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Eh. Just chalk it up to me being too young and ignorant to know anything of any value.
Please don't try to debate my ideas. I'm not going to defend them, because I don't have any real knowledge and studies to base them off of. I don't even know why I believe in a Spirit. I was actually going through the processes of revising that in my head in further relation to the mind.
You have to understand, all of my so-called theories and ideas are based mostly on intuition. I don't know what rules I'm breaking or anything. I'm basically a groping blind person, learning to see, and I'm nowhere near being able to make much out.
But I'm going to go on a whim here, instead of being upset, because I'm bored. And what better way to learn and revise your own theories, neh? I'm lucky to have pedants like you. Keep in mind, I'm not debating, I'm rambling and thinking out loud. Please, PLEASE don't rip me apart, I break easy.
IcyMonkey wrote:
Since you're citing a scientific law (and one that's not entirely correct, but let's ignore that for a second),
I understand what ptlis is talking about, and I happen to agree, though I've not been so extensively schooled (yay high school!). What are you talking about?
IcyMonkey wrote:
I'm assuming that you're using the scientific definition of energy, i.e. the ability to do work.
That would be the smart and consistant thing to do, wouldn't it?
Actually, I've been thinking... perhaps very wrongly, though it's at least been a tool for coming to understand a lot of things, that everything is made up of energy. Don't call me retarded for that, I don't know any better. *bap*
I was under the impression that science doesn't explain everything, though that's a dirty cop-out, so I'm not going to use it... yet.IcyMonkey wrote:
With this in mind, I ask you: what work can this "energy" actually do?
To tell you the truth, this was what I was wondering about myself as I made my post in that topic. What's its purpose? What does it do? For as long as I've rambled on about this, have I never questioned what it was? Or did I already have an explaination?
I always believed in willpower. Perhaps I thought that the Spirit was something below the range of the Ego. Mind would be Ego. Subconsciousness... a part of the Spirit. And my thinking that the true will power residing inside of a person rests within their subconscious. I guess it was an easy way to divide the two. Hrm. New Agey terms... who needs 'em? </bitter>
Willpower is capable of many workings. Mainly dealing with interaction with other parts of the brain/body
/aura, and possibly with the... (and I hate to use this term) energy around us. And I say energy, because I guess I'm referring to potential energy. I'm not quite sure how to put this into appropriate words. Bear with me...
I guess, if something were to explain it best, it'd be its own dimension. The Astral Plane... I see that as not something we travel to, but something that our brain is capable of sensing and interpreting. The reason we call it a plane is because that's the way it's most comprehensible to us. But I'm of the mind that what has only been scientifically proven is not all that affects our daily lives. There is energy (in that damned plane) that works in our lives as well, but I wouldn't be able to tell you how. Mainly you access it through meditation (look into tantric kundalini some, will you).
Hrm. I don't know if that makes sense. But that's how I've been looking at it recently.
Icy Monkey wrote:
The energy that animates living things is derived from the potential energy of the chemical bonds in the food we eat, and any energy we expend is pretty much equal to the energy we take in via food.
I understand that.
IcyMonkey wrote:
What <i>scientific</i> evidence is there for the existence of this "life energy", whose existence would imply that living things expend more energy than they take in via food?
You make a truly valid point. I guess I was saying something so ridiculous. Though it was unintentional (still is if I'm still saying the same thing).
Uhm... auras/chakras are not part of this "Spirit" that I talk about. I see those as something naturally produced by the body. At this point, I'm not quite sure how, but I know that imagining that they are real is very useful in helping maintain your body. (WILLPOWER AHOY!) It may even just be an imaginary device used to help focus our minds to help connect with our bodies. However, I've not seen enough evidence to completely dismiss the existance of auras and their visibility. I guess what's been explained to me is that it's felt at heat energy. If that makes any sense. You feel your body heat = you feel your aura.
IcyMonkey wrote:
And if you weren't using the strict, scientific definition of energy but were rather using the term metaphorically, why did you invoke the Law of Conservation of Energy?
Because I'm a silly little child.