a new understanding of today, time and space.

My own belief is that 42 is as good an explanation as anyone is ever going to ultimately get for anything, providing an explanation for quantum mechanics implying things like consensual reality. We inhabit and even help create our own “singular-infinity” with the subconscious mind being in connection with the collective unconscious, or dreamer, and the conscious mind applying normalization to the, otherwise, less reliable subconscious mind. Classical logic and physics are rapidly proving to be tautological, implying that the particle-wave duality of quantum mechanics expresses the Two Faces of Janus, or paradox of existence. That makes space-time as much a personal matter as it is an abstract one, and looking up at the stars we can often feel like a small infant looking up at its mother, while looking down from a height we can literally crap our pants.

It is the juxtaposition that matters and that can be considered to express the Two Faces of Janus. Similarly, gravity appears to be magical, while inertia is more real and in-your-face even, but the two can exchange identities. More to the point, gravity and inertia describe all the varieties of motion we are aware of in the world around us, making it just as meaningful to say we can’t imagine a universe without the magical appearing action of gravity. This is what Allan Watts first popularized as “God plays peek-a-boo” where the identity of everything appears to vanish down the nearest convenient rabbit hole or toilet of your personal preference. Gravity simultaneously appears to occupy space and not occupy space, and to pull things towards it and not pull them, as if its identity is somehow spread out like the wave in a particle-wave duality.

The same thing can be seen with the arrow of time, where neither a backwards, random, or utterly fated universe is more than a vaguely conceivable concept, implying that if it were not for the arrow of time, we would see almost nothing happening.

I would agree, but only by the use of the most absolute of principles, which can never be discovered, demonstrably.

Time and space are related such by transfer, and its based on -in-through an approximated gravitational reality, and I think that’s right.

That’s what I thought, before I accidently figured out a way to prove it. Assuming 42 actually is as good an explanation as any other, then its possible to make unique predictions and establish that quantum mechanics rule the universe. For example, one implication is that reality and the dream are indivisible, and that reality and fiction must become indistinguishable at times. Life must have a humorous side that expresses the lowest possible energy state and begs the question as to whether we possess free will or life is fated. I discovered there are any number of ways to prove 42 is as good an explanation as any other, because it is the self-evident truth.

Think of everything as ultimately making no sense whatsoever (the only thing I can know is that I know nothing) and humanity as being unconsciously aware that it ultimately makes no sense, but we pretend it does make sense, because its more useful. This explains the Quantum Observer Effect and local and nonlocal effects as due, in part, to how easy it is for the individual to fool themselves in any specific situation. The more removed the observer, the more their observations should differ a closer observer, because the principle of identity is an infinite regression (explaining the Simultaneity Paradox). That means the repeated patterns over vast scales of fractal geometry reflect how we perceive things as becoming more or less real which is something that can be measured and used to establish that the self-evident truth is paradoxical and metaphorical.

A recent examination of cosmic whirlpools revealed that the Schrodinger equation applies and modern science is beginning to amass evidence for the fractal symmetry that applies to everything, and next generation computers should be able to crunch all the numbers required.

a problem of existence…

we see and have seen injustice, which I have noted is
actually about inequality… justice is about being treated equal
but we have seen, generation after generation after generation,
injustice and inequality… the wealthy and the powerful have
always had the ability to avoid consequences and use their influence
to manipulate situations and events for their benefit…
this injustice, this inequality has been seen before… Kings who
act tyrannically and churches that favor those with wealth
and we have seen events like the Holocaust, all of which are acts
of inequality/injustice…….

we wish we had the power to end or change these acts of inequality/injustice
but we lack the power… we are helpless in the face of tyranny, injustice, inequality…

and so, we create in our helplessness, some means of gaining justice, equality…
we create the notion of gaining justice and inequality in the next life…
heaven is simply a wish fulfillment to end the injustice and inequality we see
in this life… or said another way, we see injustice and we want
some Deus ex Machina to correct the injustice………

