister Crowley yet  Grin

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« Reply #40 on: July 01, 2009, 08:16:38 PM »

@vs that's amazing.  I don't have the patience to read those texts more than once and I simply haven't been able to plow through the bible cover to cover.  It just pisses me off so damn much  Devilish
I love the bible greatest book ever written Smiley
Its got it all.
Incest - noah's daughters getting him drunk so he will fuck them. I guess they got really horney after the flood and no men around. They tried to get thier daddy to fuck them when he was sober. But he would not. So they got him drunk  ROFLMAO
Micheangelo paints a nice scene of his daughters getting him drunk. Fuk incest porn 500+ years old  ROFLMAO

After you read the bible several times you can have fun with "xtain fundies". Just wait for them to make some sort of statement along the lines. "I follow the bible literally"
Then you can ask them questions like. If you caught an STD did you have your penis examined by the priest ?
Is that a polyester shirt you are wearing ? The bible forbids you from wearing cross blend garments.
Is that a skin rash you have ? Did you have your pastor examine you ? How come you are not sitting outside the city for 15 days until it gets better and then getting reexamined by the pastor Cheesy

Or the story of "Lot" great story. He was a "good man". Well lets examine what a good man does. He offers his virgin daughters up to be sodomized by strangers. Wow that sounds like a blast  ROFLMAO So if u visit a fundies house and he has daughters. Well how come he is not offering them to you to be sodomized  ROFLMAO

It is implied that there where temple prostitutes. It states a priest must not marry a temple prostitute. Obviously church was a lot more fun back then. Hmmm I wonder if you are allowed to bonk the temple prostitute while listening to the sermon. Would the priest get mad as you are bonking if you make too much noise  ROFLMAO

Fun things to do with animals. Samson when he was king got like a bunch of foxes. Then he tied a bunch or fire torches to thier tails and let them run around throught his enemies fields.

Seriously you need a good translation. Also read the book like you would read a biased history book or a good novel.
I think the most important part of the book it you see that people 4000+ years later have not changed very much.

And then it is down right pornographic
1 How beautiful are thy feet with shoes, O prince's daughter! the joints of thy thighs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a cunning workman.
2 Thy navel is like a round goblet, which wanteth not liquor: thy belly is like an heap of wheat set about with lilies.
3 Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins.
4 Thy neck is as a tower of ivory; thine eyes like the fishpools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bathrabbim: thy nose is as the tower of Lebanon which looketh toward Damascus.
5 Thine head upon thee is like Carmel, and the hair of thine head like purple; the king is held in the galleries.
6 How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights!
7 This thy stature is like to a palm tree, and thy breasts to clusters of grapes.
8 I said, I will go up to the palm tree, I will take hold of the boughs thereof: now also thy breasts shall be as clusters of the vine, and the smell of thy nose like apples;
9 And the roof of thy mouth like the best wine for my beloved, that goeth down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak.
10 I am my beloved's, and his desire is toward me.
11 Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field; let us lodge in the villages.
12 Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine flourish, whether the tender grape appear, and the pomegranates bud forth: there will I give thee my loves.
13 The mandrakes give a smell, and at our gates are all manner of pleasant fruits, new and old, which I have laid up for thee, O my beloved.

Ohhh yah baby I wanna see the joints of ur thighs Cheesy
So see it can even help you get laided Cheesy


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« Reply #41 on: July 01, 2009, 08:59:21 PM »

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« Reply #42 on: July 01, 2009, 09:24:50 PM »

 ROFLMAO ROFLMAO ROFLMAO ROFLMAO  Nice post @nop!!

 
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« Reply #44 on: July 01, 2009, 10:20:23 PM »

I'm reminded of the following: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFkeKKszXTw.

Angel And now, biblical inspiration Angel

"Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung upon your faces" - Malachi 2:3
If a man rapes a virgin and gets caught, he must pay 50 pieces of silver to her father, and then marry her" - Deuteronomy 22:28-29
"Happy shall he be that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones" - Psalm 137:9
"There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses." - Ezekiel 23:20
"Hath he not sent me to the men which sit on the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own piss with you?" - 2 Kings 18:27
"And if a woman approach unto any beast, and lie down thereto, thou shalt kill the woman, and the beast." - Leviticus 20:16
"Suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence." - 1 Timothy 2:12
"And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters, which the LORD thy God hath given thee!" - Deuteronomy 28:53

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