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There's no character development or depth. The premise started out awesome with the the idea of consciousness being transferred into a new bodies. The first episode was very good and into the second. And the alien on the research ship was cool. But then as it progressed it became like a low budget horror show.

If you havent watched this show watch it. It's truly a masterpiece. I hear they are coming out with a second season almost a decade later. I just watched it for the first time though I had wanted to watch it long before. You will love every minute especially if you are a fan of Tom Hardy and period pieces. The backdrop of 1814 London was excellently depicted with beautiful scenery, great costumes and extraordinary acting by all involved. The suspense and drama is second to none and will keep you hooked through the entire series.

Predator with Arnold (the first one) cannot be matched.

It kinda got bad after the second or third episode imo. Started out with excellent promise.

This is excellent and precisely correct. So we face a dilemma. But to the others point this also means that philosophical discussions are not useless. If we have no way of communicating the Absolute and the only true way is to become the Absolute then this validates Solipsism. But notice that this in itself is a philosophical position. A philosophical position cannot be escaped. And thus should be embraced. Whether or not it can get you to the Absolute is irrelevant. It can only point you to the Absolute..or if it's not aligned, it can point you away. Which worldview you believe should be none. You should heed all worldviews and then discover for yourself what is true via spiritual practice. Now..again this too is a perspective. Take it for it what you will. But the key here is that if you remain open you can attempt to validate any worldview through your own direct experience. After that you can hold the worldview that is true. And whether others believe it should not be the goal of expressing it.

😀 so what do you have to report?

How else should I take anything? I'm a person right? Isn't that the fun of it? Look..you're right sitting around here all day is going to get you absolutely nowhere when it comes to truth. However it will get you much further than a philosophy class in college. Those classes suck. Here you get advanced material from awakened beings. There you get an average professor in a rat race for the highest salary. So there is that. The discussions here are productive- but they won't get you to Absolute Truth. If you want that - again do the practices.

I know you're trying to get off here. You're here a lot less frequently. And yes. I'm 55 and I was enlightened at 48. I don't have much else to do at this point. Yeah I have a house and a wife and a dog. All that good stuff. But I've lived and also died. You have yet to live. So go live. I don't care if you entertain it or not.

You're the worst example of this. I'm already awake so I can fuss around here. You aren't. So really why hasn't it clicked for you? I suggest you take a dose of your own medicine and get the hell off here. Go join an ashram or something. Anything but here. Because it's worse than playing GTA3 imo. And BTW i know you're trying.

And what remains. What takes over. What is Truth.

Love you too. Yes. The use of language at all innately incorporates duality. I..you..me...Self..other. it is a losing game. Sit and stare at your hand for hours. All of this isnt needed. But at the same time a logical framework IS needed as a pointer to then do the work. If you woke up one day and I told you to stare at your hand your mind would have no spiritual traction or any ground. The concepts set the backdrop. At least it did for me. Perhaps they aren't needed for some.

Precisely. However it is a very slippery slope because you and I walk fearlessly and open minded into the dark night but this does not mean that the majority do. For them we must take care to frame things properly and make things seem elegant. Solipsism isn't elegant in that to me the word implies a self. So shall we use Absolute Solpsism as the philosophical worldview? I would actually encourage the abandonment of the term altogether. Idealism fits nicely here because it indicates that reality is mind. What it doesn't do is specify Oneness. How to incorporate all of reality into a single term is near impossible. So using terms at all for most people will only add to the confusion. Hence I stress the spiritual practices. Keep an open mind and do the work. Then you'll find what is true and it won't be found in a philosophy class.

Oh man this is good stuff. This is where Leo's proofs would have really shined. Objective idealism begins to break down if you really apply logic to it. Hegel and Plato didn't think that deeply. The thing they missed is that the self doesn't exist either so subjective idealism also doesn't exist. Its not really self/other. It just is. So it is idealism. Subject/ object is a duality.

