UnbornTao

Tisn't an ism without an aneurysm.

I don't know. I think it can be made to work as it is currently arranged - with general categories, subtopics, and threads.

This could be a sincere assessment but if hurting yourself is the goal, then the assessment lacks objectivity, in my view. But I wouldn't be so hard on myself either way. Definitely. Although you mentioned ignorance here, which is different. Without any judgment attached, we're all ignorant to some degree. It's natural. By its very nature we're likely to be ignorant of the vast majority of our ignorance - we don't know what we don't know. A core aspect of stupidity might be an insensitivity to one's ignorance - failing to recognize it when opportunities and feedback are presented - defending it unwittingly, and getting stuck with it. Or: not learning, failing to see whether one is learning anything new. Finding learning threatening to one's identity and view of the world.

Awesome. It's also true that the current arrangement just works. Hopefully Leo considers this at some point.

I was wondering how feasible it would be to switch it to something like Discourse. https://discourse.org/

It's a forum guideline to disclose AI use.

My gawd. What would Socrates have thought of LLMs?

No one in the comments regards themselves as stupid. It's always someone else. Interesting.

It's the same with believing in God, really. I always found this critique of atheism unbalanced. The same underlying dynamic is at play when someone, for example, uses that term in a way that sounds consistent with "enlightenment" talk. It's pure hearsay. Not always, but it seems to me this is often the case.

Wasn't Jesus a carpenter?

@zurew Just say that it is your direct experience whenever you make an argument here. Seriously though, belief is a fascinating topic.

Haha, you really didn't like something. Fine. Get past the reaction, even when it is one of approval, and try to listen to the material.

@CARDOZZO I wonder why these kinds of posts get so many reactions.

Yeah, what is it? You've likely been depressed before, even if just slightly. What goes on in your experience when you go through that? What are you specifically referring to when you say you're depressed - is it the same as a physical wound, for example? What goes on in your mind, and how are you approaching life such that you experience that feeling? Where does it come from? Can you notice the assumption that depression is a "thing" - fixed, objective, some state that somehow "happens" or comes "to you", like the weather?

You were asking from an ideal that you have regarding what being "high consciousness" should look like. I know how to talk in such a way (you'd love it), but it's not relevant to listening to what's presented.

Mu

My desert. My Arrakis. My Dune. Pay some attention here.

It's great reading some real progress and honesty from time to time. Cheers. I suspect most people haven't had this realization.

Just so people know, another AI-generated channel. And honestly? That's rare.

Chat away. I was saying that this is nonsense but not as an insult. And I don't exclude myself from that assessment at this point in the conversation. How about starting with: what is a belief actually about? Or why we tend to like hearing certain things and not others? But otherwise, speculation is not something I'm interested in, nor in retroactively confirming a view I already hold.

I appreciate that you don't tend to indulge in these kinds of social niceties, from what I can tell, at least. Sorry, it's mostly hoopla. Not that it isn't entertaining. Why did you take it personally and as an insult? It's an impersonal, collective fart. Just pointing this out so people don't take it very seriously. I'm afraid they will just go with a simplistic mental caricature-belief of either "yes" or "no" as a philosophical stance in response to the topic, and think this amounts to anything significant for the purpose of becoming conscious. Or worse yet, they might assume they already understand the communication. I don't do the "spiritual" world. It's not something I perform.

Every group thinks, whether implicitly or explicitly, that they are after the truth. Ask any religion.