“The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide, and to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.”

— Alan Kay

Tags: guest content & video & John Green & Dark Ages & Europe & feudalism & Islam & science & art & religion & China

It means I watch for the exceptions where neither IS nor IS NOT applies. It means our understanding is limited by our perception and assumptions at the moment.

Tags: absolutes & dualism & IS & is not & If then & Robert Goddard & universal truth & science & exception & Newton's laws & mostly

“In which John relates a condensed history of India, post-Indus Valley Civilization. John explores Hinduism and the origins of Buddhism. He also gets into the reign of Ashoka, the Buddhist emperor who, in spite of Buddhism's structural disapproval of violence, managed to win a bunch of battles.”

Tags: Thomas Huxley & science & creed & suicide

“Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.”

— Aleister Crowley, The Confessions of Aleister Crowley: An Autohagiography

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It's not that they don't have the raw ability, most just don't have the skills.

Tags: Albert Einstein & religion & science & lame & blind

❝Faith and religion don't stay in the nice neat boxes and cabinets we make for them. Syncretism happens, even if it offends the True Believer™.❞

— NeoWayland

Tags: Neil deGrasse Tyson & science & art & somebody else & van Gogh & Beethoven & Juliaki & create

Neo got kidnapped

Tags: magick & science & understand & Arthur C. Clarke

I want to choose my own

Tags: 3rd Yearnings & truth & classic & debate & relative & artificial & untruth & magick & misunderstanding & science & relative & certainty & skepticism & dogma & fractal

Not strictly casual, but it is striking

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❝Acknowledge but do not celebrate.❞

— NeoWayland, acknowledge but not celebrate

Tags: Gnosis magazine & 1994 & Peter Lamborn Wilson & science & religion & battle & wrestling match & choas & eros & Earth & night & fall & hypnotized marks

And that raises the first philosophical question. What exactly is that something beyond?

Tags: science & invoke & unquestionable authority & truth & behind the curtain & maxims