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The true nature of our experience.

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offthehook

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@South Florida.

If I were to let go of fear, I would end up in prison anytime soon.

My fear is based on needing to do what's right towards my wife, family, myself and my principles. (Survival & entertainment of the conscience iow)

Yes you are right in what you are saying SF, and when I was in prison I would be experiencing exactly that what you are disclosing here.
But since I rather stay out of prison, I am not in a position to practise your disclosure on an uninterupted, everlasting basis.

But you are right... But only under circumstances though.

If we were to live in a perfect world without oppression whatsoever, Oh man, I would love practising this state of mind and it'd be great having everybody doing the same.

I've been attending 'Rainbow Gatherings' where some of this mindset is beeing practiced and promoted amongst affiliates. I liked it a lot, and can now do it whenever I feel it beeing appropriate.
Most of the time though, it will be just in the back of my head as a possible option to go about life too.
My present lifestyle would not let me though.
 
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mrcreosote

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In 2 minutes he'll start another thread saying the exact same thing.

Low budget guru with a failure to launch problem.

I may start a thread stating "Peanut Butter is God".

Why? You ask.

"Because I said so. Everyone else is wrong. Sorry you can't see it and I certainly can't prove it, but nonetheless...Peanut Butter is God."
 

dank.frank

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Actually, this thread never actually existed. Nor did the computer on which the thread was created. Nor the words typed in it. All those things are mere creations of our egos that have out of some need allowed our sensory perceptions to fabricate these things out of fear...of something...or something...

In fact...this thread wasn't here yesterday...nor will it be here tomorrow - it only exists as we are aware of it in this very moment...

:joint:



dank.Frank
 

southflorida

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@dank.Frank: in relation to your question "what good does this information do for humanity?" the answer is simple.

being aware of the truth in itself is the good.

living in an illusion is what leads to suffering and struggle.

as far as the experience occuring "now" being the only thing ever going on...is simply a fact and the truth that can be confirmed by you in your own experience.

just answer the question honestly...have you actually ever been anywhere except now in your experience?

...not in your thinking, but in your actual direct experience?

the answer will be NO.

past and future are impossible, except in one's thinking

and this thinking about past and future always and only occurs in the now

as far as the "perceptions" of old building or anything else for that matter that you or anyone else is ecperiencing, I have already covered this extensively.

these are occuring inside your consciousness, inside your imagination, and all that is indirect, meaning that what you are perceiving is not what is actually there, but instead is a cartoon-like, or a movie-like projection inside your consciousness.

very similar to how a movie is projected onto a movie screen when you go to the movie.

we are all simply hypnotized by our mind, by our beliefs and assumptions, and if we let go of our thoughts and pay attention to our experience you would clearly see what I'm pointing at is the truth.

the primary question is are you ready to let go your beliefs and assumptions and actually look what is occuring in your experience?

instead of being hypnotized by your thoughts and concepts?
 

dank.frank

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Again, what you are saying stems from Carl Jung - it's called humanistic existential psychology - in case you weren't personally aware of this - you are not the first person by a long shot to present this way of thinking to me...it's why I keep telling you I understand it.

However - I have a problem with much of it in that I don't see it adequately explaining the fullness of what we know / understand to be the human experience. It leaves too much undefined.

I think reality is created by the individual - from a psychological stand point - in that what one believes to be real - IS REAL. The most simple demonstration of this is if one is placed under hypnosis and told an ice cube is a hot coal. When handed the ice cube, their skin suffers actual physical burns, responding just as if they had been handling a hot coal. See, in this example, reality is construed by what the mind ultimately knows SHOULD happen, however, THE PHYSICAL reality is in fact unchanged - the truth - the truth is the person was given an ice cube...this shows exactly how powerful the nature of TRUE BELIEF in something is...and how powerful the mind is, once it has formed an understanding of how things, by physical laws, relate to one another.

The same can be done in reverse - giving a hot coal and telling one it is ice - while the person DOES NOT react to the stimuli of being burned - the skin is still damaged, albeit unknown to the mind.

This says, while the mind is powerful enough to convince itself of something that is not (to be physically burned by ice) - the mind however, can not ultimately change certain facts about this world. (fire damages the flesh, regardless of an awareness to the stimuli) Which goes directly back to where I have said, if I punch you, you bleed...if you jump off a building, the end result is splat at the bottom...

