Bazooka Jesus

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  1. Posted

    2 hours ago, Someone here said:

    "How we know pleasure without pain " is such a cliche.

    It's a cliché 'cause it's true.

    2 hours ago, Someone here said:

    If reality or god is endless then sure he can create a reality that is endless joy without a shred of pain.

    Endless joy without the contrast of pain would be endless monotony.

    Ever noticed how every amazing thing in your life just becomes "meh" once you get used to it? Well, that's how reality works. The quality of any experience is always relative to the quality of other experiences; nothing is ever absolutely good ot bad.

    Take your own life as an example. Compared to the life of a starving slave working himself to death in a coal mine and getting whipped 24/7, your cushy life is pure heaven on earth; and yet to you, it seems normal, mediocre, boring, nothing special, perhaps even dull and depressing, because you're used to it. You take your ability to walk, talk, see and hear for granted, and yet someone whose legs are paralyzed, who is mute, who is blind and/or deaf would cry tears of joy if he or she had the opportunity to spend a single day inside your skin. See how it is all relative?

    There is no joy without pain, no white without black, no up without down. No contrast = no experience. It's as simple as that.

  3. Posted · Edited by Bazooka Jesus

    9 hours ago, StarStruck said:

    You can't transcend survival. If you think you transcended survival, try to go into a forest with bears while being stained in honey and you will find out. This transcending the rat race is just a bubble in some western societies.

    Lol. Did you even read hat I wrote?

    Let's try again, shall we?

    No matter what you do (or don't do), the game of survival will never end. Once you accept this fact, being caught up in the game of survival will no longer be a problem for you.

    Or, in the words of M. Scott Peck:

    Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it. Once we truly know that life is difficult - once we truly understand and accept it - then life is no longer difficult. Because once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer matters.

    - The Road Less Traveled -

     

    Acceptance = Transcendence.

     

     

  6. Posted

    26 minutes ago, Someone here said:

    No . Stories are essential for survival .you couldn't have human life without em. Imagine living as an empty headed nobody who abandoned society and just begging for bread on the streets ...you will end up like that without Stories.  When you interact in society with other human chimps who are also not awake and deeply stuck in the matrix just like you..you have to practice etiquette and play by the social matrix's rules . Without Stories you couldn't sleep at night..because you need an ontological bedrock of assumptions that it's safe to drift off .as an atheist myself..I don't have that . And I suffer from insomnia. Do you know that deeply religious people are more happy than secular people? There has been studies done on thar.

    Of course you don't get rid of stories. Without stories, there would be no game to play, and therefore no experience of reality to be had. Stories are here to give the game of life rules, structure and form. Stories are wonderful, stories are beautiful, stories are what makes life engaging and exiting. They aren't just useless crap that you throw overboard as soon as you become "enlightened" - no. Becoming aware of the nature of the game of life makes you deeply appreciate the beauty of stories; it makes you realize why they are there, what their true purpose is.

    Does that mean that you have to be all grumpy and "serious" about the game? NO! A game is supposed to be fun, otherwise it wouldn't be a game!

    You don't have to take the game serious in order to play it well. As a matter of fact, you can only play the game well if you don't take it too serious; if you take it too serious, you are going to act all stiff and awkward and clumsy and make a terrible mess of things. You are going to be like the proverbial elephant in the china shop, trampling everything to bits and pieces. Only someone who doesn't take it all too serious can be fully invested in it while at the same time being playful and creative; too much seriousness destroys playfulness, creativity and beauty. Life is supposed to be art, life is supposed to be a poem, life is supposed to be a dance. It's a beautiful divine gift, so start treating it like one.

     

  7. Posted

    4 hours ago, Princess Arabia said:

    So disappointing you have to develop the "don't take it personal strategy". Another strategy is the "raise your consciousness" strategy. The stupid girls, as you call them, keep outsmarting you and your survival strategy to not go mad is to not take it personal . But take it personal enough to raise your consciousness enough to outsmart them.

    xDxDxD

    Touché, if you pardon my French.

    The only way to transcend the rat race is to realize that the rat race will never end, no matter what you do (or don't do). Once you truly understand and accept this, being caught up in the rat race will no longer be a problem. And then you just play the game, for the sheer heck of it. 'Cause what else is there to do?

  9. Posted

    7 minutes ago, Someone here said:

    Do you have the nerve to claim you live without "a story "?

    I live with loads of stories. I just don't take them (overly) serious.

    Let's be real, life would be boring without stories. They are like a bunch of amazing, funny, silly, colorful, sparkly toys that keep us engaged and entertained from morning 'till nighttime. But what happens when you take them too serious? You suffer. And that just ain't fun, now is it?

    So, there you go. There's no need to get rid of your stories, as long as you recognize and appreciate them for what they are: Beautiful playthings, given to us by the universe to enrich our experience and fill us with childlike awe and wonder.

    Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.

    - Alan Watts -

  10. Posted

    14 minutes ago, Someone here said:

    The Truth is of course you are God dreaming its everything.

    That's just another mental story. Zhuangzi's fanciful dream story is just as (in)valid as yours.

    I mean, at least this guy comes up with two different stories and admits that he doesn't know which of the two is the correct one. Sounds much more honest than most people, if you ask me. ;)

  11. Posted

    33 minutes ago, Someone here said:

    My theory is that the older you get the more you become able to experience unconditional happiness that isn't contingent on external conditions. 

    Errrr... have you ever met anyone over the age of seventy? In my experience, they tend to be the most nagging, impatient and thin-skinned persons on the entire planet. - But then again, I have been living in post-WWII Germany for most of my life, so I guess I might have been exposed to a particularly skewed sample, lol.

  12. Posted

    2 hours ago, Carl-Richard said:

    My mom plays some kind of flute instrument that I forgot the name of.

    My mother used to play the classical metal concert flute; I got that old thing lying around somewhere here in my flat, but can't play a single damn note on it. (When I look at those entwined valves, I am like "uuuuuuummmm, wut? Which way am I supposed to hold this thing again?" LOL)

    I play an alto recorder instead (also my mother's)... mostly for meditation purposes, or when I am sitting in the park, or when I'm chilling on the porch of a lonely hut somewhere in the Himalayas smoking hash. You know, snake charmer stoner hippie style. :D

    2 hours ago, Carl-Richard said:

    I can actually whistle the flute run in that one 🤓

    Holy crap, you must have some serious whistling skills. Daaaaayum!!

  17. Posted

    16 minutes ago, OBEler said:

    I watched both multiple times. I will do again and again. They contradict each other in some aspects (if we are talking about same perspective).

    Why can't we say on a meta perspective there exists multiple beings, which are one in the end but from a certain perspective multiple beings.

    If my ego doesnt look at my girlfriend and don't imagine her she is probably existing in her own bubble. I as God hold her in my consciousness which is unlimited.thats what I understand. Why can you say she even doesn't exist from a meta perspective 

    Here's a third story: You are Santa Claus, everyone else is the Easter Bunny, and you're all created by the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

    You like this one?

  23. Posted · Edited by Bazooka Jesus

    Solipsism is the quintessential egoic bullshit story. It is the erroneous conflation or relative and absolute truth taken to its ultimate delusional extreme.

    10 hours ago, thierry said:

    It’s obvious that other and self are construction of the mind but can we jump on the conclusion of sollipsism to be true that fast ?

    Everything that can be put into words is a construction of the mind. Including the mental story of solipsism.