Ziran

Dude, that's not what was in the video . If this is what you want to discuss, then bring something illogical, from the Bible? And now you're sounding foolish.

"Beauty is secondary. The garment is the lead..." - Lauren Deckert

"... business upfront. Party in the back."

"... any port in a storm." "A rising tide lifts all ships."

Point of clarification: in total, a never-ending flow, is static. It's not flowing. It can't, because, each and every moment is never-ending. While awareness is approaching the infinite, it's flowing. If it ever apprehends the infinite, then, the flow becomes fixed. The trick is to match the flowing, not the flow itself. I refer to this often. I apologize if I've linked to it before. See "block-time": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternalism_(philosophy_of_time) What if the word "Truth" is replaced with "Consistent"? Absolute Truth is a type of consistency where there are no outliers. Or, another word choice, maybe "Absolutely congruent" is another way to conceptualize the concept. Congruence, consistency is evaluated with 3 conditions: Same form Same function Same size / scope Yes... Everything changes... with one and only one exception. Yes, but there are exceptions. Example: "I know that it cannot be known." Gnostic-Agnosticism, where "it" is the "Absolute". It's absolutely true, always and forever? Agreed? "I know the absolute cannot be known" because "The absolute distiguishes between knowing and ignorance." This is an example of an absolute truth. It's true because the negation is infinite, and the mind is able to apprehend "negating", the action, without losing itself in iterations. Mystical = Mysterious = forever open to the new, the different, and the unexpected IOW, life becomes a never-ending question mark. That "question-mark" is absolutely true, static, even though it is always and forever expanding. The questioning is consistent, even if the questions are not.

Laughter, most often. Followed by a heightened sensitivity to touch, and pressure. I find myself walking slowly, doing everything slowly, deliberately because the the sensory feedback is so clear and pleasant and well defined. Rarely, I'll have a squeezing sensation in my head. My ears will get hot. My heart beating throbs in my head. This usually happens when I'm about to experience an insight, but, my mind hasn't caught-up to what my heart has already understood. In these cases, I need to put in a lot of effort or take a risk to put the pieces together.

Exactly. That's on the macro-scale. Keep going. If that same principle is applied on the micro-scale, God is equally invested in each and every"thing", individually. Just as the universe would collapse and cease, the concept of "sleep" would collapse, if God's attention was diverted from it. God's attention and investment is absolutely complete. That means God's awareness would be on the action of sleeping to such a degree that it would experience the "sleeping" without losing consciousness.

Because here on earth chaos happens ... or not.

Meditation-Student: "How do I know if it's working?" Meditation-Master: "Don't ask me. My eyes are closed."

Eikev. the heel, referred to in the first half of the video? The narrator's correct that this prophecy was well known, but, he's wrong that the pharisees were "blind". It's clearly written, Deuteronomy 7:12-26. There's no need to jump around. Ibn Ezra, the Jewish commentator, brings the connection. Eikev { "עקב" ) in Deuteronomy 7:12 is about the final end in the same way that eikev is about the final end in Psalm 119:12. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Psalm 119:112 :נטיתי לבי לעשות חקיך לעולם עקב I have inclined my heart to perform your statutes, always "to the end". Deut 7:12 והיה עקב תשמעון את המשפטים האלה ושמרתם ועשיתם אתם ושמר יהוה אלהיך לך את־הברית ואת־החסד אשר נשבע לאבתיך׃ Therefore it shall come "to the end" if you give heed to these judgments, and keep, and do them, that the Lord your God shall keep with you the covenant and the mercy which he swore to your fathers... Deut 7:13-16 And he will love you, and bless you, and multiply you; he will also bless the fruit of your womb, and the fruit of your land, your grain, and your wine, and your oil, the produce of your cows, and the flocks of your sheep, in the land which he swore to your fathers to give you. You shall be blessed above all people; there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle. And the Lord will take away from you all sickness, and will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which you know, upon you; but will lay them upon all those who hate you... etc. -----------------------------------------------------------------

