Updated Quotes from Late October

http://hypercubics.blogspot.com/2016/10/quotes-late-october-2016.html?m=1

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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Link to Quotes from Early October 2016

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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

Even more quotes on Poemhunter: http://www.poemhunter.com/quotations/famous.asp?people=Nathan%20Coppedge

Link to Quotes from Late Sept. 2016

http://hypercubics.blogspot.com/2016/09/quotes-late-september.html?m=1

Latest Advice from Centenarians

"If you're female, expect excitement."

"It might be important to force the cure, if the timing is good."

"Return to the moments where you are most alive!"

"Even saying hello might be a ritual."


"Ritualized time!"

"Don't look at the far trees: focus on the near trees."

"The key is not to feel foolish when you're 100..."

"Bitterness can be left alone unless it's good medicine."

"Nature is larger than time."

"Less paint, more art!"

"Sometimes our every manifestation is old from the very beginning."

"The more right you are, the more immortal you are!"

"There is just one recipe: patience."

"Have a reason to be happy. And don't make mistakes."

"Suck the juice out of life. Make it permanent."


Judging from the above, one might expect living to 100 is an average activity for people with good ideas. Maybe that is how it is now.


METATABOLISM

Quotes Late March 2016

"Initially at least (at our present time), there are four kinds of soul: (1) The soul of age, (2) The soul of old wisdom, (3) The soul of youth, and (4) The soul of wise energy. Perhaps due to the absence of wise energy, we have not commonly progressed into the fourth dimension of the soul." ---Nathan Coppedge, March 2016, (Quora, included in Spiritual Writings).


“Total reality is as ridiculous as total absurdity. But total reality is inevitable and total absurdity is available.” ---Nathan Coppedge, March 2016


"The blindness of God is merely the absence of a spiritual dimension of existence, an arbitrary factor easily corrected by human pragmatism." ---Nathan Coppedge, March 2016


"My grand vision is that there is a material for every complexity. Hence, dimensions have an infinite extensibility." ---Nathan Coppedge, March 2016


"Reason is the crime and punishment of principle! Yet systems do survive that are more sublime than contrived!" ---Nathan Coppedge, March 2016


"The realization of a perception is like a pile of stones."  - -Nathan Coppedge (as Asceticurus) 


"People thirst for complexity that makes rational sense, as shown by the God concept. Some people may even realize concepts of God, but this realization is often temporary where it has a temporary use, or if it can be recorded more efficiently as 'trustworthy information'. The loyalty of information becomes the fundamental theology of the information age." ----Nathan Coppedge, March 2016


"If you want to be ethical: be innocent, be philosophical, be religious, and be happy." ---Nathan Coppedge, March 2016


"The problem of evil is its mixture of un-centered ambition and artificial conflict, mixed with interacting energy, boredom, and bad ideas." ---Nathan Coppedge, March 2016


"Assuming everything is allowed to be selfish, my conclusion is that everything is trying its best." ---Nathan Coppedge, March 2016


"Everyone tries to make significance virtuous, or lives the failure of the quest unaware." ---Nathan Coppedge, March 2016


"Pain is the only unbearable thing." ---Nathan Coppedge, March 2016


"Meaninglessness is a confusing form of pain. It is also an ambitious claim over distant, unrealized things." ---Nathan Coppedge, March 2016


"The answer I have is that everything is trying its best, assuming that it tries at all, and assuming that it is not distracted, and assuming that it is not playing a game. Assuming, in short, that there is not some competing value which seems important but actually isn't. Assuming everything is allowed to be selfish." ---Nathan Coppedge, March 2016


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


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



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Quotes Early December 2015

"The universe MIGHT BE a dimension, but if so, it must be a UNIVERSAL dimension." ---Nathan Coppedge


"I get a picture in which organisms themselves are filling technological niches----Look to a mixture of specialized speciation, new reality concepts, greater existential gratification, and mixtures of categories in the fourth dimension." ---Nathan Coppedge


"Children know the answers, adults know the problems. Wise men know the religion. Mad men know everything, but not very well. Study your intuitions, and the meaning will come, if it has not arrived already!" ---Nathan Coppedge


"(Mark my words) Perpetual motion is a kind of metaphorical fuel!" ---Nathan Coppedge, Dialogue on Perpetual Motion and Fuel-Based Machines



"No, understanding is beside the point... Then, ironically, there is considerable understanding involved." ---Nathan Coppedge, paradox from Dialogue on Moral Imperatives



"WHAT precedes IS, even when is ‘is’ better; yet WHAT may be how we know WHAT IS; What is ‘is’ what is left of what is." ---Nathan Coppedge, Dialogue on Mount Everest



"Neutrals are systems, values are exceptions, paradoxes are minimums."



