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Like I said Because its gonna require the work of engineers and physicists and psychologists as well. science advances, most likely, but not for a while. Well I guess it already has, , if there is no brain there would be no mental illness. But besides that there’s not much else besides drugs like depression and schizophrenia meds. But as far as I know, that’s about it.

Could you explain why ? Did you get abused as a child? Do you suffer from unsettled trauma? I think it's a good idea for invention .but that will require hard work from both engineers, psychologists,and physicists . But I don't believe such a thing will be possible in our lifetime or in this whole century. Also consider...many people would rather retain their trauma… almost as a sense of identity, or be stuck in trying to make the trauma un-happen, or be stuck in blame and anger and seeking vindication, if not vengeance. Some people may even hold onto their trauma as a reason/excuse they cannot advance in their life. It’s hard to move forward when you are stuck in the past.

@Tyler Robinson have you ever tried to inquire into the metaphysics of dreams ? By asking questions like : What are dreams? And how they come about ?and where did they occur (in the brain or do we leave to parallel universes etc? Or is that just not of any interest to you ?

Enough of these mental masturbatory threads on solipsism..?‍♂️ You are god. And you are the only conscious thing In existence. "Other people " are like people in your dreams .

Well, for starters, how do you know it's boring? Have you ever lived a Buddhist monk's life? To you, life in the external world may be exciting. To Buddhist monks, maybe the internal world is even more exciting than the external one. For me, boredom is not something I experience just because I have nothing to do. I always have something to do. But sometimes, circumstances require us to be somewhere we’re not interested in being, engaging in mundane conversation that we don’t particularly care about and so on. Boredom can become a habit, however. So, we must be on guard. We are currently living a life mostly experienced in samsara. Consequently, we must attend to the well-being of our body, intellectual mind and spiritual nature. So, unless we’re trapped by circumstances, there’s no reason to be bored. There’s so much to learn, to do, to discover. How could we get bored?

Good points . I have also a question of how much it is beneficial to live the ascetic life and overcome attachments. With material possessions it can be a case of not having many but being extremely attached to a few. Detachment in relationships is difficult as well, and this is emotional as well as sexual. Also, sexuality may be a natural part of life and it is questionable to what extent a person should try to overcome this aspect of life entirely. In some ways Western culture overemphasises the importance of sex but for many people finding the right person is hard enough, but not having any sexual relationships is something that many would not choose intentionally. I think this is at the heart of finding happiness and joy. The Dali Lama called it a selfish compassion, the more you help others the more you seem to help yourself. You give joy and happiness away, and it comes back to you.

Meditation is something which I do wish for but I would not wish to renounce all pleasures and live as a monk. The reason why I don't think that I could live as an ascetic is that there is so much pain and suffering in life and it needs some pleasure to balance it out. Even in the monastic life in Christianity the monks and nuns are provided for and don't have to worry about supporting themselves. Strangely, not many people in Western life are drawn to the monastic life. In the past, many people were drawn towards it because they struggled with being gay. I have come across people who joined a monastery for that reason and left eventually.

If you see a person, out in a cafe or wherever, one day and you feel really attracted to them and you spend the rest of the day imagining and fantasizing about who they are, is this person all in your mind? Your fantasies about the person are in your mind, your stories, your assumptions are in your mind. But the person itself isn’t. The person exists, out there somewhere, independently from your fantasies. Do you agree /disagree? I'm trying to understand your worldview .whether is subjective idealism or objective realism. No I actually meant "mind " not "brain". Obviously you've got a brain inside your skull. But can you please point to your "mind "? It's just a concept. Zero actuality.

@emvipi you are God. So stop praying to yourself.

Sex is very much important to maintain a spark in a relationship in order to keep the fire of love burning. Suppose if you are in a relationship since few months and haven’t even touched your partner yet. As you both will grow more affectionate of each other, you both will start holding hands. After few months, you both will kiss each other for the first time and sooner or later, it will lead to intercourse. It’s human nature, people will get bored if there is nothing new in a relationship. Everyone likes to have some change in their old life, that’s what keeps everything going. Even the nature changes its seasons because it can’t keep on having the same season its entire life. I am not saying that sex is very important. You can keep on having that spark in your relationship by trying many other things like doing some adventurous stuff like skydiving, travelling, trying new dishes et cetera along with your partner. But at some point, you will need it and do it only if you are serious about your relationship.

