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"Self-deception transcends all your efforts at epistemic responsibility." - 1:51:43 Even a Jesus wants to live one more day.

Epistemology is the bridge from survival to truth, from meaninglessness to meaning. It's how to transition or first and foremost understand what it takes.

We have the ability to dim the awareness of God and concoct a life of fantasy. It's fun (until it is not) and we have mastered it. We will find true religion one day (see Leo's latest episode). How do I know that? Because the perceived universe MUST be finite. If it were infinite it would be God. Thus we all go home to God eventually.

We can always find people worse off. That is epistemically irresponsible. I am responsible for one person.

Just don't make it dead last on the list. Water cracks rock given time.

What I mean is, you will be dead so your desire for truth is squandered. There will always be some compromise. By eating food, you deny another food.

If you don't survive, what chance do you have to understand truth?

I've one responsibility. The correct ontology. There are two. Relative and absolute. Each has its own distinct epistemology. Science and religion.

For me the absolute which sometimes we refer to as God is quite simply all there is - similar to what you describe above. Problem is most have never experienced it! Everything we see before our eyes is a veil over reality that we are thoroughly convinced exists and therefore appears but in fact has no meaning. We prefer limitation and specialness and suffering to infinity and equality and harmony. And that is an okay choice to make. When we want it to end, we will choose reality instead of fantasy, or better said stop blocking awareness of the truth.

They are opposite poles and so cannot be absolute. Most have never aligned with the absolute; this is also called awakening. Life for such people is blocking the absolute in favor of them being their own god. To align with the absolute as I mentioned is getting out of God's way.

Useful distinction: Empirical responsibility is looking into how things seem; epistemic responsibility is looking into what things mean.

You posited authenticity as being an absolute foundation but according to what I suggested that is not the case.

I can't understand anything in the world. I don't know what anything means. It's not the world and its wars are messed up. It's the one who perceives, who thinks he listens. I have to change not to what I listen but from where I listen. I am listening from a place that thinks you and I are separated, vulnerable, lacking individuals. We are indivisibles not individuals. Thankfully as JK alludes, I can change my mind. Enter the pause and have what it said reinterpreted truly.

Authenticity isn't that special since it is just the egoic reaction to conformity. Try alignment. Alignment is me getting out of the way so the absolute has the reins.