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@Nahm I like Dodo's explanation/thoughts.. Is absolute truth Both True and False at the same time? And neither true nor false too? And just true? And just false? And not even those mentioned above? But at the same time those mentioned above?

@Barna What about "all is a joke" ? That's not an illusion, is it?

@Key Elements Thanks! Love the Darth Vader meme. You're right, I've tried to do and change things without being a philanthropist, that doesn't work that well..

That is beautiful! What a quote! Get rid of those barriers and you ARE love!

Cool, thank you! I love to here this in the mornings, to me it give me relaxing distance to my trivial mind activity and thoughts, I feel Gods presence and how deep and mysterious life is. It goes directly to my heart. I feel love. Kinda cool to have it in Sweden. Multiculturalism gets a lot of critique, but this is a really nice thing I think. My country feels more exotic and less rational and "boring"

Thank you! Great input! Rumi's work is great btw.

I'm glad I never learned how to fap. Seem like many problems come with it..

No, you obviously didn't read the whole OP. I basically say that I'm indifferent atm whether I should support the secular or the Islamic movement. If you read carefully you see that I listed both positive AND negative aspects of the islamic invasion. It's a huge cultural change going on right now, and I just want to sort my thoughts a little bit in this thread. Basically, you have to made up your mind if you prefer the secular culture we have had up to now or if you support the new muslim culture in order to know which side you should stand on. The polarisation is huge at the moment, and if you don't choose what side of the coin you belong to, you will be marginalised and end up in no mans land with no collective identity.

No, I'm not. I use "we" as in "we, here in Sweden" It feels so stigmatising to say "muslim gang rape.." etcetera.

@Steph1988 Thanks, pretty accurate! Who is this Paul joseph watson?

Haha. Nah, I'm serious, but maybe I like provoke people to think by showing how absurd it looks if you don't view reality as black or white. Because reality is pretty absurd, the most beautiful and the most ugly can coexist in the same culture. Which it does, in ALL cultures. But people like to have black and white opinions. So it confuses some people, when you are not judging and in a neutral way show the upside and downside of the same coin.

That's an OLD paradigm. Thor and Odin are nothing but mythology that you have to study a few hours in school as a kid.

It's not about change. It's just that there are two strong movements of today, you suppose to support one of them. Citizens like to know which side you are on, if you're into the conservative secular movement or the Islamic one. For me it's a close call, although I probably will support the Islamic movement. This thread is just to sort things out.

Leo, this makes you so fascinating to me. This proves that there is an opposite side to everything. Tell me one person in the world that digs up truths so consistently as you. Who are brave and finds out everything for yourself. You even see trough the science paradigm in very young age although you are very conceptual minded, that take both courage and genius. In short, there is probably not a person in the world that is as dedicated and successful to dig up absolute truths as you Leo. And at the very same time you are almost a retard when it comes to some relative truths, like evaluating news. Even the most average joe out there sees through all the bullshit and biased news of CNN and MSNBC. You don't even have to listening to the 100% biased crap they broadcast, you know just by looking at them, the ego and self-absorbed lust and drive for success and power shines in their auras. But everyone has blind spots, that's how it suppose to be!

I remember when I was in school, my teachers always told us that life according to Buddhism is equal to suffering. The goal was to never be born again in order to reach nirvana, then you end the circle of life (and suffering). I was attracted to buddhism because I find it so tolerant and liberal, it also embrace compassion which I love. But I couldn't understand this depressing view of life as a suffering event. And to be honest I can't understand that today either. Here we talk much about unconditional love, bliss, infinite awareness, the beauty of the absolute and so forth. This spiritual journey of mine and this forum has teach me how precious and beautiful life is. That's quite the opposite to what Buddhism teaches. This is hard for me to wrap my mind around, since Buddhism to me is true in every other aspect. Just this view about life as something to suffer I can't understand. Life is great, of course it has downs as well, but who doesn't want to live. Just go out and breath fresh air and you feel how wonderful and magic life is. So, how was this depressing view developed in Buddhism? Please elaborate. Thank you Namaste.

@Saumaya Thank you Saumaya! It's you that make me beautiful.

There was a guy from Irak in a thread today, Yesterday a woman from Iran wrote to me. Earlier this day I saw a man from Australia and another one from Argentina that is quite active here. And then we have the indian guys. At least one women from India as well. And Europe and North America goes without saying. Don't know really what I like to say, but isn't it cool with consciousness from all over the world? I just miss some of those asians here. Japan and China would be nice to see as well.

