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I'm not against the idea in principle. But if there are more down to earth explanations then my pragmatic brain would go for those personally. We should look for the simpler explanations first. After all ETs are quite a mystery as well.

Come on let's be civil to each other, even if we disagree on things.

@Someone here good. You mother in direct experience doesn't exist either, she's just light and shade, splashes of colour, soothing sound and warm touch.

Which god, the Abrahamic one? Aren't we shaped in God's image? Anthropomorphising God makes Him easier to reason about and understand for the masses. In the Bible He's portrayed as very much the head of the household of humanity and male, because reasons. Away from conventional religions, I don't see a problem with having a personal god or gods (Roman style) and making them non-human or even something completely abstract. Why not.

I'm with your mum, definitely unsuitable watching, straight to bed young lady 👉 I'm derailing my own thread. Back on topic...

@Judy2 not to glamourise eating disorders, but someone having a cooking channel with an ED could be inspiring to lots of people in the same position. A USP of sorts, the human interest angle could work in your favour. You absolutely don't have to show your face or use your voice, plenty of YT channels without either, for example. Just be conscious from the outset and throughout that it may get emotional. Sometimes staring at pain directly in the face is the best way to overcome it. Go with your instincts.

But... but... @Mellowmarsh consciousness is not a thing 🤪

Caught red handed. I watched every second of the X-Files BITD @Natasha Tori Maru

Like any craftsperson if you're doing it day in and day out, you learn mastery of the craft. If you're laying potentially millions of blocks, you'll very quickly learn to master it. Especially so if you've already built smaller pyramids before, which is exactly what happened. And extreme mastery can look like magic or supernatural ability. I'm pretty sure this is the case with the pyramids.

@Ramasta9 Ah yes good old David Wilcock. I've read his book the Source Field Investigations, interesting stuff. The power of pyramids was already being talked about by Lyall Watson in his book Supernature. I think I even made a cardboard pyramid razor sharpner in my youth. I'm more intrigued by your direct experiences than a video with a bunch of anectodal evidence however. Maybe start a new thread explaining what you've witnessed? Sounds interesting.

Most likely. The Thunder Stone was 1,500 tons and took nine months to move into place. 80 tons is nothing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronze_Horseman @Ramasta9 as much as I love the idea esoteric technology (and I've researched it a lot), conventional technology is plenty magic already. But I have no doubt the Egyptians thought about building and technology differently to us. If you watch the third video I posted above, it explains that most of the pyramid is "infilled rubble", with the rubble being largish unshaped blocks. It would be a lot quicker to place those. Only the exterior and some interior structural "walls" where shaped and carefully placed blocks.

Here are my thoughts, just some ideas to play with. 1. A thought is a category of experience which by its nature is made separate from the category of "world out there". The stuff that happens that doesn't affect the world. 2. When you move your body is that a thought also? Can thoughts cross the boundary from one category to another? 3. Is thought just rational step-by-step goal oriented processing? 4. Does a thought depend on an internal voice? Does it need an auditory hallucination? Can you think in images, sounds etc? 5. Is a memory, thought? 6. Are hallucinations thoughts? 7. Are dreams thoughts? 8. Is reality thought? Why? Why not?

I agree but you're confusing limitations (aka boundaries). Counting numbers are infinite, because there is always a next number (i.e. no limit). But they are infinite only with respect to that lack of limit. Counting numbers are not letters, so they are not infinite in that sense, they are a category of 1, i.e. Counting Numbers. So the infinity is always with respect to some criterion. For another example a circle is both finite and infinite. If you mark a point on the circle then walk your way around it, it is finite in distance, when you hit that point again. But the number of times you could walk around the circle is unlimited, so it is infinite in that sense (trig functions rely on that sense of infinity). However, we're not talking about ordinary infinities here, but absolute infinities, which by their nature are unlimited in every aspect. Consciousness is supposedly such a thing. Nothing can limit consciousness, and consciousness can't limit itself (maybe?), so it is an absolute infinity. An infinity is always something, it is the lack of limit in some aspect - by definition.

@Inliytened1 anything without a boundary is infinite. In fact that is the definition of infinity. And it's also absolute by definition, because there's nothing to contrast it with, and so it can't be distinguished and hence it's an unchanging Truth. I 100% agree with you. Can consciousness know an infinity? There seems to be many finite things in consciousness, but how do you "know" you have an infinity without taking it on faith? Is consciousness infinite? Is intelligence infinite? Or does consciousness recognise infinities without using reason?

By that logic, there is only existence. Existence exists and non-existence exists. But I get where you're coming from. It could well be that intelligence is like existence in that it has no opposite or contrast or boundary. I'm open to that. But if that is the case then it's a binary condition, either it's intelligence or not, with nothing in between. Like, stuff either exists or it doesn't, there's nothing in between. Absolute intelligence if you like. If something exists and has no boundary, then it is absolute, monolithic, and unchanging.