Greetings friends!
I'm very happy to finally become a Nexian. (or have I always been since the beginning of no beginning? 0.o) hehe.
I won't post too much of an introduction, though I do want to sincerely express my gratitude for the existence of this community. I think it's a very effective and practical step to unifying like-minded, highly intelligent, and most importantly in my opinion FREE people.
I'm of a philosophical/skeptical temperament; I value understanding and imagination above what we conventionally call knowledge. I consider myself a student of eternity in the sense that I have surrendered my compulsive tendencies to control the "happening". I feel, in a way, privileged to have come to see the unity, which becomes evident when we simply stop seeking/thinking/looking, allowing the torrent of the River to carry us as it simply IS.
I want my life to be in part to encourage and extend this fundamental understanding/awareness to others, doing what I can to ensure the rise of a new kind of world where people are not preaching peace with the loom of mutual annihilation suspended above there heads.
I study deeply the works of Alan W Watts and Terrence Mckenna; though I try not to fall into the trap of idolizing figures, I do believe these two individuals were probably two of the most in-sync, in-tune, with-IT persons of the last hundred years. If you have not listened/read the works of Alan Watts especially, I submit to you unconditionally it'll be the best decision you ever made (at least in the last thirty minutes of your life, haha)
Of course, there are others - these are just the two I spend most of my time listening to and reading.
Other people I adore and read are Aldous Huxley, Carl Sagan, Bertrand Russell, Krishnamurti, and especially recently, Lao Tzu among other Chinese Sages and ancient books like the I-Ching.
Anyhow, so that's a little bit about me, and I look forward to contributing to discussions of personal interest, primarily what we can as a collective force do to empower the world, and establish the "new intellectual order which will be the savior of us all".
Thank you,
İ
[P.S. - In case there are any folks wondering what my title means, ƒ(∞) ; I think of it as a way to represent myself, (as each of you, too) as a functioning or featuring of the whole universe/infinity/eternity. Here I am, you see, happening, and there's not a shred of WHY involved. What's happening? I'm happening. Well, why are you happening? *That's when I start dancing.]
I'm very happy to finally become a Nexian. (or have I always been since the beginning of no beginning? 0.o) hehe.
I won't post too much of an introduction, though I do want to sincerely express my gratitude for the existence of this community. I think it's a very effective and practical step to unifying like-minded, highly intelligent, and most importantly in my opinion FREE people.
I'm of a philosophical/skeptical temperament; I value understanding and imagination above what we conventionally call knowledge. I consider myself a student of eternity in the sense that I have surrendered my compulsive tendencies to control the "happening". I feel, in a way, privileged to have come to see the unity, which becomes evident when we simply stop seeking/thinking/looking, allowing the torrent of the River to carry us as it simply IS.
I want my life to be in part to encourage and extend this fundamental understanding/awareness to others, doing what I can to ensure the rise of a new kind of world where people are not preaching peace with the loom of mutual annihilation suspended above there heads.
I study deeply the works of Alan W Watts and Terrence Mckenna; though I try not to fall into the trap of idolizing figures, I do believe these two individuals were probably two of the most in-sync, in-tune, with-IT persons of the last hundred years. If you have not listened/read the works of Alan Watts especially, I submit to you unconditionally it'll be the best decision you ever made (at least in the last thirty minutes of your life, haha)
Of course, there are others - these are just the two I spend most of my time listening to and reading.
Other people I adore and read are Aldous Huxley, Carl Sagan, Bertrand Russell, Krishnamurti, and especially recently, Lao Tzu among other Chinese Sages and ancient books like the I-Ching.
Anyhow, so that's a little bit about me, and I look forward to contributing to discussions of personal interest, primarily what we can as a collective force do to empower the world, and establish the "new intellectual order which will be the savior of us all".
Thank you,
İ
[P.S. - In case there are any folks wondering what my title means, ƒ(∞) ; I think of it as a way to represent myself, (as each of you, too) as a functioning or featuring of the whole universe/infinity/eternity. Here I am, you see, happening, and there's not a shred of WHY involved. What's happening? I'm happening. Well, why are you happening? *That's when I start dancing.]
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.....Ameretat, Amrt, Amrut welcome friend brother/sis Sir and :thumb_up: 
