Thank-you magamud. I had my own extended encounter with a Mystery Man aka The Ancient Egyptian Deity!! What's interesting about that clip, is that when we first met -- and it became clear that I wasn't dealing with just another human -- I told them that they might not really be "here"!! They seemed startled -- but they didn't deny it!! What I meant was that they might've been operating a Hybrid-Android Avatar from a Spaceship or a Deep Underground Military Base (Hundreds or Thousands of Miles Away)!! I talked to them on the phone dozens of times -- and one time they told me the conversation was being monitored (and I assumed recorded)!! They asked me a series of questions (which included theology). Sometimes their personality seemed to change (as if someone else was speaking through them)!! Sometimes, if I said something particularly controversial -- they would repeat what I just said (as if to make sure this was duly noted by those monitoring our conversation)!! I got the distinct impression I was dealing with an Ancient-Friend turned Rebellious-Enemy. I felt as if I wasn't supposed to be here -- doing what I'm doing -- and that I had somehow screwed things up for them. OR -- that I had somehow hung myself, and given them a surprise opportunity to really kick my @$$!! Perhaps I had invited them with my internet activities. They also seemed to indicate that my participation at the Crystal Cathedral had changed things significantly. Once, as we discussed relativity and quantum-physics, I disagreed with them, and they retorted "Do You Wish to Challenge Me??" Long ago, I knew a child who reacted to a challenge by stating "You Doubt My Word?" What if we went to school together?? I haven't lied about my experiences -- although I might've exaggerated or been mistaken. I've related some of what was said in a mostly neutral manner. I haven't tried to attack or promote the AED. I still don't know who they really were or who they represented. I will continue to be cool and neutral regarding the whole thing. Once, when I was hiking, I spoke with a strange man -- and later encountered a woman with a dog -- who said "there's a man on the other side of the ravine who's meditating!" I wondered if the meditating-man was manifesting the woman and the dog?! I think I spoke to the AED in more than one form (male and female). I might be crazy and/or mistaken -- but I'm not lying. I've mostly indirectly used my extended encounter with the AED to enhance this thread (for better or worse) -- and I've tried not to sensationalize my experience. I made no non-disclosure agreement with them -- but they requested that I not be too direct. I continue to think that I was somehow set-up for something bad in this incarnation. I keep thinking that I might have something in common with Dr. Who in the Trial of a Time Lord!! Notice that Dr. Who and his Mother were not evil characters!! They were misrepresented and deceived. I have speculated that Dr. Who might be a Lilith character!! I have further speculated that his mother might be an Anna character (from V). I continue to think that the Creator and Administrator of Earth and Humanity got demoted and exiled in antiquity -- with a harsh ruler taking their place. I have further suspected that this harsh ruler went rogue at some point. Try combining Trial of a Time Lord -- with The Changeling!! As usual, I speak in obscurities and generalities (in a crazy context) so as to make you have to do a lot of digging to really understand what I'm talking about!! A casual observer would never "get it"! It's a bit like "plausible-deniability"!! BTW -- the AED preferred E = hf rather than E = mc2. Please remember that this thread is highly contrarian and speculative -- but I don't just make up crazy stuff. This is mostly the "Propose a Hypothesis" part of the Scientific Method. This is just the beginning...
"What Are We Gonna Do Now??!!"
"When in Danger!! When in Doubt!! Run in Circles!! Scream and Shout!!"
"What Are We Gonna Do Now??!!"
"When in Danger!! When in Doubt!! Run in Circles!! Scream and Shout!!"
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. Some critics, however, see Rand's own distinction as strikingly reminiscent of Kant (Walsh 2000). Other charges raised against Rand's epistemology include: making the reliability of perception vacuous (since nothing counts as perception unless it's accurate); assuming a foundationalist approach that conflates the perceptual process by which judgments are formed with the way in which they are to be justified; and leaving it unclear how judgments with propositional structure can be validated by sensory data lacking such structure (Dipert 1987; Long 2000). On the positive side, several philosophers have developed Rand's theory of perception in a way that successfully engages with problems in contemporary analytic epistemology (Kelley 1986; Ghate 2012; Salmieri 2012).
