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Given the fact, that we are all manifestations/products of God, does God care about each one of us or not? This question might imply duality but i am asking it from a non-dual/God is All perspective. I have been struggling with this question for quite some time. Also some part of my psyche, needs a Universe which is essentially Good and caring. This is good for my well-being (this is why theists are happier overall than atheists). If we live in an indifferent , cruel, vicious, uterrly brutal Universe, then what good is God after all? Sometimes i think that maybe its impossible to even know the answer to such a question. From my intuitions and observations i think God definitely cares, in the sense that everything is created with infinite intelligence and wisdom. And everything is evolving towards better and better things overall. Despite this, sometimes its easy to fall into nihilism. There seems to be a lot of senseless suffering in this world. You observe how many other creatures have it bad and how much they suffer. Insects getting stomped on, creatures getting slaughtered and tortured, all sorts of weird diseases, mutations , accidents, earthquakes & fires killing many creatures, etc. It's easy to become nihilistic and claim that we live in a cruel, indifferent Universe.This is a very hard metaphysical question, from which your whole sense of trust and well-being in the existence hinges. And its a question that i never see spiritual teachers address. How do you even begin to make sense of all of this?

@Judy2 I like this statement very much. Reminds me of this video. He says that the most important decision you'll ever make is :''Is the universe friendly?'' @37:22

I hate that i see this old man everywhere on my youtube feed even though i try to avoid watching his content like the plague. I know what he is all about by now. I don't need his advice. The energy he exudes is kinda funny and neurotic. I can't describe it. But you can clearly see a neurotic not very high consciousness coming from this guy. He is stuck in some sort of mechanical very predictable pattern in his minda, hard to explain. The videos below are just a good demonstration of the ridiculous nature of his content. Stupid & unexperienced people take him very seriously like he is some philosopher of a great capacity and give him all their authority. People act like he is some great revolutionary thinker that will push humanity ahead, meanwhile he got famous because of conflict and drama, and heavily capitalized on that to make a forture by spreading an ideology to 20year old males. The old man acts like he knows how to suffer through life even though he was addicted on medications. He gives advice on how to suffer through life, meanwhile he himself can't cope with life and needs medications.This is funny. He is full of crap and i am tired of this culture shoving him to my throat everyday Just because someone is a professor doesn't tell you much about how full of crap they are. There are greater thinkers than this guy who are not even academics. He is a cancer for the human and this current culture. His content does more harm than good in my opinion. It promotes bigotry in a more intellectual sneaky scientific way. It creates division and separation.

Check out this video. Puts things into perspective.

Leo's long video about Bias, he talks about how everything is equally great (there is no difference between anything etc) and therefore that's why God has no biases. God loves the best dreams equally to all the worst possible nightmares. I don't understand what he means by that statement though. His life is a demonstration of the exact opposite. A life built on conditional happiness and making certain decision to avoid the misery of life. If everything is equally great, you wouldn't care enduring the worst kind of torture and misery. Our lives are carefully constructed to avoid the nightmares at any cost. And we are all scared sh*tless of the possibilities of enduring nighmares and terrifying misery and pain. Some are still pretending otherwise though. Again i understand that relatively speaking not everything is equally great. None of us would enjoy being butchered and tortured. That's why i don't understand when people and spiritual gurues act how everything is ok and the same , etc. Makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. Its a theatrical game to me. Everything is not equally great and that is the whole challenge of existence in a nutshell. Thats the whole struggle of life. And the ways each of us lives our lives is the proof of that. The only exceptions that come to mind are figures like the Buddha or Ramana Maharshi. Maybes these are super rare examples of people who embodied this idea that everything is equally great. The rest of us will never accomplish such feats. And maybe its not even possible. Thats why i don't like when i hear that there is no difference between things, because clearly & obviously there is.

