Bruins8000

What does this mean? God is supposedly infinite, omnipotent and omnipresent. I’m not talking about a personal, biblical god just the idea of the infinite all. How could it be limited to NOT be able to cause a universe to arise without death? Seems you’re limiting the ALL

Why is there experience (I.E. an “apparent experiencer” experiencing something)? Is there no deeper purpose? Some people say “just because.” Does that mean if experience never arose that’d have the same amount of meaning?

Everything is potential

What do you mean??

What is the dividing line between what we deem as a living thing and a non-living thing? Is there truly any difference? I oftentimes wonder, what if the universe never developed sentient life that can experience…would nothing have ever truly existed? Is sentience and experience just something that happens (no more important than a galaxy forming or an asteroid hitting a distant planet nobody knows about) or is it extremely important?

Unfortunate for the ladies that he had no interest 😆

All sorts of gods….for instance: Rock gods 🤘

This forum has seem to dried up recently in the amount of new posts. Here’s a question I’ve not seen truly answered here (at least recently). Why does THIS produce apparent individuals with perception (I.E an apparent something observing an apparent something)? Why not no perception? And don’t say because the universe was bored and wanted to create a friend- we’re not in kindergarten.

But doesn’t the simplest possibility make the most sense? Occam’s Razor. Wouldn’t no apparent perceiver with no perception be the simplest? Every nonduality forum I go on nobody can answer this- but it seems very fundamental

What is the true difference between sentient and non-sentient things? Obviously we’d agree a human or a leopard seem sentient…a rock or a couch do not. Beyond that- why does the Infinite develop individuals to begin with? Why create apparent duality?

I’d like to get others thoughts here: What exactly is sentience?

I get all that and I enjoy your posts…I’ve been a lurker on this forum for a long time and post once in a great while. Why would it appear that way though?

I honestly don’t know…it seems like one of those things that doesn’t have a boundary I.E where sentience starts and ends. I suppose myself and most people would say sentience corresponds to perception and an apparent “life”

Does all apparent experience/apparent somethingness require an apparent experiencer/perceiver? Looking at it this way it seems Infinity is very binary. Only two options: 1.) no apparent experiencer and nothingness like deep sleep or 2.) an apparent experiencer and somethingness. Is THIS really that black and white? These are the only two ways of reality?

Does all experience require the appearance of a localized experiencer/I/self? I know ultimately there’s none of this- I’m speaking about the relative nature of what we term experience. If so then why? Shouldn’t a prerequisite of a localized apparent self/center/I not be required by WHAT IS?

Ultimately is permanent/impermanent a duality? I’m really stuck on why form needs to be impermanent. Can’t there be a form that subsists forever and ever and doesn’t “die”? If you say no then that seems limiting to infinity. Everything should be possible including a permanent form. Also why does change require “death”? Couldn’t there just be change with forms constantly morphing and evolving without the full stop called death?

Hi- sorry didn’t know where to post this. Is anyone else constantly getting EX144 errors when trying to sign into the forum now? It is highly annoying. I’ve tried three different browsers and finally had to go to a fourth to log in this time. Can someone fix these issues? I tried submitting a technical support request but that wouldn’t go through either

It is fixed! Thanks Leo.

All good with being patient. I’d just like to know that an issue has been identified and is being looked into. Otherwise the next time I get logged out I may never have access again

Has this issue been addressed? I couldn’t log in all night and most of today. Finally had to go into incognito mode on chrome to sign in

Same- used to be able to browse the forum without logging in

Thank you

I’d like to explore this topic further. If “God” is truly infinite/unbounded then that means no limitations. Therefore “dreaming up” an immortal being should be 100% possible, otherwise you are placing limits. Now maybe what we think of as immortality is not accurate- maybe this being would be able to morph into something else/dissolve its form when needed then reappear. So many possibilities.

Why does every natural body (human and animal) die? If we’re not truly the body or mind then why the charade? Can’t consciousness come up with something more creative or original?

Is permanent vs. impermanent a duality we must ultimately collapse? Oftentimes I get confused or thrown off by the ideas of birth and death. Why must every animal or plant that “appears” on Earth seem to appear to be born then die? Ultimately am I creating a position that permanent=good and impermanent=bad? Want to get people’s thoughts on this tricky subject.