Dear Rev, A Wager

Kompressor · 04-04-2011, 05:30 PM

I promise to read and fully review your book on yahooka within one week's time, if you put out of context quips from random yahookans back in your sig.

DO YOU ACCEPT

Bearsy · 04-04-2011, 05:55 PM

I knew something was missing here. That's probably it.

The Rev · 04-04-2011, 07:05 PM

I accept, my friend.

The Rev

Kompressor · 04-04-2011, 07:53 PM

Xil · 04-04-2011, 10:30 PM

So if you are god, shouldn't your sig say "read God's blog" and "read God's book"?

can't wait for the review, have been wondering about your book for a while, but with all the shit i gotta read for school (much of which i imagine is along similar lines), pleasure reading time is at a minimum. hopefully this can go on my summer reading list

The Rev · 04-04-2011, 10:54 PM

I'm not God, you are.

The Rev

The Rev · 04-04-2011, 10:54 PM

I'm just you.

The Rev

Xil · 04-04-2011, 11:04 PM

well played sir.

are we god like squares are rectangles or like squares are squares?

are we identical with god and reality as a whole, or do we participate in it as a part-whole/species-genus sort of way?

how much wood would a wood chuck chuck if a would chuck could chuck wood?

Grieves · 04-04-2011, 11:24 PM

for all those answers and more, read the rev's book....

The Rev · 04-04-2011, 11:48 PM

Here's the article I wrote for "Philosophy Now" magazine (not yet published or rejected). It's the core argument for the idea that there is only one consciousness, and that it is yours.

Just in case 6 pages is more appealing to you than 200.

The Rev

Bearsy · 04-05-2011, 12:19 AM

I've ascribed to this idea ever since I learned that all matter is the same physically at it's basest level.
I like that you can articulate my thoughts better than I can.
Which I guess is more proof that we are all "I".

I haven't read the book yet, as I want to wait until I can actually buy it from you, but I was wondering, do you include all matter in the you=me=us=god theory or do you only apply it to conscious beings?
Personally I think it's a Universal thing and not just relegated to consciousness.

What it all leads up to though... that's still something I haven't quite grasped.
Maybe I will in a different life.
Or maybe I already have and I'm just waiting to hear it from myself in the future.
Who knows?

Kompressor · 04-05-2011, 05:33 AM

**SageTree** · 04-05-2011, 07:50 AM

I'll break out my copy and give it a few more chapters as well...

Afterwards... cult meeting w/ tea and biscuits.....

The Rev · 04-05-2011, 10:01 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bearsy

I've ascribed to this idea ever since I learned that all matter is the same physically at it's basest level.
I like that you can articulate my thoughts better than I can.
Which I guess is more proof that we are all "I".

I haven't read the book yet, as I want to wait until I can actually buy it from you, but I was wondering, do you include all matter in the you=me=us=god theory or do you only apply it to conscious beings?
Personally I think it's a Universal thing and not just relegated to consciousness.

What it all leads up to though... that's still something I haven't quite grasped.
Maybe I will in a different life.
Or maybe I already have and I'm just waiting to hear it from myself in the future.
Who knows?

My idea is about consciousness, that there is only one, and not "one per person" as we think of it, typically. And since there is only one, and you are experiencing consciousness, that one is necessarily yours.

As for inclusion of all things, if I were to do that, I would do it on the basis that all things were conscious, from people on down to rocks and such. I don't explore that idea in the book, but I have a hunch that everything possesses consciousness. It's just that the experience of being a rock would be extremely different from that of being a person (rocks have no senses or mind, for example, and since humans experience everything through these conduits, it's impossible to know what awareness would be like without them), and entirely a matter of conjecture. I chose, instead, to stick to ideas that I could prove, and expanded on the ramifications of those.

It's an interesting and valid question, tho. I just didn't cover it.

The Rev

Suliman · 04-06-2011, 01:18 AM

Liked the short article, it was a little harder to wrap my head around one consciousness after being mindfucked by the rest of the book

Kinda of reminds me of a Gaea theory or whatever- the idea that earth itself is a single creature/emergent property- but expanded on a more universal scale.

Let me know if that gets published!

Kompressor · 04-11-2011, 02:36 PM

Unfortunately, i got promoted the same week i made this bet, so i've had to do training on top of the job i have now, so I was unable to finish it off, but rest assured it will happen this week.

Jester4yall · 04-11-2011, 02:55 PM

Excuses excuses lol

The Rev · 04-11-2011, 04:51 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kompressor

Unfortunately, i got promoted the same week i made this bet, so i've had to do training on top of the job i have now, so I was unable to finish it off, but rest assured it will happen this week.

No worries. Take your time. Congrats on your promotion, too.

