Reminder of Basic Religious Concepts
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Principles of Art
- In order to create something beautiful, you need to use the eraser
- Because art is not about filling the whole paper with all the colours
- Because then you'll get black (because of subtractive mixing due to absorption of light)
- Analogy:
- Peace along with freedom is guaranteed in coexistence only by discipline
- When someone breaks free of the law, they have to be restrained
- Detail:
- Law enforcement punishes people to prevent crime
- Defence forces kill people to prevent crime
- Sensual intimacy is restricted to prevent sex addiction and overpopulation
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Nature of Existence
- The whirlpool in an ocean thinks it has a separate identity from the ocean
- Analogy:
- Space is not a region far away from you, but rather, you are in the universe, and you are the universe.
- This analogy "you are the universe" is not to be taken in a wondrous or mystical sense
- Rather, it is to be taken literally "you ARE the universe" - just think at the subatomic level
- Detail:
- Universe has a simultaneously definite and flowing structure
- So do the oceans, they have a lot of phenomena in it
- Appendix:
- Space is not just free space, but rather it is descriptive of all the force fields
- That is, what we have come to describe as spacetime and quantum fields
- According to General Relativity, the curvature of space is called mass
- More technically it is described by a stress-energy-momentum-pressure tensor
- And the quantum field tensors are embedded in such a tensor
- Limits of Contemporary Science:
- The limits of our knowledge stop us at describing quantum fields in a changing spacetime