Friend, the missionaries aren't telling you the whole truth. For example, Gen 3:15, first referenced around the 20 minute mark. The narrator repeatedly asserts significance that the "seed" in 3:15 coming from Eve is masculine. But. The word for seed is always masculine in biblical hebrew. See Leviticus 12:23. The gendered conjugation of that specific noun is completely irrelevant. That means Isaiah 46 could be referencing anything. https://biblehub.com/text/leviticus/22-13.htm

1) Regularly in the video you posted the narrator, emphatically, invokes Daniel 12 and Matt 24. But. There are other groups who use those same verses to prove that their guy is the messiah, too. Their proofs are equally plausible as those being presented in the video. You may disagree, but, that's because you're already convinced. But I challenge you to review someone else's proof texting of these verses and find fault in it which doesn't occur in the narrator's scriptural proof. https://bahai.works/Prophecy_Fulfilled/Text 2) People have been guessing at the "end-times" for a long time. "... Historically, such predictions have been made for the purpose of diverting attention from actual crises like poverty and war, pushing political agendas, or promoting hatred of certain groups... According to psychologists, possible explanations for why people believe in modern apocalyptic predictions include: mentally reducing the actual danger in the world to a single and definable source; an innate human fascination with fear; personality traits of paranoia and powerlessness; and a modern romanticism related to end-times, resulting from its portrayal in contemporary fiction." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dates_predicted_for_apocalyptic_events. "... reducing the actual danger in the world to a single definable source ... " ^^ broad-brush over generalization satisfies an unsettled mind ^^

nor does the narrator. They're being captivated by the parallels. "...most scholars are now aware of the pitfalls of parallelomania which exaggerate the importance of trifling resemblances." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallelomania

1) The video is a modern example of "peshar" / proof-texting, which was prevalent during the 2nd temple era, aka, during the time when Jesus would have been walking around and preaching. See here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pesher 2) Your sarcasm is noted and well placed. Peshar is almost always nonsense. 3) In the video, the narrator is frequently awestruck by the parallels between the Christian bible and the prophecies of the Hebrew bible, but, never addresses the simple fact that, logically, it's normal for the Christian bible to refer to the Hebrew bible, because, the Christian bible came after the Hebrew bible. Long after. Part 2 referring to Part 1 is expected, not miraculous.

Red Flag: 00:19:35 - Credibility is inverted. "You should believe me, because; so many don't believe me." Red Flag: 00:49:46 - call to arms,: "check the website and the yt-channel weekly"

~forehead slap~ Do I need to watch all of it? I've watched a little over 15 minutes, and it's really really bad.

How do you lock a woman in to where she isn't thinking about anyone else but you? Most people who are striking out are not striking while the iron's hot.

... if you gaze too long into the cringe ... the cringe looks longingly into you

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Rhetorical question: What's the difference between inspired and fool-hardy?

No, I'm saying A is too vague for evaluation. Friend, this is ambiguous. If A is true And Not B=>A is True, then A Or B=>A is true. See here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Morgan's_laws

