JosephKnecht

But who is God? Is God a Penguin too? @PenguinPablo

He did an interview with Lex Fridman recently, so if you need more click the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-2P3MSZrBM

Computational theories of the mind seem to be ideally suited to explain rationality. But how can computations be subverted by meaning, emotion and love?

They are about 300 million guns in America. How do you get rid of them? The government can make a law to make it illegal to own a gun? Progress. 299 million guns will be returned or destroyed by honest people. 1 million guns will be kept by criminals. No progress. The honest people that returned guns to the government now have to purchase new guns from criminals to protect themselves from criminals. This makes illegal gun sales a more lucrative business for criminals. The number of criminals increases. No Progress The only way to progress is to progress society to a level where there is no need to have criminals. Only when the whole society put their mind into it and realize that they are only shooting at themselves, there can be no progress.

If you remove guns, only criminals would be able to have guns. In a country with lots of criminals, you are likely to get shot by criminals. Guns don't kill people. Idiots with guns kill people. Remove the idiots from society and nobody cares who has a gun or not. How to remove idiots? Education.

Selfish or Selfless? If you take away the Self, will you have fish or less of a fish?

How do you know your friends are doing better? You don't know. Maybe they hate their jobs and they use Instagram to mask how unhappy they are. Deep down, you don't know if your friends are happy or not. You can never know that. The only thing you can ever know is that YOU are happy or not happy. If comparing yourself to others makes you unhappy, then why do it? Why do something that makes you unhappy? Don't compare yourself with others. Compare yourself with who you used to be. If you are less happy than yesterday, then find something to do today that will make you happier tomorrow. @Son of leo You are the son of Leo. You can do it.

If everyone thought the same way you do, these technologies would not arrive in 9 years nor never. If they never arrive, you better get off your ass and do some spirituality or learn how to implement AI. Someone has to work to imagine, someone has to work to implement a better future than the present you live in now. Why don't you be that someone? What if Ray Kurzweil is wrong? Or what if he is right but needs your help to make the future happen?

Its time to walk on water.

Think of your life as building a pyramid. When you are born, you know nothing about building anything. By age 10 you learn what are buildings and pyramids. By age 20 you can learn physics, architecture, etc so you learn all the theoretical knowledge on building a pyramid. By age 30 you have perhaps started building the foundations of the pyramid. You better build a strong foundation otherwise the pyramid will collapse later on. By age 40 you have built half the pyramid. By building it you are learning better approaches and techniques for building the pyramid. You are constantly improving. By age 50 you have nearly built it. Now you are a master in a pyramid building. By age 60 you have finished building it. Now you teach other children your knowledge of how they too shall build a pyramid for themselves too. But then, at 70 you realize that you didn't want to build a pyramid, but actually should have built a holy circle. Then you wish you were 26 again. @RawJudah By 30, you should figure out what you want to build? Do you want to build pyramids or circles? If you choose wrong, you cant go back.

I think if you put yourself in the middle of this, you will get the most explosive way to get to heaven. The explosive way is not the most enlightening tho.

@StrangerWatchYou saw a statement on RationalWiki. But then you doubted the veracity of the statement. Then you came to the forum to ask if the statement is true or not. But how do you know that the answers given here will be truthful? Can you trust @WaveInTheOcean @Keyhole @Mada_ or @Nak Khid. Do they seem like trustworthy people? You don't know. Maybe. Maybe not. There are no links to the Truth, because you have the Truth within yourself. You are the Source of the Truth. So you can only ask yourself. As long as you believe others, no matter how rational or friendly they seem, you will be deceived.

I know that ANYTHING I do is the highest form of love I can give. But what would Jesus do? You have answered my hypothetical question. Answering is a form of action rather than inaction. That answered my question. Thanks

Are you saying he was breathing without purpose? @ivankiss @assx95 Start with meditation. Just close your eyes, sit, and do nothing for 20 minutes. It can't get any easier than this.

@EntheogenTruthSeeker How often do You trip?

Sounds true. But it depends who that someone is. If you love a girl or a boy that is not you, you have to make an effort to show them how pure your love for them is. If you don't make any effort, they would never know that you love them. The purest and most unconditional love is the love that you have for yourself once you learn who you are.

The paragraph shares the thoughts of the author that wrote the book. Your own thoughts refused to engage with the thoughts of the author. Why could this happen? Did you find the paragraph engaging enough? Did you find it informative enough? Try writing down your thoughts and contemplate why the author of the book is not grabbing your attention.

All novels of Hesse are non-dual fiction. The best one is his masterpiece: The Glass Bead Game.

Cinema Paradiso (1988)

Thank you for the rationalizations. But you didn't answer my question: This is a multiple-choice question, not an essay question. Option (1) OR Option (2) If none of the options suit you, tell me what would you have done? Maybe you would run away from the situation.

I have a hypothetical question: Suppose you were present at the scene when the cop stood on the neck of George Floyd for 8 minutes. Given these circumstances, what is the highest form of love you can give? Option 1: You speak up and try to save the life of George? Option 2: You don't speak up because you understand that everything that is happening is part of God's plan? Is inaction or action the highest form of love?

Finally, Leo stopped changing his shirt colors and made a video shirtless. The joke is on you guys, there was never any shirt.

Sounds about right.

Have you thought about exploring his sexuality together? Maybe inviting another girl into the bedroom on occasion. Will seeing him with another girl in front of you bother you more than he being with other women while you are not there? He is obviously missing experiences, but the real question is does he love those sexual experiences more than he loves you? The other question is: do you love him enough that you can get over the fact that he might be sexual with other women? All love for the body is temporary. Only the love of the soul is permanent. Sex is only love of the body, for the body, with the body.

You have answered your first question there. Your first question is biased and subjective. Objective reality can not exist without the Subject. To realize what exists beyond objective reality, you must collapse the subject-object duality. You can not survive in pure random reality. If today you are a human, and tomorrow you wake up as a horse, you will think you went insane. Reality must have a perceived order in order for you to be able to ask this question.