(May 23, 2015 at 9:01 am)Little Rik Wrote:Uh, no, that's not how it works. You don't use a word and then apply whatever definition you please. If you do that, the word is meaningless. Sentient means "able to perceive or feel things" (Google), or "responsive to or conscious of sense impressions" (Merriam-Webster). Which means that you don't even understand the explanation you quoted regarding how to develop and see auras, which is hilarious. And since my own experience and diet (both fairly common) disprove your buddy's theory, you will need to get to work on an alternative one. But please, before you quote another of your teachers, try to figure out just what it is he is saying, first.(May 22, 2015 at 7:00 pm)Tonus Wrote: Are you sure you understand what "sentient" means?Ok, then.
I give you my explanation of the word sentient and then you will give me yours, Ok?
Sentient is what can help in your real progress whether is something material-physical or mental.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
