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Leo said in his Conservative Mind video that most of the human population can't survive because of their dire conditions. This seems pretty bleak, negative and not optimistic at all... & Why would God create such a Universe where most people suffer so greatly?? I don't get it.........................................at all. How do you emotionally cope with things like that? And how can you even love Reality/God when there is so much pain, misery , dysfunction & etc? If your life is good (and i assume most people on this forum have a decent life even if they suffer psychologically) then it's easy to appreciate the beauty of Reality. But when you can't eat or go to the doctor then i guess this Reality seems like a f**** Universal Joke/Farce. And then your tendecy is to adopt the attitude of someone like Charles Bukowski who was pretty nihilistic. This has been my greatest struggle/challenge with non-duality lately and i don't really see noone talking about coping with these emotional issues... I don't understand why. Maybe people are too stuck in their comfort bubbles or too privileged & young to talk about it.

@integral I don't see how basic self-help will ever stop me from fearing and hating things such as torture, rape, decapitations , being buried alive, mexican drug cartel videos & etc.

@001 What is zakat? Everything is God's fault. Everything is God's Will.

@hyruga It could take a long time. You will become wealthy if it's your destiny to do so.

@Yimpa That's a very good example.

@hyruga Ok so i guess you do like torture, rape , beheadings , etc.

@Yimpa Ok so what do you mean then? God doesn't control sh*t then?

@Willie You overlooked my example. Let's say we only have two religions in the world. And both religions just contain only one statement. Nothing more. One religion states that the earth is round. The other one states that the earth is a square. The first religion states a true statement. The other religion states a bs statement.

@Husseinisdoingfine If i verify that the earth is round then no need for any interpreation. The earth is round and that is the end of story. That is what's true.

@Majed I provided an example that you overlooked. The earth being round is not a construct.

@Breakingthewall I do not control it because i am that? What does this mean? I don't understand. Shouldn't God control the game?

@Breakingthewall This is all nice and beautiful. But if you were in such dire conditions as those children you would most likely be pretty pissed off at God (and for a good reason). Same thing would happen if somebody was torturing you to death for hours. You would probably change your mind and really hate God at that moment. You would probably view Reality as something negative if you were under those conditions. I think this says something. Suffering is not negative and i can see its function but this whole thing goes way too deep and i see people suffering horribly for no apparent good reason. This i don't understand and pisses me off.

@Yimpa Yeah ok torture may be pure imagination. And there is value knowing that if you're interested in Truth. But in the practical aspects if you begin experiencing torture it would be such a horrible experience that all your concepts whether it's imaginary or not would not matter to you one single bit... at those exact moments of pure agony, of pure terror . All you would care about is for the torture to end. You would not give a damn whether the torture is imaginary or not. Would make absolutely zero difference to you. I don't see how you can recontextualize torture and things as such. And what difference would this recontextualization really make? I don't practically see anyone overcoming such a fear. It's probably impossible.

@Swarnim Interesting points.

@Ajay0 Humans are run by God. Everything is run by God. God is the only one in charge whether someone ends up becoming a Hitler or a Buddha.

@StarStruck I would feel relieved and not bad at all. BUT still i've never experienced excruciating pain in my dreams. Only psychological. I've never lived through the physical sensations of torture or being buried alive. That's a whole another ballgame.

@Leo Gura I don't understand.. Can you explain the logic behind this? If you said that the positive in all this is that it's only a reality/actuality it would mean the same thing to me... It doesn't make any difference whatsoever whether it's a dream or not. If i buried you alive the fact that it's a dream wouldn't do anything to relieve your misery. Isn't it so?

@Arthogaan You make some pretty good points. I agee that there is a lot of happiness and i appreciate the beauty and intelligence of life. But when you hear things like that most people live in dire conditions then... you start inventing some negative interpetation which makes you feel terrible and hopeless about Reality.

@puporing You make it seem like people have a free will of their own whether they will awaken or not. Leo has also made similar statements in his Structure of Reality video.. But i see this as absurd since Everything is Ordained By God.. Maybe though there is some value to this arguement... But i just don't see it yet..

@puporing God hasn't even managed to take care the survival of most people on this planet. This God doesn't seem to give two cents about waking people up anytime soon. And where is the Heaven in the picture of the starving kids that i uploaded?

I have been very fascinated by the character of Spartacus. His story gives me chills and touches me deeply. He managed to defeat the most powerful army at the time like 8 times. This is incredible. At the end he succeeded his goal which was to get away from Rome. But his followers really wanted to conquer Rome. And he obliged. Which resulted in his death. Also he was a fair Leader. He split all the gold and etc equally. He did many other things which showed the quality of his character. He was quite different from Crixus which was another Leader , not so wise. Thousands of lives were at his hands and he understood the gravity of his position. This is an amazing documentary. It really depicts the gravity of the situation Spartacus was facing.

Leo talks about how each one of us is a piece of Sovereign Consciousness.For some reason i really like this concept. Makes me feel good. But what does this exactly mean? What 'Sovereign' is actually pointing to i am not quite getting. I have some intuitions though..

@Leo Gura I like this. I think this Sovereignty concept points to the fact that each piece of Consciousness is equally Important as the other.

@Yimpa You can't force anything. In actuality you cannot even do anything. It's all ordained by God.

@Swarnim That was beautiful. What do you mean open you heart? Can you give me some example? A part of me intuits how great Reality is but.. still in the back of my mind there is all this crap about Reality that i do not like.