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This new philosophy gives participants a sense of infantile omnipotence where everything becomes possible, and where you become fully responsible for your own choices (being rich, poor, sick, healthy, or being hit by a truck!”.
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This new philosophy gives participants a sense of infantile omnipotence where everything becomes possible, and where you become fully responsible for your own choices (being rich, poor, sick, healthy, or being hit by a truck!”.
No consideration is given to the wholesale incoherence of such a belief. Do all minds go about creating their reality ? Then do monkeys create reality too ?, do they create the predators that eat them ? Do the predators create the monkeys that they kill and eat ? Perhaps only higher primates are qualified, chimpanzees formulating their limited realities, or if lesser creatures also qualify, clams perhaps ? Are clams generating clamspace around them ? Are creative viruses manifesting humans to share herpes simplex II ?, as there must have been much of back in the '70s when herpes was epidemic.... then, what is the consequence of 7 billion or so bona fide humans all simultaneously creating reality ? Don't these reality creations bump into each other ? Do they cancel each other out ? Is a consensus more deserving of reality than an indiviual opinion or observation, since it would have more '"reality mass"... so, Pasteur would have been wrong because there was less of his reality at the time ? Until Pasteur living things "really" underwent spontaneous generation ? Space "really" was filled with ether ? Diseases "really" were caused by miasmas ?
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According to some physicists like Henry Stapp, what we call the "quantum collapse" is caused by an act consciousness. This determines the "present now" that we are experiencing. If there were no consciousness, there would be no collapse and everything would be fixed in space and time... for whatever that means. The key point here is that consciousness creates reality according to these new theories.
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Reality doesn't exist, there are only interpretations.
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LuG
I was in an online discussion with a true believer in LGAT's who happened to disagree with the contents of the website I maintain.
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Reality doesn't exist, there are only interpretations.
Now, how can anyone come up with an answer for that? :roll:
(She urged me to see the movie, btw)
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Reality doesn't exist, there are only interpretations.
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nutrino
That's why reasonable people spend large sums of money to obtain good educations. So they can generate better interpretations of.... social and physical reality. Sheeeesh.
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MercurialMere
I have been perusing this forum since yesterday, but was compelled to register by this thread.
I work for a company whose management participates regularly in the Landmark forums. I was cajoled into going to a meeting, an experience I'll save for a more relevant thread.
After reading this thread, I remembered an interesting tidbit. A few weeks ago, before I was invited to the introductory seminar, one of the women recommended that I see "What the Bleep..." and actually asked me again last week if I had rented it yet. This thread really struck a chord, because I realized how deeply ingrained the Landmark "philosophy" becomes in people's lives; in my case, she was recruiting even during a normal, unrelated conversation about movie rentals, probably without realizing it.
Thanks to everyone for their insights into this. I was so shocked to see this movie show up in a thread title and am grateful to know of its relevance to the Landmark program. It's one movie that I [i:c73759d0c1]won't [/i:c73759d0c1] be renting this weekend!