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INFORMATION VS KNOWLEDGE
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A person can have access to unlimited quantities and varieties of information (data), yet have no real knowledge, i.e. cognizance or comprehension. Data is only as valuable as it facilitates understanding.
Definition of knowledge
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2 a (1) : the fact or condition of knowing something with familiarity gained through experience or association (2) : acquaintance with or understanding of a science, art, or technique b (1) : the fact or condition of being aware of something (2) the circumstance or condition of apprehending truth or fact through reasoning : cognition
QUANTITY OR QUALITY?
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I’m not a very fast reader, but I’m a very thorough reader. As a writer of books I learned to hard way that it is vitally important to use the exact word, in the correct context, you intend your reader to understand.
Therefore, I take care to understand each word I’m reading. What’s the point of reading if you don’t understand — or misunderstand — what you’ve read?
When was the last time you used a dictionary? If you don’t know the meaning of each word in the sentence, you won’t understand the sentence. Simple.
Reading is a form of communication. Our environment is saturated with verbal, visual, musical and printed communication. Too much communication prevents communication. We can’t process all of it, so we begin to ignore it, reject it and treat it all the same. When that happens we loose are ability to differential, which is our ability to reason and make rational judgements.
A good rule of thumb about reading is this “QUALITY IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN QUANTITY“.
The “Dumbing Down of America” (and the world) is happening because we are reading more quantity, but the quality is dwindling grammatically. The content of Twitter, television, films and popular media is diminishing our ability to evaluate the relative value and validity of information. Are minds are literally being drowned in drivel! The Draconian education policy of “No Child Left Behind” is designed to drag everyone down to a level of dim-witted incompetence.
Don’t fall for this bullshit. Understand what you read.
Here is a great tool to measure your reading speed and comprehension:
HERESY
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“Unless you make yourself equal to God, you cannot understand God: for the like in intelligible save to the like. Make yourself grow to a greatness beyond measure, by a bound free yourself from the body; raise yourself above all time, become Eternity; then you will understand God. Believe nothing is impossible for you, think yourself immortal and capable of understanding all, all arts, all sciences, the nature of every living being. Mount higher than the highest height; descend lower than the lowest depth. Draw into yourself all sensations of everything created, fire and water, dry and moist, imagining that you are everywhere, on earth, on the sea, in the sky, that you are not yet born, in the maternal womb, adolescent, old, dead, beyond death. If you embrace in your thought all things at once, times, places, substances, qualities, quantities, you may understand God.” ~ Giordano Bruno from his “Egyptian Reflection of the Universe of the Mind” ~ 1569
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Giordano Bruno (1548 – February 17, 1600), born Filippo Bruno, was an Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, mathematician, poet, and astrologer.He is best known for his cosmological theories, which went even further than the then-novel Copernican model: while supporting heliocentrism, Bruno also correctly proposed that the Sun was just another star moving in space, and claimed as well that the universe contained an infinite number of inhabited worlds populated by other intelligent beings. Beginning in 1593, Bruno was tried for heresy by the Roman Inquisition on charges including denial of the Trinity, denial of the divinity of Christ, denial of virginity of Mary, and denial of Transubstantiation. The Inquisition found him guilty, and in 1600 he was burned at the stake.
SPIRIT TWINS
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As the Martian being, Valentine Michael Smith, says repeatedly in the classic science fiction story, “Strangers In A Strange Land“, by Robert Heinlein: Thou art god, I am god. All that groks is god“.
Theoretically, every individual person is a “god”. A god is simply an Immortal Spiritual Being capable of creating something from nothing, conjured solely as an illusion of the imagination. Everyone creates something from nothing continually, every day. Every time you have an original idea, you are performing the action of a “god”. It can be demonstrated that all of us “gods”, collectively, create and maintain, through our agreement, the co-created illusion we call the Physical Universe.
The intentional creation the a universe is eloquently summarized by Robert Heinlein, “The Universe was a damned silly place at best . . . but the least likely explanation for its existence was the no-explanation of random chance, the conceit that some abstract somethings “just happened” to be some atoms that “just happened” to get together in configurations which “just happened” to look like consistent laws and then some of these configurations “just happened” to possess self-awareness…”.
There have been many descriptions of the very unique relationship between Immortal Spiritual Beings who are the co-creators or “god-partners” of universes they have co-created and inhabited before the existence of the physical universe. These can be one, two, several or many spiritual beings. Such beings share the same origin point that existed before the space and time of this physical universe. Spirit Twins, Twin Flames, Soul Mates and many other phrases have been used to attempt to describe this marvelous relationship which transcends time and space in this, or any universe.
The quality of these relationships is that the Beings involved are virtually the same Being, and yet individual. However, the universes they co-created through a cooperative conjuring of illusions, inhabited and maintained together still exists in the memories of those who shared in their co-creation. There can be a nearly infinite number of such universes, just as there are an unlimited number of Immortal Spiritual Beings coexisting, yet separated, by the artificial barriers of time, space, objects, energy that comprise the delusion we share, called the Physical Universe.
Love is composed of complete understanding — that is, the willingness and ability to BE another Being or Beings. There is no “separateness” between them. There is only a “Oneness of Self”. It can be expressed in the idea that “I am You, as You are Me: We Are”. Spirit Twins, sharing the co-creation of a mutual universe, seem to share a complete understanding of each other, as the “other” is “self”.
The physical universe, which has overwhelmed and absorbed the native universes of Spirit Twins, is composed of particles in space which are held suspended by a negative and positive energy. On Earth we often inhabit physical bodies made of flesh, which are positive / negative: male / female. When Spirit Twins encounter each other on Earth the overwhelming emotion of being reunited with a “god-partner” or “universe co-creator” can be an indescribably intense experience. The relationship, experiences and emotions shared by such Beings are those of a Mother, Father, Sister, Brother, Lover, Cousin, Soul Mate and Creator — ALL IN ONE— being reunited with each other after having been lost or separated for decades or eons!
Given that Immortal Spiritual Beings have lived in and around the physical universe for a nearly infinite number of years, it is very likely that Spirit Twins have encountered each other on planets and in spaces many, many times before. These encounters ofter result in marriages, love affairs, family relationships, and passionate friendships of every possible variety. If you are fortunate enough to meet one or more of your “Spirit Twins” in this, or any lifetime on Earth or in the “hereafter”, I share your Joy, as I have recently been fortunate enough to enjoy such a reunion personally. The experience of unconditional love and understanding between two or more Spiritual Beings or gods is as marvelous as the wonders of a co-created universe!
