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I saw a bug on my wall and thought to myself, what is its purpose? Why is it here? Why did God create something so small and meaningless? It just sits there and does nothing and then reproduces and dies. Then I realized, my life is no more meaningful or important than the bug's life. To the bug, its life is more important than mine. All meaning is relative. This wasn't depressing, it just showed me that life is what we make of it. I intellectualized this concept of meaning being relative before, but I never really encountered a real life example of it in this way. Thought it would be nice to share.

Yeah this happens to me when I focus on objects

@meow_meow If you're interested enough, this video explains it pretty well

@James123 All this technology is basically a superpower. The ego always thinks it needs more to be happy.

@meow_meow Yes they need to exist, but any purpose you assign is relative. They do not have one single purpose, they can have infinite purposes because they have no purpose. When you think there is one purpose to something its meaning becomes finite and limited. The bug thinks its life is more important than mine, and I think mine is more important. Why? Because it is not set in stone, it is relative. Meaning is something your mind creates so that it can navigate reality. An object needs to have no meaning in order for you to assign meaning in the first place! Notice that this is only relative to the food chain. What is the purpose of the food chain? What is the purpose of keeping animals alive through this food chain? What is the purpose of creating animals for this food chain in the first place? It goes on forever, the purpose is to just be itself without any existential meaning. Yes, animals are needed for other animals to be alive. But why? There is no REAL reason, it just exists exactly as it is for the sake of existing. There is no reason you can find out there in reality, it just is how it is. You create the model of a food chain in order to make sense of how reality works and realize that animals are needed for other animals to survive, but that doesn't say anything about its actual meaning. You could say the purpose of a computer is so that you can access the internet, but if all humans suddenly disappeared, it is just some object that can display the internet. Who is to say what its purpose is? There is no one left to assign it a purpose. It just exists as it is.

@ItsMeGod Awareness is curative. It made it much easier to see past the stress and anxiety my thoughts caused me and cope with situations in the world. I keep it under wraps pretty much, it is much too radical to simply tell other people. I will hint at spirituality here and there with my mother just to plant that seed. My brother is also super into spirituality like me and actually got me into it.

@zeroISinfinity Someone else might have felt the same way even if it was a joke, so its all good Good luck with your witch girlfriend

@zeroISinfinity That depression is all ego games. You still subconsciously believe a bug's life is "lower" than yours so you feel that your life lost meaning in some way, but that's not true at all. You haven't lost anything, you're just changing how you see your life. Meaning is finite. No meaning allows for infinite meanings.

Thoughts are just an appearance/aspect within consciousness, just like anything else. You could go for the scientific explanation and say it is an electro-chemical reaction in our brain which allows us to somehow perceive images, but we know that is just a story. Just like how you could explain that a chair is just made of wood that was cut down from a tree. In the end, it is just an appearance that appears out of nothing and is made of consciousness. This appearance helped us survive as a species in this reality. If you were in a dream, you could see a chair and say "wow that chair is made of wood", but we know that the chair is just pure imagination that was created out of nothing. However, I think there are more to thoughts than just appearances. You can use it as a tool for raising consciousness or maybe manifesting paranormal abilities, who knows really. If the ego can use our thoughts to cause so much suffering, it makes sense that it can have serious positive affects if we use it for good. It seems evident to me that our thoughts are linked to infinite intelligence, just like everything else. Where else do all these amazing intuitive ideas come from?

@James123 Reality itself exists within nothingness, just like a thought. It really boils down to what you consider "real". IMO, anything that you perceive is real. The ego does not exist, but the illusion of ego is still something that people experience. Do you consider a dream real? You could say no, it is just something that happens in my head and disappears like a thought. But, it is definitely true that the phenomena of a dream is something that happens. There IS something there that is happening, and that something is happening within reality. I do not see any reason to not consider it real. Thoughts are used as a tool by the ego, but they are not made by the ego. Identification with thoughts is what creates ego.

You got it. Hell is attachment to ego.

@James123 That's what is so perplexing about thoughts, I CAN see them, but not in the conventional way. I see an apple in my thought right now, clear as day, but it is not in physical reality. Are you actually seeing things when you dream? But there are no eyes to see anything, right? Do we really need eyes to see?

