Quote of the day

[Someone here]

Just to provoke some thoughts .

The Truth is of course you are God dreaming its everything.  A dream within a dream with no beginning or end .

 

Edited April 24, 2024 by Someone here

[Guest Bazooka Jesus]

14 minutes ago, Someone here said:

The Truth is of course you are God dreaming its everything.

That's just another mental story. Zhuangzi's fanciful dream story is just as (in)valid as yours.

I mean, at least this guy comes up with two different stories and admits that he doesn't know which of the two is the correct one. Sounds much more honest than most people, if you ask me. 

[Someone here]

@Bazooka Jesus so what's your alternative?  Do you have the nerve to claim you live without "a story "? I mean we don't nesscary need to squeeze goats testicles or read the tarot or any woo woo myths to believe in ....but at least since you are not awake you believe you are a human chimp living on a rock that orbits around the sun in the middle of nowhere...

[Guest Bazooka Jesus]

7 minutes ago, Someone here said:

Do you have the nerve to claim you live without "a story "?

I live with loads of stories. I just don't take them (overly) serious.

Let's be real, life would be boring without stories. They are like a bunch of amazing, funny, silly, colorful, sparkly toys that keep us engaged and entertained from morning 'till nighttime. But what happens when you take them too serious? You suffer. And that just ain't fun, now is it?

So, there you go. There's no need to get rid of your stories, as long as you recognize and appreciate them for what they are: Beautiful playthings, given to us by the universe to enrich our experience and fill us with childlike awe and wonder.

Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.

- Alan Watts -

[Someone here]

12 minutes ago, Bazooka Jesus said:

I live with loads of stories. I just don't take them (overly) serious.

Let's be real, life would be boring without stories. They are like a bunch of amazing, funny, silly, colorful, sparkly toys that keep us engaged and entertained from morning 'till nighttime. But what happens when you take them too serious? You suffer. And that just ain't fun, now is it?

So, there you go. There's no need to get rid of your stories, as long as you recognize and appreciate them for what they are: Beautiful playthings, given to us by the universe to enrich our experience and fill us with childlike awe and wonder.

Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.

- Alan Watts -

No . Stories are essential for survival .you couldn't have human life without em. Imagine living as an empty headed nobody who abandoned society and just begging for bread on the streets ...you will end up like that without Stories.  When you interact in society with other human chimps who are also not awake and deeply stuck in the matrix just like you..you have to practice etiquette and play by the social matrix's rules . Without Stories you couldn't sleep at night..because you need an ontological bedrock of assumptions that it's safe to drift off .as an atheist myself..I don't have that . And I suffer from insomnia. Do you know that deeply religious people are more happy than secular people? There has been studies done on thar.

[Guest Bazooka Jesus]

26 minutes ago, Someone here said:

No . Stories are essential for survival .you couldn't have human life without em. Imagine living as an empty headed nobody who abandoned society and just begging for bread on the streets ...you will end up like that without Stories.  When you interact in society with other human chimps who are also not awake and deeply stuck in the matrix just like you..you have to practice etiquette and play by the social matrix's rules . Without Stories you couldn't sleep at night..because you need an ontological bedrock of assumptions that it's safe to drift off .as an atheist myself..I don't have that . And I suffer from insomnia. Do you know that deeply religious people are more happy than secular people? There has been studies done on thar.

Of course you don't get rid of stories. Without stories, there would be no game to play, and therefore no experience of reality to be had. Stories are here to give the game of life rules, structure and form. Stories are wonderful, stories are beautiful, stories are what makes life engaging and exiting. They aren't just useless crap that you throw overboard as soon as you become "enlightened" - no. Becoming aware of the nature of the game of life makes you deeply appreciate the beauty of stories; it makes you realize why they are there, what their true purpose is.

Does that mean that you have to be all grumpy and "serious" about the game? NO! A game is supposed to be fun, otherwise it wouldn't be a game!

You don't have to take the game serious in order to play it well. As a matter of fact, you can only play the game well if you don't take it too serious; if you take it too serious, you are going to act all stiff and awkward and clumsy and make a terrible mess of things. You are going to be like the proverbial elephant in the china shop, trampling everything to bits and pieces. Only someone who doesn't take it all too serious can be fully invested in it while at the same time being playful and creative; too much seriousness destroys playfulness, creativity and beauty. Life is supposed to be art, life is supposed to be a poem, life is supposed to be a dance. It's a beautiful divine gift, so start treating it like one.

 

[Breakingthewall]

1 hour ago, Bazooka Jesus said:

Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.

- Alan Watts -

decaffeinated coffee for sad people. Suffering is part of the game, we have to play it thoroughly, in depth. human karma is evolution, battle. In the battle there is peace, since that is what life demands. whoever tries to escape from pain, escapes from life. Only if you play seriously, the game is funny 

Edited April 24, 2024 by Breakingthewall

[Guest Bazooka Jesus]

2 minutes ago, Breakingthewall said:

Only if you play seriously, the game is funny 

There is a difference between being sincere and being serious. Learn the difference, enjoy the game.

[Breakingthewall]

1 hour ago, Bazooka Jesus said:

There is a difference between being sincere and being serious. Learn the difference, enjoy the game.

Sincere means that for you is absolutely serious being sincere. If for you being sincere is a joke, you aren't 

[Guest Bazooka Jesus]

@Breakingthewall