Originally Posted by
thegnome54
Well, it's fine if you think that abortion and gay marriage have obvious solutions, but the problem is that claiming objective morality implies some sort of authoritative source of morality - what is this?
hmm, not sure. but philosophy and paradoxes aside. don't you just 'know' in your gut what's right, and wrong? maybe we ourselves, are the authority. almost as though right and wrong is innate in us. and if not, our intelligence should be able to work out what's right, and what's not, if we're honest with ourselves. and i don't mean to imply right and wrong is always easy. there are grey areas. some times causing someone discomfort in the moment, is better for them and everyone in the long run. sometimes you have to be angry and aggressive. but it's in the name of love, not fear or control.
Huh. I never thought of it that way. We are a part of the universe, after all... but still, it's not the universe as a whole reacting to the thoughts and wishes, it's only the tiny bits of it that are sentient - my argument is unchanged. There is no real Law of Attraction apart from the effects of simple interactions between human beings.
I see your point. but how els can the universe put anything into action if not thru sentient beings? like, it's not that magic isn't real, it's just that we expect magic to be more than, or something different than what it is.
if that makes any sense. like, we don't think its magic unless the brick stops in mid air moments before cracking our heads open. if a man walks by right before it hits us and catches it, thats not magic, thats coincidence or good luck. why? the end result is the same... your heads intact. maybe magic operates under the laws of physics as well. you know what i'm saying?
I believe in matter over matter, and the human brain is most certainly made of matter. Thoughts are also actually 'physical' things - they're electrical impulses in the brain. I don't doubt that it's possible to convince yourself that you're dying to the point where you die... however, you can't actually freeze to death unless it's cold enough - that's physically impossible. The brain can fake the effects on the cognitive level, but you can't actually freeze the inter cellular fluids and things like that.
the guy wrote a goodbye letter to his family. and they analyzed the handwriting, concluding that the shaking of his hands while writing, were congruent with how someone would shiver while freezing to death.
try as you might, you can't make your muscles shake like that right now. you'd have to actually be freezing... or truly believe you were.
I also read, (on the this board actually) about monks who meditated for warmth in a room set to 40 degrees F. then they placed wet blankets over their shoulders, and shortly after the blankets were steaming and drying out. that requires real heat. thats the mind manifesting something physical, by simply concentrating on it