How is it to be an average person?

[Genius100x]

@Schizophonia @LoneWonderer @Princess Arabia @El Zapato @hyruga

If someone can't articulate themselves well, how can one write a useful answer? I couldn't even understand yet what she even wants to become. She has been writing very short answers. At least we should know the context or background. 

Or if it's too subtle or complex to put into words, then this thread is pointless. I m seeing only mental masturbation here. Not real solutions. 

Edited October 25 by Genius100x

[Princess Arabia]

2 minutes ago, Genius100x said:

@Schizophonia @LoneWonderer @Princess Arabia @El Zapato @hyruga

If someone can't articulate themselves well, how can one write a useful answer? I couldn't even understand yet what she wants to become. She has been writing very short answers. At least we should know the context or background. 

I guess we kind of know what she means because of knowing a little about her background here on the forum. She has posted stuff before that implies she's a bit off and crazy. @SugarcoatYou know I'm messing wit ya, and I know you're enlightened so I can call you crazy and have you cracking up over there.😅

[Genius100x]

1 minute ago, Princess Arabia said:

I guess we kind of know what she means because of knowing a little about her background here on the forum. She has posted stuff before that implies she's a bit off and crazy. @SugarcoatYou know I'm messing wit ya, and I know you're enlightened so I can call you crazy and have you cracking up over there.😅

I get it. 👍🏼👍🏼

[Schizophonia]

If my topics worked as much.

Edited October 25 by Schizophonia

[caspex]

It's full of suffering. You're always in your head about something related to your past, present or future. You are relatively hopeful. You believe you'll die the way you think you'll die, with low probability of dying a different way.

You often find life challenging and confusing, so you go find momentary pleasures in alcohol, video games, sugar, the internet. If you're more developed then  it's community, hobbies and other activities.

You have a set idea of how your life should proceed, but often make compromises in that regard.

The average seems peaceful to the average mind and is desirable to the average mind. In reality, it ignores it's short comings and problematic behaviour to keep itself sane.

In reality, if a spiritually advanced mind was a perfect slab of meat, the average mind would be one filled with maggots. It'll not know that it's a bad thing, although it constantly feels the maggots wriggling throughout causing problems. That's because it doesn't know what it means to be maggotless. Regardless, it still believes it's better than others because it might have little less maggots than other slabs of meat around it.

Overall what it's like to be average is to have a busy mind that's hallucinating the collective illusion, with its fate largely decided by a combination of luck, moments of insight and a few life altering decisions.

 

In my opinion, regardless of where you start, be it a below average mind, average, above average, or somewhere completely off the path, you can still achieve some spiritual growth. The mountain has multiple paths to lead to its peak and some paths are more treaded on than others.

[enchanted]

7 hours ago, Sugarcoat said:

I could describe my own general experience and you would recognize that it’s not average.

Let's hear it! I'm curious 

[Hojo]

Normal person is a made up government term no one is normal we are just pretending to be for societies sake.

If anyone is left alone they suddenly stop being normal.

If anyone was normal the government wouldn't have had to make how to be a person videos in the early tv eras. Its just made up to grow a society. They told it to the old people the old people tell it to their kids and down the line.

Edited October 26 by Hojo

[Carl-Richard]

What even is an average person?

[Keryo Koffa]

Hate to break it to you guys, but if you struggle with knowing what the "average person" points to, it's probably because you're that average person 😁

[Kksd74628]

Spiritual people's ego is so full on itself thinking that they are somehow special. When I think about the opposite of normal I think of a word exceptional which I don't believe many here being. Tate is exceptional, Frank is exceptional, Leo is exceptional.

[Sugarcoat]

14 hours ago, Princess Arabia said:

Even if they're average and normal, they'll think or say they're weird. Not that they don't show it around you. My cat probably thinks I'm weird. Shit, people around me, thinks I'm weird, and I think they're weird; whose right. That's what I mean. It's a matter of opinion. I think I'm the most normal person on the planet. Now, that's weird.😜😜

Average still exists, and I think some average people might think they are weirder than they are

[Sugarcoat]

14 hours ago, LoneWonderer said:

this is a gross oversimplification but I'd define average as anyone in stage orange and below. Again this is an oversimplification as each stage has incredibly acomplished individuals outside of the norm. For me average also means conforming to your culture, tribe, customs, traditions beliefs withought questioning anything. In that sense yes, I also don't understand how people can live their lives this way buuuuuuut it's also true I was brought up questioning everything. If I'd been born in a different family, under different circumstances I'd probably also be "average" and think "average".

