UFO Culture

Thursday, January 31, 2013

On Buddhist Emptiness (Sunyata)

Sunyata

Nāgārjuna's primary contribution to Buddhist philosophy is in the use of the concept of śūnyatā, or "emptiness," which brings together other key Buddhist doctrines, particularly anātman (no-self) and pratītyasamutpāda (dependent origination)

For Nāgārjuna, as for the Buddha in the early texts, it is not merely sentient beings that are "selfless" or non-substantial; all phenomena are without any svabhāva, literally "own-being" or "self-nature", and thus without any underlying essence. They are empty of being independently existent; thus the heterodox theories of svabhāva circulating at the time were refuted on the basis of the doctrines of early Buddhism. This is so because all things arise always dependently: not by their own power, but by depending on conditions leading to their coming into existence,as opposed to being.

So, empty means empty of inherent existence. Empty of substance.

Since this is obvious, everything is accident, motion, impermanence.The dharmas are empty like everything else.

Once this is understood, the heart of Buddhist Dharma is clear.

Sunday, January 27, 2013

Multiverse: nothing but nonsense

"For a start, how is the existence of the other universes to be tested? To be sure, all cosmologists accept that there are some regions of the universe that lie beyond the reach of our telescopes, but somewhere on the slippery slope between that and the idea that there are an infinite number of universes, credibility reaches a limit. As one slips down that slope, more and more must be accepted on faith, and less and less is open to scientific verification. Extreme multiverse explanations are therefore reminiscent of theological discussions. Indeed, invoking an infinity of unseen universes to explain the unusual features of the one we do see is just as ad hoc as invoking an unseen Creator. The multiverse theory may be dressed up in scientific language, but in essence it requires the same leap of faith." — Paul Davies, A Brief History of the Multiverse

Saturday, January 26, 2013

Fwd: [criticalufology] Alfred Webre against the whole WORLD..!

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Friday, January 25, 2013

THE UFO=ET Hypothesis.

Let us agree with the most common UFO hypothesis: The ufonauts are here, with us, perhaps from the beginning of historical times or before. These entities are civilized members of some post-luminic extraterrestrial civilization. They are benevolent.

Do we have any evidence that confirms this hypothesis?

No.

Obviously, the New Age rhetoric is totally human, and so are the religious nonsense that the Exopoliticians and exo-cultists prettend us to believe are Alien Messages.

The whole talk about the "source", and the "laws of the Universe" and the future in a nice, mysterious "fifth world" is human-made. Is the product of our own human culture (or perhaps inculture .)

The so called contactees and self proclaimed ufological experts give us nothing that proves the existence of these shy, pathetic ETs.

If this is so, then we have two possibilities:

The first one is that there are no aliens here, and never were.

The second one is that these aliens are not benevolent at all, and it is possible to show the evidence of this malevolence by omission.

IF a benevolent extraterrestrial culture is here, and is benevolent concerning us, why Auschwitz or Bushenwald? Why Hiroshima and Nagasaki ? Why the Genocide of 75 % of the North and South American Indians?

Why they do not help us in any way? Why Slavery and Cruelty and Crime? Why all these Horrors are tolerated by the good, wise, benevolent, superior aliens?

Yes, it's true that we are our own murderers but they do not care, and If they don't, they are not benevolent but obviously malevolent by omission.

If we accept the ET hypothesis, the Logical Consequence is that they are (at least) malevolent by omission.

The alternatives : either they exploit us in one or many ways, or they do not exist at all.

The UFO Phenomenon is an unsolved mystery and soon it will be just the name of a computers game.