Sempiternity

Agree to disagree. Just because someone does not die in a life-threatening situation does not mean their instincts were on point. If a person's instincts tell them to stay in a burning building, and the fire department comes and puts out the fire before they burn to death and they survive, it does not mean their survival instincts were right. It means they had poor survival instincts and were extremely lucky they didn't die.

I don't buy that reasoning at all. If a crazed person with an ax is being violently and hacking at things around me, I'm not going to just take the chance and assume he's going to keep chopping at things and not start chopping at humans at any moment. Survival instincts are not betting your life in a potentially deadly situation. It takes nothing to just remove yourself from the situation for your own safety. To not do so is beyond foolish.

This was one is crazy to me. Guy in library violently chopping at everything with an ax, and everyone in the library barely react at all. Like zero survival instincts. He walks up and chops a computer, inches from a guys head and the guy doesn't even flinch. As far he as he knew, the next chop could have been his head, but didn't care. Everyone just goes about their business, as if a crazy ax wielding maniac isn't attacking everything with an ax. NPCs indeed. And then the cops unload their magazines at him at point-blank range, and he still lives.

Woman commits felony arson, calls 911 to get police to come, then invites officers into her home to watch video evidence of her committing the crime.

No wiser words have ever been spoken here on this forum.

Worst cop in the history of cops:

A Racoon smoking a meth pipe. No, I am not kidding. Reality stranger than fiction.

Nothing higher than God.

Everything that is being experienced in direct experience right now is all one thing; consciousness. It's all one thing, the only thing in existence, as nothing exists outside of Being/Awareness/Direct Experience. Consciousness creates everything in reality. Reality is consciousness. God is consciousness, creating reality, creating itself to be what is direct experience. Because God is creating reality, and reality is consciousness, that means that God is creating consciousness. Or in other words God is creating itself. Another way of putting it, is I created myself. As I am God creating itself to be all of this in direct experience right now, pretending to be a human experiencing a world of 'other' things, through a first-person perspective, and making myself forget that I am doing this. And it's completely meaningless, as it's just me making images of myself and telling myself a story. It's all a story. Reality = Consciousness = Direct Experience = Now = Only thing in existence = God = Me

@Emerald Well said!

No, not today. We are at the beginning of the atrocities they have planned. The two questions are, how far are they going to push things, and if they do how far are we willing to go to stop them.

What'd we do when human rights and freedoms were being threatened and corruption and evil threatening the good of the world in WW1, and then in WW2? In the Civil war, you had half the country that wanted human slaves, what'd we do in that situation? There's no talking it out, there is no middle ground to reach, there is no diplomacy, there is no voting it out. You destroy it till it's no longer a threat to everyone. That's the thing people are not talking about as a solution. MAGA is not going to give up power. They've set up the laws to favor them, and those laws cannot be changed (unless there's 2/3 of the Senate to make new laws eliminating corruption, which will never ever happen). Only way out of this is by force. Remove them all and start over with a new Constitution that is uncorruptible. If the other half of the country does not like it and it starts another Civil War, then so be it. Thier evil was crushed before, and it will again. The system is so far broken, this is the only way out, IMO.

He was my very first introduction to the concepts of Nonduality. Found Leo's teachings shortly after.

What's your personal opinion on GP Walsh, Nonduality teacher?

Think of Solipsism like nightly dreams. You can meet people and talk to them, but those people, you and your body, the environment, that whole reality, is one thing: Consciousness. Consciousness = God. Reality is God making itself into what is being experienced. So are those people you meet in a dream real? Have you lived their life? But what is togetherness? Is it separate beings that are together? Separate beings that are bound together by "the grand self behind all of us"? Solipsism is one Being. Just what is right now in direct experience. That's all there is. Togetherness assumes separation. When there is only one thing (Consciousness/God), there cannot be togetherness. Sorry to nitpick, but the way Solipsism is worded can change the perception of it. Indeed!