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I know, but it is used here to refer to epistemic outsourcing. I was using the word in that sense. I can also use the word to mean agreeing on rules that we should follow for a specific purpose.

I'm not saying that epistemology is BS. You wouldn't know how truthful your epistemology is if your epistemology defined what truth is.

It is required that truth be beyond epistemology so that epistemology could be possible. No epistemology can define what truth actually is.

It's your responsibility to pay attention how words are being used. Conforming to rules to communicate differs from conforming for social acceptance or falling into groupthink. We have used "conformity" primarily to denote the latter.

People think that God creates from somewhere else, but it's right under their noses. Imagine seeing everything as absolute self-creating substance. It's beautiful. It wells me up. The welling up is that substance as well, which makes it euphoric. Self-amplifying euphoria.

You creating yourself. Isn't that crazy? 😁

@enchanted, use the word however you like, but be careful misconstruing what I say.

What movie have you recently watched, or are you now watching? I have yet to finish watching the movie "The Irishmen".

@enchanted, in this forum, we haven't been using the word "conformity" to refer to accepting rules to abide by.

@Majed, social construction is the pattern or reality. I'm not talking about biology. Of course, there are more fundamental constructions than social. I'm not denying that people have ethnic identities. I'm saying that those identities are pseudo-identities regardless of the level of construction. Social constructions are real as long as you play by their rules. I'm not even saying not to play. It's just that people believe that their ethnic identities aren't socially constructed, which limits them. Social constructions have their purposes and consequences. Regardless of the level of construction, all those identities are based on survival. All these identities have been continuously morphing due to survival. They didn't exist out of the blue. If I'm going to survive, I will be building a survival identity anyway. But if I'm not epistemically responsible, I would be limiting myself from knowing why I'm adopting a construction that I have the power not to adopt. However, your true identity is beyond survival.

Non-existence doesn't exist because existence is the truth. The existence of anything is true by definition. So, things are created by just existing and not because of some processes outside of those things, because their existence must be true in the first place. E.g., magenta exists by being magenta and not because of electromagnetic waves. An atom wouldn't be created by subatomic particles. It appears that existence is generated by physical, biological, or psychological processes, but this is logically impossible, as such processes cannot function outside of existence without being rendered non-existent.

Are you being entirely conformist with writing that sentence? It would be conformist of me not to speak my name in another tongue if I think that I'm insulting people who speak in my native tongue.

Your true identity is not based on survival. They are all false, no matter the degree of realness. People think that there is more to their socially constructed identities. They believe those identities are not socially constructed which limits their thinking. Sure, you won't be able to modify every last social construction. Maybe you don't have the energy, maybe you're fine with it, or maybe it would be detrimental to your current way of surviving. There's a difference between conforming to a social construction and choosing how to construct. Survival is the name of the game.

It's just a survival identity. All of them are false. It's way more interesting to have a constructivist approach to how you survive rather than conform to some ethnic identity and defend it as if it were absolutely true.

Me too.

Not pronouncing your name in your native tongue around non-native speakers to gain social acceptance is conformist.

It feels as if every event has been building toward a final moment of truth, with everything meticulously curated for you to uncover the grandest conspiracy. It feels like jumping from the highest point, knowing that you are going to die because there is no going back. It would feel like waking up on a different planet that doesn't resemble Earth in any way. It feels like when you recognize that you have dementia and have been talking to yourself this whole time. It feels like snapping out of a hypnosis after decades, realizing that you were the hypnotist. It feels like waking up from a dream with your memories not corresponding to the current reality. It would feel like finally meeting the person who has been following you for decades. It would feel like crawling out of the TV screen knowing that you were in a movie. It would feel like knowing that people around you are paid actors. It feels like being possessed by the truth, as if being electrocuted. It feels like knowing that every thing has been looking at you. It feels like surrendering to the sheer intensity of the most powerful orgasm ever imaginable, so much so that your body gets crushed by it. It feels like witnessing super-advanced alien technology that interacts with you in such intelligent, paradoxical, and weird ways that it melts your brain, causing an overwhelming, ecstatic, orgasmic surrender, leading you to merge with it and endlessly evolve into a higher form of itself.

The feeling of being alone multiplied by a trillion. It's bittersweet. It's like floating on an endless ocean. It feels like being at the edge of the universe. It feels like being melted. It would feel as if people all around the world suddenly understood you. It feels like coming back home. It feels like remembering a thing that you forgot. It's like looking at the sun. It feels like being unknotted. It would feel like getting shot, or a nuclear bomb exploding. It would feel like getting the most unique present. It feels like witnessing the most important event. It's like looking at the most beautiful scenery. It's like looking into someone's eyes. It feels like when the thunderstorm stops and the sun starts shining. It feels like when a good movie ends. It's like looking at the mirror.

Isn't 400 mg too much? I would rather not damage my nose. But I'm not sure at what dose it could induce gastrointestinal distress when swallowed. Orally, I would have much more control of dosing and it has a slower onset, which I prefer. No syringe, no complicated methods.

They should do N,N-DPT. It can be taken orally and it will last hours. I don't like the obsession with finding the reason behind the common patterns of DMT experiences as if it's going to answer existential questions. It seems to me that their thinking is still materialistic. They seem to think that the brain produces those experiences. If you want, you can trip on N,N-DMT for hours by just using an oil glass pipe. 😁

The interpretations of humans being the image of God are adopted because of conformity. Regarding humans as having a special status for God is conformity.

Trinitarianism is such a conformity. Both Trinitarianism and non-Trinitarianism are convoluted approaches and mental gymnastics obsessing over Jesus.

@Nercohype, wow! Beautiful! Incredible!

This song is a banger.

Treating the adoption of a national identity as an awakening is peak conformity. Identity based on survival can never be about awakening because it will always be false. Survival only offers pseudo-identity. God is the true identity, because anything you experience is God itself!