jonathan.davis

There are also personal reports of people hearing voices in their heads but we classify those as mental disorders most of the time. In the end, none of those are really verifiable and when people have

keep in mind that i get to hide behind the fact that I don't believe or disbelieve, I allow possibility and wait for further evidence. When it comes to issues like 'will i fall off this cliff if i take

This is perhaps the most balanced thing I have found to start you off. Beware, it contains content from Rupert Sheldrake, a figure who if you're not familiar with, ruffles the feathers of skeptics everywhere.

I like that you bring up that there are some sciences that are more quantify than others. I use this 'i don't know anything for sure' attitude to remain open to possibilities that fall outside what science

Also, I'll be addressing the double slit experiemt in future posts in this series, as it's a great example of paradox in action.

You mention jumping on the bandwagon. You might enjoy the following section of this book talking about the bandwagon effect in science. It partially answers the question you had about the speed of light

this is an interesting tangent. my imagination suggests that we are building technology in an attempt to replicate and therefore understand ourselves. as we develop tech like the capacity to send thoughts

On god in general, I personally like Carl Sagan's stance of approaching these matters with a respectful tone instead of taking a position of ridicule. Though I've only seen the film, I also love the ending

You can compare that to a claim of a creator that comes with zero measurable evidence to substantiate it. So even in the most generous of evaluations, you couldn't reasonably give it more than a 50% chance

For instance, the likelihood of the laws of physics we have discovered so far to be correct even if incomplete is quite high as we have gathered piles upon piles of evidence that clearly point in a certain

The fact that you can't know anything for sure, should not stop you from inquiring about and comparing the possibilities and likelihoods of different things to be correct. I agree, it certainly doesn't.

I often think about cancer as rogue cells who have lost trust that the consciousness driving the organism is going to give them what they need... so they start taking what they need from the other cells

To me, the gregorian calendar was specifically designed and implemented to separate us from natural time cycles. We once moved with the cycle of the moon with thirteen 28 day months, but now we move to

Maybe in your territory Netflix only shows the season it funded. In Australia it also shows the earlier seasons.

Great post. Nice to see the other side of this, as I spend a lot of time talking with people about the choice to percieve many forms of mental health challenges as gifts. The idea of shamanism is essentially

If you happen to open the post, I write a short summary of each episode, so yes I have indeed seen all of them :) It really is amazing, however I hope it's not where the world is heading!

She lives near where I live around the most eastern point of Australia, Byron Bay.

The bird is a Kookaburra. Every morning and evening in Australia they can be heard in crews of maybe 3 to 7 laughing loudly as a group together. They also do it from time to time throughout the day to

Welcome to the paradox. :)

I got an email the other day from a lovely friend in Australia named Charlie. She told me you'd been working her up on the awesomeness that is Steemit, and after her telling me about it, here I am. If