If perception changes the perciever does it change what is percieved?

If perception changes the perciever does it change what is percieved?

The mind is a splitter. Everything we look st becomes a zebra when in fact the universe is all gray horses. We see horses when all is gray scenery. 5 million shades of gray when there is one.

The universe is one thing until the mind begins to break it up. Reflection (like a mirror) turned on itself (like two mirrors) results in infinity. Put yourself between two mirrors and see. The mind creates an infinite universe OUT OF ITSELF. Crazier than any Matrix brain-in-a-vat scheme. 

There would be no reality if mind did not distinguish background from object. That is the triad at the center of all things. A father, son and holy scrim if you like. Sky mother and Earth father and you (as the observed one.) Time (out of mind) space and matter/energy. 

Against the assertion that religion is irrelevant.

The original question from Yahoo Answers

Q: Religions are just old Cults?

Have you noticed every Cult calls itself a Religion?

A: Cultic thinking is merely when sets of words cohere, and members of a group develop their own language for understanding one another. CBS television is a cult. The followers of Richard Dawkins are a cult. Discussion of the scientific method becomes cult-like. 

Any time someone says use its not it's in a sentence they are closing the walls on a barrier between people, an attempt to make themselves special, a cult of those in the know and those not.

Your word cult does not scare me. You are mad at religion because you percieve their ideas - which you think crazy, irrelevant and dangerous - have succeeded much better than yours do, even now in this most enlightened of ages.

People will ALWAYS seek after deeper truths than science can tell them. When you try and shut them out to build a cult against religion you are doing their work for them, because you cannot chase away a need by shaking your finger.

Fake Thomas in Yahoo Poetry

The original Thomas7 from Yahoo Answers who wrote crappy poetry using archaic words, was a good Christian and warned me that someone was impersonating him is gone. The new Thomas (with or without the 7) who claims to be the old Thomas thinks Boolean and semantics are "made up words" and when I speak the truth about him in comments they get reported and removed. But he says he is the old Thomas and that I have been saying lies again.

I know Thomas and you are not him.

God and the Universe?

What is the most rational view of God and the universe?

To say "I know what I don't know" is never rational. So the atheist is as irrational as the theist. As a planet full of people WE DON'T KNOW if God exists or doesn't. We thought we knew Little people (Hobbits, Leprechauns Etc...) didn't exist UNTIL THEY FOUND THEIR REMAINS on a Polynesian Island. Did some little people travel to Europe and Asia and spread the legend of their existence?

Truth is a tall order from a world full of people who don't know very much. Smart people are like the tall people in a hedge maze, they think they are at an advantage because they see the rough contours of the whole thing better than most, and then they rush headlong down dead alley after dead alley because intelligence breeds arrogance sooner than it breeds insight. The little people (religionists) meanwhile  stand one on top of another and the most intrepid one gets a glimpse of something that even genius cannot fathom. These mystics go "behind the walls" so to speak. They come back with weird tales that get weirder and weirder in the telling, but often the lowly follower has a better grasp of the trip than his much taller scientific counterpart. But is it truth? Does it hold up to examination? Of course not. So the smart one rams into ten more walls getting angrier and angrier at the little know-it-all twerps.


Truth chasing comes down to that old adage "Would you rather be right or happy?" Beliefs that are useful are often not rational and beliefs that are rational are often not very useful.

Poetry rant

The Original Question (probably gone by now)

The trusted members who rule the roost in YAP cannot stand anyone with intelligence talent or an ear for poetry. 

You might find out Neon- er, Elys - er, Pete- er, Tho- er, Ge* - er...

You might find out the emperor has no clothes. 

*Ge has talent, he just follows and obeys those who don't and wants to defend his hegemony over new poets even from those of us who do not threaten it. 

The Children of Goldilocks: or Not Being Able To Make Up Your Mind.

The Question from Yahoo Answers

Question: Why do I keep changing my mind? Doing one thing one day and changing course the next?

Answer: Some of us are not meant to row just one boat. And some of us are mentally ill. And some of us are both. The difference between polymath and psychopath is not as distinct as you might assume. 

Getting help for psychological problems often feels like shutting down the genius of oneself. The trouble is that that can be correct and wrong at the same time. My judgement as a depressive is often very skewed. So I need help. But much of the psychiatric community cannot fathom my statement about polymaths and psychopaths. So they assume any good idea you might have is delusional. So long as you are aware that that is THEIR necessary delusion you can find a balance. It is never going to be as good as we expect our raw genius to be. It just won't be as messed up as it will actually be. 

 I don't assume you are a teenager, even though I usually make that assumption. Because I recognize a fellow Child of Goldilocks when I see one.

Rejecting the Infinite Universe; Embracing the Infinite Deity

An infinite universe, to me, causes more problems than it solves. The problem with infinity is that is has a corrosive quality of making everything functionally pea soup. Imagine two images superimposed, and now imagine a million images superimposed and that is what you get in an infinite universe - infinite times over! 

The universe is finite because things that exist must be discrete - i. e. finite. This means that either God must not exist or must not be infinite, unless their is another state beyond absolute finiteness and absolute non-existence. Quantum physics describes something called potential particles that affect the universe EVEN THOUGH THEY DO NOT PHYSICALLY EXIST. 

Particles effect each other forwards and backwards in time. The Big Bang as the theory states, was caused to bang by conditions that existed shortly AFTER the bang triggering its INITIAL state. It was its own parent, so to speak. 

The universe that was to be effected the Big Bang and vice versa. 

The finite universe is driven by potential, whether on the level of quantum physics or at higher energy states by the multiverse. The multiverse is like that superimposed photo metaphor except the superimpositions are implied (i. e. potential) and affecting but not bleeding out the limited universe that IS. Potential drives everything and is the divine engine that runs the universe. I call it/him/her/them God.

If you want goofy pseudo-theories about how human behavior comes from magnetism, read Alex Chiu's Neo-Darwinism: http://www.alexchiu.com/cell/frame.htm

I personally think that love and hate and joy and fear are expressions of the infinite quality that is consciousness. Consciousness is a sort of touchstone between us and potential. It is the way in which we are made in God's image.