Ishanga

There are MANY structures to reality lol, and our minds will never understand it completely, we don't even understand a tiny Atom completely, never mind the Reality of Everything, so what You say above is just another ideology.. I don't have really an ideology, I just say that Absolute/God/Brahman is Potential and Possibility, whatever You believe in is just that a Potential, what the nay sayer believes in is their Possibility, somewhere in existence maybe there is just a You and You are imagining everything else like in Matrix, maybe not I don't know, but to actually buy into this I am the Only one in Existence as an Absolute certainty is insane!!

What if the word Solipsism and the definition of it never entered Your world, your mind, but You had the Grand Experience, maybe You would think I am Everything, Everything is Me, meaning that the many all comes back to One, it doesn't deny anything...

You can say it all You want, You can say if You one day drop the brick on your foot that it won't hurt it won't hurt but it will hurt no matter what You say, its purely Subjective, and this is the real debate, is there such a thing as Objectivity? Well if You believe that there is nothing but Yourself and what You Experience then why post here, why have any relationships, why exist??? Or is this a part of the imaginary dream too lol.. Again those words are totally inappropriate to use IMO..

Regardless of how one gets there, I would recommend that someone get there naturally via yogic methods, but that is another discussion, the Experience only happens within YOU, I have no idea when You having this experience and when, that alone proves solipsism in not true, and if You deny Experience then why take any substance or do any practice to have any affect??? We are here to Experience all that this life has to offer, some experience Grand Experiences via what You mention above, others never experience this, and non human life forms will never either, so what is the conclusion of this? That there are many not just One!

This only exists in Your Experience, if You had no ability to really experience, like when You were a new born, then all of this is just bla bla bla, now You've had Experiences over the time span of Your Life, so it is true that all of Your Experiences only happen within You, You or any of Us have never experienced anything outside of Ourselves, in that aspect alone Solipsism is True, but that is on the Experience level only, You can't deny that there are other Bodies with their own Unique Experiences and the above is the same for them. This is really not a question of "Am I the only One in existence", its a questions of "What is the nature of Being Human or any Life Form", the nature of Being Human is that we are all fundamentally the same within ourselves, Absolute/God/Brahman is present in all things, living and dead, again I'll use the eg of a Bubble of Air, Air is Brahman, Bubble is Body, Mind, Material, Karma, Duality, Creation in all its trillions of forms, it all comes from ONE source, but its diversified on this level of Reality, in that aspect we are many, in Absolute there is only One but no Body, no Life is present, just Potential and Possibility... Everyone here that buys into Solipsism as meaning Only I Exist, is talking from Absolute level of Reality but they are not present completely in that Reality, since they have a Body and Mind to deal with, only Experientially can they touch that aspect of Reality, and not everyone is in that Experience obviously!

I'm not forcing anyone to do anything, I'm just saying that trying to fight it, if that is really what Trump wants, is a hopeless endeavour, we can't do anything to go against unless You want to endure allot of Suffering, its that simple.. why suffer when the States are not that bad of a place to be a part of compared to China or Russia invading us, then for sure we would have to fight against that...

Happiness if the foundation of BEINGNESS, which should come before You do any action or have anything via an action taken.. the formula is simple first BE-->then DO --->then HAVE, most do it backwards they DO then HAVE then try to BE but get stuck,then suffering results... Happiness/BEingness allows all Your Potential to come up from within, when no stress is present in Your Life all your facilities and intelligence, attributes are optimized, Your in the Zone all the time, ready to be creative, endless energy and no minds games in your head thinking of failure and what ifs, just set the foundation right by establishing Your BEING then go out and do and get what You deserve!

omg now you bring up abortion rights lol!!!

The US with all its problems, that Canada has too by the way, as what happens there happens here too, is still considered a high level of living, yes they have major poverty problems, we do too, lots of homelessness in Canada and Toronto, these problems are economic problems and as I've said its all corrupt, the masses do not benefit from the way this economy runs, the rich get richer the poor poorer, its always been this way generally, but there are exceptions, but its much worse in other places than here that is for sure.. so we wouldn't be joining a place much different from the way it is here, and ppl are suffering things anyways, they suffer there failure and success, their loneliness and families/friends, ppl are capable of suffering most anything, this is due to their unconsciousness, not the situations happening around them for the most part!!!

