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@Muhammad Jawad I hear ya..... Listen.... there is only one thing in existence... Existence itself. Anything outside of it is also it.. Tada ? this business is easy huh?

@Adamq8 ?

Nice rep. man. I'd say all you have is a present moment devoid of any context whatsoever. You still trying to contextualize it somehow. Resistance to the fact its just a mindfuck.

@Muhammad Jawad God is EVERYTHING. The end. Nothing can exist unless it is God.. Tada! How can something exist "outside" of THAT which is said to be infinite?

@Muhammad Jawad just touching on the sciencetifc approach to the origin of "being"... When one examines the current scientific hypothesis regarding the origins of our universe (the Big Bang theory) one realizes that it is a miracle..something beyond the human imagination..that there is something instead of nothing. Science today tells us that our universe had a birthday. Roughly 15 billion years ago there was a time-zero...a time when everything in our universe as we have it now did not exist. Everything that is now in our entire universe began about 15 billion years ago with an explosion (the “big bang”) from something which was probably tinier than a single atom. Moreover.. for our universe..our world.. and human life to have come about a mind-boggling combination of factors had to be just right. I say “mind-boggling” because it’s when we examine these factors that we are left with the philosopher’s wonder as to why there is something at all instead of nothing. That's if you wanna get all sciencetifc about it. It all starts with a singularity. The singularity contains all and IS all.

@Vlad_ sure they must. 99% of people are so underdeveloped and asleep to ever comprehend such subject. Your question is actually incredibly important.. I'm disappointed that it got few replies There are two common meanings to "life is pointless," and when someone says it.. he often means a bit of both. One meaning is "There's no goal to life." This could be a rejection of the religious/spiritual idea that we were built for some purpose or a more personal statement meaning something like "I'm bored with everything" or "I feel listless." Or it's a way of making "mundane" depression seem profound. Sometimes. a guy who is lonely because he doesn't have a girlfriend or unhappy because he's in a dead-end job will say "Life is pointless." The truth is he feels bored.. alone.. and/or scared.. but he's expressing himself in operatic terms.. maybe because he doesn't want to sound ordinary or he's uncomfortable dealing with his problems head-on. Even the phrasing "life seems pointless". There are several points of views to this question depending on the type of person you are.. but the real answer is our life.. existence.. is pointless. Some may feel this temporarily due to an unhappy element in there life.. or mental disorder.. but others simply figure out the truth more quickly because they can see through the small.. meaningless distractions and hopes others use as coping mechanisms or a way to simplify their view because they can't handle the reality of the truth. Some my argue Religion.. but religion is not ones point of view of life.. it is a point of view of death, i.e., follow the rules and you will go to heaven (death).. therefore irrelevant in the discussion of life. Human existence is a bunch of dogs fighting for a piece of meat. That's it. Selfish beings willing to maul each other for fleeting gratification. Nothing lasts.. therefore nothing is ever truly gained. Anything you may believe that adds meaning beyond that is an illusion brought on by our fragile minds in order to not go insane by the truth. I've had this figured out at 6 years old but chose to live in denial for many years.. because of hope. I was wrong. And life only became incredibly amazing after you realize how incredibly pointless it is.

@impulse9 @James123 I couldn't care less either way. My point is rather a tanget. It depends on what type of drugs you’re doing. Psychedelics in particular can absolutely put you on the path. This might sound silly.. but I truly believe that psychedelics are grouped in with “drugs” for a reason - it’s like a safety net. I’ve known people who’ve fallen off at some point.. they get into drugs for whatever reason.. then have a strong psychedelic experience and are back on track even more than before they fell off.

First of all.. anyone who hasn't taken drugs (likely because they've been brainwashed by government/society) is NOT qualified to answer this question. Neither is anybody who isn't "enlightened".. but I believe enlightenment is quite a simple occurrence.. and easily induced. Would you ask a fish what it's like to walk? Drugs is a very clever catch-all term created by authorities to attempt to sabotage the discussion about them. And look at all the people on this page.. and many across the internet and the world... who have fallen for it and are near incapable of discussing it because it carries so much stigma. You know what would sort that out? Yep. Drugs. The first question should be: what kind of drugs? All drugs are not created equal. A better question is to be more specific: can psychedelics lead to enlightenment? In which case I'd say yes.. they can. But what is enlightenment? A realisation that we are all one? A looking past the ego? High doses of psychedelics can very effectively cause ego-death in all its glory. How you interpret the experience is another matter. I get this feeling that enlightenment is a subjective place like "success". I'd love to meet anybody who walks around permanently ego-less. As Alan Watts put it (paraphrased) -- you wouldn't know whose shoes to put on in the morning. To me.. I would say enlightenment is analogous to realisation. That's it. You realise something once, you don't need to realise it again. If that realisation is of the illusion of your ego, then I'm enlightened, as are many others who have experienced ego-death and peered behind the veil.

