Insights

[manuel bon]

On 12/12/2024 at 9:17 AM, Staples said:

Insight #3 - Nothing is original.

Everything is derived.

Pythagoras didn't invent shit, that theorem has been true for eternity.

Metaphysically speaking, intellectual property is theft.

No one has ever invented anything. God beat you all to it.

I disagree with this one... How Did you get this insight?

[Staples]

2 hours ago, manuel bon said:

I disagree with this one... How Did you get this insight?

By noticing that everything in reality is constructed.

God both created and is the basic components required for construction.

Therefore anything you construct is only made possible because of the system God designed.

This system is infinitely complete and free of contradictions. Everything possible is derived out of this system.

[manuel bon]

But why something derived is not original?

[Staples]

From Oxford Dictionary 

Derived: obtain something from (a specified source)

Original: present or existing from the beginning; first or earliest

God is original, reality is derived from God.

13 minutes ago, manuel bon said:

But why something derived is not original?

Edited January 2 by Staples

[Staples]

Everything I say and believe is yap.

[Staples]

Justice is violence.

Justice is often necessary.

Edited January 9 by Staples

[Staples]

In spiritual work, everything you deconstruct you ought to reconstruct.

Reconstruct better if you can.

Don't linger in the void, its anti-life.

 

Edited January 9 by Staples

[Staples]

God is total completeness.

[Staples]

I am like a bird stuck in a shop.

I fly from perch to perch searching for a way out. After all, everything I have ever needed to survive meant flying around.

The door is open, escape is easily possible.

But it would never occur to a bird like me to go to the ground to find the exit, because that's where predators lurk.

I know you are like this because I am like this.

How are you like this bird?

Edited January 19 by Staples

[Staples]

There is no body mind connection.

[Staples]

The only difference between Isaac Newton inventing calculus, and you learning it from a textbook, is that Newton derived it and you were taught it.

One can't have true understanding of anything unless you can re-derive it from first principles.

'How did Newton invent calculus?' is a much more powerful question that 'Can you teach me calculus?'.

Edited January 22 by Staples

[Staples]

Humor is a survival tool!

Comedy is a built-in remedy against suffering.

Suffering causes depression and anti-survival patterns.

Thank god we can laugh! Because it's fun and it keeps the fun going.

 

Edited January 22 by Staples

[Staples]

"You need over 1000 IQ points in order to out-perform a trial-and-error approach."

- Nassim Taleb

It's better to be antifragile than intelligent.

 

 

"The person with the most staying power ultimately controls the deal."

- Robert Ringer, in Winning Through Intimidation

Don your turtle shell and get moving.

Edited January 23 by Staples

[Staples]

You can't improve a system without pissing everyone in it off.

Be okay with resistance, and push through like a tyrant if you know you are right.

But you better be damn sure you're right, because if you can't convert people from pissed off to glad quickly they will lynch you.

Edited January 28 by Staples

[Staples]

Mind is Material.

Material is Mind.

All your mind is recorded into physical reality, all of physical reality is created by mind.

Every thought is just a neuron firing, every neuron firing translates to inexplicable consciousness within God.

Consciousness is a direct result of physical reality. Physical reality is only possible within a consciousness.

That is the strangest fucking loop.

[Staples]

Your 'intuition' is just your bias.

A much better tool is strategy.

Strategy is not a plan - it is a system for solving problems.

[Staples]

When I was very young, four or five years old, I was learning about Christianity and religion from my parents.

I asked: What is heaven like?

My mother responded: It's eternal paradise - where you can live forever in joy.

I replied: That sounds boring. Eventually I would do everything, then I would be stuck doing the same things for eternity?

My mother dismissed it.

I went and contemplated some more and realized it would be better to permanently die or wipe my memory than live for eternity. Even a five-year-old can intuit God. It only takes an open mind and a bit of intelligence.

[Staples]

"Chénsī" (陳思) - Classical Chinese term for a "truth-contemplator" or "truth-presenter," often used for court officials who would speak uncomfortable truths to emperors.

"Veridicus" - In ancient Rome, this was someone known as a "truth-speaker" or "truth-warrior," often used for respected judges and philosophers.

"Sōþcyning" - Old English term meaning "truth-king" or "king of truth," used in some Anglo-Saxon texts to describe righteous rulers.

"Satyavadi" - Sanskrit term meaning "speaker of truth" or "truth-warrior," used in ancient Indian texts for those who maintained absolute honesty.

"Hakikat Yolcusu" - Turkish phrase meaning "seeker/warrior of truth," traditionally used for Sufi mystics and philosophers.

"Parrhesiastes" - Ancient Greek term for someone who practiced "parrhesia" - fearless truth-telling, even at personal risk. Often used for philosophers who would speak truth to power.

"Wahrsager" - While now meaning "fortune-teller," its original Germanic meaning was closer to "truth-sayer" - one who speaks genuine truths.

"Rishi" - Sanskrit term for seers and sages who perceived cosmic truths and preserved them through oral tradition.

"Alethiophile" - From Greek "aletheia" (truth) and "philos" (lover), meaning a lover or defender of truth. Used in some philosophical texts.

"Verispex" - A rare Latin term meaning "truth-seer" or "truth-watcher," used for those who guarded against deception.

"Sannyasin" - In Indian tradition, one who has renounced worldly life in pursuit of ultimate truth, though this has broader spiritual connotations beyond just truth-seeking.

"Pravadāchārya" - Sanskrit term meaning "teacher of true knowledge" or "proclaimer of truth."

 

Created with Claude.ai

[Staples]

Implications of an infinite universe:

1. There is no undo button, everything is committed to eternity. 

2. Absolute completeness. There are no contradictions. The universe is complete self-affirming and perfectly functional. Any conceivable alteration to this system is impossible.

3. On the scale of infinity, any finite thing has zero impact or value. If zero sounds too depressing, say undefined or incalculable. The ratio of any finite thing compared to infinity is 0. Any number divided by Infinity = 0. This is a blessing - it takes a lot of wisdom to not feel defeated by this insight. Any alternative system would not function.

[Staples]

“Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.”

- Marcus Aurelius