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@Carl-Richard How would it work? Explain the mechanism of time travel please. Don't just say it's possible

Imo.. "conscious" implies intention and premeditated living.. Knowing exactly what you are doing and why are you doing it. And that doesn't match with your description here : This doesn't describe a conscious living but a random spontaneous living.

We are not distracting ourselves. This is a serious inquiry. But you are not contributing anything useful to add to the thread.

@Gesundheit2 Well.. Saying you don't have a reason to live but just going with the flow and then calling it conscious survival is a contradiction in my eyes. But whatever makes you happy lol

Chop water and carry wood

There is what then? Or are you just being a clever little devil?

@Carl-Richard we travel through space all day every day. When was the last time you traveled through time?

So reality is an illusion in the ultimate analysis?

@Gesundheit2 your last two posts contradict each other.

@Tim R so is your position that it's not possible to distinguish between illusion and reality? Therefore we can't know if we are dreaming or awake at any given moment?

Sounds contradicting but anyways....

@Gesundheit2 so you are just living automatically and mechanically.. You don't know why are you alive...you have no idea why you are living is my point. So how can you call that "conscious" survival? What's "conscious" about it? It would be appropriate to call it blind survival.

@Tim R I really don't. Trust me lol.

@Gesundheit2 do you personally have a reason to continue living..? You said: What does this mean?

How so? Aren't these opposites?

Interesting. So are you sayin I should let go of that distinction between illusion and reality?

Nope. That would be knowing reason for staying alive. But since In case you don't have reasons for living.. To Continue to live in this case would be blind attachment to life.

@Gesundheit2 blind survival no matter what is it?

Because I can't stand the fact that I don't know the context of my existence. I don't know whether I'm dreaming or awake right now.. And this uncertainty feels creepy.

What if you have no reason to live? What would you do then?

@tsuki sorry I don't understand your answer. Could you please put it in a different way?

Bump.. So how do I distinguish illusion from reality? Like for example how do I distinguish between dreams and reality? How do I know that I'm not dreaming right now?

Wherever you go, there you are! Thinking about where you were or where you are going all takes place in your head. The concept of time is very useful for making plans, but an unfortunate and untimely laws of physics would put those plans into a different perspective. Folks travel in time not frequently nowadays.

What if pain is as good as pleasure? What if discomfort is as good as comfort? What if failure is as good as success? What if death is as good as birth? What if the rain is as good as the sun? What if the running antelope and the chasing lion are equally good? What if hell is just more heaven in disguise? What if everything is good, and there is no such thing as bad? No evil; Just love? No time; Just eternal perfection? No ugly; Just beauty? No judgement; Just being? What if?

was the present moment when you read this, it was the present moment when you typed it and it is still the present moment. If you think about it, you will realize that there was never a time in your life when it wasn’t the present moment. When I walk down a road, the path ahead of me is not the future, it is also in the present moment and the path behind me is not the past, it is also still in the present. Looking at where I was or where I’m going may be thought of as past or future, but the reality is, we may never escape this present moment.