The Power of Positive Thinking to Reverse Aging!
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Great minds think alike. I was at a party where there were 4 guys named John. I said, all these Johns and no hookers in site.
Mental attitude has everything to do with how we appear to the world. Feeling young will make you appear young. Aging is a state of mind. I also say it is just a belief that has been held so long that we don't question it. I think that we can live a lot longer than we do if we can suspend the belief that we grow old and die. The energy that animates us is eternal.
Is the reverse true? For example, if babies think they're old, will they grow facial hair? With their butts stuck to the ceiling? Just curious...
Sorry, I didn't state that very well...the reverse of the theory that feeling young will make you look young. i.e. - feeling old will make you look old. Or maybe even look at the world upside down! :lol: (It's the power of suggestion emanating from the avatar)
We are not even. As I have mentioned before, burden of proof is not upon me, it is upon you to prove that soul exists.
Only one side has the burden of proof. Let us take my claim that there is a two storey house on the moon made of gingerbread and Swiss cheese. You cannot disprove that claim, I cannot prove it. Does that mean that we are even, that the statement is as likely to be true as it is likely to be false?
Nothing of the sort. Until I prove it to be true, the statement is regarded as being false. It is the same thing with existence of soul. Until you prove that it exists, the default position is that it does not exist.
That does not make sense, 'I commonly understand' is a nonsense phrase. But each to his own. You are entitled to your opinion.
Again, it does not make sense. Why not say 'I understand his hesitation'? What does 'commonly understand' mean? What is common about the understanding? Anyway, show me the phrase 'I commonly understand' used in any serious writing. In my opinion, it is a nonsense phrase, it doesn't mean anything.
Me too...The authority on everything has deemed to bless us with his infinite knowledge...discussion closed:roll::lol:
You'll recall there being only one path Cliffy and that path is your own individual unique conciousness/awareness. So there are as many paths as there are minds but only one for you or me and it can't ever be the same for all, it being a construct of the individual soul/mind. IMO
Quite right, Cliffy. And Buddhists do not believe in reincarnation, as we commonly understand the word (and as was clear from the dictionary definition I posted). Now, there may be a different, obscure meaning, that is a different thing altogether.
Geez, I thought it was a fairly simple concept. OK, try this, what it mean is he understands under usual circumstances, but not when something unusual is involved. :smile:
Again, it doesn't make sense, JLM. 'I understand something' or 'I don't understand something', OK. But 'I commonly understand'? i think it is meaningless.
Now, if you say, 'the common understanding about something is that....', that would make sense. That means that most people have a concept of it.
Anyway, as I said before show me the phrase in any serious writing. I don't think it exists.
There being a state of nothing is inconceivable to the human mind. So as much as we like to imagine death as the void, we can't, always something has to be after or beyond something else. I can't empty my mind far enough to conceive of what we commonly agree is the nothing of death.
I can rest easy now, knowing that I have your blessing to have my opinion.
I must tell you, this means the world to me.