There are seemingly NO limitations to what the MIND can convince itself of - thus reality being created by the mind - HOWEVER - the BODY - and everything else, are still subject to a set of known facts that help define in great depth what takes place in nearly every interaction / action / reaction on this planet.

This can be further experience with emotions - another simple example is if a person truly believes their spouse is cheating on them - they experience a broad range of emotions from rage to depression - and they inflict that emotion onto their spouse - even though the reality is there is no unfaithfulness taking place.

Meaning, that regardless of the actual facts - what is REAL to us in our individual experience, is what we choose to believe...and therefore we manifest the results of such beliefs in our life...and thus by default it becomes our reality.

This means - we can believe what is not real - and still have it be our literal reality....and therefore - emotive reality is subjective - NOT a singular set constant to be understood, but rather a factorial that can be manipulated based on our understanding or belief of something...

WHICH, is why I have asked you, as to what benefit is gained by your way of thinking...and how does it contribute to our understanding of what is not perceived, but what is in fact, real.

being aware of the truth in itself is the good.

living in an illusion is what leads to suffering and struggle.

^^^ You provide THIS as an answer - but it is merely an undefined statement.

Now this by default takes me BACK to again - without any sort of side stepping - WHAT is truth? What is illusion?

From a psychological stand point - even truth, in the emotive sense, is a direct reflection of our construed reality and therefore subjective. The only things that can be determined as factually true - are those things which can be physically tested, tried, and laws regarding their relationship to other things, clearly defined.

Just as in the spousal example above, IF - both parties involved accepted that each was going to live by a predetermined set of
fundamental laws that each one was physically incapable of breaking / straying outside of - ONLY THEN - could there ever be a 100% emotive truth / reality in which both co-existed harmoniously.

However, because of CHOICE - the only reality that exists when dealing with the emotive self, is the one we create via what we choose to believe about a given situation...

Ultimately, concluding - All this says - is that there are physical FACTS - unchangeable laws that the entire universe is subject to. Our psychological reality does NOT fall into this category - and it is our emotions / experiences / beliefs that shape our PERSPECTIVE on reality - but they do NOT ultimately change reality itself...not in the physical sense.

WHAT ultimately is the nature / fundamental existence of a consciousness - IF matter can be measured, what is it that actually CAUSES a body to live, breath, exist, if when immediately after death, before decay, ALL particles of matter are still EXACTLY the same, still present - nothing technically different, then WHAT causes a person to actually LIVE...what is consciousness?

^^^ and this part?



dank.Frank
 

southflorida

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@dank.Frank:

the true "nature" of our experience, is what I called this thread.

and that's for a reason.

that reason is quite simple: if we actually observe the nature of our experience, what we can clearly see is that it is always and only occuring now.

...in other words, we can say for a fact that...I am, or I exist, or I am experiencing this moment....etc

...in reality, this "now-experience" is the only thing we ever have going on.

...in fact, there has never been anything but experiencing occuring in our consciousness/awareness.

...our consciousness/awareness is experiencing this experience here and now....and always and only, here and now.

...I think if one is completely and brutally honest with one-self, no one will dispute this :biggrin:

everything else that we can say about our experience will be in the domain of concept, and this occurs in what we call the "mind."

...in other words - it is an interpretation of data collected by our nerve endings and delivered to a brain, where that data is turned into what we perceive (see, hear, taste, feel, smell).

what the "mind" is? - is an interesting question of course, and the answer to this if taken to the foundation will be - we actually don't know what mind is.

...we have a lot of beliefs and assumptions, but those are thoughts, simple concepts about what the "mind" is, but we can't say for sure what the mind actually "is."

...the same with what we call our "self"

...we have a lot of beliefs and assumptions, but - once again - those are only thoughts, simple concepts about what the "self" is.

...this includes the body and mind, since the only thing that makes our body and mind "ours" is a thought that we think in our mind.

...before this thought there is only a body and a mind

...the "mind" is an added concept.

...btw...most folks ignore this fact.

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now, to grasp what I'm trying to say, one has to make a crystal-clear distinction between experiencing (what is always occuring now in our experience) and concept (thoughts, concepts, beliefs, assumptions, convictions, view-points, etc)

if one doesn't make this distinction he will believe and assume that concepts ARE experience.

