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Recent content by Sunburned

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    Y we got separated from Tao if we were one sometime !

    We aren't separated, just unaware and rejecting reality. Bad thinking and worse culture happened. I don't understand what you mean by enlightenment but being more in tune with Tao makes it easier to take things as they are. Explaining probably doesn't help much. Read a few...
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    The structure of the I-Ching (for zenzero and ben)

    Just to note that the I Ching is more generally Chinese and specifically Confucian than Taoist. Rigid cosmologies(as required by many schools of divination) were thought to increase separation from the Tao in ancient times.
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    thermodynamics and the Tao

    Simple things such as F=mx" can be complex and take a whole book or just some honest work. It helps if there's no baggage. There was a prof in University who started his first lecture with "I hope you haven't learned anything in high school because you're all going to have to unlearn it before...
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    thermodynamics and the Tao

    Well since entropy is a complex topic, I think it can be bent a little and used to "prove" just about anything. [EDIT: What I mean is some people will think that it's complex enough that bending it will somehow prover whatever they want, similiar to proving the immortality of the soul by...
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    thermodynamics and the Tao

    Yeah I can understand that being inspirational and useful. Interesting stuff, I needed to search for that since I don't know much about either. I think I got more reading to put on my list. :bow:
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    thermodynamics and the Tao

    Indeed. As an example our chemistry today would probably not exist without Taoist alchemy(and scholars in the Islamic world who transmitted it to western alchemy). Many seemingly complex inventions were made simply by observing nature and how things work. In some stories Taoists are equated with...
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    thermodynamics and the Tao

    Well that is surprising, do you remember the name of the textbook? I've seen people apply thermodynamics to some pretty funny things as proof. I also have the habit of buying used textbooks I don't really need, good to know I'm not alone. :help:
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    thermodynamics and the Tao

    Thermodynamics is a cornerstone of our modern understanding of the physical universe, but it's still only one part and I would argue that while such things are interesting, they are not essential to experience the Tao. I agree that they can be useful. Sometimes after during and after lectures I...
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    Updated Belief O Matic

    Indeed. Not many of the questions made "religious" sense to me. So I guess mostly ticking not applicaple, disagree or none leads to being a secular person. :facepalm: 1. Secular Humanism (100%) 2. Unitarian Universalism (90%)
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    Creationism is an insult to God.

    Getting involved with creationism is pretty much a career suicide option for a serious researcher so I doubt it.
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    Creationism is an insult to God.

    So far the work I have seen from creationists hasn't impressed me and I doubt they would have much to offer scientists in their own fields. Unless they have made huge leaps in the last ten years...
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    Cats > Dogs

    That's one awesome cat. :cool: Cats can be trained, but who wants to if they're awesome enough to start with. Dogs need to be trained to be awesome, but with the right owner they're pretty awesome too.
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    So long V'ger!

    That is neat indeed, I had all but forgotten about the Voyager. Here's a link I found with some visualization for the sciencegeeks among us ;) Spacecraft escaping the Solar System I wonder what kind of data is still being received from the Voyager?
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    What is my religion?

    Agnostic theism or agnostic atheism might be close, so I could disguise myself as either. But because I believe things can be proven with effort that still leaves me hanging somewhere in the middle of nowhere. :eek:
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    Evidence for God's nonexistence

    I haven't found any that fit all the types of "gods" I have studied, but I'm guessing that everyone's after the exoteric version of the Christian God or a projection of that into other Abrahamic faiths. And on those we can just quote Dawkins and move on... :beach:
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