UnbornTao

That may be. What's in question is the claim, though. People rarely tell the truth, and again, you can lie to yourself without knowing it. I can take some drugs, go through some experiences, and claim to have had "awakenings" - among other things. And I could convince you, too.

Bookmarked. I'm definitely all three combined.

Check again, seriously.

Thanks

Heresy! You shall not doubt the fantasy of the drugs in these lands.

Broadcasting what? I'll say that people have an agenda, and rarely, if ever, is it to be plainly straight about their experience. That's generally not why we talk to others at all. In this context of some form of personal desire sourcing interactions, sharing one's experience just as it is - with no other agenda behind it, rare as it is - is rather useless. The main point is that you can pretend to know something you really don't and not be conscious that this is what you're doing. Contrasted to the exercise above, which essentially asked you to imagine yourself lying deliberately, you can do basically the same thing as an unconscious self-manipulation, not knowing that you're lying, mainly to yourself.

I don't think people really know how to tell a pretender from someone who's not - in "spiritual" matters, at least. 'State' really isn't the anchor or point of reference that some people make it out to be either. It might be that direct consciousness isn't a function of state, and that state is rather secondary. With some effort, as an imagination exercise, I bet that you yourself, knowing that you're ignorant (your secret is safe with me), could make yourself look a certain way, by producing certain impressions and coming across in a particular way, that would make people think of you as 'awakened' or similar. You could even make this assessment of yourself unknowingly.

I do have it, and they're full of shit.

I loved it.

Yeah, it's a sad state of affairs, in this context. I like to think of LLMs as autocorrect on steroids, or as smart, interactive dictionaries. Something like that.

Spiritual snobbery/materialism.

And.... Germany is already out. Eliminated by Paraguay on penalties.

Shrinking horse balls in cold weather, or I'm out.

I'm using Firefox and Startpage now. Chromium, the project most browsers are based on (Brave, Chrome, Edge, Vivaldi, Helium), will soon drop support for Manifest V2 extensions, limiting the functionality of ad blockers. I've heard good things about Zen Browser - a Firefox derivative.

Pointing out something that may be true of you. Like I've said before, there's being "truthful", and being truthful. Getting clearer on which is which can be useful, and is real in the end. Imagine that Leo told you this. Maybe it will land differently.