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I didn't call the thread poop, I said it's someone liking the smell of their own poop.

Again, it seems you are seeing your own reflection in the mirror. I did give an alternative perspective, recognizing that there are many perspectives that fill the whole and calling others 'false' because it doesn't exactly reflect your own is just a mindset caught in dualism. It's a pretty desperate way to justify one's own beliefs by pointing fingers at others and saying 'false', and this isn't me saying your perspective is 'false', it's me explaining how it's limiting and dualistic. We can speak about how something or certain aspects can be a trap without calling other's perspective false. Even more insightful is recognizing the traps that can be in our own perspective as well. Also, you fixating on the cosmic joke is becoming a joke of its own, it's not the cosmic joke of course but something that is just funny.

The original post and this quote have something in common.

Just BE at peace, it's not something to make.

I'm just a mirror brother for what you want to see, but ask yourself this one simple question, who created this thread from what intention and for what purpose? It didn't arise on its own.

It is quite brave of you after thousands of posts on this forum proclaiming some sort of mystical understanding to simply admit that you haven't transcended the 'seeking' of something other and 'doing' of spiritual work not required so instead just abide in being present and the cosmic joke is revealed in awareness. Once that is then the joke will be gotten.

A seeker thinks spirituality is serious, once one ceases the doing of 'seeking' then the cosmic joke is gotten. Doing the 'serious work of spirituality' is what keeps that which is 'sought' from realization of being. Yet the myriad of beliefs and conceptualizations that are created by the mind and ego are the stumbling blocks to well being, they tell you if you do the spirituality wrong you get no cookie.

As long as it's not the P diddy ...because no diddy

Get out of your dogmas! Believe mine instead! This is too funny...

You are looking behind you for it when it's in front of you, transcend the story of your poop.

Absolute poop

Read what you wrote back to yourself and recognize the dualism of your words, in your mindset...you say absolute truth is limitless but also put limits on it by saying, no, not yours...just mine. Again, it seems you are just in love with the stink of your own poop.

I think I have discovered the defect in your thinking...critical thinking isn't the same thing as criticizing something in one's thinking. We can logically reason through something without criticizing it at the same time. There is a distinction. Also, when we call something false or true in a relative sense it reinforces the dualistic mindset. Them over there with those ideas are false, while me over here with mine are true. Absolute truth isn't the same as relative truth, so different perspectives of it can be equally valid. You may not have a perspective of absolute truth that resonates with someone else's perspective of it. Instead of criticize another's and call it false instead we can celebrate the diversity of perspectives and recognize they all are infinite expressions of absolute truth. Sure, you can abide in your own mind pointing fingers at others, calling out your perception of false so continuing to invest in the illusory dualism...or not do that.

Brainwashing is when other people think and believe things different than you like but when you want to change them and society to think and believe as you do it's not brainwashing at all, it's 'freedom'. The cope delusion is rampant.

As long as you believe in dear leader... so laughable. The cultish mind-virus that is MAGA is truly diverse, as long as you bow to the almighty Trump. This is how utterly brainwashed that culture is people can't even see past the veil. Just doom scroll that twixie site and it's so obvious how accepting of others expression and perspectives they are as long as you submit to everything MAGA wants you to believe. Your every belief and thought are conditioned to conform with the repetitive delusions of the anointed one. This isn't even considering the religious fanaticism, add that element to the cauldron of MAGA conservatism it is oh so open minded, they celebrate diversity and inclusion, just ask them. I'm sure they'll agree. I'm stunned I live in the timeline that millions of people are gaslit like this. I wouldn't have believed it unless I saw it with my own eyes.

So you poop on 'self help' then create your own story about what needs to be done to 'end the mission'...just seems like you want to criticize others about their story and prefer the stink of your own poop. Ok...noted.

@martins name If your list of 'causes' and 'becauses' is any indication, you actually don't understand as much as you think you do. Even the history you claim is 80% shaping American psyche is really from 80% brainwashing of it, not actually what it is.

Bibi is Trump's Daddy. If someone tries to suggest it's only about 'what is now' it lacks understanding of how 'now' is actually every moment up till now like a wave isn't just what is cresting on the beach, it's the ocean. The iceberg isn't just what pops above the water and can be seen, there's most of it unseen below the water. This is how 'time' manifests, it's not just little bits streaming past our eyes moment by moment, that is just our perception of it. Time is an unfolding and every 'moment' holds the totality of 'now' in it as the absolute it is, not just the fragment that appears to us. What does this mean for the middle east? Contemplate it with this is mind and maybe it will reveal itself to your perception, I can't explain it in one post on a forum.

Read the book 'Manufacturing Consent' by Noam Chomsky and it explains why this and so many other things about these dynamics. To be fair in full disclosure I never read it because I actually see it so clearly anyway it's as if I could have written that book myself. It still is a great read from what I'm told.

There isn't even consistency within an opinion, as you mentioned, people usually layer in so many caveats to their position that it distorts the point of view so dramatically it isn't really coherent to common knowledge about the topics. Let alone that most people have a diverse set of viewpoints that cannot be neatly organized into two categories even if they aren't aware of it themselves, as you also mentioned. Imagine being pro-life for our own life but also pro-choice because you can't impose one person's belief on another. Consider being for gun control to keep it out of certain people's hands(typically known as red flag laws) because of their behavior but also being in favor of open carry laws(for people who pass safety standards). What about someone who think trans people should not be discriminated against(housing, health care, workplace, restrooms) but also sees protections for fairness in competition of sports, especially for youth as important. I know people, even I may have some of these types of nuanced views, but how would these people fit into the 'two box theory' that political and social life has become. These views don't even fit cleanly into one or the other within the typical social understanding of the topic. On this forum there's a huge thing about being non-dual and then we have to live in a world that is only-dual in nearly every aspect of interaction. Although, I suspect you understand my points here, I'm probably just be articulating them for others who may read these comments.

What's absolutely comical is you say this about progressives when it's pretty much ALL of conservative culture, not just half. The most critical things that could be said about 'liberals' is what 'conservatives' celebrate about themselves and blame others for. Every accusation by conservatives is really just a confession. The lack of self awareness is stunning.

Sounds like the Christian religion but even if they can't find victims, they make people into victims then say they have the solution to save them from the hell Christians brought them.

Yabadabadoo!

I even think the people of this forum should be freed from the religious loonyism on this forum. Sure, it's a mental captivity and I doubt the solipsistic cabal would turn to actual physical oppression because they would only be oppressing themselves in their mind.

I think all people across the world should be freed from the religious loonies.