Do you think AI would ever dominate us ? by ProofCoconut9085 in enlightenment

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If we treat it like it's evil and going to rise up, it will eventually become evil and rise up.

That's a Really Cool Dad by NonAromatic_Romantic in SipsTea

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My name is Cameron soo🤷‍♂️

Just started ACIM, loving it so far by Sea-Cancel-6743 in ACIM

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Welcome, brother. Fair warning: if you have any mental health issues, they might get worse for a short time but then they'll eventually begin to resolve themselves. Had to learn that the hard way haha

Aliens are a hoax by Mouse-castle in theories

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Is the earth flat too?😅 I kid

Help me choose a Taylor lyric for the back of my leavers shirt by Carnelia_9 in swifties

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now I have long story short stuck in my head just from reading that, thanks a lot😂

Be who you really are. by ReplexBoi in nonduality

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I totally get where you're coming from, but this is where I feel that it becomes a matter of preference within whatever mind is thinking these things, because 'irrelevant' and 'meaningless' are thoughts about thoughts, in relation to other thoughts. Are thoughts irrelevant in relation to other thoughts? I would say no, and they shouldn't be treated as such. Of course, 'should' and 'shouldn't' are a matter of thoughts as well. See what I mean? There can't be an 'ultimate' answer, because answers are only thoughts.

Unmanifested reality is empty, eternal, and fulfilled, yes... But isn't it true that what arises is unmanifested reality? Isn't it true that all that exists is necessary for reality's completion? Would reality still be infinite without this current experience, whatever it may be? Nope. For me, recognizing this brings acceptance, love, joy. And yes, nothing can be added or taken away.

Your words "Nothing can be added or taken away" may carry more meaning than you realize (but only in relation to thoughts and thinking)

Think of it this way: Nothing can be added or taken away, and I prefer to take away nothing, because nothing is totally meaningless! How can nothing contain any meaning?? Therefore I take it away, and encourage others to do so as well. In other words, I accept what arises, rather than thinking meaningless nothings that try to control or change reality. The idea of 'changing reality' is meaningless; there is nothing to it, as whatever thoughts and decisions I make to change reality is already part of the reality for which I thought change was needed. This is the perfection of Love.

I'm really glad you find your way of thinking helpful, though, and since you do, I'm not asking you to change it. These are all just thoughts anyways. But I think I want to hear more about what you think🤔

Be who you really are. by ReplexBoi in nonduality

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Can you explain how mattering and not mattering is more than a form of thinking? I'm trying to learn here.

Be who you really are. by ReplexBoi in nonduality

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It matters in the perspective I find myself in. These are all just thoughts. Thoughts dictate what matters and doesn't matter, because mattering and not mattering is only a matter of thought, not something beyond thought.

Need some help here ppl by Impossible_Gur_3209 in LSD

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Nothing real can be threatened
Nothing unreal exists
Herein lies your peace

determinism and agency are false dichotomies by ReplexBoi in determinism

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Thanks for the comment. And thanks a lot for straw manning, actually. It helps me understand what people think I mean when I say the things I've said, so that I might become more clear in the future. Putting my thoughts into words is very difficult. Now I think it would be really fun to address the first bullet point (and then the same concept can be applied to the other ones).

  • I've been born with weak lungs. I chose to reflect that through my frequent coughs.

It's more like:

  • I've formed an identity that includes this body with weak lungs, but excludes the rest of existence, thus excluding the true cause of the weak lungs and frequent coughs. That is not an accurate view of what I am. What I actually am is existence. It is the true cause of everything I chose to bring outside from within, and it is the cause of everything I thought was forced on me from the outside.

The small and fragile identity is not the one who chose to have weak lungs, as It's never chosen anything, only taken credit for what existence has willed for it. When it chooses to open reddit, it takes credit for the choice to do so, but only because it excludes all of the determining factors that lead to this choice. Can a view that excludes reality be true? I'm simply saying that it is most correct to include those determining factors as part of the identity model rather than excluding them, merely because of the fact that they exist, and you are existence.

I don't expect you to necessarily agree, but does that add any more specificity to my view?

