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While y’all are arguing about Ralston, I’m sitting on my couch contemplating reality, self, and mind. Ralston seems like a good guy, but Ralston cannot awaken you. Idolatry is a distraction. Every person on the planet carries truth and falsehood in their worldview. Everyone. Including myself. I’ve been wrong about many things I thought I was right about. Nobody is above me nor you. Is Love just an animal emotion? No. You aren’t getting it because for an animal to have any emotion whatsoever requires Love to make that happen. Love is Connection, Unity, Oneness that contains within itself division and separation. But you couldn’t have division/separation without Unity in the first place. Love isn’t the same thing as happy bliss. Love also includes evil. Love is a tick on your nuts.

Tell me, what’s so profound about Moby’s Dick? Give me your best argument.

Great share!

Yes, good.

Yeah. But I mean just me shooting a gun without all that culture nonsense. Me going to the gun range to shoot my Glock is not out of conformity, but I see other shooters with all their gear and stuff and getting gung-ho about it. Using a fork to eat food could be considered conformity or even the way you hold it. I remember as a kid, I got in trouble for using my hands instead of a fork, so I conformed. I also remember my parents trying to get me to hold the fork "the right way". To this stay, I still eat with a fork the way I want to. Some cultures eat with their hands or chopsticks. But the act of me holding a fork or using a fork I would say is not conformity unless you are doing it because others told you. This is getting very tricky!!

Yes. I got that. But there appears to be non-existent things such as Santa and Death. These are existent ideas that point to things that do not exist. The reality of Santa and Death is non-existent. If Santa and Death are not non-existent, then what reality do they have?

Does Non-Existence exist? Does Nothingness really exist? If Existence/Consciousness is the foundation of reality, then what is Nothingness or Non-Existence? We cannot talk about non-existence or Nothingness without first discussing what Existence is. What I mean by existence is everything that you experience within your consciousness. If you cannot see it, hear it, smell it, feel it, taste it, or think it, it does not exist. I would say that Nothingness and Non-existence are different. Non-Existence points to something that no longer exists or has never existed and Nothingness points to something that exists but has either no attributes or infinite attributes -- Think of a blank canvas or the emptiness of space. With non-existence, there is not even blankness or emptiness of space. Space = Nothingness and Space = Non-existent are two different ideas. Here are some examples of Non-Existence: 1. Being a virgin (sex is non-existent for you, you have had 0 sex) 2. Your dead great-great-grandparents (they are literally physically non-existent) 3. A Purple Elephant native to Earth (maybe there is one on a different planet but none native to earth). 4. Santa Clause (Santa is an idea in your mind that points to something that does not actually exist) 5. Bertrand Russell's Celestial Teapot 6. A memory/dream that you forgotten 7. Your childhood/youth (your health/vitality will one day be non-existent) 8. Death (this is a tricky one depending on how you look at it. Death can be seen as Non-existent or as Nothingness.) Here are some examples of Nothingness: 1. Empty Consciousness (no thought, no mind) 2. Ego (The ego's reality is nothingness, it is made out of thought made out of nothing, it's not made out of anything) 3. Thought (its not made out of anything) 4. The empty space that holds all objects in existence 5. The substance of anything is made out of Nothingness. Even science tells us that objects are made out of emptiness. 6. State of Consciousness during sleep and during pre-birth. 6. Death (this is a tricky one depending on how you look at it. Death can be seen as Non-existent or as Nothingness.) What are your thoughts? Does Nothingness and Non-existence exist? When we say Consciousness or Existence is the foundation of reality, do we mean that the foundation of Infinity/Existence is Nothingness? How does Existence relate to Non-Existence?

List of things that aren’t conformity: 1. Breathing 2. Contemplation 3. Drinking water 4. Walking through the forest 5. Cancer 6. Death 7. Truth 8. Consciousness 9. Shooting a gun 10. Genuine Kindness

There are conformist and nonconformist reasons for that.

Lines at Starbucks and Dutch Bros is conformity for most part. Why do you need coffee at all? If so, why can’t you make it at home? I see a line full of cars and think to myself: You wouldn’t have to wait in line if you just bothered to spend 5 minutes making it a home. Conformity. Another is the expectation for men to pay for the first date or to make the first move or “be a provider.”

Cool to see how my thoughts a year ago seemed to dovetail pretty nicely with the Deconstructing Rationality series.

Regarding Leo’s IQ test. While that goes deeper than math tests, I would say true intelligence is beyond survival. The highest intelligence isn’t about how well you can survive, it’s about understanding God. A moronic person could pass the rope and chair test but they wouldn’t realize God; therefore, they miss the highest intelligence. You can handle a wild beast and still be deluded. I would say my IQ test would be to lock you in a dark room by yourself until you can answer the question: What Is Truth? Each time you give some dogma or Buddhist, spiritual nonsense, I would give you a shock to the nuts. The door won’t open until you answer and experience directly What Is Truth?

Taylor Swift Fate of Ophelia Choreography.

I told my grandpa that him setting up an American Flag for July 4th was conformity. But he told me it wasn’t because he genuinely likes putting out his flag on July 4th and other national holidays. The same is with Christmas. What do you say to that? I told my neighbor that lawn maintenance and green fertilizer is conformity. But he told me it isn’t because “I like the way my lawn looks.” It is hard to tell what is genuine conformity or not because people could always have a nonconformist justification of their behavior. A person going to a football game will never admit it’s because of conformity but because they love watching Mahomes and Kelce. Art is conformity in the sense of copying nature and other artists. A true artist is nonconformity and adds their original idea and interpretation.

People pay for construction not deconstruction. People pay for illusion and not disillusion. Entertainment, academia, health, sports, teaching, etc. is monetized because of illusion. Maya in action. Clever girl.