Quotes Late November 2016

"As soon as we realize animals are conscious, we also realize humans don't want to become animals." ---Nathan Coppedge

"Time is not just one thing: that's relativity."---Nathan Coppedge

"Technology: consciousness, matter, structure, dimension."---Nathan Coppedge

"Secret cards: money, adrenaline, prestige, or secret knowledge."---Nathan Coppedge

"The point: the mote of meaning. The oval: perfection and complexity. The triangle: the potential that existed in the beginning or else the ideal case; the alternate imagination or the ideal that exists now; the ability to predict and manifest possibilities. The square: divination, critical theory, truth-objects-tools, intuition."---Nathan Coppedge

"Life is rare and exceptional... therefore, if something goes wrong, it is something wrong with the big picture."---Nathan Coppedge

"If they came from a mysterious, deserted place where nothing happened, then they believe God is a mysterious idea that fills up space."---Nathan Coppedge

"Understanding of social hierarchies: +1,000,000 If you eat buddha-eat candy."---Nathan Coppedge

"The Sun is a singularity."---Nathan Coppedge

"The beauty of nature might well be beautified."---a mysterium by Nathan Coppedge

"Causes are timeless, but have location within time." ---Nathan Coppedge


"Efficiency, although good, creates metaphorical waste." ---Nathan Coppedge

"I will reiterate what other writers have said, that if a writer loses dignity, everything desirable is lost, with the possible exception of a lingering, incoherent purpose, the duty of which is to find significance." ---Nathan Coppedge

"Complexity and perfection combined might permit the trellise of reality, the isometric hierarchy..." ---Nathan Coppedge

"Just as ants are not significant to ants, it is likely humans are not significant to humans." ---Nathan Coppedge

"Based on innocence, some of us are becoming what we are not. On the other hand, some are knowing what we are. We seem to be not so different from the place we live, growing wiser than we are." ---Nathan Coppedge, or someone wiser.

"The more you know about something specific, the more you hate poets. But the more you know about something general, the more you hate the scientists. All that is left of God is the poetry of the universe. All of this put together is the soul of worthless thoughts." ---Nathan Coppedge

"Good intentions are the finest information, and yet not universally legible. In this universe, much is based on giving gold to God. Anyone with conceit is forced to smash their own ideas, which tend to be great to the extent that they are conceited. Only humble philosophers survive! The aim of life, and at such a price!" ---Nathan Coppedge

"Philosophy is exactly like the matter of the universe!" ---Nathan Coppedge

"Most of my happiness is just the rain falling, balmy wind, or the smell of leaves, combined with a little philosophical meaning. I love it when my notes don’t get wet, and when the sky turns purple. Sometimes I feel like a wizard. I have found it is important, unfortunately, to keep all of this outside my head." ---Nathan Coppedge

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Quotes Late October 2016

"When we are fully fulfilled, we will become fulfilling truths. It's a broken thought because it is so far away..." ---Nathan Coppedge


"Perhaps isometrically 3-d is flat, and 2-d is hyperbolic."---Nathan Coppedge


"Religion has emotional benefits when it is handled properly, but it never is." ---Nathan Coppedge


"My sense is philosophers are happier than average, because wisdom is something they want and it is part of the good life. Thus, they feel justified about seeking happiness, and thus they are more likely to attain it." ---Nathan Coppedge


"Nothing has infinite applications if there are infinite objects, the only problem being there are not infinite objects if there is also nothing. Hierarchies thus concern finitude or the absence of nothing." ---Nathan Coppedge

"Feelings are just the applications of consciousness to information… Fueled by the exclusion principle of eons of time… Perhaps." ---Nathan Coppedge


"We now consume aesthetics rather than the unknown." ---Nathan Coppedge, wisdom of the new ancients

"What does Nietzsche mean by saying: ' For the health of a single individual, a people, and a nation the un-historical and the historical are equally essential?' What is meant is that both phenomena and objectivity are idealizations of the world. So, Nietzsche is being anthropological. He is equating the reality of the world with two overlapping idealizations." ---Nathan Coppedge

"Some truths are made to be realized, and others are made to be designed." ---Nathan Coppedge


