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Recent releases:

* An Enchanter's Journal
* Golden Ages of Philosophy
* "Psychology"
* Omnus Omni
* 100 Mind-Seals
* Updated Golden Notebook
*Updated Dimensional Time Travel Toolkit

Author Status

At least 70 of the 90 or so books I've published have sold one or more copies!

This marks a certain degree of triumph as an author.

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Up to 2 citations now!

Although at least one of these citations might be slightly dubious, at least they are enough to count on Google Scholar! One of them meets the H-Index criteria! Not bad for an undergrad, in my opinion!

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Improved Sales

About 27% to 35% improvement in sales over the previous year.

I've now been selling a-book-a-day on average FOR TWO STRAIGHT MONTHS!I

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I've only been published on Amazon about four years.

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What is the Best Way to Enjoy Life and be Successful at It?

My sense of the wisdom of how to live a good life is both tentative and absolute:

1. Retract attachment to all people and things. You don’t want to be persuaded by mere opinions, as this will lead to confusion and bad feelings.
2. Think about the good life. What is most worth doing? Can you do it? Is it difficult? How much work will it take?
3. Develop a secure home base. Find an income that is reliable, even if it is very small. This may require convincing relatives that you are worth it, committing to a job, completing your education, or taking charity. Use your home base to create a reliable platform for success.
4. Now, indulge your feelings about the good life without feeling regret. What are small things you can do to improve your life? What are you doing slightly wrong? What are dangers you can avoid? What would be most helpful? Can things just continue as they are? Are you being unrealistic? What can change? Have you found your center?
5. Create more or less structure where necessary. Remain optimistic. Change will occur.

What you have to watch out for is that some people have achieved all these steps in high school. But relative success is still possible.

Nathan Coppedge (Personality: INfP-a)

I was concerned that my personality was changing recently. But, as it turns out, when I took the test again, I tested again as strongly introverted, even more intuitive than before, and even more prospecting / perceptive than before, and once again my feeling is almost tied with thinking. So, not much change there, just more of the same! (I may add, however, that the test asked me to exaggerate some of my responses on a 7-point scale, which means that essentially I must have answered the questions in the exact same way as before...):

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A Selection of New Thoughts By Nathan Coppedge, #1

1. STATUES MODEL:

Statues appear to explain the current model of metaphysics, in which the Earth revolves around the Sun, and figures walk on the Earth.

The figures walking are clearly the fantasy of statues, little more intelligent than this.

The Earth is clearly the statue's thought of a larger statue, which is doing all that a statue can imagine it would do: to support the smaller statues.

The Sun may be explained as the eye looking upon the statues.

So, the entire local scene is explained in terms of statues!

If we are statues, then it can be argued that there is no coincidence that we feel pain in our brain! After all, what we think of as our brain is really solid rock!

Elidian Leap: Perhaps, however, this is really one version of 3-d metaphysics.


2. The Glass Bead Game

A kindly stranger says:

‘You look like the perfect young poet!’

And he tips his hat, and that is the end of it.

But as you continue on, you begin to look at the landscape:

The little hills with grass, how short the trees are…

The way tulips smell sweetly but aren’t as tall as the trees…

You begin to think you are more of an intellectual…

A dreamer, a Romantic…

Your relatives comment on your wisdom, and you decide to be become a philosopher.

But a stern voice says:

‘Philosophers are born, not made’

And so, you try to justify your past with the idea that you were always a philosopher…

Not just a philosopher, you were a seeker of immortal life!…

You meet Adimus, who says:

‘Is this really your best work…
There are places where you could improve’

And you begin to work more diligently,

And it is like cleaning the stables of Parnassus.

You meet Plato
(or perhaps really a talking statue),
who says

‘From now on you must direct your work
towards only the best aim…
Proceed on the basis of your knowledge
of the good and only the good!’

However, you begin to encounter evils, and wonder about the fairness of life.

You try to hold a firm principle.

You meet Cadmus, who says,

‘From now on, you can try the same efforts,
But you must multiply! Be more effortless,
And reap the great rewards!’

A phase of manic productivity ensues.

Phoebe notes:

‘You have now a hint of intelligence,
so live and prosper by your work,
if you are able!’

