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Forum: General Urantia Book Discussion Topic: Jesus as meditator
Riktare
Posted: Sat Sep 14, 2024 4:47 am +0000
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It is difficult to know for certain, sometimes, just what a person means when they mention the word " meditation " since that word can apply to many related activities. Below I will post URL's to a couple of well balanced viewpoints of what the word might reasonably mean, minus any potenti...
Forum: Science Topic: Did Most Powerful Explosion Ever Seen Violate Einstein's Rel
Riktare
Posted: Mon Sep 09, 2024 10:28 am +0000
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Maybe a video of interest addressing the possibility of observing where at least some aspects of Special Relativity may be proven wrong... Did Most Powerful Explosion Ever Seen Violate Einstein's Relativity? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoFwVrMmkc0 The video also describes the history and meaning...
Forum: General Urantia Book Discussion Topic: Paper 42 invitation for study and request for a professor
Riktare
Posted: Wed Aug 21, 2024 1:50 am +0000
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A good study Pethuel! That might lead to a resolution of the first 2 questions in my last post. It might be the situation that the possibilities for reckoning the passage of time cover a continuum. That is, one might use an entirely local inertial frame of reference where the measuring device is at ...
Forum: General Urantia Book Discussion Topic: Paper 42 invitation for study and request for a professor
Riktare
Posted: Fri Aug 16, 2024 12:17 am +0000
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130:7.4 (1439.2)... The motion of time is only revealed in relation to something which does not move in space as a time phenomenon. Isn't this stating, in somewhat disguised fashion, that to properly understand and account for the passage of time, an observer or measuring device needs to be in the ...
Forum: Science Topic: Powerful clarification of genetics, choice and role of life
Riktare
Posted: Sun Aug 11, 2024 11:07 am +0000
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A very powerful and enlightening discourse by a prominent scientist that lays bare many critical points in properly understanding the relationships between living organisms, genes, chemistry and choice. It seems to be so well explained that no technical knowledge is needed to fully grasp what the sc...
Forum: General Urantia Book Discussion Topic: Paper 42 invitation for study and request for a professor
Riktare
Posted: Sun Aug 11, 2024 6:28 am +0000
Replies: 131 Views: 15749
Okay, thanks Nigel. I was able to download the files from Google Drive, except Clip 2 (which would load into my browser to watch but didn't want to complete the download operation - maybe an operational issue with Google's site as many their staff might be on vacation now?) None of the video's playe...
Forum: General Urantia Book Discussion Topic: Paper 42 invitation for study and request for a professor
Riktare
Posted: Sat Aug 10, 2024 3:26 am +0000
Replies: 131 Views: 15749
And here we face mystery. The so-called " space " which the authors describe is very different to the old idea of a 3D Newtonian " now ", or the simple 4D fabric " faintly glimpsed " by Einstein ( 195:7.5 ). An even FAINTER glimpse is hinted at by Jesus in his " D...
Forum: General Urantia Book Discussion Topic: Paper 42 invitation for study and request for a professor
Riktare
Posted: Fri Aug 09, 2024 7:17 am +0000
Replies: 131 Views: 15749
Yes, I would have to agree that off topic posts and "outlandish distortions and direct contradictions" of either the UB's material or another poster's meaning is very, very ugly and does not belong in a community where most are dedicated to do what they can to uphold the highest ideals and...
Forum: General Urantia Book Discussion Topic: Paper 42 invitation for study and request for a professor
Riktare
Posted: Sat Jul 27, 2024 2:37 pm +0000
Replies: 131 Views: 15749
Does this mean " the apex of cosmic art " might be... the motivating I Am becoming We Are ? That would be very consistent with the themes that have recently been discussed in this thread. My immediate interpretation of your post is that "I Am" represents deity, "We Are"...
Forum: General Urantia Book Discussion Topic: Paper 42 invitation for study and request for a professor
Riktare
Posted: Sat Jul 27, 2024 2:19 pm +0000
Replies: 131 Views: 15749
Indeed. "Suboptimal"? What !!???!! At first I was laughing out loud because I simply could not believe you would post what you posted. But soon it started to sink in that the situation is really no laughing matter. Some serious disturbance is lurking there. Is it emotional? Is it possible...
Forum: General Urantia Book Discussion Topic: Paper 42 invitation for study and request for a professor
Riktare
Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2024 2:26 pm +0000
Replies: 131 Views: 15749
What are "artificially contrived potentials" exactly? Or generally? Maybe my use of that word was suboptimal without giving a detailed explanation. Like most things in life we tend to struggle towards economy and efficiency. Sometimes things come out in a similar way as when a musician im...
Forum: General Urantia Book Discussion Topic: Paper 42 invitation for study and request for a professor
Riktare
Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2024 11:03 am +0000
Replies: 131 Views: 15749
Recall that from a nontime point of view, that " nontime sequence of events " ( 11:2.11 ) unfolds in " seven cosmic dimensions " ( 130:7.6 )! :biggrin: Wow! I guess when I read that many years ago, it merely swept past my ability to start to comprehend... Thanks for the referenc...
Forum: General Urantia Book Discussion Topic: Paper 42 invitation for study and request for a professor
Riktare
Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2024 10:30 am +0000
Replies: 131 Views: 15749
We are getting in pretty deep here and I apologize for being so bombarded by life's present demands that I've not been able to respond promptly. I agree that "artificially contrived" potentials that come from evolutionary creatures are not necessarily counter to the will and perspective of...
Forum: Music Topic: Debussy: Petite Suite
Riktare
Posted: Thu Jul 18, 2024 5:08 am +0000
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Amidst the turmoil of the day's political, intellectual, cosmological and spiritual confusion so prevalent among so many of this planet's inhabitants, it's so immediately refreshing to see those who give so much, even all of their well prepared energy and skill to achieve an extremely harmonic and b...
Forum: General Urantia Book Discussion Topic: Paper 42 invitation for study and request for a professor
Riktare
Posted: Tue Jul 09, 2024 9:33 am +0000
Replies: 131 Views: 15749
What is "given"? And where is it "given" that potential "will be" realized? Not all potential is or will be realized or actualized...not real, ever, to anyone...ever. I guess you are just not up to speed in understanding the difference between real potentials and those...
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