...and this is clearly NOT-SO!

...experience and concept are two different things.

one is primary (experience)

the second is secondary (concept)

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this means that concept is occuring inside of experience, and has a different nature than experience.

...until one clearly sees this and becomes aware of this, he will be a bit confused about the nature of his experience.

...the confusion will obviously come from thoughts (concepts)

...inside of experience itself...there is no confusion

...experience is not even confused by thoughts

...thoughts are confused by themselves in relation to themselves

without attachments to thoughts there is only experiencing, and in reality with thoughts there is also only experiencing

...but the thoughts simply veil this fact and make it seem as if there is someone thinking and doing stuff

...but "seems like" and "reality" are two different things

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You have NEVER ONCE answer the simple question - What GOOD does it do to understand these things - HOW does it actually benefit a person to be more aware of the present - WHAT ultimately is the nature / fundamental existence of a consciousness - IF matter can be measured, what is it that actually CAUSES a body to live, breath, exist, if when immediately after death, before decay, ALL particles of matter are still EXACTLY the same, still present - nothing technically different, then WHAT causes a person to actually LIVE...

^ i believe i can answer this question.

this question leads to the essential (essence from which all extrapolates) question:

WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF HUMAN LIFE? (ACTUALLY SHOULD READ "SENTIENT ENTITY LIFE")

In the philosophy of consciousness, sentience can refer to the ability of any entity to have subjective perceptual experiences, or as some philosophers refer to them, "qualia".[1] This is distinct from other aspects of the mind and consciousness, such as creativity, intelligence, sapience, self-awareness, and intentionality (the ability to have thoughts that mean something or are "about" something). Sentience is a minimalistic way of defining consciousness, which is otherwise commonly used to collectively describe sentience plus other characteristics of the mind

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentience



according to my yoga the answer is to return to source. returning to source is a "spiritual caliber of conciousness" statement. we were in omni-land (all knowing, all perceiving, etc...). we created out of and still spiritually linked to god. we descended (separate, but not apart). we are now in a spiraling upward migration back to the source caliber of conciousness. just as crack, excess alcohol, meth., etc... are negative spiritual practices we can perform positive spiritual spiritual practices that positively influence us up the spiritual migration path towards the original god caliber of consciousness . the aliens eds i keep linking to affirm this idea to be held by higher centers of consciousness we call extra dimensional eds). the eds seem (according to my interpretation) to agree with many of southflorida's assertions.

i'm not sure if southflorida has any idea how much attention has been given to his assertions not only by humans on earth for thousands of generations (yes, that long), but actually by all sentient entities over an infinite number of galaxies for millenniums of millenniums!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium
 

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these threads are always fun!

but to be honest i am 99% sure that SF needs to get out of the heat for a minute so he can understand what i experience when i read about the nature of our experience


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we should start a thread about who's favorite color is actually the coolest color:ying:
 

southflorida

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Life is pointless and meaningless...fundamentally.

Life (or experience) is always simply...what it is.

Meaning comes from thoughts. Meaning is a secondary process. Meaning is not an inherent part of experience.

If we believe our purpose in life is to pursue meaning—to discern and exist within life’s inherent meaning—even an honest and intelligent effort to fulfill this purpose will lead to disappointment.
 

southflorida

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@South Florida.

If I were to let go of fear, I would end up in prison anytime soon.


oops...forgot to respond to this post of yours...offthehook :)

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fear is something we all generate...inside our thinking

there is NO FEAR in a direct experience NOW.

fear is simply an unwillingness to experience our own mental projection of a scenario (unwanted experience) in the future.

...please notice the fact that all four elements of fear are produced by you.

1. the unwillingness

2. the mental projected scenario

3. possibility of a future

4. the emotional charge felt in the body once the first three elements are imagined by you in your imagination (mind)

My fear is based on needing to do what's right towards my wife, family, myself and my principles. (Survival & entertainment of the conscience iow)

you don't need fear...but simply an awareness that if you do something that can get you thrown in jail...that it is possible that you might end up there...and then simply do not do those things.

fear is unnecessary...since it is based on an illusion (i.e. there is no possibility of a future.)

