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Oh dear

How could there be some sort of "why" reason. Things are just what they are.

An interesting article I found, which states that conceptualising the human brain in strict terms to that of a computer would be a mistake despite how popular it is https://aeon.co/essays/your-brain-does-not-process-information-and-it-is-not-a-computer Ofc the article offers very little in terms of an alternative scientific model, but thats fine. It is what it is.

Where do the past and future exist?

@Aeris If there's no past and no future, in what sense does free will exist on a level which implies moral culpability?

Adyashanti, Alan watts, Sadhguru, Ramana Maharshi, Shinzen Young. Alan Watts is extremely good at articulating the essence of non-duality. Ramana Maharshi and Sadhguru are just fucking sages. People I haven't listened to, but others on this forum seem to like: Eckhart Tolle, Jed McKenna, Rupert Spira, Mooji.

@Shin @Shin oh please ?

@Shin @Preetom Can you two just kiss each other already? Flirting with each other in every thread. No homo.

@Sharp What's gotten you to the point that you want to kill yourself physically? What are the sources of your suffering? Have you ever had deep spiritual experiences Sharp? Because if you do (or if you have) you'll laugh yourself silly at the whole game your ego was playing to generate suffering. That isn't to say the ego and your suffering is trivial because its game, a game can be played with full sincerity even if it's not serious. You can always wait till another day to kill yourself physically. If your life is already in total shit, and you have nothing to lose , then just kill the current person you are rather than killing your body. If it will get you to consider not taking your life, then perhaps taking some sort of drastic change in your life situation or environment will ease your existential boredom a little. Some videos you might have interesting:

There is too much I can write but imma try and keep it brief if I can since I dont want you to get bored. I want you to disregard technicalities such as "everything is subjective" (e.g. when I describe such and such personality/funcntion as being more or less concerned with whats subjective/objective) when reading this, im using words and descriptors as they are most typically thought of and as pointers to something I hope you get a tangible feel and intuition of. This is very important to remember in what I type. Youtube videos made on this channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmDcT_Pujk8vOcxk_IcnxtQ about typology are pretty good. I remember watching some of his videos talking about different cognitive functions and different axes, about why these axes differ from each other due to them coming from different angles than each other. In found them extremely enlightening in understanding how people can extremely similar but extremely different at the same time in a subtle way. Within MBTI there are "perception" and "judgement functions". There are 2 judgement axes and 2 perception axes. Judgement axes: - Ti and Fe - Te and Fi Perception axes: - Ni and Se - Ne and SI Everyone has one perception axis and one judgement axis, which in turn compose their four cognitive functions. To phrase things in a rough way which needs further elaboration, Ne-Si axis and the Fe-Ti axis are in a sense "universalist, democratic and fair minded" whilst Ni-Se and Fi-Te axes are more "contextual, monarchic and goal orientated". As you can see there are 8 different functions in the entire theory. Functions are the "why" and "how" to people's behaviour rather than the "what". Universalistic axes and are looking to "take themselves out of the equation" in a sense. There is an underlying theme to how extraverted functions differ from introverted functions. To phrase it roughly, extraverted functions view the subjective as fickle and the objective as more reliable while introverted functions regard the objective as fickle and the subjective as more reliable. Feeling functions and thinking functions are judgement functions, sensing and intuition functions are perception functions. I made a playlist of insightful videos. I was just watching the Ne vs Ni video and I was shocked at how extraordinarily accurate it was. You may want to first watch one or two of this youtube channels' "types revisited videos" after knowing what your type is (through a test). First two videos are similar to each other. Watch the axes videos before the individual function videos if you want, its all up to you. From watching his videos, I was amazed at how well he articulated the strengths that different thinkers and intellectuals have. I myself use Ne, but Ni is extremely powerful as well in how it can detect very subtle and subjective associations between things and Ni is looking for the subtle "essence" that many different variables and happenings share. Ne goes from the one to the many, Ni goes from the many to the one (roughly speaking). Ne likes to connects the dots and makes many associations between many many "objective" things and take those things "in of in themselves", and can view Ni as not accepting things as they are in an "objective" level. But both Ni and Ne are extremely good and are just different modes of being. INTP (my type) and INTJ have opposite axes and functions to each other and in talking to people who are INTJ and INFJ I feel I've gotten a very tangible feeling for how these functions feel and where they come from. INTP's solely have "democratic/universalistic" functions whilst INTJ's solely have "monarchical/contextual" functions. I found ALL of his function comparative videos enlightening. Clashes I've had in Ti vs Te in talking to people, and how arguments get circular. I found his description very insightful. Even Si vs Se, Fe vs Fi are all extremely good videos. And in watching people speak and give talks, it seems extremely obvious when someone is using a particular cognitive function. Jordan Peterson uses Ni a lot, Leo uses Ti and Ne a lot are just some examples of speakers ive listened to. Chomsky uses Ni. Nietzsche is Ni.