I'll make one correction, we are infinite gods in "Embodied" forms, which means in some ways we are limited, if you identify with the Body and Mind, which most are, If you are not identified with Body/Mind, then you can access via experience the God Field, but only thru experience, at high levels even in the physical realm You will appear to be Super Human with powers and siddhis, but this is a trap too, because the goal is complete liberation from this cycle of birth into a body/mind, then death from it, the rebirth over and over again...

You guys that fall into this solipsism trap always use the dream example, imagine Your dreaming and this or that happens but then you wake up and it was just a dream, i challenge You too, drop the big heavy brick on your foot, see how imaginary and dream like it is when it hits your foot.,.none of You will do it because You know what you say here is complete BS, and that it will hurt bad which is reality biting you in your face!

That's what I mean about suffering, if we adapt and change lifestyles then that is a suffering of sorts,, ppl are still suffering from covid, teachers are calling in sick and taking leaves because of covid and its been a couple of years since that happened, so imo to do more sacrificing would be too much suffering to bare, why have to do that, its not like the US is Russia or China or north Korea, ppl are migrating to the US because if offers one of the best standards of living available on the planet... This is all about identity with a man made entity, which is foolish imo... we are not going to be joining a rouge or brutal nation for pete sakes, its America!!

What are my plans in the near future?? If Your imagining me and claim to be awakened then what are my plans??? You should know if Your as awake as You claim to be...

Then do it and film it and share it here, find a 30 pound brick, get it dropped from the 5 ft in the air onto your foot, do it if it is so imaginary, but You won't because your philosophy as you explained it above is full of shit!!

this maybe true, I don't think Trump is like Putin or Xi, he's no stone cold killer psycho like those guys, yes he's a megalomaniac of sorts with a huge ego and narcissistic, most all politicians are narcissitic by the way... but what can we do about it, what do you suggest we do about it as Canadians? If we do retaliatory tariffs we suffer, and it will take too long to make other arrangements to get out resources sold to someone else, For me this is not about me wanting to become American, its about wellbeing of for myself and others, less suffering has a role to play in that regard, ppl are already suffering it and nothing has happened other than threats, if the real deal happens it will be way worse, or we just let it happen, they have to chose what is more important, wellbeing, or suffering for a long time.. I highly doubt the whole American way of life as it has been over the years of my life is going to change soon or within the next 20 yrs unless there is a nuclear war...

Trumps former advisor Bannon says he is dead serious about Annexing Canada, he said this recently and the reasons are mostly for Security reasons...Everyone can say this or that, we don't know the absolute true reasons why he wants to do what he wants to do.. and i'm not pro annexing, I'm anti suffering for myself and everyone else!

lol this is a merry go round discussion, you say I am assuming, your assuming too, we both are.. As of right now the American dollar is the world currency, that could change or not change we don't know, so what to do, think there is going to be change when there may not be??? That would be dumb imo, so I'll stick to what is, if my $$ becomes American then I am worth more, so is everyone else that is good! About the corruption all over our society, I cannot do anything about other than just accept it as it is and play the game of it, in my view the game would be better to not fight it and go with it since suffering only comes from fighting with a country as powerful as the US is, we simple cannot do anything really about it, and if we do then we suffer more for it, they will suffer less from it... Trump isn't the same, he will tell you what he is thinking, he doesn't lie about it, its front and center, the other ones lie about it, they say one thing but think and do something else, so I prefer Trumps style as at the least he gives You for warning about it. No matter who You are, ppl will disagree with You, its the same here, he has his followers and enemies as everyone else in politics or power positions has...

