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Who cares about consensus? What would consensus give you that you don't already have or you don't think that you already have? Say we've reached a consensus and a conclusion, how would that feel? Grounding? Reassuring? Would you say that feeling is what you're seeking ultimately? The map is not the territory. I have been in states where I would inquire into similar thoughts and get this mocking answer: What are you even talking about?!

Well, one thing that people tend to take for granted is awareness. In the existence terminology, it's already assumed that whatever you're aware of right now is existence. So, since you're aware, it's assumed that you exist. This assumption is usually taken to be as truth rather than an assumption or learned knowledge. But what's the relationship between awareness and existence? After all, inanimate objects apparently don't have an awareness, and yet they somehow exist. And at the same time, countless other beings apparently have, and many of them claim to have an awareness, but I don't have any way to access them and confirm. How do we cope with this paradox? For me, I just surrender the whole inquiry, because apparently there's no way to answer it. I think people are overly confident about their insights regarding this topic. And I think the whole point of the inquiry is to surrender it rather than to arrive at an answer. But perhaps some people get way too enthusiastic and lose track of the original goal. For me, the original goal is not an intellectual insight. Rather, it's an emotional state that I was seeking. Once I get that state, really not much matters after that.

What I have been up to recently with JavaScript: ECMAScript 2015 (ES6). The Document Object Model (DOM). Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX). Object Oriented Programming (OOP). TypeScript. A bunch of miscellaneous stuff. Unfortunately, I'm not practicing properly yet. Focused mostly on the theoretical aspect of learning at the moment.

If there's one good thing about Islam, it's its practices. It's been three years since I last prayed to Allah from my heart. I did fake prayers in the meantime, out of pure peer pressure (last time, a few days ago). Right now, I feel like I need to return to it wholeheartedly. I feel ready. I particularly miss Ruku' and Sujud. They feel good, especially Ruku'. I never experienced back pain before I stopped praying. I did not stop fasting, though, until this year where I half-assed Ramadan. I don't want to return to fasting until I become rich. I feel malnourished. I can't do it. Sorry, Allah. Send some high quality food, or suck it. I'm not going to starve myself and hurt my body for you. Somehow, it was always hard for me to stop any of the practices. I kind of flow whenever I put my mind to something. I've always had troubles letting go of habits, whether good or bad. A very great practice in Islam is Wudu' (washing) before prayer. It's very refreshing and healthy, especially inhaling the water into the nostrils. There's something right about that particular practice, and everyone who doesn't do it does not know what they're missing.

I just realized I never touch the High Consciousness Resources subforum. Nor do I go near the books reviews and video requests subforums. Occasionally, I do check the health and career subforums. Other than that, I hang out around all the others pretty much regularly. But I don't open many threads, especially nowadays. Only what I find interesting, or if I see someone I know is high quality posting. .. Somehow, I was able to get the Life Purpose course for free. New reason to get banned lol.

Is the universe: Pre-rational; Meaningless nihilistic randomness of infinite complexity. Unconscious. Cruel. Heartless. Indifferent. Passive. Rational; Clockwork machine. Follows certain logical rules that can be discovered. Linear. Predictable. Yin-Yang. Post-rational; Infinite intelligence. Behaving in intelligent ways that we can never understand. Intelligent design. Conscious. Alive. Loving. Caring. Proactive. Irrational; Hippy. Made of emotions. Reactive. Moody. Narcissistic. Drama queen. Attention whore. A-rational; Infinite potential. No rules. No limits. Unpredictable. Unknowable. Or perhaps a mix of, or all the above? How do we know the answer without projecting our dominant human status? And are there other possibilities? I don't necessarily think that there has to be an answer. I just liked this meta view and wanted to share it with you in case it's of any use. But I'd like to know if there's a definitive answer.

And, of course, Weird Al's parody: https://youtu.be/ZcJjMnHoIBI (Couldn't be embedded). Also, And the parody:

Yeah, I've been there. And I still forget. I don't need to reply to everything. I can't argue if I'm not there. If I leave unapologetically, the argument will be over immediately.

When you call men pussies for not getting into fights, you are in a sense jumping on them (no pun intended). I don't care what rationalizations you might have for that. You want to state your opinions of other men's opinions on fights (you call them pussies for choosing to not getting into fights), but you don't want anyone to have an opinion on your opinions. How biased and self-serving is that? I saw you once getting sad when Leo didn't tell you where you are being biased, so here I am telling you exactly where and how.

Capitalism does not cause prices to fall. It's prosperity, you idiots! Capitalism merely hijacks prosperity and claims its benefits, just like communism hijacks the government and claims its benefits too.

The moments we spend thinking negatively about stuff that don't affect us are wasted moments and rather better be spent on creating our positive experiences. Ignore what you find disturbing. Your time is invaluable, and your moments are irreplaceable.

Contradiction?

Legendary?! Did you even watch the video?

I agree, but that's not what I meant. I meant, originally, we didn't have a concept/label of masculine and feminine, even though they existed as polarities in the universe and within us. We were completely ignorant of them, and therefore in a state of full expression and integration. There was no demonization or suppression of either, until our ancestors decided to. What created lack of expression and in result caused disintegration was the social construct. All of our problems began right there, with the birth of the mind. Right now, we're only trying to reintegrate the mess our ancestors created.

@Emerald I think masculine and feminine started out originally as social constructs, as a form of division of labor. But then disintegration happened later on because concepts cannot encapsulate God because God is larger than the concepts. And up until now it's been a snowball effect of disintegration. Chains of reactions going back and forth between men and women without an end. Men abusing women, and women abusing men. Furthermore, men started abusing men and women started abusing women as well. Who started all that? The social construct. Just like money, it isn't an inherent part of God. It started out as a way (idea/construct) to exchange value in an abstract way. But then later, people started accumulating it, and that caused disintegration, which snowballed into poverty and crime and all the other problems in society.

coca wants to become a better person, but doesn't want to inquire into his biases.

The development of human fetuses begins with a vagina. And then it either remains as it is, or grows into a penis. We are all pussies, welcome to life.

@Leo Gura Have faith, Leo. There's gotta be a way. You've done so much good, and you deserve a good and long life and a happy ending.

Survival.

I love the egolessness in this statement. Other people like to claim everything as theirs. I recently saw an interview with someone who did something kinda rare in my area, and the guy was all egoic and unconscious thinking that he actually did anything to begin with. It's the difference between a spiritually developed person and a totally unconscious one.

@Emerald Thanks for your efforts and patience.

@Emerald Is (Masculine and Feminine) the ultimate duality/non-duality? Or is there something beyond?

It's both/either.

@Inliytened1 There is a range, of course. I was just illustrating the concept in simple terms. A man starts life in weakness (closer to death = weaker), and then gradually grows into strength, and then gradually loses it (again, closer to death = weaker). That's life, it's a struggle against death.

The opposite of strength, just like death is the opposite of life. Weakness is perceived closer to death than to life. Man is strongest in his midlife. And he's weakest otherwise (infant, elderly).