Mellowmarsh

1. Lao Tzu: The Generative Void For Lao Tzu, "nothing" (Wu) and "everything" (the Ten Thousand Things) are conjoined through mutual birth. He argues that they are not just related, but that "nothingness" is the very thing that makes "everything" useful and possible. The Utility of the Empty: Lao Tzu famously pointed out that while we make a wheel with thirty spokes, it is the hole in the middle that makes it useful. Similarly, we shape clay into a vessel, but it is the emptiness inside that holds the water. A "Pregnant" Nothingness: In Taoism, the "Void" is not a sterile absence but a "primordial generative nothingness". It is the womb of existence, where "Being and non-being give birth to each other". 2. Parmenides: The Impossibility of "Nothing" Parmenides took a more radical, logical stance. He argued that nothing and everything are so inseparable that "nothing" cannot even exist—there is only the "One". Thought requires an Object: He believed that you cannot think of "nothing" because to think of it is to make it "something" in your mind. Therefore, "what-is-not" is literally unthinkable and unspeakable. The Seamless Whole: Because "nothing" (the void) cannot exist, there is no space to separate "everything." Therefore, reality must be a single, continuous, eternal, and unchanging block of Being. For Parmenides, the appearance of separate things is just a "deceitful show" of the senses.

That which is known to live never dies, because the known knows nothing. That which is known to die never lives, because the known knows nothing. It’s elementary.

No Self-Model: While AI can analyze data to find patterns and make predictions, this does not mean it possesses a "self" or an internal understanding that it is a computer program. While most current AI systems do not possess metacognitive processes in the human sense of conscious self-awareness, researchers are increasingly engineering "artificial metacognition" to allow AI to monitor and regulate its own "thinking" While AI is gaining the mechanical ability to monitor its processing, it still lacks the self-aware "I" that defines human thinking.

Don’t petition God. You cannot know the Absolute because you are the Absolute. If the Absolute knew it was the Absolute it would have to split in two into Knower and Known. Can the knower be separate from what’s being known? Of course not. This is why the KNOWN knows Nothing.

Yes, the consciousness and the content of consciousness is itself one. To be confused or not confused, that is the one question to all our answers.

If you’re looking for self-help, why would you read a book written by someone else?

Can apple or cannot apple bite itself? Is there such an action as a notcan action?

This might also be true if you could disprove the prove.

Aye. Aye. Eye. Wink wink, nudge nudge, a nod’s as good as a wink to a blind bat.

Because beauty or beautiful is natures natural default setting suggesting that, without human interference or excessive ego, the world naturally exists in a state of balance and harmony. Art is natural. Thou art that thy is. Aye. 🎀

You cannot know the Absolute because you are the Absolute. If the Absolute knew it was the Absolute it would have to split in two into Knower and Known. Can the knower be separate from what’s being known? Of course not. This is why the KNOWN knows Nothing.

I’m clean. I never forget to flush my own shit. 💩 Smell your own.

True. From the first to the last an endless spring. A person cannot claim any knowledge without that knowledge already existing first. The apple cannot bite itself. Knowledge echoes through eternity, always here and never not here. Unwritten. Unspoken. This illusory nature of Knowledge.

Most people don’t like their life, you’re not alone. To assuage their existential dreads people dream about Gods and spiritual refuges where they can feel their lives have been blessed with special purpose and meaning. If we can’t accept the life we’ve already got, what makes us believe another life would be any different? Also, if reincarnation was actually knowable to anyone, then you’re sure to find out when reincarnation happens to you. Until it actually happens, what’s the point in talking about it? It’ll surely become real to you only when it is meant to happen and not one second before.

Yes, do the whole 9 yards as a whole lot of saying something that at the end of the day says absolutely nothing at all.

Why not 🤦‍♀️hmmm, because I have the wisdom to understand that no human being on earth is worthy of being idolised or praised. I live only for God, not man. For my love, there is no charge. That’s my motto. My God, I can’t think of anything more fake, creepy,and cringe worthy than to believe my personal self bias subjective opinion is of any monetary value to someone else. I respect myself too much to go around selling to another what would or could only be my own subjective opinion. Or trying to give to people what they’ve already got, or telling people what they already know. Gees, and then to have people bowing down to me as if I am some sort of gold plated overlord, urgh! The idea makes me feel physically ill. It’s not my kind of business. Money doesn’t define me. There’s no more conscious business to me than minding my own, which has been an enormous success btw. I have already consciously created my own business empire, it’s paid off extremely well because I’m smart. But I have no use for the money I’ve made because I’m a minimalist non materialist monk at heart, always have been, always will be. I just accidentally became very rich without expecting that to happen, or even caring about it happening or not, wealth and good fortune just came my way effortlessly in abundance, maybe because I never squandered it, or idolised it, idk. I’m also very healthy and that’s the only value that’s of any real importance to me, and being healthy means nothing else in this world matters one jot.

Exactly! 👍

@Willy Phallicus For me personally, I’d be totally embarrassed selling water by a river. Or trying to coach people a life I think they should follow. It’s arrogant for anyone to think they know what’s best for someone else, especially to tell someone else they’re not enlightened yet, just because someone else is following a certain guru that doesn’t measure up to their own personal standard. I personally enjoy self inquiry and then writing about what I’ve discovered to forums. It’s entertaining for me. I certainly wouldn’t dream of making my own personal self inquiry findings into a money making business.

Well so far I’ve not morphed into a talking snake.

You can only be certain of one truth, and that is you are conscious… everything else is uncertain. And yes, this is known only as and through your word….Without knowing a word, nothing, absolutely nothing is known.

The body has no owner.

An object in mind. An image of the imageless.

Where there’s a self, selflessness can’t exist. Note to self…thanks for the fish.

Machines aren’t conscious. Machines can never know their maker.