Delano

What about introspection. And the stillness of meditation?

If knowledge gives you more power than power. Then power rates higher. Using your example knowledge is the interim step to the goal of getting power. So knowledge is lower than power. Which is better to have knowledge with no hope of getting power. Or having power with no hope of getting knowledge. I would have past belief below knowledge but based on this conversation. I place belief over power, and power of knowledge. A belief system can make you immune to power plays at least on the mental and emotional levels. Power can be used to restrict access to knowledge Plus it could also be that power is a perception. The powerful can reward you or punish you. Which is only effective if you value what they can give or remove more than what you have inside.

I played with it a bit last year. Astrologers also feel that it will revolutionise the field. Once again I am in opposition to the popular opinion. @Troy you're video was the best click bait I've come across.

How do coups factor in that equation?

Does it change with scope: personally, familialy, associatively, communally, regionally, nationally, internationally and globally?

Thanks for asking

I celebrated it having drinks with a group of Astrologers. We talked about free will. I was the lone voice saying it doesn't exist. Believing in the efficacy of Astrology is incompatible with the belief in free will. One Astrologer was somewhat swayed by my argument.

Western science calls this non local space and nonlocal time.

There is no agenda to the conversation, the conversation isn't a means of extraction. It is the ends. I think we have exhausted this particular...

Thanks it means we are approaching the conjunction of two great ages. Thanks again, I thoroughly enjoyed the clip.

I am interested in conversation that is my agenda. Which is obvious to most people.

I am interested in conversation so a person sexual orientation or identity is not an issue. It may be a foreign concept to you. To have a conversation or interaction without an agenda.

I have no idea. Although I was talking with another commuter. And she invited me to her free Burlesque show .

Thanks will listen to the rest later.

I did a study of planetary positions for 2160 years taken at 72 year intervals. Using the Tropical Zodiac and precession. I found a correlation between the Moon's position and Neptune. Although I don't isye the constellations nor do I use fixed stars

To me it appears that you are in your element. I enjoy your responses

That may only be true from your perspective. This is an instance where being able to think conceptually is useful. Although you are certain that you are right consider the possibility that you are mistaken. And there are conditions that you haven't factored into your assumptions. Let it percolate for a few days a d key me know what you think.

@frankster "We are sentenced by our convictions." Delano Strachen

Can you elaborate?

Frfr I don't push it though. If it's an author I know I'll suggest other books they may also find interesting. t's only in the last third of my life that I started talking to strangers. Every once and a while it doesn't work or I get a grumpy response. Most people like talking about themselves, that has been my experince for the last two decades, with a few exceptions. I am not certain that people are reading a book on their phone. I haven't seen that many tablets on public transport.

If something doesn't exist in your world or mindset it is beyond approach. I told you accept the possibility of its existence. My guess is consciousness is unknowable. In the same way a fish in water doesn't know it's in water. Nor do we know what air is made of, we are told and we believe. This maybe true of everything.

Are there any Truths, is there anything that is believed unanimously. Is there an objective reality. How can we tell if this is reality or a simulation. Since COVID I have been both fascinated and perplexed by people's beliefs. However I don't think I am any different. I believe things that are seem as incompatible. Among Astrologers I am seem as anomaly. Which I didn't understand. Until I wrote the previous Sentence. One thing that w ems to be having wider acceptance is that things aren't going well. Our trajectory isn't sustainable. Finding new truths makes sense. It was believed that swans were white. Until black swans were seen in Australia. So perhaps something is true if we can't see that it is false.

This is something that has been on my mind. In a slightly different form. We don't know what to think. If we did advertising critics peer pressure and fashion wouldn't exist. Books music movies and the others tell us what's acceptable. The groups you belong to may have conflicting/different rules. What other pathways are there to get the truth or at least identify a falsehood

It may be that demand is down. Most people are looking at their phones and I see alot of commuters watching Tik Tock. I see one person a month with an actual book. They are so rare that I strike up a conversation with them about their book.