You turn a critical eye on old materials, and note that there were shortcomings.

In some places you didn’t have the hint of divine brilliance which you now occasionally find in your work.

Is it a subjective quality?

How much of subjectivity you now know, that you did not know before!

Then you meet Ephesius, who says,
‘That is all well and good, but now
you must do the same, only more
advanced!’

This is generally the beginning of the Gestalt phase of knowledge.


3. On Alexius Meinong (Are existence and non-existence properties or transcendent forms that something can exemplify or participate in or simply have?)

As some famous psychologist or philosopher said, our world is mediated by the visible and invisible. We grant more reality to immediate representations than we do to obscure causes. What is objectively real is not always what has relevance. Whether the real should be taken to be real is in fact an ethical question. Perhaps this is the reason Immanuel Kant and Iris Murdoch have turned to ethics to explain metaphysics.

You are getting into some complex issues. Traditionally in philosophy, the idea that matter is material or immaterial, real or virtual is a matter of theory. Whether perception defines truth is a subject of debate. Science has even raised the concern that that which does not consider itself falsifiable cannot be truthful. If you follow that claim (I don’t), then objective knowledge is out the window. Scientists and empiricists believe that every claim is a matter of understanding the specific circumstances, and all knowledge is approximate.

My own radical theory is that existence is partly conditioned on knowledge, which is itself conditioned on experience. In the ideal sense, there are some artificial processes that we are ignoring when we make ordinary claims. There are real structures of knowledge and experience that precede formal reality. Formal reality is not natural reality per se. Natural reality is conditional. Natural reality is blind unless it literally possesses eyes. Things are built out of materials that fulfill an idea, and when the idea itself has a further idea, the only way not to create a self-reference loop is to ignore the value of the idea.

In short, the failure of power is the failure of consciousness, and yet power is often taken to be a representation. To form an experience from representation requires the eternal, which manifests as time, so that at this point there is a reliance on wisdom which only comes with experience, creating an atavistic process of recovering memories of insignificant events, e.g. because the representation is not a real foundation, while the manifest reason of knowledge which informs existence is most clearly formed from the representation, and the alternative is the same system of failures produced by that reliance. Meanwhile, the eternal has no choice but to consider it symbolic, since it concerns time, which to the eternal means everything significant to it, albeit in higher dimensions. The whole thing is justified by evolution, which rests on free choice. But free choice must accept all prior failures as if it were determined by God.

If you look at this entire set of descriptions, you get a map of my current epistemological position. Absolute knowledge is possible, and yet we live a contingent existence. It is too bad reality does not pay us in ambergris when we make discoveries.

Someone else would say life is a perfect failure, but I think it is potentially both complex and perfect. Our current failure is evolution, but eventually the finest properties will be a continual part of human or post-human thought. The next level of reality may very well consist of living information and living thought. This current dimension is clearly about providing the structure and the standards, the precedents for higher dimensions. Perhaps those who ventured there before had a different system.

4. One should resist electric treatment in the brain, for it is subtlety that produces thought.

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QUOTES EARLY JUNE 2016

"There can be an ultimate truth. [And yet] ultimate truths can be immediate truths."
---Nathan Coppedge, acquisition theory

"Some cases are effective because of a constant.But in many other cases, a case may only be effective when it is 'active'.This distinction between active and passive processes often defines the origin of a function."
---Nathan Coppedge, active process

"The importance... is in forming a rational system. But as soon as we can be responsible for such a system, we can also be responsible for destroying it."
---Nathan Coppedge, intellectual morals.

"Thinking of good things might be selfish. Thinking of bad things might be foolish."
---Nathan Coppedge, intellectual morals.


"I discovered recently that certain types of abstractions are believable and yet with only thought as evidence. It seems to vary from person to person what these things are. I think this points towards an as-yet-unrealized reality in higher dimensions". --- Nathan Coppedge, Quora 2016


"Wise persons throughout history have recommended a life of temperance and moderation (even in the emotions) with the assumption that total indulgence either backfires or is unattainable. Some of the most insatiable lovers and gluttons also claim to be the least satisfied. People who are highly emotional sometimes live in an emotional desert. Learning from these cases, philosophers preach moderation." ---Nathan Coppedge, Quora 2016.


