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Unless he is already dead.

I actually didn't notice that, even though I watched the video after reading your comment. To me it seems like they are worried about other people / public health but they see the issue as "the evil government and corporations are trying to poison people and make money". I didn't notice them saying things like: "i don't care if other people die from covid, I want my freedom" or whatever. They actually think that vaccines are bad for society at large, and that covid is actually not deadly, and blah, blah, blah.

@Leo Gura can clarify this point from the "Top Proofs For The Existence Of God" more or is it something that requires me to have an awakening to understand? Why does God have to " be maintaining your sanity right now" as opposed to you just having a functioning brain (even if we assume that it was designed by God) that is sane by default until it gets broken? Why did you make an emphasis on active maintenance? And by insanity, do you mean people that are traditionally considered insane or do you mean some crazy levels of insanity that most people have no clue about? Also, why did you find it important to highlight this specific point? Wouldn't this be the case for everything else as well, like your heart beating, your cells functioning properly, etc.? Do you just consider it interesting to think about or is there some special significance / uniqueness when it comes to sanity? Finally, when you are talking about demons and unicorns, and saying that they are as real as horses because it's all consciousness, do you mean that you are currently imagining horses to be real, but you could have as well been imagining demons to be real, or unicorns since fundamentally it is all consciousness? Or are you saying that there are literally demons in this reality, currently, that my mind is already imagining, just like there are horses? And that God is actively protecting me from those demons / keeping me sane?

Inspired by the Leo's video, I've made two posts on reddit. One on a Christian subreddit and another one on atheist subreddit. I've asked christians why do they assume that scriptures are true and atheists whether they are willing to admit that they don't actually know if God exists and that they belief that God doesn't exist is not so different from theists believing that God exists. And I've actually god some interesting responses on the christian subreddit, with some people admitting that yes, this is an assumption and that we don't really know. Some people saying that they've been questioning their faith and christian dogma. Some referring to direct experiences. Also, notably everyone was nice and polite. From atheists I just got a bunch of ridicule and straw-man responses like "Why don't I start questioning whether spider man is real", immediately conflating my position with defending religion, and banning my post for proselytizing, lol. Even though I did my best to not make any statements about whether God exists or not, just questioned the automatic assumption that he doesn't and posed a purely philosophical question. I find this really interesting because I expected to get the opposite reaction. I guess this could be due to the fact that many christians on reddit are actually closer to stage green christians than to maga conservative christians. And atheists are mostly stage orange materialists, who don't even care about existential questions of philosophy much.

This is a quote from a christian who claims to have had a direct experience of God and give it as a reason as to why he is Christian. Is this him just mixing his pre-existing ideas of christianity with mystical experience and deluding himself or can you have an actual "Christianity themed" awakening? If it is possible, do you take it for what it is because direct experience is king or do you tell yourself that your mind is playing tricks on you because you know (lets say from watching Leo's videos) that awakening should be something more than you just meeting a spirit of Yeshua? If this were you, how would you know if your experience was real and you are not deluding yourself? Direct experience is the only way to know if God exists and to understand God, but everyone's experience is different so how can you be sure if yours is the true one?

@Paradoxed so during the trip you don't remember that you took the drugs and are not able to have an awareness of "okay, I am high now, I might be seeing crazy shit"?

@Leo Gura i see. Yeah, they sound sketchy, and not just in terms of being bad for your health but also because you might do something crazy and get into serious trouble that way.

Because you think they are too dangerous / sketchy or because you don't think there will be much value in it? Or both?

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.