tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6851246794143905627.post2746874670662966030..comments2023-07-27T17:53:21.938+10:00Comments on Idiom Zero: Mewling in the Face of My Own OblivionNichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11736478220623231400noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6851246794143905627.post-29603352636355195042010-10-10T08:47:16.830+11:002010-10-10T08:47:16.830+11:00"you're original article"
I've ..."you're original article"<br /><br />I've still got it.<br /><br />I blame the awkwardly small text box I had to work in to make the comment on your article.Alistair Spaldinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10452520687676693285noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6851246794143905627.post-54576485682149381392010-10-10T08:46:14.609+11:002010-10-10T08:46:14.609+11:00I agree that my second point "If death leads ...I agree that my second point "If death leads to a different kind of being . . ." makes too many assumptions.<br /><br />However you're original article references communication with the dead.<br /><br />Semantics about a definition of dead meaning "absent" or "passed on" aside; we're talking about the idea of it being possible in this world to recieve some form of communication from our next plane of existance.<br /><br />The most common manitfestation of this communication is currently through something recognisable (spelling a word on a ouiga board, a ghostly figure, a dream of a dead relative) and this implies that the "next" plane of existence is close enough for occasional contact and recognisable enough to be built out of broadly the same stuff as our own plane of existence, (words, people and physics). Add in the idea that such contact often occurs from a relative or family member and the likelihood of this seems highly improbable.<br /><br />However, in your 11-dimensional being senario we could possibly be continually exposed to a form of communication so alien that it never even registers with us.<br /><br />If all other planes of existance are unknowable from this plane of existence then they are all equally plausible. It's only when you come up with a plane of existence that *is* knowable from our dimension that it becomes implausible.Alistair Spaldinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10452520687676693285noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6851246794143905627.post-13217083501724447542010-10-05T12:18:51.578+11:002010-10-05T12:18:51.578+11:00I think you assume too much here. By dead I mean (...I think you assume too much here. By dead I mean (for example) shot in the head with a canon. Whether I'm then gone and silent, in Heaven, or reborn as a lemur, I'm dead.<br /><br />If death leads to another plane of existence you assume a) there was another state before 'life' that we should be able to remember, and b) all modes of existence are equal and therefore communication should be possible between them, and therefore lack of communication means there are no other modes of existence. <br /><br />Of course, anything other than "dead = nothing" necessarily dulls, nicks and blunts Occam's Razor, but I can't rule out the idea that, for example, this 'life' is our emergence into a multiplane existence (hence no prior memories), and that after we die we, for example, move on to become facets in the mind of an 11 dimensional being made of mathematics that can quite easily contact us, but finds doing so a little gauche, but might, if the whim (read: facet of its hyper-mind that was once dear old Grandma) strikes it, knock a picture off a mantel-piece for a laugh.Scott Howardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06246319380445106466noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6851246794143905627.post-29098097270530465092010-09-27T19:01:51.178+10:002010-09-27T19:01:51.178+10:00"Of these, “contact with the dead” and “UFOs”..."Of these, “contact with the dead” and “UFOs” are by far the most exciting to me"<br /><br />Contact with the dead? I think that's contact with the dead must be necesecarily impossible. <br /><br />If the dead could have any contact with the living then they're in another plane of existence and still not really 'dead', only changed. Dead means gone and gone means silent.<br /><br />If death leads simply to a different kind of being, wouldn't we all be born with the memories of our previous existence? In fact you'd have to be equipped with this knowledge to attempt to contact a previous or other form of existence. If we, the living, are unable to contact the dead (I believe psychics are cold-readers, knowingly or not) then why on Earth would they be able to contact us?Alistair Spaldinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10452520687676693285noreply@blogger.com