Nilsi

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  1. Let's develop ourselves and become integrated and mature people, but let's not fool ourselves when it comes to truth.
  2. Yes it is. We're talking about truth, while everything else are cultural constructions, which can be contained and modified for the benefit of society - which is what we should be talking about.
  3. Good for you. The problem is that while premodern societys did a good job of mapping out the inner individual experience of reality, it did not have the means to figure out the other dimensions of reality in the same depth. That's why he's saying premodernity got the levels right and modernity found the correlates in the other quadrants (and postmodernity figured out the high contextual sensitivity of all this knowledge). Of course all of this is downstream from truth, which is neither of the quadrants.
  4. Why are we playing these games? We can talk about religion and I'm interested in that conversation, but that's not spirituality.
  5. Spirituality is not happening within society. We can talk about creating a great society and I'm all for that, but that's not this conversation. We can even talk about religion. Spirituality is fundamentally your business and every attempt to undermine this is literally evil.
  6. This is a stupid comparison. The problem is that people are stupid and don't understand truth and thus are not in a position to tell sages and mystics how they should go about their work.
  7. That's not the point. It's not "every man for himself." It's "truth is sacred and shouldn't be outlawed just because it hurts your feelings."
  8. You want to institutionalize awakening to moralize and punish truth? Sounds like you have some serious issues my man.
  9. It's the most serious student for whom spirituality will be more than just belief and hearsay.
  10. You forgot the other 3 quadrants
  11. The serious student wouldn't care about this nonsense. The only legitimate tenet is "does this help me awaken, or not?"
  12. All the AI is doing is reporting back some information to you that it has been fed. It can't really make new connections and have original insights, at least the current iteration. I pushed it very hard to give me something original, but it just couldn't do it.
  13. lol yeah, that was wild. I don't think an AI could do that though. That's basically just trying to grasp your own mind with your mind until it breaks down.
  14. The same as juicing vegetables?!
  15. Warning points for pretending to be human!