RendHeaven

Member
 View profile  See their activity

  • Content count

    3,000

  • Joined

  • Last visited

Posts posted by RendHeaven

  1. Posted

    @DieFree :D

     

    14 minutes ago, RMQualtrough said:

    @RendHeaven If it can't be proven then it is faith not fact. I do not know for a fact that any of the things that have happened to me were not just a trick of the brain. With few exceptions of things I can legitimately prove to anyone.

    Neither materialists nor idealists can get outside the mind to be able to verify "oh look there's stuff out here", or "wow look nothing!"

    To actually prove it as fact you'd need to somehow find a way to capture the opposition in an impossible paradox, or logical impossibility. Other type of proof would not be possible except process of elimination.

    There are no "facts," and all proofs are relative.

  2. Posted · Edited by RendHeaven

    2 hours ago, RMQualtrough said:

    @RendHeaven You can't realize this is factual. You've had an experience, and you believe by faith that it is not just a trick of the brain. You've not seen behind any curtains unless you've literally exited your mind which is not possible, you just experienced the pure form of consciousness.

    The nature of that is proveable. To state that it is literally the only thing that exists is not factual.

    What happened could be happening within your own brain. You can never know this. It is just said that "no way could the brain do that!" but that's not factual proof of anything.

    That is why people don't just all accept it is right. It's not because only you have done this.

    I can't tell if you're arguing against me or agreeing lol.

    I'm fully conscious of where these objections are coming from. I've been there myself.

    I'm just attempting to reveal that Truth with a capital T doesn't give a shit about our objections, nor our pleas for "proof":x

    Truth with a capital T is possible to access, and (to anyone reading this, not just RMQualtrough) you simply can't argue otherwise before having encountered it personally!

  3. Posted

    2 hours ago, RMQualtrough said:

    because there IS other and your mind could be created by a material brain to process the very real external world.

    Again, it can convincingly seem this way to someone who has yet to "peek behind the curtain."

    If you directly and immediately recognize that all othernesses (as well as any notions of proof) are transient, partial fabrications within the greater Oneness of Here-Now, there is Absolutely no room left for philosophic waffling.

  4. Posted

    2 hours ago, RMQualtrough said:

    @RendHeaven Else/other is a concept in your mind. Word games don't prove anything, you can also say existence exists because non-existence doesn't exist.

    You can mess with language in a lot of ways.

    It could well be the case that you have an idea of other because there IS other and your mind could be created by a material brain to process the very real external world.

    Proof of both directions are inaccessible.

    It makes less sense that material can create immaterial but that is just a proof of the logic.

    No dude, you literally think that "else" is an actual thing. It's not a word game to you.

    The same thing with "proof."

    I am suggesting that if you stop giving these things actuality, they literally cease to be (not just on the level of words but on the level of literal existence). This possibility alone, if taken seriously, should alert you to the transient and partial nature of these things you give ultimate reality to.

  6. Posted

    8 minutes ago, RMQualtrough said:

    There's no curtain you can peak behind unless you can legit exit your mind but you can't.

    Good start.

    8 minutes ago, RMQualtrough said:

    It does not prove there is nothing else.

     

    8 minutes ago, RMQualtrough said:

    It does not prove the lack of anything else at all.

    You seem very attached to this idea of "else."

    Investigate what that literally is.

  7. Posted

    15 hours ago, RMQualtrough said:

    You don't know for a fact that there isn't. You are talking about something legitimately unknowable.

    Actually you can become directly conscious of all things that are - 

    and in that process, realize that all things imagined to exist independent of perception are only real insofar as they are imagined to exist, and that these imaginations are not "real" in any way beyond imagination (certainly not more real than that which is Here-Now).

    I'm basically suggesting that you can literally peak behind the curtain yourself and find nothing, empirically.

    And then people who have yet to peak behind the curtain will claim that "it's impossible to know!" but this is simply not the case.