I have an idiot boss and I wish I had some means to overcome his
unjust and bonehead actions…… I wish for some means to create
justice and equality, but I can’t… so I hope for some Deus ex Machina
to drop on that idiot’s head… but no… the injustice goes on…

and we see this every day… IQ45 and his tyranny and it is tyranny…
for if a president doesn’t follow the law, disregards the law…
that is tyranny… for IQ45 to claim he is above the law…
and that he cannot be indicted for anything he does including
shooting Comey, is simply wrong and a case of injustice…
and their isn’t anything I can do…the power to change his tyranny
is outside of my control, so I am left with some vague hope of
of outside forces, Deus ex Machina, to right these wrongs…

and so we see the birth of superhero’s… like Superman or Batman
or Spiderman… we see that they fight the wrongs of the day…
but our superhero’s no longer fight political battles or rights the wrongs
of an unjust political system…… no our superhero’s fight some
evil forces trying to destroy the earth or the universe…
so we are left without any means to correct our current unjust
and unequal political system…… we are left hopeless……
so millions don’t bother to vote and millions have simply
vacated the political sphere…… they are more interested
in who wins crappy TV shows like America idol and dancing with
the stars…or watching the idiots Kardashian…… hoping to be like
them, make millions and be famous without any effort or talent or skills……

and we still see injustice and despair and inequality every day in the news
and we know that acts of injustice and inequality happen every single
day to millions and we can’t do anything about… where are the superhero’s that
fight for justice and equality for people who are just trying survive the day…

have we lost our compassion for those who are less fortunate then we are?

have we truly lost the ability to have pity for those less fortunate then us?

or has the capitalistic system so infested us that we can only believe
in “every man for himself”… without concern for our fellow human beings…….

a problem of existence: how can we become human if we cannot
have pity or concern or compassion for those who are less fortunate then us?
or have we passed beyond the point of truly caring for others???

Kropotkin

Fun fact. Hillary Killary is romantically in love with the Leader of the KKK and she calls jews a bunch of k-words.

now before you ban me, let it be known, i did not call jews k-words, i did not kiss the leader of the kkk, that was hillary. i am simply stating the facts.

Fun fact. Trump increased black employment so who’s the racist?

I know most of you liberals are closet racists.

I know you want to vote for hillary because you are a heterosexual male and you love womens. You love strong powerful womens in power. But due to feminism, you, as a male, are persecuted and shamed for your lust, so the only way you can satisfy your urges for strong, womens, of a woman in power, is through the vote.

K: I can’t tell if this is some new brain dead idiot or an old ILP poster
who has changed his name… inquiring minds really don’t want to know…

Kropotkin

Typical lib response, ignores the facts and insults me directly, retreating back to its narcissistic droning and safe-space.

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another problem of existence……

we have millions of people who live
“lives of quiet desperation”…….

we see them everyday, including here at ILP…

these small, insignificant people who have nothing to offer, nothing about
them is geared toward being greatness… and why?

because they lack anything but anger and bitterness and hate…
that is it… that is all they offer, so they lead lives of desperation…

they are so far from greatness and intelligence or wit, that they
cannot reach those traits given a million years and they know it…

thus they hate any who does approach intelligence or greatness or wit…

these ignorant, insignificant people can only offer up hate and anger
and despair, that is all they have… and these irrelevant people
in their hate can only hate those who have thoughts or are original
or bring in the light of love and peace and charity……

haters can only hate and lead lives of quiet desperation………
and they bring the hate toward those who have intelligence or greatness
and wit and bath in the light of love and peace………….

and it galls those small people because they too want to
have intelligence and greatness and wit but their hate and anger
stands in the way……….

I could name names of those here at ILP who only bring the hate and anger,
but it would be pointless because they can do nothing about it…
and so they lead lives of quiet desperation…

the question of existence asks, do these small, insignificant ones
have any hope to become something greater then they are…….
which is really rising to average at best… can they rise
to this modest level of being average or are they condemned to live out their
lives of hate and anger and being small and insignificant? lives of quiet desperation…

I don’t know… that is the question of existence… can these little
people become something more?

