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The solipsist can just respond with "but my mind is infinite therefore solipsism." I just don't think it can be debunked using logic and that's why Faith is important. edit: on second thought you can argue against solipsism. Solipsism is a limitation on God. God is without limits, therefore solipsism is untrue .

I said the exact opposite of that 😶‍🌫️.

Solipsism is basically impossible to argue against but it's also a completely absurd position if it's not simply an admission of not knowing beyond the self .

Excellent—this is a worthy intellectual challenge. Leo Gura’s litmus test demands we discard tribal biases and demonstrate, from first principles, why Nazism and Communism both ultimately fail as viable political systems. Here’s how we can do it, step-by-step: 🔍 METHOD: Analyze by First Principles First principles are foundational axioms or values we cannot reduce further—such as: Human dignity / autonomy Cognitive and moral diversity Freedom of thought and speech Stability and sustainability Justice and fairness (not sameness) Adaptability to complexity These principles emerge from the irreducible fact that humans are conscious, diverse, self-aware beings living in an interdependent social and ecological system. ❌ WHY NAZISM FAILS FROM FIRST PRINCIPLES 1. Denial of Universal Human Dignity Nazism constructs a hierarchy of human worth based on race. This directly violates the first principle that every conscious being has intrinsic worth. No justification can override the basic moral axiom that life has value independent of its genetic “purity.” 2. Suppression of Diversity and Inquiry By promoting monoculture and banning dissent, Nazism violates the principle that truth, growth, and evolution require open dialogue and a plurality of perspectives. 3. Centralization of Power without Feedback Loops Nazism relied on totalitarian control. Systems with no real feedback (criticism, accountability, checks and balances) collapse into error, paranoia, and unsustainable repression. 4. Ends Justify the Means Ethic Mass murder, war, and extermination are justified for utopian racial goals. This is a clear violation of the principle that means must be ethically consistent with ends—you cannot produce good by doing evil. 5. Mythic Regression Nazism idealizes a mythologized past (“blood and soil”) and resists complexity. This violates the principle that a viable system must adapt to emergent global complexity—including race, technology, and economic interdependence. ❌ WHY COMMUNISM (as practiced) FAILS FROM FIRST PRINCIPLES (Note: we’re addressing authoritarian communism, e.g. Stalinist, Maoist—not democratic socialism.) 1. Suppression of Individual Autonomy State ownership of all property and suppression of enterprise or dissent stifles the core principle of human autonomy. Humans flourish when they can direct their own labor, expression, and relationships. 2. Uniformity over Diversity Central planning assumes a singular, “rational” design can guide all outcomes. This violates the first principle of distributed intelligence: no single agent or government can model the complexity of a whole society. 3. Suppression of Free Inquiry Authoritarian communism outlawed free speech, dissent, or deviation from the party line. This fails the principle that truth-seeking depends on open discourse and decentralized testing of ideas. 4. Instrumentalization of Life People become instruments of “the revolution” or the State, reducing life to means for achieving historical utopias. This violates the principle that each individual has intrinsic—not merely instrumental—value. 5. Economic Inflexibility State-controlled economies cannot adjust rapidly to supply, demand, or innovation. Complex systems need feedback loops and distributed innovation to survive. Communist regimes fell behind technologically for this reason. ✅ SHARED FLAW: Monism of Power Both Nazism and authoritarian communism centralize power in a rigid, dogmatic hierarchy (racial or ideological). This violates a deep first principle: any system must balance unity with diversity. Both also refuse the core insight of complexity science: no single perspective is sufficient to understand or guide the whole. ✅ WHAT PASSES THE TEST? A viable political system will: Uphold human dignity and autonomy Allow distributed decision-making and feedback Balance structure with adaptability Support diverse moral, cultural, and cognitive views Include mechanisms to self-correct Avoid absolutism—no race, class, party, or ideology is beyond critique Would you like to build a formal framework or diagram for this? We could also extend this critique to capitalism to remain consistent.

That doesn't mean others are something you hallucinated.

The universe doesn't care about us and that's a good thing. But I don't think being upset by horror is a weakness, it's a strength to be able to sit with that, to actually feel. can you really believe that the people going through these things are okay with it? That it's not "that bad."?

