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Death is an idea you have right now. The concept of death is dependent on consciousness. But underneath it all, everything is a hallucination. You are already dead. You just hallucinate being alive hallucinating you will die.

Even if you are writhing in pain, it is still imaginary. Don’t confuse openmindedness with gullibility. Radical openmindedness means that you are also open to the fact that you could be deceiving yourself and you entertain that thought to the fullest. Openmindedness isn’t just anything goes. Become so openminded that you close your mind off to BS.

Watch Rocky 4.

https://www.thegamer.com/qtcinderella-cannot-sue-deepfake-creator/ Contemplate this: Imagine that every woman and pornstar is like QT, and imagine that she is your daughter. Notice how just by watching and using pornography to masturbate, you are supporting the demand for the continual objectification and exploitation of women. “Oh, but R0ckyreed, there are some women who consent to it and so I watch them.” You would be a fool and a poor parent if you would say that to your own child. Why is a stranger any different? You also don’t know what goes on behind the scenes, roles, and act. Think about that next time you jerk off. But seriously, let’s look at this from the big picture. Society has shown us that with new innovations in technology come newer ways to flourish and hinder the development and consciousness of humanity. Whatever your life purpose is, you have to consider all the cons that could come out from your new invention because as they say, “everyone acts from good intentions.” And all new inventions will be used as weapons by Devils. I am not telling you to nofap. I am telling you to noporn. Because fapping doesn’t hurt anyone, but porn does. You have always contemplate: “how is this going to affect my mind and consciousness?” “How am I a devil?” The fact that there are hardly any laws that protect women from deepfakes is very unsettling.

Nonexistence doesn’t exist. It is impossible to conceive of something not existing. Nonexistence is an idea within all that is.

How do you differentiate bias and intuition?

Absolute Evil. Absolute Selfishness. Absolute Chaos. Chaos Theory. Absolute Randomness.

Hell isn’t a place, it is a perception. It is all perception!!! It is about how you interpret and think about your life. It is your philosophy that makes you suffer or flourish.

Yes! It’s amazing! I learned the technique from a guy on Jedi Academy. All you do is visualize a crystal pyramid in a desert. Visualize it clearly and hold it. Then, watch it fade into nothingness.

Because you care, desire, and are selfish and life is selfless. The short answer is limited perception or ignorance/selfishness/bias. But suffering isn’t necessarily a bad thing. True suffering is perceiving this Heaven as Hell. True freedom is perceiving Hell as Heaven. In between these two is the process of life. The Buddha was wrong. Life isn’t suffering. Life is perception. Life is states of consciousness.

How do you know? That assumes you already know what the Truth is. All of a religion is a fool following a fool. All of religion is an authority game of making you believe there are other enlightened beings. There is only the Experiential field of consciousness right now. All religions have their assumptions. No Buddhist ever seriously considers that the Buddha and Enlightenment is a hallucination of their own mind.

It’s the opposite. Writing helps with memory because memory relies on repetition, organization, and meaning making. It’s even supported by mainstream science. The issue, however, comes when all you do is write things down to avoid thinking about it. But if you write mindfully, you will have a deeper understanding than those who don’t. Writing is a slow process that gives you ample time to think and you can see your thought processes on paper. The brain is no place for thinking. It is much harder to deceive yourself when it is written on paper.

Lol! This post just confirms what Leo was talking about. You ain’t awake! This wasn’t an outburst, it was a tough love wake-up call. If you can’t see that Leo is you telling you to wake up, then I don’t know what else could wake yo ass up. I do think he did go overboard but after seeing so much stupidity on this forum, I can’t blame him. I would probably do the same after a while of all that Neo-Buddhist-Advitan BS.

Correct. It is what some of you may think but doesn’t seem like you. I am overly logical and you make a good point to try and see how I like interacting with kids. I am really selfish and I think it has to do with the stage of life I am in (young adulthood). My biggest fear is making irreversible decisions that restrict my freedoms. Maybe my views will change in 5-10 years when I have more of my life figured out.

