/sci/ - Science & Math

Red pill me /sci/
Why dont I have a soul?

The eternal [Logos] is the Power of God, and the work, of the -eternal [Logos] is the world, which has no beginning, but is continually becoming by the activity of the eternal [Logos]. Therefore, nothing that constitutes the world will ever perish or be destroyed, for the eternal [Logos] is imperishable. All this great body of the world is a Soul, full of intellect and of God, who fills it within and without and vivifies everything.

Contemplate through Me [the Divine Mind], the world and consider its beauty. ... See that all things are full of light. See the earth, settled in the midst of all, the great nurse who nourishes all earthly creatures, All is full of Soul, and all beings are in movement. Who has created these things? The one God, for God is one. You see that the world is always one, the Sun, one; the moon, one; the divine activity, one; God, too, is one. And since all is living, and Life is also one, God is certainly one. It is by the action of God that all things come into being…

All that is, He contains within Himself like thoughts: the world, Himself, the All. Therefore, unless you make yourself equal to God, you cannot understand God; for like is not intelligible save to the like. Make yourself grow to a greatness beyond measure; by a leap [of intellect], free yourself from the body; raise yourself above all time, become Eternity; then you will understand God.

Believe that nothing is impossible for you; think yourself immortal and capable of understanding all, all arts, all sciences, the nature of every living being. Mount higher than the highest height; descend lower than the lowest depth. Draw into yourself all sensations of everything created, fire and water, the dry and the moist, imagining that you are everywhere, on earth, in the sea, in the sky; that you are not yet born, in the maternal womb, adolescent, old, dead, beyond death. If you embrace in your thought all things at once-all times, places, substances, qualities, quantities-you may understand God.

Not op

I cannot express how important the path of nihilism has been to me.

The path has gone fairly deep, and i would be extremely surprised if it got any deeper (because at this moment i could not imagine how it could).


As cheesy as it sounds, it does seem to me, that the most important question to anyone who wants to work in science or philosophy is 'the blue or red pill'.

Do you want the truth, and risk being unhappy
OR
Do you accept a lie, and indulge into a delusional bliss

>>4366942

I can sort of relate, i remember going through a pretty dark patch like this in high school. However it is actually what motivated my love of science, philosophy and academia in general.

When i was 16-18 i was bewildered at how irrational and stupid most people where. I wasn't afraid of talking or meeting people, i was just disgusted by the majority of people, and couldn't understand their purpose.

I couldn't comprehend the way many people chose to live, it was so empty, vain and shallow. As i matured i found my judgments of these people weren't irrational, they were justified. I couldn't stand to live like those people, i wanted to discover, to doubt and to progress.

As cheesy and as cliche as it sounds, i think the most fundamental question is if you take the blue pill or red pill. Do you want to be normal and happy, or do you want to aim high and risk sadness.

>>4290321
>just let something exist that is amazing and cool
I see you are a blue pill kinda guy.

The matrix was amazing and cool to some, it wasn't satisfying enough for others. Why don't you leave /sci/ for the big boys~

The problem is choice.

The problem in any complex system involving human action is that human action is inherently unpredictable, and while given a large enough sample size simple predictions can be made, as model of the system become more detailed they become less accurate.

The problem is choice.

What proponents of the venus project do not realize is

The problem is choice.

Okay, /sci/, granted that the mind is occupied by a psudoreality, down to the levels of the subconsciousness, does it ever truly become your reality?

>>3493097
[citation needed]

I would argue that one becomes more creative and varied as time goes on if they have a healthy mind.

So what would you rather; a high death rate of about 100,000 per day, or a rapidly changing society [citation needed]?

SO. /sci/. Have a question for you.

I'm double majoring in Physics and Chemical Engineering...I'll have my Bachelors degrees in a year and a half.

My question is: on a scale of 1 to holy fucking dogshit, how difficult would it be to begin working on a ChemE Masters and a Physics PhD at the same time? Should I choose one over the other, or go for gold with two?

>>2354251
>Implying it's not smarter than you are.