    Go peak! To whoever is reading this: nobody else will peak behind the curtain for you! It must be you who does it.

    Debating and slinging ideas back and forth won't cut it either. There is an epistemic difference between theorizing about what Japan is like without having ever been there vs literally booking a plane ticket to Japan and actually stepping foot on its soil :)

  8. Posted · Edited by RendHeaven

    9 hours ago, look_inside said:

    Since there are other people in the universe, one can assume that they also have an experience that they are also imagining.

    This IS your imagination...

    But, keep in mind that it is an INFINITELY INTELLIGENT imagination.

    So be wary, I'm not suggesting that it's some mere flimsy imagination that you can easily dispel.

    Rather, it is the deepest and strongest imagination conceivable, so yeah it's really no surprise that you don't see through it haha :x

  11. Posted

    1 hour ago, Amadeusz said:

    Reading all this Leo, I've got a feeling that maybe you overanalyze this gut problem? I noticed that when I just eat 'normal' things everything's ok. When I started experimenting with smoothies etc. then problems with my stomach appear. Maybe you are so advanced that experimentating with all that stuff is the cause of the problem?

    Lol dude he experiences sharp and distinct unbearable pain the moment he tries consuming anything that isn't meat.

    If it were as easy as drinking a smoothie, this would've all been over years ago.

    You're vastly underestimating his condition - it'd be wiser to have silent sympathy rather than dishing out obviously misdiagnosed advice.

  16. Posted

    1 hour ago, soos_mite_ah said:

    Mainstream vs Intellectual Versions of the Spiral Dynamics Stages

    Holy moly this is your 'best' journal entry bar far :o

    I love how deliberately you teased apart "casual vs intellectual" in a way that made me as a reader think "oh yeah. that sounds right."

    1 hour ago, soos_mite_ah said:

    So yeah, that's something that I'm thinking about. I'm wondering what is the best way of making stage yellow ideals mainstream and palatable without watering it down.

    Uh oh. Am I hearing some life purpose ambitions slipping out? 9_9

    1 hour ago, soos_mite_ah said:

    I think a good example of a mainstream, casual example of stage yellow is the show Avatar The Last Airbender.

    Girl don't even get me started -

  17. Posted · Edited by RendHeaven

    9 minutes ago, mivafofa said:

    I think OP wrote somewhere in the forum he dislikes having to be masculine.  He'd rather be the bottom energy.

    I'm actually aware of that~

    I'm putting on a sharp tone deliberately as a wake up call.

    At the end of the day, balance is needed to dissolve toxicity.

    That means an overactive person needs to learn passivity - and vice versa.

    1 hour ago, Max Green said:

    We're so messed up.

    ^nobody's gonna fix this other than you, Max :)

    (that is, if you desire fixing)

  18. Posted

    5 minutes ago, Max Green said:

    Actually i'm pretty sure i can tolerate the pain of breaking up. If she just finds the guy and leaves, the bridges will be burnt.

    But just kick her out?

    It's actually what's best for her as well.

    She needs to heal just as much as you do - and your presence hinders that.

    Someone needs to set the boundary, and she clearly will not.

    7 minutes ago, Max Green said:

    and she got no friends. She herself are doing yoga and meditating and do spiritual work

    lol. you need to kick her out for her sake.

    She needs independence even more than you, it seems.

    8 minutes ago, Max Green said:

    If she just finds the guy and leaves, the bridges will be burnt.

    P.S. - this is a garbage solution for the well-being of her psyche. She's in the pits of hell, and now her ex is forcing her to find some random dude because he doesn't trust her to take care of herself.

    11 minutes ago, Max Green said:

    Maybe i'm too weak to do this. 

    Yeah, your solution of "wait for random deus ex machina savior man" is so obviously a way to avoid the responsibility of kicking her out.

    Part of being an adult means you make harsh decisions NOW for the ultimate good of everyone.