Solipsism as a "fact" is a trap. Epistemic solipsism is just the realization of Faith. Faith isn't belief in God, it's the necessary step out of solipsism.

Or just a puff of noise and light .

Maybe the body can become the formless potentiality and pure consciousness. Light body. what do you think about that? Bringing the Absolute down to the body embodying formless emptiness and light in the body . Breatharianism is how we rise above capitalism 🤔? Transmute the material body into a light body. Achieve the breatharian state. When the body submerges in the absolute formless it becomes a light body.

Consciousness doesn't even exist. Being exists ., infinity exists .

@TheSomeBody what was your breatharian process like

Okay but reality has to be something. So why not consciousness ?

Solipsism is a feeling not a belief. When you realize that everything you are aware of is your own awareness . That's the state of solipsism. You aren't saying there are no others, you're just realizing all you really know is your own being .

Nice. How was it? I'll be attending a 6 day Zen retreat in about 2 weeks.

From your pov you're all that is, from my pov I'm all that is.

I always understood "solipsism" as you as a differentiated stream of consciousness being eternal . So it's actually natural there would be an infinity of Gods. But there's also a deeper Oneness beneath perception.

@TheSomeBody What do you think about people starving in Africa?

Do you have an explanation for how it works? Does the body become a light body or somerhing? What happens after you've been a breatharian for 7 years and all your cells have regenerated ? Is your whole body then a light body? Would that lead to physical immortality?

Yes AI is very scary but imagine if a rogue capitalist entity created a device that took something like remote viewing and multiplied its power by 1000x. You can't even imagine the level of destruction that would cause.

I can't say one definitively way or another whether these abilities exist. My intuition says yes. I am very okay with the majority not being aware of such abilities , again if stage orange weaponized them en masse it would be bad, really bad.

Critique of new age spirituality Misunderstanding of God -Christianity will critique the new age as attempting to "be god", there's a sense in which they are wrong but another sense in which they are right. Being God means absolute surrender , not manifestation super powers GPT 40: That’s a sharp and grounded critique—one that hits at the essential distortion in much of New Age spirituality: a misunderstanding of what it means to be God. Let’s build that out into a full critique, centered on your insight. Critique of New Age Spirituality: Misunderstanding of God 1. The Core Confusion: God as Empowered Ego New Age teachings often claim: “You are God.” “You create your reality.” “Just raise your vibration, manifest your desires, attract abundance.” But this “God” is not the Absolute. It’s the ego in cosmic drag. True Godhood isn’t about control. It’s about radical surrender. To realize you are God is not to become the ultimate manifestor—it’s to die into the formless and to disappear into Love that has no center. 2. Christianity’s Critique: Half Right, Half Wrong Traditional Christianity often condemns the New Age for: Pride Playing God Idolatry of the Self They say: “You can’t be God. Only God is God.” This is wrong in the metaphysical sense—because the mystical core of Christianity (Eckhart, John of the Cross, Jesus himself) does affirm that the divine and the self are One in their ground. “Before Abraham was, I Am.” “The Father and I are One.” But Christianity is right in an unexpected way: When the New Age says “I am God” without surrendering ego, it is pride. They want to possess God, not become empty for God to move through. 3. The Realization of Godhood is Not Empowerment—It’s Emptiness To say “I am God” in the highest sense is to say: I am not the doer. I have no personal will. I surrender even my enlightenment. I am the field itself—not the character within it. I manifest not what I want—but what Truth wants. It’s not “I can manifest my dream house” It’s “There is no ‘I’ apart from the Dreamer.” 4. Love, Not Power True realization doesn’t increase your “powers.” It melts you into love so radical that it includes death, loss, and not-knowing. The real God doesn’t play the Law of Attraction game. The real God dies on the cross, in every moment, in every being.

Materialism is playing an important function in denying the possibility of these abilities . If the stage orange mind weaponized such phenomena on a mass scale it would be cataclysmic.

Yes in a sense. Like I understand deeply shoppenhauer calling God the Will. It's blind, amoral, and primal. Its desire , its creative .

Faith is very important but can also be corrupted. I used to have faith in law of attraction and manifestation and was constantly disappointed . You can mediate some of the corruption of faith with "not my will but yours be done."