@James123 you need to chillax a Lil bit... 'Nothing' serious going on here. Is your main argument that techniques exist.. meditation prime among them.. to reduce human suffering by helping us to understand that the self — as conventionally understood — is an illusion. Our feeling of "I" is a product of thought.. and thoughts merely come and go in our consciousness.. there's no self behind our eyes or in our head.. and when we grasp this.. it's easier to unmoor ourselves from the sources of suffering in our lives?

heaven is a religious concept which is supposed to be a place of eternal happiness and pleasure. Hell is a religious concept which is supposed to be a place of eternal pain and suffering. My definition?? the same. "horrible things" is a relative notion. Why is the criteria here regarding "human beings"? .. Aren't you a serial killer for killing animals and eating them (assume you are not vegan)? From this perspective all humans are serial killers when it comes to killing animals for food. Yes all these lines are imaginary. There is no 'dictionary definition' for what "acting out of love" is supposed to mean. What is stopping God from creating hell If he is all powerful?? Nothing obviously. God is a mad man (or woman). The only thing that can save you is to realize God is not other than you. So why would you do that to yourself?? I don't have an answer it's kinda of an open inquiry. No it's not all mental. This isn't rocket science.. You can't have "eternal" happiness because everything is constantly changing hence impermanence. It really does boil down to just that. This assumes there is such thing as an "ego "in the first place. But regardless... Do you mean whether it's acting selfish or selfless?? Why should those two factors be the primary deciding factors???? Why you don't take into consideration infinite other variables in the equation? You see the mind wants to simplify everything into simple categories. Doesn't want to face infinite complexity. Again heaven and hell are not objects. They are subjectively defined by you.

To me.. life is pointless to the extent that there's nothing predetermined in your existence. But this means freedom too. When your older.. you can shape your own path. Do things you enjoy.. maybe make a carrier out of that or just find something new you're passionate about and want to pursue in future. This helps you from getting stuck in a job you despise.as one example of a dead end life. Point is.. you shape your own future.. you are the point of your own life. The best thing to do is surround yourself with others that hold the same views as you and life will become more enjoyable. Don't get depressed over anything. it's not worth it. You just have to realize why things happen the way they do and accept it and you'll have a better sense of what goes on around you than most people.

What is the chance of this happening in the next ten minutes relative to you doing something else? Probably zero. Don't worry if we are going to be swallowed by a massive black hole, science will have known about it beforehand by a relatively large amount of time. It's not going to be in your lifetime. So chill.

"existence IS Good"..... Leo is cute and all but that statement is no longer correct as soon as you finish the pronunciation of it. How about "existence IS bad"? See equally valid. It's just perspectives. That video lasts one hour 48 minutes.. During that time the arguments of Leo might or might not convince you that all is good.. After the video ends.. All the yuckness of life will and can and is going to haunt you again.

@Breakingthewall the falsehood of your truth is the truth of my falsehood.

Thanks for the nice words and advice. You 'sound 'like a nice and sweet person. Although I wanna share something with you now.. I was about to share it about a month ago when I made a thread titled "all of reality explained".. But thanks to You gave me warning and restriction from posting about two days.. Not too bad but I was really going through A real total awakening at that time. I wasn't just mucking around... I Made before that a thread about infinity.. See all these love platitudes don't mean nothing when you actually grasp what is reality. I had the insight simply by dreaming and noticing that my mind can shape literally anything. Entire worlds from scratch. Down to every atom. experienced MANY lifetimes. In fact.. I and you since I am you have experienced ALL possible lifetimes that have existed.. exist now or will exist. experienced ALL POSSIBLE LIFETIMES OF ALL POSSIBLE CREATURES . Entire lifetimes... YES! All possible creatures. 5-legged ones or just beings made of energy only.. or creature with not 5 or 6 senses but 300 senses etc... Sounds impossible? Well... If you do HARDCORE contemplation you can experience many hardcore stuff. And that is compatible with insights of mystics and yogis from all traditions in the world. That's what infinity means. This story about Big Bang and Planet Earth IS JUST ONE OF INFINITE MORE STORIES in infinite more dimensions. I attained THOUSANDS of "spiritual" insights. Most of them are impossible to put into words and sentences. "You are God" is just one of INFINITE MORE SPIRITUAL INSIGHTS. I can't describe this statement more.. because of the limit of language. There is INFINITE deepness. It goes on forever. In all directions and all dimensions. Every fucking detail of every fucking thing in every single fucking place or time or different dimension...... Exists. Do you fathom this? Ofcourse no. I don't as well. As much. Just as a cute example... There are infinite more colors than you can see now in this current dimension. Be very open-minded reading next lines please..... It's not that goodness and love aren't aspects... Sure.. But every aspect has its opposite. Duality. Oneness is not more true than separation. Infinite love is not more true than infinite evil and wickedness beyond anything you can imagine. I hope I conveyed to you some of my take on these issues from my perspective. I hope also this is not too abstract and philosophical and "unicornical" to you such that you can actually make something of what I said.. That's just my thing. I'm a mental masturbator.

