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The irony.

The remarks, including my own, just goes to show that nothing is really known and is true because the truth needs no defense. It's all just regurgitation and vomit being spewed from mouths that thinks it knows anything and ego responding. If one really knows that they're Absolute Infinity then they would know that the words are also Absolute Infinity and it's also them. So saying people just listen to gurus and repeat is also Absolute Infinity. @Mixcoatl

What do you think he was doing. Where did he get his information. From Infinity? Then so did everyone else. Doesn't matter. Everyone repeats because there's nothing new under the sun if it's being written from knowledge.

This is what Spirituality can turn a person into - serious and a loss of innocence with a bug up their ass. I specifically stated I was just breaking your balls and that it made no difference. @ExploringRealityi know you're referring to me and my responses, but I specifically put this last part so you could see I wasn't being serious and was having fun with your post.

Shit, he didn't ask how to analyze humor. By the time I did all that, I'll feel like a philosopher not a comedian. I'm laughing now without even trying.

I love it when you say silly things. Shows the human side you're trying to get rid of you space kangaroo you.😜

Exactly. Lol

How do you know this. Have you ever literally died (the body) and witnessed consciousness flooding you.

What then constitutes something being alive if not being compared to something else. It doesn't have to be death but something else has to take the place of it's opposite because life or something being alive is describing that something which is limited because anything with a description is form, and form is limited. There has to be something else for something to be described as alive. This is the actual premise for why I made the post and your statement here doesn't prove that being alive is all there is and having a presumption that there's something else is the only way that life can even be a thing. So presuming there's something else is legitimate. Can't have life without something else.

A dead body turns to......whatever it turns to after awhile....skeleton. There's still a happening and a process there. Some form of action without anyone doing it. Shitting is happening as a process without anyone doing it. Who or what determines which one is alive and which one is dead.

I said that for the purpose of the post and to relay a point. By the post's contents, it's obvious I'm not saying we're all definitely alive or dead, just openly asking how do we know.

Lol, ok. I'll give you that. Be cynically peaceful.

Questioning things is what made me realize a lot. I just question silently to myself and give myself the answers by observing. The people that ostracized didn't feel how they wanted to feel. People don't want to lose themselves and will kill before being killed. Being killed as in their made-up identity. They want to feel and have others confirm what has no ground to stand on. It feels kike a betrayal in a sense. I say I'm this and you're not confirming that and I'm loosing that sense of identity so you have to go - in a sense.

The words in bold italic "I feel", confirms what I'm saying in the other comment. I don't just talk out my ass without understanding what I'm saying even if I'm wrong, there's still an understanding there even if my understanding of it is wrong. I've just seen too many times of this to be the case by observing myself and others. I just wanted to point out that you yourself confirmed what I'm pointing at. The clues are always staring us in the face if we take the person out the equation. That's hard to do while in it and easier for the onlooker. That's called going meta.

That only feels like that when there's something that is looked for. It's hard for the individual because it puts meaning to everything in relationship to it when it's just life doing life with no meaning and purpose. This is what it means to suffer. No meaning, no purpose, no suffering. Perfect example. It can't be helped, though, because the person searches for a feeling no matter what it does and that can only stop when there is no person there. It goes hand in hand. Even if you say you're going to stop talking to people about that, it's because there's still a feeling being desired. The only thing I can say to that is for you to recognize this and to not blame people for your thinking they're stupid or whatever descriptive word you use, but that it's you being disappointed with not achieving the feeling you were after. Maybe that'll loosen up the tension a bit and relieve the suffering somewhat to nit feel so intense.

If the title of the thread was correct, that would mean everyone in a relationship, married or had friends were stupid. Makes no sense and the heading alone isn't a smart way to look at the world.

Right, and also the smart teacher.

If one was that smart, they'd know how to adapt to the different circumstances. So, maybe it's not that it's being smart to know these things alone, but to know the difference when to use that knowledge. I might know what a hammer looks like and how to describe it, but I might not know how to use it. A person might not know what the definition of a hammer is but they know how to use it. Now, who's smarter. Smartness is only defined by what it's being compared to and being smart depends on how the person uses what they define as being smart. If one thinks being smart is knowing a bunch of stuff but not how to use that knowledge then that's not being smart and life will eventually show you that it's all relativistic.

By what was known before and by comparison. Trace it back to the first knowing and it's "I am here". Now we're learning about non-duality and trying to get rid of the self. So knowing is an illusion and based off of a sense of self-recognition, not what is. If one didn't know themselves to be, they wouldn't know anything, they'll just be responding and reacting to everything through instincts and those responses and reactions would be happening on it's own just like it's happening already but without a claimer.

This might help.

You should be happy then that you're not attracting the idiots. Go celebrate.

Conscious of what. Conscious of what was taught to you and what you know. I could know that the tree is grey but it is actually brown. What if there's no consciousness and you're hallucinating consciousness. You're only saying you're conscious because someone told you what it's like to be conscious. Everyone could be dead and the dead is speaking to the dead. Noone would know the difference if they didn't know what it felt like to be alive. Now switch the words alive and dead around. Do you think a cat knows it's a cat, it's just operating on instincts. A dead body still operates on 'instnct' by rotting.

Hope you're not implying that I'm asking if I exist and that i'm stupid if I am. That's not what the post is about. I could still exist as a dead person and of course if everyone was dead, no one could tell the difference because if I think I'm alive, then I'll think everyone else that has the same characteristics that I used to determine that I'm alive, I'll also think is alive. If you grew up from being a baby and everyone used the term dead to describe aliveness, you would think you were a dead person. A baby only learnt that when they had abilities to understand what's being said and the terminologies used.

Don't agree but we're entitled to our differences of opinions. When I substitute different things, words or circumstances in each case, I can't seem to find the similarities. Example, if I have a bias of preferring oranges to apples, it doesn't mean I don't like apples, it just means I prefer oranges. If I prefer black men to white men because of a bias towards white men because of an experience I had, it doesn't mean I dislike white men or think black men are superior to white men. I could even think white men are superior but dislike them for that and that's my bias to why I prefer black men. One cannot be racist towards an orange or an apple but they can a bias towards either. Racism only applies to race and that's why I am showing the differences. An Italian woman doing something to make you dislike Italian women on a whole, or even substituting white for Italian, doesn't make one a racist but biased because that's not comparing another race to another. If there were only Italians that existed in the whole world, no one could be racist whatsoever but they could still have biases and preferences. So, to me they are not the same thing.

What you have described, imo, is biases not racism. A bias now towards Italians and Psychiatrists. By definition, racism is the belief that a race is superior to another not the likes or dislikes of it.