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Wow...............................
Shoshin
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I've just watched this interesting youtube clip "What is God" a guy called Richard interviews a 13 year old boy wonder ' genius physicist' call Max Loughan....
Wow... worth a viewing if you have a spare 14 minutes 
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I don't recommend 13 year olds, religious superficialists, atheists or half digested quantum theory as the greatest source of insight. It started to get interesting and the genuises involved had damped out the sound of their mics. Ah well one was barely a teenager ...
Fortunately god theory is not required in dharma. Just as well ...
I only take my religious advice from crustaceans. Sorry @shoshin.
I saw this a while back.
The kid has a good head on his shoulders but I would imagine his insight will change if he ever gets introduced to concepts other than the god stuff he's growing up on.
Half baked or boiled ?
Steamed?
Who's the interviewer? An author of an interesting book, it sounds like.
I think the kid is really onto something in his determination that God is energy. That's what the NDE-ers say; there's a divine Light or ball of Energy, and that it radiates Love.
I think it's great that a kid that age is all about making the world a better place, and through his own inventions, no less. A 13-year-old Bodhisattva, perhaps. I hope he's able to retain that perspective as he grows up, and life buffets him around a bit.
I didn't get his statement near the beginning about "people like me" were killed or tortured in medieval times. What category, I wonder, does he see himself in? I guess there was a time when science was repressed and seen as evil, or something.... Maybe that's what he has in mind.
How do we know what he's growing up on? I had the sense that the God topic was chosen by the interviewer, but that the kid's interests went far beyond that. If you have some biographical info about him, please share.
I'm interested in his energy harvesting device, that collects EM energy from the atmosphere, or from people's individual EM fields (see linked video below), and turns it into electricity. He whipped that together out of $15 worth of discarded junk and hardware store materials. The kid is currently enrolled in online classes through MIT. Interestingly, he has a twin brother who doesn't share his genius for science. Same genome, but no braniac abilities. Or maybe they're fraternal twins...?
Thanks for this topic/thread, Shoshin!
Easy @Dakini, it's only a non-committal comment, not a remark designed to precipitate the discussion into an international incident....
Growing smart kids are solving the needs of their community.
I am sure there are kids brought up in spiritual communities, developing an experiential wisdom base. Tesla was brought up in such a family.
As well as the extraordinary, we have ordinary. MIT and other world class education institutions are creating free tuition for those with a mobile phone or other connected device.
Go kids. Save the world.
You're welcome @Dakini ...I found it quite interesting too
I don't know what this comment means. I'm just enthusing about the kid.
I've been looking for some biographic info about him. He lives in Nevada, near Lake Tahoe, I gather, and he entered his energy harvesting device in some kind of science competition at Tahoe. Here's a short description of how it works, from a Tesla Motors forum.
Max Loughan’s invention looks something like a Tesla coil and operates on many of the same principles described by the electric energy visionary. [...] It harvests electromagnetic energy from the atmosphere, then converts it to direct current which can be used to power electrical devices. Max says his electrical harvester gets its power from radio waves and from both thermal and static energy.
Any friend of Tesla is a friend of mine.
No that's not steam, that's just hot air
I thought it was obvious when he said that if you replace the word "God" with "the universe" the Bible could explain quantum theory.
It's between the 3rd and 4th minute.
If he had been brought up around people very influenced by say the Upanishads then he may say the same thing about that.
Being influenced by ones surrounding/upbringing is quite interesting to ponder...
On my mother's side, church was for weddings funerals and jumble sales/fetes, other than those things it was normally a non issue....However if you had ask what my religion was growing up I would have said C of E, because that's what I heard from others, it didn't mean anything important, just a label used, like gang membership...
I have four children and the oldest for a while was a Baptist (his choice... he attended a Baptist church that his friend went to) he has since seen the light and is now agnostic in his approach to the question of there being a god or gods...And this came about when he was flatting with some so-called Christian friends, whom one day told him that, his departed grandfather and his (still living at the time) grandmother (my exes parents) would burn in hell because they had stopped going to church (they were Presbyterians) and no longer believed in the Abrahamic definition of a god...
My other two 'sons' are (and from what I gather always been) agnostic, having no interest whatsoever in whether there's a god nor did they give religion any thought, well apart from the violence done in its name.....
My daughter is an atheist agnostic, she once told me she was interested in science at school because of her science teacher and she had some interesting conversations with him...However at university she took religious studies (to broaden her understanding of religious thought) along with psychology, philosophy and art history ...
She is still an atheist agnostic in her outlook and now works for a 'non-religious' based international humanitarian organisation...
Have my ex and I influenced our children ? Yes, by leading by example and allowing them to think for themselves...
From what I gather we are all influenced/shaped in some way by our 'upbringing/surroundings', however I would say that the difference between this young man and say one brought up in a religious community, (eg,'fundamentalist') is that he has been given the opportunity to be creative and encouraged to explore a wider range of topics, as opposed to having a god-centric doctrine forced upon him whereas he is only allowed to 'think' within the god-centric square and not go beyond it for other possible answers....
So I would say yes I agree he has been influenced by his surroundings, which I feel is a good/wholesome thing, especially regarding the path he is gravitating to...
These are just my personal thoughts on things, (right or wrong who knows and who really cares) I guess, I'm now somewhat heavily influenced by the Buddha ie, the Dharma...and this being a good or bad thing is relative , it depends on whose judging and by whom they have been influenced...