Conquer Club

DoomYoshi wrote:Now that it is the second of January and you have left your New Year's Resolutions behind, I am going to give you a plan. If you follow through on this plan, you will be a better person.

Day 1: Accept that integers can't exist

To start improving the self, one must understand the self. A concept of the self starts with the "oneness" of it. However, the integer one is nonsensical, since at a subatomic level, I am immeasurable. The truth is this: rational numbers don't exist in the physical universe; we use quantum physics to approximate all real numbers, which are irrational. If you can prove or refute this statement, you have completed day 1.

DoomYoshi wrote:Day 4: Make an inspirational video

Mine is about the Supreme Court ruling that laws don't apply. It's set to Knockin on Heaven's Door by GnR.

DoomYoshi wrote:

PLAYER57832 wrote:First, define "better person"

better person (noun): jimboston

Dukasaur wrote:

DoomYoshi wrote:Day 4: Make an inspirational video

Mine is about the Supreme Court ruling that laws don't apply. It's set to Knockin on Heaven's Door by GnR.

Day 3: Stop being a slave to Arithmetic Sequentialism. Grok the gestalt of numbers in their deconstructed form.

DoomYoshi wrote:Day 4: Make an inspirational video

Mine is about the Supreme Court ruling that laws don't apply. It's set to Knockin on Heaven's Door by GnR.

DoomYoshi wrote:Day 2: Define "God"

Here are some entry-level questions which can help narrow down a definition: what created the universe? what are the abilities of something that can create reality? what are the revealed characteristics of a creator?

jimboston wrote:

DoomYoshi wrote:Day 2: Define "God"

Here are some entry-level questions which can help narrow down a definition: what created the universe? what are the abilities of something that can create reality? what are the revealed characteristics of a creator?

God (proper-noun): A term used to describe a specific entity who some believe "created the Universe" and is "omniscient" and "all-powerful".

god (noun): A term used to describe a non-specific entity who,some believe, has powers that are not explainable by contemporary science.

God/god (adj): A term used by some to describe anything about the universe that they are not able to comprehend.

DoomYoshi wrote:Day 7: Find Orion in the night sky.

While you are out there, see what else you can find.

DoomYoshi wrote:

jimboston wrote:

DoomYoshi wrote:Day 4: Make an inspirational video

Mine is about the Supreme Court ruling that laws don't apply. It's set to Knockin on Heaven's Door by GnR.

Can you please share this with the group?

I can only see it in my mind's eye. I can describe it pretty accurately if you want though.

DoomYoshi wrote:

jimboston wrote: Day 8: Define the word "make".

Consider a statue and the steps involved in making it. Hitting a rock with a chisel is one of the steps involved. Therefore, hitting a rock with a chisel is "making a statue". Conceiving the statue is also a step and in addition, the most important step. In my mind's eye, I have an image of a statue. As I make it, the perfect image in my head becomes desecrated by reality. By actually putting chisel to rock, I am un-making the statue. Note I reject Plato's ideas of perfect forms since the perfect form of statue is the word statue (i.e. the 6 letters that make up the word in English). Ergo, English is perfection. Mind's eye images are not perfect forms, but specific forms but as per Day 1, we cannot have specific forms since we can not have one statue. So you really can't make or unmake anything, except matter and energy. The movie I watch is in my head, spread around my mind by electrons. The same electrons that run through a projector's bulb.

jimboston wrote:

DoomYoshi wrote:

jimboston wrote: Day 8: Define the word "make".

Consider a statue and the steps involved in making it. Hitting a rock with a chisel is one of the steps involved. Therefore, hitting a rock with a chisel is "making a statue". Conceiving the statue is also a step and in addition, the most important step. In my mind's eye, I have an image of a statue. As I make it, the perfect image in my head becomes desecrated by reality. By actually putting chisel to rock, I am un-making the statue. Note I reject Plato's ideas of perfect forms since the perfect form of statue is the word statue (i.e. the 6 letters that make up the word in English). Ergo, English is perfection. Mind's eye images are not perfect forms, but specific forms but as per Day 1, we cannot have specific forms since we can not have one statue. So you really can't make or unmake anything, except matter and energy. The movie I watch is in my head, spread around my mind by electrons. The same electrons that run through a projector's bulb.

To make is to think.

I think therefore I am.

So I make myself by thinking about myself.
I am my own creator.

I just came up with a new definition of "God".

God (pronoun): jimboston / i.e. me

You can now all bow before me.

Some say I have no conscience. How false they are, even to themselves. I am the only conscience which has ever existed. As wine retains the perfume of its cask, I retain the essence of my most ancient genesis, and that is the seed of conscience. That is what makes me holy. I am God because I am the only one who really knows his heredity!
-The Stolen Journals