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I love cats too, but I don't have one. This channel is pretty funny, although I don't watch it that often https://youtube.com/c/Kittisaurus

Yes I have.

I don't know. I just want to know why I'm here and what all this is is. I woke up in the world not knowing why or how. And I'm suffering and I'm not allowed to leave the world because of the hardwired survival instinct. It's like someone would wake up in a prison cell with wiped out memory and knowledge. That person would probably want to know what the hell is going on.

Amen.

If he can see Crysty it means that photons are hitting the retina in his eyes. That means a camera can also record the photons.

No there isn't.

Sweden.

Now imagine that extended over your entire life until your death. And also imagine that you don't have a single online friend either. (That's my life.)

Some people think he's delusional, some people think he's not delusional.. I think maybe he's delusional, or maybe he's not, how could I know? But I don't think this is a cult, since this doesn't fill all the criterions for it. Yawn.

I think I have found the definitive answer to what is good/right and what is bad/wrong. And it applies to everything. This is actually obvious, but it's still nice to consciously be aware of it and understand it, because then you can consciously do a suffering calculation for every decision and opinion. And it should maximize the chance of making right decisions, having healthy opinions, and be a good person. Good/right is that which in total causes least amount of suffering for everyone involved. Bad/wrong is that which in total causes more suffering for everyone involved. The examples where this can be applied are endless since it applies to everything. You can make rational calculations about everything, what will result in least amount of total suffering? Although with some things it can be difficult to make the calculation. And you also have to see the suffering total thing in a long term time perspective, unfortunately the human intellect can't predict what effect a decision/action today will have in a million years, but this should at least be a start. Topics like: abortion. Gun control. Right wing vs left wing. Which countries are good and which are bad. Who is wrong and who is right when a couple is fighting. Humanitarian interventions with military. Should you quit your job or stay. Should you go to bed now or not. Euthanasia. Suicide. Break up with partner or not. Nuke Japan (in WW2) or not. Brush your teeth or not. Some things which are easy to calculate: abortion is good, since the fetus doesn't suffer at all from it, but the parents (and probably the child) escapes lots of suffering (ofc assuming that there's a good reason for the abortion.) Guns should be banned in USA. The suffering caused by everyone shooting everyone constantly every day 24/7 is much higher than the suffering caused by not owning a toy. Euthanasia. There should definitely be euthanasia in all countries. Suicide. From my point of view I should definitely kill myself. It would spare me a lot of suffering. There's no question about that. But since it would completely destroy the lives of my parents, the win for me not having to suffer is probably less than two lives getting completely destroyed. So the suffering total calculation tells me to not kill myself. USA nuking Japan in WW2. It was probably the right thing to do because if Japan hadn't surrendered then more lives would've been lost and it would had resulted in a larger suffering total. Right wing is wrong and left wing is right. Because I think right wing causes more suffering, because they are selfish etc. Suffering every day a tiny bit by brushing your teeth has a lower suffering total than not brushing your teeth and then your teeth rot away. So really, anything that causes least amount of suffering is good and right. Now let's in our lives rationally calculate our actions, decisions and opinions based on the suffering total formula.

"Who can enjoy enlightenment and remain indifferent to suffering in the world? This is not in keeping with the Way. Only those who increase their service along with their understanding can be called men and women of Tao." - Lao Tzu “You do not like to suffer yourself. How can you inflict suffering on others?” - Ramana Maharshi

I think truly enlightened beings strive to reduce suffering in conscious beings. And the opposite is also true: the less conscious someone is the less that person cares about others suffering. More selfishness is a direct result of low consciousness. And the entire teaching of Buddha was about cessation (nirodha) of suffering (dukkha).

It's difficult to know which calculation in the end results in the least amount of total suffering. But your ignorance of not knowing the correct calculation doesn't mean that a big amount of total suffering is good. Try to see the big picture.

Yes, that's why I said suffering total. I'm not denying that it's good to suffer today so you suffer less tomorrow. I include that stuff. Everything you do in life is trying to suffer as little as possible, including for example suffering today to suffer less in a year. So you do think suffering is bad and wrong, you're just not aware of it. You're even in this forum and reading this post because you are trying to suffer less. You are all like fish swimming in water, not being aware of the water. You can deny it all you want but I know I'm right.

Since many times it's negative.. the suffering total gets more difficult to calculate. I guess in the calculation you need 10 000 or something babies and then calculate the average suffering total in the 10 000 baby cases. Then you would get the answer if the lumbar punctuation procedure is worth it or if it should be stopped. Suffering= wrong. Not everything is right. This is a holy rule. This can be easily proved: you don't want to put your hand in fire or something. And you don't want anyone to pour acid into your eyes or something. Labeling suffering as right is just mental masturbation until you actually experience the suffering. "A hundred scriptures may declare that fire is cold or that it is dark; still they possess no authority in the matter." - Adi Shankara

USA and Nato are the main protectors of the free world, democracy and human rights. For extra security, all countries in the free world should join Nato (there's still a few such countries outside Nato). West/the free world is already united, but with Nato we are even more united.

Yeah I'm sure it would be better if China, Russia or Iran would be number 1. Sigh. If that would happen, you would beg to God that USA would retake the #1 spot. You would beg 50 times per day on your knees while crying.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/basics/myers-briggs?amp https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/cutting-edge-leadership/201402/the-truth-about-myers-briggs-types?amp https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/quantum-leaps/202005/dont-let-your-children-take-the-myers-briggs?amp https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/quantum-leaps/202004/two-reasons-personality-tests-myers-briggs-could-be-harmful?amp https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/give-and-take/201309/goodbye-mbti-the-fad-won-t-die?amp

It took me 2 seconds to Google search Areo Magazine, and found this https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Areo_Magazine I feel bad for even giving that shit site (Areo) more visitors by visiting their site. I need to be more careful about clicking on links in the future, lesson learned, always Google first. So no need to even read the Areo Magazine article, it can immediately be dismissed as horse shit. Only credible sources are worth anything.

Ok I guess earth is center of the universe then. All previous wrong scientific theories are from now on absolutely correct.

It's exactly how it works. Wrong theories gets thrown out and gets replaced with better theories. Like the theory that earth is the center of the universe got replaced by something better.

MBTI was developed by people who had no education in psychology. And MBTI is based on Jungs theory that a personality can be divided in 16 different personality types. That theory has now been proved false. All serious scientists dismiss it as garbage. (These are unfortunately in swedish. Maybe there's a swede reading this post. If you create a free account you should be able to read the articles.) https://www.dn.se/ekonomi/maria-gunther-lottdragning-billigare-an-ovetenskapliga-personlighetstest/ https://www.dn.se/ekonomi/myndigheter-koper-oseriosa-personlighetstest-for-miljoner/

People like getting drunk= people don't want it to be banned= it will never get banned.

I agree. But I believe in consciousness after death, because eternal death is logically impossible. But that doesn't necessarily mean that you will keep your memories, personality, problems, etc. after death.