JosephKnecht

It makes sense, but what is the alternative? The mind has to be filled with concepts. Language has to be imbued with concepts otherwise your words won't make sense. If there were no conceptual structures, no abstract concepts, no language, how can you ask if your ideas make sense? Everything is necessary to make sense of anything.

Money is just an abstraction of value. You spend money on the things that you value. Nobody can tell you what to value because values are subjective. The best way to use money is to find ways to help others.

After the 9/11 attacks, the US was enveloped in negative energy that had to be released into the world. Iraq was the country the US decided to release that negative energy onto. They chose Iraq most probably because of convenient economic, military, and political reasons.

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Metaphysically speaking, everything is God. FrankTheTank is also God. But as long as you are FrankTheTank, you are separate from God and do not command His Will. When FrankTheTank aims the barrel of his Tank at himself and destroys himself, he becomes Nothing, he becomes God. But when you become nothing, you no longer have a direct effect on reality. If previously your tank was able to shoot at others, now when you are nothing, you can no longer shoot at anyone. Thus, to affect reality you must be something and as long you are something, you are not God. Literally speaking, Leo is not God because he is Leo. Leo would be nothing without the Father(God), but the Father needs his son to co-create His kingdom.

Be careful what you wish for. The end of suffering is the end of it all. As long as there is duality, there will be suffering because suffering arises out of separation.

Bitcoin is not scalable. When a system acquires a large enough size, the system becomes harder to change. Bitcoin is currently a large system. Making large changes to its codebase becomes nearly impossible. It is much more likely that there will be another small, decentralized cryptocurrency that would eventually come to the market that will solve the scalability problem of bitcoin. When a system is small, it is easy to adjust.

Who is this "I" you are talking about?

Being awake doesn't end suffering. It only changes the perception of suffering.

Yoga will help you with your concentration. Also, you can start a short meditation practice. Start with 10 minutes of guided meditations. After few months, increase to 20 minutes.

Only the present defines you. The past defined your present. The present will define your future.

The inventor of Bitcoin solved a very hard technical problem. Bitcoin creates a decentralized system in which no third party can mediate your will. The technology behind bitcoin will be here for the next thousand years. The Bitcoin brand itself, I am not so sure.

Few more years of Trump and the USA will go from green to red.

It amazing to see that people that I admired in my childhood, now have become childish.

If you don't focus on the breath at all, how do you know you have a cessation of breath? I am not invalidating your claim, just questioning it. Also, how long does it take to a state where you can hold your breath for 2 hours? Few years? @XeRnOg No need to be hostile toward others. We are not dumb bots. Some of us are quite clever.

When you start to project your Guru in the clouds, it is time to reflect on your projections. The kingdom if of Heaven is within, not outside in the clouds.

Yes, If you force isolation on yourself when you are not ready could result in ego backlash. Take your time to evolve, but make sure you are evolving and no devolving. @pdude Age is just a number. At some point, we realize that its the maturity that matters more than the age.

I think the harder question would be: how do you share it? There is no way to share profound knowledge without sounding like an insane person. Whatever you say will be misunderstood or judged.

gesundheit.- used to wish good health to a person who has just sneezed.

Every person is the center of its own universe. The universe is like a fractal, and you are a central point in that fractal. Other people are just other points on the fractal. From their POV they are the central point in the fractal. Other people can have an effect on you, but they cannot destroy the center. So, if someone experiences a maha-samadhi, your center of experience will be unaffected.

Is this a reference to the Uberman(Übermensch) of Nietzche? To become enlightened, you must give up everything. "Normal" people surrender themselves into Nothing because that is what they have. Wealthy enlightened people also surrendered everything. They surrendered their time and sweat to make the lives of others better. As a result of their surrender, they received wealth.

On average, girls are more mature mentally than the guys of their age. That is why girls topically date guys that are older than them. There are deep biological reasons for this, but I will not elaborate on the details here. Having friendship is beneficial, absolutely. We are social animals and we need the company of others. So try to find people that you can resonate with, people that have common ideals and goals. Those are the type of people that will understand you, and you will understand them. My last comment was for those who seek enlightenment. If it was not relevant for you, then it was relevant to someone else who was reading this thread.

Morality is created by the weak to neutralize the strong. Morality is used by the strong to protect the weak. Thus, morality is the modality through which power is distributed equally between the strong and the weak.

Meditation helps. It increases the baseline of your happiness. I relapse into ego state often because I live in the world. Nothing is permanent. Not even enlightenment.

Be happy without conditions. Be loving without conditions. Be thankful without conditions. Be accepting without conditions. If you put conditions on yourself, you limit yourself to how happy, loving, accepting, and thankful you are. To be all those things without pre-conditions is the hardest thing in the world. But that is the price for happiness.