No rational person believes such nonsense as "When you're dead you're dead." It might be the fact, and personally evident, that I am greater than the sum of my anatomy and its finitude. In a Nietzschean sense, it is a will to power to believe that when you're dead you're dead. Such people are looking for any excuse to destroy all that stands for the spiritual side of man. It is psychopathy at its worst.
Buddhism understands that what gives life and animates us is always outside of the animated psychophysical body including its death. It it also outside of thought and imagination; even our private internal dialogue. But more importantly, Buddhism teaches us that we can awaken to this beyond.
However, the worldly person (prithagjana) doesn't wish to recognize this because such a person is not noble (aryan). Unlike the noble, the worldly person doesn't care about ultimate truth. They are hopelessly caught up in the animated. It is like drinking Lethe such that the more one drinks the more they forget what is immortal—even how to reason.
Bob Morris, Your right we have Einstein to thank for the discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect. He also invented the "Einstein refrigerator" (U.S. Patent 1,781,541).
Posted by: Kojizen | January 02, 2012 at 01:41 PM
Koji, you may take some solace from this Albert Einstein quote “Do not worry about your problems with mathematics, I assure you mine are far greater.” All experimental tests have confirmed the predictions of his (highly mathematical) special and general relativity theories. Tesla deserves a lot of credit for his inventions but he was also a bit of a crank.
Posted by: Bob Morris | January 02, 2012 at 11:14 AM
Im supposedly a psychopath, so i hear, however i dont deny the spiritus sanctum, (en eternitum quinesicita)
ergo i cannot reach your A and B thefore C.
Posted by: Moon Pie | December 31, 2011 at 02:29 AM
Bob Morris, "Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality." — Nikola Tesla
Posted by: Kojizen | December 30, 2011 at 06:31 PM
Koji all your points taken, but is uncanny how purely mind-made mathematical constructions predict results of observations of the physical world (Maxwell's Equations, Relativity, Standard Model etc.). Happy New Year All!!!
Posted by: Bob Morris | December 30, 2011 at 01:51 PM