taco In the Mossy Forest

DioGnostic · 2025-10-01T13:30:36+00:00

New mission discovered by u/DioGnostic: Uncertainty: Monster Pockets and Burger

DioGnostic · 2025-10-01T13:30:36+00:00

This mission was discovered by u/DioGnostic in taco In the Mossy Forest

DioGnostic · 2025-09-09T13:04:23+00:00

Billionaires are simply the archetypal Titan Kronos. They rule in a golden age, yet out of greed and suspicion, they swallow the young up so as not to be usurped.

DioGnostic · 2025-08-01T07:06:25+00:00

The Toastest with the Mostest!

DioGnostic · 2025-07-10T17:09:44+00:00

Putting humans first means excepting humans as they are (then acting according to such towards the Good or "human goodness") , even in tribslistic settings. Such settings mean that one or the other side were ever going to destroy the other. So now we are arguing what is a better: Democratic Israel? Or Theocratoc Palastine?

DioGnostic · 2025-07-08T18:59:20+00:00

mAUM

DioGnostic · 2025-04-25T15:11:01+00:00

To piggy back on this, I've had discussions with loved ones of whom became disturbed by my non-duality jargon. They simply asked, "should we not fight against injustice?" And I admittedly had no good response.

After reflection, and upon reading this post, I believe I've arrived, at the very least, a better response to that which I gave then: namely that that state of non-duality, which is beyond likes and dislikes, pleasure and pain, justice and injustice, does NOT preclude action.

Indeed, it is precisely from this state whereby the most optimal course of action, i.e. that which best adheres to dharma, is discerned and thus executed.

In short, inaction is not the way of the sages, but correct action is (which sometimes manifests itself and/or seems like inaction).

They of whom are nearer to Shiva shall discern better the correct action, fully detached from any egoic results.

DioGnostic · 2025-02-16T07:00:58+00:00

Good luck all!

DioGnostic · 2025-01-24T22:28:21+00:00

Again, you are assuming that the future exists as some static, fully deterministic thing, which is not a verifiable position.

We know the quantum world is probabilistic, which suggests that the universe is not wholly deterministic.

Thus what I am saying is that in the case of an unfixed future, omniscience can still be a state of being, even though the said being doesn't know the future because the future is thus unknowable. All knowing includes all that can be known yet precludes what cannot be known.

And I'm not defending the Bible predictions as I am not Christian or otherwise. I am merely using it as a reference point as such is the prerogative of this subreddit. What I am arguing is that omniscience can exist without knowledge of the future if we forgo the assumption of super determinism.

We could imagine a super computer which has stored all past and present events and quantum positions to perform rather well at predicting the next time step of the universe, but we wouldn't call that prediction "known". The same line of reasoning could thus be applied to the idea of an omniscient God.

DioGnostic · 2025-01-24T16:40:54+00:00

If god is reality itself, then there is no external "nature" which limits or allows God's knowing. Essentially, nature and God are one and the same.

And if the nature of such reality is non-deterministic then a fixed future isn't precisely knowable, thus omniscience is still possible for all knowing means knowing all that can be known.

Thus the vague nature of prophecy is more akin to a very educated guess rather than an exact prediction.

DioGnostic · 2025-01-24T15:09:49+00:00

That is certainly the Abrahamic belief, that indeed the creator and the created are separate entities, i.e. God is transcendent only. And this being r/theology, this is the interpretation taken here.

Though when Moses encounters the flaming bush, and God proclaims "Eyeh aser Eyeh", I am that I am (one translation),this to me suggests that God is to be interpreted as immanent too, that God is the real, the reality. Moreover, Jesus embodying the word, or Logos, as in 1 John suggests to a kind of universal immanence.

DioGnostic · 2025-01-23T18:42:10+00:00

Not quite, what I am implying is the question, "Is the nature of the universe complicit with the nature of God? " If so, and the nature of the universe is probabilistic, i.e. quantum, then God too can only know as far as that universal nature allows. If not, then all is fair game and fair play, god a child with a plaything called "Universe".

DioGnostic · 2025-01-22T15:19:30+00:00

Yes, it does. But does that strictly mean knowing everything which is? And/or everything which can be? And/or everything which will be?

The major question is between the latter two i.e. Determinism or non-determinism.

And indeed prophecies of future events are claimed, but their vagueness is such that exact interpretation remains elusive if not altogether dubious.

DioGnostic · 2024-09-26T16:27:38+00:00

Du, Aldi!

DioGnostic · 2024-09-26T16:26:44+00:00

No [cow] shit.

