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Necessary for sleep for me. And sleep is the number 1 thing for good mental health imo.

Ayy, Buddha bless. This black cat (spirit animal) agrees. I’m simply a kewl cat <3

Both. Strange loop.

Yeah, I've been involuntarily admitted to the psych ward 5 times, and I'm only 28. I have/had bipolar disorder, and some of my manic episodes have been hectic.

Yeah, I take it to sleep. It’s a major sedative and when I came off it without ‘tapering’ I was only getting 1-2 hours of sleep per night. Felt much more like a zombie off of it than on.

I know a few mormons personally. I showed some of them around my town of Redcliffe. They even came into my apartment at one point. Very chill people tbh

True. Makes sense.

Literally any 'experience' can raise your level of consciousness. Especially 'boring' experiences. I experience insane levels of boredom sometimes, but I know I just need to patiently wait it out in order to get to the good stuff on the other side.

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We’re all still waiting for the ones you came up with! Spiritual ego is a funny (no, hilarious) thing lmao.

Yeah true. Interesting perspective.

Quote by Ram Dass (rip). I think this is accurate. If you’re truly ‘free’ there should be no tension between anyone in your life, including your family members. Open to discuss. Let’s hear what y’all think.

Oh I know, bro. As Gautama Buddha said — and my identity is METTEYYA Buddha When out in the forest one day, the Buddha grabbed a handful of leaves from a tree in the forest. He said to the Sangha (monks): See these leaves. These represent the knowledge I have revealed to you. The rest of the leaves in this gigantic forest represent the totality of my knowledge. I can absolutely relate. Hence why I am an Agnostic Progressive Vegan Revelatory Universalist. Much to dive deep into with those words alone. Many won’t even know what a Universalist or Revelatory mean, I wager ❤️

Well do they just sound deep or are they actually deep? Sometimes it’s hard to distinguish between the two ofc how bout you post the one’s you came up with and we’ll let other (less biased) parties decide? anyone that has over 10000 posts on this forum should have to take a 2 month hiatus every year imho.

The ontological argument, put simply, is that”God must exist because in order for him to not exist, there has to be something of which can be imagined, but because god is the greatest conceivable being, it/he must exist in reality.

I think it could be a productive discussion. I don’t care about the topic.

Home/not home is another duality, but I see what you’re saying. The thing with being deluded, is you don’t know you’re deluded.

No untruth detected!

The way I see it, is you practice formal meditation in order to get to the point where you're essentially meditating all the time -- even while doing the activities that we all must do to survive. And, actually, mindulness creates more insights, because by essentially allowing your mind to be bored, insights come about. Boredom is one of the best states of consciousness to experience and dwell in.

Yeah, more or less From my purview, literally any ‘tension’ involved when conversing with others face to face is entirely your fault — a result of your tense state of consciousness.

A lot of people really be trippin on this forum. I think they don’t realize that being a non-conformist is confomrning just as much as standard conformity.

Yeah people need to remember that laughter is the (best?) medicine haha

I would argue for some form of pragmatism for most humans. Most humans simply aren't intelligent (spiritually or otherwise) to uncover the Truth in this lifetime, so they may as well do what's best for their 'happiness,' even if it isn't ultimately true.

I simply want someone to challenge this assertion and then I will reply in kind. I will do my best to keep it civil. I’ll keep it brief with a short pithy quote I heard somewhere: capitlism is the worst form of government, other than all the other one’s.