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If only it was so easy

You wanna die basically?

@Strangeloop why do you expect your dick to work 24 /7..? For How long have you been a male?

@Mason Riggle I know the answer myself. Was Asking him to show my point. @nistake perhaps you misunderstood or not seeing where I'm coming from.. Given that anything other than what is present right now is uncertain... How do you know your (personal) death is real?

I know all about oneness very well. Oneness is a fundamental truth. We are all made of the same physical components originating from the same source and our bodies were constructed out of our environment.. our bodies are at one with everything around it. The biological and environmental system are collectively one system. A change in either affects the other. Oneness is synonymous with interdependence or 2 different ways in which you are saying the same thing. Everything - down to the atom - depends upon everything else for it to exist. This is similar to the Buddhist concept of 'emptiness' in that nothing possesses an independent existence. So when body dies.. We observe it dissolving into the soil and Merging back with the universe.. Same like a cup of water if it's get thrown back at a lake.. I thought of that analogy before but I'm not certain.. This still in the realm of speculation.

I consider myself awake.. That's how I said death isn't factual. Because I've arrived that only present moment is truth. Let me ask you this.. How do you even know that death is real?!

bare in my mind.. I have practiced meditation for a year -- I could feel this sense of oneness (quicker than that possibly).. and it become palpably clear that I am not my body (exclusively).. mainly from observing the interconnection between every aspect of my direct experience and how they are in some sort of indirect communion.. harmoniously interacting. Yet it seems that the body is the center piece... It's not that awareness is shining from my room door.. From the body. And as far evidence goes.. The body dies.

LOL being a vegetable? How do you know what's that like? ?(Salvia).

Ironic.

Elaborate.. One liner

You are trying to match your direct experience with their experiences . That's exactly backwards.... Start with your own direct experience.. Not with theirs. If you can't verify a guru's Claim in your direct experience then it's not true (for you at least).

Honestly this forum is for entertainment more than serious consciousness work. If you expect it to be more than that.. It was your fault.

@Javfly33 @Javfly33 sounds like a story to me

What do you mean?

Even after the technological revolution in the last 100 years .. And after the internet era where information about whatever subject is now available under your fingertips.. And with the rise of the atheist wave in tandem with this scientific revolution.. There is is still basically billions and billions of people around the world who subscribe to various kinds of religions. And they Believe in all sorts of myths and "unscientific" matters regardless of lack of evidence and the contradiction with scientific evidence. Faith in God.. Or whatever else supernatural and meta-physical aspects of reality seems to fill the existential void in people's lives. It does work for religious people. If it didn't.. They would have left their beliefs. Which should perhaps make it surprising that scientists have found.. again and again.. That those with a spiritual practice or who follow religious beliefs tend to be happier than those who don’t. Study after study has found that religious people tend to be less depressed and less anxious than nonbelievers.. better able to handle the vicissitudes of life than nonbelievers. What's your take on religion? Do you follow any specific scripture or organized religion? What are the keys that distinguish between religion and science and philosophy in that some ( a lot) of people seem to actually lean toward beliefs than evidence-based or logic-based knowledge about the world?

Cute.

What if something and nothing are just concepts.. And the chair is just a chair (as it appears and unknowable)?

@Bazooka Jesus is a chair a something or a nothing?

You can verify it in 5 minutes of self-inquiry. @Yahya great ?.

God told me @Carl-Richard lol.

@Yahya I didn't want to discuss the content of any specific religion or whether it is true or valid. But the structure of religion in general and the epistemic value of "faith" and "belief". But since you insist on that.. I find the concept of "soul" in Islam very interesting if you wanna discuss Islamic flaws. Islam believes that each "person" has a unique soul that is going to be restructured after death of the body in the day of judgment to be "judged" and based on the good deeds vs bad deeds... It's either gonna go to heaven or hell. The proplem with this is (if you are familiar with Buddhist teaching) that there is no individual self for each human organism. There is no self inside of you which is in control of your life and can be 'judged' objectively for its deeds. The modern scientific understanding of the "self" is that its temporary and subject to time and change and death as the body is.. And the 'mind' or 'personality' is not an abstract spiritual essence that is separate from the body.. But it's a byproduct of the brain.. There is no 'self' separate from the body or inside the body.. But rather its an emergent phenomenon of the body.. The body and mind grow together and decay together.. And we can actually change your personality by playing with the chemicals in your brain... A little injection of chloroform can erase your thinking process completely and can turn 'you' into a psycho completely lost control.... That shows you that your self is a byproduct of chemicals in the brain.. And the personality dissolves once you get older enough.. As a result of the dissolve of the neural network in the brain.. You see? That' personality ' completely dissolves in elderly people because it was never a substantial thing onto itself. And there is another issue.. The personality is not just one.. But rather it's a stream of different personalities.. My personality when I was 10 yo is different from when I was 20 yo is different from 30 yo etc.. And each moment there is something that gets added into my "self" and something that gets removed.. So which one of these different selves will get rebirthed at the day of judgement???? The 10 yo me or the 30 yo me or the 60 yo which is a completely different person???? And sometimes people have split personality disorder.. Which is a common mental illnesses.. A person can have two different personalities because of a certain damage in his brain.. Which might make him in some cases behave like a murderer and sometimes not.. So which personality of that person will get judged on the day of judgement??? You see how this doesn't make sense because it assumes this kinda static 'soul' or 'self' that lives inside the organism statically and permanently. There just is no such thing.

@Bazooka Jesus why is there something rather than nothing?

@Cireeric no he said he means it literally. You are imagining your birth (and your entire past) In the present. Memory doesn't prove a past. It's impossible to prove a past. It's impossible to prove anything other than the present moment. Hence "your birth is imaginary".