Kropotkin

it is now my third year or 4th year, ummmm, I can’t remember,
anyway, I now have reached Kant in my look at the history of philosophy……
I expect this to take a while…

I remember the first time I read his critique of pure reason…
I was driving from Chicago to California in 1986? and my car broke down
in between Springfield ILL and St Louis… It was Easter Sunday and I was
in some small dinky town called Atlanta Illinois…and nothing but nothing was
open because it was easter sunday……and my car broke down on Rt 55 which meant
I couldn’t get the part I needed to fix my car… so I was in my car on the side of the freeway
for a day and a half…waiting for my brother in law to come and get me the part…
so, as I sat in my car, I did the only thing I could do, which was read and that is
where I first read Kant’s critique…I still have that very book…

I admit, I didn’t understand a word of this book… later, I bought some
books which helped me to understand it better, especially Norman Kemp Smith’s book…

and now 30 years later, I am ready to face Kant again…….

we will see if I have better luck with it this time…

Kropotkin

the problem of existence

for human beings, one of the basic problems is this question of
experience…how do we judge/understand experience…

for example, I see a black and white box…this box is about waist high…
it has a flat top with 4 metal round things on it…above
the 4 metal round objects in a L shape is a black surface with knobs that
turn…this black and white box seems to get very hot if I turn one of the knobs…

so, what is this? A stove… but how are we to experience this stove?

according to some thinkers, we have an image of the stove already…

but the reality is, we learn what a stove is from experience…
someone, most likely our mother, has told us to stay away from the stove
because it is hot… and not being sure what hot is, we go ahead and touch it…
and we find out what hot is…the stove is just one device and we soon learn
that by putting food into the stove, we get cooked food out of the stove…
we see this just by being in the kitchen and seeing the results and then
if lucky, eating the results…soon we hear of a word, appliance…
ummmmm, we are not really sure what an appliance is… but our dear
mother explains that an appliance is a stove, an appliance is also a dishwasher,
a fridge, a washer and dryer… we soon understand that there is a series of
machines called appliances… we have a category of appliances…

Now philosophers would have you believe that somehow we have mental
categories that allow us to place the stove into context… but context means experience…
and we don’t envision the stove from categories, we learn about the stove from
experience…

Philosophers like Kant seem to forget that we have a lifetime of experiences
that we use to understand our world……. we know time and space, not because
of some mental categories but because we have existed within time and space
all our lives… we have experienced time and space, every single second of our life…

how do we learn space? studies have shown that babies that miss the crawling
stage of childhood have more trouble with spatial understanding… we learn
space by experiencing space with such events like crawling…and reaching out to
grab things… simple trail and error leads us to our understanding of space…
if we fall down as a child and children fall down all the time, it is because
they haven’t gotten used to space yet………

I see a book, Kant’s critique of Pure reason on the table, I reach over and
grab it…because of the many years of existing within space, it is an easy
task…I am able to grab it on the very first try…my body and spatial sense
is up to the task of grabbing the book because I have done so, literally a million
times…there is no sense of a mental operation involved in the physical act
of grabbing the book… now a mental sense was involved in my thinking
about grabbing the book… but not in the actual grabbing the book

is space a mental construct? once spaced is experienced and understood
as experience, then space can be a mental construct, but before it
is a mental construct, it is first experienced…now, we can experienced
space, but it can’t be explained to us…describe space……
you would be hard pressed to be able to describe space…
experiences are often explained to us… as in the stove…
mom says the stove is hot, but we don’t know what hot means
or what is the purpose of the stove is… and by experience, we begin
to understand what hot is or what the stove is for…

but you can’t do that with space or time…
space/time must be experienced to be understood…
you can’t explain it…you must experienced it
and we do, all of our lives…every single second of our life
is spent in space/time…

so is space/time a mental construct? as it cannot be explained or understood
outside of experience, I would say no…it seems to be something experienced
but not a mental construct………it has a reality to it that we can experienced

now is space/time one of Kant’s “thing in itself”? something that is a concept
that are objects as they are independent of observation…but space/time is
is really only understood by us as experiences… they might be independent of
observation but how would you go about showing this? you can only explain
space/time by using experiences as a means of understanding space/time…

so as an thought experiment, try to explain space/time without any reference
to experience………… I don’t think it can be done…so is space/time independent
of observation? it doesn’t look like it…

Kropotkin

The problem of existence is that we simply exist.

