Walker wrote: ↑Sat Jul 30, 2022 8:39 am
You need to specifically point to the gibberish. You know, like I'm a dog who doesn't understand.
No, I don't need to do that, I don't think there is any point in trying to train you.
Good. That's because I'm not a dog.
Now, because I'm not a dog, you need to specifically point to the gibberish, in the way you would to a human, in order to understand that what you thought was gibberish, was an erroneous apprehension (or reception of a transmission), by you.
(Do you understand these three sentences?)
That's really funny.
Imagine that, a dog being able to say it is not a dog.
You are a disgusting excuse for a human being, why, because you cannot even tell yourself you are a human being. You can only lie about such a label, a label you have self admitted you are not even responsible for creating.
Sculptor wrote: ↑Fri Jul 29, 2022 10:39 pm
It's a second hand idea shoe-horned onto Christianity from Greek myth; the idea of the Psyche.
Yes Sculptor, I totally agree with you.
I personally inquired into the nature of selfhood, listening to the words of many spiritual gurus because I was always troubled at the thought of an imposed individual ''I'' that was somehow separated from universe. Insofar as I was conditioned to believe that there was an I here, who was separated by another I there. This ''I'' was a notion that was indoctrinated into me from birth, and it always troubled me, as it felt so wrong, the idea there was an ''I'' inside my head never made any sense to me personally.
It was far easier for me to settle for the wholeness of reality, than to believe it had automonous working separate parts called individual people which after much contemplation turned out to be an illusion.
Religious belief of substance dualism came about when consciousness became so profound and powerful that it artificially separated itself from the rest of nature. But all was not lost, because the same consciousness that branched off from it's roots was able to repair the breach.
Whatever "spirit", "soul", "mind" or "essence" might be all the evidence points to the simple fact that the phenomena that we attribute to the idea is generated by a functioning human body, particularly the brain and associated matter such as the neural matter that extends to the heart and digestive system.
And there is not one scrap of evidence that the mind can exist without that physical structure, but is wholly dependant on its functioning.
It is worth thinking about that people who have had heart transplants can acquire characteristics from the donor heart. Although, hard to prove, hosts of new hearts have reported liking things that their donors used to like in their lifetimes with enough force to ask their surgeons to know more about the likes and dislikes of their donors.
The human heart carries a significant amount of brain matter. The idea of a "heart felt" emotion is more accurate than we ever knew.
I agree, and well said, the heart was ''high'' jacked-up by the religious freaks into an idol of worship, where this self idolatry was idolised to be divine, even though there is no self here to idolise. The apparent self can never know it has a heart except what is imagined, made up via the capacity to conceptualise what has never been seen, except as a concept known.
Walker wrote: ↑Sat Jul 30, 2022 9:31 am
(I've heard I'm incomprehensible, so speak up if you don't understand.)
We get it, no problem, try not to fight too hard with your own shadow, you will never be able to get ahead of it, as much as you try, it will always be ahead of you.
We get it, ok...stop boxing yourself in the head, you'll give yourself a mighty headache, that could possibly turn into a ( ''MY'' grain )...and we all know, even you, what happens to a seed once it gets planted.
Iwannaplato wrote: ↑Fri Jul 29, 2022 8:42 pm
Today is a good day to die comes from a Native American and didn't mean something Buddhist-ish.
Good observations. This particular one ... that saying about a good day to die ... it may have even come from a movie, about American aboriginals.
It does sound romantic though, doesn't it. Rather, New Agey.
(I've heard I'm incomprehensible, so speak up if you don't understand.)
I would say the rest of his post in New Agey. I don't think most New Agers quite have the spirit of 'It's a good day to die.' Especially in the before battle sense it was originally used, but even in the more ordinary sense.
But in the way New Age mixes and matches (and ignores) things from a bunch of traditions and end up being a kind of inward facing virtue signaling Without real committment, sure.
Iwannaplato wrote: ↑Sat Jul 30, 2022 9:47 am
I would say the rest of his post in New Agey. I don't think most New Agers quite have the spirit of 'It's a good day to die.' Especially in the before battle sense it was originally used, but even in the more ordinary sense.
But in the way New Age mixes and matches (and ignores) things from a bunch of traditions and end up being a kind of inward facing virtue signaling Without real committment, sure.
must be true then. 
