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For me the world was made to keep me in captivity forever. It can serve a different purpose. Not by getting to know it but changing how I see it. If I do the latter, then doing the former is just extra credit. I already satisfied my responsibility be getting out of here alive.

Anyone catch a typo or maybe I'm wrong. In either case I disagree even if corrected. I have one responsibility. In the world it's good to understand others but ultimately for me a futile counter-productive, distracting and wasteful errand.

Inspired by Leo, I drafted the ACIM epistemic framework: Epistemic Humility - I don't know what anything means Epistemic Suspension - I am willing to set aside what I think this thing in front of me means Epistemic Responsibility - I am entrusted with a single choice of thought systems -either the world's or God's; And I accept that the world's thought system - and its relative epistemology - is meaningless and I choose to have God's be remembered. Epistemic Correction - I pause a moment in order that my misinterpretation be undone Epistemic Non-interference - I of myself refuse to manage, fix or manipulate perception Epistemic Vigilance - I check in with the mind for shifts in thought system Epistemic Trust - I accept the correction rather than seek the explanation Epistemic Minimalism - I accept what meaning is given me and only that Epistemic Immediacy - I accept truth is known directly not mentally inferred

My two cents. There are two kinds of “bad” in life: 1. The bad you forgive If you remember it and forgive it: The charge gradually fades. In time, you may even forget, because it no longer has any emotional claws. If you had forgotten it and then later forgive it (when it surfaces): The hidden pattern loses all power. What once shaped you unconsciously no longer runs your life. Forgiveness is what dissolves the hold. 2. The bad you don’t forgive If you remember it and don’t forgive it: The pain stays alive. It quietly taints your interpretations, reactions, and relationships. If you forget it but don’t forgive it: It doesn’t disappear. Instead it goes underground. It manifests as triggers, fears, defensiveness, or repeated patterns you don’t fully understand. Unforgiven pain doesn’t vanish. It waits and pounces unconsciously. If forgiving seems like an impossibility, real support such as therapy and honest dialogue, can help loosen what feels fixed. Without releasing resentment, lasting peace is very hard to access. Forgiveness frees you, not the other person. They still live with the consequences and if need be, pay the price that society demands. Forgiveness is what gets you out of jail not them. edit: Forgiveness is not an action, it is a thought. You let go the idea you are a victim who was harmed and is damaged.

"Self-deception transcends all your efforts at epistemic responsibility." - 1:51:43 Even a Jesus wants to live one more day.

Epistemology is the bridge from survival to truth, from meaninglessness to meaning. It's how to transition or first and foremost understand what it takes.

We have the ability to dim the awareness of God and concoct a life of fantasy. It's fun (until it is not) and we have mastered it. We will find true religion one day (see Leo's latest episode). How do I know that? Because the perceived universe MUST be finite. If it were infinite it would be God. Thus we all go home to God eventually.

We can always find people worse off. That is epistemically irresponsible. I am responsible for one person.

Just don't make it dead last on the list. Water cracks rock given time.

What I mean is, you will be dead so your desire for truth is squandered. There will always be some compromise. By eating food, you deny another food.

If you don't survive, what chance do you have to understand truth?

I've one responsibility. The correct ontology. There are two. Relative and absolute. Each has its own distinct epistemology. Science and religion.

For me the absolute which sometimes we refer to as God is quite simply all there is - similar to what you describe above. Problem is most have never experienced it! Everything we see before our eyes is a veil over reality that we are thoroughly convinced exists and therefore appears but in fact has no meaning. We prefer limitation and specialness and suffering to infinity and equality and harmony. And that is an okay choice to make. When we want it to end, we will choose reality instead of fantasy, or better said stop blocking awareness of the truth.

They are opposite poles and so cannot be absolute. Most have never aligned with the absolute; this is also called awakening. Life for such people is blocking the absolute in favor of them being their own god. To align with the absolute as I mentioned is getting out of God's way.