reka wrote:WHAT IF GOD(S) WERE THE ENEREGIES...SUCH AS IN HIERACHIES OF ENERGIES
What's your point?
reka wrote:ALSO I AM ALSO CONVINCED THAT WE LIVE IN A 4 DIMENSIONAL WORLD, NOT TIME,
BUT THE 4th DIMENSION BEING LENGTH.
You mean as in, length, width, height and length? Sounds a bit like Patches O'Houlihan's five "D"s of dodgeball: "Dodge, duck, dip, dive and dodge!"
reka wrote:WHY HAVE 4 NAMES FOR THE DIMENSIONS IF THERE ARE ONLY 3...
I'll bite.
At this point my inner voice is urging me to walk away from this thread. This morning, my wife and I touched on this subject, referring to my previous remarks in this thread, at which point, she referred to one of her Don Juan/Carlos Castaneda books, which she is in the precess of re-reading. So, I'll let Carlos Castaneda deliver my parting remarks:
Syntax
A man staring at his equations said that the universe had a beginning. There had been an explosion, he said. A bang of bangs, and the universe was born. And it is expanding, he said. He had even calculated the length of its life: ten billion revolutions of the earth around the sun. The entire globe cheered; they found his calculations to be science. None thought that by proposing that the universe began, the man had merely mirrored the syntax of his mother tongue; a syntax which demands beginnings, like birth, and developments, like maturation, and ends, like death, as statements of facts. The universe began, and it is getting old, the man assured us, and it will die, like all things die, like he himself died after confirming mathematically the syntax of his mother tongue.
The Other Syntax
Did the universe really begin? Is the theory of the big bang true? These are not questions, though they sound like they are. Is the syntax that requires beginnings, developments and ends as statements of fact the only syntax that exists? That's the real question. There are other syntaxes. There is one, for example, which demands that varieties of intensity be taken as facts. In that syntax nothing begins and nothing ends; thus birth is not a clean, clear-cut event, but a specific type of intensity, and so is maturation, and so is death. A man of that syntax, looking over his equations, finds that he has calculated enough varieties of intensity to say with authority that the universe never began and will never end, but that it has gone, and is going now, and will go through endless fluctuations of intensity. That man could very well conclude that the universe itself is the chariot of intensity and that one can board it to journey through changes without end. He will conclude all that, and much more, perhaps without ever realizing that he is merely confirming the syntax of his mother tongue.
(from "The Active Side of Infinity")
PS - Moderators, I think this thread really does need to be moved to NIMI.