Maybe sooner, if you're around where I think you are, you're catching the opener now, and the main storm is 30-45 minutes behind it.

Agree, unusually cool and wet. Plenty of warm dry days though, just more cool days and wet-ish days, and less super-hot days.

The t-storm coming up from the south was nice today, stayed warm for it, made for a nice day of riding before coming home to watch the show. Should be headed your way in a few hours, if it stays northerly.

I get that. I also tend to frame things out as fully considered ideas, which may appear closed. The truth is I'm willing to reconsider anything, should new information or thought or emotion be brought to light.

The hardest things to reconsider are not the things we embrace, but the things we have already dismissed. For example, I have completely dismissed revealed religion. It would extremely hard for me to reconsider and be open to Jesus as my true Savior and the only way to Heaven. There is so many different things in that last sentence that I have dismissed as not just false, but ridiculous and impossible.

However, even these things that we dismiss are still possible. The earth could somehow be flat. Reptile aliens could be in control of our world governments.

If you get rid of all your beliefs, you are still left with your emotion - how you feel about everything, regardless of what you think. Experiencing the emotion is more important and significant anyway.

That's just it. I don't know what it is, I just have this gut feeling that how we regard time is not at all accurate.

There's time as measured by the rotation of the earth, and its orbit around the sun.

But that wasn't good enough, so there's some fancy science definitions that concern measurements of light wavelengths or something (learned it about 35 years ago.)

I don't think either of these concepts really gets at how time works.

Consider in 3-D space, where objects have width, height, and depth, a distance between two locations is said to be based on the time it takes to travel from one point to the other. Distance = Rate x Time.

But rate (speed) is expressed as distance / time, so the time cancels out, leave distance = distance, so kind of silly.

But if matter and 3D isn't actually reality, and reality is wave/energy/field based, are there definitive locations with distance between them? Does this even still make sense?

Does time work sequentially, where a cause always precedes an effect, or could they happen all at once, or possibly reversed?

I'm currently trying to learn about the Hindu / Vedic concepts of time, because my early understanding was that they are pretty different.

I can talk for hours about time theories and such, but again, I don't know how valid most of them are.

I think this much is true - whatever I am doing in this moment is the most important thing to me that I could be doing, and I would rather be doing it than any other option I might have.

And right now, I am replying to you.

As I understand it (and was using it), a materialist believes reality is based in matter. This is the general approach of the hard sciences, physics, math, etc. Even a lot of philosophy is based in materialism - see Descartes, for example, although philosophers tend to struggle with existence beyond matter. Even religions tell their creation myths in terms of matter and objects.

Wb. Gn boho. 🌛🫂

And when you've chosen poorly, what you have is what you have, so...

Dos pounderoonies? That is much nom. I had less pounderoonies, was gud. #measureyourmeatintakeinstone

Please keep questioning all the beliefs!

If you believe something strongly, with conviction, be prepared to question it harder! Reject it, and then try to arrive at it again in some other way. I've rejected reality many times. I reject plenty of science, especially materialist science, as just not the full story. Right now I'm trying to reject our concept of time, as I'm pretty sure it is wrong, or at least incomplete.

You can say whatever you wish, and I also reject right and wrong. Yes, I reject morality.

If beliefs take us to a known place, can disbelief take us to an unknown place? I try to embrace the unknown. What I lack in creativity I make up in curiosity.

It is possible - and again, maybe more similar to what I have thought of as field energy. Kind of like magnetic fields or light diffusion, but I feel there there are many field energies that we experience. And the energies work with each other, so a disruption or change in one field energy can have an effect on another field energy.

Would you consider yourself a materialist? Based on your concept of frequency, I could assume not, but bettsr to just ask.

I generally think of matter as stored information, so it completely makes sense to me that transfer and creation of information through actions, thoughts, and feelings would be frequency as you say, and our senses would be sensing frequency (your model) or field energies (my model).

I understand well. My mh counselor found me overly intellectual - definitely wrapped up in layers of analysis and logic. I only felt breakthroughs when I began to embrace emotion (pun intended), although I had some earlier success with self esteem. I've written about a lot of it here along the way.

I'm happy for you as well, and it is great to meet another of the folks I would happily stand beside, peering out into the abyss. If I cannot feel your emotion, I can still support your journey.

I can appreciate all of this, and like everything, it may just come down to semantics. I do not see a contradiction, as experiencing emotion does not require belief, but belief (in my opinion) requires an emotional component).

Intuition is an emotionally charged experience. Our soul is emotion, and emotion is the differentiator between one soul and another. Whether all souls are part of one soul (or merely facets or expressions of one soul) or not isn't much of a question, because at least in this plane of existence, they are differentiated (separated) by emotion.

I cannot feel what anyone else is feeling. My feelings may be similar, but cannot be identical.

From that simple differentiation, everything else becomes differentiated. I do not see exactly what anyone else sees; I do not believe what everyone else believes... because sensory input, beliefs, all of it has an emotional component.

Understanding this has allowed me to love harder than ever before, because I am loving the other for their otherness, rather than for similarities or congruities.

Fear is an emotional response to the unknown. As I believe all emotions are true and valid, I would say that fear is true and valid. How we come to use that emotion may often be irrational though.

I embrace the Vedic construct of all matter being one, and formed as expressions of our souls.

I think we have arrived at very similar places in view. Good to find someone that at least works to understand themselves.

Imagine for a minute if beliefs, consciousness, possibly even reality were downstream from emotion.

Taking that approach changes a lot, when you learn to trust and use your emotion, rather than just trying to control it with consciousness and belief.

I personally trust my emotions far more than my beliefs or consciousness, or reality itself, at least as I understand or experience it.

Another 4 weeks of raw natural dog food made. His skin issues have almost completely healed.

GN.

Shit I rarely remember to tag GN on my gn notes. Maybe I need another npub that just posts GN. Bot makers probably have done this already.

GN (although this doesn't get the same reach as a reply note)

Still sorting out how I want to engage in social media (meaning nostr, I am not active anywhere else).

I now have 3 npubs for different engagement:

this one, that is essentially a nym, although a somewhat leaky one. My opsec around this nym is far from perfect. I still feel pretty safe posting whatever I want here, without any expectation of meatspace reprisals.

Another one, that has really been more for viewing specific content around a personal interest. I've posted from it a few times, but I have no intention of sharing anything remotely personal with it.

And a new one, that will be as real and public as a Facebook profile. My real name. I'll probably be paying the most attention to this npub, using it to see how comfortable I am with respect to posting. For example, I don't expect I will even acknowledge bitcoin. Because I don't need anyone (online) knowing whether or not I might have some, or have had some. No need to invite that wrench attack. No zaps. No nodes. Just a normie npub, spouting normie shit about normie interests, mostly. Nothing that would trigger any kind of second glance, even if all past notes are searched and indexed (which I assume they are or will be).

Boring, you say? Try it. It isn't easy, trying to establish a social graph of sorts while not disclosing a whole lot.

Is is "being myself"? Of course it is, but only when you consider the composite of these npubs (and any others I might have, or end up creating later on).

I'm south. Heading up to Shelton tomorrow on a ride. I want to do the full Olympic peninsula circuit before the weather turns this fall, but have some other rides planned. Haven't been up to Whidbey for a while, probably 15-20 years.

Struggling to define policies most in line with my goals. GN.

I don't know what I'm doing, but I won't let that stop me.

No, I think you did well at flowing it in with the rest of your topics. I think your website creation frame lent itself well as a vehicle to bring together seemingly disparate concepts.

Definitely up to meeting for a steak whenever you're back in WA.