TheMadMan

In reality it may be not. But in my hypothetical it is. Got it.

Ok. What is most reasonable for you? Truth in the expense of happiness or happiness in the expense of truth?

I'm not using the plot of the matrix. I only borrow the idea of the matrix and red/blue pill. In my setting you can have the perfect life. Where even ...

Do you make a distinction between reasonable and rational?

Doesn't that imply that you value truth in the expense of happiness?

Would you say that pursuing happiness and well-being is rational behaviour and denying yourself the opportunity for it, is irrational?

Hypothetical: You have learned that your partner who you love has cheated you multiple times. I give the chance to press a button and completely forge...

This is a good point. I myself am not clearly set on what to call rational. That's why I put it in such a question. To arrive at what you are alluding...

Its a hypothetical where you are outside the matrix. The point is on the nature of the choice. Not the possibility of making it. I neither like nor di...

Ok. Which value would you attribute to each choice?

Maybe. The current real world.

Fair enough but that's beside my point. I'll take that as a 'yes' to the title question.

OP said " there is something here that i feel is true but i can't put my finger on what it is." It seems that it is his desire to possess 'the true' a...

If I say "there is only one possible world" then it is true (in some possible world). Now solve this.

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To me religion is the personal journey of growth of an individual. The growth being the unveiling of deeper levels of reality.

If by 'religion' you mean organized religions as they historically are, I too find them ultimately childish and detrimental to the pursuit of truth. I...

Interesting question. If The One is an illusion then each fragment would have an independent reality. Then we would be able to find the unchangeable g...

I'm assuming there is no electricity/power. 1. High quality bow - Long range 2. Katana - Close range 3. Antibiotics - as much as possible 4. High qual...

Simply put, a subject can consciously manipulate an object. An object cannot consciously manipulate anything. The key word in this case is 'consciousl...

"I shall leave all my money in my will, to whomever gives me immortality"

The best answer you could give to him is "Ok". I wouldn't say objects 'consciously manipulate'. I'm not sure what exactly is nagging you.

The opposite is also true. Jesus was God in man. Jesus said "The bread you eat is my body, the wine you drink is my blood" And what happens to the foo...

Where is the rigidity?

But there is no point unless you have that perspective. Its not about how I see it.

Ignorance is knowing the partial as the whole. The knowledge of good and evil is in duality. As the knowledge of one creates the other. Duality is the...

No need to apologize for what one takes joy in.

If you'll allow me to be "contradictory" (but not really): If one sees God, there is no God. If one cannot see God one can start believing in it. For ...

Agreed.

I'm pointing to no-morality, neither anarchic nor hierarchic. Exactly my point. In accordance with you what you said above on chaos, what's appears as...

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Care to elaborate on that question?

And yet you eat fruits and vegetables that is grown with the help of animal secretion. "Eat the apple Eve and you shall be as God"

What may seem to man as chaos to the universe it is natural order.

There is no contradiction. Knowing good and evil is ignorance in duality. An animal is not ignorant in that sense. Ignorance is not the lack of knowle...

I thought like you too. But unless you have the information that in on that podcast I hesitate to respond.

Yes you can say anything and then just add 'it just is'. 1. A sculpture of a pyramid is on my table. 2. A sculpture of a pyramid made of diamond is on...

Have you seen the Siddharth Kara episode on Joe Rogan? If yes, what are your thoughts and feelings about how everything that we use is so cheap and it...

I agree that it is difficult and one needs to work a lot on it from different perspectives.

I do not mean that in spontaneity the 'now' is divorced from the memories of the past. I should have made clear that being free from the past does not...

When it is spoken, it is and idea. When experienced, it is the unspoken truth. The wave function collapses into a particle. The word is the collapse o...

The truth, if true, is never old. For the old belongs in time whilst the truth, if true, is timeless.

What you are pointing to I would call it reaction not spontaneity. Accumulated experience, which is conditioning, is mechanical reaction which is of t...

I think whatever the age people adapt their behaviour to the standard of the culture. In other words, people were/are generally conformist. So they fo...

Thank you.

It just is. Logic applies to the limited not to the eternal.

It is true that in modern times people base their morality less and less on formal system. I took into consideration the whole history of mankind. But...

Ah you are making me think. Its usually a drag. In my metaphor matter is not separated from God. If you want some entertaining picture: God eats us, s...

I did

Relationship between humans and animals is material. Relationship between God and man (in cases where there is one) transcends matter. So one has to t...