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Yesterday I asked Leo a question about how can you say that "reality is a dream "? Since everything Is just itself and not some other thing. Its a perfectly symmetrical tautology . Reality is reality. Nothing more .if you guys follow my posts I try to be epistemologically rigorous because of the tricky nature of language and the mind. And I have a suggestion to create more fruitful philosophical discussions on this forum: We must always be clear and concise in our language..so that philosophical discourse makes sense and the thoughts we converse about actually point to existing/comprehensible things in reality. (I know that that begs the question of who defines what "existing/comprehensible" things are.).. I say now that all of this existential Inquiries are infinite regressing phenomena that covers no ground.. precisely because there was no ground to cover in the first place. I am well aware that this is exceedingly radical.. but I'm going to write a few of my points like this : 1. All definitions are not definite. 2. All ideas are assumptions. 3. All ideas are beliefs. 4. All ideas refer to themselves and only themselves. Ideas exist in relation to other ideas. 5. Following premise 4.. ideas are all relative. 6. All ideas can be questioned in an infinitely regressing fashion. 7. All ideas are fundamentally groundless. To notice this for youself..you have to question whether or not you "know" anything at all. truth cannot be a belief. Which makes me conclude that truth cannot be an "idea".. Since all ideas are assumptions and beliefs that ultimately cover nothing. Many of you can probably point out contradictions or paradoxes from everything that I've said up until now. But what I'm saying is that paradox/contradiction is inherent to the nature of "meaning" and "definitions" and ultimately.. ideas. Not reality itself. If you have any questions please go ahead ?.

Couldn't agree more ? ?

Would you agree that a dream is imaginary? Yes? Me too. Now can you tell the difference between a dream and the waking world ? No ? Me too. What does that mean? It means imaginary =really. There is no difference between imaginary and not maginary. But you are being biased when you pick one over the other.

@Leo Gura I get the sense that you just hold these as ideas or theories about how reality works. If not .. you must be realizing this is all a dream of yours and you wouldn't spend time trying to convince someone that doesn't even exist that he doesn't even exist! . I don't want to repeat myself I think I made this point multiple times and no one gave me satisfying answers.. "no matter what psychedelics or luicd dreams show you.. How do you know that it should be applied to reality as a whole and say reality as a whole is a dream?". Dreams are possible within reality..how did we jump into saying reality as a whole is a dream?..Notice that reality as a whole can't be a dream because a dream is a limited and relativistic notion.

Of course it's not made of matter . But neither is it made of anything else. The substance of reality is nothing . Because its just itself. And you have only one reality.. Therefore you can't define it in terms of anything else because there isn't anything else . Take a dream ..what is the dream made of ? It's made of nothing but itself. Same is this waking state right now .

That's like saying potato is an fact absolute tomato. Everything is itself. Reality is tautology. You can't define it as something else other than itself. AGAIN..I'm not trying to be a smart arse here ..just a little thought to contemplate. Then what are you doing in his forum? ?

Not to bust balls here or split hairs or to sound like Nahm or anything like that...BUT:. Reality is NOT dream . Reality is just Reality . Just like red is just red . 2=2. Have you noticed that everything is itself and not some other thing ??

@Inliytened1 In your mind..is there a difference between "awakening "and "enlightenment " or are they the same thing ? Do they come in degrees and levels or is it just boom you got and you're done ?

OK let's see.. He says no one is awake but him . And at the same time he says that awake is knowing that only I exist . So there is no him .just me .but .. I'm not awake ..only him is.... This is just hilarious I know my physical body's shape .I don't know what it is existentially.

@Understander u r Trolling at this point bro..

I didn't say it's confusing.

The truth is that no one knows what "THIS " is . And anyone claiming otherwise is a liar . The self ..the other ..the reality..the love bla bla etc it's all one giant cosmic minfucking riddle . It will never be figured out . So I don't have the first clue who the fuck I am. As for Islam..it's just the only religion that makes some degree of sense. The other religions are obviously a fine bullshit.

I'm still researching and haven't figured out everything i must know about Islam yet . There are still some questions that haven't been answered for me. For example Islamic terrorism . There is in fact some verses in the quran that says Muslims should kill the unbelievers . That's one example .

Why are you asking me ? Look at it . You have 100% direct access to pure truth pure reality .

@Princess Arabia chillax. I'm just cooling the atmosphere with some humor. On a serious note again as well...all this philosophical debates will lead to NOWHERE. Reality cannot be figured out. Reality is appearance. It's exactly as it appears to be . Right here and right now. Non-duality my ass . nothing complicated about it. What ? Where ? When ? How ? Why ?

??? You guys don't get bored or tired from arguing about this metaphysical woo-woo that has ABSOLUTELY nothing to with ABSOLUTELY anything? go stare at a wall for 10 hours straight. yup.. i once became enlightened from staring at a cat for 5 hours .

@Princess Arabia you blabber a lot. Such an argumentative girl. I relate with you being naturally good in arguments! But that would not automatically imply that I like to prolong them. Let's just end it here . Whether I care enough about this conversation to risk putting next 30 minutes on this discussion without actually gaining something in return..is a big NO. Have the final word .

Ok Batman ?

@Princess Arabia Look ,sweetie...this is not the first time..you and that guy jump into my threads and start exchanging jokes instead of answering the questions. You drift to la la land and start making fun . And I thought what should I do with these two ?... Should I ignore them? Should I not argue with them and lose my peace of mind? Or... plainly tell them they are annoying and I do not want to get into a debate with them? I'm a pretty patient person. I don't get annoyed easily. It's really difficult to push my buttons. Just reduce he use of sarcasm. And yes everything is bullshit..so what ? Should I jump off a cliff because death and afterlife are BS ? BS is an acquired taste . Don't strawman BS. I'm trying to be more productive because my laziness started to affect me to much in almost every aspect of my life.. be it building relationships..university or family etc . I don't know what to do..and not knowing what to do just make me feel like doing nothing then that stresses me and to stop that stress i do unproductive stuff that build more stress and so on. You feel me ? tell me what I could do? Do I need a special schedule? Psychology test? Or what ?

I study business in college. Don't have any job or degree.

I didn't do anything unfortunately. I struggle with laziness and difficulty taking action.

@Ajax @Princess Arabia Are you guys in love or something? Stop ruining my serious threads with your nonsense.

@Princess Arabia you are a smart lady ..any advice?

If I'm being honest ..I want to bang bitches lol But ... The most important thing is: Financial independence. Any advice in how to achieve that ASAP? I'm currently in first semester in uni and don't have a job and have no clue how to start a small business etc

Elaborate please..