Whitney Edwards

I have understood through my insight work that morality does not exist at higher levels. Morality is a religion based trap too.

The trap of intuition I guess.

I'm not going to drop the notion of enlightenment. It's very important to me. Its my life literally.

I don't think that one should consciously go looking around for more traps to fall into because that might be stupid, although there's a theory called taking calculated risks in life, whether it's business or dating or career. It's best to consciously avoid traps once you learn of them beforehand, yet if you do fall into a trap by happenstance, it's best to cut losses, earn your wisdom, make good out of the bad experience yet never fall for similar traps in the future but be seasoned in your wisdom gradually. Sure traps can be transformative but they aren't a win win especially when the losses outweigh the gains by a huge margin, so it's a game of quality and quantity and not so much about really gaining something but how valuable this "something" really is in retrospect.

I think what he means is that failures are a milestone in the direction of wisdom yet catastrophic failures can be darn crippling and completely foist your functional goals, something that you're never equipped or prepared for.

I think enlightenment basically means no separation at all. So I still don't know how that could be a trap.

That's the confusion. Whether I should avoid traps or embrace them or should I willingly take on more risks in the future just for the sake of it?

@Princess Arabia how is being enlightened a trap?

He did communicate in the middle of the outage. It was just a bit late, maybe he was too busy trying to fix it, it must have been overwhelming to see serious technical issues with the server and a whole year's worth of data gone missing, I don't think this happened before, there were server crashes but not on this scale so I surmise this time around it must have been a serious technical error since the whole site was down, making a YouTube post might have been a stretch, I don't know, would it be perceived negatively if he made such public announcements, or maybe he thought he had enough time to fix it before planning an announcement, we never know what went on.

Thank you. ❤

Well why do we need everything to be so strictly professional? He interacts daily with his forum users, it is not counted in his professional ethics, yet he gives you a mile for an inch, he gives you much more that anyone ever pays him for, nobody has a problem with that when it comes for free. He slides back a bit and immediately the complaining starts. Maybe being grateful for such a wonderful service is a great place to start. Of course nobody says Improvements aren't needed. But complaining so viscerally about a few days lapses is really petty. Outages happen. No service was ever perfect and it's so low cost to top it off.

@Inliytened1 this is really not a business.

If not posting makes you feel validated by your own ego, isn't that a trap too?

+1

@Ishanga @bebotalk yea I get that part. It's called cultural assimilation. But it happens over time not overnight.

We have to understand two things here - purpose and self. Our divine self.

We become enlightened by understanding our true self.

You're fine as you are.

Good and evil are imaginations the mind created. It's an ego game.

Yea, don't threaten to breakup. Had that happen a few times in a past relationship. Good point.

Everyone is capable of goodness as well as evil, just not equally, there's no spectrum, we're the only species who love to bullshit ourselves into believing we're all good.

All negative actions even the most destructive behaviors are born out of fear, ignorance and unmet needs.

There wouldn't be a universal solution either way. What do you suggest in case?

To say that an entire culture should not be allowed to migrate/immigrate to another country is cultural stereotyping in my opinion. Cultural sensitivity needs to be practiced across the globe, there's simply no way around it.