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Here’s Bernadette Roberts’ perspective on this: "We go deeper when we strive to follow Christ by living his first commandment — love God above all things, above all people, above nature and, above all, love God above ourselves. Unfortunately many people settle for the second commandment — love your neighbor as yourself — which in and of itself goes round in circles and has no need of God at all. Self-love is incapable of true love of neighbor; it may even be bad for him. Furthermore, self-love can never reach Christ's ultimate challenge of loving our enemies or those who do bad things to us. We cannot begin to understand the second commandment until we have come to the unitive state and thereby mastered the first commandment. The unitive state gives us the ability to see God in others with the same eye by which we see God in ourselves; thus what we love in others is the same God we love in ourselves. This love bypasses the whole phenomenal self or the person that appears, be he good, bad or indifferent. So before we can truly follow the second commandment, we must first have mastered the first commandment which means that true love of neighbor is impossible until we first love God above our neighbor and our self."

Yeah, it’s bad. I was hoping to be one of the rare few who’d actually love this movie, but nope.

The only thing I miss is the couch vlogs.

Great season finale.

In a few years, devs will be too lazy to make games. They will just sit and watch AI make the game for them:

Speaking of strategy games, StarCraft was amazing.

We are the luckiest people in the world.

The best explanation I’ve heard for why our lack of free will doesn’t make life meaningless, but instead makes it more meaningful.

It’s neither justified nor unjustified—suffering is just a side effect of becoming self-conscious. Self-consciousness is both a blessing and a curse. The good news is that this self-conscious state can fade before death, and eventually, it will for everyone, only to return again.

Reality is always that state of Isness; that’s what makes it Isness. Yet it’s also constantly becoming—always being, always evolving. I’m not denying the reality of the past, but it might help to stop worrying about what could happen. Stay in Isness. If you’d like, check out this talk by Adya—it always brings me a sense of peace:

What if that's not what reality is? There is the Infinite Isness of Reality. In Isness, all is well. In that which isn't, things don't seem that well.

Byron Katie might ask: Is it true? Can you be absolutely sure it’s true? How do you feel when you believe that thought? Who would you be without it? What if you are the Oneness instead of just a small, separate self? The more you step back from identifying with the character, the more at peace you become with it living out whatever destiny it’s meant to. In the end, it just doesn’t matter anymore.

You’re not entirely wrong—life is predetermined, but the next moment is always a mystery. God didn’t fill your story with only negative moments; it’s just that the ego tends to dwell on them. God also designs countless good moments. God is Infinite Goodness. The more beliefs you release, the more clearly you see this truth.

I just discovered the perfect song for you.

I'm all for Ghoulcy.

I like this song.

It had no business being that good. Season 2 is, according to critics, even better than season 1.

The same goes for movies and shows. The Wire, for instance, is praised for its realism, but where’s the drama? That’s why I prefer Oz, which is more theatrical yet highly unrealistic. Games are about fun. Movies are about drama. Neither is about realism.

I gave up and just started playing Rayman 2 instead.

While you all obsess over horse balls, I'm busy playing Rayman.

Alien³ is kind of a meh movie. It’s not bad—without the first and second, it would probably be seen as a pretty good movie.

You very well might be. How about Star Wars?

What a strange video. Apparently, you can turn a sphere inside out in theory, but not in practice.

Part 4 just dropped.