Dontaskme wrote: ↑Fri Jul 09, 2021 1:22 pm
Age wrote: ↑Fri Jul 09, 2021 12:17 pm
As I have continually POINTED OUT, 'you', human beings, are ABSOLUTELY FREE to choose to BELIEF absolutely ANY thing you. So, to me, there is NOTHING wrong with HAVING a belief about ANY thing, including about what 'feels true'.
The VERY REASON WHY 'you', human beings, HAVE BELIEFS about what 'feels true' to each of 'you', individually, is so that during the evolving process that 'you' are ALL going through 'you' will come to discover, learn, and understand WHY having and holding BELIEFS in things, which are NOT ACTUALLY TRUE AT ALL, but ONLY 'feel true', is ACTUALLY WRONG, and in fact is to your own detriment.
Ok, if you say so.
But I don't agree that to be free to believe what feels true, is wrong as you imply.
WHY would you even begin to think that I "implied" what you wrote here, when I CLEARLY STATED;
to me, there is NOTHING wrong with HAVING a belief about ANY thing, including about what 'feels true'. ?
Dontaskme wrote: ↑Fri Jul 09, 2021 1:22 pm
For me, the meaning of the word ''feels'' is a synonym likened to know, or sense is true, meaning it's innate to being.
But how does this work when 'you', human beings, inform each other of what "feels true" to each of 'you' individually but which is DIFFERENT?
Obviously what is, so called, "innate" to each of 'you' individual 'beings' is NOT ACTUALLY innate to thee One and ONLY True 'Being'.
Dontaskme wrote: ↑Fri Jul 09, 2021 1:22 pm
Age wrote: ↑Fri Jul 09, 2021 10:36 am
I will make it easier for you by directing this question to you directly "dontaskme".
When you express "yourself", (thoughts), in this forum do you express what you BELIEVE is true, or do you express what you do NOT BELIEVE is true?
Both, sometimes I express what I do not believe is true, and what I do believe is true.
WHY do you express what you do NOT even BELIEVE is true, here in this forum?
Dontaskme wrote: ↑Fri Jul 09, 2021 1:22 pm
Age wrote: ↑Fri Jul 09, 2021 10:36 amIf it is the former, then when I wrote;
Human beings just expressing what they BELIEVE is true, is ACTUALLY True, and NOT an assumption. Remember you did ask me if 'it' was an assumption?
I was just CLEARING UP what I ACTUALLY WROTE compared to what you expressed I wrote, to which you asked if this was an ASSUMPTION of mine.
Ok fair enough, that's understandable.
Dontaskme wrote: ↑Fri Jul 09, 2021 11:00 am
I personally do not believe in a creator that is separate from creation.
Age wrote: ↑Fri Jul 09, 2021 10:36 amAnd the reason you do NOT believe this is BECAUSE it is an ABSOLUTE IMPOSSIBILITY to even begin from. And, if ANY one tells you otherwise, then just ask them HOW could this even be a possibility, let alone be an actuality? and WATCH how they can NOT explain HOW.
What I've suggested is the nondual take on reality, that cannot be comprehended simply because to do so would create the illusion of duality, where there is a divide between knower and the known, or the creator and the created.
If ONE take on Reality, Itself, can NOT be comprehended because to do so would simply create a CONTRADICTION, then that, to me, STRONGLY SHOWS that that ONE take is NOT absolutely True, Right NOR Correct of Reality, Itself.
Also, WHY even use just ONE take of Reality, Itself?
Obviously ONE take, or a MAJORITY of takes, on Reality, Itself, does NOT necessarily mean that ANY of those 'takes' (or tokes) is thee ACTUAL True, Right, and Correct 'take'. There can ONLY be One True, Right, and Correct 'take' on Reality, Itself. Which means ALL of the other 'takes' are 'mis-takes'.
Dontaskme wrote: ↑Fri Jul 09, 2021 1:22 pm
It's no wonder the idea of nonduality is rejected, that's normal, because the sense of there literally being an 'I' on the inside and another 'I' outside of 'my I ' is very palpable and real.
That may be palpable and real to 'you' now, as it was to 'me' previously, but there being ANY thing more than just A One and ONLY 'I', to 'me' NOW, is just PURE ILLOGICAL and NONSENSICAL.
