The Crocodile

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  1. Posted

    7 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

    He's been talking about civil war for years.

    People like him are horny for a war against wokes. It gives him reason to wake up in the morning.

    Yeah, but he does know he would probably die, right?

    It's interesting to look through this and see how many Confederate generals were killed or wounded.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_Civil_War_generals_(Confederate)

  2. Posted

    55 minutes ago, theleelajoker said:

    My POV:

    1. Everything is communication, bc everything is an exchange of information. A post is communication because it contains information
    2. Long posts are never neccesary to get a point across. Why should it? Don't see any reason why that should be so. It just shows you lack the clarity you have yourself to express properly your message + you loose the audience in the process. It happens to me often. I think and/ or write 1000 words and when I am finished I am sometimes lucky and I see that I actually only need 2 sentences..if at all. If you just want to express for yourself, don't post it in a forum, write letter to yourself at home
    3.  Agree on saying nothing (or minimum of information) is often the best...not easy to do but the more I evolve, the more I see the value of that
    4. Why you judge the post as "smart"? "I will try to think of ways I am projecting" --> projecting now? : )

    Could you sum this up in two words??  

    Too long

  3. Posted

    (from a Carlos book):

    I felt compelled at that point to present an argument. I sincerely contended that in European
    thought we had accounted for what he called the nagual. I brought in the concept of the
    Transcendental Ego, or the unobserved observer present in all our thoughts, perceptions and
    feelings. I explained to don Juan that the individual could perceive or intuit himself, as a self,
    through the Transcendental Ego, because this was the only thing capable of judgment, capable of
    disclosing reality within the realm of its consciousness.
    Don Juan was unruffled. He laughed.
    "Disclosing reality," he said, mimicking me. "That's the tonal."
    I argued that the tonal may be called the Empirical Ego found in one's passing stream of
    consciousness or experience, while the Transcendental Ego was found behind that stream.
    "Watching, I suppose," he said mockingly.
    "That's right. Watching itself," I said.
    "I hear you talking," he said. "But you're saying nothing. The nagual is not experience or
    intuition or consciousness. Those terms and everything else you may care to say are only items on
    the island of the tonal. The nagual, on the other hand, is only effect. The tonal begins at birth and
    ends at death, but the nagual never ends. The nagual has no limit. I've said that the nagual is
    where power hovers; that was only a way of alluding to it. By reasons of its effect, perhaps the
    nagual can be best understood in terms of power. For instance, when you felt numb and couldn't
    talk earlier today, I was actually soothing you; that is, my nagual was acting upon you."
    "How was that possible, don Juan?"
    "You won't believe this, but no one knows how. All I know is that I wanted your undivided
    attention and then my nagual went to work on you. I know that much because I can witness its
    effect, but I don't know how it works."

    (Don Juan saying the nagual is unknowable in nature and not aligned with Eastern mysticism or European philosophy.)

  5. Posted

    Just now, ExploringReality said:

    @The Crocodile

    It sounds like your rebelling against limitations. Absolute Love is the source of all things though, not just human soft emotions, but pain, genocide ect. Absolute Love doesn't play favorites. You want all the goodies without hell. All this sorcery talk is driven by the ego your yearning to transcend ironically and it's fear based, you want to manipulate reality while still preserving the I. Which is foolish and devilry. Consciousness is not human is what you don't realize, human arises within consciousness. If you really want to be free, don't escape death, you have to become it.

    You have no idea what you're talking about.

  6. Posted

    30 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

    Frankly, if you believe me that reality is Love, it just goes to show that you haven't actually confronted the horror of reality.

    I don't believe any of your definitions except for Undefinable. You can just ignore the hyperbolic stuff and pretend it's the same thing, as something obviously wreaking of humanness like Love. "But Crocodile, Love is impersonal, nonhuman, hyperbolic blah blah blah blah blah blah..."---no! You can't get around that all of these are way too limited points of view.

    I'll say this: if reincarnation and common implications of it is real, everything is all good. If not then there is no excuse whatsoever to not be a sorcerer, to shift consciousness out of the human into visible and tangible realms which are nonlinear, complex, and nonhuman in order to preserve your awareness after death.

    Either way, humans and the earth should take on a form of perfect Beauty through genetic engineering, long-term nature, or paranormal means. Humans should be made more intelligent, even more open-minded and more benevolent and more versed into these impersonal, nonhuman, hyperbolic realms so we can explore Beauty and complexity of time, space, meaning, pleasure, understanding, etc. forever as immortals both liberated from reality and enjoying reality.

  14. Posted

    5 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

    @zurew Everything is an empirical claim.

    A = A is an empirical claim.

    You are born totally ignorant. The only way you can know anything is via Consciousness. Consciousness cannot be known without experience. The notion of a priori knowledge is academic nonsense.

    And you side-stepped my point that you do not know the import of logic via logic alone. Import is what matters, not following rules. The issue is not whether some logical rule is valid. The issue is why logical rules matter at all and how they a relate to reality.

    There is no escaping Intelligence. Intelligence is fundamental to all sense-making. You can never get rid of Intelligence.

    This seems to be the case.

    That abstraction is necessary for reality.

    But you don't have a rock-solid case that's beyond all doubts,

    so it just seems like a grotesque arbitrary constructed abstraction which is disconnected from experience, whereas the experience is something else, and good epistemology would be agnostic, about how what's happening is happening since there are infinite potential explanations.

  15. Posted

    4 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

    @Synchronicity Here is a dead simple logical proof of Oneness:

    Take the notion of Everything. Everything must be One. Why? Because any thing whatsoever must be included in Everything. If you can think of or imagine a thing which isn't part of Everything, that means you didn't have Everything, so just include that thing into Everything.

    So by absolute logic Everything must be One. There can only be one Everything. Everything must also be infinite since Everything can hold an infinite number of things. Since numbers are things, we can see that Everything must at least contain all the numbers, which means Everything is infinite. It is impossible to imagine anything that is not a "thing" since I define "thing" as anything whatsoever, including "non-things".

    The numerical argument can be argued against from the idea that numbers are simulated or evolved or computed, rather than existing infinitely in the first place.

     

  23. Posted

    22 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

    5-MeO is clean. LSD is wonky and weird and if it goes sideways it's a 5hrs tunnel of misery. 5-MeO is simple and quick.

    There's this guy that works at a bakery who looks like a weird hippie and he bakes all these pizzas and pastries inside these huge ovens.

    I call him "the trip master" because of how crazed and out of it he looks.