@Joseph Maynor Glad to see you are back. Don't let those backstabbers make you quit your activity here. I am a fan of your journal, as you know.

Chill and change the world feels like a great idea! There are a few Russians here as well, forgot to mention.

@Nahm Yup, I agree. The forum has a bright future.

Thats so sick! I feel angry just because total free speech is kind of threaten here in Sweden, but still we could say pretty much everything. Free speech and freedom in general is huge is huge is HUGE. Without Freedom of thoughts and speech, life is not worth living.

of course, but I'm taking about thousands of years from now. Also, it will be a fiction story, like star wars. Only a bonus if reality will have similarities if humans even live then. Haha, probably not a good idea. It would be cool thing to read that book if a good writer with good imagination and creativity write it. Interesting to imagine what people spend their life doing.

Imagine a fiction story that takes place in some distant future, let's say a few thousand years from now. Humans are still around, but this time around the entire human spices is fully enlightened. They know everything about destructive power, in fact power the way we know it hasn't been around for many hundreds of years. Only natural leadership is happening. The culture in this distant future is so strongly enlightened that psychedelic programs are no longer needed, children adopt without exceptions, whereas before, when the worldwide enlightened culture wasn't as mature as it is when the story take place, humans had Psychedelic programs in schools, optional of course, but no one really wanted to missing out on them. It was almost like losing virginity or something, everyone know that psychedelics was a highly positive experience since they grown up in a society/culture they love and respected so much. When the story take place the love and compassion among humans are almost unbearable, the psychedelic programs are no longer needed. That's the context, would it be possible to make a story of it? An interesting one that is. What do they do, how do they love/play/enjoy themselves in that distant future. Or do we need drama in a more dark way to catch our attention for a story? Also, would it be a plausible future, or is it a highly naive scenario you think. Pure fiction so to speak, or do we look into the future when we write the story.? Ah, crappy thoughts I guess. My mind just pick up on stories and start spinning.

@Shanmugam Great story! Storytelling is really undervalued I think. Too many advice, too much arguing, too many "facts", too much concepts and clichés A story can cover all of that I think!

Love that you bring this up! I was going to ask you some week ago about this, but then I had to do other things and forgot about it. This is very important to me. Do you remember that you talked about four(4) aspects of ego? Anyway, one aspect of those four is the "social ego". The one you must have to interact properly. I worked with my personality to become very transparent to the point that I lost my "social ego" I was interacting from pure intuition, curiosity and love. My meetings with people become very deep and compassionate. But I had no social ego or what you want to call it, I had no autopilot so to speak that did the small talks and social games. It works fine without it peer to peer, but in groups, unless you are the leader, or in formal situations where you can't be too curios and transparent but need to play that social game I was totally blank. I needed to be a lie I felt. I had to create myself again so to speak, that false persona or what you want to call it. The social ego. Now I can handle conventional social interaction fine again. But the price to be "false" again was huge. I worked so hard to be super real, super honest and transparent, as a result I become highly attractive to a point it almost become a burden. And I was the happiest man alive because I was in contact with something REAL in me I felt. As if I was individuality and not personality. But I felt it wasn't appropriate to be too happy or too peaceful and loving. I was above all neurosis and drama of others and couldn't be "Unreal" when people just expect small talks or demand that social ego from me, that was absent. I had to start from scratch to carve out "me" again, to carve out a personality again. This created suffering, because it was as if I had to do the reverse work, to go from enlightenment to ego, and transcend happiness and honesty. Very weird indeed. Now I lack that spark of love/joy/intensity and I'm more like everyone else. To me, the social ego is a huge part of the total ego, and I can't imagine enlightenment without unwire this entity again. But if I do that, I almost have to live a life in solitude i Feel. That's the price for be individuality and not personality. But it's really no price, in fact, when I was individuality last time around it was as if I didn't need any social contact, not even sexual contacts, as if no social interaction could give me anything. I only liked social interactions to give of my love and compassion. But my consciousness could easy come under attack when people like to own a piece of me or want more of my compassion. So solitude life would make perfect sense to me if I ever manage to come back to that state. It took YEARS to unwire, and it took years to rewire that social ego again. It has some similarities with your story I guess and how you become "friends" with your customers. But I feel our stories differs a lot too. Anyway, it might sound like nonsense to you, just wanted to tell you about a strange journey. And if you think it's a good idea to keep that social persona or not. Changing is not easy work, it's a long process to transform.