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To materialists atheists, religious people are hallucinating their religion. But the question becomes, if most people in the world are hallucinating a religion, what tells you that the atheist isn't hallucinating his materialism ? See, hallucination is a force of nature, not an individual property one person possess and others don't. Yes religious people are bought into the hallucination that is their religion, just as much as a materialist atheist is bought into his materialist hallucination. Then the question becomes what is a hallucination? And if everything is hallucination, what is not a hallucination? Reality is hallucination. Hence hallucination and reality are one, in a profound metaphysical union hallucinations are real, because reality is hallucination. Therefore yes religious people are hallucinating, materialist atheist are hallucinating, and everyone else is hallucinating. Because God, which is reality, is a hallucination. And remember hallucinations are real. Hence both religious people are correct in that God is real. And atheists are right in that God is a hallucination. Because there's no difference between reality and hallucination. This synthesis settle down the debate around God's existence.

@Hojo Here we go again conflating absolute and relative matters.

@Hojo I partially agree. @LordFall I think making sex a priority in one's life is foolish.

@Hojo Look buddy not everything is God related, your behavior is your responsibility, i would guess you need to consult a psychiatrist. Because wtf are you saying ?

@Hojo Look buddy not everything has to be looked at through spirituality as a lens. You gotta learn to use basic rationality sometimes. You're about to tell us: " ohhh i went raping and murdering three people, however it's God's intelligent design and beauty shining though, after all i'm so intelligent that i understand i have no free will i can't choose not to rape and murder." You see how absurd this is ?

@LordFall Imagine snorting coke then rationalizing it telling yourself it's not your fault but God's design. Lmao. This shit can't be more ridiculous.

@Hojo Hojo should be banned. Wtf is this crap ? Lmao.

@Asia P Cigarettes are fine, the issue is his abuse of alcohol and use of cocaine lmao, that's the real issue.

@LordFall Lmao i agree Hojo is weird.

Do animals perceive reality as a material phenomenon like materialists do, or more like a magical, mystical, spiritual phenomenon, like mystics do ?

I lost everything due to unfavorable mental health. Quit school, got kicked out of my household, damaged my relationship with my immediate family... It all culminated in me spending a year in bed in excruciating agony and pain, the time to find a psychiatrist that understood my case and how to help me. Since the beginning of that year to today I went from weighing 76 kg to 140 kg. Started taking the medications and the pain lifted away in a few months. Yet the hardest part was yet to come, which is to regain back everything I lost. Started working in my dad's coffee shop, starting out 2 hours a day, then 4 hours, then 6 hours... Fast forward to today where I can remain at work for 8 or 9 hours. I went back to studying in an institute to obtain the bt3 diploma, the equivalent of bac 2, to then be able to enter university. In the institute, I chose at first a difficult specialization: information technology, I couldn't complete the first day. Then switched to physical education for it being less difficult. The psychiatrist recommended me taking half a pill of Xanax before going to the institute to manage to stay until the end of the school day. Fast forward to today I am able to go the institute and attend my classes, as well as study for a certain amount of time at home. After a few months of taking medications, I started learning Italian, a language I love. Fast forward to today I am at a pretty advanced level in it. Now the goal is to pass this year, to be able to enroll in university in Italian literature, then improve my diet and maintain an exercise routine. Wish me well.

@Judy2 Fiction is facts. Animals don't create fiction, it's only possible due to the human evolved brain area, giving us access to a higher dimension of reality: imagination. What about that as a nice recontextualization? Fiction isn't fiction, it's a higher reality than the reality we share with animals.

@Judy2 Like when you read Dante or Dostoevsky, or any excellent work of fictional literature, your life drastically changes for the better, it grows your mind and makes you contemplate reality in deeper ways than scientific textbooks could. Fictional literature is an artform, a higher dimension of reality accessed through the splendid use of mind and imagination. Fictional literature isn't only entertainment but encapsulates reality in a different flavor than what we call the "real" world.

@Judy2 Well in my mind, fiction encapsulates higher truths than physical reality. Secondly, I want write books in Italian on many topics perhaps bridging literature, philosophy, sociology, psychology... I will have a big impact on the world this way. Secondly i am so passionate and excited to get to study Italian literature, like I am so passionate about the Italian language, and its historical literature, it's so fascinating to me. And i would love to get more people interested in that aspect of life (Italian language and literature). If we go to the ikigai model, I basically got all the areas covered: profession, mission, passion and vocation.

@Judy2 No worries, i didn't respond because i was going to say the same things i said in my first reply to your post. Basically expand your range of experience, and follow your interest, then your career plan will emerge naturally out of this process.