@PenguinPablo for the record I don't believe context does matter. And I don't care who you are making an example out of or whether it be from the Absolute or the relative. But I think both aspects should be empasized. For example if you want to demonize Hitler point out that he is also Love. Or if you want to emphasize the Absolute and say that yes he's Love be sure to emphasize that he was a demon when it came to relative matters and he caused a lot of suffering. Likewise the treatment of Netanyahu should be no different. Current events - past or present- should be no different. When you do this you will find that you don't have a bias against any particular leader or people. That is truly not having a dog in the race. If you want to make a thread here demonizing Netanyahu and studying his demonic ways well then where was the thread on Hitler? And where is the emphasis on both the Absolute and the relative? There is neither here. And i understand this is a relative section of the forum but if you are going to single one people out then i think its important to keep things balanced. So Is the dead horse beaten? I say nay. There is much to learn. But yet here there is only the demonization of Israel. Because that has always been so easy.

@OBEler it's not that fun to truly lucid dream. I become lucid only part of the time. Most of the time I'm asleep. Meaning I'm dreaming other. Lucidity has its usefulness but full time lucidity is not that immersive or fun to me. I'd rather fully immerse in the dream. And for that, other is required.

Let's just be realistic Hitler despised Jews the most and wanted them gone the most. So don't try to diminish the specific hatred Hitler had for Jews. They don't have Russian Holocaust museums do they? They're opening a new Jewish one in Chicago this year. Why don't you come down and visit.

In order to awaken YOU he has to first omit the first rule of Solpsism. But you're right if he were truly being solipsistic he would have to admit that he was the only thing in existence and there was no one else with a perspective. No "other". This is true lucid dreaming but you can't live like that full time because then you would just fade away into your own solipsistic bubble- completely alone. So in truth we play along with the dream - we exist in the relative..so..according to his dream you would have your own perspective though from an Absolute sense this would exist within his perspective..within his dream. So It comes down to what perspective you are coming from but perspectives exist even if they really don't objectively. So from my perspective I am God and you are a dream character. From your perspective you are God. Of course your perspective actually exists within my perspective. And from your perspective my perspective exists within you. But your perspective is within mine so you can see where it can get paradoxical. Because just me talking to you is me dreaming up that you have a perspective up until i turn it inwards or self reference. That is where you get into lucid dreaming which again is really not as fun as you would think it is to be doing full time. It's more fun to fully immerse and imagine "other" is real or that it exists.

Infinity.

What is no one and nothing?

@PenguinPablo you are a legend here and well respected. I defer to you on these matters. So perhaps youre right. Much love my friend.

Its stimple. You wont hear him speak of the Absolute when it comes to Netanyahu and he hides behind- its happening now and i can stop it. When you think ahout that it's silly. It's bias..plain and simple. He can point out my bias. But he carries bias of his own.

I know but he like loves to hate on Netanyahu. Start saying how he is Absolute Love. There was almost a literal love I sensed in his videos for Hitler that I want to hear him say he has for Netanyahu. Netanyahu is Absolute Love and Goodness - he is God. And he is Leo's mind. Yet I don't feel there is that same unity for Netanyahu he has with Hitler. So I'm going to say it for him. He not only is dreaming Netanyahu but he is him. In every sense of the word. And Netanyahu is Love, Goodness, and Oneness. It's much harder to say it for someone current then it is in the past. Is it not? But where is it? It must also be there. But I don't sense it here. If you are going to speak in the Absolute about one leader in the relative about another that seems unbalanced.

That would be missing the point. I would day its still a pointer and its still logic Idealism says it's all mind. Mind can't be fragmented it's one. There isn't a piece of mind out there outside your door and another piece.of mind where you are looking. Where would the physical divider lie? There is no physicalism.

Again logic should be used as a pointer but spiritual practices should be used to determine what is true. Logic - not elegance. I do wonder how you can have idealism with an external world. A dream is a dream. What would be the point of having more than the current frame exist.

I understand the message that everything is Absolute Love but these issues are sensitive issues. I kept listening because I knew from an Absolute standpoint it was correct but also I'm not locked into religion or Judaism. However I do and will always have a sense of loyalty to my heritage despite knowing that religion (and nationality) is imaginary. . It doesn't change the fact that I'm human and I have an ego. Even if I know that it is illusory - it is still very deeply ingrained with the ego. But that was me. Imagine those not even that open minded.