JosephKnecht

No, it would not be awesome. That would mean that a corporation that is only liable to a few shareholders has more power than a democratically elected president who was voted in by millions of people. Few shareholders in tweety company should not be able to silence a person that presides over all the laws of the country. When a few people rule over many, there is always tyranny. Don't silence Trump. Vote him out of office. That would be more awesome.

You can't tell the Truth to a believer. A believer believes in Jesus but doesn't know Jesus. If you tell a Christian fanatic that Jesus didn't exist, they will crucify you. If you tell them the Jesus never died, they will crucify you. Christians have to crucify YOU, to know Jesus.

The difference is syntactic sugar. The latter makes the language "sweeter" for human use. Emotions are the things that set things in motion. Science can't study subjective states since science relies on objective third party validation. Spirituality can't explain objective states since it relies on subjective experience. The most surprising thing is that all emotions can be deconstructed. David Hawkins's scale is a useful approach to deconstruction.

To get to enlightenment, you must first pass through the path of insanity. When you think you are starting to go insane, don't stop. Keep going.

Spirituality is about raising your spirit. The spirit doesn't understand depression, emotions, jobs. Those things are under the control of your ego. You suffer because you misidentify your spirit for your ego. Spirituality can only help you to the extent that you can correctly identify yourself rather than misidentify yourself. If everything that I just mentioned went over your head, remember, you can always get another job. You can always let go of your emotions. You are in control of your life. Nobody can ever know you the way you know yourself.

For-Get. For —used to indicate the place someone or something is going to or toward. Get — succeed in attaining, achieving, or experiencing; obtain. Without the for, you can't get. Without the get, you don't know what for.

I know he knows, but he doesn't want to tell me. Did you enter this state through meditation only or through different methods?

Is doing "low consciousness" activities a good approach for grounding back to reality? Are there any side-effects to re-grounding using these approaches? Can you get to a state when you can willingly modulate your state of consciousness? This would mean not talking psychedelics to achieve high states, nor having sex to achieve ground states? So only using pure will power?

Politics.

That is what I have been trying to say. I do not follow Stefan, and I was unaware of /r/the_donald until they removed it from Reddit. We should not delegate the freedom of speech to large companies that basically have a monopoly on our communication channels. If Youtube could ban Alex Jones, Stefan, and others, what would prevent them from banning Leo from Youtube? I am sure in the hundreds of hours Leo has uploaded, someone might interpret something as hate speech.

What is a statue but the immortalization of human stupidity? A statue is an attempt to solidify the image of a hero who in the times which he/she lived fought for that which society believed to be just. But society changes, and so does justice. Now take a more enlightened perspective. Every statue in a million years will be perceived as a deluded idiot who fought for something that was already perfect in the eyes of God. It was only his Ego that saw imperfections and tried to make it perfect. In the end, we should bring down every statue, not just the confederate ones. Or maybe, we should let them stand as a symbol of human stupidity. If you can't decide who draws the line, then don't draw the line. Sites like Reddit, Youtube, Amazon have gained monopoly power over the way we communicate. If they gain the power to censor communication, eventually they might seek power to control what, how, and when we communicate. One of the reasons why the Internet is so successful and prevalent is because it doesn't censure any communication. The internet protocol allows for complete freedom in human expression. There is no "hate" in bits of information. Every bit is equal to every other bit. The hate is only in our minds that perceive hatred. You can't eradicate hatred by censuring speech but only by changing human perception.

I agree with your points. However, who becomes the arbiter of what is "hate speech"? The one who decides what is hate speech wields all power over free speech. Reddit is a privately owned company. That is true. However, Reddit is hosted on Amazon AWS. What if one day Amazon decides that posting memes about Bezos is hate speech and shuts down Reddit? A company can not be the arbiter of free speech.

It is all fun and games until someone loses an "I".

It is not about the amount of money. You have to earn more than you spend. If you earn a million but spend two million, you are still relying on daddy to pay the bills.

Which one is more important? Hate speech or Free speech? Hatred or Freedom? You can not shut down a community like that. The community can create their own forum where they can continue perpetuating hatred. In fact, when they recreate their communities, their hatred will increase because others were trying to silence them. I am not defending their hatred. Only their freedom to hate.

Yes. I think that was the person that initially "pushed me" onto the spiritual path. The person is not in the "public eye". You would never guess that he is Awakened. From the outside, he appears as a normal, average, family man in his 50's.

Everybody is going through the same thing. I am also going through a similar situation. There are already too many gurus and philosophers. The highest teaching you give to the world is not what you say or write, but what you do. You must embody what you have learned and become that. Conceptual intelligence is only useful only when the intelligence stops drowning in concepts. You can conceptualize the most beautiful universe inside your mind or you can also choose to experience the universe without concepts. In the end, it is not what you know that matters, but what you achieved with what you knew. It would be great if everybody became enlightened and everything becomes perfect, but perfection is fucking boring. Just imagine everyone singing Kumbaya my Lord, and dancing in a circle for all eternity. Imagine how that would feel. That doesn't sound like heaven to me. Sounds more like Hell. It is more dynamic to have everyone on the spiral rise and fall. That is the purpose of spiral dynamics. You must find the heaviest cross you can carry, and try to carry it with the best of your abilities. If the cross is too heavy, find a lighter one. If the cross is too light, find a heavier one. In the end, we all must carry our own cross to the other side of Hell to get to Heaven.

When you are still afraid, but God gives you a small push. ---------------------------- When you get so high that you start looking for the ground. ----------------------------------------------------- When you start losing your grasp on reality. ------------------------------------------------------- When you start to gain back your grasp on reality. ------------------------------------------------------- When the dream is trying to seduce you. ----------------------------------------------------- Just for the LOLs!

When you believe that you are the prince that has to rescue the sleeping beauty. But then you realize that you were the beauty that has been asleep this whole time. To awaken, you must kiss yourself.

Does it help the self? If it helps you in practice, it is the right amount of theory. If it doesn't help in practice, it is the wrong amount of theory.

I was pondering the difference between knowledge and experience. Which one do you think is the more valuable one? Is it knowledge? Are you willing to surrender all experience to become a monk, secluded from society so that you can obtain the knowledge of the Gods? Is it experience? All you willing to surrender all knowledge and throw yourself into reality in hopes that reality will teach you what the Gods wished to experience? Is there value to knowledge never applied? Is there value in an experience never acknowledged? I used to believe that only knowledge could save the world. I believed that if I have read enough books, learned about the self, I would understand the true nature of reality. But now that I have the knowledge, I understand how hollow it is without the magic of experience. You never truly know everything until you experience it. And experience doesn't come from books or lectures. Experience only comes from experiences. Your Move Chief!

He is the Creator. The creator creates creatively.

An enlightened master understands that he is both the psychopath and the baby. It matters not what he chooses.

The enlightened master has already killed himself. Why would he care if he got killed again?

@Knowledge I think knowledge is one of the biggest distractions. @mrslick Welcome. Are you Mr. Slick or Mrs. Lick? I don't want to use the wrong pronouns.