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TomGa
Nov 17, 2016
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#481
Cool. Glad to see you ona. Welcome
Stolen_Authenticity wrote:
Not, 'my words'.. Yet, it appears, self-evident! [ :
The extraordinary thing would have been not to go to war in the first place, not to go to war and save another's life(who entertains the same beliefs), while killing countless others, with the comforting thought of defending one's identity!
onabike wrote:
hi Troy -your quote (485)- 'Now, what is usefulness of a self-image ..what is its function -Does one need a self-image beyond that-?'' -I think that through individuation, we symbolise the presence of something new. Maybe part of our function is we'll leave something of this new in the world - by what we do, or create, how we live. That part is very personal. Only by being solo we can have this journey, searching for totality. And we contribute then to a big picture.
Let us be simple: the self-image reflects a self.
What exactly is the self? The 'self-body' image reflects a body which we can see in a mirror.
The self-image reflects a 'body' which only seen by thinking about it, which suggests it's another image, another projection.
One is a symbol of a reality, the other is a projection of a projection.
Essentiially, the self is the self-image!
The point is that one doesn't see it. The self-image presents itself as more than an image;a soul, a spirit, all that.
When one sees this illusion their whole life is shaken up, its entire foundation collapses.
Nov 17, 2016
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#487
I'll catch up with you guys. Twinkle twinkle little star. How I wonder what you are!
Mainly hydrogen.
Nov 17, 2016
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#489
- (goodnight) well when the whole conceptual framework of the meaning that we'd given our life has to collapse then, for it is the 'illusion' you and Tom speak about --the world feels much more like it's a stranger to us. And we want, to know it ! It was the mind, helping us make a passage through this voyage, that's the paradox -So it seems, we've gotten to this place (of conceptual meaningless). Yet we find we are still here, in a concrete feeling way.. However, awakening into something not an illusion then? We have been this 'being', for so long-if we are not imposing a mind made framework of meaning - it feels like you do not understand anything.
onabike wrote:
However, awakening into something not an illusion then?
Otherwise, it's the same illusion taking a different shape,
Stolen_Authenticity wrote:
You can't kill me, I died years ago.
That is misleading. This is what was meant in that movie( I don't recall the context, but I'm sure it was meant this way): one lost hope years ago, and got to accept a life empty of meaning, becoming, more or less, a vegetable. That's what death meant to the screenwriter, as it means that to most people.
troy means something else. When that death happens, an extraordinary beginning takes place, a phenomenal happening begins, something that has never been before and will never be again.
And so death disappears forever from one's life,
I would the same words, but a completely different meaning would be behind them.
Nov 17, 2016
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#493
Although, it's True, that not All 'problems' are 'solvable' - Even, if it were Only a matter of 'taste' preference; As I see it.. Those who have someone, besides themselves, to 'thank'.. Are better off, than those who think that they don't. o:
There are no problems for a mind free of illusions and projections , therefore free of fear and thus there is no dependency whatsoever on anyone, including 'oneself'.
Nov 17, 2016
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#495
Being 'mindful' that Life's Negativity, takes many forms.. with 'senselessness', as a 'common denominator.'
http://www.oregonlive.com/education/index.ssf/2016/11/roosevelt_high_school_vandalis.html#incart_2box
Actually, 'senselessness' is the embracing of the false.
The opposite of negative is not really positive.
And the opposite of the so-called positive is not really negative..
Nov 18, 2016
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#497
King 480.
I've lost interest in current affairs. These things come and go. The fundamental nature of reality engages me. The fabric.
I like pleasure though! But news and sport doesn't touch me any longer.
Give me chocolate cake!
I've lost interest in current affairs. These things come and go. The fundamental nature of reality engages me. The fabric.
I like pleasure though! But news and sport doesn't touch me any longer.
Give me chocolate cake!
