gettoefl

Business is I get rich. Politics I get rich while you get poor. Win-win.

Survival is only needed within the illusion of separation. The ego appears real in this framework because body and world appear real, but this “reality” is conditioned and provisional. It points out in ACIM: Nothing real can be threatened, and nothing unreal exists. Ego however is part of the construct that appears necessary for survival only because we’ve mistaken ourselves for a body. In truth, survival isn’t a requirement - because being is eternal and untouched by death. This is correct because within the dream, separation is indeed experienced as a kind of temporary reality. But it's important to distinguish between "experiential appearance" and "ultimate reality." Spirituality calls it a dream not to deny its felt reality, but to encourage us to question its ontological status. In this frame, separation has no lasting existence or foundational truth; it only seems real until it is seen through. The ego is not conscious like a self-aware agent; it's more like an inert thought system founded on fear. Its function is to defend against the truth and not because it knows the truth, but because its entire "identity" depends on keeping the illusion going. Death is part of the illusion and it’s the ego’s proof that separation must be real. But true being never dies, and so the ego’s obsession with survival is nothing but a cunning distraction from eternal life. God entertains a thought of separation from itself and thereby dreams the dream of separation. The dream is the world of perception, time, bodies, and duality. Awakening is to remember our identity as God - unchanged, eternal, and one with the whole. And it is not a personal awakening, but a relinquishment of personal identity. So yes, what is is being awake: pure awareness, or what you call "the boundless background." The simulation is not deliberate in a conscious sense. It’s more like a defense mechanism that arises from guilt and fear in the mind that believes it has separated from God (from wholeness). The ego "simulates" creation by making a substitute reality - a world of form that reflects fragmentation and lack rather than wholeness and love. It’s not an action of a malevolent agent, but the inevitable result of believing in separation. Because stillness, wholeness, and peace threaten the ego's existence. The ego is but a defense against the quiet truth of oneness. If the mind fully rests in stillness, the ego dissolves. So it distracts us with constant motion, judgment, attack, and form—all to prevent us from turning inward and remembering what we are. The ego is indeed well-adapted within its system. It is consistent and self-reinforcing. But the "concrete frame" it works within is itself part of the illusion. Its efficiency doesn’t prove truth - only internal coherence. Like a dream that makes sense while dreaming, the ego’s logic breaks down when exposed to the light of truth. You are making a rich and nuanced metaphysical point. From my standpoint, form and fluctuation are appearances, not Reality with a capital R. They are not denied as experiences, but they are not eternal. I claim that only what is changeless and unopposed is real. That means form is symbolic and temporary, while truth is formless and eternal. - AI (ably assisted by gettoefl)

Near universal tendency in my world. Though your mileage can of course vary. And I never said government should enforce it.

Motherhood is the willingness to take a bullet for your child. You place the child's interests above your own. Whether in the womb or in the world

Most illuminating. I asked AI to rework this in a more spiritual-slanting framework:

Materialism has one goal, to make a better tomorrow. Religion has one goal, to make a better yesterday. Everyone is seeking a savior through one or both. Thinking transactionally instead of transcendentally. You are the one you have been waiting for.

Mind is big. Human only uses a tiny part as its thought system. The highest thought is, I must survive. Problem is that the I that must survive is not who one is and one is in fact near powerless to influence that one. This limits love. The highest thought of mind is, All I see is me. To treat you as me is love.

God is simple, childish, playful, silly and without agendas or opinions. And the smart, intellectual, resourceful, strategic, hot-shot is the devil. Moreover only the uneducated can be honest. All learning is merely trying to survive better, to improve ones nest. Learning is the opposite of loving. The gettoefl rule of thumb: If it's not easy elegant effortless, it's not God. Give me the one who knows nothing going nowhere. Harsh truth is, I am happy being the dumbest person I know. And I am. The depths of my stupidity will fill the library of Alexandria haha.

All the s-words mean the same thing: suffering, separation, survival, self, sin, sacrifice, specialness, sex ... Is language cool? I should write a book, another means to keep me dope in this garden of Eden hell realm.

To win in the world means another does lose. Corruption, in this dream of separation, is the price of admission. Perhaps God lowers Its consciousness not out of any ill intent but to sample what it means to hunger, to build, to delight and then to see Its beautiful self looking back at itself in the mirror of life.

Awakening is change of state; Enlightenment is change of identity from nothing to everything where nothing is the last awakening.

I think you're getting somewhere my friend

It's here. And worse is possible if I keep messing up. Here is one of the easier realms I wager. God knows nothing of hell and here. How could love know about suffering and keep a straight face. I want to be here. I am captain of my own ship. It's bad but I'll take it. The chicks are pretty cool not to mention the drugs and rock and roll. I promise to do better next time round if I can just please land some half decent non psychotic parents.

State is the extent to which I am blocking God. Pinnacle of state is absence of hate. Attacking any human being is me playacting not being God because I know better despite suffering up to and including death.

Seems to me like a classic no-self awakening. This is half the journey. The rest is to full self aka true self. What helped me at that point were the books I am That and A course in Miracles both of which are freely available online.

Isn't belief in God faith. Maybe that's a better question: Do you practice faith. Or better in what if anything do you place faith. Because how you live for 24 hours shows where your faith is. God could be prayer time or church time. Nothing might mean atheist. Belief in God conversations often lead to grandstanding. Look to unite with people not divide.

10 means 10 more or less identical somethings; so instead let's just call it 10, but remember the something where necessary

Getting laid is toxic masculinity. Reframe so you make this at least of some utility to the woman you are laying with. End the silly us vs them. Contemplate how to be of value to 100% of the world not 50%. Then women will flock in droves.

You can't look into yourself duh. If you try you will torture yourself in the darkness and the direness. You need others to see truth. Everyone is here by your own volition and creation. When you see it in them then it comes alive in yourself. This is spiritual practice. Amazing gaze (sic). I once was blind but now I see. Outside and now inside.

As you wake up, you realize everything is a scam. Parasites profiteering from prey. So what I did is keep buying rental property. Everyone pays happily for a roof over their head. It's still a scam but in this case a necessary evil that keeps folks warm and lets me live the life. Spend half my money, save half my money for the next rental. Why am I motivated? So tomorrow will be juicier than today.

Marriage is good for both as you know what tomorrow looks like. Should have two conditions: Wait 5 years. Renew vows every 5 years with annul clause baked in.

Yes two perspectives but one is better. Why because it's a step to God. God cannot know duality. Truth knows the truth the whole and nothing but the truth. Changeless can't mix with changeful. In short, non-duality is a necessary stepping-stone and duality is a superfluous stumbling block.

If duality is, then non-duality isn't. If non-duality is, then duality isn't. I mean who are you bro? One must decide the lens that reflects truth and not by what fits the logic but by what embraces the Logos.

I separated from his highness God and plonked myself in this universe so I could no longer have to deal with his constant badgering. I am thus the anti-god if you will. Keeping quiet might make me peaceful but it will def entrench my anti-god sentiment. I have overcome o high and mighty one and I am going to live the best life ever. I may fall on my face a while but I've got lifetimes and lifetimes to get this shit down. Anyone feeling?

We think others are different and know not how to bridge this gulf because we are taught others are scary, sneaky, shady. Be sure not to make eye contact and smile as you go your way, we are admonished. Others are out to get you. Religion tells you the truth: we are the same and nobody can hurt you. The practice is, what you believe about me is what you will see in me. In fact, you practice this every day to keep yourself safe, secure, ... lonely.