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I don't know. I think it can be made to work as it is currently arranged - with general categories, subtopics, and threads.
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It resonates with what I read. this realization is not a bang, it's something else closer to a whimper
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No im not and you failed to track most of the things I said. You are mostly uncritically regurgitating stuff that you heard from Leo. The lack of explantory power problem isnt a problem for views that accept the Absolute as a brute fact, its a special problem for solipsism. No explanation for any state of affair or phenomena that you experience; no explanation why you are dreaming the particular thing you are dreaming right now instead of literally anything else; no explanation for why you can see,hear,taste,touch,smell in the firstplace (like why you have any particular qualia other than just adverbial qualia) ; no explanation for why you dont have random sense data in the previously listed senses (like seeing random pictures, hearing random sounds etc); no explanation for why your stream of consciousness appear to be governed by stable laws; no explanation for why you have the particular memory you have and why it doesnt randomly change, and why you have a memory in the firstplace; no explanation for why other people behave with apparent independence and complexity; no explanation for why the world can surprise you; no explanation for why you cant change the dream right now; no explanation why there is a duration to this particular experience and why it has this much duration ;no explanation for why there is a difference between your imagination and your perception ; no explanation for why you have voluntary and why you also have involuntary experiences; no explanation for why consuming certain things and why engaging in certain activies can change your state of consciousness and why other things cant change your state of consciousness etcetc - and any explanation that solipsism can provide - almost all of those will be auxiliary hypotheses and ad hoc explanations non of which can be deduced only from solipsism.
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Dear Lord... Have some mercy on my soul... Eleviate the torture... Let there be peace... I'm hurting... I'm crying... I'm begging... For a breath...
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No I would say most current social media platforms encourage passive consumption more than any type of self-improvement.
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Moutushi replied to EmiHyen's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
This was such a great read, thanks for sharing! I felt that "I" was living vicariously through it -
It requires a lot of concept & assumptions, actually.
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This could be a sincere assessment, but if hurting yourself is the goal - even if subtly, perhaps due to self-image issues - then the assessment lacks objectivity, in my view. But I wouldn't be so hard on myself either way. Definitely. Although you mentioned ignorance here, which is different. Without any judgment attached, we're all ignorant, and usually, by its very nature, we are ignorant of our ignorance. That's natural. A core aspect of stupidity might be an insensitivity to one's ignorance - failing to recognize it when opportunities and feedback are presented - defending it unwittingly, and getting stuck with it. Or: not learning, failing to see whether one is learning anything new. Finding learning threatening to one's identity and view of the world. And who can say with all honesty they haven't done this to some degree? Maybe that is how this process has to go.
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@Godhead Minoxidil is a serious drug. it has hundrets of side effects, research yourself.
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vibv replied to Breakingthewall's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
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Nah, I know I'm stupid 🤓 I just don't need someone else to validate it for me. I have a feeling others may feel the same. Confessing your ignorance to others is another matter than admitting it honestly to yourself.
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The thing about solipsism is that it actually requires zero assumptions. That’s only hard to realize if you’re entrenched in the materialist paradigm. Also, brute facts is a notion that needs to be deconstructed. The absolute is a “brute fact” in the sense that it’s foundational and has no explanation besides itself, but this notion of brute fact is a very rich one—might I say, an infinitely rich one. When academics talk about brute fact, they don’t actually know what they’re talking about. A true brute fact is one of a kind, and it is the existence of EVERYTHING.
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Monday: May 25th, 2026. Yearning to be psychologically detached is distinct from psychological detachment.
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I think there’s a common core realization. Even if Leo and Ralston disagree on love, they still agree on the absolute. You’re treating the absolute as if it’s just some fancy notion without explanatory power. That’s a typical rationalist mistake—to dismiss a higher view because it doesn’t mesh with the rationalist paradigm. Yes, it’s true that the absolute doesn’t meet the scientific/logical/philosophical standards for a strong view, but maybe the standards are wrong.
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Monday: May 25th, 2026. Ability to reject someone attractive is distinct from having to.
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Monday: May 25th, 2026. What others want to believe is distinct from indisputable actuality.
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Monday: May 25th, 2026. Yearning to be above all is distinct from inner strength.
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Monday: May 25th, 2026. Seeking validation to feel good is distinct from craving nobody.
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There is always Socrates method of dealing with stupid people. Keep asking them questions until they realize for themselves that they don’t know what they are talking about. But then Socrates ended up being executed.
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That is the price of not wanting to die. One morphs into devil looking creature. There is a certain elegance in accepting seniority. And he ain’t it. People already summed up things like makeup and Botox and so on. But what annoys me the most is that he tries to cloth himself as a teenager. And what it tells me about his psychology.
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Comes out every so often 😃 I mostly feel bad for his mental health struggles
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This is exactly the voice of our dominant ideology today.
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Breakingthewall replied to Breakingthewall's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
@gettoefl this quote of nisgardatta is perfect. When the 'I Am' dissolves into the Absolute, all traces of individuality disappear, but what remains is not the emptiness of a corpse. It is the original source of all life, a state of pure dynamism and unlimited potentiality that needs no witnesses to exist. In that state, you are not conscious of being alive; you are Life itself flowing, a fullness so massive that the birth and death of entire universes are merely tiny bubbles rising to the surface of your own being. This one of Hawkins is also good. The presence of Reality is not felt as a continuous electric shock, but as a background of intrinsic vitality. The physical world is perceived as a hyperrealistic high-definition film, where every object shines with the energy of its own being. The observer has become transparent; there is no longer anyone there 'watching,' only the unfolding of existence. I paste my text in Gemini and asked for similitude in spiritual literature. Those for me are what enlightenment means. Enlightenment is not more than that, but that's everything. No god, angels or mystery, just what reality is, inevitable. the power of the unlimited happening, the unlimited life. Not a Buddhist peace but a expansion of freedom, creativity, power. And its clear that it's what reality is, and you are that in the form of a human that can be conscious of what he is. But over all what you are is that unlimited life that emerges without end and the human is just a transparent structure that is happening now, a possibility taking place
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