I need them. Unfortunately they are illegal/banned in my country . I don't know if I can reach the same level of understanding while sober . You can have a mystical experience out of nowhere, or you may fast, meditate or do other intense ascetic practices for extended periods. Or, you may ingest a molecule, a mushroom, or a brew, and you may discover billions of years of evolutionary intelligence through journeys into the depths of human consciousness. Unfortunately that option is not available to me .and honestly it's making me upset .

@Leo Gura in your philosophy video you talked about using philosophy to reach omniscience and a total understanding of all of reality. I wonder and I'm skeptical if that is possible..how is it possible to know everything in the world? “Everything in the world” would include all the grains of sand on every beach, and the names of seven billion people, and every thought in the mind of each of them. No one can know all of this, and no one would really want to. Einstein is quoted as saying, “The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don’t know”. To me, this illustrates how the illusion of total knowledge evaporates as we move closer to facing the infinite complexity of reality . Just the very fact that reality is infinite makes it unknowable. How can you ever know everything about something that is endless? Perhaps the illusion of total knowledge is comforting because of fear of the unknown. Many people are too quick to pigeonhole their experiences, or pretend to have total knowledge of things they’ve never been exposed to because it’s scary to admit to themselves that many things exist in the darkness beyond the reach of their knowledge. So I have a few questions What's the definition of omniscience? You talked in the past about general omniscience and detailed omniscience..like you can know the zoomed out picture of the earth but you can't get all the little details of every particle of sand on the whole planet .or is that kind of omniscience possible? If so,how ? How can you know everything when everything doesn't end ..so how can you reach the end of infinity?

How ? What is it then?

@Pudgey @Michael569 So basically developing a skill and present my services into the market ? Or selling a product ? I lean towards selling products through online marketplace such as Amazon, Alibaba, eBay, Shopee, etc. can i sell either my own products or other people’s products through dropshipping arrangement? I want to write a philosophy book and sell it online...how do I go about doing that ? Please guys be patient with me because I lack experience. I have zero expertise in online marketing so can you explain to me in simple steps what EXACTLY should I do ? I would love to list so many businesses that can generate massive income and can earn me a bunch of money..

I don't believe in the Christian, Jewish, Islamic god . You know, the bearded man up in the clouds.... I believe in the one and only god. Existence itself.

Omniscience is often regarded as impossible by folks who are unable to think outside their own three dimensional grasp of reality. Scientifically, to possess what we humans would consider omniscience, one might need a fourth, or fifth dimensional being. Maybe there's infinite dimensions that we don't know shit about? Who knows ? To understand how to achieve omniscience in this lifetime and this particular incarnation as this particular human.

good question. Yeah sometimes when you corner Leo he just ignores you. But I don't think that he is making this shit up . Buy he is always ambiguous and mysterious when cornered. Supposedly, An omniscient being knows everything, including what he himself will do in the future. And An omnipotent being, on the other hand, can do anything, including committing a random act that he did not himself foresee. Of course, people try to get out of this conundrum by claiming that God is “above” logic, but that’s nothing more than a cheap dodge. It’s like claiming that God exists “outside of time” in order to explain how he could have created the universe in the first place. It’s a linguistic loophole without any actual semantic meaning.