Yes you are right in what you are saying SF, and when I was in prison I would be experiencing exactly that what you are disclosing here.
But since I rather stay out of prison, I am not in a position to practise your disclosure on an uninterupted, everlasting basis.

But you are right... But only under circumstances though.

living NOW is the only thing that you have ever really experienced anyway...my question is why try to live in a lie in the first place?

past and future are simply impossibilities...there is simply no such things in an experience itself...ever

...you are trying to impose a mental concept on reality...and most likely suffering the consequences

...explaining to yourself that it's better than jail

but it's not

lying to yourself is never better...imho

If we were to live in a perfect world without oppression whatsoever, Oh man, I would love practising this state of mind and it'd be great having everybody doing the same.

you are living in a perfect world...called the "now-experience"

and this is the only place you have ever lived and ever will live

there is nothing outside now, no possibility of experiencing anythng but this now

because you ARE this NOW-experiencing - ITSELF ;)

I've been attending 'Rainbow Gatherings' where some of this mindset is beeing practiced and promoted amongst affiliates. I liked it a lot, and can now do it whenever I feel it beeing appropriate.
Most of the time though, it will be just in the back of my head as a possible option to go about life too.
My present lifestyle would not let me though.

this, what you're describing is occuring inside your mind, inside your thinking, inside your imagination, and it is all 100% conceptual.

in reality, experiencing NOW is what you are, always have been, and always will be.

...just be honest with yourself, put your beliefs aside, and clearly look into your experiencing of the only moment where you always and only exist...called - here and now :)

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bombadil.360

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...just be honest with yourself, put your beliefs aside, and clearly look into your experiencing of the only moment where you always and only exist...called - here and now :)


hello sf,

lets see, if what we truly are is Consciousness, and Consciousness defined as the awareness that is there independent of the subsequent assemblage of secondary perceptions through the bodily senses (nerve system etc...), then, the description of 'here and now' is completely wrong.

'here and now' only makes sense within the world of secondary perceptions, since if we are able to "go back" to this "pure Consciousness" you speak of, then Time as we experience it through our bodily senses, is no longer, the past, present and future are only conceivable through our experience of sensory perception.

for example, in Mahayana Buddhism as well as in Jewish meditation (mystical Judaism), the perceived world of phenomena, or the world of 'secondary perceptions" is the fragmentation of an Emanation from Mind (Buddhism) or the Sechina (Judaism), but through "meditation", one can go back, or turn around, and "be" before the assembling of the world of 'secondary perceptions'.

however, what distinguishes these ideas from yours, is that to accomplish this, one must train oneself in a sort of 'perceptual diet', so as to purify one's habit of focusing on the 'secondary perceptions', and once this is accomplish, one can slowly start 'remembering' this 'antecedent' world before phenomena is assembled.

once this is done, you are imbued with a special energy that in certain branches of Buddhism is called "The Light of the Mahayana", and in Judaism is sometimes refereed as become a saint "Tzadik".

In Taoism the same applies... one turns away from the phenomenal world, and 'remembers' or one goes 'back to the Tao', thus communing with the Supreme Energy or Tai Chi...

this 'here and now' and life is meaningless and pointless, is also described in a Mahayana Sutra where 'false enlightenment' positions are discussed, many of these "spiritual states" being responsible for the various schisms within Buddhism for example.

just my two cents.

peace
 

southflorida

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hello sf,

lets see, if what we truly are is Consciousness, and Consciousness defined as the awareness that is there independent of the subsequent assemblage of secondary perceptions through the bodily senses (nerve system etc...), then, the description of 'here and now' is completely wrong.

'here and now' only makes sense within the world of secondary perceptions, since if we are able to "go back" to this "pure Consciousness" you speak of, then Time as we experience it through our bodily senses, is no longer, the past, present and future are only conceivable through our experience of sensory perception.

for example, in Mahayana Buddhism as well as in Jewish meditation (mystical Judaism), the perceived world of phenomena, or the world of 'secondary perceptions" is the fragmentation of an Emanation from Mind (Buddhism) or the Sechina (Judaism), but through "meditation", one can go back, or turn around, and "be" before the assembling of the world of 'secondary perceptions'.

however, what distinguishes these ideas from yours, is that to accomplish this, one must train oneself in a sort of 'perceptual diet', so as to purify one's habit of focusing on the 'secondary perceptions', and once this is accomplish, one can slowly start 'remembering' this 'antecedent' world before phenomena is assembled.

once this is done, you are imbued with a special energy that in certain branches of Buddhism is called "The Light of the Mahayana", and in Judaism is sometimes refereed as become a saint "Tzadik".

