Important Note (September, 2012) - I have submitted an essay to a competition on the foundations of physical reality. It explains how matter and fields are just two different ways that space vibrates. It is very simple and obvious once understood, has profound consequences for humanity, our sense of self in the universe knowing that we vibrate with everything around us. Please read it, rate it, and I will reply to all comments. Thanks, Geoff haselhurst (11th Sept. 2012)
I realise that there are a lot of 'crackpot' theories about truth and reality
on the internet, but it is easy to show that the Wave Structure of Matter
is the correct solution as it deduces the laws
of Nature (the fundamentals of Physics & Philosophy)
perfectly (there are no opinions). While the Wave Structure of Matter is obvious
once known, to begin it will seem strange simply because it takes time
for our minds to adjust to new knowledge.
For those who are religious
/ spiritual, I think Albert
Einstein expresses the enlightened view of God. He writes 'I believe
in Spinoza's God who reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists,
not in a God who concerns himself with the fates and actions of human beings.' This harmony arises from a Wave Structure of Matter in Space (we are all
interconnected in this space that we all commonly experience). This unity
of reality (God, Brahman, Tao, Spirit, Energy, Light, Vibration) is central
to all major world religions, thus their common moral
foundation of 'Do unto others as to thyself' as the other is part of
the self.
In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a
revolutionary act. (George Orwell)
You must be the change you wish to see in the world. (Mohandas Gandhi)
All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing.
(Edmund Burke)
Hell is Truth Seen Too Late. (Thomas Hobbes)
Philosophy: John Locke Summary of Main Ideas / Empiricist Philosophy, John Locke Biography, Quotes, Pictures
There cannot any one moral Rule be propos'd, whereof a Man may not justly demand a Reason.
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials for knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. …To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues. (John Locke)
Brief Biography of John Locke & Summary of his Main Ideas (1632 - 1704)
John
Locke was a 17th-century philosopher concerned primarily with society and epistemology.
An Englishman, Locke's notions of a "government with the consent of the
governed" and man's natural rights - life, liberty, and estate (property)
- had an enormous influence on the development of political philosophy.
His
ideas formed the basis for the concepts used in American law and government,
allowing the colonists to justify revolution. Locke's epistemology and philosophy
of mind also had a significant influence well into the Enlightenment period.
Locke
has been placed in a group called the British Empiricists, which includes
David Hume and George Berkeley. Locke is perhaps most often contrasted with
Thomas Hobbes.
In his main work, "An Essay Concerning Human Understanding" Locke
critiques the philosophy of innate ideas and builds a theory of the mind
and knowledge that gives priority to the senses and experience. His adherence
to this doctrine is what marks him out as an empiricist philosopher rather
than a rationalist such as his critic Leibniz.
The Essay sets out Locke's
theory of ideas, including his distinction between passively acquired simple
ideas, such as "red," "sweet," "round," etc.,
and actively built complex ideas, such as numbers, causes and effects,
abstract ideas, ideas of substances, identity, and diversity. Locke also
distinguishes between the truly existing primary qualities of bodies, like
shape, motion and the arrangement of minute particles, and the secondary
qualities that are "powers to produce various sensations in us" such
as "red" and "sweet." These secondary qualities, Locke
claims, are dependent on the primary qualities.
In 'Two Treatises
of Government', Locke posits a state of nature as the proper starting
point for examining politics. Individuals have rights, and their duties
are defined in terms of protecting their own rights and respecting those
of others. Through the law of nature, which Locke describes as "reason," we
are able to understand why we must respect the natural rights of others
(including the right to property for which one has labored). In practice,
the law of nature is ignored and so government is necessary; this can be
created only by the consent of the governed, which can be had only to a
commonwealth of laws. A government betrays its trust when the laws are
violated or when the trust of prerogative is abused. Once government is
dissolved, the people are free to erect a new one and to oppose those who
claim authority under the old one, i. e., to revolt.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Locke
John Locke Quotes
I doubt not, but from self-evident Propositions, by necessary Consequences, as incontestable as those in Mathematics, the measures of right and wrong might be made out.
A criminal who, having renounced reason ... hath, by the unjust violence and slaughter he hath committed upon one, declared war against all mankind, and therefore may be destroyed as a lion or tiger, one of those wild savage beasts with whom men can have no society nor security. And upon this is grounded the great law of Nature, "Who shedeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed.”
Religion, which should most distinguish us from the beasts, and ought most particularly elevate us, as rational creatures, above brutes, is that wherein men often appear most irrational, and more senseless than beasts.
Day-labourers and tradesmen, the spinsters and dairymaids must be told what to believe: The greatest part cannot know and therefore they must believe.
The people cannot delegate to government the power to do anything which would be unlawful for them to do themselves. (John Locke)
"You must be the change you wish to see in the
world."
(Mohandas
Gandhi)
"When
forced to summarize the general theory of relativity in one sentence:
Time and space and gravitation have no separate existence from matter.
... Physical objects are not in space, but these objects are spatially
extended. In this way the concept 'empty space' loses its meaning.
... The particle can only appear as a limited region in space in which
the field strength or the energy density are particularly high. ...
The free, unhampered exchange of ideas and scientific conclusions
is necessary for the sound development of science, as it is in all spheres
of cultural life. ... We must not conceal from ourselves that
no improvement in the present depressing situation is possible without
a severe struggle; for the handful of those who are really determined
to do something is minute in comparison with the mass of the lukewarm
and the misguided. ... Humanity is going to need a substantially new way of thinking
if it is to survive!" (Albert Einstein)
This is the profound new way of thinking that Einstein
realised, that we exist as spatially extended structures of the universe
- the discrete and separate body an illusion. This simply confirms the
intuitions of the ancient
philosophers and mystics.
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- had an enormous influence on the development of political philosophy.
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(Mohandas Gandhi)
The free, unhampered exchange of ideas and scientific conclusions is necessary for the sound development of science, as it is in all spheres of cultural life. ... We must not conceal from ourselves that no improvement in the present depressing situation is possible without a severe struggle; for the handful of those who are really determined to do something is minute in comparison with the mass of the lukewarm and the misguided. ...
Humanity is going to need a substantially new way of thinking if it is to survive!" (Albert Einstein)
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