JosephKnecht

Human emotions are just motivations for human actions. We act because we feel. And we feel because we feel that our feelings are real. If you identify with the body, you will seek to "immortalize" your identity. Many parents at some point project their identity to their children and see their children as the ones carrying their torch of immortality. But, the identification might not be only materialistic. You might not identify with the body, but rather with beauty, kindness, compassion, love and you might wish to pass these onto your children. Children as seen as a blank canvas onto which you can imprint your identity.

Someone should make a poster of this.

Can you have any experience without senses? Try to imagine how that would look like... Give up the 5 senses. What are you left with? Pure experience mediated by your mind. The purpose of our senses is to experience reality through the senses. Once our experiences are satiated, we yearn to transcend them.

Where are you currently living? And how far are you willing to relocate?

So if you don't like JP, he is your shadow? His work in the 90's is superior to anything he has produced recently. If you want a real expose of his thinking, I suggest watching his lectures at Harvard when he was young. Old age makes everyone conservative.

You don't really live up to your name man. @Striving for more I think it's time for a change. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where-to-be-born_Index

How about a video?

They wanted spiritual enlightenment but got chlamydia instead. God works in mysterious ways. There is some truth to what Connor is saying. It is possible to access Non-dual Oneness through Tantric sex. BUT, one should not get attached to the method.

And I have seen him raise the "consciousness" of people in a 2-hour lecture by 10 points. Something that is hard to do is not equivalent to impossible. It is just hard.

To know life, you must live life. To know an orange, you must eat an orange. But how can you use language, to ask what language is? How can I use language to tell you what language is? Some things must be contemplated for oneself.

You are using language to ask a question. How can you use something without knowing what it is? convey - (verb) transport or carry to a place. Language can only transport and carry you to a place but it can't tell you what the place is.

Who do you think is supposed to evolve Red Trump supporters into blue? You need a conservative voice to talk to conservative people, otherwise, the conservatives would never evolve. And If half of the US voted for Trump, that means that there is still a lot of red in the US, so going to blue is a step forward. Peterson has said some outlandish things, but in total his work has been beneficial to society. I judge a character by the totality of their work, not by some snippets, taken out of context and caricatured with a mocking voice.

He speaks to you by name. The problem is that you don't know your name.

@MrWolf Haven't read that one yet. Is the advice also applicable to women?

I can see that he was struggling to understand that which could not be understood. His desire to understand was genuine. Not sure if banning him helped him. He needs to contemplate more for himself, rather than asking questions and then rejecting all answers.

@Striving for more You obviously need to strive for something more than just bare survival. But if you can't survive, how can you strive. You must strive while surviving.

If traditional relationships don't suit you, you are free to have new kinds of relationships. You can try to have a relationship with yourself. Try not to screw up that one too bad. You can have relationships with some other people you like. Having a relationship is like getting on a ship. You know that eventually, you will come back to land, but you know that all the adventure happens on the water.

... and I am waiting for you to prove that you are intelligent so that you can understand the proof. If you enjoy reading proofs, I suggest reading Gödel, Escher, Bach. Gödel proved that every formal system that is complete, cannot be consistent. Here is a brief overview of the book, but I suggest reading the whole book. https://medium.com/swlh/gödel-escher-bach-series-an-overview-of-gödels-incompleteness-theorem-d00c2202abf4

I am thankful for having the opportunity to be thankful.

But how can I show you proof of infinite intelligence if you can't prove to me that you have any intelligence? Intelligence is a subset of infinite intelligence so we need to prove the smaller before we prove the larger. The problem is that Intelligence can't be proven to anyone else but itself. I asked you that question because I know you can't prove it, but you might be able to experience intelligence. Thus, Experience is greater than proof.

@charlie cho I am not trying to tell you what to believe. I just want to inspire you to think deeper about your philosophy. Why you don't value the things that come easy to you?

IQ tests only measure your ability to recognize patterns. The ability to recognize patterns could be useful for getting yourself out of the "matrix" of reality, but it's not the only criteria. For example, if your Ego co-opts your intelligence, it will only seek patterns to stay grounded in reality. Doing psychedelics or being intelligent does not guarantee that you will become enlightened.

I will provide the proof for infinite intelligence, but first I demand that you prove to me that you are intelligent. @Cosmin_Visan Show me proof that proves that you are intelligent.

That is not a philosophy. It's a bumper sticker. Maybe you don't appreciate the things that you can get easily, so you throw them away. Maybe you only appreciate the things that you work hard for.