"Humans desire good outcomes, but they are either selfish or ignorant when it comes to solving problems." ---Nathan Coppedge


"Is there really free will? We are enslaved to our desires, otherwise no." ---Nathan Coppedge or else Sappho


"Do we choose what's best? Perhaps we do, if we prefer how far we go toward that end." ---Nathan Coppedge


"With conventional rationality, we don't know if it knows everything!" ---Nathan Coppedge


"The only way to be 100% original is to lack rational ideas. But the only way to be 100% rational is to lack original ideas." ---Nathan Coppedge or else Lewis Carroll or else Zeno of Elea or Protagoras



"In a sense, when looking at a black cat, religion looks for the implications of fear, science looks for the implications of excitement, and philosophy looks for the implications of bad luck." ---Nathan Coppedge


"Solutions cannot be solutions while solutions are problems and still be meaningful, hence these are the two worlds and the alternative is contradiction. The solution to paradoxes translates between the two worlds without coherent contradiction. But it is still fair to dismiss this strategy as a formalism. I deem that to be counter-productive." ---Nathan Coppedge


"I have found the more I think about my situation, the more manageable it is, regardless of how much money I actually earn." ---Nathan Coppedge

"Existence karma: if you suffer, you’re allowed to be superior. If you’re exceptional, the world improves." --- Nathan Coppedge


"Isometric consciousness is the view that the stars, for whatever reason, are small in significance. Everyone is safe with isometric consciousness so long as they do not commit to disaster. Isometric consciousness explains the transcendental axis. It is as committed to evolution as it is to rational privilege." ---Nathan Coppedge


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Quotes Early October 2016

"Absolute determinism is incompatible with the preferences." ---Nathan Coppedge

"If free will is unregulated, then it must exist, because then free will can provide regulation." ---Nathan Coppedge

"I argue I'm great but not good. It is argued most philosophers are good, but not great." ---Nathan Coppedge

"Perhaps the ultimate standard of physics is individual. But if that is the case, the only laws would be laws about laws." ---Nathan Coppedge

"Time, a large metaphysical variable in the third dimension, rather than a dimension of space, is what is meant by aether, that is, it underrides physical laws." ---Nathan Coppedge

"The ultimate explanation is that reason, like any individual concept, is a small part of language, which is itself a small part of ultimate reality. For example, most parts of brain chemistry are not language unless they can be reduced to abstractions, and such may not be desurable with big thoughts. Whether all that reality will ultimately be achieved is another matter." ---Nathan Coppedge

"After all, if there is no truth, there is no standard of truth. And that means objectivity with or without a standard." ---Nathan Coppedge

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Quotes Late September

"The sense of all-or-nothing importance is 1-d interacting with a 2-d world. The dialectic between confusion and confidence is 2-d interacting with a 3-d world. The sense of worthwhile being exists between the 4-d and 5-d world, but is sometimes borrowed in lower dimensions through self-concept." ---Nathan Coppedge

"For life to be well in the third dimension, it requires four things, if it does not require everything. Ben Franklin was right about the first three things: health, wealth, and happiness. But I would add a fourth thing: perpetual motion."---Nathan Coppedge

"Perpetual motion creates health, and knowledge creates wealth, and wealth creates knowledge, and health creates perpetual motion. Poor design, lack of power, lack of wisdom, and incoherence seem to be the alternatives." ---Nathan Coppedge

"Energy and perpetual energy are similar concepts, and we should not underestimate how much the first depends on the second." ---Nathan Coppedge

"I haven't quite built it but I have quite designed it." ---Nathan Coppedge, on perpetual motion

"Object-oriented philosophers sometimes see common properties as the nature of perception. Perceptions may be Democratic, and the most alien things may in fact be consciousness, or complete description." ---Nathan Coppedge

"In short, relevance may be the foundation of semantics, but it adds up to a foundation for formalism. In real life, however, formalism is rarely formal." ---Nathan Coppedge

"Some things are resolved by more-than-just-negative theories. For example, if fear solves everything in some qualified magical sense, then it is not just negative theories which can have subtle, paradoxical meanings." ---Nathan Coppedge

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Quotes Late August 2016

"An absurd view: There are drugs and rocks. Some rocks take ambergris."---Nathan Coppedge, for lack of a better source

