Leo Gura

Depends on how deeply you want to know God and how you define "losing one's mind". If a hardcore materialist rationalist experienced God he would consider that losing one's mind. From his limited paradigm it is that. Obviously it is not that from God's POV. Any radical enough state change will start to feel like you are losing your self/mind/reality. But this can happen in healthy or unhealthy ways. It is important to avoid the unhealthy ways, which are harmful to human life. You can trip in ways that injure you and ways that don't.

@Starlight321 What is the difference between someone who gets married for confromist reasons and someone who gets married for other reasons? Case study: Elton John, a gay man, married a woman.

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You are assuming experiences are private. "Private" is a fiction. There is no privacy, only Truth. The only way to know is to become infinitely conscious. Actually do it. It IS the mind. Infinite Mind. Thus nothing else. If it was an interpretation you would be correct. But it is not an interpretation. I am talking about actual Absolute Consciousness. You are overlooking that possibility. Open your mind to the existence of an actual Absolute. Not a theory or a guess. And not an experience! I am not talking about theories, nor am I even talking about powerful experiences, I am talking about Truth. Truth does not exist for you as a real thing yet. You think Truth is a concept. All I'm saying is TRUTH exists. And you don't yet fathom this possibility. You think I am talking about cool experiences or ideas. Ideas can always be wrong. That is correct. Which is why we do not care about ideas. We are seeking Truth instead. Consider: an experience of Infinity actually IS Infinity. So the mere experience of it proves its absolute reality. If you are experiencing Infinity you can't be wrong about it. In the same way that if you are seeing red that means red exists. You can't be wrong about red existing since you see it. This is a common oversight, but skepticism cannot apply to direct experience. That is a misuse of skepticism. If your ass feels cold it is absolutely true your ass feels cold. And this is not a trivial matter.

The worst thing Trump has done is open the field to epistemic perverts and celebrities. This is normal now. Podcaster presidents. The stupidity of it is mindboggling.

You guys need to contemplate deeper: What actually is conformity? Because you don't have a deep grasp of it. You are just throwing things at the wall. When does a thing actually become conformity? Figure out this distinction! Don't ask, contemplate.

It's not so simple. Your judgment of her as intellectually dishonest could be your self-deception. And who is 100% intellectually honest? That's a lot to ask of anyone.

This is terrible.

Technically it is correct, but it is only convincing retrospectively, once you have become conscious of God. The problem is you don't know if your logic corresponds to actual reality. But it turns out it does.

Take the useful insights from Teal and leave the rest. It's that simple. Why people make it so difficult?

The point is to become more conscious of your mechanicalness.

Verifiable to whom? That's so subjective.

Well that I can't speak to.

Dude, the same would be said about me.

Mormons are a cult. My girlfriend was in that too.

That's just my breakfast

This is like the Zen cat story. Zen itself is super conformist. These rituals are fake spirituality. Everything about Japan is mindless confromity. And I like Japan, but holy hell are they conformist.

What you love is what you've been conditioned to love. As if Mormons don't love their fake religion and Nazis don't love their racism. Of course you love it. Otherwise it would be too obvious. You love all your evil ways.

Should be easy to explain it to him. Of course he will treat it as just a school of philosophy, not as absolute reality. It will be similar to talking to Curt.

Very good! Keep taking action.

You are a relatively new member. All new member accounts have posting and messaging limits to prevent abuse. Your limits will be increased with time as your account ages. The messaging system gets abused a lot, so these limits were put in place.

I've shared several videos about China on my blog. Life there is not as bad as you imagine. You'd need to watch those videos to understand what I'm pointing to. https://www.actualized.org/insights/rethinking-china Their system can liberalize as it grows more successful and meets everyone's material needs.

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