"I for one equate emotions and intellect as being identical. There is no true analysis of intellect without the emotions. Emotions have properties. Intellect just has abstractions. Both are necessary, and if they are perfectly complex, then they are boundless and immoderate." ---Nathan Coppedge, Quora 2016



"Which is often overlooked, is that technical words need a technical meaning. Analytich is not just analytic, but a step beyond the analytic. In this way, with every word each language offers a particular tier on every ladder. They are not just words, but words ideally suited to their schema." ---Nathan Coppedge, The Philosophical Conditional



"Thoughts (are the definition of) travel."


"If there is a metaphysical fourth dimension, then time travel may exist as early as the 3.5. At that point, a mixture of talent and divine intervention might take you there without even seeing the fourth dimension very clearly. However, it is still only about as probable as magic invisibility, teleportation, or extreme biological longevity." ---Nathan Coppedge, answer to 'could time travel ever be possible', June 2016


"Time is the common medium connecting all the outsides." ---Nathan Coppedge, June 2016


"Evolution takes place through a kind of smallness within time. Like it or not, it is often greater to think or perceive than to struggle or die." ---Nathan Coppedge, June 2016


"Consciousness as we understand it begins with the hierarchy of utility." ---Nathan Coppedge, June 2016


"For is it not a mistake to say that things are ‘approximately true’ ?" ---Nathan Coppedge or who?




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Alternate Hypotheticals Part 2

QUADRA 1

1. We should indulge our own personal sense of self.
2. Most ideas are emotional.
3. It makes a difference whether we feel good or bad.
4. Nihilism is from the gods.

QUADRA 2

1. Observe the world's problems!
2. Conceptualize!
3. Create a system!
4. It only is what it is!

QUADRA 3

1. One should just be happy?
2. Meditation is not reverse psychology?
3. Be a specialist! Solve your own problems!
4. Make a work of art!

QUADRA 4

1. You can always accept a loss if that's what you need to do!
2. Or, you can add complexity!
3. Or, you can change your emotional environment.
4. Things are as they are, but that doesn't mean you understand it.

On Money Magic, Part II.

At first, focus on what is most fortunate for you.

What is your FATE, so to speak?

Do you know magic?

Are you ambitious?

Can you spread wisdom about happiness?

Do you have angst?

Make this topic (whatever it is) the focus of your character.

Or, if not your character, then your writing!

If you get no results, add complexity.

For example, wear a t-shirt with a logo if people think you're simple-minded.

Start writing more on your blog if people think you're greedy.

Wear blue clothing if you have potential but people think you're too embarrassing.

When in doubt, absorb more knowledge.

Only seek magical potential if you have some other kind of potential already.

Or, seek it superficially.

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Quotes Late April 2016

"I recognize that if everything were realized, the ideal world would in fact be the practical world." ---Nathan Coppedge, April 2016



" 'Practical' is the most ideal word in a higher language." ---Nathan Coppedge, April 2016



"Women are the hours, and a goddess is the day, so time is an alien form of life." ---Nathan Coppedge, April 2016



"Categorical deduction sets a higher standard. It is never right about everything without referring to everything." ---Nathan Coppedge, April 2016



"In qualifics, everything is take-it-or-leave-it. As soon as we have something un-justified, the question to ask is if there is something to justify it."

---Nathan Coppedge, April 2016



"As a rule, meaningful nature is what is superstitious to nature (such as literature or existentialism), new meaningful nature is what is superstitious to warfare (such as paradigmatic citizenship or wisdom), ideal nature is what is superstitious to economics (such as lack of problems, sci-fi philosophical golden age), and 2nd nature is what is superstitious to meaning (such as transcendentalism and metaphysical knowledge)! These rules may be important in realizing the stages, on some level!"

---Nathan Coppedge, April 2016


"Science is unethical that lacks excitement in studying any area, however obscure. The soul of science may be its universalism."

---Nathan Coppedge, April 2016



" 'Devil' permits 'Anti-Devil': that's what every so-called devil realizes... Not much is required for anti-devils, but perhaps a devil is required..."

---Nathan Coppedge, April 2016



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