"All we need is subjective food for all particles, and the universe runs itself."---Nathan Coppedge

"There are recursive history trees, and sometimes they dance!"---Nathan Coppedge (originally August 2001, was interrupted)

"The only good causes are values with standards for pleasure with meaning. The only good cause is meaningful. The only good is meaning."---Nathan Coppedge

"It is basic intelligence to realize the trickery of the world, and the sufficiency of fascination." ---Nathan Coppedge

"Good problems are keys to middle knowledge."---Nathan Coppedge

"Improved society involves greater visual complexity and a higher tolerance for perfection."---Nathan Coppedge

"Zen is like the philosophy of objects. Many logics seem to amount to aesthetics."---Nathan Coppedge

"Some things are true, and some things are false like incoherency." ---Nathan Coppedge

"You could say the cause is whatever created the sun, or whatever specific thing caused us to think THIS thought at this time. And so on endlessly until the causes aren't causes anymore." ---Nathan Coppedge, paraphrase of Aristotle from memory

"Aristotle is the only one who is the cause of causation. If one imagines the causeless cause, we get mythology. One can discover mythology by abnegating Aristotle." ---Nathan Coppedge

"It is only by the impossible standard that things begin to persist. Impossibility is an archaic standard of coherency." ---Nathan Coppedge

"What is probable can be actualized. Therefore energy force concerns mass." --Nathan Coppedge

"In all typical cases, self-possession lies between solitude and fame."--Nathan Coppedge

"In an expensive system, everything exotic = 2-d time." ---Nathan Coppedge

"Deduction tracks assumptions, and coherent deductions can be used to map knowledge."---Nathan Coppedge

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Foibles or Sayings of the Novice Wizard (or Witch?)

Obligatory image so I can post on Pinterest.

An attempt to be coherent.

SET ONE:
1) What do we know but immediacy?
2) The soul is in the first world!
3) The frustration saved us all!
4) He's the best man!

SET TWO:
1) I wiggle, and make a wiggle spell!
2) Jim-jam and a djinn 1,2,3!
3) Tall trees, standing by the road! Enchantment!
4) An old tolerance for new magic!

SET THREE:
1) The cities grow like trees.
2) What kind of wizard?
3) A bit of Auberny, and a bit of gold. Alchemy!
4) It is magic! (birds of paradise, for example)

SET FOUR:
1) Something arises from this?
2) A dark spell of weather!
3) The dead shall rise!
4) What remains of the sorcerer.

Quotes Late July 2016

"The power of ideas comes before magic."---Nathan Coppedge

"Every time has its own body of secrets. Without learning new secrets, we die."---Nathan Coppedge

"In general, much of what is spiritual happens only because of perspectives that develop from good choices."---Nathan Coppedge

"In a sense, timelessness is the 2nd dimension of time." ---Nathan Coppedge

"Age is an advanced idea for immortals alone."---Nathan Coppedge

"Understanding that reason is a luxury is very helpful."---Nathan Coppedge

"Beauty is, on second thought, an adaptation to consciousness."---Nathan Coppedge

"2nd degree materialism is harder than 1st degree spiritualism."---Nathan Coppedge

"Continue your quest even if you die. Therefore, you will live."---Nathan Coppedge

"The relation of philosophy to science becomes one akin to the relation of abstract to representative art, respectively."---Nathan Coppedge


"Technology becomes the realization of how arbitrary, functional spaces are interpenetrated."---Nathan Coppedge


"The genius is the alien, as the alien is at least the genius."---Nathan Coppedge


"The most expensive thing is making everything cheap."---Nathan Coppedge


“Purpose is not the only purpose... / Meaning is not the only meaning… / With leisure comes philosophy… / And with philosophy, philosophical meaning…” ---Nathan Coppedge, in the face of mass unemployment and the advent of free economics

"We can learn to hold onto the powers which we actually do possess. For example, insanity."---Nathan Coppedge


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Quotes Early July 2016

"The best explanation I have found for mental health disabilities is that they may be (or may not be) rhetorically justified." ---Nathan Coppedge


"If we are not creative, we will not get a good world, and yet creativity occurs without judgment." ---Nathan Coppedge


