I've come to the conclusion that we have two intellectual categories.  Those who think we are lumps of meat.  And those who think we are meat plus something else?  What is that something? A soul?  And if no soul, then what is the difference between the living and the dead?  What is no longer "alive" when you are dead?  What constitutes awareness? And what percieves perception?  If it is the senses that distinguishes experience, then what does the sensing?  Where do the senses derive their information from and where are they sending it to? 

What and who are you?

Liar paradox: "This sentence is false."

Ship of Theseus:  It seems like you can replace any component of a ship, and it will still be the same ship. So you can replace them all, or one at a time, and it will still be the same ship. But then you can take all the original pieces, and assemble them into a ship. That, too, is the same ship you started with.

Hilbert's paradox of the Grand Hotel: If a hotel with infinitely many rooms is full, it can still take in more guests.

Zeno's paradoxes: "You will never reach point B from point A as you must always get half-way there, and half of the half, and half of that half, and so on... ." (This is also a physical paradox.)  so motion should be impossible

Simpson's paradox: An association in sub-populations may be reversed in the population. It appears that two sets of data separately support a certain hypothesis, but, when considered together, they support the opposite hypothesis.

 bilene paradox: People can make decisions based not on what they actually want to do, but on what they think that other people want to do, with the result that everybody decides to do something that nobody really wants to do, but only what they thought that everybody else wanted to do.

Buridan's ass: How can a rational choice be made between two outcomes of equal value?

control paradox: No human is free from control, because even when they are free from the control of others, they are under their own control.

Paradox of hedonism: When one pursues happiness itself, one is miserable; but, when one pursues something else, one achieves happiness.

The Irresistible force paradox: what would happen if an unstoppable force hits an immovable object?

Here a just a few paradoxes...It seems our very understanding of logic lies in a realm seperate from reality, even though it is stems purely from it.  Why does logic that stems from our understanding of the universe often contradict the very conclusions that it comes to?

Just something to tink on...enjoy

Is there a reason for it all?

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we're building some pretty crazy sh*t

Well, it is safe to say that we are social beings. At some point in time we realized that we could get a lot more done with the help of others. When people were migrating as hunter gatherers, we ran around in tribes allocating duties to eachother to make it easier to stay alive. I think this point is huge. Everything wants to survive. Not just human beings but animals as well. If it is aware, it wants to stick around for the show. That being said, people will do what they have to, to do so. Fight or flight. Kill or be killed. Very primal. Now, we as humans have another aspect to put into play which is our emotions and personal feelings we have toward eachother. Love and friendship is an aspect of life that we would all fight to protect. So if your tribe messes with my tribe, then I'm looking to take your tribe down, so my tribe can live and experience this thing we call life.

Some say it changed when we decided it would be a good idea to settle down and create society. This eventually turned into the supressed verse the surpressors. Because once you have, and get used to a certain life, it becomes much harder to want to share it with those who didn't "earn it". not that anybody earned it. life is a gift and we all have the right to enjoy that gift without being subjected to the influence of others. but on the otherhand if we don't deal with others then it becomes harder to survive on our own let alone make progress to a potentially BETTER life.

That to is another issue is our intrinsic need to want. nothing is ever enough. we can always imagine better. and it is our struggle with the perfection of thought and ideas vs. the flawed actuality that we all have to live in and struggle to get through.

It was once said that "Laziness is the mother of all invention." All people want to do is sit back and enjoy the beauty of life without having to work hard for it. Enjoy friends and family and all of the awesomeness that comes with living, without having to deal with the hardships of work or loss. It is this struggle, along with our inherent need to survive that leads us to do things that we might not see as optimal or the most pious.

So are people naturally violent??? I say no. What ever has the capibility to love and share and be selfless for those we hold dear, is something that is intrinsically good.

But when put into the crazy world where only the strong survive, I'll kill you before I give up what I love.

In my opinion were good people in a ruthless world.

 But are we just lumps of meat walking around?  Or are we more.  Is there something inside us that is our true and "immortal" selves?  Are we anything without the body? 

 When the mind sleeps where do you go? When you dream and you are aware of you dreaming why does it sometimes feel more real than reality? 

What is memory?  Where is memory stored? How can I use MY past in order to create MY future?  Why can we see behind when we cannot see ahead?

 If the eyes are the windows INTO the world.  Whats outside?  And how can we be both in and out at the same time?

I ask a lot of questions here.  Most can't be proven or fully explained.  We can guess.  Which we love to do.  People love to tell you what "they think".  But how do I even know that your BLUE is my BLUE.  How can we be sure that we are all in the same world.  If I am in my world and you are in your world.  How can we be in the same world.  I can go on all day.  I won't.  But  I could.  So let me pose one question.

 What are we?  And.  How do you KNOW.    

NOT "why do you think" How can you look inside yourselves and KNOW.

I think therefore I am.

 Good luck.

 in my opinion, before you dive into the concept of forever and all, one must grasp finitude.  that that is.  a point and place a thing in the now.

it was once said that there are an infinite number of points between two points.

A----------------------------------B. and if i wanted to travel in between these two points then one would have to travel through and infinite number of points, and therefore traveling should be inpossible.  but we all move from here to there, so we'll assume that there may not ACTUALLY be an infinite number of points from here to there but merely a THEORETICAL infinite number of points between these points.

