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@Tim R congrats for the mod upgrade bro ?

It's literally an unexplainable miracle that anything exist at all. Try to get that

Now I'm craving chocolate ?

@The0Self I was just teasing you. I really like your posts. seems authentic

Do you ever just sit back and wonder "what the hell am I talking about"? ?

Only you can answer it. If you don't know who you are.. How do you expect other people to know lol?

Imagination is reality though.

@Tyler Durden how do you know that you are 'awake'? Describe your awakening.

I don't understand what does the "thought I" have to do with whether reality has a beginning or not

If there was a beginning you have to ask what came before the beginning. And it will lead to infinite regress. You just have no choice but to accept that reality is eternal.

I'm not conscious that I did design my own brain. What if I don't buy this whole God story? At least you can be sure that the brain exists and how it works. But not about its origin and "who" created it.

What do you mean then?

There wasn't a "first" thing. There was no beginning to existence.

Exactly. I agree with this. Which should answer the question of "why people deny that they are not free despite the evidence".

Obviously there is NOT only "you" if by "you" we mean the human avatar.

@Mason Riggle I didn't say randomness equals freedom. The opposite of freedom is deterministic. The universe is random and chaotic. Not free. And not deterministic. it's a third option. So people can be faced with tons of evidence and still not accept it. They can deny that. Because it's not a deterministic universe where(B) must follow (A).

You see.. This can only be true if free will exists. The assumption that certain input necessarily leads to certain output. But as you might know the universe is random and chaotic (not deterministic) . You can be faced with tons of evidence and still not accept it. Because randomness and uncertainty are essential to how reality works. It's not a linear process.

They have no free will in the matter

We don't have free will. Neuroscience has long ago debunked free will.

It depends on how you Define "the work". I try my best according to what's available for me. Keep in mind that not everyone will be able access psychedelics just like you do.. due to legal reasons and etc. But when it comes to meditation and self-contemplation.. I did plenty of 'work' trying to crack my mind to understand reality. That's at least better than the majority of people who don't question anything at all.

@VeganAwake ?

@Leo Gura I thought about playing your videos to my family... . But I'm hesitant about it because of how much deluded you sound to the average person. Lol

You gave birth to your mother instead of her giving birth to you

Yeah. I guess it's neither real nor illusory. All I'm seeing is empty insubstantial ever changing phenomenal content. It's something that no label will stick on.

@Breakingthewall So my main concern is how to distinguish between the two (illusion and reality). Because you can't for example distinguish your dreams from your waking life. It turns out that there is no such distinction. It's all real =it's all illusion.