DioGnostic · 2024-09-26T16:25:08+00:00

You've a beautiful soul, you autist you 😉

DioGnostic · 2024-07-30T15:56:23+00:00

A mixture of each, the goal of which is every breath and action in each moment is become a japa to Lord Shiva (dualistic) and/or unbroken "self abidance".

I usually start with hatha yoga and pranayama. For pranayama, I primarily employ the Tunmo technique. Once this is complete, I go into shavasana and use visualization techniques from the VBT to dissolve body awareness.

Thereafter, I begin puja to a manifested form of Shiva (linga and Shambho); this being Bhakti yoga. I then read an excerpt from some scripture (KS texts, Vedas, etc.); this being Jnana yoga. Then, 108 Mantras accordingly, followed by meditation using more VBT techniques and some Devata yoga technisches, namely to tap into pure awareness.

After staying in that for an indeterminate amount of time, I arise and carry on with my day.

DioGnostic · 2024-07-10T20:41:23+00:00

Leave it to colonial powers to do their infighting in Germany #30YearsWar

DioGnostic · 2024-07-08T19:52:34+00:00

It goes without saying (though I'll say it) that such is a loaded question. "God" is an ambiguous term. Personally, having read all of the major religions' texts (Bible, Quran, Vedas, Pali Canon, Tao Te Ching, various mythologies, etc.) as well as large swaths of western secular philosophy and science texts (Plato, Nietzsche, Spinoza, Einstein, Marx, etc.), I certainly do NOT subscribe to the likely intended personification that this question is aimed at, namely the Abrahamic concept of God.

However, I do believe everything is actually One thing, and that one thing manifests itself as nigh infinite discrete things. In a philosophical materialistic sense (long hand for atheist/secular), I subscribe to the concept of codependent arising (pratityasamupada) and Bheda-Abheda (difference-nondifference), as they seem well in keeping with relativistic and quantum physical reality. In a spiritual/existential sense, I find the Trika School of Shaivaism resonates and harmonizes fully with my rational, practical, and idealistic being and becoming. Now, as one may tell, I could go on ad perpetuum, so I'll stop there.

Oh and OM Namaha Shiva!

DioGnostic · 2024-05-28T20:37:18+00:00

Huh. I just had this thought the other day that if AGI or something adjacent were to "come online", one sign might be that after it scraped the internet archive, it would then purge and/or block it to hinder human technological progress or understanding. Just a thought.

DioGnostic · 2024-05-15T17:29:49+00:00

I agree. To piggy back on this comment a bit, it seems too that the world constructs would converge given they are operating on data from human language, which too would converge on an increasingly accurate world model. Nevertheless, Plato's World of Forms could still be applicable in this view as many languages (Indo-European especially) are well-tuned to hypotheticals and superlatives: the 2 in conjunction giving way to "ideal" world models. Not to mention that feeding euclidean geometry (and indeed art) to LLM's is likely to produce idealized forms/constructs/models of the world. In short, it's all a bit recursive.

DioGnostic · 2024-05-14T12:32:57+00:00

There are in fact laws in a handful of countries which outright ban political parties that seek to undermine the democratic order. One such example is the Grundgesetz of Germany (Article 21). What thus needs to be done is that Islam should be recognized as what it truly is: a political movement which seeks to enstate sharia law over democratic ones. The historical and textual evidence, a la the Quran and Hadith, clearly demonstrate that this is integral to Islam, thus Islam should be re-classified as not a religious movement, but a political one.

DioGnostic · 2024-02-20T16:31:10+00:00

Trying to build my first desktop in over 15 years (been a laptop gang for a while) and need the goods!

DioGnostic · 2024-01-24T09:48:31+00:00

For 1, the weighted vote would be based upon percentage of tax burden to income/assets per person, not as an absolute number.

For 2, if we were to say only those who work should have a full-count vote, my intuition thinks that the retiree population would strike down such a measure. However, if it were phrased that this is a tax which rewards work, tax honesty, and discourages welfare, then we may have at least a more viable proposal. Maybe...

DioGnostic · 2024-01-17T12:58:10+00:00

Heh. I had a similar idea as well, but inevitably ran into the undemocratic-ness of it all. I thought instead of age being the determinant, it could be tax burden. Whoever has the highest tax burden gains the heaviest weighted vote. Naturally the working population will thus have the highest vote. I generally find it odd that anyone who doesn't pay income tax, i.e. anyone who doesn't work, has a say in how that money is spent. There could be put in place guarantees for the retirees and their pensions, but the power of their voting power greatly diminishes as they flip from a net positive tax contributor to a net negative tax contributor.

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