What Do You Really Know!!!?

[r0ckyreed]

If an alien held a gun held to your head and said to you, "Tell me what you know with 100% absolute certainty about reality, consciousness, and awakening, or I will blow your head off!" What would you say?

Me: "I can only know that Consciousness exists, but I do not know exactly what Consciousness actually is. I just know that experience of some sort is happening. I assume that this experience is true, but I do not know whether this gun you are holding is actually real or if it is not just a dream or some toy gun you have to scare me. I do not know if solipsism is true or if Infinity of Gods is true because all I know is within the limits of my finite human experience. The only thing I know with 100% certainty that exists is the Universe/God/Experience. The idea of a first cause is a belief because the human mind will invent distinctions between what is a cause and what isn't. There is nothing in the Universe that can tell me the first cause of you pulling the trigger of this gun you have to my head. Scientists will say it is neurons in the brain, but then if we study it further maybe something else could be found. But then we could trace it back to it being caused by an experience that you had (assuming you aren't a philosophical zombie) that led you to want to come down here and ask me this very stupid question in the first place. But then that "cause" would have another "cause" and another until we realize that we are literally in the Mind of God right now and it is infinite and eternal, which means that it is entirely uncaused. To even say that "causes" exist is to presuppose a duality and posit something outside of the caused and the causer. There is no such thing as a first cause.

Alien: But then what is God but not a first cause?

Me: God is simply All That Exists. God is not the source of existence. God is the very substance of Existence itself. Existence has no source because that would assume there is something outside of existence. But there isn't anything outside of existence because even non-existence would have to be an idea inside of existence.

Alien: Then what are you so afraid of what will happen if I pull this trigger?

Me: I am afraid of losing all of my attachments to everything I have experienced in the flesh. The Universe is experiencing itself through this human body. It has attached itself to survival and is afraid of non-existence.

Alien: Even though you stated that non-existence is an idea in existence, you still fear death?

Me: Yes, because it exists. If non-existence didn't exist, then I wouldn't have to worry about it right? But I will die, which all that means really is that I will lose this story and dream I have experienced in this body, but I will continue another story through your body right now. So, in essence, I am you, experiencing you right now in another life. But because time is not linear in the realm of eternity, I am experiencing all lives simultaneously together. I can feel secure knowing that death is an illusion, but I will still have the fear because I am attached. All fear is is attachment to the ego. But without ego, there can be no life at all. We have to have a reference point to have any notion of experience at all. That is the great paradox. Without a body, what would the Universe be experiencing? Can you see how perfect and intelligent this design of the Universe is? We couldn't be just a floating consciousness experiencing reality because then how could you have an experience of anything at all? How could you experience pain if there is nothing, nobody, and no-body? You see, God, the Universe is in a show playing with itself for all eternity. I am laughing now because this is what is happening now. Go ahead and pull the trigger. I am ready to experience your life and why you decided to shoot me. Maybe I will find out.

Alien: See you.

 

What are your thoughts?? What could you say that you truly know with absolute certainty?? The point of this thought experiment is to get you to really hone in on what is true knowledge vs. belief. If you claim you have had an awakening into reality, let’s put it to the test. Are you willing to put your life on the line for that “insight”? Or is it really just a belief?

Edit: That alien would’ve blown my head off much earlier than it did.

 

Edited March 30 by r0ckyreed

[Razard86]

You only know what you have experienced.  Seek to test the limits instead of contemplating them. Seek to discover than ruminate, Seek to dive right in than pontificate. 

[r0ckyreed]

8 minutes ago, Razard86 said:

You only know what you have experienced.  Seek to test the limits instead of contemplating them. Seek to discover than ruminate, Seek to dive right in than pontificate. 

The alien in me would say, you only know you are experiencing not what you have experienced. What you experienced assumes that there is a past experience other than what you are experiencing now.

How do you test the limits without contemplation? Contemplation is the best way I have discovered for testing the limits. Contemplation is the process of unraveling falsehood and experiencing what is true through deep focused curious awareness and questioning.

[Razard86]

12 minutes ago, r0ckyreed said:

The alien in me would say, you only know you are experiencing not what you have experienced. What you experienced assumes that there is a past experience other than what you are experiencing now.

How do you test the limits without contemplation? Contemplation is the best way I have discovered for testing the limits. Contemplation is the process of unraveling falsehood and experiencing what is true through deep focused curious awareness and questioning.

Past is present, present is future. If there was no past, you couldn't reply. There would be nothing to reply too. Since you have memory you replay the present again and identify that it has happened and you saw it as a repeat. By identifying a repeat pattern you call it past.

So to deny past is to deny repeating patterns.

[Someone here]

Nothing. Obviously. 

[Inception]

I'd say i know two things for certain:

1. That Consciousness exists, or more accurately Consciousness equals Existence. It's self-evident. It's not something i have to think about. Trying to prove it would be absurd, prove it to who?
2. That i don't really know anything else, everything else i claim to know is really belief.

[r0ckyreed]

On 4/2/2024 at 5:09 PM, Someone here said:

Nothing. Obviously. 

If you truly know nothing, then what is awakening? If you truly know nothing, then how can you say anything is true or false? Clearly there is something you do know.

[r0ckyreed]

2 hours ago, Inception said:

I'd say i know two things for certain:

1. That Consciousness exists, or more accurately Consciousness equals Existence. It's self-evident. It's not something i have to think about. Trying to prove it would be absurd, prove it to who?
2. That i don't really know anything else, everything else i claim to know is really belief.

Amen. 

I would say on number 2 that you do have innate knowledge since you are the Universe. But the Universe is always a mystery to itself.

Edited April 3 by r0ckyreed