In Taoism the same applies... one turns away from the phenomenal world, and 'remembers' or one goes 'back to the Tao', thus communing with the Supreme Energy or Tai Chi...

this 'here and now' and life is meaningless and pointless, is also described in a Mahayana Sutra where 'false enlightenment' positions are discussed, many of these "spiritual states" being responsible for the various schisms within Buddhism for example.

just my two cents.

peace

hi bombadil.

you are right in the sense that 'here and now' is only in relation to the world of secondary perceptions, but this is all we have when communicating with each other...since relative terms is all we have to play with :)

direct experience is personal and can't be communicated directly...it can only be experienced directly

as experiencing (consciousness) itself we are simply what is

...but in communicating there is no way to grasp or describe what is, and here and now is the closest way of pointing at what "is"

:tiphat:
 

offthehook

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...please notice the fact that all four elements of fear are produced by you.

1. the unwillingness

2. the mental projected scenario

3. possibility of a future

4. the emotional charge felt in the body once the first three elements are imagined by you in your imagination (mind)

I am very aware of this at pretty much all times, but especially if I were to experience fear.
Using this knowledge, I manage to stay away from fear. If fear overcomes me fysicly, I will recognise this too, wich helps me overcome fysical fear as well.

But the oposite of scare (fear) would be 'care', I believe.
In order to be a good human, It's necessary to care. (> Survival of the conscience)
Even though I manage to deal with most of my fears fairly well, the urge to 'care' means I would need to understand, maybe even sympathise with' other ppls possible fears as well, even though I don't experience these 'fears' myself in the first place. Hence, I will have to adjust my behaviour in accordence.



you don't need fear...but simply an awareness that if you do something that can get you thrown in jail...that it is possible that you might end up there...and then simply do not do those things. F ? FFF ??? FU FU FU FUUUUUUUUuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu ... And not grow weed anylonger?... I Donno man. Ma ego keeps telling me that it's just sooo right a thing to do for the right-now yanno. lol :D

fear is unnecessary...since it is based on an illusion (i.e. there is no possibility of a future.)
In my reality it is yeh, But not in my family's reality.
I can't force my 'fear free reality' unto others who are not aware of this mindset. (wife, children)
(in my book of 'trying to be a good human', I am not allowed to force too much of myself upon others without their consent.)



living NOW is the only thing that you have ever really experienced anyway...my question is why try to live in a lie in the first place?
If others are living a 'lie', then I will need to respect them for living these lies in order not to become oppressive towards these others myself.
If others are oppressive to me because of their lie's, I will do as I please and not acknowledge their lies having merit. (> hence I grow weed)
I need living a lie in order to keep others safe. If I'd life without fear, I would not have a reason to take care, do wreckless things, and end up in prison or lose the house my family lives in.

past and future are simply impossibilities...there is simply no such things in an experience itself...ever

...you are trying to impose a mental concept on reality...and most likely suffering the consequences

...explaining to yourself that it's better than jail

but it's not

lying to yourself is never better...imho

I could not be to sure of that. I think it's not so much a matter of lying or beeing honest to oneself (I'd be aware either way^^), I believe it's more about trying to do what's right.



you are living in a perfect world...called the "now-experience"

and this is the only place you have ever lived and ever will live

there is nothing outside now, no possibility of experiencing anythng but this now

because you ARE this NOW-experiencing - ITSELF ;)



this, what you're describing is occuring inside your mind, inside your thinking, inside your imagination, and it is all 100% conceptual.

Yes. We know that.

in reality, experiencing NOW is what you are, always have been, and always will be.

