I have issues with gravity vs. electromagnetism which I can't ignore, but I know what you're saying, so will keep my head in apart from that caveat... which is brought up only because in seeking Thunderbolts Project on Substack I found you instead, and I'm jolly pleased I did...
Happy New Year, my friend! I'd love to learn a bit more about Physics, Astronomy and Cosmology, as well as Electromagnetism, so I can use that knowledge as metaphors for Dharma. I wasn't very good at physics in high school. Calculus was my thing, remember? But I still have that itch to learn other subjects. I will gravitate towards the sciences, eventually.
Most 'modern' science is based on illusion. It's part of the grand delusion in fact and it's what got Pico della Mirandola murdered. Although I'm pretty sure the people who rule over us are ultimately those who composed the masterpiece we refer to as 'The Bible' there are many useful nuggets of information within it.
"The Man of Lawlessness
The coming of the lawless one will be accompanied by the working of Satan, with every kind of power, sign, and false wonder, and with every wicked deception directed against those who are perishing, because they refused the love of the truth that would have saved them. For this reason God will send them a powerful delusion so that they believe the lie, in order that judgment may come upon all who have disbelieved the truth and delighted in wickedness."
The big lies were seeded centuries ago and many will never live to realise just how big the lies are.
Over the last 5 years I have discovered everything I was taught is pure fakery. I graduated with a degree in Physics with Astrophysics so do not waste your time with it.
Newton admitted in a letter to Richard Bentley that he had no idea what 'Gravity' was nor how it functioned. No one does and if anyone tells you they do, they are lying to you.
"The last clause of your second Position I like very well. Tis unconceivable that inanimate brute matter should (without the mediation of something else which is not material) operate upon and affect other matter without mutual contact; as it must if gravitation in the sense of Epicurus be essential & inherent in it. And this is one reason why I desired you would not ascribe gravity to me. That gravity should be innate inherent and essential to matter so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum without the mediation of any thing else by and through which their action or force may be conveyed from one to another is to me so great an absurdity that I believe no man who has in philosophical matters any competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws, but whether this agent be material or immaterial is a question I have left to the consideration of my readers."
This actually reminds me of a conversation I had with my first Lama. I remember telling him that the tantras are so easy to misinterpret them, that practitioners would reify yidam deities. He simply said: "yes, that will happen inevitably. It's ok."
I think it is impossible to gain insight by oneself. Words from someone wiser reveal. But yeah, these wise words are more powerful when someone inquires.
However, I do agree with you regarding the importance of conversation. Before having a teacher, I actually didn't read at all (other than required reading like signs and work documents). I didn't appreciate the value of the written word. Let alone the value of written Dharma.
I have issues with gravity vs. electromagnetism which I can't ignore, but I know what you're saying, so will keep my head in apart from that caveat... which is brought up only because in seeking Thunderbolts Project on Substack I found you instead, and I'm jolly pleased I did...
Happy New Year!
Happy New Year, my friend! I'd love to learn a bit more about Physics, Astronomy and Cosmology, as well as Electromagnetism, so I can use that knowledge as metaphors for Dharma. I wasn't very good at physics in high school. Calculus was my thing, remember? But I still have that itch to learn other subjects. I will gravitate towards the sciences, eventually.
Most 'modern' science is based on illusion. It's part of the grand delusion in fact and it's what got Pico della Mirandola murdered. Although I'm pretty sure the people who rule over us are ultimately those who composed the masterpiece we refer to as 'The Bible' there are many useful nuggets of information within it.
"The Man of Lawlessness
The coming of the lawless one will be accompanied by the working of Satan, with every kind of power, sign, and false wonder, and with every wicked deception directed against those who are perishing, because they refused the love of the truth that would have saved them. For this reason God will send them a powerful delusion so that they believe the lie, in order that judgment may come upon all who have disbelieved the truth and delighted in wickedness."
The big lies were seeded centuries ago and many will never live to realise just how big the lies are.
Over the last 5 years I have discovered everything I was taught is pure fakery. I graduated with a degree in Physics with Astrophysics so do not waste your time with it.
Newton admitted in a letter to Richard Bentley that he had no idea what 'Gravity' was nor how it functioned. No one does and if anyone tells you they do, they are lying to you.
https://www.newtonproject.ox.ac.uk/view/texts/normalized/THEM00258
"The last clause of your second Position I like very well. Tis unconceivable that inanimate brute matter should (without the mediation of something else which is not material) operate upon and affect other matter without mutual contact; as it must if gravitation in the sense of Epicurus be essential & inherent in it. And this is one reason why I desired you would not ascribe gravity to me. That gravity should be innate inherent and essential to matter so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum without the mediation of any thing else by and through which their action or force may be conveyed from one to another is to me so great an absurdity that I believe no man who has in philosophical matters any competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws, but whether this agent be material or immaterial is a question I have left to the consideration of my readers."
This actually reminds me of a conversation I had with my first Lama. I remember telling him that the tantras are so easy to misinterpret them, that practitioners would reify yidam deities. He simply said: "yes, that will happen inevitably. It's ok."
For sure. Even written suttas can have disastrous consequences without guidance.
There are some instances in the Pali Canon in which the words of the Buddha didn't tame the listener.
I would even say that words themselves can have disastrous consequences if misunderstood.
But I much rather have words, spoken or written down, than not having anything.
If one misinterprets, it's ok. Dukkha always has a way of waking people up.
I think it is impossible to gain insight by oneself. Words from someone wiser reveal. But yeah, these wise words are more powerful when someone inquires.
I've learned much from written texts.
However, I do agree with you regarding the importance of conversation. Before having a teacher, I actually didn't read at all (other than required reading like signs and work documents). I didn't appreciate the value of the written word. Let alone the value of written Dharma.