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djchameleon · 01-17-2017, 09:15 PM

Same, rain here.

Rain is nice and all as long as it stays relatively warm. If the temp decides to dip then everything just ices over again.

DwnWthVwls · 01-17-2017, 11:28 PM

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TFW you're trying to get an internship and the receptionist at the planning office is the rudest, most unprofessional cunt you've ever had the pleasure of dealing with over the phone, but you can't say anything..

I'll be sure to tell her how I feel when the internship is over or if I get denied.

So I'm complaining to my mom about this lady when I got home from school and she says "She was probably black" to which I reply "Why would you say that?".

Then I get "To annoy you". We end up exchanging a few words, and I told her to "stay ignorant" and went to my room. As I was walking upstairs I hear her trying to justify her comments to my stepdad who remained quiet during the interaction.

Fuck white people.

DwnWthVwls · 01-18-2017, 11:32 AM

Are you not satisfied with the perspective science provides?

The Batlord · 01-18-2017, 11:33 AM

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Originally Posted by elphenor

I've been weirdly getting into Eastern type spirituality

A younger me would have immediately dismissed everything spiritual as voodoo

But when you realize the space spirituality is to occupy is one of giving things a perspective, not to discover truths like science, you start to understand its use

High?

**Frownland** · 01-18-2017, 11:34 AM

Is there a specific one or are you just generalizing the East as a unified spiritual culture? Because that would be racist, Mr. Westerner.

**Frownland** · 01-18-2017, 11:46 AM

Any flaws with a scientific perspective in particular?

**Frownland** · 01-18-2017, 11:52 AM

So nihilism is spirituality?

DwnWthVwls · 01-18-2017, 11:54 AM

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Originally Posted by elphenor

Science doesn't have a perspective in the sense I'm talking. It tells you what is, not how you should think and feel about what is

the purpose of spirituality is completely different than science the two do not collide unless you're doing it wrong

I think science does provide me with a perspective. For instance, my view on the death of someone I care about. The difference between the perspective that science and religion provide is that science doesn't tell you how to feel.

The Batlord · 01-18-2017, 12:09 PM

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To give an example

We can derive that we are tiny in comparison to the cosmos. An Unfathomable level of tiny. And we are around for an equally Unfathomable small amount of time.

From one perspective this must mean we are insignificant. But science does not tell us that we apply a human perspective of significance to the situation.

The Eastern way of looking at things would not understand such a perspective because they do not see humans as separate from the universe itself indeed from their perspective we are the universe experiencing itself

But... science doesn't tell us we're separate from the universe. Quite the opposite, since being separate is more of a Western religious concept.

DwnWthVwls · 01-18-2017, 12:11 PM

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Originally Posted by elphenor

To give an example

We can derive that we are tiny in comparison to the cosmos. An Unfathomable level of tiny. And we are around for an equally Unfathomable small amount of time.

From one perspective this must mean we are insignificant. But science does not tell us that we apply a human perspective of significance to the situation.

The Eastern way of looking at things would not understand such a perspective because they do not see humans as separate from the universe itself indeed from their perspective we are the universe experiencing itself

So it makes claims about a perspective that it can not possibly demonstrate.

I'm not knocking it, if that makes your life more meaningful then by all means, but I don't have a problem being insignificant. I don't think science sees us as separate from the universe, you hear stuff about how we share the same molecules that were once part of stars or the ocean or whatever, and that to me is amazing and spiritual (for lack of a better term).

01-18-2017, 11:34 AM	#42545 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,548	Is there a specific one or are you just generalizing the East as a unified spiritual culture? Because that would be racist, Mr. Westerner. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x

01-18-2017, 11:46 AM	#42546 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,548	Any flaws with a scientific perspective in particular? __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x

01-18-2017, 11:52 AM	#42547 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,548	So nihilism is spirituality? __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x