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[captainmorgan]

People on the spectrum can have some extraordinary talents but they seem to be offset by socialization burdens.

 

[Friendly_Grower]

People on the spectrum can have some extraordinary talents but they seem to be offset by socialization burdens.

OMG that is so very true.
I'm almost 61 and I live it.
I'm lucky to have a home of my own so at least all the fails in employment in my life doesn't count now.

 

[injinji]

I've lived my life on the Spectrum.
Gots lots of stupid-shit in my life to prove it but then again I can do some really interesting Mathematics no one else can.

People are never the same from day to day. Math always is. I thought I was the only one who did math for fun.

 

[Friendly_Grower]

People are never the same from day to day. Math always is. I thought I was the only one who did math for fun.

Whatever this "Existence" is it is a Construct.
No one can point to a thing and that thing not being made of smaller things and in turn they are made of and so on.
Go back to the Big Bang and we have to ask what Construct made the Big Bang Possible.
Some would say God did then I would ask Who is God's Mother?
Some would say God jerked himself into existence. That is a Circular argument.

So who knows what the Grand Construct really is.

 

[cannabineer]

Whatever this "Existence" is it is a Construct.
No one can point to a thing and that thing not being made of smaller things and in turn they are made of and so on.
Go back to the Big Bang and we have to ask what Construct made the Big Bang Possible.
Some would say God did then I would ask Who is God's Mother?
Some would say God jerked himself into existence. That is a Circular argument.

So who knows what the Grand Construct really is.

The word “construct” implies an act or acts of will. It suggests that the divine has an ego. I find that to be one of the more corrosive ideas in our known history: God as a somebody or somebodies. In fact I believe that our psychological need to fit the Cosmos with a maker marks us as presapient. Civilization and technology are not good markers for sapience. Not as long as we need a bedtime story.

In this regard I am an agnostic. We only see three spatial dimensions plus time. But theoreticians think that there are many other dimensions not visible to us but present, simply “wound invisibly tight” from our perspective. We live in a rather featureless cartoon of a much bigger reality that is not just unknown, but probably unknowable from our narrow gunport view of things.

 

[ANC]

Nature doesn't waste energy on stuff it doesn't need, yet it gives us the ability to have deeply religious experiences. It must have a payoff.

 

[cannabineer]

Nature doesn't waste energy on stuff it doesn't need, yet it gives us the ability to have deeply religious experiences. It must have a payoff.

The payoff may be purely subjective. Take psychedelics. They show us that our minds can do powerful stuff, but there is a sterility. The psychedelic experience leads to no teachable specifics. We have a lot of idle or vestigial brain structure.

 

[ANC]

I actaully came to the above realisation as I was coming down from a DMT buzz. There was this black american actor on the newspaper, but my visual cortex depicted him like some kind of angel there on the page, like a little 3D inset. I was "sober" enough though that it was just an observation.

 

[injinji]

Nature doesn't waste energy on stuff it doesn't need, yet it gives us the ability to have deeply religious experiences. It must have a payoff.

I've always said religion was important or we wouldn't have so many of them. My own take on the subject is that we, (and just a handful of other animals) have foreknowledge of our own death, so we create Gods in our own image to ease our fears. I think whales, elephants and some of the higher primates probably have Gods too.

 

[cannabineer]

I've always said religion was important or we wouldn't have so many of them. My own take on the subject is that we, (and just a handful of other animals) have foreknowledge of our own death, so we create Gods in our own image to ease our fears. I think whales, elephants and some of the higher primates probably have Gods too.

I would not put it past ravens or cuttlefish.

 

[injinji]

Most of my adult life I have loosely followed the Muscogee (Creek) tradition. Their take on what the Creator looks like is when he is running with the deer, he appears as a deer to therm. When he is flying with the hawks, he appears as a hawk to them.

 

[cannabineer]

Most of my adult life I have loosely followed the Muscogee (Creek) tradition. Their take on what the Creator looks like is when he is running with the deer, he appears as a deer to therm. When he is flying with the hawks, he appears as a hawk to them.

Thank you. That is a lovely thought.

 

[cannabineer]

Most of my adult life I have loosely followed the Muscogee (Creek) tradition. Their take on what the Creator looks like is when he is running with the deer, he appears as a deer to therm. When he is flying with the hawks, he appears as a hawk to them.

It also reminds me of a benediction that I think is best grade, and I think it is of Native (Southwest) origin.

May you walk in beauty.

 

[Sir Napsalot]

People are never the same from day to day. Math always is. I thought I was the only one who did math for fun.

When I was in highschool I thought "there is no algebra in the real world", but I was wrong

 

[Friendly_Grower]

When I was in highschool I thought "there is no algebra in the real world", but I was wrong

there is no real world only maths.

 

[injinji]

The math that is stuck in head these days is 6.03 X 364 = 2194.92.

The AT was lengthened to 2194.3 miles this season. So if I stick to my mileage, I would have one day to spare. It might even be the Slowest Known Time.

 

[cannabineer]

The math that is stuck in head these days is 6.03 X 364 = 2194.92.

The AT was lengthened to 2194.3 miles this season. So if I stick to my mileage, I would have one day to spare. It might even be the Slowest Known Time.

Appalachian Trail? I loved the Blue Ridge segment my dad took us to when we were kids. Generally the October weekend of the time change, with leaves at the peak of color. Some maples were full on traffic cone.

 

[injinji]

Appalachian Trail? I loved the Blue Ridge segment my dad took us to when we were kids. Generally the October weekend of the time change, with leaves at the peak of color. Some maples were full on traffic cone.

Yes. I could find the time for a small section but I would rather wait and dream about a thru hike. I do a lot of out and backs on the Florida Trail. I live about a mile off the FT. In the summer I can leave about 3pm, walk the mile to the trail then 1.6 miles to the campsite and get there with plenty of time to fart around before dark. Then the next morning I can take my time over breakfast and still get home by midmorning.

We did a lot of summer trips to the Blue Ridge and Smokies when I was a kid. But I haven't been since I've been hiking.

 

[cannabineer]

Yes. I could find the time for a small section but I would rather wait and dream about a thru hike. I do a lot of out and backs on the Florida Trail. I live about a mile off the FT. In the summer I can leave about 3pm, walk the mile to the trail then 1.6 miles to the campsite and get there with plenty of time to fart around before dark. Then the next morning I can take my time over breakfast and still get home by midmorning.

We did a lot of summer trips to the Blue Ridge and Smokies when I was a kid. But I haven't been since I've been hiking.

Until recently I had easy access to the Red Hills Area of Critical Environmental Concern. Two times out of three I never saw another soul, and it was like having 20 well-laid trail miles to myself.

I have to drive an hour to do that sort of thing now. Must be the desert weather shrinking my beltlines. Damned dry heat.

 

[DIY-HP-LED]

Whatever this "Existence" is it is a Construct.
No one can point to a thing and that thing not being made of smaller things and in turn they are made of and so on.
Go back to the Big Bang and we have to ask what Construct made the Big Bang Possible.
Some would say God did then I would ask Who is God's Mother?
Some would say God jerked himself into existence. That is a Circular argument.

So who knows what the Grand Construct really is.

You should be a secular Buddhist!