"I’m not sure there is a satisfying answer while we are unsatisfied. After all, only satisfaction is satisfying, just as only the quality of decisiveness is decisive. I call this relative absoluteness." ---Nathan Coppedge

"Paradoxical realism is the beginning of absolute realism." ---Nathan Coppedge


"Making people depressed should be the most elaborate thing, according to idealists, but the alternative suggests simple ways of coping." ---Nathan Coppedge


"Divination is like the evolution of sacrifice." ---Nathan Coppedge


"Sometimes I believe in artificial artificiality: every substance is plastic, so nothing is plastic. This seems to be one key to the fourth dimension: a universal standard of miscellaneous meaningful substances."

"Much of progress is catch-up from a different perspective" ---Nathan Coppedge, wisdom of the new ancients

"To die might be to live, if to die is to die! While I die I am dead." --- Nathan Coppedge, wisdom of the new ancients

"History withholds ALL of its secrets, except those designed for the present time."---Nathan Coppedge, wisdom of the new ancients

"If we do not argue that rationalism falls into coherent and incoherent categories, we are forced to adopt a non-relativist position, because we cannot argue for absolute (coherent) relativism, or subjective (incoherent) relativism. But, both coherence and incoherence render relativism in a trivial form. In coherence, relativism must be universal, contradicting multiplicity, and therefore existing in the form of measurement. Incoherence also measures relativism, although through irrationality. Thus, both uacceptable forms of relativism  consider it to be merely a form of measurement. Now the extension of relativism requires the extension of relativism's triviality, and this leads to no assumption of relativism in any major systematic category. The conclusion is that relativism is trivial."

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QUOTES LATE JUNE 2016

"In any case, it appears that the new philosophy is supposed to determine its own relationship with aesthetics, whereas formerly it was the opposite." ---Nathan Coppedge

"Think optimistically, and anything gets much better, including computers!" ---Nathan Coppedge

"I think the moral of the archetypes is that (1) They or incoherent, because one image is not compatible with another, etc. or (2) They are coherent, but only insofar as they meet the criteria of coherency. With this understanding, it is possible to examine the archetypes carefully and extract a psychological lesson focusing on voluntary self-development. I think this is the core lesson that Jung meant to protract." ---Nathan Coppedge

"To each his own means: whatever seems good is good, if you can predict everything! Because, no crime goes unpunished, and those who know justice know to avoid punishment. They know wisdom has its rewards. They know the good life who can predict and observe." ---Nathan Coppedge, a.k.a. Asceticurus.

"Asceticureanism is self-assurance. But it is also the disappointed feeling you get when you can't have more sweets." ---Nathan Coppedge, a.k.a. Asceticurus.

"The ideal Asceticurean life is to explain the world as if it were a work of art." ---Nathan Coppedge, a.k.a. Asceticurus.


"Highly qualified information in the sense of having good ideas brings things closer to reality, but only through the actions of gods or higher forces of nature. Even forms of matter that are only slightly more real than myself may act like gods."

"I embrace all religions as having some truth, with the qualification that each religion only works when demanding technical criteria are met."

"I believe purpose is artificial and ever-present, and only gone when there is a lack of ideas... Intellectual freedom is just as important as life’s artificiality."

"What cannot be attained ultimately can be attained cheaply immediately."

"Not all good systems are ethical, because not all good systems have ethical problems."

"My sense is that good ideas are not always incorporated in nature, but when they are, they become true."

"With two time dimensions, the body itself can travel as if it had its own history—-thus, immortality is possible." ---Nathan Coppedge

"Three dimensions of time is likely to involve pure being... just as each additional dimension of a certain type tends to be the opposite of the previous: death, immortality, then no meaning of life or death. This could be analogous to spiritual existence. By this analogy, immortality could be seen as the spirit of history, while mortality could be seen as spiritual conflict. And the third dimension of time is pure being." ---Nathan Coppedge

"If I would just understand that happiness is meaning, I could forget depression and focus on a meaningless life! I can anyway minus the meaningless, is what I have to realize." ---Nathan Coppedge


"Good theories: (1) All I know is philosophy. (2) The second theory is originality (psychology, exponentiality)." ---Nathan Coppedge


