"The TOA" is the abbreviation of "The Table of One and All", or "The Totality of One and All" which originally tabled the inseparable-duality of One and All; of Individual and community; of finite and infinite; of physical and spiritual/meta-physical; of masculine and feminine. More detail is provided at https://beliefinstitute.com/toa/be-and-become

Dung-powered, Steam-powered, or Quantum-powered Philosophy?

By Stephen on Tue, 26/Jun/2018 - 8:35pm

I recently attended a philosophy class focused on the ancient Greek philosophers, such as Plato, and others.

I was surprised by the relatively shallow depth of the ideas discussed, when viewed from a quantum holodynamic perspective.

I came to the conclusion, rightly or wrongly, that unless the philosopher is post-quantum, they're not really going to add much insight into life.

The jig is up

By Stephen on Tue, 24/Jan/2012 - 10:30pm

"The Jig is up":

(US, idiomatic, dated) An expression used to mean "We have been caught out and have no defense", or if spoken to a person who's just been found out as the perpetrator of an offense, it means "You've been discovered."

For around 400 years science has -- with often great success -- played a jig on all of us.

That jig is now up. It's an extraordinarily easy jig to see - we need only use a little common sense to see it.

But the ramifications and consequences of seeing it are, and will be extraordinary.

All is within, and of God, including 'evil'

By Stephen on Fri, 05/Nov/2010 - 3:10pm

Yesterday had an interesting, somewhat intense discussion with someone who confessed to being a Christian.

It seems to me there are some very simple, fundamental errors in thinking by Christians (as a general rule).

As we got talking I made a simple, clear, unequivocally-obvious and true statement (To use the vernacular familiar to Christians): Since God is infinite, all must be within and of God. Being infinite means He is not limited, ever — "He" goes and IS everywhere. "He" is in everything, and in every entity (including Evil).

An ego by any other name still smiles like one

By Stephen on Sat, 28/Aug/2010 - 1:57pm

Recently while enjoying a wonderful dinner I had the pleasure of engaging conversation with a number of intelligent men on matters philosophical.

It became evident that some held beliefs that were rooted in the ideal of perfection: the age-old belief that when we get 'over there' or perhaps 'up there' everything will be 'perfect' (at which time, we'll have 'transcended' the troubling, fault-ridden ego).

There's only one problem with that idea: