UnbornTao

Bookmarked. I'm definitely all three combined.

Check again, seriously.

Thanks

Heresy! You shall not doubt the fantasy of the drugs in these lands.

Broadcasting what? I'll add that people have an agenda, and rarely, if ever, is it to be plainly straight about their experience. That's generally not why we talk to others at all. In this context of some form of personal desire sourcing interactions, sharing one's experience just as it is - with no other agenda behind it, rare as it is - is rather useless. The main point is that you can pretend to know something you really don't and not be conscious that this is what you're doing. Contrasted to the exercise above, which essentially asked you to imagine yourself lying deliberately, you can do basically the same thing as an unconscious self-manipulation, not knowing that you're fooling yourself.

I don't think people really know how to tell a pretender from someone who isn't one - in "spiritual" matters, at least. And 'state' isn't the anchor people take it to be: direct consciousness might not be a function of state at all; state may be secondary to it. Here's an exercise: imagine that you yourself - knowing you're ignorant (your secret's safe with me) - set out to project a certain impression, one convincing enough that people would read you as 'awakened.' You could pull that off. And here's the sharper point: you could end up believing it yourself, without ever noticing you'd faked it.

I do have it, and they're full of shit.

I loved it.

Yeah, it's a sad state of affairs, in this context. I like to think of LLMs as autocorrect on steroids, or as smart, interactive dictionaries. Something like that.

Spiritual snobbery/materialism.

And.... Germany is already out. Eliminated by Paraguay on penalties.

Shrinking horse balls in cold weather, or I'm out.

I'm using Firefox and Startpage now. Chromium, the project most browsers are based on (Brave, Chrome, Edge, Vivaldi, Helium), will soon drop support for Manifest V2 extensions, limiting the functionality of ad blockers. I've heard good things about Zen Browser - a Firefox derivative.

Pointing out something that may be true of you. Like I've said before, there's being "truthful", and being truthful. Getting clearer on which is which can be useful, and is real in the end. Imagine that Leo told you this. Maybe it will land differently.

It pays to keep an open mind, but not so open your brains fall out Carl Sagan.

God, you're doing the same shit. Okay.

Japan will clean up afterward, that's certain.

One of the few shows that have made me laugh out loud, along with Community.

What's hard about replying with a 'no'? It was fairly straightforward. I wonder what hasn't shifted in you. It's not the first time you've posted something along the lines of "ugh, others, am I right?" and "I didn't really want to do this. I was forced to engage in social games against my 'higher self.'" But you did and will continue to do so, just like everyone else. And again, that's perfectly fine. It'd be much more useful to get clear on your real intentions, whatever they are, and not to try to sugarcoat stuff in your own mind. No need to come up with justifications to feel better than others, even if only to yourself and in subtle ways. To me it seems to often boil down to wanting to feel special, again - "spiritual" or "conscious." That's at least my interpretation from past interactions.

No.

You actively do it (socialize, party, etc. - nothing wrong with that), and afterward, contrasted with some ideal you have about what it means to be "honest," you seem to complain about what you did and justify it in order to preserve your self-image as a "conscious" human being. It sounds like an excuse that lets you engage in "social games" while at the same time feeling superior to others. To me it seems like the "excluded guy at the party" meme template: he's at the party, and at the same time wants to feel special about it. Getting more in touch with your actual intentions and excuses is more real than pretending or hiding them in order to preserve the way one sees oneself.

Absolutely. And Netherlands - Morocco. Cabo Verde will beat Argentina.

Lol that's a koan right there. Have you ever met this Joseph guy in person? I THOUGHT SO!

If you didn't know, then that's something to watch out for. Good thing about opinions - the holder is rather irrelevant.