Gesundheit

Well that goes into theory land since it's not the current experienced reality. Current reality is that God didn't create a perfect utopia, not even close. Other dimensions are not my concern since they can only be theorized about from here. That is not exactly what suffering is. Otherwise it wouldn't be called suffering, but joy or creativity. The reality is that there's suffering, even though it may be a "misperception" for a lot, and actually the majority of people. No I don't know, and I'm not really interested in knowing. People have different preferences and that's fine. However, not all preferences are fulfilled by choice. Consider that I may even choose to have my balls kicked, but then not find anyone to kick them. See the irony?

Doesn't really make sense, perhaps because I didn't put too much thought into it, but still it's missing the point. I'm not currently interested in explaining why reality is this way. I'm interested in imagining a better reality than this one. A utopian reality where the mere feeling of suffering is not possible, while love and happiness and positivity are all there is. If God is capable of creating that, why didn't it? There must be a reason, or maybe not? But really, to waste time? Is that your explanation?

This is a very valid and important question, yet nearly no one addressed it with a straight forward answer or even what could qualify as a valid answer. Perhaps the way it's presented is not optimal. I could rephrase it like this: if God has infinite power why is the manifest universe not a cycle of infinite joy? This is the old-new paradox. If God is All Good and All Loving, how can evil exist? Forget about evil, why is survival challenging? Why can't it all be so easy? If God is truly that powerful and good.

Babies don't seem to suffer though, at least not as much as kids, let alone adults.

Makes no difference. Save it.

I always thought ignorance is bliss.

Yeah

@Shir The majority of these reasons are self-biased for your own selfish concerns. They don't have any actual ground in reality, nor they are right or wrong. Some of them seem to be stemming from fear too. However, If you're fine without sex, then fine no problem. Perhaps it's just me but it seems like you've come here seeking confirmation from others so that you don't feel lonely in the path you've chosen. You (perhaps) want to feel more confident about your choices through what I could call appealing to authority. I don't have a particular stance on the subject, neither did I read your post completely, just the headlines. But just to point this out in case no one else did. I didn't read the replies either.

@zeroISinfinity take a chill pill dude lol

There may be, but even then they wouldn't be able to prove it because it'd only be the case for them. It's not possible to manipulate reality for all humans because there's no one really doing the manipulation. When anything occurs, it's not a human that is doing it. It's the formless God.

It's not a choice. It's a compulsive disorder so to speak. The truth is that it's a game for egos. Without ego, there will be no God.

Well that hurt lol. I guess there's no way out of suffering after all.

Does this basically mean that you're being emotionally reactive? Well...

It's a form of manipulation. We want you to change, to fit better. We could change our expectations too. It works both ways. You want us to change our expectations, to fit better.

I fear I may fall in love with myself lol It's all an act though. A show where I play the devil.

Trees.

Yep. I know I'm late to the party but I have to agree. I've read a good chunk of the thread and the energy @Someone here is giving off feels like someone who holds themselves to have unravelled and understood everything in the universe, like there are no questions anymore. This is not exclusive to this thread. I've noticed the same energy in earlier direct interactions, and it's kinda fine, but dude it's very persistent at this point it's counter-productive.

Yes, there is and it's called "detachment". But then you're left with pure luck to keep you alive. At that point, there is no ego anymore. Ego is dead, suffering is dead, but pleasure is also dead. Practically, you'd have to become a zombie.

Peaceful days.

Realize that there's no difference between learning and teaching. You're contradicting yourself. "Feeling better" is by definition identical to identification. You can't feel better or worse without identity. There is subtle judgement and a hierarchy of feelings that you subscribe to. Feeling annoyed is not a bad feeling, neither having fun is a good feeling, but they may be that way in your mind.

You stop desiring to perceive other experiences as that would still be imagination. So what's the difference? Your perception, my perception. It's one imagination. Waves in the ocean. See?

@Halm Try this: try to see how perception is imagination. Or the other way around: try to find the differences between perception and imagination.

There's no relative truth, only absolute. If relative is true, it will then automatically become absolute. However, there's ego-mind that wants to survive so it creates concepts such as "relative truth" to feel less selfish about its desires, and so that the illusion keeps going. The context of a human being wanting to survive does not make this desire any more "true". Absolute truth is literally irrelevant to survival, although they may cross. Right now you believe that there's relative truth. You don't know what the truth of this "relative truth" thing is.

But then how will you be able to distinguish that from your imagination? Yep. You could think of it that way. And/Or you could recognize that there has always only been one imagination, the present moment.

There's no better or worse. That is an illusion of the ego-mind. Wake up, or don't. It don't matter.