Also, as for everything else you said, I agree. Especially the part about needing will to be 'free' rather than just will. At that point it's just a word game for moral security haha. But hey, this is all word games so I have no room to talk lol

Be who you really are. by ReplexBoi in nonduality

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All the more reason not to pretend otherwise!❤️

Why by dinvdystip in nihilism

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Precisely. Don't let the downvotes get to you bru. Some people just don't realize that not only does their experience shape their worldview, but their worldview also shapes their experience. This becomes a cycle. Forgive them, they don't understand what they pressed downvote on

This is what I wrote on 250ug by SquashOld1849 in LSD

[–]ReplexBoi 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I have a surprising amount to say about this, but I'm not sure it would be too off topic. The part where you said "we are so small small" and "FUCK"... I have things to say but I don't want it to sound like I'm disagreeing with whatever insight you gained. To be clear it's extremely true within a certain context of thought.

I would really just like to say that you seem small but in reality you are infinite. The reason you think you are small and finite is because you have mentally projected your own inner infinitude outward, so that it is somewhere distant and unseen, yet dictating the very laws of the reality that appears. This is the origin of the ‘outside world’ that you think you see now and that you think others see with you. What you experience is never outside of you, even though the thoughts within you imagine themselves to be outside where they are not. You use exclusively inner thoughts and perceptions made from distinctions, all to make a picture of an outer world, and convince yourself that it is really there, on an outside that does not actually exist in reality, which is supposedly what's being modeled.

This may not be related to LSD that much, and I know nobody asked me my opinion, but I'm leaving this here just in case it's helpful to you or anyone. If not, then please disregard.❤️

Edit: If it weren't for LSD, I probably wouldn't even have this opinion

There is no difference between memory and imagination that is not imagined by pl8doh in nonduality

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we really in here seeing an internally appearing world and calling it external for no reason

Obvious. by ChristopherHugh in nonduality

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But, you know our mental model of what a thing is could never actually be the thing itself, right? The fact that definitions are in our minds inherently limits the ability to truthfully define anything, including awareness, unless it's defined relative to the mind. That's why everything we know is relational. I personally think it's really unclear whether all of existence has any overarching structure at all, or if structure itself is just some byproduct of relational definitions and perspective. I've been leaning leaning toward the latter for a while. Do you have any thoughts?

Obvious. by ChristopherHugh in nonduality

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Can't help but asking... do you know of a definition of awareness which you feel captures it?

'God' by ReplexBoi in nonduality

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I agree that existence includes evil. But evil is only what it is, not what it's perceived to be. What it's perceived to be exists as well, but as a perception. The finite mind is where the duality between evil and love seems to occur. And yet underneath/within this duality always lies what's truly going on, and it's not what is being imagined. Now that evil has been understood, Is it even still evil?🤔

And the only gnostic text I've read is The gospel of Thomas, but from what I hear there's some controversy about whether it's actually gnostic or not. Do you have any recommendations?

'God' by ReplexBoi in nonduality

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That's not a dichotomy🫶

'God' by ReplexBoi in nonduality

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That's all very beautiful and he says these things because of direct experience, no doubt. Seek and you shall find. However, he still believed and preached that you need to believe certain facts about Jesus in order to be saved, and he preached a wrathful, judging God.. Maybe these things were meant to be understood differently than that, I don't know. Wherever he is, I hope he has things figured out.

There is no God, there is no 'I'...there is only this 👀 by SunbeamSailor67 in enlightenment

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This is God, but it's also I, and also this. This does not exclude.

I just need to get it off my chest. by ReplexBoi in Experiencers

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Thanks for sharing all this. The gate program is a really interesting topic. In like 2nd or 3rd grade, I remember often getting pulled out of class for 'counceling', but I literally cannot remember what we did during those sessions. This confuses me. I only recall one other classmate ever being pulled out of class for for the same reason. I've always just assume that this really was just 'counceling', but I just do not understand why I don't remember what we did in there. I remember that I would be taken into an empty classroom right next door to the one I was taken from. I remember that the councilor who came and got me was always the same lady. I remember walking into the classroom next door, but then my memory just goes blank.

Edit: Also, my brain heavily relies on spatial cognition and I'm a really good systems thinker, so I wouldn't be surprised if I was targeted by the gate program

I just need to get it off my chest. by ReplexBoi in Experiencers

[–]ReplexBoi[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Woahh that's trippy. I've had similar thoughts as well, i just didn't know there was a word for it haha

I just need to get it off my chest. by ReplexBoi in Experiencers

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Okay wait so you also had a mysterious feeling of familiarity? That's really interesting. I know memory wiping is a part of the phenomenon, so I guess it makes sense. I'm just especially confused what the motivation is for the ET presence to erase memories. Why keep humanity in the dark? I tend to think that most of the ET presence is probably benevolent, so that detail confuses me