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@Shin I think you would quit Fap if you were enlightened!

Just amazing! Thomas Metzinger is one brilliant individual. Watch this!

I received a PM from a person here earlier today, and he said.. .."Hey, I have a feeling that we somehow understand each other intuitively, without talking much." That is really how it goes, even if you go along very well, to a point where you understand the other intuitively without talking much, there is really no good argument why keeping a close relationship. Not to mention those you don't go along well with. Then it's absolutely no point to keep a relationship going. I have had many closed friends, and had a long period where I use to be very popular, I like people and have always been very interested in them. But I don't see the benefits with relationships anymore. Even as a popular person, that becomes very draining at some point, it doesn't lead anywhere. I'm not saying I like to live in a cave, I love to be social in a spontaneous way that happens wherever you are. Often taking to strangers is very fruitful. Also speaking to coworkers and colleagues at my sport activities. But other then that. I can't see the point. Don't have any interests in family life really. And my parents think I dislike them. I don't, I just can't see the point. Small talks and pointless dinner meetings. Friendships is a youth thing to me. Like in the movie "stand by me". My god, I loved friendships back then. But as an adult I don't feel to share my life with any other then my girlfriend(whom I like to change from time to time) Having said this, I still have plenty of relationships that I like to end, including family ties, they are good people, so how to end it without feeling bad conscience? Any of you living the way I like to live. Or maybe some of you have some tips to share?

Isn't it funny how dominating the materialist narrative is in the world, probably more then 99% have this worldview! Du you think it's completely false, or do you defend some aspects of the materialist narrative? I seem to have a worldview that is 80 % spiritual and 20% scientific. ( I know, that's schizophrenic ) I tend to think that some aspects of science, like Biology, Evolution, Astronomy, and Metabolism cover some part of reality that spirituality alone doesn't cover. But I am still somewhat of a hardcore spiritual person. However. Biology is all about survival of the fittest, concurrence, sexual selection, hierarchy, status etcetera. Astronomy tells us that space, time and matter do exists with a lot of cool features to them, such as black holes, anti-matter, curvature of space/time etcetera. Spirituality disqualify those disciplines in some sense I think. Reality according to the spiritual paradigm is more like a non dual singularity point of infinite consciousness with no such thing as space and time. And no such thing as ego that biology suggest, Spirituality is just unconditional love and other airy fairy platitudes. Caveat, I'm not critical of spirituality here. I just elaborate if we need some hardcore materialist science into our picture of reality. Not a huge amount, just a tiny proportion, like 10%, just as a spice of dark into our bright spiritual worldview. People are so fully into either narrative, shouldn't there be an optimal mix? Like 90/10 or 80/20 in favour to the spiritual narrative.

@pluto Hi Pluto. I'm listening to Bashar "Life is meaningless" atm, great! You recommend it in one of your old threads. He is very suggestive in the way he teach.

God is a noun! If we are attached to the word God, we should use the word Godliness from now on. Don't make it a noun, make it a quality! The moment you make it a noun, you kill it. The moment you make it a noun, you stop its growth! Nouns don't grow! Only verbs grow! As you know, creation has no creator, creation itself is the creator. As such creation inhabits Godliness but not God(noun) -Wisdom from Osho

Haha, "both" Looks like you have made up your mind!

You're right! Love your City btw, One day I will go visit and walk the Bourbon street and feel all the good vibes there. Love music and the "south"

Don't worry, nothing is in control.

Thank you Moses!

Haha, everyone keeps telling me that! I don't know if that's an insult or a compliment. His posts here are deleted, so I can't tell if to be flattered or not. Anyway, did you see the quote from @Vingger ? The Osho quote? I think it's so great, and so liberating as well. It erase all authority ideas about consciousness/God. All there is, is Godliness, and that happens right now, as I write to you.

@VinggerGreat, thank you!

Good point cetus! And I believe that anyone who is evolved to a point that he could do these things knows that it is a quiet thing, you know that you shouldn't talk about it or show off about it.

At least that's better then mental masturbation about real masturbation! lol Anything interesting happening in that Nofap-thread btw? You spend quite some time there! But who am I to judge, maybe we will solve the mysterious nature of consciousness and absolute truth in the NoFap-thread, keep up the good work!

Good idea! I like to go for the short cuts! But that constantly back fire I've noticed!

Haha. One thing I've notice as a "doubter" is that even if I go with a hard core materialist view, reality can't be other the ONE anyway, right? It's even more obvious that everything is ONE if reality only exists of matter. Just like whirlpools only consists of the water it's made of with no separate existence of its own. If duality was possible, then reality has to have something other the matter as fundamentals. Like consciousness/God. But when we explore that, just as we do here, we find that non duality is the only possible position. Therefore, there is no way to come up with duality no matter what intellectual angle you choose, right?

Lol,

Another great quote from the quote-maschine tsuki! Very true

With perfect knowing their can be no life. Not knowing is a fundamental property of any conscious life. Life is per definition equal to NOT knowing. Perfect knowing is equal to death. You can not learn anything here, you can only Unlearn things in this business. The more you don't know, the more rich becomes life. The richness, colourfulness, and mysteriousness of life are proportional to how much you DON'T know. Embracing life is to practice NOT knowing

@taleen Your broken english is even more worse then mine! Great thread, I love subjects when spiritual life and family/work issues intersect. So important to work out some good strategies in order to handle practical life in an optimal way.

@egoeimai U2, take care! I dig you, you have integrity!

@snowleopard Thanks, I'll check it out right now! Would you say he differ in any way from Rupert Spira or Jed McKenna?

@snowleopardHave you seen the "buddha at gas pump" - interview with him? Interesting I must say..

Consciousness and experience are not two. Do you think there are strict "laws" to consciousness, or do you thing anything is possible. If you saw a man breaking the laws of "physics" and fly over your head, would you be surprised? Or if you were able to levitate just because you want to, how surprising would that be to you, giving your understanding?

@snowleopard Sad, isn't it? I have a master of science degree, but I remember going to a philosopher class just for fun. To enjoy the pinnacle of open-mindedness. That's what I thought. I was disappointed, my free thoughts and mind wasn't forbidden maybe, but at least not as welcomed as I expected. Still a structure "How to think" It's something about the hierarchal order in academia that collapses if you think "too" freely. It's better to be here. Decentralised and every thought is allowed(at least as long Key Elements isn't here) Nah, just joking. (Please Key, don't punish me for a joke)