@ValiantSalvatore I'm not too sure chief. Although from what I remember, the author thinks these foods can mess with ur intestinal lining, absorption and stuff.

@Highest eeeeeeeeeeeeeee

"The fake is of far greater value. In its deliberate attempt to be real, it's more real than the real thing."

@Andreas It might be real, idk. This reminds me of the interesting philosophical question. Supposing the materialist paradigm was real, imagine a teleportation device which worked by disintegrating your body (killing you) in some location but then you were your atomic structure was recreated atom by atom in another place far away. Is the clone formed still you? If your consciousness could be uploaded to a computer, would it be you? Would you still be alive? Under the premise of the materialist paradigm, I think the answer would be yes. Interesting thought experiment nonetheless.

If you want them to be. That decision is up to you.

@Alexander Goffrier Hmmmm. I personally am not for cutting out eggs, but that's me. I like the protein and lack of carbs, especially in conjunction with some exercise routine. Right now I'm the process of trying to reduce gluten, dairy, soy and corn to eventually zero and then ill be able to test what I'm sensitive to. I'm reading on autoimmune problems from diet, and the author recommends testing your sensitivity to these four things. So far I've only cut out dairy. I've linked a table of the advice Im trying to follow. I took the photo at a retarded angle with my front camera to make the image small enough for me to upload.

@kieranperez I'm pretty sure I have adhd. I know you said that you can't afford getting modafinil, but for me my stock of armodafinil is going to last me a long time because I only use it very occasionally and in small doses. For me armodafanil isn't amazing because I experience side effects like head aches, nausea and anxiety too much but perhaps it will work for you I don't know. It certainly helps me concentrate when I do take it sometimes, but it was by no means a full cure at all. I've found https://www.modafinilstar.com this site to be good, they just have some weird payment method I had to go through of buying a gift card on amazon. This site worked for me fine.

@Guided Perhaps the teacher is saying there comes a point where even the illusion of flux disappears as you enter the present, who knows. And maybe it's like your awareness is becoming closer and closer to some singularity, which is ultimately nothing in the end. I feel like everyone who's done meditation has at least a small glimpse of this.

@Guided The first sentence from that article you linked. Part of this talk about infinite regress leads to me thinking about the old fashioned problem of the "uncaused cause" that you hear in philosophy. Why is there something rather than nothing? On a tangent, when it comes to maths specifically and the example I stated, infinity as a word was used to say "more can be generated". No matter how numbers I write down on paper between x and y, the mathematical language is defined such that I can always generate a new number between x and y no matter how long my list is. Infinity in this sense is a property of the mathematical language. Doing 1 divided by 3 leads to another infinite regress of sorts. If you go through the process of computing it without a calculator and doing it manually, you find yourself writing "3" over and over again due a to a circular loop you have trapped yourself in with concepts. This tangent I went on is besides the point of time. Reality is just inherently non-sensical, with there being something for no reason. All that exists is the present. You are always a present moment experience which "you" did nothing to create. The experience just is. Realising the nature of time is one way to enter the non-dual state, as you see reality to be in a situation which you did nothing to create.

I might have a slightly different train of thought, but its still a representation of my experience with time and change. I've often heard people say time is an illusion, and you can experience this. Something I wonder, is "flux" itself then supposed to be an illusion? Because if all we have is the present moment, then surely it should seem like reality is static (since time is the medium throughout which flux occurs). If time does not exist, then how does any sort of "event" exist? How is reality both simultaneously static and fluid? It's something very hard to put into words, the meditation experiences you've had. On a random tangent, it reminds about how on any given line (let the line represent an interval of time) there are literally an infinite number of points. It doesn't matter how large or small the line is. There are an infinite number of points. And any line can be chopped into an infinite number of lines, with each line having an infinite number of points. This is related to the ideas of continuity and discontinuity in maths. And as far as our first experience is concerned, all of this happening that is reality is coming from nothing and energy is somehow created from nothing.

@now is forever You seem to have a problem with the OP using the word God to describe the true self, but Leo uses that terminology all the time. I haven't seen you argue with him at lengths about it. Theres the classic non-dual idea that everyone is a different mask/expression of God. At the end of the day we're using concepts and concepts are a sloppy imitation of the real thing so maybe you could be a bit more charitable in how you interpret the OP.

I hope so

Pretty much lol

I ate too much pizza today, my stomach feels bloated and is in pain. This is making awakening very hard.