Feeling Emotions

What makes you so sure of that?

Dude. Please.
She’s a quack.

Like I said: You’re searching for the meaning of life. And your ‘life’ is passing by.
Look, there’s no meaning to ‘life’
No sky pixies, no fairies or meditation ‘experts’ that will save you from yourself.

Just like the rest of the human race you’re gonna have to find your own way.

Eastern religions, Western religions, whatever can help. With a sense of community or to part of something. But it will not cure what ails you.

Why can’t you look back over all your old threads. It’s always the same thing. You looking for answers.

Listen real close: There are NO answers. None, nil, nada, zero.

You may as well worship Bozo the Clown.

She’s speaking out of her ass. Why do you WANT to be exploited and manipulated by random bloggers on the internet?

Lots of worse choices!

The manner of speaking and that she is a meditator as well

The quote starts with “You spend enough time in meditation, you will realize that you never genuinely feel feelings in the first place”

So if we assume she’s being completely honest, this bullpap is something she just thought up. It’s something she “realized”. It’s not a piece of information that came to her from any sort of reliable source, it’s just a thought that came to her that she liked enough to decide was true.

So while she is indeed speaking from experience (presuming she’s not lying), then the experience she herself says she’s speaking about is that of pulling stuff out of her ass.

So yes, by her own words, she’s speaking out of her ass.

But is she “eastern spiritual”?

I mean the reference is meditation so I assume so.

I’m afraid to say she is wrong and end up living in falsehood. I mean I think I quoted a part where she said that one with true understanding knows there is no reason to feel any way about any event since it’s all just random occurances.

I don’t think it’s exploitation since nothing is being sold to me. It came up in a conversation.

So, just to be clear: you said that you worried, and then you said that you were really bothered; and, after saying you were concerned, you’re now saying you’re afraid?

Are there any emotions that you don’t feel?

Not everything being “sold” costs money.

Incredulity.

On the contrary, he believes nothing that anybody here says.

But somehow he’s not afraid of believing what any random would-be Buddhist on the internet says, and ending up living in falsehood.

For all we know, he’s telling everybody how smart we all are and that all those other people he talks to must be full of shit.

…he doesn’t, does he. :disappointed:

I feel (I mean, I really, deeply feel ) like this thread is missing a soundtrack.
Just not sure if Rock

R&B

or trashy Club music…

So just to be entirely clear, a random person says, “If you meditate long enough you will realize that you don’t have legs” or somesuch business, you will choose to believe that you don’t have legs out of fear that you have been wrong all these years and this whole time you really haven’t had legs?

It’s probably worth noting that even if reality really was all just random occurrences, this would be a stupid position to take. Suppose a heavy box just randomly falls off a high shelf and lands on my foot. The fact that it happened randomly is no reason whatsoever for me to stop howling in pain. I mean, that’s just stupid.

And her problem isn’t really with randomity, by the way - from the statements you quoted, she has a problem with the fact that things in reality are made up of smaller parts. Yep, it’s that old canard - that because tables are made of molecules they aren’t really tables anymore.

So to summarize, if she meditates hard enough she confuses herself. Simple as that.

Considering the amount of superficial cheesiness this random meditator has foisted on Machinaforce, this seems more appropriate;

I offer this advice in total sincerity; you need to stop reading about how to feel, get out of your house, and live life and feel whatever it makes you feel.

Look, Machinaforce, you’re drowning, and wearing yourself out struggling, and people here are throwing you lifelines.

And you’re choosing to drown instead of listening to common sense like this:

So I doubt you’ll pay any attention to everyone else who’s trying to help:

We might be in the position of telling someone with clinical depression, “Just cheer up.” The problems may go beyond common-sense volitional treatment.

In which case, see a doctor and get a referral to a mental health professional.

And, unfortunately, that takes a lot of volition, and is not easy. An awful lot of specialists, even with a doctor’s and insurance company’s referral, will say, “We are not seeing new patients at this time.” There is a shortage, at least in some regions.

Airing one’s feelings on an anonymous bbs to people who are, for the most part, well-intentioned, is not the worst thing one might do. We will, at very least, listen.