Why does God cut himself (itself ) from his unlimited power? Just for suspense ? For adventure? For it to experience what it's like to be a miserable fucking human being ? BTW I don't believe in God. I believe that if there's a God he must be me and nobody else .but that takes us to the solipsism question which is a gnarly one that I won't get into here. I'm an Atheist, so I do not believe an omnipotent being exists. Just wanted to make that clear from the jump. Now, the answer that believers in god used to give to the question of God's omnipotence was “Of course! An omnipotent being can create anything!” But then us pesky skeptical thinkers started asking things like “Really? So can he create a pepper so hot that he can't eat it?” Or “Can he create a boulder so big that he can't lift it?” Or “can he build a wall so high that he can't climb it?” and things like that. So then, just like always, in true “God Of The Gaps" rationale, the religious types shifted their goalposts and started claiming “an omnipotent being isn't REALLY omnipotent. He's maximally omnipotent. He can do anything that can be done, that doesn't tread all over the fundamental and universal laws of logic.” Which, if you ask me, is a massive cop-out and quite simply embarrassing for them. Because either God is unlimited in every possible way and can do whatever the fuck he wants to just by thinking it into existence...and the mysterious thing is he chose this absurd existence to incarnate as . God must be a weird mofo.

I don't feel like I'm playing a game of not being omnipotent. I feel like I'm NOT omnipotent and I'm extremely limited in what can I do. sorry to say this but there's absolutely nothing above Omnipotence, nothing. Omnipotence means having unlimited power and having no limitations whatsoever. A Truly Omnipotent being can affect anything and nothing and I repeat nothing can affect them no matter what kind of creative method/argument/concept you might come up with to find a loophole or to outsmart Omnipotence it just won't work. Omnipotence is the very peak of everything and anything, there is nothing more than Omnipotence otherwise it wouldn't be Omnipotent. Hypothetically, literally, philosophically, metaphorically, etc, speaking, Omnipotence is the top, the pinnacle. So if was omnipotent at some point in the past but I forgot.and deliberately chose to cut myself off my unlimited power...then I must be the dumbest omnipotent God ever ?

But is that desirable? ? Think about it..You know all things so you are essentially omnipresent throughout the universe at all points in time and you are in the minds of all living things so there is no such thing as a "new idea" since you would also know the possibilities, the future, the past, etc. There would literally be no purpose. Humans would have nothing to talk about since nothing would be funny or interesting since we all already know the rest of the sentence of the person who is talking to us. They would even know that we already know the rest of their sentence. In fact, there would be no point in bringing it up since the other person already knew that the first person would bring it up.?

No .he means total understanding of everything in the entire universe. This is not the first time he mentioned this . He talked about how consciousness is capable of intercontinental self-understanding. If someone did know that..That person would be considered a god and worshiped by less developed individuals. The god would eventually get so tired of knowing all that there is to know that s/he would choose to start forgetting so that s/he would experience a sense of adventure in which the answer was not known.

I remember 3 of them... 1-how is anything possible? 2-what is anything? 3- what is consciousness? I can't remember the other two . It's simply impossible. The amount of knowledge that is available for free is vastly larger than any one person will ever have time to learn. The knowledge created in the next day may be more than you can learn in your entire life.

What are you even asking lol ?

I think, most of the time, hatred of women's traits or women in general comes from fear, which is not necessarily unfounded. Women hold immense amount of emotional power over men. Basically, women look for men's love, while men look for women's approval. Not getting it hurts like hell. This is why we have "man up!" but not "woman up!", and dateless 40 year-old men going on killing sprees, but not women. Both men and women feel the same desire for love, sex and connection, but the pressure to earn that falls squarely on men's shoulders and often times stays there - consider, for example, that if a man initiates a breakup, we instinctively assign the blame to him, and we do the same thing when a woman does. It is no surprise, that men's failures and rejections exacerbate the fear, and it's natural to hate what we fear. To be fair, in an established relationship the power dynamic often reverses (although never completely), and there are just as many women hating men, having gone through bitter experiences, fueled by the fear of future betrayal or a

I don't see why little of it would sit in your semen. Do you know difficult it is to build semen in the body ? It takes 30 days for a sperm cell to compose and fully mature . Let alone that it depends on your diet and exercise, sleep etc. Also in my religion (Hinduism) there is what's known as virya .its believed that there is only a limited amount of it in your body . What has been lost via ejaculation will never come back . Even though you never run out of semen and your body produces it daily . Which is why if you've been masturbating for years ..its clear to you that the volume of the semen in your ejaculation is less .