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Open a psychology book and you'll read about yourself following predictable patterns.
August 07, 2021 at 15:34
You have enough control to find food. Which allows you to live a short while before you die. lol
August 07, 2021 at 15:32
“Look down on me and you see a fool, look up at me and you see a god. Look straight at me and you see yourself.”
August 07, 2021 at 15:31
Reality contains patterns and connections and cause & effect. You can interpret that as "information" if you want but it's not. "Information" is just ...
August 07, 2021 at 15:27
Sure, but it was at a very high cost to ourselves.
August 07, 2021 at 15:25
Privatize everything and you have anarchism without chaos.
August 07, 2021 at 07:03
Something exists, is an absolute truth. It's not refutable because the refutation would prove it true.
August 07, 2021 at 07:01
Truth is the same across all nations and races and languages. Once you know the truth you do not need to translate anything. It's not found in books.
August 07, 2021 at 06:59
Humans don't exist, so neither does our behavior. Only reality exists, and reality is eternal cause and effect. "Humans" are just a tiny aspect of tha...
August 07, 2021 at 06:57
Morality is just fairness. Once you realize that everything will become simple and clear.
August 07, 2021 at 06:51
I'm not basing my statement on any book, but reality. Either Tao is just the old world for consciousness or the book is nothing but nonsense.
August 07, 2021 at 06:48
Anything beyond the mind is "magic". Anything beyond the senses is "spiritual".
August 07, 2021 at 06:46
Freedom.
August 07, 2021 at 06:44
No. I'm just a sociopath. So i appear robotic. See, now you wish I was a bot.
August 07, 2021 at 06:39
To avoid conflict is to avoid reality and also yourself, and to avoid reality and also yourself is to harm yourself.
August 07, 2021 at 06:38
Better = That which gives more pleasure overall, taking into account space and time.
August 07, 2021 at 06:35
I never said those theories were invalid. I only said there is no actual evidence of matter or light. But only colors, sounds, feelings, etc...
August 07, 2021 at 06:33
Cooperation and competition both each have benefits and costs.
August 07, 2021 at 06:30
The good of war is it allows us to express and live the desire for war inside of us.
August 07, 2021 at 06:27
You need to study less and look more.
August 07, 2021 at 06:23
Evil is basically just narcissistic behavior. Good is basically just fair and cooperative behavior. Wrong = unfair Right = fair
August 07, 2021 at 06:20
We see colors changing color, and explain it with the idea that light shined on it and changed the color (hue)
August 07, 2021 at 06:17
A guy on welfare today not only lives better than a king did 5000 years ago, but he also has things the king would consider magic. "Any sufficiently a...
August 07, 2021 at 06:13
Certain patterns of color are associated to certain other patterns and also certain feelings like pain. This is no way proves matter or light exists o...
August 07, 2021 at 06:10
Firstly: Logic is limited and it's limitations are not the limitations of actual reality. Secondly: Man can ask an open ended question for more inform...
August 07, 2021 at 06:00
The human intellect is limited. And there is more dimensions to us then rationality. The more you try and reduce all of life to the intellect the more...
August 07, 2021 at 05:58
If robots become too human then we will be forced to treat them morally for our own sakes.
August 07, 2021 at 05:56
No. Light does not exist. We only have evidence of colors, patterns of colors, and changing colors. When a color changes you claim it was because some...
August 07, 2021 at 05:55
Morality leads to a greater utility then utilitarianism.
August 07, 2021 at 05:54
Balance Two equally opposing forces in perfect eternal balance. Nothingness and somethingness, Light and dark, Up and down, Reality is a paradox.
August 07, 2021 at 05:51
Because I am god. So I know of my existence directly the same way you know of yours. :strong:
August 07, 2021 at 05:48
Incest can produce genetic problems at a much greater level then normal sex. What percentage of the population desires to sex their siblings? Not many...
August 07, 2021 at 05:45
Tao is just the old word for consciousness. Once you realize that consciousness is different from the mind, and that consciousness is the substrate of...
August 07, 2021 at 05:43
It's impossible to conceive of death, nothingness, or unconsciousness. The mind tends to visualize them as total blackness or total whiteness. Neither...
August 07, 2021 at 05:39
This is how psychotherapy works. You re-interpret all your old trauma memories according to your new adult self. Causing it to update your beliefs and...
August 07, 2021 at 05:37
Incest can produce a deformed baby. Therefore it is unethical. Also incest tends to contradict our natural feelings. Meaning we tend not to desire it....
August 07, 2021 at 05:34
If you truly 'lived in the moment' you would not be able to do anything but breathe and observe. A tree would out-live you.
August 07, 2021 at 05:31
Infinity cannot expand. Not because it has that limitation but because the idea is non existent. It's just two words put together that mean nothing.
August 07, 2021 at 05:28
Reality is eternal, omnipresent, infinite, and beyond the mind. You can't explain it, you can only be it.
August 07, 2021 at 05:26
The more "progressive" we try and make society the more primitive it will become. Because we are primitive, and we are not in control.
August 07, 2021 at 05:22
The body does not survive consciousness.
August 07, 2021 at 05:20
That is all just words that stands for maps in the mind that represent patterns of sense data which is patterns of colors.
August 07, 2021 at 05:18
Beauty is in the eye of the bone holder.
August 07, 2021 at 05:17
The ego is the minds projection of itself into the afterlife. From that point of view the ego mind is then ashamed of body death which creates fear of...
August 07, 2021 at 05:14
Humans are nothing but a complex pattern and complexity is very fragile. So we better be very malleable if we're going to continue to exist. Glass sha...
August 07, 2021 at 05:09
Life thrives in warm water. Which is going to increase with climate change. The fish shall inherit the earth. Dolphins will evolve thumbs and be the d...
August 07, 2021 at 05:05
The real power of the conservative party is not in their economic growth, but in their superior alignment to the desires of the natural human being wi...
August 07, 2021 at 05:01
Your real power is in your ability to adapt to the change. Reality is eternally changing and if you were not also you would be soon dead.
August 07, 2021 at 04:59
I thought: "self improvement is masturbation" ? Try self acceptance instead. aka: surrender to god.
August 07, 2021 at 04:57
The mind is limited by point of view and it's constantly changing. "A man can never step in the same river twice for he's not the same man and and it'...
August 07, 2021 at 04:54