Johnny5

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  2. Posted

    On 9/7/2020 at 11:16 AM, Hungry said:

    Rape is imbalance. The design is for human males to display genetic excellence and to be selected by females. Being physically forced circumvents the Logos.

    Imbalance is not possible, circumventing the Logos is not possible. Seriously, neither man nor woman is that powerful...

    And from the perspective of Logos, neither man nor woman has final say in this, or anything else.

    This may not be pleasant to hear, but rape is balance. I am by no means arguing for giving rape of any kind a place in human morality, but like it or not, Logos is not subject to human morality. And nothing ever happens that is not completely in balance and completely in alignment with Logos, because it IS Logos.

    And no that's not an excuse for rape. Not only men are Logos, women are Logos too, and social justice is Logos too. Everything is already accounted for, even the shadow accounting of humans.

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    6 hours ago, dyslexicCnut said:

    Why do reactionaries post the stupidest shit?

    Sometimes I wish the likes of this 'Enlightenment' cretin would be curb stomped and spat on, and cast out of absolute infinity into their own realm devoid of good things.

     ? 

    The cretins will consider you unenlightened for that. But in my ever-so-humble opinion this already puts you way beyond them.

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    6 hours ago, Endangered-EGO said:

    What's the difference between saying metaphysical nature of reality and truth?

    Same thing. I wouldn't call it "metaphysical", but no big deal.

    Truth is an orientation in the search. You never actually find something that you can call truth, you can only find out that you're it and always were. It's the ultimate corrective against "misunderstanding", "misperception", "delusion", or call it what you will (even that's not true).

    After that I'm sure "truth" becomes most irrelevant. If life is a movie then truth is the bathroom break. It really has no place "here".

    Enlightenment is the final facade.

     

    "If man will strike, strike through the mask!" -- Herman Melville

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    3 minutes ago, WHO IS said:

    If I may ask, what do you by coming out of denial about life and not being able to wake up form it? 

    What I mean is that if you see life for what it is from the personal perspective, and you don't know that it's just a dream, then it's a nightmare.

    There is no rational reason for not commiting suicide. The only thing that keeps everyone going is fear and denial.

    I only held out as long as I did, and only barely, because I knew about the possiblility to wake up. And still I almost did it, just two months ago. Because knowing it's a dream and not being able to wake up is even worse. I was shown just enough to stop me.

    Somehow the universe manages to keep me teetering on the edge for almost a decade now. Things took a turn for the better since two months ago, but it's not over yet.

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    9 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

    And that's a common dogma of nonduality.

    A lightning bolt is no less true than anything else, and it only lasts less than a second.

    Fast things are no less true than long things -- since all things are eternal regardless of how long they last.

    If you ever get hit by a lightning bolt, that will be the strongest dose of truth you ever get ;)

    https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/innlvg/the_cat_beats_the_dog_after_he_farted/

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    49 minutes ago, Bazooka Jesus said:

    Btw, it also cracks me up how people on here just willy-nilly dismiss someone's claim to enlightenment because said person is an instagram model resp. 'gym rat'. Mmmm, how very open minded and enlightened of you fellas. LOL

    Because it's usually not that difficult to see the sense of self calling attention to itself or whether someone believes their own act.

    If you're striking a pose because of how it reflects on you in the eyes of others, then that speaks volumes. It's kinda funny. That's also why "I am enlightened AMA" threads are instantly suspicious. Not because there's a law against it, but because you can sense the vibe.

  14. Posted · Edited by Johnny5

    14 minutes ago, Bazooka Jesus said:

    @Johnny5 But this still doesn't answer the question how one can measure grades of enlightenment. Does it really matter in an absolute sense if you've made it to the fifteenth, the one hundred thousandth or the gazillionth step of a ladder with infinite steps? On a ladder like that, you obviously won't ever reach the one percent mark -- let alone the end!

    Yep like I said, in my book enlightenment is not on any such scale. That is to say, no such scale has any bearing on truth. So if someone says that, then they must be talking about something else (i.e. something false).

    You could say that one inches incrementally toward the abyss. But until you fall off, you ain't got shit. And you can only fall off once.

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    @arlin I've heard about depersonalization, but I've never had it like you do.

    On "the road to truth" there are many things to realize (or rather un-realize), and from your description it sounds like depersonalization has some aspects of that, but in a highly partial and incomplete way.

    Understand that the experience of free will is not actual free will. Nobody experiences actual free will, they only think that's what it is. It is an imputation of the mind that says "this over here is my choice and that over there is not". When in truth there is no distinction between the two.

    You were never concerned about not choosing to grow your hear or digest your food, right? Why not? Hope you can kinda see what I'm getting at. The distinction between voluntary and involuntary is an illusion, it always was. In one sense, everything was always voluntary, and yet in another sense, nothing was ever voluntary. When you really get down to it, nothing anyone might say about it is factual.

    "Conceptual" means much more than just thinking about something, it determines how you actually experience things. Neither way of experiencing is any more true than the other, they never were. Same with the experience of the body being yours or not yours. It is, and it isn't. It can be experienced either way, but it doesn't really change anything other than how it appears.

    Hope that makes sense at least in theory. Not sure that I'm of any help as regards the condition itself.

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    1 minute ago, arlin said:

    It seems like your non existance to you is a concept.

    you don't live detached from your body every second in you personal experience. What im saying is, that this split can create a profound detached for myself which is called depersonalization. And it's horrific.

    Sorry to hear that, I didn't know. It's also not what Jim Newman talks about, so apologies for the confusion.

    I don't know what depersonalization is like, so I'm afraid that I can't say much about it.

    Do hope that you recover from it and don't mistake it for the truth either.

  20. Posted

    Just now, arlin said:

    So what do i do with it when it implies that im an automat, and not a human being? That i don't exist?

    Same as before you ever heard about it. Except now you don't need to keep carrying all that guilt and blame etc. about yourself or put yourself down. You can forgive and accept yourself exactly as you are because there was never anything to forgive. You were always just perfectly you, even when others don't really see or understand it.

  22. Posted · Edited by Johnny5

    37 minutes ago, arlin said:

    I the truth is that you don't exist and you don't have free will.

    Tell me how are you going to live a normal and beautifull life knowing those things. 

    Tell me. Have you got an idea of what you are getting yourself into?

    Those kind of things are not for you. When you discover by experience that you don't exist, and you don't have free will, all that you will ever want is to be normal again. And just live a normal life. Which doesn't mean settling for less.

    @arlin You've always had exactly as much or as little free will as you do now, nothing changed except your ideas about it. You can still do everything you always could do. The idea of "no free will" could never stop you, unless you let it. Remember, your beliefs about truth are never true... Use your insights to set yourself free, not to imprison yourself.  ?