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  1. Posted

    38 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

    How could it not be?

    Why would pain be fundamentally different from pleasure? Both are just sensations.

    For you, you are tangible to the degree that you think you exist. But you don't.

    Haven't you learned yet that appearance is not to be trusted?

    I don't know, I just can't even imagine that to be true, honestly.

    I know they're mere sensations, but how is this any practical?! It's just philosophy. I still deal with pain even though it doesn't exist (as you suggest).

    Looks like Truth is not always practical after all. ?

  2. Posted · Edited by Truth Addict

    1 hour ago, Leo Gura said:

    @Truth Addict Physical pain is conceptual.

    With lots of consciousness you can realize that pain is nothing.

    But that will take some deep awakening.

    I never had an enlightenment experience, but please how could that be the case?! ?

    Leo, are you saying that pain is an illusion?! Like how could anyone enjoy a severe pain? For me, it's tangible to the degree that I can't concentrate on anything through a headache.

    But anyways, I'm willing to learn. I'm still a newbie.

  4. Posted

    @Source_Mystic

    Aren't you being a cult for exiting this forum just because of one simple misunderstanding or mistake?! Aren't there any room for error? If that's how it works, then you must kill yourself right away if you are honest enough. We all commit errors, it's in human nature. I agreed with you on the warning post, you were very rational there, but now coming up with all this drama and emotions! Sorry and good luck.

  10. Posted

    2 minutes ago, Arkandeus said:

    love is what holds society together, in my opinion

    @egolessis talking about universal love, love for everything, animals, tress, mountains, etc..

    If that was the case, we (human beings) would absolutely extinct ages ago. Me and you wouldn't be here having this conversation.

    I think it's the battle between selfishness (ego) and selflessness (unconditional love) that keeps life going. You can't have life dependent on only one extreme. Life is a tug of war.

    And don't get me wrong, selfishness and selflessness are the same thing. They have no substance.

  18. Posted

    1 hour ago, sarapr said:

    To me it makes perfect sense that no matter how consistent reality is or how objective it may seem, humans can never go beyond their own perceptions of reality. what ever they do, they're doing it within their own understanding of reality, even if their math works in real life, it is still happening within humans perceptions of reality. The science and its manifestation in reality are all happing in the mind so by defenition it makes them subjective and to think that the reality is objectively happing outside of their perception is to take a leap of faith cause there exists no way to know that for sure.

    why don't rationalists understand this ? Like really, what causes this to happen? Or is it that I am wrong

    Because it works! And who cares about the Truth?!

    The point is, they have a portion of reality, they gave up the rest and took it for granted. They don't inquire their perception nor beyond.

    So, really what is the case? I don't know, maybe both, maybe none, maybe both and none altogether.

  22. Posted

    @Malelekakis

    Maybe there's a prize for killing one's self! After all, you kill you all the time, and the new you replaces the old you, just be conscious of the process.

    Killing yourself isn't a killing literally, it is a realization of what you really are, just like that. You can't imagine what or how much you're missing out on everytime you ignore that. I've only glimpsed that for seconds and I'm stunned by the profundity of killing one's self.

    There's even no you to be killed, such a beautiful thing to be.

  24. Posted · Edited by Truth Addict

    @Monkey-man

    In Arabic, everything that requires an effort (or struggle) is Jihad, Jihad like mentioned in the video is derived from the word 'Jahada' (جهد) which ultimately means 'got tired after struggling', when you make a 'Johd', you put in effort. In Qur'an, Jihad is linked to Allah (the sake of Allah), and the Qur'an promotes every kind of endeavour to please Allah, whether it's fighting with one's self or with others.
    Unfortunately, people easily misunderstand Jihad and its purpose which are really acquiring the satisfaction of Allah by sticking to his orders and letting go of 'the restricted' (Haram), no matter what.
    So for example, judging other people and killing them, does that make Allah (the most Benevolent, the most Merciful) pleased with me? Of course not, it's pretty obvious.
    Jihad is mandatory, whether it's with the self or with others or with environment.
    The trick here is to read the Qur'an as a whole, and not just take only one verse and try to apply it to the whole world. Radical Muslims ignore verses like:
    "And do not start the fight, surely Allah does not love those who exceed the limits". (obviously).
    "Surely Allah does not love the unjust". (obviously).
    "Surely Allah loves those who do good (even when treated badly)". (obviously).
    And they would only remember this kind of verses:
    "And kill them wherever you face them" (only during the battle, and of course not all the time, also obviously).
    Many people would object and say: well, why promoting violence in the first place? And the answer is that you as a human being, you have to defend yourself and your existence against the harmful factors out there, otherwise you're dead, this is not religion, this is the human physiology whether we're conscious of it or not. The ego has to survive.
    In other words, Jihad is not about offence, it's about protection, and survival (for the sake of Allah 'Truth').
    Another point is, religion is not about studying or understanding the scriptures, it's about studying and understanding God. You can debate forever with an unconscious person about their scriptures, yet they will never be able to understand God, because of the dogma that has control over them. Scriptures are pointers to God (or more accurately motivators to find God), not God. But fundamentalists don't understand that.

  25. Posted

    On 11/04/2018 at 1:00 AM, Applejuice said:

    Enlightenment and god is something you can verify yourself with meditation or psychedelics, and there are countless people who have experienced them, so I believe in that. But reincarnation, souls and going to hell after you die doesn't make sense to me. A soul is the sense of self or ego, which is an illusion, and its illogical to think that it can be transported to a different body after you die, you can't transport an illusion. The buddhist version of reincarnation makes sense as things are constantly changing and eg. you become the air that you breathe in and when you breathe out that breath becomes the atmosphere and it involves no soul or seperateness. If hell is being stuck identifying as the ego and not the universe as a whole, which creates suffering ( and the devil is the ego ). Then when the ego dies, ( when your body dies your ego has nothing to cling to so it has to die ) you become god, there is no worries, no pain and nothing matters ( suffering ends ) That's heaven/ nirvana. How can hell exist if it's caused by the ego. Also chakras. Chakras are spinning balls of energy. energy cannot spin that makes no sense. Can anyone explain these in further detail?

    Unfortunately, physical death needs to be experienced to verify your claims or any religious claims. Faith is necessary when there's no clue. Because no dead can wake up and tell us what they have experienced. You can choose whatever beliefs you want (acknowledging that they are beliefs) and wait for your physical death to occur. There is no truth to be said about death, just ideas and beliefs.