"Importance is like a good germ." ---Nathan Coppedge


"Students and acolytes should be encouraged to believe that knowledge is highly accessible and often at its core, non-technical. Otherwise gaps appear in the history of knowledge, and an important intuition is lost." ---Nathan Coppedge

"Ethics: it’s about hard questions, but everyone wants soft answers." ---Nathan Coppedge

"The earliest part of my philosophical work amounts to two ideas: that ideas are unities, and that the exceptional is not merely specific." ---Nathan Coppedge


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Quotes Early April 2016

"I believe in nothing. I think nothing is everywhere. But absolute nothing is extremely rare, due to interacting information. According to this theory, the whole universe is where we find absolute nothing, but it is also where we find the most of everything. Nothing is relative, is one way to put it. But there is one form of nothing that is absolute, but not infinite. There are many forms of nothing that are highly qualified, but not absolutely, and only one form of nothing that is absolutely qualified. Asymmetrical concepts like art and construction may gradually overcome nothing in another higher dimension. In this way, nothing is relative to itself! In this way, nothing may simply be a lack of something, a concept that is relative to reality but not unreality. When nothing cannot be relative to unreality and there is only one form of nothing, we get a weakness for constructivism." ----Nathan Coppedge, April 2016


"Metaphysics is unrealized magic. Un-formatted systems of dimensional variables. Forms-out-of-nothing wishing for ex-nihilism." ---Nathan Coppedge, quote that originated ex-nihilism, April 2016 or earlier


"Some question the subject of reality. They do not recognize: Things are as valuable as they are, but they are not as valuable as we assume!" ---Nathan Coppedge, April 2016


"Pleasure forgets the origins of functionality." ---Nathan Coppedge, Prophetic Wisdom

"Redemption is the process of regaining wisdom." ---Nathan Coppedge, Spiritual Writings

"I believe in nothing. I think nothing is everywhere. But absolute nothing is extremely rare, due to interacting information. According to this theory, the whole universe is where we find absolute nothing, but it is also where we find the most of everything. Nothing is relative, is one way to put it. But there is one form of nothing that is absolute, but not infinite. There are many forms of nothing that are highly qualified, but not absolutely, and only one form of nothing that is absolutely qualified. Asymmetrical concepts like art and construction may gradually overcome nothing in another higher dimension. In this way, nothing is relative to itself! In this way, nothing may simply be a lack of something, a concept that is relative to reality but not unreality. When nothing cannot be relative to unreality and there is only one form of nothing, we get a weakness for constructivism."
---Nathan Coppedge, April 2016

"Humanity is a genius idea. Pleasure is another genius idea. Pain is a terrible idea." ---Nathan Coppedge, April 2016 or earlier.

"God is the only one who deals in finite resources. The concept that God is infinitely greater is a delusion. Infinite greatness actually requires infinite gods from a mortal point of view. By the time god is great, humans are immortal. But that isn't the infinite god that we fear or loathe. It is more like God the father or mother, or god the old man and old woman." ---Nathan Coppedge, April 2016

"The hypothesis of infinite dimensions seems to prove that if each thing in some way 'IS' its own dimension, then on one of the infinite dimensions, the information is always preserved. In other words, there is a whole dimension for every proper object that can be observed." ---Nathan Coppedge, via [ Quora ] April,2016.


"The future overlaps with the past. Out of binary laws comes the idea that past standards are always in some way conserved, while future succeeds in realizing merely some species of development. We can only return to the past, but we can only realize the future." ---Nathan Coppedge, April 10,2016.


"Indulgence is a devil, and indulgence makes one a devil. This is perhaps the greatest insight of approximately 13 incarnations." ---Nathan Coppedge, April 2016


"Profiting from pain, if necessary, must require permanent gain. If unnecessary, it must require temporary loss." ---Nathan Coppedge, April 2016


"A little complexity makes for good aesthetics." ---Nathan Coppedge, April 2016

"If there weren't a limit, however temporary, everything would be perfect or life would have some pretty bad ideas. Some people are betting on bad ideas, and that's why life isn't perfect." ---Nathan Coppedge, April 2016

"Expect to benefit others if you want to benefit yourself!" ---Nathan Coppedge, April 2016

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