Chet Hawkins

I agree. But that is because that cost is not yet apparent nor will be, necessarily. After all it's actually there already in past uses between the tw...

The banana is still there, inside you. You are partially wrong. Someone may give you another banana. You are partially wrong. Your examples are too li...

I realize that there is no proof. Apparently you do not. To prove something is to know it, objectively. That is not possible. We must live based on a ...

In one sense, that IS the case. Reality is nothing but consciousness. Anger pushing back against fear and desire, and itself, causes mass to exist. Th...

Up to here, we are fine. I respect your temerity and your clear need to find some balance. No it is not. This is wrong. Confidence is informed by fear...

Then you are thinking about things wrongly, is my assertion. And that false confidence born of fear and not anger properly, WILL cost you. Incorrect. ...

So, I could never abandon anger. It all starts in balance and only we (and all choosers) disrupt that balance with delusions. In the context of this t...

Incorrect and obviously so. Confusion results when people claim to know and they really do not (which is every time they make that claim). Your use of...

Exactly! I would say that I rest my case, but you are still not getting it. Confidence IS NOT knowing. Firstly, it cannot be, because one cannot actua...

Well, your answer is the kind I would typically dread. I do not feel the need to engage in deeply academic issues related to philosophy as I find thei...

Excellent. I think we can agree to agree then. What an unusual situation! Yay!

Yes, well, what we call reality is not reality. Physical reality is a shortsighted version of the actual reality, the capital T True reality. We are e...

Abuse is acceptable as a risk and then must be confronted by challenge. Just because abuse exists is no reason to crawl under a rock and pretend to ha...

Exactly! As pointed out to me before this word only can get misused easily and sometimes it is incorrectly taken as derogatory. Awareness requires mor...

Awesome! My first guess was not wrong then. I am ... relieved. Ah, I understand now. This is would say, the way you think of it, is wrong. In others w...

No it does not. To partake of the infinite nature of impossible, is a lower chance in all cases than to partake of some small chance. This is demonstr...

Well that is interesting. You draw the line on this oddly (to me) especially when you also said: So, this statement would tend to show that you value ...

And in that one sentence you just described the accurate definition for the term, 'illusion'. Not addressing some perception in the sense that it was ...

Yay! That is precisely the point. And in general then, on that issue, the person is revealed as an order-apologist acting from a place of imbalanced f...

I disagree. No matter how implausible something is, it is nowhere near the same thing as saying something is objectively impossible. That again partak...

We cannot possess knowledge or truth at all. We can only believe or not. I am NOT saying that one belief cannot be better justified than another. Ther...

I suppose it could be the case that formal Realism is something I would deny. As I understand it in brief. there are arguments about existence which a...

Truth and certainty are the same thing. Anything that is not 100% true is false. If you want to instead speak of truth value, then again STOP using th...

Now you are speaking to my point, and since you said it could be my opponents and not me, then ok. Yes, impossible or unknown proof of any 'knowledge'...

Interesting and I added it to my next up set of books. I do not believe that. Instead, to me, the self simply is. That is to say there is no 'possessi...

"In the yogic culture we evolved a method. We always identify with our ignorance, never with our knowledge." - Sadhguru

Well, that is an amazing question. Thank you for asking it. It is a 'step beyond' (the standard limitations of interaction) for sure. So, would you ag...

1) Admit to the greater truth behind the assertion. It is dangerous to speak in terms of 'knowing'. 2) Realize that all of us are guilty of this troub...

Fear - the singular emotion responsible for order itself as a concept. Fear is an excited state that arises as a result of matching a pattern from one...

So, I think we can end up just agreeing. The sense that you describe here is order apology. But it is less egregious if and only if the ideal is still...

Yes. I will assume that was genuine. OK, yw, on we go! Well your juxtaposition of the absurd and the 'non-absurd' is troublesome. As in I cannot tell ...

I understand everything everyone says to me. They do not return the favor though, in any way, usually. You conflate understanding with agreement.

Yes, well you are now proving that it's hard to get people to understand. I am apparently not a great explainer, who knew. Sticking just to the errone...

OK, interesting. Let's see where this goes. By the way, I answer posts AS I READ THEM. That means I simply start by quoting your whole post and then b...

So, all colloquial definitions for emotions do not really serve in my model. That can be confusing because of habit. But I insist that these words are...

I actually do sympathize. I realize I have not explained the entire model yet. Really though the basis of it is fairly simple. Explaining it thoroughl...

Fear is synonymous with order. It regulates and makes 'laws'. It advocates for stability over change and it is rather obvious, is it not that limiting...

That is true. But acknowledging the 3 paths amid any choice is better than not. In any case your partial quote doesn't capture the right context of my...

We mean an immoral act. Of course, then we must decide how is morality founded and found. Religions would have you believe in the 'sky daddy' or the '...

The trouble comes like many such Zenos paradoxes. You wish to speak and reason in the realm of actual infinities when you cannot do such a thing. Reas...

Well I am lucky as well. I also see people that are more virtuous in some ways than me all over the place. I try to learn, to earn more wisdom by inte...

What was laid out there was knowledge of a sort, but admittedly to me only belief therefore, because knowledge is merely belief. Still, the fullness o...

So, understanding that every choice contains delusion is wise. Then you have to make progress based on relative wisdom, rather than 'being right'. Som...

I have made nothing but assertions. If you are just ignoring my many statements because they are not formally numbered, that would laughable. I do sti...

List them please. Glad you put this in there. What is it about 'immediacy' that is so compelling? This belief is not correct. You might have immoral (...

Anger's sin is laziness. In the righteous rejection of immoral desire and the challenge for a fight towards immoral fear {see here now}, anger is doin...

What is absurd standard? Perfection? Well, I like worthy goals. Certainty is part of perfection only. One step shy of it is not it in any way. Yet it ...

I get it. I understand the (your) position, Thank you for starting this thread as, to me, it has been fun and good work and clearly something people a...

In general, you are discussing what I call the path of anger, of being, which is what empowers real confidence. Of course, if you understand my model,...

You can call it whatever delusional thing you prefer to call it. It still is actually JUST belief. I suppose one could, as we already have, delve into...