  21. Posted

    Yes, I am also fascinated by how quality spiritual practice involves effort of some kind, in the sense that we are genuinely trying in some way. Otherwise, we would just not do the practice. After all, why hone awareness at all? To simply say: "there is no reason," is misleading (even if it's true in the broadest sense). Maybe we do not hone awareness for the sake of some other, but certainly we at the very least hone awareness for the sake of awareness - and this is valuable in some way, whether it grants us Peace, Love, Truth, or God. Even the enlightened, no-self and/or God realized "person," I would say, expends effort, or tries in some way insofar as they hone awareness at all. Because again, they are always free to simply be unaware - to coast through life as a zombie - but some faculty within them gravitates towards awareness nonetheless.

    At the same time, you're absolutely right that this effort in its purest form is absolutely not forceful. It is only yang insofar as there is equal yin present. Release is just as (if not more, depending on context) effortful and fruitful (than control) on the path towards awareness. But even still, this is a different kind of release than entirely ceasing the spiritual practice, and abandoning awareness altogether. The release that we seek to understand is pure surrender, but it never comes in conflict with the desire to stay attentive. I think that Simone would say that this elusive "desire" or "sense of commitment/sticking to it" is (at least in part) our way of calling down God "long, often, and ardently."

  22. Posted · Edited by RendHeaven

    30 minutes ago, Harlen Kelly said:

    @RendHeaven Without the usage of foul language, how could you infer that I am overacting? 

    You're very clearly implying that WaveInTheOcean is not smart - and in the same breath, disparaging "not-smart" in favor of elevating "smart."

    That's absolutely an overreaction, because smartness has nothing to do with any of this - it is an unnecessary judgement that you brought into the conversation in order to have narrative control.

    30 minutes ago, Harlen Kelly said:

    Your perspective on what women go through because of men is childish and juvenile.

    Oh yeah?

    Explain to me why. Such that little not-smart child me can understand your aged wisdom ;)

    30 minutes ago, Harlen Kelly said:

    The reality is that both men and women cause each other tremendous suffering. 

    Obviously lol. But that doesn't mean that the suffering is equal. Have some nuance!

  23. Posted

    You're lacking in Self-Love by having no boundaries.

    Kick her out. You're not her babysitter.

    It's absolutely unacceptable that you've allowed her sweet victimhood to hold your will hostage.

    What you need for yourself right now is healing and independence.

    It is impossible for you to achieve either while she's literally under the same roof as you.

    You're the man. Get shit done. Call her parents (if she has any) and insist that they take her. Or maybe find a friend who's temporarily willing to take her. Or give her enough money for a week's worth of hotel stay, as a parting gift, and forcefully say goodbye.

    Could she die if you kick her out? Maybe. Is it unloving of you? Maybe.

    But what about her material possessions? Tell her you'll send them all to her later.

    But don't you have a duty to her as an ex-lover to help her survive? Maybe. But not right now, when you need to FUCKING HEAL!

    What's the 'objectively' right thing to do? Nobody knows.

    But what is certain is that she absolutely cannot be living with you under these conditions. You're fucking 32 dude. Take care of yourself, lay down some rules.

  24. Posted

    5 minutes ago, Harlen Kelly said:

    Getting triggered and neurotically overreacting is not what particularly smart people do. That's a dull-witted attitude. 

    Seems from here like you're overreacting to overreacting ;)

    If you actually understood the shit that women endure from men just like us, there would be no room left to leverage notions of "smartness" against them whenever they express their discontentment.

  25. Posted

    4 minutes ago, Emerald said:

    And we get a Cupid’s Arrow for one of them... usually one that matches us in attractiveness.

    So, women generally go for their match. Tens will go for tens and feel ecstatic about it. Twos will go for twos and feel ecstatic about it.

    I don't know if I'm willing to take this as a universal, but I can nonetheless attest to viewing this phenomenon in action.