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@Keryo Koffa I don't think i grasp your language completely. If you mean that we can be / be awere of two things simultaneously , the answer is No. If you mean that there exixist selves that have indipendent existence, not produced by the mind, then again the answer is No.

@r0ckyreed We've been through this already brah. Notice how, while you write, images of policemens beating poeple are appearing in your experience: that is all you have. nothing is happening apart of what you are experiencing. Coeherence is a fundamental feature of Reality but that doesn't prove things are happening indipendently of your perception. @AION This is true, but at the same time is it'a useful analogy because it makes poeple disengage from materialism, because once you realise that a dream is mind-made you start to question your waking state aswell. Notice this: mental processes are not material. The diffence beween Mind and Matter is a mental process. Therefore how can matter exist indipendently of thought? How can anything exist indepedendly of thought?

@AION To say that there is something outside of Consciousness (independent from it) is like saying that numbers are not infinte. You dont need to count to infinity to know that numbers a infinite. Why? that's called intuition. In the same say way reality/consciousness experience consist in an infinite imagination process that would incapsulate any possible "outside", since its "field" is infinite. Whatever you imagine this space outside Consciousness to be, is non other then a thought made of Consciousness. The notion of "outside" and "inside" are both thoughts made of Consciousness, appearing in Consciousness.

in a proper State, those workers will be given welfere until they find a new occupation, providing courses etc. so that they can find a job in fields that are not completely AI-based. Unemployment is a lose/lose situation for both State and workers.

@Staples Desire is surely linked to suffering, but that doesn't mean it is the cause. Buddhism has a vast literature so i belive You, but no reasonable buddhist will ever demonize Desire, because they would know it's serves a purpose and is there for a reason, as Lacan claims. Buddhism is not anti-disire, this is a misconception. Arhats have supposedely extinguished Suffering and they still have needs, goals, plans adn so on. So this suggest that attachment/identification to/with Desire is the source of Suffering And Lacan theory of Desire is surprisingly similiar. We should use Desire but cutting it's head, the expectation that the end goal will make us happy. Happines is found on the road. it is found in motion because there isn't a truly stable Self to begin with. I would categorize eating and fucking a raw survival needs. Unconscious. They can certainly be seen as a from of primal Desire though. So The mirror stage could be the starting point of more sophisticated forms of Desire, those that involve our newly formed Identity.

@Staples I would say Lacanianism and Buddhism are more akin to this decription than the other way around. From what i understand, the Mirror Stage is just the beginning of Desire, but desires are not bad per se. That's the same in Buddhism, the problem isn't Desire but the over-importance we put in the objects of those desires. Lacan says that the problem is the shattering of expecation that resulting from the realization that the attainment of the Object of Desire doesn't make Us whole. He say that desires are great as fules for our engine,if we accept their objectification as never fulfilling. That's when Desire becomes Drive. We can never be whole by reaching a destination, but we can be fullfilled by the enjoying the road to get there, as explained in this video: ---------------- i'm yet to watch the explaination of The Real, so more on that later.

Man... i haven't watched that video yet but i sumbled upon his "Mirror Stage" concept and is profound. Conceptualizing yourself as an image in the mirror creates a split: You and the the You in the mirror. This creates a void in the Subject (the one looking): desire. And to desire makes you incomplete, in a state of perennial anxiety, always trying to fill that void with objects. The point is: desire is a part of YOU you think you're in lack of, it is that original version of You you saw in the mirror In other words, we start to desire to be ourselves, but it is just an illusion produced by the identification in an object (the mirror's reflection) that by definition we cannot be.

@NightHawkBuzz No one si gonna make you participate in some gay-fest. This is a dystopian fantasy made up by the right wing media you surely eaten-up during the years. In a democracy no one is gonna make you forcefully attend a socio-cultural event. LGBTQ+s just wanna live in a world where being gay isn't regarded as a disease.

@Bobby_2021 @Karmadhi My bad then. I misunderstood.

@Bobby_2021 @Karmadhi Guys, The West is superior to the Middle East in basically every metric of developement you can think of. That shouldn't even be in question. Israel is easely the most developed country in the area. If you think this is not the case, this is one of your core-biases in plain sight.

@Raze Hamas will never represent reasonable leadership for palestinians. They are sacrificing their own poeple in order to hurt Israel, They don't give a shit about Palestinians well-being. Hamas need to disappear form the universe, as they are a threat to both Israelis and Palestinians. On the other hand, If Israel were more developed, they would free the more moderate leaders from theirs prisons and push a cooperation plan that could involve an internal insurrection by the more liberal population of Palestine and prospects of a real and fair 2-state solution, pairing that with Surgical strikes, like they do on Iranian territory. But this costant threat is what blinds them and makes it impossible for that leap to happen. - so what they do instead is vengful carpet bombing, which is like repairing a virus filled computer by phisically hammering it. (because that's how fascists operate).

Creativity is the original combination of different elements. When the combination is original enough, we give it a new name to differentiate from the previous, such as "Punk Rock" or "Cubism" " or "Existentialism" There is no such thin as creation without recombination. Otherwise we wouldn't even be able to understand what we are looking at.