"Sex is synergy and virgins are God."

"You can't blame people for having standards... Standards are things we can't change... But we can blame people for destroying or ignoring standards..." ---Nathan Coppedge (possibly dated to earlier)


"Pain and pleasure are not opposites, so there is no use justifying one with the other." ---Nathan Coppedge, Dec 2015.


"Metaphysics is neither religious nor particularly subject to critical theory. It is the realm of the universal and the particular, of unique conditions bridging the gap between ordinary and exceptional realities."---Nathan Coppedge,3rd Body of Criticism.


"The history of dimensions is to some extent the solution to pain. Those who suffer more gain more artificial value, but do not always see the whole picture. Thus, late emergence of pleasure is the most pressing paradigm. All of life builds on pleasure, including mental pleasure, that has already emerged."---Nathan Coppedge, via Quora.com


"Each person is confronting his or her own deepest problems. This explains the emotional difficulty some people have." ---Nathan Coppedge, via Quora, re-posted in Scientific Theories due to be released in 2016


"Each person is god of his or herself, in the sense that each person realizes the fullest definition of his or her own potentially limited power. The limit of power is the limit of definition."
---Nathan Coppedge, via Quora.com. Re-posted in Spiritual Writings.

QUOTES NOVEMBER 2015 PART 2

"The end days are a phenomenon of personal religion. The end days are God's official 'delusion.' For no immortal God would proscribe 'end days' for other immortals. Immortality by definition does not end, perhaps even if it undergoes morphosis into a different form. The differences must be small enough that a continuity of consciousness takes place."

"Atheism is also a nominal religion, because it is a position about religion. In a strictly categorical sense, that is what a religion is. Everything that is not religious either ignores religion or is without spirit. But atheism, whether it has a spirit or not, defines itself on religious terms, because without religion there is no atheism."

"They always save the divine language for earlier. This explains the disappointment with badly predicted old age."

"Sometimes I think in my previous life I was an ant who thought of Platonism and viewed a Schizznik, which was a form of pastry, and vowed to never get married. But, on other times I think I was the son of William Tell, or a Chinese God."

"I conceive that doubt may be additional to knowledge."

"One of the foundational tenets of gnosticism is that thought is the mind: thought is what to mind, and thought influences the world."

"If anyone repeats a thought over and over again, it will eventually be admitted that it is not just one person's influence. So the claim that a single person has stolen the soul is as strong as the idea that any more than one has done the same. And both of these claims are weaker than the idea of self-possession, since it is clear that the repetitions are created through interaction with the original self."

"The Coppedge Curve: Brian was genuinely brilliant, but I was a genius but stupid."

"It is also possible that the 4th - 7th dimensions will occur together, in one larger experience that not everyone is ready to experience (for lack of imagination, I guess: which is the same as saying a lack of information)."

"Of course, it would be interesting if time were as civilized as we are. Basically, though, we're always trying to cheat when we change dimensions. We get technical, so we're in a pigeon-hole, so 'nature understands' and something happens. If you believe in God you might be led also to believe that 'there are no shortcuts' and therefore it's always a big deal to shift dimensions."

"I doubt that many people would say that all knowledge is semantic. I think that would be too extreme. But I wouldn't call this system metaphysics, either, although in some ways its the first example of a coherent metaphysics." 

MORE QUOTES AT POEMHUNTER: http://www.poemhunter.com/quotations/famous.asp?people=Nathan%20Coppedge

New Quotes -- Mid-August 2015

"[E]xperience is a kind of sublime library for languages." ---Nathan Coppedge, The Dimensional Phenomenology Toolkit, e.g. in reference to virtual reality.

“Reality-potential increases with complexity.” ---Nathan Coppedge, The Dimensional Phenomenology Toolkit, August 2015.

"Life is designed for wisdom" ---Nathan Coppedge, 2015 (from The Dimensional Wisdom Toolkit, an as-yet-unpublished work).

More quotes at Poemhunter HERE.

Keys to Life, Age 32

1. Have principles.
2. Don't be psychological.
3. Value truth.
4. Be your own prophet.

These are very helpful hints, from my point of view, although speaking of principles and truth is not always helpful.