I don't know how many are aware of this guy but i stumbled across him quite recently and i find him very fascinating. He is a Professor of Economics and has studied at some of the most privileged universities in United States. He is an interesting case because his parents were immigrants and not wealthy. His critique of capitalism is some high quality stuff. This guy is 80 year old with the mental acuity of a 25 year old and has studied this subject for decades. He has made some good points that are similar to Leo's point. Some of his points are: Even most academic people have no clue about marxism. They simply don't know this stuff. People are not exposed to a critique of capitalism. It is not taught in universities. Many people just have a knee-jerk reaction when they hear about marxism even though they haven't bothered studying it seriously, especially in the US. Professors , at the time when he was a student, were fearful and did not talk about marxism. They didn't wanna lose their jobs or upset anybody. There are people who do their job just for the joy of it, without having to get the big money. This notion that people won't do their passion if they are not getting tons of money is unrealistic. (Also to be honest, the real fundamental reason why people want way more money than others, is to attract women) Slavery and Feudalism were systems of the past that we overcame. Capitalism is no different. In the past, the master knew that he was a master because his parents were masters. The slaves knew they were slaves because their parents were probably slaves. Capitalists claim they are more smart or more able than the rest of us. This is a story so they can feel comfortable because somewhere they know that the system is rigged.

This is a real-life story i've heard yesterday. This story was shared by the woman involved in this story. There was a group of women who visited a place called 'bouzoukia' in Greece. Its a place with singers, entertainment, alcohol etc. In this group of women, there was a 40year old beautiful woman. Also in the same place, there were a group of older men. Particularly there was a 55-57 year old male who got a lot of attention from the singer and also from other people. They all seemed to know this guy . (Cue for Status #1) After a while this 55 year old guy approaches the 40 year old woman and hits on her. The woman did not find the man attractive at all and rejected him. He found him too old, very short and ugly . (Keep this in mind). Meanwhile the othe women in the group found him quite attractive. After some time, the old man stalked the 40 year old woman. He followed her for a little while and gave her a business card. The business card basically was a signal that this guy was a mutli-millionaire with a 5 star restaurant near the area (Cue for Status #2). After a while the woman called him. She claimed she just did it for fun because her friends pushed her and had no intentions to do anything sexual with him (lol ). To make a long story short, the old wealthy man finally 'conquered her' (super briefly) and had sex with her like a madman for 2 months. Then he created some bs excuse that he couldn't no longer be with her because of his wife. (These high status guys replace women frequently because of the desire for sexual variety that all men inherently have). This story is insane and just demonstrates that even if you are very ugly physically to a woman it does not matter if you have insanely high status . This is a crazy hack and a hard truth to shallow for many people. This is not an attack on women. We can't deny what is, even if we find it ridiculous and repugnant. Both sexes have evolved sex differences that are somewhat abhorrent and disturbing

I have been intrigued a lot by narcissists. I really despise them. They represent everything i hate about the human race. Egotism, self-centeredness, lack of empathy, stupidity, spiritual myopia & etc From what i've understood so far, narcissitsts seem like a lost cause... Most psychologists say there is little that can be done to treat narcissism... Again i don't firmly believe this. Because i know that psychologists and psychiatrists have no clue yet about mental health. We are still in the dark ages as far as mental health goes. Do you think that narcissists are a lost cause? They seem to be stuck at a really low dense state of Consciousness. A level of Consciousness that is hard to be understood from people like us who are into spirituality, caring for others , more open and free, etc.

@Bando I don't subcribe to redpill ideologies. I am against all this toxic stuff. But i recognize some truths. You can be very good with a women, but if she sees that you are not passionate about acquiring resources (mental and/or physical) she will quickly lose interest to you. The same goes for a woman that might be very sick and ill. Its gonna be hard to find her sexually attractive as male, even if you like her character. There are some evolutionary forces that are designed this very specific way. You are not supposed to go mate with women who are not fertile. Your ancestors are the ones who didn't do that ''mistake''.

@flowboy Yes i agree. I dislike it a lot when some guys make getting laid like the ultimate objective in life. Also the idea that you will have enough sex and get bored of it, is not very realistic either in the long-term. The more sex you have, the more sex you want. You can never get rid of the desire. But you can stop the behavior.

Recently i have been very interested in evolutionary psychology. I've learned some things and there are many more i want to learn. One of the things that i found super fascinating and counter-intuitive is that men (some men of course) can inflict costs to women (physical and mental abuse) so that they can lower their mate value, and as a result the women feel terrible about themselves , think they don't deserve any better and stay with their abusive partners. This tactic works very well. If it didn't work, it would not even exist. Also men have a monopoly the more violent the crime is. It's really incredible how all these very intelligent things work in the background without us even being aware of them.. I guess millions of years of evolution have left us with imprinted wisdom. Anyways, one of the thing that i don't understand is why (some) men end up killing their women. This does not seem wise from a reproductive standpoint. I don't understand it. It gets so weird, that some men end up killing their own children as a revenge because of their spouses leaving them... The guy in the video below, killed his own offsprings because they did not agree with him . If reproduction of ours genes is the goal, murdering your own children or your wife does not make much sense.