It has also been said that people are incapible of having any thoughts not stemming from a previous idea.  we can come up with a unicorn, but not without using a horse and a horn as the basis for the new idea.  as goes for ideas such as color and substance.  this is not so say that people can't come up with some wild, deep and far out things. we do, but it just means it comes from somewhere. you can only use the notes on the scale.

an exersise to show that we are the results of our reality and finitude it to close your eyes and think of "NOTHINGNESS" not, blackness or emptyness but nothingless, a world that never came to be.  CAN'T DO IT. it's impossible.

but we can think of Forever.

but a forever in the real sense in the finite sense is unattainable. infinity always breaks some rules. rules that bind us to the world that we experience. the past always was and the future always will be and the now is always fleeting.

people have two opinions of how we got here (in space and time) either, we just showed up, or have been around forever, time that recesses infinitly. neither make complete sense.  if we just showed up from "nothingness" what was here before that and how'd that get there? if time has always been happening, then what made it so?

if it was god, which must say it is. because it seems that we are complicated beings in a chaotic universe whith some kind of rhyme and reason. then we have to adress our idea of the all knowing all ABLE being.

The paradox of the stone.  either God can or can't make a stone that he cannot lift. if he can't then not being able to make it is something he can't do, if he can than it's the not being able to lift this giant stone is the thing he can't do. EITHER WAY THE VERY EXISTANCE OF THIS PARADOX CREATES A FLAW IN OUR IDEA OF BEING ABLE TO ANYTHING.

Such as the round square.  it seems that these are some of the things that don't allow us to have an infinite number of infinites.

 on the other hand the theory of infinite worlds creates theoretical universes that everything is possible. there can be a world in which it is possible that god both can and can't make a stone that he cannot lift. so really it's not an issue. yeah right.

it is possible that there is a world out there that everyone is purple and the sky is green and the grass is blue, but again we only have the ability to go from what we know. only able to use our limited ability to grasp the happenings of the world that we find ourselves in. as finite beings.

finite beings that have the ability to "grasp" the infinite or the devine or the perfect. but is something that cannot come into actual fruition because we are bound by the physical universe. a universe with laws and patterns.  patterns that we extrapolate from and create something more. something beyond ourselves.

if someone were to count to infinity, everytime they got to the next number, it would be the limit of actuality itself. 1000000000000000000000001 is the limit only until we keep going, and then that number is the limit. and then the next number and the next and so on and so on FOREVER.

FOREVER IS A "COULD BE" NOT NECCESSARILY "IS".  THE ONLY THING THAT CAN PROVE US RIGHT OR WRONG IS DYING.  WHETHER OUR INDIVIDUALITY CONTINUES PAST  THE FINITE SELF AND OUR FOREVER BECOMES WAS, NOW AND ALWAYS .

WAS ---------------------------IS-------------------------WILL BE

theoreticall motion shouldn't be possible because there are an infinite number of points between these points. but we all know that that's not true.

keep on expanding those unlimited limited minds!

Both faith and science look to answer the unknown. the problem lies in that there are certain things that we can never know.  like what happens when you die. or how did we get here in the first place.

It is said that there are certain infallible truths, such as the laws of nature as well as mathematics. so I think everyone can agree that the universe is apparently ordered in some way shape or form.  people have been seeing this order (which some may call God) in this physical universe we find ourselves in we have developed tools of reasoning to use our past experiences of this oberved order to act in the future in a world with the same characteristics of the past.

science is a best guess now and a fix it later kind of situation.  we didn't always know that the earth wasn't in the center of the universe or that light travels in waves, but we experiment and test and continue to advance and further our base of knowledge. 

 religion attempts to not necessarily substitute for science and reasoning, but continue where science cannot go.  to the unknowable.  what is the essence of things? finding meaning in this that are undefinable like beauty, and viture.  that that is ungraspable. 

 people find satisfaction in labeling things and achieving a certain "truth" to a question or an idea.  but the problem arises when paradoxes and exceptions ruin a basis of all understanding.  that fact is. there are no facts. there is nothing that can be said that cannot be quesiotned.  besides nothing makes sense.  for example.  the big bag.  either. time infinitly regresses, (which doesn't make sense). or it started at some infinitly dense particle exploding a long time ago and made the universe what we see in the hubble today, (which doesn't make sense either).  they say science tells us that the universe is expanding.  My question is expanding into what?! nothingness??? again doesn't make sense, but the most brilliant minds of our time tell us that this is they way that it is.

 SO.  what now? a choitic and ordered universe made from scratch,that has been here forever, that has defined characteristics that can't be fully defined! EASY TO EXPLAIN! why ask anymore questions right!??

To me this is where faith comes in.  And it is definitly a leap that one has to conciously make to discredit the reasonable,and approach the unknowable or the devine or the infinite (whatever you want to call it).  the crazy "coincidences" we see in this chaotic mess of a world.  I say GOD you are right. this SH*T makes no sense!  But I know that there is SOMETHING.  I don't know what it is aND IF i COMPREHENDED THE TOTALITY OF ALL KNOWLEDGE MY HEAD WOULD MOST CERTAINLY EXPLODE. SO I TAKE THE LEAP. AND GO BEYOND REASON AND LEAVE IT TO FAITH THAT THERE IS SOMETHING MORE, SOMETHING MORE THAT IS SO CRAZY THAT IT COULD MAKE A ROUNDSQUARE.  BUT SOMETHING THAT NOBODY COULD FULLY UNDERSTAND LET ALONE EXPLAIN>

So, use science to better understand ourselves, these undefinable beings, in a physical and ordered world.  but that will only take us so far.  FAITH is needed to explain it all.  and it still fails to do that. 

so everyone need to use both.  rationality for reality, and faith for what is collectively felt but individually explained.  have a personal relationship with the voice in your head and you'll understand more than any book can explain.

because hey. this might all just be some crazy dream!