[GrandJediMasterYoda]

The mystery of existence? W-why it is to serve The One. I thought we already settled this.

[Bayard]

Trouble with articles like this is you always want to read about what the individual actually said, but have to scroll down to piece together that they thought of this inference.

The problem is how do you get to say non-reality has potential to be reality? Can we speak of the non-reality of the universe having the potential to become a universe in reality. Can we even say that of non-reality itself with it possessing in itself the potentiality for reality.

Metaphysics gets goofy and complex the more basic and fundamental you go.

[expat2]

It is nice that Birnbaum has a hobby, but he shows all the well-known signs of being a crank and a phony.

[martin_fierro]

[NoLibZone]

"scientists, philosophers and theologians – had been persuaded to attend an expenses-paid "international academic conference"

Free food, drinks and lodging and one can get Scientists to agree on anything.

They are never wrong.

They simply say: "That's what we knew, based on the then current body of knowledge and technologies available."

When I attended school in the 60's , Neanderthal man was in the human chain of evolution.

And we only had a few years to live, see The Population Bomb by Stanford University Professor Paul R. Ehrlich

DNA and new advances in farming has since shown those , at the time indisputable Scientific conclusions to be wrong.

[Sawdring]

His work, said a commenter on the Chronicle's website, "reads like L Ron Hubbard had drunken sex one night with Ayn Rand and produced this bastard thought-child"

Great quote.

[Our man in washington]

Well, he has solved the mystery of how to get academic respect for crap.

Although the various “studies” department (black, feminist, queer, etc.) beat him to that by decades.

[TigersEye]

Rising from the Barbadian sand, Birnbaum saw the world in a new light: everything and everyone around him was an expression of cosmic potential, working itself out.

Known as 'Buddha Mind' in Buddhism.

Why? Because that's what potential does. Birnbaum calls this process "extraordinariation".

Known as 'karma' in Buddhism.

Congratulations, genius, you just wrote a several hundred volume half-assed rehash of a 2,500 hundred year old view of reality that can be expressed in a couple of paragraphs. And you left out the key explanations of 'how' and 'what.'

[Lonely Bull]

It is an exhausting read, partly thanks to its length – volume two alone has 90 appendices – but also because much of it is written in a kind of rapturous, mystical prose, liberally peppered with capitals. A typical sentence reads: "The cosmic trajectory is from the bottomless VOID to the limitless EXTRAORDINARY."

What his WRITING needs is a lot of EXCLAMATION MARKS!!!

[Prospero]

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being. In Him was life, and the life was the Light of men. The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.

John 1:1 (NAS)

[Lancey Howard]

Prot: “I wanna tell you something Mark, something you do not yet know, that we K-PAXians have been around long enough to have discovered. The universe will expand, then it will collapse back on itself, then will expand again. It will repeat this process forever. What you don’t know is that when the universe expands again, everything will be as it is now. Whatever mistakes you make this time around, you will live through on your next pass. Every mistake you make, you will live through again, & again, forever. So my advice to you is to get it right this time around. Because this time is all you have.”

[tophat9000]

Bump

[blueunicorn6]

What if all of the rest of you are just here for my entertainment?

[Some Fat Guy in L.A.]

I thought it was 42.....

[Swordmaker]

Has David Birnbaum solved the mystery of existence?

In a word? NO.