The Rev

Captain Cannabis · 04-11-2011, 05:37 PM

challenge failed

Jester4yall · 04-11-2011, 08:08 PM

04-04-2011, 05:30 PM	#1 (permalink)
Kompressor Voice of Reason Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Illinois Posts: 8,361 Thanks: 0 Thanked 3,069 Times in 1,634 Posts	Dear Rev, A Wager I promise to read and fully review your book on yahooka within one week's time, if you put out of context quips from random yahookans back in your sig. DO YOU ACCEPT __________________ Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought. -H. Bergson

04-04-2011, 07:05 PM	#3 (permalink)
The Rev Clear Light Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: In my head, somewhere. Posts: 17,867 Thanks: 5,019 Thanked 5,421 Times in 2,865 Posts	I accept, my friend. The Rev __________________ Budforce - My Friend August 29, 1973- May 25, 2012

04-04-2011, 07:53 PM	#4 (permalink)
Kompressor Voice of Reason Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Illinois Posts: 8,361 Thanks: 0 Thanked 3,069 Times in 1,634 Posts	__________________ Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought. -H. Bergson

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Xil OD'ing on sobriety Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Mizzura Posts: 3,334 Blog Entries: 1 Thanks: 1,037 Thanked 1,158 Times in 717 Posts	So if you are god, shouldn't your sig say "read God's blog" and "read God's book"? can't wait for the review, have been wondering about your book for a while, but with all the shit i gotta read for school (much of which i imagine is along similar lines), pleasure reading time is at a minimum. hopefully this can go on my summer reading list __________________ "we'll show these fascists what a couple of hillbillies can do"

04-04-2011, 10:54 PM	#6 (permalink)
The Rev Clear Light Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: In my head, somewhere. Posts: 17,867 Thanks: 5,019 Thanked 5,421 Times in 2,865 Posts	I'm not God, you are. The Rev __________________ Budforce - My Friend August 29, 1973- May 25, 2012

04-04-2011, 10:54 PM	#7 (permalink)
The Rev Clear Light Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: In my head, somewhere. Posts: 17,867 Thanks: 5,019 Thanked 5,421 Times in 2,865 Posts	I'm just you. The Rev __________________ Budforce - My Friend August 29, 1973- May 25, 2012

04-04-2011, 11:04 PM	#8 (permalink)
Xil OD'ing on sobriety Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Mizzura Posts: 3,334 Blog Entries: 1 Thanks: 1,037 Thanked 1,158 Times in 717 Posts	well played sir. are we god like squares are rectangles or like squares are squares? are we identical with god and reality as a whole, or do we participate in it as a part-whole/species-genus sort of way? how much wood would a wood chuck chuck if a would chuck could chuck wood? __________________ "we'll show these fascists what a couple of hillbillies can do"

04-04-2011, 11:24 PM	#9 (permalink)
Grieves The Worst Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Interstate 8 Posts: 12,108 Blog Entries: 1 Thanks: 2,580 Thanked 3,128 Times in 1,721 Posts	for all those answers and more, read the rev's book.... __________________ "And no matter what they said dollar is not your friend and it's the feelings that are hard to know are the feelings that all come slow No matter what they said dollar is not your friend and these feelings that so hard to know are the feelings that wont let go No don't let go, till you find a home World Unite and I'll love you forever"

04-05-2011, 05:33 AM	#12 (permalink)
Kompressor Voice of Reason Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Illinois Posts: 8,361 Thanks: 0 Thanked 3,069 Times in 1,634 Posts	__________________ Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought. -H. Bergson

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SageTree ~Kalyāṇa-mitrā~ Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: In Love Posts: 23,414 Blog Entries: 26 Thanks: 13,070 Thanked 6,769 Times in 4,664 Posts	I'll break out my copy and give it a few more chapters as well... Afterwards... cult meeting w/ tea and biscuits..... __________________ "What's oppressive is letting your life be confined by old definitions of what everything is." -Zen Meister my_scatterheart YaHooka is.... Cannabis lovers from around the world pulling up a comfy chair, picking up a vaporizer, a bong, a brownie, a pipe, or a joint, getting high, stoned, buzzed or healthy. Uniting our minds in conversation...While Portraying a Positive Image of marijuana and marijuana users to the world. Treat your fellow YaHookans with kindness,respect and tolerance.

04-11-2011, 02:36 PM	#16 (permalink)
Kompressor Voice of Reason Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Illinois Posts: 8,361 Thanks: 0 Thanked 3,069 Times in 1,634 Posts	Unfortunately, i got promoted the same week i made this bet, so i've had to do training on top of the job i have now, so I was unable to finish it off, but rest assured it will happen this week. __________________ Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought. -H. Bergson

04-11-2011, 02:55 PM	#17 (permalink)
Jester4yall Spark It or Park It Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Africa Posts: 3,667 Thanks: 2,782 Thanked 1,327 Times in 949 Posts	Excuses excuses lol __________________ http://i.imgur.com/CTV2E.gif In matters of style, swim with the current; In matters of principle, stand like a rock. -Thomas Jefferson You will encounter many distractions and many temptations to put your goal aside: The security of a job, a wife who wants kids, whatever. But if you hang in there, always following your vision, I have no doubt you will succeed. - Larry Flynt

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Captain Cannabis safety word: more Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: m.i.a. Posts: 13,922 Thanks: 2,705 Thanked 3,174 Times in 1,812 Posts	challenge failed __________________ fuck the monkeys

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Jester4yall Spark It or Park It Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Africa Posts: 3,667 Thanks: 2,782 Thanked 1,327 Times in 949 Posts	__________________ http://i.imgur.com/CTV2E.gif In matters of style, swim with the current; In matters of principle, stand like a rock. -Thomas Jefferson You will encounter many distractions and many temptations to put your goal aside: The security of a job, a wife who wants kids, whatever. But if you hang in there, always following your vision, I have no doubt you will succeed. - Larry Flynt

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