Carl-Richard

Authenticity and fearlessness.

Idealism. The main lesson I've learned from him is how you can draw a clear distinction between approaching idealism from a naturalistic framework vs. a mystical framework, but if you understand both, they compliment each other beautifully (which you can see in his conversation with Rupert Spira).

He's the perfect storm that academia needs; a rebel who you can't shoot down by referencing a lack of credentials.

My question is mostly intellectual, i.e. philosophy, science etc. I'm not talking about hanging out with your friends.

I almost bought some of Bernardo Kastrup's books on various philosophers to read this summer, but then I forgot

See house, buy house.

Real estate

I actually don't do drugs. Surprise surprise.

Yep.

You were addressing the video, without addressing the arguments in the video.

That's really weird.

It applies to all drugs. It's not a good idea.

There is a threshold of suffering for entering non-existence. Deciding to take your life is probably the most stressful thing you can experience, unless you're completely numb and apathic. It's like how you'll feel better after a workout than before it. Not everybody wants to do the work.

I agree, but I still think it exists. Just think about it: if you go back to the void forever, what stops the universe from birthing a new "you" seemingly out of nothing? After all, that is what happened to us.

It's a double-bind. You're born both afraid of life and death.

It only requires a person to remember having lived a life as somebody else. We don't know the "mechanism" for how memories are recalled in the first place (you're also assuming a mechanistic universe). I've heard too many people talk about their past lives to discount it.

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If reincarnation works like an assembly line where souls choose an available body, then your contribution as a single anti-natalist doesn't matter at all. You would have to stop all people from giving birth.

But should you expect humans who were born into an unethical situation to act perfectly ethically?

And Advaita says 1=2

Religious texts are resources to learn from. Find what resonates with you. If it doesn't resonate, throw it away.

I wish I had found meditation before high school and not straight after

Shame, despair, disappointment, fear. Where is the courage? The love?

And I would also say that you're also only thinking about the child, but in a different sense. Because once we stop having children, the amount of lives you're going to put through a 100% certainty of hell is certainly not ethically neutral. Once you run out of young people, you're stuck with a bunch of lonely and helpless old people in a collapsing society. The last person that will ever be born will experience a life only describable as death and decay. So which one do you value more: personal consent or global suffering?

In fact, I think anti-natalism taken to its ultimate conclusion is unethical, because it's ultimately anti-life, and ethics is about figuring out how to live a good life.