Sunday, March 26, 2017

You Must Complete the Following Test to Advance

You have five minutes to answer the following questions.   Please make sure you fill in ovals completely with a number 2 pencil.

Question 1:  (silence)

Here are your choices for answers:

a.  We created the concept of space to put distance between ourselves and everything around us.  If there is no space, there is no separation.  

b.  We created the concept of time to prevent everything from happening at once.  If there is no time, everything happens simultaneously without any separation.

c.  We created the concept of a self, because we don't really pay attention.  If did pay attention, there is nothing but the constant evaporation and condensation of thoughts, sounds, images and sensations. If there is no self, there is no separation.                                                                                                                                                
d.  all the above.  If there is no space, time, or self, we have nothing and everything simultaneously.  And of course, we have always had them all anyway, whether we wanted them or not.  

Question #2:  You are now in a lucid dream.  You can do anything you really want.  You are omnipotent.  What do you do?

But putting aside that question for the time being, a women appears who claims the ability to smell consciousness.   First, she thinks you smell good, which is comforting.   But then you begin to suspect that she is more interested in you as a rhetorical question.   As soon as she has her answer, you can tell her attention begins to wander. 

She remarks as she fades away that she thinks you are easy, but not like a Sunday morning.  How do you react?

Question 3:  Given that social media increases episodic cognition, does it also increase abstract thought? 

Question 4:  Can any amount of self-improvement compensate for lack of self-acceptance?  

Question 5:  if Trump turns out to have dementia, how would we know?





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