Telepresent

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  4. Posted

    @Primeval I haven't read the previous replies, so sorry if I'm repeating other people.

    But isn't part of the problem you have based on a set of rules that God is or is not? 

    Maybe god is an arse hole. Maybe God is like any number of people who play the sims right now? 

    Maybe god doesn't give a shit about you, has no intent to make anything 'better', not send you to 'heaven'? 

    Then what? 

    Don't be offended. Actually think about the possibility. Then what? 

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    On 28/01/2020 at 1:15 AM, Adam M said:

     

    I can't explain the feeling of watching this video. It's superb.

     

    Seeing a lot of the comments underneath the video completely miss the point made me a bit angry at first (because I have attachment to wanting others' to understand profound teachings) but then I realised how funny it is.

    Many ego's are so mired in self-delusion that God himself can talk to them with almost perfect clarity, explaining the mechanics of the entire universe, and they will still have a bone to pick. 

    Quite the situation we have ourselves in :)

     

    Anyways, I see this to be one of the most important videos on the internet...it rings deeply in my core, almost like Conversations with God.

    Thanks God for sharing this level of clear insight and wisdom. I'm feeling a surge of motivation to take my own spirituality even more seriously. Soon I will be conscious of You as Me as well.

    Godspeed,

    Adam

     

     

    Not bothered reading the rest of the responses. Just a cue to make sure that, if other people are criticising the video, and the only defence you bring is "god did it", that you are 10000% correct in your analysis, and there's not, like, a tiny chance of a chink you are not? 

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    On 28/01/2020 at 2:35 AM, Psychonaut said:

    Everything needs to be experienced by someone and you are the best one to experience it. Also the negative, repulsive, ugly and evil things need to be experienced by someone. You have been chosen and from a higher perspective you have chosen this yourself. You actually wanted to feel what you are feeling now. You desired to feel everything and you wanted this. 

    GREAT! 

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    On 28/01/2020 at 2:35 AM, Psychonaut said:

    Everything is moving forward and trying to go as far in its development as possible. A plant is trying to grow as tall as possible. A chicken is trying to eat as many bugs as possible. 

    @Psychonaut

    I'm sorry, but no. We have no way of knowing knowing that a plant is 'trying' to grow, that a chicken is 'trying' to eat. Not in the sense of 'trying to grow' that you ascribe them 

    Reexamine your assumptions 

  16. Posted

    Question the veracity of those answers. Do you know them to be true? How and why? Have you been told them and are believing because someone you hold in high estimation says so? What are their qualifications? Maybe people say they're enlightened - how to you know this is true? How can you know? How do you even know there IS such a thing as enlightenment? 

    All the answers you are bringing up rest upon foundations. Examine the foundations

  18. Posted

    I like Jed Mckenna's deconstruction of this question. 

    The tree makes a sound because the question says so. The question establishes that the tree and the forest exist independently of observation; therefore it stands to reason that the sound is also made independently of observation. 

    If you feel like arguing with that conclusion, I would suggest not focusing on the conclusion, but the point it is making about the question

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    @Rujan Mehar Bajracha I'd urge caution for one reason: assuming you live in a similar society to mine, you are as yet unable to earn your own keep, support yourself.  You are still under the expectations of parents, teachers, etc.

    By all means explore this, but be careful about what "going all in" means at a point in life where you are societally vulnerable.  Being able to support yourself and survive is a key, otherwise how can you do the work?

  22. Posted · Edited by Telepresent

    @Truth Addict Infinity is a bitch because it doesn't really align with the way our minds work.  I'm not going to try to argue anything about what infinity may or may not be, but I will argue that it is an inevitability.  So this doesn't mean that 'reality' (whatever we think of or mean by that term) is infinite, but that it must be couched within infinity (and weirdly, therefore also be infinity itself, even if 'reality' is not infinite - as there can be nothing other than infinity.  So anything finite must be a defined part of infinity, therefore infinity itself... see what I mean about it not being the way our minds work?)

    Anyway, it's as simple as this:

    Picture a finite thing.  You're picturing it in a space.  What are the boundaries of that space?  You're picturing that within another space... keep going indefinitely.  You'll hit an infinite "amount" of spaces and an infinite "amount" of boundaries - it will never, ever stop.  It might sound unsatisfying if you want to make infinity a thing, but it's not a thing.  Thus you're not going to be able to think of or picture it.  

    You can also do the same thing in reverse (which is useful, as we tend to think of infinity in some way as meaning "really big", when all it means is not-finite).  So picture the tiniest thing you can think of.  What's it made of?  Ok, so what is that made of... ad infinitum.

    But we can argue infinity as a certainty:

    Infinity must be, because we have two options;

    1) Something exists.  Therefore (as above) it unceasingly expands to infinity.

    2) Nothing exists.  Therefore nothingness is infinite, as there is nothing to bound nothingness.

    Either way, infinity is an inevitability.

    ...

    But that doesn't necessarily mean that what we think of as reality is infinite.  Or what we think of when we imagine infinity is infinite.  Or anything else.  Just that infinity is inevitable, and our minds aren't really made to get it.