UnbornTao

@Carl-Richard It's fucking deep. It's huge. That's what she... whatever. I think it ties into the nature of context. And yet we totally take it for granted as a given. Maybe that explains our inability to grasp the magnitude of its influence on our experience. Take away language, and symbol, science, philosophy, belief, religion, art - can't exist.

No model is true; it might be useful, but it is invented, made up.

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Haha

Nice, eight hours is a sizable amount. Keep it up.

That's Mr. Fanboy to you! Okay, you have not been successfully converted.

It seems those questions presuppose the existence of language. Language, however, is itself a huge influence on our reality. We may think it reflects reality, but in fact it is superimposed and frames the way we interpret our perceptions. Content is secondary to the context that allows it to exist in the first place. As for the idea that everything is imagination, I suspect this doesn't truly touch our experience - it is mostly an abstraction based on preference or belief. Perhaps it is so, but the depth and profundity of such a reality likely continue to elude us. Anyway - language!

Christ's blood - extra God-realized.

We'll be watching you 👀 😉

Interesting to see.

Let's keep the proselytizing going:

Got it. To me it feels the same without caffeine, just a super calm state after a few days of quitting and going through the withdrawal symptoms. But I'm addicted!

I don't have cancer (that I know of). Just curious about some of the potential benefits of fasting on human physiology: https://nutritionfacts.org/blog/the-effects-of-fasting-on-cancer/

The purpose of this journal is to share questions, humor, miscellaneous creative content, and raw reflections on personal empowerment and consciousness. My goals are to deepen my experiential understanding of these topics, improve my communication skills, have fun, and help others see things in a new light.

My watch runs on Venus time. A full day lasts almost four Earth months.

@Sugarcoat I'd say privacy, among other things, to a greater or lesser degree. Chrome and Edge are apparently the most egregious.

Nah, I think that's a dumb take. To me, it's good from the beginning, although the first couple of chapters may not deliver as much immediate emotional payoff, except when considered as parts of a whole.

Coffee drinking! Coffee art.

The experience of disappointment is clearly different from the word. Yes, it can be somatic, a sense of hurt. As for it being an activity, it's hard for me to say what in our experience is not an activity. Still, it seems best to follow the experience itself and not leave the matter in abstract terrain. What appears to be true about disappointment is that it exists in relation to expectations about the future that we generate. Anyway, I was simply offering some possibilities as to what might underlie that feeling. In this context, it only needs to be true - and increasingly so. Commensurate with that, a willingness and ability to call things by their name is essential. If, for example, you're feeling X, don't pretend you're feeling Y. Intellectually this may sound obvious and even stupidly simple - the challenge is actually putting it into action. I think viewing authenticity as a practice or a direction is more useful than seeing it as a fixed destination or a static quality. What you said at the end sounds reasonable. It sounds like an effective thing to do.

I see, though that's estimated according to the model's precepts. Useful to consider that no model is true.

The more you play it, the more the pieces start to come together.

Yeah, I wonder what setting the next Elder Scrolls is going to use. Apparently, Hammerfell could allow for some creative environments, like sand dunes and jungles. But I've heard Todd isn't a fan (commercially-speaking perhaps) of "weird" world-building like Morrowind's. I think it might lean more toward a generic fantasy style. Depending on how it's implemented, it could still work. Kingdom Come II was well received, and it was still medieval - just without the fantasy component. Skyrim, for some reason, really pulls you in, but I agree that it's quite generic. As for Dark Souls, I haven't played the series yet. The one I've finished is Elden Ring, and I loved it.

Perhaps. Then again, it's not like you're giving the story a fair chance. No horse balls for you. What I meant to highlight is that, despite being the fourth best-selling game of all time, roughly half of players quit too early. And I can understand that. One of the main reasons I stuck through to the end was that I'd spoiled myself and knew the story was great, so I was willing to play through the slower early chapters. Regarding the gameplay, I guess it's a matter of taste. It's a grounded gameplay.

How did caffeine influence your meditation? I notice I tend to get restless and easily irritable especially when combining coffee with fasting… and horny.

I'd agree with you that it is a language. And then the question becomes: What is language? Not any particular language, but the whole thing itself. "Let there be language!" That may be the case, though the imagining may belong to a different category than simply coming up with things capriciously, of course. It seems to be based on an objective world and its mechanisms. But again, language and reality may be more intertwined than we think. I think the idea that these are two clearly delineated things is a huge assumption from which we may be operating as a culture. Even so, your observation seems to relate to the content of a particular language - that is, mathematics. Perhaps a question like "What makes it a language?" would help here. How come a sound can be made to represent a distinction that is itself not the sound, but a different experience? What is this possibility about?