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Most posts are just "religion is bad", "look how dumb those christians are", etc.

@Leo Gura Lol

@Leo Gura thank you

Ok Yes, I agree.

@Leo Gura but you don't have to permanently install it anywhere which is really the only option if you are renting an apartment. Not just because you might not be allowed to but also in case you need to move in the future.

@r0ckyreed I want to buy myself this one when I get the money: https://aquatruwater.com/product/carafe-countertop-reverse-osmosis-water-purifier-variation/ It's reverse osmosis filter and I like that the water is stored in the glass container vs plastic. You can also find them used on ebay for much cheaper, which shouldn't techincally be an issue since you need to buy new filter sets every ones in a while anyway. But I have never bought anything on ebay so idk how safe it is.

Yes, that's possible. But I like to give a person a benefit of the doubt in such cases since this argument can be used against anyone claiming to have a direct experience of God.

@Leo Gura ok, I see.

Exactly, lol. But that means you can't trust your direct experience either and you need to run it through the filter of your indirect knowledge of reality, which is kind of a catch 22, isn't it?

Yeah, I thought of this when asking the question, but my conclusion was that those would be different apples. Now I am not sure why it has to be oe way or the other. Since its your imagination, you could imagine it either way, right?

@Leo Gura yes, ok Thank you <3

I see. Yeah, I guess that's true. Ok. I assume you don't want me to bug you with any more questions about this so I will stop, haha.

What makes you think that language is that fundamental to feeling safe? ... Probably not the same, but I actually slept outside in a park once, in a foreign city. It wasn't a deep sleep cause I was trying to be cautious but it was a cool experience.

I see. Are mystics / mysticism different from things like working on becoming awake or are you using them as synonym for everything we talk about here? I meant that I can clearly see psychological source of many of my dreams and can relate them to things I was thinking / worrying about during the day/ That's understandable. They are very pretty though. I was hoping it's not silk. I wonder if you can make them as vibrant and beautiful with other natural materials, not silk or synthetics.

I classify those as regular dreams. Just scary, lol.

@Hojo if you mean lucid dreaming and that kind of stuff then I never had those, unfortunately. My sister claimed that she had astral projections a few times but I don't know how much of it is real vs her just thinking that it was real.

In my experience, regular dreams are just stuff that you are thinking about in your waking life, not some mystical experiences.

So it's not like in the teleportation / transferring human consciousness to another body thought experiments where the idea is that the thing that's being transferred might be just a copy paste of you, not really you. Yeah... It sounds very interesting though. I see. I think that it would also be interesting to be able to explore this looser reality with a functioning brain to be able to really observe and appreciate it vs going nuts along with it. I see. ... Also, would you mind sharing where you get your scarves from? Are they made from silk or is it some other fabric?

@Leo Gura thank you Doesn't this imply some kind of object permanence though? Otherwise, wouldn't such lapse in consciousness mean me completely disappearing out of the existence and God restarting to imagine me, but it would now be a different version of me? Do you think insanity is worth exploring for its own sake (as in actively trying to experience states of insanity) or do you treat it as a side effect of trying to expand your consciousness with psychedelics and other stuff? So when a schizophrenic is seeing demons, it's not them creating/imagining those demons with their brain, which is ultimately being imagined by God, it's God actively dreaming your whole life up in a certain way? To clarify, I am essentially asking if it's possible to somehow affect your reality from this 1 level of separation: God Mind -> Your own mind -> things imagined by your own mind. You are saying that human mind/self is too weak for that. Do you believe this is a hard rule, like totally not possible or there might be people capable of this? In this example, could insane people be able to do this to some degree because their minds are more unhinged?

How is this different from "regular" psychedelics?

@LambdaDelta I am actually really curious about how insane your mind can go. This still leaves the question of active maintenance vs this just being how reality was designed / law of being as you've called it.

not sure if this is in regards to demons / other conscious entities or different states of consciousness that you can experience

Whenever I watch Leo's video, or read a book, or do a course, or whatever I usually have no issue with understanding the topic, however, I have issue with being able to remembering it in detail and being anle to articulate it afterwards. I will remember the core ideas on the intuitive level, but I won't be able explain them or clearly bring them up from my memory. How do I improve that?

@Sandhu I've tried taking notes many times throughout my life but then find them useless afterwards and throw them away / stop taking them. I never even feel like re-reading them because it seems more useful to just look at the source material again. @The Renaissance Man by understanding I mean that for example when I watch Leo's video, I am not confused and understand what he is talking about (sometimes I am confused and then I try to understand it better, but that's irrelevant, right now), I am able to process the idea with my mind. An opposite example would be being confused about how some kind of advanced math concept / formula works and not being able to actually process it. The issue is that after watching a video, if I ask myself what it was about, I will have a really hard time articulating it beyond some very primitive basics. Even though I might intuitively / non verbally understand it. So, to use your spiral dynamics example: - If you make a test about understanding spiral dynamics where you give description of a person and ask me which stage they are at or if you give a list of qualities that need to be assigned to the correct stages - I will pass it - If you ask me to stand up and explain spiral dynamics to - I will do a very bad job. Although, to be fair, with spiral dynamics in particular I would do a better job than I would normally would, just because I've re-watched those videos many times. Right now I am watching the "Proofs for the existence of God" video and I understand each argument as well as Leo's explanation of why it is not a sufficient proof of God. Will I be able name at least some of those arguments tomorrow and describe the? I doubt it. But if you talk to me about one of them tomorrow, and ask whether it's a good or bad proof of the existence of God - I will be able to tell you. Will I be able to articulate "why" as well as Leo does? No. But I will intuitively understand whether the argument is good or bad.

So all law enforcement bodies and all media outlets? If she had so much alcohol that she can't even say no or move her body to get / push him away, while he is physically capable to have sex with her, it seems appropriate. Why should getting drunk automatically assume consent? How do you know if she wants to have sex with you if she is unable to say yes or know and just lays there unconscious? You mean in case of just allegations or in case of actual sexual misconduct?