That’s a decent definition. I’d say I agree for the most part. 

[Sugarcoat]

14 hours ago, Schizophonia said:

NPCs don’t put mayonnaise in a cake 🤔

Hehe

[Sugarcoat]

14 hours ago, Genius100x said:

@Schizophonia @LoneWonderer @Princess Arabia @El Zapato @hyruga

If someone can't articulate themselves well, how can one write a useful answer? I couldn't even understand yet what she even wants to become. She has been writing very short answers. At least we should know the context or background. 

Or if it's too subtle or complex to put into words, then this thread is pointless. I m seeing only mental masturbation here. Not real solutions. 

I have written before about my own situation that is very much not average . So sometimes I ponder, how is it to be an average person? What’s their experience of having a normal functioning self? That’s it pretty much 

[Sugarcoat]

14 hours ago, Princess Arabia said:

I guess we kind of know what she means because of knowing a little about her background here on the forum. She has posted stuff before that implies she's a bit off and crazy. @SugarcoatYou know I'm messing wit ya, and I know you're enlightened so I can call you crazy and have you cracking up over there.😅

I’m not enlightened I think lol don’t know where you got that from but thanks. And yes I’ve written about my crazy situation before

[Genius100x]

7 minutes ago, Sugarcoat said:

I have written before about my own situation that is very much not average . So sometimes I ponder, how is it to be an average person? What’s their experience of having a normal functioning self? That’s it pretty much 

I am sorry I didn't know your background. I can somewhat understand now. Sometimes even I get stuck in such things. 

Edited October 26 by Genius100x

[Sugarcoat]

13 hours ago, Schizophonia said:

If my topics worked as much.

?

[Sugarcoat]

13 hours ago, caspex said:

It's full of suffering. You're always in your head about something related to your past, present or future. You are relatively hopeful. You believe you'll die the way you think you'll die, with low probability of dying a different way.

You often find life challenging and confusing, so you go find momentary pleasures in alcohol, video games, sugar, the internet. If you're more developed then  it's community, hobbies and other activities.

You have a set idea of how your life should proceed, but often make compromises in that regard.

The average seems peaceful to the average mind and is desirable to the average mind. In reality, it ignores it's short comings and problematic behaviour to keep itself sane.

In reality, if a spiritually advanced mind was a perfect slab of meat, the average mind would be one filled with maggots. It'll not know that it's a bad thing, although it constantly feels the maggots wriggling throughout causing problems. That's because it doesn't know what it means to be maggotless. Regardless, it still believes it's better than others because it might have little less maggots than other slabs of meat around it.

Overall what it's like to be average is to have a busy mind that's hallucinating the collective illusion, with its fate largely decided by a combination of luck, moments of insight and a few life altering decisions.

 

In my opinion, regardless of where you start, be it a below average mind, average, above average, or somewhere completely off the path, you can still achieve some spiritual growth. The mountain has multiple paths to lead to its peak and some paths are more treaded on than others.

Thank you for your answer🙏🏻 it was well articulated, I can see what you’re saying 

[Sugarcoat]

10 hours ago, enchanted said:

Let's hear it! I'm curious 

I won’t go in to it so much, but one aspect is that I feel severely disconnected from myself and like I barely exist, not in a spiritual way. My mind is often quite blank and I feel disconnected from my thought processes. If you google it what pops up is like depersonalization but I don’t think it’s that but it’s somewhat similar 

[Sugarcoat]

8 hours ago, Hojo said:

Normal person is a made up government term no one is normal we are just pretending to be for societies sake.

If anyone is left alone they suddenly stop being normal.

If anyone was normal the government wouldn't have had to make how to be a person videos in the early tv eras. Its just made up to grow a society. They told it to the old people the old people tell it to their kids and down the line.

Average person includes a little weirdness. Everyone is a little weird sometimes, especially when alone but I still think the average person exists.