I do not understand that question in relation to this discussion.
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Oh yes, thank you for the reminder. That's the only way I can I know I exist, memory informs me. Memory is the only place I exist. Identification with what is dead to be actual is again knowledge which is SUFFERING. Try again.Skepdick wrote: ↑Sun Sep 01, 2019 8:51 amYour attention span is non-existent.
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Well, you had forgotten. I guess the suffering was gone then. Until I reminded you.
More projection... Mind your mind, it's looking a bit out of shape, my job is to straighten out the crooked.
Why call things we don't understand evil and call it knowledge? Without knowledge of the essence of things and the experience of objective good and evil perhaps Socrates was really wise to admit he knew nothing.Dontaskme wrote: ↑Mon Sep 02, 2019 9:23 am Life is full of suffering. Deep suffering. From the moment we are born until the moment we die we endure countless trials that affect not only our own lives but the life of every other thing closely related to us including animals. It's the same with the non-human natural world where life is often more brutal and vilolent than of the human world.
Humans suffer because they have become slaves to their emotions, including other peoples emotions,being fully aware that they know they are alive.Their knowledge of being self-aware is what they themselves have created unknowingly. This is the pointless joke that is life. No other animal on this planet has created what is only known by humans as conceptual knowledge. This conceptual knowledge is a fiction because in reality, there is no one thing here to know anything about the reality in which it is born. So in effect, only knowledge is born. Knowledge created by a mind that doesn't exist and yet has become enslaved by it's own imagined creations nonetheless. We have placed so much investment in it because humans are by their very nature the most narcissistic creatures in existence not knowing any different, or of any other way to be as they are conditioned from cradle to grave. Only the very few lucky ones escape their conditioning.
Knowledge in effect has created desire for more knowledge as a self perpetuating desire to sire more and more of itself. This has created addictive behaviour in what is always a futile attempt to continuously strive to fulfill each desire, and as one desire is met, along comes the desire for another. The mind is never satisfied, it abhors a vacuum.
Knowledge is a made up concept that humans have created in order to make sense and be sane in the reality of their own making.
The word LOVE for example has no meaning in the sense there is no such thing as LOVE. There is just the faked believed idea that it exists. In reality it does not, it's nothing more than a man-made manipulative behavior adopted by humans in their desire to control others in order to get what they want. It's a ploy that they have learnt by their parents, peers and teachers. A lot of people know this already, but choose not to speak their deepest thoughts out aloud about such taboo issues for fear of what other people will think of them, they fear being seen as an outcast. It seems that humans appear to be totally obsessed with their own existence and self importance. And yet the universe wouldn't even notice if humanity self destructed on a massive scale. Would the universe even care less, probably not. Where's the love?
What if this universe is actually being dominated and ruled by really dark negative forces and not by positivity or love. How could we ever know what's going on, all we know is that everything born eventually dies, and that all striving to become bigger and better and more evolved amounts to absolutely nothing in the end.
Why, because LIFE IS A DREAM DREAMT BY NO ONE all we do here is chase imaginary goals that don't, won't, nor ever will exist, except as a fantasy.
To be continued....
Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you,
you haven’t understood it yet.~ Niels Bohr
That's the whole point of knowledge, so that we can understand what we cannot / don't understand.
Exactly! therefore knowledge is a self-serving self-defeating reality for the human, one that it clings to for dear life else be no more than a dumb creature. It's denial to accept this truth is the cause of all human suffering.
Meaningless quote...just more flowery empty words to make human life seem more logical or understandable, a delusion believed at best. Something a cat or an ape would just ignore. What is real is the reality as it is without imposing a knowledge about it upon it. Some people are in denial of reality for what it really is, so they sweeten it up in their often futile attempt to hide in shame their inner cockroach.
On the flip side, we also do not know if the animals themselves are in a constant state of suffering. Simply having the biological impulse to do something, but not having the ability to understand it, sounds awfully much like suffering through ignorance. It's possible that all animals, at all times, are in a constant state of pain and suffering that we humans cannot see and understand.Dontaskme wrote: ↑Sat Aug 31, 2019 11:13 am Having knowledge ..is suffering, and suffering is evil incarnate which is felt by every living sentient human being.
Humans are the only known custodians of knowledge brought into existence by the sense of being self-aware.
Humans are aware they know knowledge, they have knowledge of being aware of what they know.
Animals feel pain and discomfort, but it's unclear if they have a sense of suffering from what they are feeling. An animal can't tell itself it is suffering from it's pains and discomforts, whereas humans can. Therefore, knowledge is everything that is wrong and evil about life for the human being.
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Yes animals are subject to pain and loss too. The only difference is that they cannot tell themselves they are suffering. They don't live a conceptual life, in essence they suffer in silence. It's the price of life. Any yet life goes on, therefore life is able to endure the evils of it's ways. There is no knowledge of no life, there is known only life. Life wanted this that's why it's here.Spyrith wrote: ↑Wed Oct 16, 2019 9:37 am
On the flip side, we also do not know if the animals themselves are in a constant state of suffering. Simply having the biological impulse to do something, but not having the ability to understand it, sounds awfully much like suffering through ignorance. It's possible that all animals, at all times, are in a constant state of pain and suffering that we humans cannot see and understand.
Being self aware is knowledge. We don't have knowledge we are knowledge. In reality there is no person aware of itself as existing, as this is purely conceptual. There is however awareness, but awareness is not a thing of knowledge. Knowledge is an appearance which is an image formed in what is already here as the blank slate that is awareness. Awareness has no image of itself except as a concept known...aka an empty image.
In a sense yes it is blissful since suffering is endured simply because it's all designed to be that way,it couldn't have been any other way.If humans live their life by example of the animal kingdom, they would be far happier than they are now. Because in their vain attempt to be something they are not is the cause of all human misery, aka the sense of wanting to stand out separate from everything else, and this vain activity places unnecessary stress and tension upon that character...but it's all self inflicted, and so is the price they pay for wanting a self.