@Devin These guys end up hurting themselves socially more than their wives could ever have. Many of them end up in jail serving life sentences. Others commit suicide afterwards. Also there any many murders among couples who are not even married, and therefore have nothing to separate.

@JoeVolcano And that will give me the answer? Is that what you are implying?

@Dumuzzi This is partially true. The problem is that there are many many men who are not psychopaths or narccisists who still end up killing their wives. Killing your spouse doesn't seem to serve any functional purpose. And usually these murders come along with rage and are not planned before.

@JoeVolcano Untrue statement. Men who are clinging to women, end up having terrible lives. If your statement was true, convicts, Nikola Tesla, The Unabomber and Newton would have killed themselves because of no access to p*ssy. The opposite sex is not the end all be all. Human nature is much more complicated to be reduced to that. Still killing your woman, does not seem to serve any function, besides relieving the anger and difficult emotions.

@flowboy lol ok

ATTENTION=>I agree with evoltution as a theory. I am not denying it. This is just a critique of its metaphysics. Some people don't read carefully the post and jump into conclusions. I am currently reading a book about evolutionary psychology. I get the sense that science gives explanations which don't explain much. For example natural selection and sexual selection is a useful explanation but fails to really explain how could a turtle have a shell in the 1st place. I think not in a billion years, a turtle could develope a shell by some random luck that just happened. This is a quote from the book. This scientist fills in the blanks with materialistic explanations. Otherwise the only other explanation left is God. I highly doubt in a trillion years a giraffe could happen to have a big neck variant. Everything just somehow happened and then we can explain it somehow. The Big Bang somehow happened and by some random brute luck we are all here with all this complexity and intelligence. This is very autistic and misses the point. Evolution is not blind, but those scientists sure are. They don't see God right in front of their eyes.

@Leo Gura I like this arguement. Makes sense. But an additional somewhat contradictory arguement , is that females evolved to choose males who would give them gifts of food. But back in those days there was never such a massive resources inequality that there is today. For the majority of human history the inequality of resources was not extreme, especially before agriculture. So your claim is reasonable. Men with hunting skills were also very high status before agriculture.

@Carl-Richard There is nothing outside of 'phenomenal' consciousness. And even if it is, you don't know actually know about such thing. You have no evidence about it. That is the issue right there with materialism. It assumes things which are not consciousness. This assumption is not based on any direct experience but rather on a fantasy. ''Scientific training is a very specific conditioning of the mind''

@Carl-Richard How can you ever possibly know if a gene has thoughts or not? How can you even know if anything else has consciousness besides yourself to begin with?

@JoeVolcano I think this is what Leo is suggesting aswell. He gave a top down explanation of the Universe in his States of Consciousness video. It makes some sense.

@DocWatts Yes i agree with that. But today's science would have you to believe otherwise. Scientists are skeptical of everything, except their atheistic materialism.

@Carl-Richard Yes All is God. I would be too naive too believe in some God that sits outside all of this. And i have several mystical experiences at this point , that make it impossible to do so. This is just another quote from the evolutionary psychology book i am currently reading. They strip away the intelligence, the consciousness behind of it all which i find very amusing and very disturing at the same time. They jump into metaphysical conlcusions that are not based on any 'solid' 'evidence'. How can this scientist know whether or not there is any intentonality behind all of this? I find it very arrogant and disrespectful to my intelligence.

@Dryas Richard Wolff makes some very good points . He promotes a kind of arrangement between the employers and employees and a more democratic process. He is not all or nothing in his approach. He doesn't want one person to decide what 300 billion dollars are going to do (Elon Musk). He wants more people to have the power to decide what to do with that money and not let the whims of the few affect the lives of the many. Who decides if the money should be spent on Mars or on bettering the conditions on this planet first? You have a very socially inept person (Musk) affecting huge societal issues. Capitalism in its current form is not sustainable forever. Its going to collapse as a system sooner or later.

@Carl-Richard I know very little about Creationism. That could have been debunked. But Intelligent Design has not been debunked. It has been called Blind luck.