UnbornTao

I love it! It goes to show that we can talk about things like self-deception until we're out of breath, but then what we actually end up "doing" tends to be inconsistent with our artificially-adopted philosophy and theories. This disparity we're unaware of.

By making them discern what's spiritual fantasy, for starters. Huge domain.

That may be. What's in question is the claim, though. People rarely tell the truth, and again, you can lie to yourself without knowing it. I can take some drugs, go through some experiences, and claim to have had "awakenings" - among other things. And I could convince you, too.

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.