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Let's cut the shit ... Do you agree that I'm a conscious person just like you ? Yes or no ?

@justfortoday Everyone is just actors, you got that right. But! You have a blind spot: yourself. What makes you real? The error is in thinking that you are the center of everything. That is the most common error .so common it's taken to be absolute truth. Others are not real, you're right. They're impersonating people, playing roles. But so are you. I know that can be scary, because the whole thing is empty. It means there's no one here. Just Shakespeare’s stage and ‘us’ as actors on it. But we're also the audience. Funny enough it's a show with no one for no one revolving around no one. No one is the hero, but no one is the villain either. Just roles playing out, directed by the process of life life-ing. About the whole VR thing...yeah yeah yeah..You live in the Matrix, so of course reality is all an illusion. Just don’t walk in front of a moving car, because your illusion will hurt.

@Mannyb thanks. Will check it out ?

@Razard86 you are just speculating . no matter how you capitalize words . I don't buy this solipsism BS anymore. We all are conscious. If you truly were a solipsist and you want to be consistent with your worldview then you simply should stop blabbering your mouth everyday on this forum and just rejoice in your solipsistic bubble instead . But since you are in a forum talking to a group of "other people " then you are not a solipsist.

Lol Nobody told you that those first few sips of tea in the morning with some fine Marlboro Gold makes for a perfect combo? I usually smoke while drinking tea . They are wired together in my brain. Afraid that I need to drop tea as well

@Carl-Richard ? or ? It's my choice .

Those whom you thought cared about you and loved you, run from you because to them you’ve become some strange alien. You find yourself in a place where you’re completely alone and left to deal with your souls karmic obligations and evolutionary processes. The wool is removed from your eyes and you’re able to see this earth shit for what it truly is. You’re no longer afraid of what life could possibly hand you. You tend to focus more on knowing and understanding your purpose for being here and moving and acting accordingly. You now understand that it’s time to put on your grown folks shoes, strut through the earth being exactly who you are and doing exactly what you’ve come to do. You really arrive at a place where you realize you have no more fucks to give about the things you once thought were very important.

@Leo Gura leo, please, let's be clear and precise as possible. Tell me ..if right now I shoot my head with a gun.. What exactly is going to happen? I need a visual description. And an auditory description. A Complete phenomenological description that gets me a real image of what death is like. Thanks.

Absolutely nothing man ? It's not so much stopping that's difficult. Believe it or not ,I can put down smoking cigarettes right now if i wanted to . It's the withdrawal I cannot bear. I've noticed I've become very short tempered and my overall anxiety increases when i don't have nicotine. I tried to quit for two weeks and those two weeks were full of stress .I could not sleep .I had no energy .and my mood was awful . I regret that cursed fucking day when I put the first damn cigarette in my mouth . I need help man .

Then what the heck is THIS?!

@justfortoday so I'm the only conscious observer right now in the entire universe? But there will come a time in a hypothetical future (timeline) that I will live through your POV? But then what's the difference between that and our conventional perspective? You can only verify your own consciousness but you cannot absolutely cannot in a million years jump behind my eyes and see the world from my pov and conclude that I'm just a figment of your mind like in a nightly dream and have no independent existence. It's a game of probability really. Since certainty around this issue is unreachable. You can only speculate. But the problem arises when you take your speculations so seriously and get stuck on them and not being able to jump between different paradigms . I accept both the idealist and the realist paradigms simultaneously. While you only accept the idealist paradigm. Which means you need to expand your perspective more .

I smoked again today . Fuck this shit is more difficult than I thought . I wish I never started smoking.

I will start first. I eat usually 3 eggs sandwich for breakfast with some coffee .sometimes I eat cheese but mostly boiled eggs . I eat rice and meat (chicken or red meat or fish etc) with cooked vegetables for lunch and dinner . I may have a snack here and there between the meals ..usually a piece of chocolate or fruits.

Yes 100% agree ?. The point of life to me is to enjoy it to the fullest .there is really no other point if you think about it . Life is too short. 80 years on average is pretty much very little time . And that gives it even more illusory side. Everything is so fleeting and impermanent. Before you know it you will be in your death bed regretting that you didn't make the most out of your life during the peak period (the youth period ).

@justfortoday so are you saying that it's me who's all alone or yourself? but regardless..I struggled a lot with this solipsism issue myself and from the few occasions that you seem to be active on this forum (which is very little) you seem to be advocating solipsism. I can't prove or disprove solipsism. But I can deal with it from a pragmatic approach. no one lives this way. So your life is a practical denial of the concept. If a cliff is merely an illusion, then there is no reason not to walk off of a cliff. If people are merely constructs of your own mind, there is no reason to need anyone, value anyone, or to treat other people well. The brain has inadequate computing power to create the detail which we experience daily in everyday life. You can easily verify this by the fact that dreams are much lower resolution than what we see in our waking life. So our perception are not purely internal, they depend on an external reality. If You believe that a pot of boiling water is real.. You would not put your hand into boiling water. Furthermore..if you read this answer, then there are two conscious beings- me the writer and you the reader. Also I dislike solipsism because it's lame and feminine. Whereas realism is masculine. But that's a topic for another day .

Illusion is all there is .then it becomes absolute. Since all there is ,is illusory ..then its as real as real gets .it has no opposite.

People can be figment of your consciousness AND real independent consciousnesses simultaneously. @axiom what did awakening reveal to you about the solipsism dilemma?

"Nobody enters the gateless gate ,so be nobody .'

@axiom can you please tell me what did you become conscious or?

Smoking +working out (bulking ) in the gym isn't a good combo bro

This is just my response and reaction to this thread : Even though OP didn't explain why he thinks reality is meaningless...but I can feel him . @Zeroguy...there is meaning in every little thing of the life that we live in. Everything happens for a reason. The almighty has planned something for us already which we maybe not aware of. If not immediately but definitely it will happen to us. There is meaning behind every breath that we breathe, every heartbeat that we make. Nothing in this god damn world happens for no reason. We might overlook the cause behind anything but things do happen for some reason. Afterall we are only humans who can't see the future. But trust that the future will be brighter than the present. Remember this:"everything will be okay at the end .If it's not okay, then it's not the end ".?

@Myself infinity must include all finitudes. Otherwise if wouldn't be infinite.

Trees, birds, animals and the whole universe is already enlightened. They don't have any other way of being. Only humans are not enlightened because they have free will. Humans can become animals and divine also. Assassins and rapists are examples of becoming animals. Whereas Krishna, Jesus, Buddha are the example of humans becoming divine. Every human being on earth is potentially enlightened and enlightenment is a journey from false to truth, from darkness to light. Enlightenment of animals and birds is unconscious and it is like enlightenment of kids. They are awake but they are unconscious, whereas enlightenment of humans is conscious. Like the madness of mad is unconscious, whereas madness of enlightened beings is conscious. An enlightened being is consciously mad.

Animals are already enlightened. If by that you mean living completely with the present moment and not give a crap about the future or the past.