How Do You Know You're Alive

[Princess Arabia]

This might sound ludicrous and ridiculous, but you really don't know. It's a belief and an assumption. You believe you're alive because you think you know what being alive feels like. Do you know what death feels like. No, because you're dead and there's no one to know. That's also a belief and an assumption. Therefore, that can go both ways. We're so sure that we know what being alive feels like, but we have no idea what the presumed opposite feels like by definition. 

We can speculate and come up with ideas and concepts about death but if I asked you right now what does death feel like you wouldn't know. How can you tell me what happiness feels like without knowing what sadness feels like. Knowing what being alive feels like MUST result in the already knowing of what death feels like or the difference could not be made or felt.

Edited April 29 by Princess Arabia

[Yimpa]

I am alive when I say YES to Truth and allow the false self to decay.

[ExploringReality]

By being conscious. Your stupid if your asking anyone else if you exist. Your not directly conscious of yourself as God, otherwise you wouldn't be asking.

[Yimpa]

@ExploringReality Do not be so hard on yourself.

[Princess Arabia]

57 minutes ago, ExploringReality said:

By being conscious. Your stupid if your asking anyone else if you exist. Your not directly conscious of yourself as God, otherwise you wouldn't be asking.

Hope you're not implying that I'm asking if I exist and that i'm stupid if I am. That's not what the post is about. I could still exist as a dead person and of course if everyone was dead, no one could tell the difference because if I think I'm alive, then I'll think everyone else that has the same characteristics that I used to determine that I'm alive, I'll also think is alive. If you grew up from being a baby and everyone used the term dead to describe aliveness, you would think you were a dead person. A baby only learnt that when they had abilities to understand what's being said and the terminologies used. 

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[Someone here]

[Princess Arabia]

44 minutes ago, ExploringReality said:

By being conscious.

Conscious of what. Conscious of what was taught to you and what you know. I could know that the tree is grey but it is actually brown. What if there's no consciousness and you're hallucinating consciousness. You're only saying you're conscious because someone told you what it's like to be conscious.

Everyone could be dead and the dead is speaking to the dead. Noone would know the difference if they didn't know what it felt like to be alive. Now switch the words alive and dead around. Do you think a cat knows it's a cat, it's just operating on instincts. A dead body still operates on 'instnct' by rotting.

 

Edited April 29 by Princess Arabia

[yetineti]

There is no difference between life or death.

It’s all Consciousness.

So we don’t know— because there is not a thing to know.

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[TheGod]

14 minutes ago, Someone here said:

Lol

I'm going to use it as my screen wallpaper 

Leo looks so Russian here 

[Princess Arabia]

26 minutes ago, Someone here said:

By what was known before and by comparison. Trace it back to the first knowing and it's "I am here". Now we're learning about non-duality and trying to get rid of the self. So knowing is an illusion and based off of a sense of self-recognition, not what is. If one didn't know themselves to be, they wouldn't know anything, they'll just be responding and reacting to everything through instincts and those responses and reactions would be happening on it's own just like it's happening already but without a claimer.

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[Mixcoatl]

 

2 hours ago, Princess Arabia said:

We're so sure that we know what being alive feels like, but we have no idea what the presumed opposite feels like by definition.

You say this bc you are taking for granted that you are now alive. Then you are not suspecting if you are alive or not, you are having the certainty of being alive.

[Mixcoatl]

By some definition out there: Death is lack of consciousness. If that is the case, you will never know.

But that definition is inconsistent. 

From a biological approach, death is the end of any homeostasis in your body (including ego), it doesn't necessarily mean the end of consciousness, probably "you" will be aware of how your body gets rotten after the end of homeostasis and "you" will know how death "feels" like, but in that case, as you said, that "you" is not the "ego you". probably is not a colorful experience that you are having when you are "alive". If that's the case, then you are right: there is no difference between Life and Death. And in that state, nobody cares bc you are pure presence!...

I guess!

[yetineti]

1 hour ago, Mixcoatl said:

You say this bc you are taking for granted that you are now alive. Then you are not suspecting if you are alive or not, you are having the certainty of being alive.

This actually takes life for granted by presuming there’s anything else; death.

[yetineti]

39 minutes ago, Mixcoatl said:

By some definition out there: Death is lack of consciousness. If that is the case, you will never know.

But in reality— when you die— so much consciousness will flood you.

More than you can imagine now.

[yetineti]

The difference between life and death is akin to one shitting.

You shit.

You life.

 

[yetineti]

Life is a restriction on living.

[Princess Arabia]

1 hour ago, Mixcoatl said:

 

You say this bc you are taking for granted that you are now alive. Then you are not suspecting if you are alive or not, you are having the certainty of being alive.

I said that for the purpose of the post and to relay a point. By the post's contents, it's obvious I'm not saying we're all definitely alive or dead, just openly asking how do we know.

[Princess Arabia]

25 minutes ago, yetineti said:

The difference between life and death is akin to one shitting.

You shit.

You life.

 

A dead body turns to......whatever it turns to after awhile....skeleton. There's still a happening and a process there. Some form of action without anyone doing it. Shitting is happening as a process without anyone doing it. Who or what determines which one is alive and which one is dead.

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[Princess Arabia]

34 minutes ago, yetineti said:

This actually takes life for granted by presuming there’s anything else; death.

What then constitutes something being alive if not being compared to something else. It doesn't have to be death but something else has to take the place of it's opposite because life or something being alive is describing that something which is limited because anything with a description is form, and form is limited. There has to be something else for something to be described as alive. This is the actual premise for why I made the post and your statement here doesn't prove that being alive is all there is and having a presumption that there's something else is the only way that life can even be a thing. So presuming there's something else is legitimate. Can't have life without something else.

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[Princess Arabia]

29 minutes ago, yetineti said:

But in reality— when you die— so much consciousness will flood you.

More than you can imagine now.

How do you know this. Have you ever literally died (the body) and witnessed consciousness flooding you.