Hello, It's been almost a year since I joined this forum. Now that I've had some time to get accustomed to the site and the community, I'd like to take this opportunity to introduce myself and field any questions that others may have currently or in the future about me, my background, my aspirations, reasons for joining this forum, etc... To begin, my given name is Daniel. I was born in Ohio a little over 50 years ago. I took the name "Ziran" because I'm fond of nature, spontaneity, and Daoist philosophy. I was raised in a conservative Jewish household. Both parents are Jewish. My mother's lineage traces back to the tribe of Levi. Like many conservative Jews, I was Bar-Mitzva'd but wasn't taught anything substantive about the religion or its mystical dimension until after I was married with kids and connected with a ultra-orthodox community. For the past 20 years I've been learning and practicing with several different Rabbis, within that ultra-orthodox tradition. In 2024, I rec'd an ordination and permission to teach. My title is Shl'iach. It means: "emissary". The ordination came from Rabbi Simon Jacobson on the 10th of Iyar ( early May ). In private, the young Rabbis call me "Rav", "Master", due to my mastery of esoteric topics, both in and out of the Jewish paradigms. My mandate comes from the 7th Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson ( OBM ): "... you must always try to grant the soul freedom... ". After ordination, I took a student. We're learning the book of Psalms, among other things, for the purpose of "saying them like King David would have said them." I'm currently working towards a PHD and Rabbinic ordination. I want to use the credentials to publish books translating and annotating ancient texts from the original Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek. Prior to ordination, I studied Electrical Engineering but never finished my degree. Most recently, I was an operations manager for a dental office in the Pacific NW, in America. Prior to that I was an interagency government contractor. My specialty was data-mining, penetration testing, and employee training. I was on "red" team. Most people knew me as the technical writer; a social butterfly; the on-boarding specialist for new hires. Behind closed doors, I "trained the trainer" on social engineering, virus, malware, and other exploits that we discovered thru the pen-testing and security bulletins. I was US based, never deployed overseas, but I worked with some amazing folks. I left that fun job when my second child was born and my wife had finished her schooling and was ready to open the dental practice. Currently, I'm in the middle of a divorce. it's extremely ugly. There's a lot of money involved. The kids, my parents, her parents, have taken my wife's side; because, it's easy to demonize me. At the end of the marriage, I lost my temper regularly. The kids saw me at my worst. I let my wife provoke me. I don't blame them for canceling me from their lives. It was my sense of duty which compromised my judgement. Had I left my wife years ago, in spite of the promises I had made, when I first realized it wasn't going to work, things wouldn't have become so heated, and maybe-maybe, I would still be on speaking terms with the family. Gratefully the kids are grown, 18 and 22. So I don't think there will be any lasting trauma from the divorce. It's a serious struggle for me, though. I met my wife when we were in high-school. We hooked up immediately and were together for almost 30 years. Our lives were completely, tightly, woven together. I was, and am, extremely attached to her and the kids. Though, that attachment is fading as I reconcile the differences between how I imagined my future would be compared to how it is unfolding now. I greatly appreciate this community and Leo's videos in regard to reimagining my life's story and realizing with clarity the difference between temporal experiences and eternal truths. Online, I try to embody one of my favorite cartoon TV shows of my youth, Disney's Gummi Bears. I take great pleasure in bouncing-boldy ,helping others, whenever a problem presents itself. Now that I've shared details about me and my life, if there are any respectful comments and/or questions, I'll be pleased to read them and reply. Best wishes sincerely, and thank you for reading this, Ziran

There are many different answers. Most credit the cultural emphasis on education. While some say it's a miracle. Some say that after the holocaust the ones who are left became extremely clever out of necessity. Others say it's early indoctrination into a rigid religious institution which cultivates a willingness to work within other institutions. "Integration not assimilation" as a guiding principle permits mobility. We can tolerate being uprooted. On a deeper level, when Jews are successful, the quality that typifies their Jewish identity is this. Successful Jews are good listeners. We're sensitive. Like a dog's ears which immediately pivot towards the sound, we have a knack for detecting and expressing subtleties. That's why we're successful in movie and music production. We know how to setup a mood, and tell a story from various perspectives, because, that's how we learn and teach our religion. But, the counter-examples are profound. When a Jew is oblivious... we're very oblivious.

It's not "only stating that you and yours stand out for civilization, lives, love, and honour." That's true and it's also stating a harsh accusation against "them", when in truth "they" are also in the matrix. So, how can "they" be blamed?

Your claim: "They said we are conspiracy theorists" My message: IF so then , the theory will be in the form of "where there's smoke there's fire" but due to the distance from perceived smoke, it could just as easily be a cloud, not smoke. Because, I am not taking a position of judgement in this case, and your position is vague. Lacking more detail from you the most I can offer are the reasons why most people dismiss conspiracy theories. Nothing more, nothing less.