JosephKnecht

That's my gem. @andyjohnsonman Thanks for sharing.

To get the last 7%, you must forget the 93%.

You seem to know what enlightenment is... but have you allowed yourself to not know?

There is no History. There is only His Story.

How can the mountain climber who has climbed Mount Everest find joy in climbing the local hill?

Sounds like the moment becomes the goal.

What is your assumption about his presuppositions? If his motivation was derived from climbing the highest mountain, how can he change his motivation? Does he have to deny the height, beauty, and perfection of Mount Everest so that he can see the same on the local hill?

I tried a meditation session with techno music for 1 hr yesterday. My body became numb, and I was able to put all my focus on the music. I felt the music vibrations with my whole being. Experimentation is sometimes useful.

Read 400+. Wrote 3.

Sounds like a strange loop.

Do you have close female friends? Ask them for honest feedback on your personality, looks, etc.

You can predict the future to the extent that you understand the past that led to your present. Dreams do contain visions of the future. I know several people that have predicted 1 in a billion chance events based on their dreams.

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It is already happening. I don't see it as a negative, since the institution of marriage is no longer sacred so it is destined to evolve. No, you are not. You are coming from a scarcity mindset. Become a value provider to women and you can have more women than you can deal with. If everyone becomes their best version of themselves, equilibrium will be established again. If only a few high-value men provide value to women, then we have a problem. If everyone is high-value, we have no problem.

It is your job to learn how to be healthy. Don't delegate that power to the government. The job of the government is to break your leg, and then give you a crutch. Then the government will ask you to praise them since without their crutch, you wouldn't be able to walk. Governance is needed only for those who are not able to self-govern themselves. If everyone is able to govern themselves, government becomes obsolete. Therefore it is in the interest of the government that you are not able to self-govern. It is in the government's interest that you get sick so they can provide you with free healthcare.

Emotion is the justification for motion. If you never felt hungry, will you bother to eat? If you never felt sad, would you bother to seek happiness? If you never felt imperfect, would you bother to seek perfection? The singularity doesn't contain all configuration of reality. The singularity contains Nothing. The only way for the singularity to create a configuration is to be an Intelligent Creator. How do you think you were born? Where did you come from? Didn't you just pop up somewhere? The paradox of insights is that they only appear to a subject and can't be objectified. An insight is only shocking if comes into your sight. The closest I have been able to communicate deep insight is through the following story: https://josephknecht.org/this-is-not-a-story/

Yes. The incompleteness theorem extends to every system, including computers. Intelligence is simply an ability to recognize patterns. The more intelligent one is, the more patterns (and more abstract) patterns one is able to recognize. Computers can already recognize and process patterns better than humans (automated driving, image analysis, etc). However, computers are not yet able to solve the problem of self-reference. If computers are able to solve the problem of self-reference by themselves, in few decades computers will become much more intelligent than average humans. If self-reference gets programmed into them by humans, we will be able to control their behavior for the foreseeable future.

Let us assume that once there existed One Perfect Being. The Perfect Being was perfect, but I had nobody to share its perfection with. So the Perfect Being decided to split itself. The split made Him Imperfect. He created other beings and unto them, he gifted his perfection. We need others because in them we see our lost perfection. The others give us the perfection that we lost. Others make us whole. By loving others, we regain the lost love for ourselves. By being with others, we regain our lost Being.

@Red-White-Light Nice video. Thanks for sharing.

I am impressed by the improv skills of this guy: Mindblowing stuff.

A break is well deserved. I hope it is not another 30 days of plugging 5-Meo-DMT.

Leo usually says those things after he gets "humbled" by a psychedelic experience.

You are attracted to the things that you desire, but you lack. You are attracted because you feel partial, and you want to feel whole again. If you had everything, you would be the most attractive but will have nothing to attract.

@electroBeam Enjoyable read. Thanks One question. How would you feel if the "trip experience" was your "baseline-level experience" of Reality?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Blue