Dontaskme wrote: ↑Fri Jul 09, 2021 1:22 pm
Age wrote: ↑Fri Jul 09, 2021 10:36 amBut pain can be good, and thus absence of pain can be bad. But OBVIOUSLY this all depends on what EXACTLY is being talked about and referred to.
I do not think pain can be good.
If the body 'you' are in steps, for example, on a nail, but the foot, of that body, is completely numb and so feels NO pain, then that body could keep walking around with a foot getting further and further infected without you knowing, which would NOT be good. Whereas, if the foot was NOT numb and so pain was felt, then this would BE GOOD for keeping that body and foot healthy AND well.
Dontaskme wrote: ↑Fri Jul 09, 2021 1:22 pm
I think the reality for a sentient feeling creature is either pain, or the absence of pain. There is no pleasure in pain. But nevertheless, pain is unavoidable, even too much pleasure is the sole cause of pain.
If this is what you 'now' want to 'think' instead of 'believe', then that is okay with me.
But OBVIOUSLY you want to STICK with these thoughts, or BELIEFS, and are NOT curious AT ALL in ANY thing else, so then that is okay with me, as well.
Dontaskme wrote: ↑Fri Jul 09, 2021 1:22 pm
I do not think the price of living is worth the addmission, it's too messy and expensive.
WHY do you just keep REPEATING what you think or BELIEVE?
If this is what you think, then this is perfectly fine AND okay with me.
But OBVIOUSLY "others" SEE things DIFFERENTLY than you do here, correct?
Dontaskme wrote: ↑Fri Jul 09, 2021 1:22 pm
It's a high price to pay just to experience the fleeting moments that are the absence of pain. Including both, mentally emotional, and physical pain. I'm actually in favor of never having existed in the first place. I would choose that over life any day. That's why I have a problem with the Christian belief, that the creator God is good. And I'm like err no, the idea that God is good, is misguided, if there is a God, then God is sadistic and evil. And that's the proof right there, that God is impossible.
So, to you, the PROOF you HAVE that God (whatever that is) is IMPOSSIBLE is just because you would choose to never have existed in the first place, because poor little old 'you' has felt some pain while being alive or existing, correct?
Dontaskme wrote: ↑Fri Jul 09, 2021 1:22 pm
Rather, the universe and it's life forms are the result of chemical reactions, quite crude and dumb, no inteligence there at all.
Okay, if this is what you think, then this is what you think.
But, it could now be argued, that with that type of thinking there REALLY IS NO intelligence, AT ALL.
Dontaskme wrote: ↑Fri Jul 09, 2021 1:22 pm
Dontaskme wrote: ↑Fri Jul 09, 2021 11:00 am
I do believe that awareness of pain, is that it is a bad sensation, and that the absence of pain is good.
Age wrote: ↑Fri Jul 09, 2021 10:36 amBut without awareness of pain, then one would NOT KNOW what to avoid.
So do you think it's a good idea to live a life where all we are trying to do is avoid pain, in favor of comfort.
What do you mean, "where all we are trying to do is avoid pain, in favor of comfort"?
If one did NOT feel NOR know pleasure AND pain, comfort AND discomfort, then that one would NOT be a sentient creature. That one would literally be just like a rock, NOT experiencing and/or NOT knowing.
The 'we' in your sentence was referring to sentient beings, correct?
And, if correct, then this MEANS being able to feel or perceive things, in other words, just being able to 'experience' Life, Itself, how It Truly IS. And, obviously one can NOT feel NOR perceive comfort if that one does NOT experience discomfort, and vice-versa.
Dontaskme wrote: ↑Fri Jul 09, 2021 1:22 pm
Is that the lot of sentient life..avoid pain and suffering.
That depends on the 'sentient life', itself.
Dontaskme wrote: ↑Fri Jul 09, 2021 1:22 pm
It seems like an endurance test not worth the ticket, as if we are being gamed by the game, all just to lose in the end anyway. Better to have never had to play the game in the first place. This is just how I see life that is sentient, I personally think it's dumb and stupid, and not the work of an intelligent all loving creator that the christians believe in.
Okay.
If I recall correctly I asked you previously, WHY NOT just kill "yourself" now?
If I did ask you this before, then what was your reply that time?
But if I did NOT ask you this before, then what is your reply this time?