A thought? Lol dude the future exists as Physical events. The dinner that you going to eat tonight (I assume it's day time now) is a physical object from the future. The space between the digits in your clock is to calculate the present as it's constantly dying out. Ultimately the future IS the present. I dig that.. But.. Also.. It is not. People like me who believe in physics know that the distinction between past.. present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. Notice that.. When a illusion is persistent it becomes reality. The only reason you call your night time dreams illusion is because they don't last... That's what all of reality is.. A persistent illusion.. Future is no exception. Why do you use a watch to calculate the illusion?

Eh.. Too much Buddhist "present moment" parroting here. The future exists. Sure. We even have a word for it future. We are even talking about it right now. And.. Ofc.. The "future is in the future" duh? A=A.. It's just like everything else.. What you think it is.... Isn't actually what it is. our naive perception of its flow doesn’t correspond to physical reality. including Isaac Newton’s picture of a universally ticking clock. Even Albert Einstein’s relativistic space-time.. Which is supposed to be an elastic manifold that contorts so that local times differ depending on one’s relative speed or proximity to a mass is just a simplification. In other words the universe is like a movie.. All past presents and future are contained in the same place (for lack of better words). But that's none of your business as you are completely bought into the linearity of life. Better question be what is the future? What is time? And good luck answering.

Are you sure you should tag me here? because based on what I said here I think this question should be directed towards OP.

What is this nonsense?!

@Mu_ @xxxx Too much points all over the place.. I can't respond to all this... But will touch on depression and the well intentions behind the design of this reality.. Let's take one example.. Depression.. A depressed person doesn't know what he wants from this life. He tried everything to battle. tried every thing hates himself . Never loved himself have defeated in every aspect and every form in this life. Now this stresss he had for years started to take toll over his body physically. Now he suffers every kind of pain..neck pain..body pain..shoulder pain.headache. Days are always in pain. Far worse is being a man. Nobody cares about you. We're doomed to suffer then die. No friends no one says hi no nothing fuck.. He seriously need to disappear from this world in an instant. It won't change anything. "Yeah" "Sorry" "Try this" "That" "No" "Yes" "You're wrong" "You're right" Makes no fucking sense. Will just Keep his mind busy. And fall into all kinds of addictions and destruction. Depression is hell on Earth. It has a zombie-like feature -- not totally alive, not dead either. The thing is.. no amount of books.. advice.. venting will get you out of this. Sorry. It might kinda help.. but depression will sooner or later creep in once again. Why? Because it's a chronic illness. See depression as a chronic illness. such as diabetes. It has no cure.. but it is possible to keep it under control.. If a person who has diabetes doesn't take insulin.. things will get really bad for him. And as time goes by.. it'll get worse and worse. About the goodness of God.. Is God good? Really? Really tho? the god that created this universe if it was created by God. is quite clearly a maniac. continues Fry. An utter maniac. totally selfish. Bone cancer in children?’ What’s that about? How dare you. How dare you create a world in which there is such misery that is not our fault. It’s not right. It’s utterly.. utterly evil. Why should I respect a sick minded,. stupid God who creates a world that is so full of injustice and pain?’.. Prove to me that reality is not just entropy moving towards perfect madness and hilarious evil at the end? You can't. You don't know shit. Just deal with it. And lay aside some.. Not all.. But At least some of the spiritual mumbo jumbo. How do you reconcile that with peace..goodness and love? (The question is for Mu and xxxx)

c'est la vie.

And btw.. Correlation doesn't equal causation. The sun rises every day in winter around 5 am (whatever).. That's a correlation. That doesn't mean the cause of the rising of the sun is that the time is 5 am. It's the rotation and gravity etc. So you actually have zero certainty in your claim that just because the brain activity correlates with consciousness shifts that it is actually the cause of these shifts.

@BipolarGrowth look.. You can't verify what effects your supposed brain have on you.. By that time you would be dead or in coma. Forget about your own brain. You never saw your brain.. You never did.. And you never will. Let's talk about others.. Even if you magically expanded the reach of your consciousness to enter the "brain " of another person that still wouldn't answer the question. Instead you would be some sort of hybrid consciousness.. neither the original you or the original them. This is akin to the measurement problem in quantum physics. You can't measure the state of a system without disturbing the system. More accurately.. whenever you measure a system.. you are merging with it.. to create a hybrid system. You can't disentangle the observer from the observed. It's all tangled up in itself.

Why are you sounding like my dad or something lol? ?Jk Good advice and surely helps with positive living. Thanks!

God is no more peace than it is anguish.. Stress.. Pain..sickness.. Death.. Murderer.. Rape.. Theft.. Cancer.. Sorrow...depression.. Madness.. Loneliness.. Disability.. Disasters.. Chaos.. Hell. Before we move further in this conversation (if you wish to)... Justify why and how is "peace" being cherry picked here as the essence of God and not infinite other horrible stuff.