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Everything posted by Carl-Richard
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You can only serve as one piece in a string of events.
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If you're joyful, you can't help yourself but to express that joy somehow. That can come off as "oh he is so motivated, striving, passionate, determined" but you're really just very joyful. If you're not motivated by lack, cultivate some joy in your life, not for the sake of motivation, but for the sake of joy.
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Do you desire truth? What if boredom is trying to show you what is true? ?
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I hope you know that this phrase is the biggest meme in the Destiny community
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There is no separation
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Carl-Richard replied to Someone here's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Now you're being carried away by the absolute/relative conflation. I don't have anything against Allislove or Nahm bringing up the absolute perspective as an answer to your question, but you should know that the very second you asked your question, you started operating in the relative, and that is why I went there as well. Allislove and Nahm are just trying to reel you back in while I'm the devil who is willfully engaging in the illusion of separateness. In an absolute sense, there are no distinctions; no rocks, no animals, no people; no enlightened beings, no unenlightened beings. But in a relative sense, there are rocks, animals, people, enlightened people. You could say you're indeed aware of this distinction, but please choose one or the other instead of jumping back and forth. -
Carl-Richard replied to Gnostic Bean's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Fear of insanity is just one of many fears you have to work through. -
Carl-Richard replied to meow_meow's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
When I used to meditate, my body would start to ache at around 45 minutes and that is where most of the progress happened. I say push through unless you're afraid you're hurting yourself. -
Carl-Richard replied to Someone here's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Animals are sentient, present, aware, conscious, but so are unenlightened humans. Humans are also "sapient" (wise beings capable of thought). Rocks, trees, animals and humans are being. However, enlightenment is when being shines through the prism of sapience, or when the illusory nature of thought is illuminated by the light of being. Animals, rocks and trees aren't sapient and therefore not enlightened. -
Carl-Richard replied to Someone here's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Stop it. About animals, Breakingthewall said "they simple are", and you answered "That is enlightenment". Does that not apply to rocks? -
Carl-Richard replied to Someone here's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Is a rock enlightened? -
Carl-Richard replied to Lyubov's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
Nature is low consciousness. People have to stop falling for these fallacious naturalistic arguments. -
Then why should he listen to you?
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I think what he is talking about is the good old Advaita trap., a.k.a confusing the absolute and the relative
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You were born with an inquisitive mind that needs meaning and purpose, so you have to learn how to deal with that. Some people just have less going on up there so they don't seem as affected by it. But you'll also notice how easily riled up they can get over nothing in particular. There are pros and cons of being a meathead.
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Eric Weinstein also has his own wiki with a lot of contributions to systems thinking: https://theportal.wiki/wiki/Main_Page
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Good example of why ENFP and INFJ are considered a best match; the dance of divergent and convergent intuition (Ne and Ni). Ne takes one topic and connects it with other topics in a movement of expansion, and Ni takes those topics and strings them all together into a narrative. Then Ne uses that as a springboard to other subjects and the cycle continues. This is the essence of the dialectical movement (constructive and complementary discourse): divergence and convergence, elaboration and condensation, analysis and synthesis, fragmentation and integration.
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Carl-Richard replied to Dingo's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
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Keywords: facets, aspects, center of gravity, continuum. Stage Orange isn't exclusively defined by atheism. Atheism/theism is just one facet that can be arrived at through different pathways (Red can also be atheistic). It can be affected by other facets like cognition, spirituality, aesthetics, morality etc. For example, your friend might have Orange cognition and morality along with some aspects of Blue/Red spirituality and aesthetics. People adopt beliefs and identities all the time that seem to deviate from their center of gravity (nobody is just one stage but instead a shaded continuum). For example, there is currently an Orange fad about simulation theory: the idea that the universe was created by immensely powerful beings outside of our world. Sounds eerily similar to traditional monotheism don't you think? There is an obvious monotheistic aesthetic to the theory, but it's nested within a techno-materialist metaphysics (which arguably makes no difference when you're already conceding to the creator aspect). There are many examples of Christian apologists with a deeper knowledge of philosophy and logic than most atheistic philosophers (stronger Orange cognition but maybe more Blue spirituality/morality). Look up the debate with Sam Harris and William Lane Craig. Harris abandoned the debate format midway and derailed the discussion into a pathos-fueled activist tirade. Not very "science, facts and logic" of him
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Carl-Richard replied to Leo Gura's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
If I managed to predict exactly when my microwave is done 86% of the time, that doesn't tell me anything about my predictions about aliens. Even if I made predictions about aliens with 86% accuracy, the problem of induction states that a prediction can never tell you anything certain about the future. Current predictions don't tell you anything certain about future predictions. -
Carl-Richard replied to Rilles's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
He wasn't killed. He was put in "formal jail", which entailed him staying at a friend's house in Rome. It was technically Copernicus who brought up the possibility of heliocentricism, but Galileo created the telescope and made some observations, then did some calculations using Kepler's equations to provide some evidence for the theory. Regardless, it's true that if we were to apply a consistent definition of pseudoscience, the church at the time (the original scientific institution) were actually more scientifically rigorous than Galileo. He had been making unfounded claims about the rotation of the Earth and the nature of comets (wrong in both cases), and despite pushback, he said heliocentrism is the true model. The reason Copernicus didn't get in trouble is because he never claimed something without evidence (like "my theory is the true one"). The church were initially not too pessimistic about a heliocentric theory, but the way Galileo treated his critics and competing theorists (who were all scientists) is in many ways to blame for why he was jailed. This is obviously not to say that he deserved what was coming to him. It's a point to show how stupid the term pseudoscience is. -
Carl-Richard replied to Leo Gura's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
The problem of induction my friend. -
Carl-Richard replied to Lyubov's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
Red herring. Look at the title "conscious society". -
Carl-Richard replied to Lyubov's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
"Canine teeth" is an anatomical feature. It's present across different mammalian species.