according to Kant, every human being has a conscience,
every human being has a common sense grasp of morality,
and every human being “has a firm conviction that he or she,
is morally accountable”…

let us think about this……. my experience as a human being
of 59 years tells me that this is not true… I have seen
human being without conscience and ones without a firm grasp
of morality and no conviction of any kind that they can be held accountable…
for anything… think of narcissistic psychopaths like IQ45…people
who don’t have a conscience and don’t have any kind of grasp of morality
and believes that they can shot people on 5th ave in NY and still not
be held accountable……….

the other point Kant makes is that he believes that people are rational
creatures and once again my experience tells me otherwise…
people will often behave and act totally irrationally to their
best interest and behave and act totally irrationally to others
best interest………

you see this when people vote against their best interest in the
name of some misguided principle like voting for the GOP because
of their mistaken impression that the GOP is pro-life… it isn’t…
but that is a erroneous impression given by the GOP to get people
to vote for them over people following their best interest. This false
impression by the GOP is to get people to vote for the party that
put party ahead of country and the party that commits treason, like the GOP………
instead of voting for one’s best interest which is for the Democrat’s…

you see this misguided irrational action of people’s all the time…
with actions that defy any rational thought…

people are not rational and don’t act upon rational thought…
they act upon emotions and quite often act upon misguided principles
offered up by those who benefit from those misguided principles
which often stems from those myths, biases, habits, prejudices
and superstitions preached by society/the culture/the state and family…

they aren’t rational, those myths, the biases, habits, prejudices, ism’s,
and superstitions taught to us from the day of our birth…
and so this is often why people don’t act rational… they
are lead astray by those myths and biases…
instead of thinking for themselves, they are lead astray by
beliefs of the past…….so Kant is wrong… because people don’t
often think rationally, they think in terms of the myths and biases
and ism’s………. of their childhood…that is why the Enlightenment was
so important…it emphasis the thinking for oneself instead of following the
authority of myths, biases, ism’s, habits………

and following authority is not rational… is it is simply following what you are
told…and this is true in the case of people in terms of morality…
because people accept the given morality of society, the idea of morality
is driven by people’s understanding of what the society/state/church idea of
morality is…………conscience is not independent of what the ism’s and myths
and biases we are taught as children… morality/conscience is simply what society has
deemed it to be, morality/conscience isn’t independent of a society… but an aspect of
society…

experience tells me Kant is wrong… people do act irrationally,
people quite often don’t act morally, and people rarely believe
they will be held morally accountable…

Kropotkin

K: and now what? what does it mean to exist? how are we to act? what
is the point of existence? who are we and what is our possibilities
as human beings? by simple existening, we face a whole series of
questions… that demand answers…

Kropotkin

What it means to exist?

To me, it means to overcome obstacles from finding out what it means.

Once found the meaning, Your other question may reveal themselves.

If not, then slowly, will eliminate the need to find out.

K: ummm, what does it mean in practical terms to overcome
obstacles? which obstacles are you overcoming?

Kropotkin

In practical terms ? Too numerous to list.

But family first, to take their problems head on first and then expanding outward toward wider circles of relevancy. I could enumerate , but more than likely it would bore you, since you most probably are acquainted with them as well. Give me the heads up and we can start

K: I think you are missing my point about overcoming…
I don’t care about family… my point is about and strictly about
the overcoming we make ourselves… in other words, overcoming
is about one person and one person only… and that is you…

my overcoming the past, in regards to my hearing loss, in regards
to the childhood myths and biases and habits and prejudices and
superstitions I was taught by family, by the culture, by the state,
by the media… overcoming is a personal act… about one overcoming
the viewpoint of authority… it is one person involved with
himself/herself…it has nothing to do with others…not family,
not society, not the state and not the church… it is about
the myths and habits and biases and…of those institutions…
and their teachings that must be overcome…

when I overcome, it is about me and not about the institution…
and not about the family or anybody else…

now one may have to overcome the family in the sense of
a family may have values that must be overcome to finally become
human, fully human, but the family is a launching pad for overcoming,
not the overcoming itself…

Kropotkin

But is overcoming your self really a practical thing? If it was so practical, how come Napoleon Bonaparte himself said that conquering one’s self is much more difficult then conquest on the battlefield?