@Jacobsrw I very much agree with this theory. I think this might be why children are often reported to see ghosts or spirits so often. I actually saw a ghost/spirit when I was a baby. Children definitely seem more in tune with their intuition, not really thinking twice about what they say and do.

@James123 Apparently some people aren't able to have super vivid pictures in their thoughts, which is interesting. I personally can imagine a high definition apple in my head right now. So, I can definitely see my thoughts.

You are not your body and you are not your thoughts. What is left over? You are everything that you become aware of. You are awareness itself.

Moderation is key. If you're drinking 2 cups or more of coffee a day, your sleep is definitely going to get screwed. You should keep it to one cup, and make sure to take it a while before you sleep, at around 12pm or earlier is good. IMO, more than 1 cup of coffee a day is just too much. Would you feel miserable or angry without drinking that one cup? That's a sign that you should work at not drinking coffee or lessening the amount that you drink. The main point is that you shouldn't let your happiness and productivity depend too heavily on material things like coffee or caffeine. Don't think of coffee as some important energy source that you need to start your day, but rather a sweet drink that you sometimes like to enjoy along with your breakfast. You could also just go with decaffeinated coffee. Luckily, tea has significantly less caffeine, so you can probably drink that a tad bit later. There are health benefits to tea and coffee like he said, but they are really not worth the caffeine influx you would get if you drank too much. This is why you need to balance it out somehow. However, I would only recommend this if you are trying to get the benefits of tea and coffee. If you are getting caffeine through energy drinks, you should stop because there are no benefits to that. Energy drinks are just candy water with caffeine sprinkled in.

@James123 There is definitely some way for people who have passed to communicate to us from the other side, it is usually done through materialistic means such as lights flickering on and off and so on. This makes it easy for people to dismiss these things as just random or coincidental occurrences. They do have some intent of communicating with people, which is made clear by the signs and messages they bring to us. That's all I can say really. Who knows how many different types of ghosts and spirits there are, and whether we confuse some of them together. It's tough to figure them out. I have heard stories of people experiencing sounds and sights of ghosts, I actually saw something like that when I was little.

@peqkno I loved reading that blog post lol. Education system is so wack

@Zanoni Yes, you can see without eyes. What I meant was that you don't really need eyes to see, that's just a story or aspect made up so that this world feels grounded. How do you see in dreams? Sure, there's a "you" in the dream and you assume that he/she has eyes in the dream, but we know it is just a dream and there aren't really any eyes there. Similar situation here. If someone poked your eyes out in the dream, you might go blind in the dream, but we know that your eyes getting poked out wasn't the TRUE cause of the blindness. That's just a story you imagined to justify becoming blind in that dream.

@Florian I have something similar. If I sleep too early, at about 8pm or less, my body will naturally wake up after only 6 hours of sleep. This leaves me feeling tired throughout the day, because I need more than 6 hours. However, if I sleep at about 9pm or later, my body will naturally get the amount of sleep it needs and then wake up. Very odd.

@Zanoni It seems to be arational. Things are limited for the sake of being limited. God could have made it so we can see without eyes by default, but it is not that way purely for the sake of being limited and so that God can experience such a limitation. It's like asking, why is the snow white and not green? These limitations are needed to construct and make sense of this world. God has designed it with infinite intelligence.

I get number synchronicities a lot. It is easy to figure numbers out because their meanings are usually listed online. I noticed that the higher the amount of numbers or objects in a synchronicity, the more accurate and powerful it is.

Wow

@The observer You need to follow less morals because you wont need to follow them in order to be moral. It is an outcome, how can you cause harm to others when you see them as yourself and see everything as love? Morals are literally based on high consciousness.

@The observer He means that the more conscious you become, the less morals you will need to follow in order to be moral. A lot of people have their morals depend on laws and rules that they set up for themselves, but if your morality depends on laws and rules then that is not a very high form of morality. In a sense, true morality is no morality. If you are highly conscious, you wont need morals in order to embody morality, because those morals themselves are based on high consciousness.