UnbornTao

That's good to hear. Yeah, it's happened to me with most ultra-processed foods too. And don't forget legumes! If you like them, they're just as great once you figure out how to prepare them in a way you enjoy.

Keep it going! What is actually context?

Relatable. I did the same... for five days last week.

The franchise has lost a bit of its initial appeal to me, but I will still watch the movie at some point. I like the world, the visuals, and the taoist vibe. The story, I have no idea where it's headed.

Sure! Done.

We're such jerks.

@zurew You didn't feel like I addressed your points?

There's also the option of LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition). As far as I know, there's not much difference for the average user. Preferably choose a distro like Mint, Pop!_OS, or Bazzite over Ubuntu - personal recommendation. Essentially, the main choices come down to Debian, Arch, and Fedora-based systems. I dual-boot Mint and Windows.

Okay, thank you for sharing.

Please don't piss in your metaphysical soup. Which is to say, try to treat specific, relative topics on their own terms.

Oh oh, advanced topic.

In the context of this thread, if you followed Hinduism and believed in hundreds of gods, you'd be fucked. And overwhelmed. "Which one do I pick now?"

@Carl-Richard The gist of it, in my view: you assume, deep down in your experience, that it is not possible for you to become absolutely conscious, therefore your focus and concern is mostly restricted to exchanging one belief system for another. Hence why I shared the video. It's got to do with the way you tend to approach these topics, and what that "says" about where your mind goes. It's essentially trying to think your way to what's true. For example, the fact that you posted this on the Consciousness subforum and not on the Intellectual one, may be hinting at this relationship. Zen stick for you. You are hearing that as an invalidation of thinking or some such. Answers are irrelevant. It's an odd thing to say, but have you ever done some long or intensive contemplation? This 'impossibility' sentiment is common but not necessarily easily located. That's what I'm pointing to. Yeah, direct consciousness applies to absolute matters. Since we're mostly dealing with existential subjects here, we can't really "get there from here," so to speak. We could think until our heads exploded - and that would be a good beginning of this investigation. Use every tool available for the job, but be aware what each is for. And be clear as to what you're doing and why. You can't think your way to what's existentially or absolutely true, because a thought is just a thought - it's never the thing it refers to. Don't let the apparent simplicity of this fact prevent you from recognizing the principle underlying it. That said, there's real merit to activities like thinking, planning, feeling, intuiting, testing frameworks, applying attention, drawing on memory, observing without bias, experimenting, and so on - when it comes to relative matters.

@Sugarcoat Alright, thanks. You can always ask GPT about it. Good luck.

It gives me a calm focus. To be clear, are you talking about a skin product? If so, I have no experience with that. Yeah, do some research first and consult a professional if needed.

You didn't explicitly say it. I inferred it based on what and how you tend to post on these topics. Of course, the intuition could be wrong, but I'll take my chances. The 'impossibility' assumption regarding personal knowledge of the absolute doesn't present itself as a belief. It operates in the background of one's questioning, as if. It's a rather common sentiment, consisting of holding the matter of absolute consciousness as "not really possible for me." Based on that, the only possibility we have left is to deal with various kinds of conceptual frameworks and beliefs.

@Whatever

"Leave me alone you weirdo, I don't even know you. Geez."

Great. My intention with that was to ground the discussion a bit.

That's a reasonable take in principle. Psychic abilities are possible but I'm not sure that connecting with a long-dead person you barely know anything about falls into that category - unless, perhaps, you're taking creative liberties with that, or are being metaphorical. Also, calling it "sainthood" already invites too much fantastical thinking. I haven't investigated this topic deeply, but what comes to mind are a powerful intuition and seemingly magical feeling-states - like sensing someone's intentions before they act. Still, these would have to be grounded in something real, such as abnormally high sensitivity or awareness, rather than mere wishful thinking. Obviously, it's not about guessing the winning lottery numbers. It's already difficult to discern what's a purely subjective experience and what's grounded in reality. Throw in the drugs, and you've got a recipe for disaster.