I have a girlfriend. I have known her since high school, and we recently got together. One of the concerns I have is that she wants kids by age 35, and I am not so certain. We both know that we don't want kids right now but she wants them later when her career has been established. I, on the other hand, am still uncertain and unclear as to whether I want kids or not. Kids are a huge responsibility and does not seem like something that is in my top 10 values. But, on the other hand, I am not for sure if having children is something that I will want in the future or is something I would regret not doing. I really love the woman I am with, but I can see that years down the road, this issue of having children will be the deciding factor of our relationship. What are your alls thoughts on having children? Are children helpful to self-actualization and spiritual awakening and doing serious philosophy? I can imagine that having children would make it hard to be a Serious Philosopher. What are your alls thoughts?

What are some general tips in being successful in investing and trading? I am currently looking into Vanguard and Schwab at the moment. What index funds and ETFs do you all recommend? It looks like VTSAX, VTI, VOO, and Bitcoin are pretty good. What do you all think? Thanks!

I don’t support AI. I guess I will check out Vanguards website for investment tips.

I wanted to share with you all the first video clip that made me question Buddhism and meditation. Ever since I understood the first 30 seconds of this video, I had an insight that Buddhism and meditation alone are not conducive to the highest levels of intelligence. I always wondered why I had meditation has stunted my memory. I realized that if you stop thinking, you stunt your intelligence, and you stunt your memories. Memories require repetition to keep them alive and so does learning. Leo even pointed this out in his new video on Insight, where somewhere in the video, he stated that he cannot meditate because he is too curious and that Buddhist monks simply aren't that curious about life. This made me wonder that Buddhism is about attaining Nirvana, some fairytale of an end of suffering, rather than the goal of pure understanding. Watch the first 30 seconds of this video. Meditating for long periods of time comes at a post. That cost is pure understanding and intelligence. What I have gained from meditation is calmness and peace of mind, but I would not exchange that for intelligence/understanding. Then, of course, Jed McKenna helped me to see the problems within Buddhism and meditation. I still meditate from time to time, and it is helpful, but 10-20 minutes a day is all I think is necessary. The main reason why I meditate now is to cultivate my ability to be joyful, aware of the beauty all around me, and to be satisfied with nothing. I think meditation is really important for happiness and peace of mind but excessive meditation comes at a cost. I no longer expect any deep insights from meditation anymore. I get those through observation and contemplation. Here is the video below! Enjoy!

Thanks for all of your responses guys I appreciate the input! I get those of you who say it is selfish and self-centered to not have kids, but don’t overlook your double standards. Any choice you make in life is going to be for your own self interest. You could argue that having kids is selfish. Society is already biased and puts pressure on people who don’t want kids to have kids. To be most effective at being selfless, one needs to honor one’s needs, values, desires, and development. If you neglect your highest desires, you won’t be good for anyone or the world. The world needs everyone of us at our best, and that starts with honoring our purpose. Selflessness and selfishness go full circle. My purpose may not be to have kids, but I will still be ejaculating and reproducing into the world because that is my highest desire. I am an existential therapist and have just started that chapter of my life purpose. If I have kids, I see that slowing down my goals in my life purpose as of right now. This is all a lesson for me that this is an area I lack clarity on and need to contemplate even more.

What is Consciousness? Why is Consciousness experiencing a human being right now with blonde hair instead of something else? Are other people conscious? How could there be multiple consciousnesses? What would be separating one consciousness from another? How can an object in my consciousness have consciousness? How am I constructing reality and sense of self/other?

How do I get started in investing? What website or apps do you recommend where I can start putting my money in? Do you all invest using cash app to invest, Robinhood, or what? What do you recommend?

I heard that the longer you keep your money in the market, the more you will make. If you keep putting in and pulling out, I heard that’s a bad strategy because nobody can really predict such future events. Cracking the market is a myth. I have a 401k with 6% matching with my new job. I plan on putting 10% of paycheck in there each time. Maybe that is what I should focus on most? I also thought about index funds as well.

You aren’t afraid of death. You are afraid of suffering. There is no suffering in deep sleep. And no suffering in death. What you really fear is the process of losing yourself and everything you love while you still exist.

This is how I feel. I feel like I am in a relationship with the right woman. She checks off just about every box for me. My only fear is having children, but maybe my desires will change 10 years later. I am 26 now. If I have kids, then that is an irreversible decision that I would have to live with and be responsible for. However, why not both? Why can’t I have a family and be a Serious Philosopher? Maybe it isn’t either or.

Just keep meditating and focus on life purpose. It’s been 8 days. I bet he’s camping now and doing #unplug. Let this be a life lesson: The quality of your life hinges on the quality of your interpretations.