AtheisticNonduality

Symbolism and rituals are very important to humans. But of course we aren't humans . . . Don't you think there's something grand about the tombs and pyramids built specially for the pharaohs? And isn't it impressive that there exists such a complex social structure that allows some frail old lady to rule the country (and all the billions of people of the Commonwealth) and receive all this admiration and reverence?

So you finally came to the Orange part of the forum, crawling for help with your relationships?

This is good Ken Wilber content.

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@Razard86 I think the principles of solipsism and infinity contradict each other. There must be One thing only in reality, because if there was another thing outside of that One thing which unites all, it would be outside reality, hence unreal. But this One thing, by infinity, should be able to imagine an endless number of beings made out of space and time. Yes, there is one being you have access to, and that one being has access to the One thing which unites all, but that One thing seems like it should be far more expansive than a single person.

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The ego is given some degree of control over its own life. For examples, it can influence its own mind, its own body, its own surroundings, and be a piece in a greater web of lives/subjects/objects. Obviously all of it is a Single One Nothingness/Divinity which supremely controls all of it but transcends it, itself, at the same time. But there is a part, called the ego, which can live its own life with the permission of the Divinity, because it itself is divine. It can even gain access to and become a representative of the highest Divine, the "CEO" as you called it. This isn't a possibility that's been shut off to you. It's attainable. It has to be. Go around accusing people of being fake and they'll lock you up in a sanitarium. That's just how it works. But I can confirm that solipsism is NOT true, because I exist, and if you claiming you exist means you exist, that means that there has to be at least two people. This called transference. Art = Life = Art.

@Danioover9000 Why would they literally crash and die because of the ridiculousness/primitiveness of the human species? It doesn't make any literal sense, therefore it was a joke. It's also easy to joke about this because there are not aliens killing people or having interactions with the US government.

There's a grammatical error at 7:48! The programmer will only play it unless it's totally safe!? He will only play unsafe music, not safe music!!?!? Anyway, Zappa's cognitive IQ could probably be 135. His musical IQ could be 150, if Beethoven was 200+. Jaz Coleman's cognitive IQ would be around 158 (just short of genius, because of his frequent associations/beliefs with paranoid conspiracy theories like chemtrails and a nuclear war that happened on the Indian subcontinent 2000 years ago). There is his book Letters from Cythera: His musical IQ might be 170. EDIT: Also Jaz Coleman was / is an eater of mushrooms.

I'm saying most great musicians are semi-famous, because being actually famous requires the famous action of "selling out" or being an average basic band for the masses.

Someone that becomes famous most of the time will be base and average enough to appeal to base and average people.

Yeah, just like Beethoven had an IQ of 200! And George Washington had an IQ of 180! . . . Anyway if we're judging musicians by unsubstantiated IQ estimates, Jaz Coleman from Killing Joke has an IQ of over 190!

What evidence is there for this? And I thought this guy was some anti-conformist "radical" that wouldn't like such demeaning measurement in the first place and wouldn't be subjected to it.

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@Carl-Richard Well for the most part . . . Guitarists are dumb. ???

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How much music have you listened to?

This ignores the importance of the higher intelligence individuals which supersede the collective. And if we're making an objective list beyond limited knowledge, it's impossible because the best bands statistically speaking are unheard of, even by me most likely (with probable exceptions). Nope, all of the bands you listed I could classify as too flawed to be praiseworthy, hence why such a list is bad.

This song was burned into my brain in 2020. Could probably hallucinate it if I wanted to. But anyway, people that worship guitar like it's some kind of sacred object need to be slapped. People that highly praise bands just because they're well known also need to be slapped. I cannot make a list of the best bands simply because all of them without exception have flaws, usually major flaws, so there are no "perfect" bands to worship either.

It was written by three people. One of them was some random guy that wrote some basic information, another one was some angered former fan that blamed you for existential crises and such and then wrote some vitriolic rage, and the third person was me (who was a rationalwiki systems operator at the time, a serious waste of time I know) who made it as ridiculous and over-the-top as possible so that nobody could treat it seriously, since it is one of the first search results for your name.

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Originally the Leaving Neverland children defended him in court because he was their friend and didn't want to cause any trouble, but they changed their minds obviously at some point. Obviously molesting children is bad . . . The story of Alice in Wonderland was written by Lewis Carroll about a child he was obsessed with named Alice Liddell, and to my knowledge there was never any molestation. So that would be him sublimating it through a story rather than acting on it, so it's not necessarily a malevolent or power-dynamic thing so that then it could have an abnormal romantic element to it. In the practical sense if you kill or harm someone, generally there's no love (or an opposite of love: fear, or, hatred, or . . .), whereas in the ultimate sense recognizing the Absolute Love in whomever shifts perspectives. "I Love that you are not capable of love: I Love that." ---Outrageous Experiments in Consciousness.

Progressive Norwegian university curricula, no doubt . . . : ) Remember their prisons.

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