If Your family is all against you, does the solition to overcome Your troubles consist in overcoming their attitudes about you, or conquering yours?

What of, they may be right? And leaving them is not am option?

In not saying they may be right, or wrong for that matter, in just searching for a way out of a supposed hole, where only a practical way out is possible.

So if there is no practical way out, sartre says there is no exit, then should you give up? Or may there be a non practical way out? That’s all I intended to say.

K: yes, Napoleon was right, conquering one self is far harder then any conquest on the
battle field…and that is the point… it is easy to fight external battles… to slay
dragons as it were…to fight the internal battles, much harder…because you
have to be honest with oneself when fighting internal battles…the overcoming
as it were…as for family, sometimes the family is your friend, sometimes not…
everyone is different……… a few years ago, I realized that what I wanted to do,
no, needed to do, was to study and think and write… I realized that my
friendships, people I had been friends with for decades, were holding me
back…I was engaged with them instead of doing what I needed to do which
is think and read and write……so I stopped calling them… I simply
removed myself from my friends… it has been 3 or 4 years now…
and I don’t have any friends to speak of… no one I could call anyway…
and I am ok with it…… it gets lonely at times, but that is the price,
the sacrifice I was willing to make to find the time to do my thing…
my wife thinks I am insane and quite often will try to get me to renew
these old friendships… but I won’t……

I need to remain focus on my thought process and having friends
distracted my from my main focus which is the thinking
and writing and reading that I am presently doing…

I would have also sacrifice my wife and daughter had I thought
I needed to, but fortunately I have found I can have them around…
it doesn’t interfere with my thinking… well it does, but not too much…

I am willing to sacrifice everything to devote my time to what I call
“my work” which is the thinking and reading and writing I do…

I will say to my wife, I got some work done today and it has nothing
to do with “work” but with engaging in what really matters to me,
which is the thinking and reading and writing……

I have such a long line of books I want to read but because
I work 25 to 30 hours a week, I don’t have much time to read…

I cut my work hours to the bare minimum which is killing us
financially, but, I am willing to make the sacrifice, money wise
to do what I need to do…my wife, um, not so much… but
she knows the deal………I consider “my work” to be a priority
and I try not to let anything else get in the way…

the moral or point of this story is simple, family is only a burden,
a problem if we let it become a problem…don’t be afraid to cut
ties to anyone who stands between what you need and what they need……

there is always a way out… you just have to have the courage to do it…
it depends on much of a personal hit you are willing to take………I was
willing to walk away from everyone to do my thing… selfish, greedy,
perhaps, and I will pay the price later in life when I have absolutely no
friends to rely on in my old age, but hay, you gotta do what you gotta do…
no matter what the price you pay…….and sometimes the price one pays
is heavy, a very, very heavy price for doing what we must do…it is the cost
of business………

Kropotkin

how do we understand experience…
this has been one of the key questions of the last
400 years, since Descartes…….

is there something “beyond” experience?
in other words, is the metaphysics possible?

is there experiences beyond what we see, hear, taste, touch, smell?

we have love… that is something beyond something we see, hear, taste,
touch or smell…and love is one of the strongest emotions we have…
it drives much of the human experience… either searching for love or
rediscovering love or keeping love……

we are not the only species that loves… we see animals that love…
dogs are unconditional love, cats, uh, not so much…
but we see animals loving their friends, their offspring, humans…
so we know love is a trait born in the past, born in evolution…
because so many animals show love…

we know that love is a value… a value that gives meaning to our lives…
without love, for many, there is no point to life…
newborns who don’t experience love in their first year,
quite often die…love is just as neccessary as food, water, air,
shelter to human beings…

but our sense cannot detect love… it doens’t have a physical presence,
but it does clearly exists…so does that follow because we cannot detect
love with our physical senses, things exists like god and heaven and angels
and hell… the metaphysical, the after physical… things that
exists but cannot be detected by the senses…

the existence of one, love, doesn’t mean the other, god, heaven, hell,
angels, exists………

