Leo Gura

Letting go of theocracy is a real challenge. At least your country ain't Saudi Arabia.

@Pouya That is called mysticism.

Science is a conceptual, symbolic, relativistic, and dualistic enterprise. It cannot overcome this ever because all language is dualistic amd science cannot be done without language. Try it. Beyond language is mysticism.

All of your knowledge is groundless, relative, and ultimately delusional. You do not actually know what anything is. Read what the ancient skeptics wrote. Read Outlines Of Pyrrhonism.

@Pacific Sage That may be true but what I am saying goes deeper. It is an abstract point about frames of reference. "Bad" only exists relative to some frame of reference you establish. How else can you determine when to call a thing bad? You need some criteria. Whatever criteria you choose will be aribtrary. You might say death is bad. But that's only true assuming you don't want to die. If you want to die death now becomes good. You might say, but who wanta to die? That is irrelevant. The point has already been made. It is an abstract point. There cannot be bad as an Absolute.

The epistemology and metaphysics of science is a very complex topic. There is no silver bullet against science. The devil is all in the details. Many books could and have be written about it. The core problem is that science does not question its own foundations. How do you know science is capable of accessing Absolute Truth? After all, this has never been demonstrated by science. And how would you demonstrate it anyway? By using science? Do you see how that begs the question? If science is incomplete or flawed then you cannot use science to validated science. You need a meta science. And a meta meta science, and so on to infinity. Science actually has no foundation because reality is infinite. The ancient Greek skeptics showed 2000 years ago why no human knowledge is possible. But the scientists ignored them. And they are in denial about it to this day. You cannot convince a scientist that science is a dream. Because scientists hold science as a dogma. Like religious people. You will never convince a Muslim that his idea of Allah is a dream. Because his mind is not open to such a possibility. He is not interested in searching for Truth because he thinks he's already found it.

I think you missed the point. I didn't exactly say people like suffering. I was just making a point about frames of reference. Torturing a puppy is only bad relative to the assumption that suffering is bad. From the Absolute perspective, suffering is not bad.

We cannot allow mentally unstable people to run loose on this forum. The Mods are not therapists.

We have a few new Mods who came online recently and they are still learning the ropes. Being a Mod is not easy, it requires a light touch, and I am working with our new Mods to make sure they understand this. Sometimes they may step over the line because there are no clear lines within reality. This is the nature of the game. But overall I think we'll be good. Policing people is never easy because they take it so personally. No one ever wants to admit they are in the wrong because from their POV they never are. Relativity 101.

Existentially we are all equal. But this is pickup/dating. Within the dating game you gotta build up confidence. If you feel like you're inferior and less cool than others, the girl will smell it off you like stink off a squashed skunk. You have to feel entitled to the girl. You will only be able to attract and maintain girls who you feel entitled to. As soon as you start to feel, "Oh man, I'd be so lucky to have this girl", you've already lost her. Your attitude must be: "This girl would be lucky to sleep with me because I'm such an awesome person." And then make that true. Turn yourself into an awesome person. This isn't just about BS-ing yourself or her. Your confidence must be grounded in the fact that you truly love yourself and recognize your own awesomeness. It all boils down to building a high self-esteem. How could you not be awesome? You are God after all! LOL. So start acting like it. P.S. And God is always alone

Nicely said.

It cannot be easily formalized. Low quality is a nebulous thing. When I see it, I will moderate it. The Mods are mostly enforcing standard forum guidelines. The purpose of locking low quality threads is reduce distraction. It's all too easy for people to come here and become keyboard jockeys, wasting their own time and those of the Mods, myself, and all of you guys. No serious spiritual school would allow such distractions. This forum needs to maintain a certain focus and quality level. Otherwise I would rather just shut the whole thing down.

We lock very few threads. This forum will moderate low quality posts and posters. You don't appreciate how bad this place would be without moderation. This place is not 4chan, where you get to post any random nonsense. If you want that, go to 4chan. Experience what that is like.

I have already endorsed Sanders on my blog.

This thread has been reinstated.

That's the beauty of it: you are free to do whatever you want. It's called liberation for a reason. There are no shoulds in life. All shoulds are relative. But don't forget, all actions have consequences. So you are not free from the consequences of your choices.

There is nothing but direct experience, so you have no other other but to trust it. Name one thing which isn't in your direct experience? You cannot. The problem is how you are misinterpreting your experience with egoic distortions.

Some of those locks were made by me. And so was this one. I am taking action to clean up this forum. People are being banned and low quality threads are being locked.

Do the work and stop with the silly questions.

@Inder This issue goes deeper than you yet understand. Of course ego also cares a lot about physical survival. Your physical, social, and psychological survival are all intertwined. Intuition and even the higher self are often also part of survival. Try to locate what isn't survival in your experience. Most things will be survival.

Each stage integrates all the lower. So Turquoise already contains all the lower stages within it, but properly moderated and transcended.

A few good options here: 1) "My friends are around here somewhere." [point into a large crowd], or "I'm waiting for them to show up" or "They just left. They were tired." 2) Just own it and admit you're out alone. "I was bored at home and I felt like going out, so here I am." or "That's how I roll girl. I'm not part of some gaggle of sheep." 3) Just ignore and change the conversation into something else, "You seem like the kind of girl who voted for Trump. Admit it! You voted for Trump, didn't you?!" or "Why are you being so racist?" They lose interest because you don't own your aloneness. If you think it's weird, she will think its weird. If you think its totally normal to be out at a club alone, she won't care either. But you have to keep the conversation moving. Don't just say you're alone and then let it hang. You gotta immediately follow up with some other conversation topic as if her question was nothing at all. In general what you're lacking here is confidence. A confident man does not let some random girl judge him or frame control him. You gotta feel that you are way cooler than her no matter how many sheepish friends are around her. Her sheep friends are all fools and so is she for herding up with them. Be the badass lone wolf. And treat everyone in the club as your friends. You can make instant friends with some random guys in the club. When you are in the club you gotta walk around like you are the owner of the place. Exude that kind of confidence and comfort.

@Inder Human survival is not primarily about physical survival, it is about survival as a unique persona. That's what ego is mostly doing: surviving the complex social persona of you. And it's doing it perfectly. All of your thoughts are about that.

@Arhattobe In other words: being selfish keeps people from being selfless. That's why I call people devils. To point that out.

That's exactly what I'm saying. The nature of a symbol is such that for it to serve as a symbol is its being must be overlooked. If a symbol's being is recognized, then it stop being a symbol and becomes being/Absolute. The word cat is not itself a cat. Because of this, the Truth cannot be symbolized. Truth is prior to symbols. Truth cannot be pointed at because any pointer is already itself the Truth, but not recognized to be so.