Matter can be conveniently divided for descriptive purposes into space , time , mass, and energy . However we can only describe any one of these phenomena in terms of the other three. Any definitions we care to make about matter are thus tautological .

Indeed, linear extrapolations make no large-scale sense in a universe that has spatial and temporal curvature.

All Philosophy is Biography

An old joke puts its thus, "when a man speaks to a god its prayer , when a god speaks to a man its schizophrenia"... Many people hear voices without suffering any of the debilitating and dysfunctional effects associated with schizophrenia, some treat these as sources of inspiration of develop religious ideas around them, others become mediums or occultists.

Some have sought to avoid suffering by avoiding desire. Thus they have only small desires and small sufferings, poor fools.

That which is denied gains power, and seeks strange and unexpected forms of manifestation.

The only clear view is from atop the mountain of your dead selves.