Tag: Meaning

How can we be perfect and have so many shortcomings?

Before I begin, I want to dismiss some semantic arguments about the notion of shortcomings. I am of the opinion that we are indeed perfect. So how is it possible to be both perfect and have shortcomings? Actually, we don’t have shortcomings (as most people define them,) but if I started there, I wouldn’t have…

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September 27, 2014February 3, 2015By peacefuldavidIn Perception, Quality Living, Self-Acceptance2 Comments

How does the brain make sense of our world?

The subconscious mind must first sift through an average of ~2,000,000 bits of data per second to select “important” data and screen-out “unimportant” bits of data.  (“Important data” is defined as anything that supports what I have already experienced and “made sense of” — My Maps of the World). The amount of “Raw Data” that…

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July 25, 2014September 27, 2014By peacefuldavidIn Perception, RealityNo Comment