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Have you started seeing the futility of this grand, bottomless project of trying to make yourself happy and secured? Has it worked? Are you completely at ease, bliss, secured, without fear and anxiety? If not, what's the percentage of progress you made in this grand project over your 10-20-30-40-50 years of lifetime? Do you see the impossibility of this game which is rigged against you? Why do you even try? Why do you still believe you can make yourself happy, secured, fulfilled permanently? Why not simply acknowledge and accept the utter fragility of yourself? Happiness and wellbeing is NOT something you deserve. When did you buy into this bullshit story? Have you lost your mind? Just look at you! If you were a Greek god with a lifetime of 10 billion years, who knows no physical or mental exhaustion, who possesses immense prowess and can survive even a planetary destruction; it would be rational to claim that such a being has legit high chance of deserving and claiming happiness, well being and permanent security. On the other hand look at you! How fragile and vulnerable you are! It takes a zillion things in proper place in your environment and psycholology to make a moment of respite for you while a minor little thing like a virus, temperature, gravity, accident, discomforting thought, tough emotion can legit screw you over. It takes like 15-20 years of healthy childhood, education and environment to have a decent, high esteemed self, while only one traumatic event or imagination can plant a deep imprint in you and screw you over badly for life! Can you simply let go and accept your vulnerability? Can you let go of this impossible project and assumption that you can actually secure yourself? Can you totally accept your fate for having pain, grief, fear, depression as your usual and natural condition and simply stop trying to make it otherwise? Just look at you trying so hard to build and maintain your sand castles in midst of a gigantic Tsunami. See how easy it is to disturb you and your fickle boundaries.. What happens if you simply give up on chasing this impossible dream? You are already bound to be screwed, right? How worse can it be? Maybe a new dimension will open up if you simply give up and accept your fate?

@The0Self I understand where your coming from. So many things happened to me recently . I realized for the first time that I am infinite and full of joy. The rest of the world to me is a theme-park (perfect organized but utterly soul-less point-less). But it's hard to maintain that causeless joy all the time. For every up there is a down. For every high there is a low.

LOL. You only care about happiness. You don't care about anything else. Entirely

@Esilda ?? LOL

@Preety_India it's worth trolling according to the troll. So if you suspect that your posts might attract trolls.. Better not to post them. That is if you care about not being trolled too often.

@Preety_India Why are you so angsty? Relax a little bit and stop taking this fucking forum too seriously. Did I say something offensive to you? I didn't say people deserve to be trolled. I said some people are troll magnets. And there is not much to do about it.. Like bitching and moaning all day about it. Just report them and leave them to the mods. That's all you can do about them anyways.

There is not much to say or to do about trolls. Trolls are trolls. They seek attention and conflict. You simply ignore them and report their posts and move on. But a good question is why do they troll specific people. Some people just attract them because their behavior might be worth trolling.

I ask this because I'm trying to quit smoking. And noticed myself craving the nicotine high. But now that I'm Trying to stop..i'm looking for health alternatives I guess I'm looking for a healthy way to get high.

I never was hard-core religious. My family are Hindus and I used to pray to God when I was a little kid up until 20s when I discovered atheism and nonduality etc. If God is not separate from me.. Then to whom should I pray? Religious people pray to God under the assumption that God is separated from them. Believing in a higher power that can take care of you helps you avoid existential despair and it actually gives you sense of satisfaction. As some studies show that religious people tend to be more happy than atheists. But if I am God.. I can't pray to myself. Then how do I substitute prayer and get the relief associated with the practice?

Some say in modern times there is a war every 50 years. Napoleonic in first decade of the 1800s; Europe-wide rebelliions and blood clashes between the ruling classes and the oppressors in 1848; The Great War in 1914; the even greater war, 1939. We are a few years overdue. But the political arena is ripening. Resources are becoming scarcer. Weapons, more and more dangerous. The world has two weeks worth of food supplies stored, according to Andy Turnbull. This has bee the case for a decade now. What if there is a large quasi-worldwide crop failure? War. What if the American dollar collapses? Because of large amounts of it being in China, and it is potentially worthless, as there is nothing to buy from America but cars and real estate, and weapons. But china makes its own weapons and cars, and it buys real estate in Africa, where it's much cheaper. What if there is a nutty dictator that gets hold of the atom secret? Like Orban Victor or Ngaba Sulimbe.

Good for you and happy to hear ?

Love that bro.. Fucking shivers across my spine.

@Holygrail how would you describe it?

@Tim R I completely agree with you. Seems like you didn't read more than that one sentence ?

It will be out 6th Sept Monday

It is indeed.

Physical and not physical are both concepts. Reality is neither physical nor non physical.

Yes it's perfectly normal mate. Happens to me as well.

A video on the nature of boredom and why we feel it and long term solutions.

To be able to relate to him (it) and have a relationship with him (it). Like someone said.. I can pray to God but knowing at a higher level that I am simply talking to my higher self. Or is it that God is in fact separated from me. In that case I'm not just talking to myself. So prayer, I've gradually come to realize, just isn't for atheists like me. And that’s fine. There are other ways I connect to the sublime and the sacred, but without a belief in God, prayer can’t really be one of them. At least not the traditional way. I have to become like a new prophet and create my own relationship with god in a unique way.

@mandyjw it all depends on how you Define "God". There is not a God until you believe there is. In that way (form) or the other. I do think that each person is the God of his own existence. You are the main character in your life. My belief in a separate God in the heavens have pretty much disappeared years ago. And that's what creates now, a struggle to pray.

Agreed. I still don't pray on my own, my spiritual practices don't involve talking when no one but me is there to hear. But I no longer run from prayer. I am learning something. Can an atheist pray, and why would he want to? today, I will let the answers to these questions be a little more clear

Well not all prayer is the same. I know it’s not the same! There are many who will see what I am calling “prayer” as a ridiculous heresy. And plenty of believers do pray in the sincere belief that God will reach down and alter the world in their favor. Not all prayer is the same. And I think that might be more true than I first realized. Not all prayer is the same. The person who says, "I pray every day," versus the person who says, “my prayers are with you,” or the one who mouths along with memorized prayers in church—they all mean different things but they are all doing something slightly different. And Christian prayer is different from Muslim prayer, is different from Buddhist prayer, is different from Jewish prayer. And I hadn’t thought atheist prayer was a thing that could exist. But why not.. There can be atheist prayer. I guess I will have to invent a prayer technique specifically for myself.

We can have this hair splitting tennis match back and forth endlessly but I tend to prefer deep inquiry experience and higher lines of reasoning instead of buying into things regarding this topic.