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@Mellowmarsh cute but the two things are not contradicting. Yes you are me and I’m you and we are god ..but what is god though ? the point I made here is that existence is infinite . The infinite cannot be defined or quantified or measured or understood in finite words . existence is infinite . It has no beginning or end neither in space nor in time. We are inside an infinite 3D VR universe and you want me or Leo or some spiritual guru to tell you the whole thing as a bedtime story it is simply impossible. Nobody can do it . Nobody will .

God is said to be infinite for example. This means it cannot be known fully . How can something infinite be contained or explicated fully in a finite knowledge ? Like reading the Bible and Quran and Heart Sutra and Upanishad and all the books that talk about god can never fully comprehend infinity .

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Yes . Two points : 1- I know 100% that god exists just by looking at a fucking ant on the street . 2-I don’t know what god is fully . We can say he (it) is omnipotent & omniscient etc but what is god in its core I have no clue . It’s an infinite mystery.

First of all do you realize that there is such thing as god at all ? Or are you a retarded atheist? Look at the moon and the sun and your own body .. There are hundreds of billions of stars in galaxies ..and hundreds of billions of galaxies in the observable universe. Also intelligent life emerged and began asking questions about meaning ..purpose and existence. I don’t buy that all that happened just like that . also just go put yourself on a sinking boat in the middle of the sea facing death and immediately you will realize the god is real . so you can say we can feel the existence of god . But I’m talking about the very essence or the answer to the question” what is god” . Obviously that can’t be finalized. Let’s not be ridiculous here .

God can never be known fully . Yes you can understand it better than others but it is impossible to understand God completely. And this is not a mistake . It’s a simple fact.

If someone in real life makes fun of me or insult me or scream disrespectfully on me I experience irritation in my body and I experience an urge to react negatively towards these insults . Yes I can and I do understand that that’s not what I should do but it’s not completely under my control. That’s my experience.

Guud Gurl.

The finite can never completely comprehend the infinite . the infinite doesn’t know finite .

You never know if you are cumming or going .

Then what do you think is a human being? Come on man .

Do you believe that ?

Do you think this ?

@Joseph Maynor @Mellowmarsh

It occurs In the brain . Newborns are conscious but they are not “self-conscious “. The sense of I arises in the brain around 4 years old to help the organism survive .

Irritation in the body and a desire to fight the other person .

Science operates on the assumption that everything that exists is physical or can ultimately be reduced to physical processes. According to this view..there is nothing that exists which is not physical. Even phenomena such as thoughts.. emotions..consciousness and dreams are explained in terms of brain chemistry..neural activity and electricity in the brain . this physicalist paradigm is treated not as a conclusion that has been definitively proven but as a foundational assumption underlying modern scientific inquiry. I would like to ask the following questions: 1-Is “nothingness” itself physical? If everything that exists is physical..how should we understand the concept of nothingness? 2-By claiming that all things are physical..does that not indirectly acknowledge the possibility of something non physical ?Can the idea of the physical be meaningful without the possibility of the non physical? 3-What about entities such as ghosts and spirits or demons ..which many people claim to experience? If they exist would they have to be physical entities as well? 4-Dreams at night sometimes defy the laws of physics that govern waking reality..We can fly or change locations or experience impossible events. If dreams are purely physical phenomena generated by the brain..then what set of physical laws governs the dream world and how does it relate to the laws that govern the external world?

@Joseph Maynor I’m not sure what’s the end game here for you. . Articulate your thoughts in a lengthy paragraph and stop posting vague one-liners . You are free to write what you want of course..but I’m telling you what I’m going to respond to and what I’m not .

There’s a human being called Joseph. I’m not denying that . What I’m saying this Joseph is not intrinsically independently existing . Air from the outside environment entering your body 24/7. The food you eat create the very physical tissues of your muscles. The podcasts you listen to shape your way of thinking . I’m Indian yet listening and reading content with English has made me literally thinking in English instead of Hindi . Do you see ? “I” am not the creator of what I utter or do . It seems like I’m the emergence of things which are not me . I can’t be blamed 100% for my convictions or emotions. Reality is doing me . I’m not doing reality .

Yes I do.

What I was saying that “the human self “ doesn’t actually exist in reality as a fixed thing that has its own independent existence or at least it’s an emergent phenomenon which other external factors construct . I’ve talked plenty of time in the past that I easily get angry and triggered when toxic people provoke me .. and people here told me in a Ralston’s style “you are creating the anger . The other person can’t make you angry if you don’t allow them to “ . And I explained above why that doesn’t make any sense to me.

@UnbornTao I don’t believe personality is something fixed or intrinsic. In many ways we are not our personality at all. Every action.. reaction..thought and emotion we experience is shaped by countless factors that lie outside our conscious control like our genetics.. upbringing ..environment.. diet..sleep quality..hormone levels..blood sugar.. and even seemingly insignificant events from the previous day like what I ate for dinner last night . All of these variables influence our mood, and behavior. When I’m in a bad mood and someone provokes me..I’m not convinced that the anger I feel is something I consciously create. It seems more accurate to say that anger emerges from a chain of causes and conditions that were already in motion before I became aware of it. From my perspective..what we call “personality” is not an independent entity that freely chooses how to think..feel..and act. Yeah I know the good ol’ determinism vs free will thing again .If you disagree.. I’d be interested to hear why.

@UnbornTao here goes the first one today lol 😂

Every morning I decide to not get angry and spend a quiet day but then I meet a bunch of stupid people who make this impossible “ -Charles Bokofosky

@Sugarcoat thanks. Good to see you back btw .