Nahm

A corporation is an entity, exactly the same as a person. The makers of laws are not subject to laws.

We fly our own planes, into our own buildings, and kill our own people, and say we didn’t, and believe our own narrative. We make and use our own bombs, to kill our own people, and say we had to, believing our own narrative. We reinvent better more efficient ways to kill ourselves in greater numbers, and tell ourselves it is because of ourselves, believing our own narrative. We label ourselves republicans and democrats, etc, believing our own labels, our own narrative, which we ourselves are making up, right now.

Imagine there's no heaven, it's easy if you try. No hell below us, above us only sky. Imagine all the people living for today. Imagine there's no countries, it isn't hard to do. Nothing to kill or die for, and no religion too. Imagine all the people living life in peace, you. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope some day you'll join us and the world will be as one. Imagine no possessions, I wonder if you can. No need for greed or hunger, a brotherhood of man. Imagine all the people sharing all the world, you. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope some day you'll join us and the world will be as one. John Lennon Murdered for expression, December 8th 1980.

@Elshaddai Swap the philosophy for direct inspection of the suffering. It’s yours. No one else in the world knows it. It’s not yours.

@Strangeloop Do that. No problem. Right?

Because they believe something is wrong (with them). And thus fear ‘their own’ awareness. Laughter is the best medicine.

The consideration is already the ignoring of reality. ?? ?

@Dodo What was the underlying message of that movie?

Taking away a man’s ability to self realize is incredibly simple. Just remove the environment of expression. Such as a father who stifles his child...except unseen & unheard...inherently void of expression.

The tongue can not taste itself. Inspection of thoughts is much easier when not tripping.

To see the true nature of thoughts, don’t utilize them to weave a hindsight story of a thinker.

It’s thought attachment, not a another you, having an effect on ‘the first’ you.

Great new documentary on Amazon called Losing Our Religion. Check it out. ?

Not possible.

There aren’t really any people. ? The question really is why doesn’t reality question reality. The answer is because it is the answer.

Sat on the cushion one morning and like someone flipped on a light switch, there was only one infinite ‘substance’, and it was me.

@Heart of Space ??

Misuse of power by the establishment.

@Heart of Space The things already mentioned in this thread don’t qualify?!?!

Picture boot camp, but a more subtle tearing down of human psyches over a broad span of time, by stripping away expression via dissolving privacy. Imagine the local small scale for frame of reference. If the police or military inappropriately inordinately locked down or took over your city, where would people meet to discuss, plan, unite? They wouldn’t. If that were the intention but no laws were broken (they totally have been already many times over) then this would be the most effective logical approach, and it’d have nothing to do with fear or conspiracy. Did you know the police can walk into your house without a warrant, take you, and detain you for the rest of your life, without notifying anyone and without any trial, and it is perfectly legal?

@electroBeam

Existence, nonexistence, nothing, everything, consciousness...all just ideas, concept, pointers to not-two.