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Then that’s your problem. Your main motivation for art shouldn’t have anything to do with money but rather mastery. You’re chasing something that will never bring you fulfillment. Doing art for money is a recipe for depression. You still haven’t answered the question of what you would do if you were the last human on earth. Will success and money really matter and be a motivator for you? Why do you want money and success in the first place if you have no intrinsic motivation? It’s no different than a rat chasing cheese at this point. Why do you need others validation for art? Which one is more important to you: Others validation/money or art for its own sake? Money should be a means not the end.

You can’t achieve your dreams without the understanding of suffering. You need to go back read and contemplate the whole book, do some therapy, and contemplate not just your happiness and dreams but also your own suffering. Think about the thought experiment I gave you of being the last human on earth. You don’t do art because of success or money or being famous. If I knew I was gonna fail, I would do my art anyways because that’s how much I love my art.

Hey bud. I feel ya. This sounds a lot like me a few years ago. I used to wanna be a professional tennis player and trumpet player (the best in the world). I had too much unrealistic expectations and ambition. I realized in college that I love music, but not enough to become a music major and grind through it. That was a tough realization for me since I spent most of my life having the hopes that I would make it in the music and tennis industry. But life has a way of closing one door and opening another. I found philosophy, spirituality, and psychology through my struggles and depression as a music performance major. To keep it short, I think you should take a step back and focus on what really matters and find ways you can continue your passion for music without expecting too much out of it. I’m curious, if you were the last human on earth tomorrow, what would you do with your time? You still have to fight to live and nurture your body. I hate having to do it too. But my hate is just a second obstacle that I’m putting in my way. Life is already hard enough. Give yourself some kindness and focus on the small things. I bet if you were the last human on earth, you wouldn’t be weighed down by your comparisons and pressures for success. You should read Peter Ralston’s book on Ending Unnecessary Suffering. He goes into this stuff on a deeper level. All the best mate.

Also, as long as you ask others for answers, you will forever never trust your own instincts and conclusions. Notice that. Some of this stuff you need to work out on your own and not have Leo or Buddha hold your hand through it. Notice how that is giving away cognitive/spiritual independence.

It’s not about knowing whether you are right. It’s about knowing whether you understand. You have to go with the level that you are at and do the best you can. There are levels of God that no human will ever be able to access. What you are missing is insight. There’s gonna be a lot of stuff you will always be ignorant to and will never know. Keep contemplating. Let go of that Leo quote. That raft got you across the river, but it won’t get you through the forest.

What about Buddhism? Buddhism is filled with opinions, traditions, and conclusions. If you put Buddhism in a different category than opinion, then that is your opinion. You can’t be a Buddhist if you doubt the Buddha’s enlightenment in the same way you can’t be a Christian if you doubt Jesus is your Savior.

There are many things you cannot un-imagine and yet you imagine them. Your entire experience is constructed by your mind and you cannot easily undo this construction. If you cannot de-construct or un-imagine your traumas, what makes you think you could easy un-imagine gravity?

Dude. Why are you here? You’re not questioning to deconstruct materialism. You are defending Physicalism. All of this will be answered with 2g shrooms and a genuine desire for truth.

Because Consciousness is constructing gravity. Good luck changing that. Do 2g shrooms and you’ll realize that all is mind.

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Yes. But how do you validate and deconstruct rationality/logic without using rationality/logic? I don’t think you can. All deconstruction is using Rationality with a capital R to analyze the limits and assumptions of a thing. It seems like it is circular reasoning in the end. But circular reasoning may be rational when talking about existence itself. Existence exists because it exists. Consciousness has an Absolute Rationality to it. Rationality itself is circular because there is nothing outside of it to deconstruct it nor validate it. It’s self-validating, just like Consciousness. I may have answered my own question. I’ll have to contemplate this more.

The irony is that to deconstruct rationality you’re using rationality to deconstruct it, aren’t you? Meta-Rationality. It’s like trying to deconstruct thought with thought.

I agree. But the steel man of atheism is that atheism in theory is similar to Pyrrhonism. A Pyrrhonians whole philosophy is to suspend judgement. I remain unconvinced of Alien Awakening and paranormal. Does that mean I believe Alien Awakening and paranormal doesn’t exist? No. It just means I will suspend judgment until I have verified it for myself. It is a logical position to suspend judgment and be skeptical about things I have never experienced. If you choose to make a video about atheism, you will want to address this objection. Every atheist I talk to doesn’t want to admit that they are in a paradigm. An atheist thinks it is a form of skepticism but it’s a biased form of skepticism. Edit: Also many atheists will disagree that it’s a worldview because atheism is about just one thing only: A suspension of belief about God. It’s one position on the issue. Of course, for many “atheists” this is wrong because their atheism exists inside of other paradigms such as materialism, naturalism, evidentialism, etc.

No atheist will agree with this definition. They will say you misunderstand atheism because atheism is the disbelief and remaining unconvinced of God. Kinda like if someone says there are aliens, I remain unconvinced but it doesn’t mean I believe there are no aliens. Of course, I disagree because an atheist lives life unconscious of God and thinks others need to prove it to him.

Thanks for your feedback. Where do you see a strawman? My broader point is that Buddhism is a conceptual framework that limits the mind and needs to be let go of. It’s a conceptual framework about nonattachment and enlightenment. Notice that Buddhism is a map and is not the same as the territory. You won’t achieve sovereignty of mind following the Buddha. If you are really present in this moment, you won’t find Buddhism in it.