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That’s good. You should be afraid to some degree. It’s a big responsibility. Don’t mess it up

There's tailoring your answer to your audience, and then there's just confusion. I feel this is just confusion.

@WonderSeeker If you feel your understanding now far eclipses that of the ordinary person, then that's an opportunity for leadership. Lead us to greater understanding.

Sin is whatever pulls you away from God.

I found this video, which expands on his thinking. This is more sophisticated. I'm also very fond of "Pure Consciousness" as a term. But still, it feels like unnecessary resistance to the word 'God' to me. Why would 'Pure Consciousness' not suffer from the same problem as using 'God'? 'Pure Consciousness' could just as easily be taken as a static, finite thing. You could argue he is switching up his answer as a teaching device, but that seems like unnecessary confusion to me. Just say clearly what God is and what God isn't.

Never seen that video of Osho before. That is pretty condemning. If someone asked me "what is God?", that is not at all how I would answer it. Even if I was going to critique the traditional, religious notion of God, I would make it clear that's what I was doing. I would say something like "traditionally, God was thought of as X. This was wrong for Y reasons. But actually, God is Z". I would not just say "there is no God, it's all projection".

Yup. I'm only like two chapters in, but already it feels that way. There are some physicalist undertones. I will finish reading and see what I think at that point. He could be holding back.

It's a difficult pill to swallow, but an important one. You need proper expectations when dealing with humans. It helps if you can realize what actually is Unconditional Love.

Good critique of freedom and hedonism. He still doesn't really understand sin though.

Absurd way of framing what goes on here.

@cistanche_enjoyer CBN combined with CBD / melatonin? Or just CBN pure?

That also doesn't matter, because of course dictionaries just go by academic consensus.

That means nothing. Of course textbooks on feminism will present the steelman version.

That's the most charitable interpretation of feminism.

Yes and Tom Rowlands of the Chemical Brothers as well, excellent combo.