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I have a sense that those cocky statements that Leo say from time to time are not authentic.. It's not his authentic self.. You can tell from watching him he is pretty polite and nice person.. But come on he has to say some funny.. Cocky.. Perhaps arrogant.. Perhaps dirty stuff sometimes. The controversial opinion are inevitable as well. Right or wrong is relative keep that in mind. Not gonna leave without saying.. Perhaps if you guys realize there is no Leo..?

from the view point of the present moment... The past doesn't exist except as a story that is being told in the present moment. The present moment is inescapable. Because literally there is nothing but NOW. What is not-now is just a concept appearing in NOW. Not sure how does that fit with memories. But as I said you don't need to worry too much about whether your memory is real or not.. Who cares? Your memories could be fake meaning they represent a false past that didn't happen.. But your memory is always true as a thought in the now. The problem only arises when you take a thought to be more than it is. A memory is a thought. As long as it is helping you making sense of yourself as this organism that's navigating its way through space and time.. Then it's a true memory.. If a memory gets you confused or questioning your identity.. Then I would worry about whether this memory actually happened or someone else has planted it on me. This whole concept of fake memory doesn't seem so much of an epistemological issue to me.. Compare it to the problem of fake present lol..How do you know the present itself is not fake?. And the answer to such questions is really.. There is no difference between fake and real.

Yeah sure.. Seems like you have an uncertainty fetish. The trick is you can't ever differentiate.. You just gotta fake that you can and move along. Or stay in your place forever trying to split a a nanometer that you can't even see.

@electroBeam I read your comment there and I totally get what you mean. And I wish you the best man. Although I find it difficult to understand you sometimes are these insights causing you suffering or causing you freedom from suffering. Or a mixture of both not sure. what you don't understand tho.. I don't make that distinction between mentally ill and not mentally ill.. The mind itself is ill. But to different degrees. So there is no safety.. Security.. Answers.. Or certainty to be found in the mind. I'm saying this because you seem to be suffering a bit from these insights. It's all purely mental. Sometimes we get so fucking lost in concepts we can't distinguish them from reality. How? How do you explain memories? You've got memories of suffering no? If you gonna dismiss them you gotta dismiss all memories altogether.. But apparently you didn't because you are using your memory of learning language to type this... who are you without a past?

Dude.. You've reached a point beyond the mind. You are causing yourself suffering by this kind of a epistemological nihilism. How do you know the past really happened? Ofcourse you don't. But you've got memories.. I assume. How can you trust memories? Ofcourse you can't. You can't trust anything. Because you can not trust it if you wish. Simple as that how the mind works. . That's what happens when you push the mind to it's limits. It collapses. You discover that all your mental framework is just a house of cards. I would suggest picking up a meditation practice and just calm your mind and connect with the present moment.

I'm sure Nahm is trying to point to something that is related to op.. Let's wait and see lol

How do you know death is real?

I'm getting lost.. I admit it's a tough inquiry.. And honestly I don't see the link between existence and non-existence and my op...lol ? I would say tho what is possible to see is only existence.. Non-existence is more of a second order mental projection.

I see no point except in my mind. I see no suffering except in my mind. I see no why except in my mind. I see no delusion except in my mind.

Ofcourse try to become a celebrity and see how that works.. Leo must throw away some controversy here and there.. That's how you get attention and stay in the picture.

And who is moving the human? The human is not rock bottom. You can keep going meta to infinity. And beyond. Rock bottom doesn't exist. The source is no one. No thing. Who would get?

From my own experience.. The more awake you become the more thoughts arise.. But the more you don't give a fuck about em.

It's really tricky.. It doesn't make sense to say non-existence exists. Because if it exists.. Then it's existence and not non-existence. But the word is here for a reason. It can only be used relatively. As I said.. You see the sun.. It exists.. Then it dissappears..you can say it's nonexistent. So there is a relative nonexistent. Ofcourse that exists as a thought. So yeah there is no actuality to non-existence in that sense.

Ofcourse no. It's like asking a bunch of blind people do any of you guys know what does the color red look like lol? For someone to know that he has to physically die and then come back somehow. So maybe ask people who had near death experiences . You can't ask a dead person obviously he is dead lol. And you can't ask a bunch of alive people they can't tell you since they didn't die yet to know. Pretty obvious shit.

Yeah it's more of a thought. How does this relate to op? Idk yet ?

To the first question.. There can't be a statement made about an absolute something.. We can't speak the absolute.. We can't say this is absolutely the case or this is not absolutely the case.. As soon as we open our mouth.. We are In the relative domain. To the second question.. Non-existence is a quality.. It's not a realm or a place.. For example you see the sun it exists for you.. Once it disappeared.. It's nonexistent for you. So the sun we can say it exists or it doesn't exist. The absolute can't be said to exist or doesn't exist. Because these are relative and changeful. The absolute is beyond existence or non-existence.

@SpYITB just a couple of points that might clear something up for ya.. You are trying to grasp a finite meaning of infinity.. How can that work? How can one "understand" infinity? The understanding is always finite.. How can your finite understanding hold the infinite? Your understanding itself is being held within the infinite. The problem is you are assuming this infinity is a hidden metaphysical object. Infinity is your direct experience itself and not hidden from you.

Free will and Determinism are just concepts. They don't reflect a 1% of 1% of 1% of how reality actually works.

@electroBeam interesting

I agree.

I would say they are experiencing something that is clearly different from how the majority of people act. But I wouldn't call them ill or sick. Because most so-called mental diseases are potentially there in how the human mind works. You can observe yourself hearing voices in your head.. Talking to yourself.. Having opposing views (multiple personalities) etc. Yet it's just mild. So imo.. The symptoms of mental illness are potentially there in every human.. It's just in their case (mental people) they reach a point where they are unable to control it anymore.. Whereas for the majority of people they are able to fake that they are a "person" with a linear personality. Acting can happen. Your body mind can act in a way that is in accordance to the conditioning that it received throughout your whole life. Or it can act in a different way that is not familiar with it. In both cases.. Whatever the body-mind does.. It's not "free".. At the center of this whole thing.. There isn't an agency who is doing.. Acting.. Who is ill or normal. The true Self is pure awareness. Pure being. Pure existence. This pure being is impersonal. It's not someone or something. It's unconditional because its not this or that. It's just there as a silent witness. The body and mind are conditioned. It can't act without a program. Therefore not free. You speak English because that's the language you've been programmed with. Change the programming into French language.. The body Wil start speaking French. And if the body didn't receive any linguistic programming.. The body won't talk any language!. But in both cases.. You as the awareness are not affected. Awareness. You become aware that "this is a dream" while you are dreaming..

@Gesundheit please let's stay on topic. If you have something of substance regarding the main topic go ahead. You are right tho. It's kinda paradoxical and twisted so let's not delve too deep into it.

@GesundheitLOL

This summarizes the whole game that's going on here.

That's your definition? But I have a different definition.. Which one is true? And who's to say? Ofcourse mine is the true And I get to say.