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@Natasha Tori Maru military operates outside the scope of Congress, the president , and the court. check out the Jake Barber interview on Leo's blog. Elected officials know nothing, and for good reason (imagine telling MTG or my genius governor Ron Desantis about UFOs). Cox would be right if any of those entities was calling the shots on this issue, but they're not, so he's wrong you could make a whole meta point about democracy based on this ufo issue. Plato and Aristotle thought the world should be led by an unelected class of philosopher mystics .

Done. It's interesting how Annaka is talking about idealism but won't call it idealism. It's like that's a dirty word for science people.

@Leo Gura lol he and other scientists actually think the military would walk into Harvard with a fucking ufo if they found one.

The brain appears to be a dream that dreams other dreams . Meta-dreaming. Specifically, it appears to be a dream necessary for a finite, human dream. Without a brain, there would be no stakes, none of the drama of survival.

I'm not sure this counts as a genetic freak of nature but you gotta be pretty brave to catch 10 foot pythons with your bare hands .

Fun medical woo takedown "If you get cancer you should just IGNORE THE DIAGNOSIS!" Positive vibes cure that shit baby. Medical woo might be the most dangerous brand of woo out there. This vegetable police guy thinks a raw vegan diet can literally cure any illness. The cringe is next level. That being said , there needs to be balance between listening to a doctor , and also doing a shitload of research of your specific condition.

Very interesting. There can probably be room for both. And the lines could blur in the case of super advanced technology. Especially technology that drastically enhances natural psychic or extrasensory abilities.

Do you guys think aliens are from this planet or from other dimensions? I used to be sure they were just from other planets, but the more I look into things like poltergeist- cryptid-UFO connection (ie Skinwalker Ranch and the Westmorland incident , aliens walking through walls, and psychic abilities I'm starting to think they're not physical in the traditional sense.

When you had your NDE were you able to see your body from above? Was there anyone in the room doing things you later confirmed? Also did you spontaneously awaken after your NDE?

Easier to just quote it

What exists beyond space and time? Consciousness? Formless emptiness? Is there an identity , memory , form associated with that exists beyond space and time? And if memory is wiped at death how is that functionally different from materialist nonexistence ?

@Sugarcoat Gospel of Thomas is a good read. I believe that if Jesus existed and was really awakened , it's almost certainly his actual words, and basically debunks traditional Christianity (and that's why they had to cut it from the Bible).

The gnostics were a group of early Christians who wrote the gnostic gospels (not included in the Bible) including the gospel of Thomas and the gospel of Mary Magdalene. They believed the world was created by a false God called the Demiurge. Jesus was sent by the real God to liberate us from the world created by the Demiurge. The fact that Buddhists and Gnostics came up with essentially the same idea (Samsara / Demiurge reincarnation trap) , to me, gives the idea some credibility, I think the idea of avoiding the white light is a new age spinoff of Gnosticism . I think it started with Robert Monroe (who coined the term out of body experience). During his astral projection trips he met an entity who told him that Earth is a "Loosh farm" (basically soul energy) created by demonic entities . I think some other people who had NDE's came up with the idea of avoiding the white light, some of them had met entities on the other side who told them that the white light is the entrance to the "soul trap" imprisoning us on Earth.

Well according to the Gnostics the world is created by an evil Demiurge, and Jesus came to help people escape it. a lot of new agers will talk about how the white light at death is a trap and you should resist it as much as possible.

I think it's only bad if we don't have a choice in the matter. some NDE'rs say we choose our next incarnation (but then they're forced to come back so I'm not sure what to make of it).

Yeah I'm picking career development over friends and pickup atm. Also, my social life has been the biggest thing fueling my weed addiction. So tbh I need to get that handled before I start doing pickup again. My main strategy for making friends in Portland is gonna be Marijuana Anonymous. I've already attended some Zoom meetings and was impressed with the amount of 20 somethings.

Breakdown of the bicameral mind occured around the time of the axial age. Socrates, Plato, Buddha , Lao tzu , Zoroaster Isaiah , Jeremiah

Consciousness is an illusion! Hahahahhaha

That makes sense, the west coast seems very social circle . Okay I just found out the company also has an office in Austin. That's bizarre .

I want to know how I can be God if my consciousness is essentially confined to me and can't be combined with someone else's consciousness. I guess it just doesn't compute . But that's probably because I haven't realized God directly .

I think he's missing the whole point. It's not really relevant whether consciousness occurs when the brain stops working. It's much more interesting to look at the phenomena itself, consciousness becoming infinite and omniscient, and attempting to explain how that's possible.

I've been doing Survival, not Spitituality. My entire journey up until this point has been to live forever. That's all I've ever wanted , to be eternally. Now I need to deconstruct that by dying. I must die. I absolutely must die . Pure nothingness . My entire life up until this point has been pure ego, pure selfishness, and pure delusion. I absolutely must die asap. this is my dilemma a lifetime of misery Or this me dies and I actually start living in a way that isn't deluded . I need to find a way out of this cycle .

I'm gonna visit this summer because I got a temp job . Actually socializing has been the root of a lot of my problems I think so it will be a nice reset. But in the long run I definitely want somewhere to do game . 👍

That's tragic. I guess I'm waiting to move to the pnw until I'm in a long term relationship. Austin actually seems like a place I would like . I guess I thought it was a desert but looks like they have some green space.