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  1. think that y'all will find this thread to be more or less interesting. I tend to talk to myself all day long more or less in a narrative way conversing with myself I guess. I'm never really sure what the hell is responding back to me. I've been told I am psychic and I am sure of that to a small extent. Most people will roll their eyes and say sure... But though I cannot prove it I am certain there is something listening to me and occasionally responding. Call me schitzophrenic of whatever, I'm indifferent to that. It's gotten to an odd point where it's become an ordeal. I am an anxious person by my own faults. Pretty much based on the topics I choose to look it. Regular **** loses my attention and more complex and frightening topics give me a sense of dread but I tend to go towards them. I think it's because of the absurd and scary nature of many topics. War, god, life, human characteristics and the reasons for this world. Most of them are meaningless. They have no bearing on my life but I tend to be drawn towards that **** out of fascination and pure obsession. I can not really turn my brain off. It's a computer that keep processing **** all day long. I will start off on one things and out of guilt, strange correlation and other things in between I will get into a whole other subject or thing from one thing. I use the internet as a place to put my ideas into words and meanings for other people because they can't just live in my head. Though I am not sure many people think like I do I believe you are all here because you are interested in life and morality. **** like that. You all have your own opinions that want to be voiced and heard. Responded too and critiqued to get a better understand of what it is you want to find. If not, I don't know why you would be here. Anyway, this thread is for voicing your thought process to better help me with mine in a regard and so I can understand yours. I shared my end of it so you can get a glimpse into how I work and possible let someone else know they are not alone in this thinking. I know I'm not the only one though I have never spoken to someone with the same problems I have.
  2. Is life worth living? Let me pose that not as my personal quest, but as search for the meaning of life. When I was young, I was taught to believe that we as the master race have the responsibility to make this earth of ours (and perhaps the universe, by extension) a better place. What would those beasts living under the law of the jungle be, without us around. We have the right to grow, prosper, and multiple, because we are the best, in justice and in intelligence. True? No, as we are told more and more. The earth would be better off without us around, or at least with fewer of us around. Not that the earth cannot do without us, but that we are imposing ourselves against its wish for the better. But why should we impose ourselves, if not because we enjoy doing so. Really? What is it that we enjoy less and less if we grow older? Is there a stage at our age when the balance is tipped, when the weakness, pain, disease, and isolation would surpass the endless leisure of summer and youth? If so, I would propose the aged should be allowed to end their life whenever they deem fit. Put this as their last contribution to what has been granted as their place in the sun: to allow the earth some breathing space with fewer people around. The argument may even be extended to beyond the aged. Some would say: I have never requested to be alive. My birth is against my will, if you do not mind. At this juncture, I can clearly declare that my life is not worth living. Can you leave me alone please? Hey, should we leave him alone? I pose this topic for your philosophical response. Please don't dwell on how much you enjoy sex, fine dining, and so on, as to leave breathing space for more focused discussion on the meaning of life.
  3. beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and we have the power to change our eyes to see as much beauty as we want.
  4. There is no creation separate from the creator.
  5. Well.... It appears that the error is made to exclude the observer from the consideration. A "First Cause" cannot logically exist because it implies a begin and a begin cannot precede an observer because a begin requires an observer. Simple logic shows that the observer cannot have a cause or begin. A begin implies the start of a pattern and a pattern is bound by observation. Recent scientific studies confirm that the observer precedes reality.
  6. Have you noticed this yet? While dreaming, that dream feels legit reasonable. Flying, talking unicorns, sky shattering, monsters chasing, space/time shifts etc All of it feels real and reasonable. No one ever says "Why aren't things conforming to Newtonian Laws??? I REFUSE TO PARTICIPATE IN IT" It all feels whacky and unreasonable the moment when we contrast it with our waking state reasoning and interpretations. So from where does all our vanity come? Do we really 'do' anything? Or are we just fishes in the sea, swimming (more like getting swum) along the torrents but deluding ourselves with the idea that we are producing and maintaining the hydrodynamics of the sea?
  7. Your quite right, as far as I know there is no definite edge to an event. So with this in mind there can only be one single event. The way I imagine it is, is that the beginning of the universe was the start of an event. That event was not the arrival of a substance, but rather the start of a change in something that can be both dormant and active, when it's active it displays its qualities rather than any thing quantifable, so what actually happens is just an energetic display. Just changes from one quality dominating to another different quality attaining dominance. One event, one big complex looking change from zero qualitys to universe, and (probably)back again
  8. Well causality is a concept, a way to structure events that are related. Applying the terms "finite" or "infinite" to a concept is meaningless. I think the question cannot be answered in any meaningfull way. Causality is something that can only be applied to relations. When looking at a so called "first cause" or "last effect" we are looking at events, not at relations. The concept of causality becomes meaningless in that sense
  9. But isn't it being causeless the same as having an infinite causal chain?
  10. Being sane is a limitation we overlay on top of reality.
  11. What matters, or what matters more, the state of your mind and the ideas and opinions within it, or your accomplishments and effects upon the outside world? When Alexander the Great came to meet Diogenes, he asked him if there was any favor which he could do for him. Diogenes asked Alexander to move out of his sunlight so that he could continue enjoying the warmth. One man had conquered the world, and one had conquered the need to conquer the world. Which did something better for himself or for the world or for mankind? Alexander has a long list of cities that still bear his name. There is no "Diogenopolis" of which I am aware. Virtually everyone you might ask is likely to have heard of Alexander, yet fewer will know of Diogenes. Which, if either of them, appeals to you as a role model? What about you? Do you seek to impose your will upon the world, to shape it in your own image? Do you wish to acquire or accomplish things before you die? Will your legacy be the material things or titles that you may pass on? Or, do you wish to acquire self-respect or tranquility? Will your legacy be confined mostly to the example of how to live well that you set while you were alive or the wisdom that you might pass on to others, so that they might also live in this way? Which matters more to you and why?
  12. A personal response: I would like to be remembered, ideally remembered fondly. And I would like to be happy while I'm still here. That's about it. No world-domination schemes from me!
  13. @Javfly33 reality is appearance. It's exactly as it appears. Nothing is hidden. Everything is exactly what it is.
  14. You mean riding the tail of the Ox.
  15. Nothing is not a black void somewhere. Everything we are experiencing all the time is precisely nothing.
  16. Reality is neutral. Heaven and hell are not places.. But states of consciousness.
  17. His message is unique. It's a communication from no one to no one. It can deeply resonate with you if you are tired of being a seeker.
  18. Reality is what you are experiencing right now. It doesn't get any better than this.. Trust me ?