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What are your Top 5 movies you would recommend to others, because they have affected you deeply, and why? Mine are: 1. Arrival - Everything about it. It's just the most perfect film i've ever seen. The overall tone of it. It has exactly the same emotional depth and dyeing of the short-story which is based on. 2. Her - Very emotional. With a deep melancholic pace and tone. A comprehensible lovestory, with an ending that hits you hard. 3. Matrix - No explanation needed on this one.^^ 4. Waking life - It's more of a lecture from God about the nature of reality, other than a movie. 5. Lord of the Rings-Trilogy - Not necessarily "spiritual", even if gods and demons are part of it. But it is the greatest film based on the monomyth in maybe the last 30 years. It has flaws, yes, but very few people can deny this trilogy is something else. Also it touches many philosophical themes like determinism/free will, transcendence, suffering and release. I hope this topic is allowed here. I've used the search function but couldn't find anything related or similar.

Love is the absence of desires

@Nak Khid The AfD is a pseudo-giant. Those political views always existed in Germany. A few years ago those people were members of the right-wing-portions of CDU, FDP and SPD. They just left their original parties and merged into this obscure project called AfD. I don't think they will govern any time soon. I don't even think they want to. The AfD is changing their platform like every 5 years and they are trying to maintain media-coverage with dog-whistle-politics. In the end they are not trying to make politics for "the little man" as they say. All those politicians care about are their own pensions and not the greater good. I mean... in most other countries those people were dangerous. But Germanys government and the german people in general have a very sophisticated political immune-system, which is working very well.

1. Cum hoc, ergo propter hoc. Sociological inequality doesn't necessarily mean inequality on the dating market. If this was true, Tyler wouldn't impregnate Stacy on a daily basis. People want to have Sex and relationships with "their best options". 2. 1. Nothing. It's actually a good thing. Marriage is just a fancy term for a sales contract. People have to accept, that all people are individuals with desires and that they will act accordingly. The whole concept of a lifelong unconditional partnership was a lie to begin with. 2. 2. Socialism. 2. 3. Making them more attractive. Social dynamics lessons in schools maybe. Girls want cool guys. Guys want cool/hot girls. It's simple as that. When you realise, that you are attractive to at least some girls, life is easier. When you realise, that you have more than just one option, you naturally want all of them. Because desires are endless. 3. *grabs crystal ball* Marriage will die. People will fuck around and the economic and political system will adjust to that. Being a single-mum is not a problem, since the government will make sure, that every child has his basic necessities met. Men are not obliged to pay child-support anymore. After a few years in Babylon, when everyone already participated in weekly orgies, everyone is bored as fuck. Everyone will realise, that sex/desires is the root-cause of all suffering, and then they transcend and merge with God.

@Robi Steel That's a mature answer, i will give you that. The problem is, that i don't get, what exactly you were aiming at, when you opened this thread. Do you think everyone should have their own opinion and everyone should be entitled to not getting their beliefs attacked?

So you want to censor me? Just kidding Genuinely curios: Are you avoiding uncomfortable statements and questions strategically and on purpose, or do you think they have no value?

This nothingness, that doesn't exist, has somehow strong political opinions. Funny thing is, that i've already proven, that Germany didn't go insane, when roughly 1,5 mio. people from the middle east went there. Isn't it possible, that you are just projecting your own insecurities onto others? I know, it's not your fault. You are just a kid. But why do you think, other people are more mundane than you are?

At the height of the immigration-crisis in Germany, the biggest political party opposing that, was the AfD, and they were polling at like roughly 20% or something. According to your comment german-culture would be therefore "being very welcoming and being very open-minded" isn't it? The last part of your comment is very revealing. It sounds like you are longing for affiliation and identity and you are somehow disappointed, that Germany won't provide you with that. That begs the question: Even if there would be a nation that would fulfil all your desires, would you be happy? Probably not. That's actually the whole point of spirituality. As the Buddha said: "Now this, bhikkhus, is the noble truth of suffering: birth is suffering, aging is suffering, illness is suffering, death is suffering; union with what is displeasing is suffering; separation from what is pleasing is suffering; not to get what one wants is suffering; in brief, the five aggregates subject to clinging are suffering."

There is no "german-culture". There never was. For most of history "Germany" was patchwork of (at it's peak) dozens of countries which loved to fight each other. What is "german culture" supposed to be? Democracy and basic human rights? That's american (for the most part). Capitalism? That's british. Pretzels? It's austrian. The german language? Quote: "someone from the rhineland can not even ask for directions in bavaria".

I like how Swami Sarvapriyananda puts it: "It is not a thing. It is not nothing. It is no-thing."

No you didn't. But you are assuming, that those who are referring to consciousness are. At least i took you comments like that. I fully agree with what you have said in you last comment, except for "because it is everything". There are not things. I AM....! that's it. What i am is open to question, but i am... otherwise i couldn't say or feel that.

That's the whole error you are making. Neither Yogacara-Buddhism nor Advaita Vedanta is saying, that the personal experiencer or even the experienced object is in any way real. What they are saying is that the only reality is the subject. In Yogacara it is called Buddha-Consciousness and in Advaita Vedanta it is called Brahman. PS: I don't know anything about infinite love and so on.

Maybe it's just your pre-assumption of the term consciousness, which is giving you a hard time. Consciousness, in this framework, is not some property of the individual person, but the "thing" to which every kind of experience appears.

@traveler @Inliytened1 You two are talking about two different philosohies. This "fight" is actually going on for a thousand years now. travelers comments are referring to the second turning of the wheel, while Inliytened1 is talking about the third turning. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Turnings_of_the_Wheel_of_Dharma

So is God creating something which he already is?