Its really got nothing to do with Trump, and as I've said its more for economical reasons why I like the idea, our dollars become American dollars, my pay will be in American $$, that alone economically will benefit me and many others, the other aspect is avoiding more suffering, Trump as a personality and politician I don't really care about, they are all corrupt, they all say one thing and do something else, the whole way of how we do things is corrupt, all the systems we have in place, political, economics, education, healthcare, etc are all corrupt and do not work well for the masses, but wht can I do as an individual? All I can do is be healthy inside myself, Spirituality inclined, live to my highest potential, helps others do the same and enjoy life as it is now, being broke won't get me there, so money is important, but its not everything!

Who's forcing anyone to do anything, just stating opinion, if the country decides to fight it and suffer then that is the way it will be, I think its stupid but I am only one person, I've only met one other person that agrees with what I say, most are patriotic, but too me I am not identified with the country of Canada, I would rather just have a life of wellbeing and wish that for everyone, fighting with the Americans will not allow that too happen imo...

Yes no free health care, if you dont work for a good company You might be screwed, but healthcare up here is no picnic either, wait times are very long and no specialists or very few, nurse shortages and lots of other issues here with health care, its not all about it being free, there are other things to consider! Plus ppl have to take on more responsibility for their health, whenever I got to the hospital, which is not often, I see unhealthy ppl, you can see that they don't take good care of themselves in the first place which is why there are there!!

I've thought of it for sure, but I cannot work down there, but thinking of starting my own online business and if it works out I would definitely move out of Canada at least during the winter months, and Toronto is too crazy here, too many ppl not enough space, its chaos here everyday, and guess what we are all thinking about ourselves, I don''t go to work everyday to feed someone elses family, only my own, but in my own way I help others when I can, and overall for the wellbeing of most of the ppl of this country I don't see how fighting this from happening is better than just allowing it too happen, but to each their own...

@puporing The assumptions are happening on both sides, you too are assuming... My point is this, since he is serious about this, mentions it everyday and some of his former advisors have down his logic for doing this, I think it is going to happen anyways regardless of what we do, he can make life very hard for us just using economic tools, so why go thru it all, lets see what happens when the tariffs come in in March, then wait a few months, then see the suffering, its bad already without all this stuff happening, Canada is not in good shape, we have a housing crisis, health care crisis, mental health crisis, in major debt and the weather here sucks lol !!!! So since US is not Russia or China or even worse North Korea, why not just get it done and avoid the Suffering the will inevitably happen if we fight it!!

For our resources to be shipped to other countries besides American it would take years to build the infrastructure, so its not an assumption, even for us to get our oil and natural gas from out west to the east would take years of construction.. plus even within our own country btwn provinces there are trade barriers, I did not know this until this tariff threat came up, so to restructure everything so that we don't export our stuff the US would take years and years of reworking it...anything can happen within those years to make it even longer, another pandemic, another economic crisis, maybe China or Russia invades us in the north, we have no help from the US, so there are too many variables at play, too much suffering will take place to fight it imo... I didn't want this too happen. my best case scenario would be for us to have something similar to Europe where we have our own sovereignty but share the same dollar (like the Euro) and free trade and travel, and work permits permitted for our citizens to work in either country freely!

no, our money would be worth more, my pay would increase, our access to certain things would increase, and our security would be guaranteed, plus our economy would grow... most all the benefits are economic. From what I know here with our present day health care system, yes we have free health care but it too slow, and specialist move south to make more money, ppl are sick here and stuck with being sick, unless they can pay out of pocket to see a specialist in the States.. So that is a none issue for me. Overall its a better move to join them, the weather is a side benefit...many Canadians own property in Florida, I think I heard that we own a ton of property there, its a big %.. this is to get away from the shit weather here in the winter and this winter is really bad and its going to get worse over the years...

Well If I was fighting Andre the Giant, and could not run then what do You suggest, fight back and make it worse or give in?? Canada is too small to fight back, and if we retaliate with counter tariffs we suffer dbl, so what is the strategy to counter this threat?? Find other countries to export our stuff can work but it takes too long to set it up, the next generation would benefit from this but what about this one, what do I do for the next 20 or so years of life, just suffer it? The US is not a communist or authoritarian country, and we are just like them in most all ways, I see no non benefit to joining them other than losing our sovereignty and national identity, what is more important, quality of life or identity issues???