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Shouldn't that be reversed? Less expectations =more boredom. When you (I) are bored you have no expectations. only when your expectations fail do you feel kinda shitty.

What's the connection?

False. Truth is the change and the changeless. Truth is everything.

@Vynce interesting. I don't like the fact that existence is inherently hollow and boring. But that's just my ego trying to survive. Some say boredom arises because our true nature is infinite and it's not satisfied with this finite world.

Oh I thought you were talking about seeing through the separate self.

It's the idea that acquisition of knowledge about the true nature of reality is impossible. examples of epistemological nihilism: Omphalos hypothesis Simulation hypothesis Descartes' "evil demon" "Brain in a vat" hypothesis Dream hypothesis Solipsism What they all have in common is that they are unfalsifiable and that they posit that, at bottom, all of our perceptions are illusions. They also have this in common: just about everyone has toyed with them at some point in their lives. The problem with them isn't so much that they are false/unlikely, but rather the combination of their being unfalsifiable and (if true) causing all other knowledge to be valueless. Or rather, that in the end they don't much matter. If it's true that we're in a simulation, for example, then statements about the nature of reality don't become meaningless, they just become statements about the nature of our simulated reality. If we're in a dream, then statements about reality become true statements about our dream world. And so on. And any statement about the nature of the unsimulated reality beyond us has no hope of being anything other than speculation. These are my own personal musings, but I would imagine that they're pretty standard and also that I absorbed them from somewhere. So I'm wondering if a) there is a standard philosophical treatment of these ideas, and b) if there are holes in what I've presented here.

Why don't you ask yourself? Aren't you God?(Godishere)

Truth is everything you are seeing around you all the time. Simple as that.

And no one is around it to hear it... Does it make a sound? No. Sound is the brain's perception of air molecules vibrating across a distance and for a duration. Yes, the tree still moves all those air molecules when it falls, but it makes no sound because there is nobody around to translate those vibrating molecules into sound.

Clever! Sound is the brain's interpretation of the vibrations.

@Nahm I'm not talking about lucidity in that sense (enlightenment or whatever). I'm talking about lucidity in night-time dreams. 90% of the time.. You don't know that you are dreaming while you are dreaming. You Believe the dream is real. Until you wake up. The argument carries that what if the waking state is also a dream. You wouldn't know. You could live your life believing that it's real. Only to wake up at the moment of death. That's one point. Is that you can't distinguish between the two (dreams and reality). This is one way those skeptics and epistemological nihilists argue that all of our perceptions might be an illusion and thus all of our knowledge is based upon illusion.

In what sense am I 'dreaming'? That's a vague statement. You need to elaborate. I don't think I am laying in my bed right now hallucinating stuff. Although that's just a belief. I can't know. Which precisely my point is we can't distinguish between reality and dreams. Unless you are lucid in the dream. Do you mean it literally or figuratively? Or is it something I can't understand unless with psychedelicds?

So that you can relate to it. By using metaphors.

No Do you have direct experience of 'death' right now? No. Then it's just a belief.

@habed345 start by questioning whether death is a belief or a fact.

It's not that you have no free will. It's that you don't exist and free will is just a thought.

Because we are always chasing some better state in the future (time). And never satisfied with just what's present.

Is it tho? Or is it more of a belief /assumption?

Beautiful bro ?

@habed345 how do you know death is real?

No.

Metaphysically speaking.. Nonduality means there is only one substance out of which everything is made :namely consciousness.

Because It might seem that I didn't offer an alternative.. This is my take regarding exactly how I view existing... there is no difference between something and nothing. But since you think existence is something.. I have to tell you it's nothing. This present moment exists nowhere. It's not happening in a universe or a computer simulation or anywhere else. No one created this. There is no explanation and never will be an explanation. There is no mechanism why this appearance is here suddenly in the middle of nowhere. Like a dream. It's just here and that's It. We all agree this present moment exists right? Now is there anything else? No. You don't find any explanation here. You don't find "love" you don't find this or that. You just find the present moment suddenly here and that's it. I just told you the whole truth. Do you think you got here from yesterday? Yesterday itself is found here. THIS is the beginning and the end. I'm saying the present is the only reality. No past is found here. And no future is certain to come. Present is all.

All of the stuff that any self help person talks about, all these spiritual teachers, every finding within every religion, every scientific field, every single thing that anyone including myself talks about here and otherwise is just noise to your own path, its not the "truth" regardless as to how much anyone wants to believe it is the case. At the end of the day they're just beliefs contradicting the present moment and to the extent that is the case, the extent that said beliefs should probably be questioned. The idea of it being hollow -undefined. Being is just "it" - it's not nothing or everything, it just fucking "is"....it's outside of language and everything else.

@iboughtleosbooklist What makes you think you have no free will?