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The goal and priority of school is ultimately not learning, but getting a high grade. It's up to the student which one to prioritize. Grades are just a very cheap and lazy way of measuring "learning". The job of learning has been delegated to the grade system. This motivates an asymmetry between two values: "grades" and "learning". Cheating is something that happens when the value tips towards grades. You can get high grades without learning. It's a bureaucratic game, and you may or may not learn something along the way of playing this game. Some people cheat. Some people decide to follow all the rules perfectly. Some people decide to do more than the rules ask for since they might feel the rules are limited. It's up to you how you wanna play it, but ultimately it is a very bureaucratic system.

Well, if you're beyond sex you're probably not human anymore. Just like the butterfly isn't a caterpillar anymore.

To change yourself. To change other people. Resisting what you are. It creates motivation to change how reality is. It indicates a discord in how your psychology is interfacing with reality. A contradiction somewhere that can be inspected if you're introspective enough. And then from there you can learn a lot about yourself. It's not necessary. It can be transcended and the same results can be achieved without it. But some people need it for where they are at. Relatively speaking, no. I've rarely felt it because I always intuitively understood that I was just trying to do the best I could from my current state of consciousness, and that any shame would only be created through a myopic perspective of myself.

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I saw them in a mirror once. Pretty good-looking, if I do say so myself.

This doesn't seem like a good distinction. In a state of nothingness/cessation/turiya/pure consciousness, you are infinite and whole simultaneously. Infinity can maintain the exact same qualia and not change at all, yet still be infinite. Infinity is total, until an ego comes along and tries to separate it, as you are doing.

I was thinking the same thing lol

Well, I was open-minded enough to sit down and stare at this, and I actually wasn't disappointed. My brain was constantly recontextualizing things and noticing patterns. Sometimes I would see circles. Sometimes it would look fluid like water. Sometimes the screen would start moving or shaking towards a certain direction. The coolest one was when I saw everything as 3D all of a sudden, like a bunch of white objects floating around in some 3d space. Weird. I will never judge people who watch TV static again, I get it now.

And then on the very back of the page, the boss battle of spiritual questions: Is solipsism true? (worth 50% of the test score) (1000 words minimum) (show your work)

Awesome

A fraud? lol, what do they mean? it's so odd how banks can just gatekeep your money cause of random shit

You're being a bastard to yourself. You're just assuming things about God that you don't know. And those assumptions cause you pain. God gives you imagination, and quite generously, as anything you imagine reality will recontextualize itself to fit that imagination. I know you'll probably create another similar thread soon after this one and my response here will be disregarded. But maybe someone in a similar position who is slightly more openminded than you can learn something from this thread and actually change their direction.

You can try eating multiple meals, but I doubt it will fix your issue. I don't see why it would. I eat 1-2 meals and I don't feel tired. It's probably what you're eating, not the timing. Or maybe you're an anomaly. Experiment through trial and error and see what works.

Seems pretty accurate. Not sure what "transcend" exactly means here, but I don't think I want to transcend sex anyways. I find it very enjoyable. Having control over something isn't the same as disregarding it or transcending it, at least by my standards. I feel like your relationship to sex simply "matures" or changes over time. It doesn't completely vanish unless you're biologically incapable.

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What color is your Spiral Dynamics stage?

Someone should make an AI prompt for that

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People do tend to use the word "imagination" differently. I mean it in the most relative and common way when I use it. I am just referring to your mind's eye or inner dialogue, or anything that your human self imagines. I use the term imagination more relatively and dualistically here because I think it is better for communicating and teaching certain things. The human imagination never matches up to "physical" or more "tangible" qualia. That is what the human imagination is, by definition. If the human imagination became more "real", it wouldn't be human imagination anymore, it would be a "physical object" or a "superpower/siddhi" or perhaps "God's imagination". In the relative world, a distinction is drawn between "imagination" and a "physical object", because in the relative world you are a human. I find this distinction to be important when trying to realize how your current human experience interfaces with itself, because then I can distinguish between the different forms of qualia inside it and how they interact with each other, instead of lumping all of it into the same category of "imagination". Basically, yes. It becomes "in time" when you overlay context and imagination on top. Time is a way of measuring change or direct experience, but it is not inherent to change or direct experience. Infinity never has a beginning unless you condense it into something finite through imagination. Reality is always infinitely regressing. Imagination is always finite and limited. Your imagination tries to "contain" or "compartmentalize" the infinite regress. There's nothing wrong with imagining things. Imagination is how you survive. But it is always imagined. "Beginning" and "end" is a separation and a duality, so it is always imaginary. Your memory of being at the store can be entangled with the physical non-imaginative qualia in front of you. But it doesn't have to be. For example, someone at the store might have sliced the apple for you. Now, the sliced apple in front of you is entangled with your memory of the store. You believe someone physically sliced the apple. The physicality of the apple merges with your imagination in this instance, but it doesn't have to. It can be unimagined and reduced to something more direct. A lot of physicality is actually just imagined in this way. Your memory is a specific type of imagination which is designed to make reality seem more consistent. It's just a story to explain how you got here, which is actually from nowhere. It's possible to have bad memory, which is memory that is inaccurate to what reality portrays. Usually, when this happens, people will say: "you must have imagined it." See the distinction that's being made between memory and imagination? The degree to which you trust your memory is in accordance with how accurately it represents reality. If you remember a chair being in your room and it is not there, then you would say you just imagined it. If it is there, then you would say you remembered it.

You're right in saying that your human imagination is a different qualia than the computer in front of you. All that's happening is that you're overlaying a backstory onto your current experience. It's imagination being projected on top of non-imagination. Lets say you have an apple from your grocery shopping in front of you. If you stop imagining that you went grocery shopping, now your apple came from nowhere. It has no context or story or justification to it anymore. For example, when you see a tree inside of a dream, you imagine an entire life cycle for the tree. You imagine that it used to be a seed. You imagine that it sucked up water through its roots over the years. But obviously, the dream did not have to accomplish any of that, all it had to do was show you a tree, and then you filled in the gaps by imagining a story to go with it.