...just be honest with yourself, put your beliefs aside, and clearly look into your experiencing of the only moment where you always and only exist...called - here and now :)

Been practising that already for a while... Untill other peoples reality kicks in... ^^ lol. :)
 
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dank.frank

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^ i believe i can answer this question.

this question leads to the essential (essence from which all extrapolates) question:

WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF HUMAN LIFE? (ACTUALLY SHOULD READ "SENTIENT ENTITY LIFE")


That's NOT what I was getting at - the question is NOT what is purpose - but rather the question that I asked, in the most BASIC sense - is the part of my question you for what ever reason chose NOT to include when you quoted me...

Which is exactly what allowed the circle jerk to continue...and to think that understanding is found in wikipedia via some scholarly definition is actually IMPOSSIBLE given the contexts of these conversations. The only way such a definition exists is because that was the nature of the experience of whoever wrote it - that DOES NOT make it so, nor does it make it the purpose of ALL beings - that which you posted is just a reflection from one person on what his experience allowed him to construe as purpose. Which remains entirely irrelevant to anyone but to him/her self.

If his experience could be replicated and then placed into a formula that could be tested against the innate experiences of others, you would find there is no two identical formulas - making this NOT a science of any sort - but rather a mere psychological perspective - ie a figment of one singular beings imagination...nothing more than a thought...and electrical current surging through the brain that happened to connect the dots to / within a few synapses...

To be able to repeat that series of connections based on ANY experience of ANY being, would then give rise to the ability to speak a bit more factual on the nature of WHY we are here (purpose) - but again...that is not what I asked at all...not even close, actually.

The question WAS...EXACTLY what I asked - there was NO NEED to interpret it! The question had NOTHING to do with "purpose".

WHAT ultimately is the nature / fundamental existence of a consciousness - IF matter can be measured, what is it that actually CAUSES a body to live, breath, exist, if when immediately after death, before decay, ALL particles of matter are still EXACTLY the same, still present - nothing technically different, then WHAT causes a person to actually LIVE...

THIS is what I asked. Simply because we experience the world differently, there is room for conjecture and interpretation...

HOWEVER - we ALL DO exist - we ALL DO have consciousness - albeit our own personal choice to pursue understandings, creates different degrees of awareness - but...

AND the ability to perceive / interpret data and form experiences DOES NOT create or define consciousness - or what it is that actually MAKES us alive...

To prove this - look at a paraplegic that has no sensation in his entire body - yet they still "live". Look at a person with Alzheimer disease - they lose all control of how to interpret any data via interaction - yet they still "live". Look at a person who is blind or deaf and has no direct way to incorporate those fields of data - yet they still "live".

Again...who cares about subjective "purpose" - Tell me how this way of thinking contributes to our collective understand of:

WHAT causes a person to actually LIVE? HOW is it "we" "exist"?

And that is not a "where did we come from?" question either. That is in fact irrelevant because we ARE here. The question is why aren't we just useless sacks of uncomprehending molecules that are shaped and chained together to form flesh. After all, at death, that is ALL we are...so HOW is it in LIFE, WHILE LIVING - any of that particulate matter becomes "aware"...

My question is MUCH MUCH deeper than some conjecture about perceptions of purpose... :thank you:


dank.Frank
 

dank.frank

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And anyone that doesn't think fear can be DIRECTLY experienced in the present / now - has NEVER had the police at their door while in a medical state obeying and having followed every single nuance of the law to an extent that is consider "radical" by others...

You can live without any notion of future altercations - as there is zero anticipation of any such difficulty that would arise from doing something that otherwise is illegal. Having never been arrested, there is no past thoughts or experience to contribute to the self generation of fear.

However...trust me - when they show up and knock your door - THAT is real, instant fear - in that EXACT present moment - that for NO LOGICAL reason should exists.

Now, if you want to define past / present / future straight down into the notion of nano-seconds, as that is precisely how fast our minds think / process / become aware - well, that in and of itself, while being TECHNICALLY correct - is just a bit asinine.

That would say that the "now" technically exists with in such a small window we are NOT even capable of processing our "experience" until it is over - meaning we ALWAYS live in the PAST - and NEVER the ACTUAL present...because the present is too quickly ever fleeting.

Fear is a natural, built in, innate tool developed to increase the ability to SURVIVE. Fear produces adrenaline...by design, FEAR keeps us "alive"...NOT the other way around.

It's called mutha fuggin' spidey sense bro - and if you don't have it...you're gonna get ate up. :joint:



dank.Frank
 
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