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Generally speaking, negative thoughts are labeled bad, and positive thoughts are labeled good...my point is, who really gets to decide what's good or bad, evil or beautiful? who has ultimate authority over meaning and interpretation regarding knowledge? If someone wants to preach to me that I am in...

Dontaskme wrote: ↑Wed Jul 14, 2021 6:54 pm I don’t have any dark and worrying thoughts.
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I hate life, because it’s just an endless stream of suffering and pain for the most part.

I can't see how the two go together, but if you're OK with it, who am I to judge...

This sounds like a rational exit from hell. Are there obstacles to the method? Every method has obstacles :-) Its like learning to ride a bike - one will fall off multiple times until, somewhen, you find the balance and all is well. Ok.. a bit more info: I found it to be a multistep process, first ...

But this internal awareness - like anything else - can be practised and it can be integrated into how one functions - and over time it becomes the new normal (on looking back: this has been one of the best things ever happening to me). This sounds like a rational exit from hell. Are there obstacles...

I get what you are saying. But what you are pointing to is all based on the knowledge of conceptual understanding via association with meaning based on human belief systems that have been artificially formed over decades and decades of mental conditioning and programming that are past on from gener...

Everything we can talk about exists as a concept - there is no other way to express anything without using concepts strung together in sentences which again provide some sort of explanation or definition... Within this "world of concepts" there really is no difference between the concepts ...

Also, to say that pain is unavoidable, but suffering is optional, is like saying: eating a strawberry chocolate cupcake is not an enjoyable experience, the enjoyment is purely optional. It's irrational, because a cupcake is usually very enjoyable. Yes, good point - but only to a degree... I think c...

I used to say things like that to myself all the time, but then one day, I just suddenly got hit with the reality of it all. It's real, suffering is real, it's really happening. It's not something that can be ignored in the hope it will go away, suppression is futile. Pain and suffering come as one...

All I want is for the pain, and suffering in the world to stop. Especially the suffering of animals, but how can we make it stop, we can’t can we? I just want it all to stop. As I see it, all you can do, is to make the pain stop inside yourself (by understanding who suffers and what causes sufferin...

My father would have been the first to joke about his own death, as I do mine. When people are afraid of something they joke about it… (people are afraid of what they do not understand) Better try to understand what life and death are - and to whom they actually happen… once you do, joking about it...

Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Sun Jul 11, 2021 4:00 am

AlexW wrote: ↑Sun Jul 11, 2021 3:59 am

Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Sun Jul 11, 2021 3:57 am
That's "unconsciousness."

Maybe you should read the whole post….

Yeah, I did.

And apparently didn’t understand it… no problem.

Yes, but "consciousness" is not a lone property. It's always "consciousness OF something," and that something is some reality that is certainly not merely linguistic. There is a "state" of pure consciousness where there is no one left to be conscious of anything That's...

There is a "state" of pure consciousness where there is no one left to be conscious of anything - and, there is also no thing to be conscious of - yet, there still is "consciousness" - but it is without any opposite. Do you often have this experience? My Father had it before he ...

Yes, but "consciousness" is not a lone property. It's always "consciousness OF something," and that something is some reality that is certainly not merely linguistic. No, thats not actually true. There is a "state" of pure consciousness where there is no one left to be...

“Religion is man-made. Even the men who made it cannot agree on what their prophets or redeemers or gurus actually said or did “ I think most religions - no matter if they speak about a God or negate such a being (eg Buddhism) - are based on "special" experiences of such a "God"...