@Leo Gura What kind of evidence would you consider a proof though? I think you know pretty well that some insight and achievements are so radical you cannot give a tangible proof of them. That's why i'm surprised by your attitude. Daily poeple challenge you attaiments and you obviously cannot give them a proof of Alien Intelligence, cause the evidence would be the experience you had, that you cannot transfer to any other. This seems to me like a double-standard in you thinking, unless i'm missing a peace of it and there is something i'm not awere of.

@Leo Gura I'm awere of you opinion about Buddhism and Advaita Leo, but it still surprises me how you are so dogmatic about this suffering topic. How can you be so sure this is the case? full freedom from suffering might be extremely hard, but it's not unreasonable to think it can possibly be echieved. What's your reasoning on this? ------------ @Someone here Not every hardship in life is linked to the dark night. Actually, most of the times it isn't.

8+ months and the bias is still rock-solid i see. reality-bending, even. And the problems for israel won't end if dudes like you keep having this attitude. To say 35000 pople died because of Hamas is ridicoulus and luckily more and more poeple are realising how inadequate this Israeli governemnt is at finding a sustainable solution to this mess, which they are part of.

@mac99 Moderation is key. Lust is fine as long as it doesn't interfere with other areas of your life, including your spiritual practice. If you think about sex for most of your day, to the point you fell like you can't execute you usual task that is when it becomes a problem. If something is obsessing you, the i suggest you to whatch Leo's video called " Burning Through Karma " No true Buddhist will tell you that. Go gently. Renunciations to worldy obbsessions will decade automatically if you practice correcly and tenaciously. Forcing renunciation it will only make your Lust stronger. Buddhism is about the elimiation of Attachment, not Desires. Some desires will abandon you in the process of eliminating the Attachment to Desires. But that isn't a given. Many buddhists with hight attainments still have a sex life, but they are certainly not obsessed by it.

@GLORY Karma, as one of the possible answers. If we wanna get as deconstructive as possible, there actually isn't any logic about why or how thing appear in the present moment. Logic and causation only become a factor when we speak about the world in its duality. In this case, if you wanna find a chain of reactions you will definitely find it. Why did you decide to eat ice cream today? an infinite number of apparition in consciousness prior to that one, all linked to one another through by a thread of association, same archetype etc.

@Majed For how i see it, in art are present both objective and subjective elements: what is objective: Popularity, influence (on other artists), originality, tecnichal ability, level of equipement, sales. What is subjective: all the rest. "x is better then" is a subjective statement. objectivity cannot measure what is "better", because "better" is not a measurable.

@Nivsch The second itfifada lasted atleast 5 years, 2002 was just a part of it. And the total result is always more civilians casualties then combatants. I never said Israel should sit and wait to be attacked. The problem is that we have arrived to this situation mostly because of what i wrote above. Whenever the most powerful in the reagion make it habitual to kill civillian like rain in the hope of chopping down some terrorists, something has gone wrong. I don't have a solution, i just know bombing a whole territory over and over has proved to be ineffective. The point is, Isreael never had the nuanced, sophisticated and compassionate level of strategical thinking that was needed to solve the contentions with its problematic neighborhood. And this is reflected in poeple like you, who use "they can't do anyting else" as an excuse for all that it's happening, without understanding that errors were made and errors and actions birthed from those errors must be condamned, as mush as any terrorist attacks must be condamned. Israel current actions will backfire, like it always had happened, bringing forth an endless cycle of suffering for everyone, until a more advanced leadership will take power.

@Nivsch Doesnt matter the aim. The premise is always to defend Israel, the result is brutality. And brutality isn't surgical. Yes and it is shameful. Israel answer? they "cut the grass". Israel problem has always been its comprehensible belligerant bias and its inability to solve problems in any way other than bombings and police abuse of force. --------- @Danioover9000 what? what do you mean?

@Danioover9000 = The suffering of palestinians and Israelis will continue for a rather long bit i'm afraid

@Nivsch Second intifada / 2014 operation - are this a better example? yes, let's call it a "loose" occupation Killing thousend's of civilians is always despicable, no metter if offensive or difensive. Funnily enough, the scope of the casualites of the recent are certainly not symmetrical, but that's because the Israel Military is completely out-doing Hamas in terms of devastation.

@Nivsch intelligent and surgical operations like Sabra and Shatila? Or the occupation of the west bank territories? You would like to paint Israel as the country that unfortunately isn't. I'm glad you seem to concede that the ongoing response hasn't been surgical. Do you realise that your line of thinking can be applied to justify hamas aswell?

@Breakingthewall This is true, but it doesn't change the fact that Israel's response is autoritarian regime-level.

@Breakingthewall Yes, war is war but war is also justified with something called propaganda. This is utter BS. Whenever a vastly superior military decide to basically destroy a community there is always atleast 1 other way they are deciding to ignore. The fact that they were brutally attacked doesn't suspend Israel from their moral obligations, and their answer was "vengeance". That's fine, but then they souldn't be surprised when the whole world look at them in scorn. Call it war. But it is simply isn't true there isn't any other way the could tackle this. And even if there weren't, they would be be responsable, given how they handled the situation through the years. Don't spread this "there is no other way" BS.