I know love exists because I have felt it, still feel it, and hopefully will
continue to feel it with my wife and daughter………

from an evolutionary standpoint, love makes perfect sense…
it helps maintains the species, it helps keeping the family and society
stable…love is a benefit to society and the species… it helps society
and the species grow and adapt and change… it is a stable factor
in the many systems we belong to……. love will not create profit
and it will not increase the GDP, but it will give us the stability
to keep society functional…and thus love has a value beyond
just being in love… it creates stability in society, in the system…

just as hate destabilizes society and systems…

but we still haven’t answered our question, because love
exists, something we cannot see or hear or taste or touch or smell,
doesn’t mean love doesn’t exists…so does it mean our metaphysical
concepts like god, heaven, angels, satan, hell exists?

I would say no… simply because our society/our culture can exists
without the concept of god, heaven, hell, satan…… we need love to exist
but we don’t need god or any other such concept to maintain order in society,
to grow our society, to preserve our society…… in fact, I would suggest given
history, to hold such thoughts as god, heaven, hell, satan is to destabilize
society… it creates an us vs them mentality… that we believers
must rid society of those who don’t hold the same belief as we do…
we must eliminate those who don’t believe as we do…that mentality
is a danger to society as has been shown by history, time and time and time
again…….love benefits a society, this is fact… the believe in god damages
a society, this is seen every single day… since the beginning of time…….
we can survive without belief in god and angels and hell, but
we cannot survive without love……… these practical matters show us
what is important……… and love is important and belief in god is not…

but why is the belief in god so strong in so many?

I would suggest it is part of the myths, biases, habits, superstitions
and prejudices we are taught as children… it seems real because
we have lived with them our whole life… retrain children to
not having god and within a few generations, the belief in god
and angels and hell and satan, will no longer exists……

now recall part of the myths we were taught as children is
the myth of Santa Claus… and children believe, truly believe
that such a person really exists… but then we discover the truth
and it hurts at first, but soon, it no longer a thing knowing that
Santa Claus is no longer true or is not real………. we live… and grow
and prosper even though we don’t have a myth, a habit like
Santa Claus to hold us………and we can see this myth, this superstition
every Christmas… we can see movies and tv shows and commercials
with Santa Claus… just because we can imagine it, doesn’t mean it
exists………

and this figure of Santa Claus is far more real then the concept of god or
angels or hell or Satan…

so why do we hold in god and hell and angels?
I have suggested it is because of our hope in
the Deus Ex Machina… we hope for justice/ equality for all…
and having god/hell/angels/satan is one way to hold on to
our Deus ex Machina… which give us hope for the future…
that justice will be done…during our lifetime…

in the end, one can say that we cannot disprove god or angels or hell
because one cannot disprove a negative… we cannot show that
unicorns did or didn’t exist because we don’t have any unicorns evidence…
we can show dinosaurs existed because we have dinosaurs fossils…
but we cannot disprove something that didn’t exist in the first place…
how would you go about proving unicorns existed? you can’t…

and the same for god/angels/hell/heaven/satan…you can’t disprove
they exist or don’t exist because you can’t disprove a negative…
but you can prove that love exists… because we can feel
the effects of love in our very actions… we desire and search
for and live for, love…this very drive shows us that love, even
though we cannot see it or hear it or taste it or touch it or smell it,
we can feel its effect on us, every single day…the need for god is
the result of our childhood baises and myths we were taught…
not because of something we can feel inside of us…

need more evidence, think about how in cultures believe in different
religions, different gods…and some don’t believe in god at all…the
belief in god is the result of education/training/indoctrination…
but love, it doesn’t matter what society you live in or what
is your situation in life, you still need love…and love exists
regardless of one’s education and one’s training and one’s culture…
but the concept of god changes depending on the society…that
is the result of our childhood indoctrination…love is evolutionary…
it is the result of millions, indeed, billions of years of evolution……

the belief in god does not stand upon evolution… it is taught by
society in response to society needs… not because it truly exists…

it is not just the direct evidence that leads us to the conclusion
that god/heaven/hell/angels/satan doesn’t exist’s, but the indirect
evidence that tells us the story of why and how we believe in god…

we have evidence for the existence of love, but not for god…
we have experiences that tell us that love exists, but not god/heaven/hell…

Kropotkin