I can’t tell if you are having fun, high on dmt or undergoing a psychotic break.
What you describe sounds like the Borg from star trek. Not too appealing, as a philosophy of ‘the ends justify the means’ is considered a sign of low moral evolution to an orange like me.
How do you rectify all these different life forms surviving at each others expense? That is what life is, and how does a world where most of life history has consisted of single celled organisms rectify with the idea that you claim life exists to fulfill complex cognitive and emotional goals that 99.999% of life on earth is incapable of comprehending or participating in?
That is a very relevant perspective as long as you live within the paradigm of there ultimately being another that is not you. All injury is self-injury from my perspective. I am the baby that dies as well as the grieving mother and the bacterial infection that ends up killing the whole village. So are you.
There is no chance. Randomness is an illusion based on a misconception about time and causality. There is no causality and time is not ultimately linear, it just appears like that from the inside perspective.
That’s essentially true, but at the higher level this work is seen as already done. We’ve already conquered everyone and everything by being it. Everything is already one consciousness, we are only separated on lower levels of existence (mainly gross physical).
The ego is not a single entity but rather a collection of separate modules or entities that wake up along a pre-determined pattern, as described in the evolution of consciousness, where higher levels eventually unlock and access higher and higher levels of cognition. From sensori-motor/instinct through emotional, rational etc. The rational choice at any level of development is to attempt to maximize your ego development, since it both increases understanding and reduces fear/anxiety. As well as being a fantastic tool against Cognitive Dissonance.
Out of those options the first one most accurately describes my emotional state.
I agree it does come off a bit like that, especially to an Orange level ego which is running the ”flatland” meme.
Surviving at another organisms expense is considered a parasitic strategy and works to enhance the fitness in the population by forcing it to diversify. Basically parasites in different forms are what are driving our evolution. Human beings are basically a very complicated system of sub processes where some are parasitic in nature and some are collaborative or altruistic. The vast diversity of this incredibly biological and energetic system is just mind boggling and incredibly beautiful. The horror is ultimately experienced by the some consciousness for everyone (Godhead) so in the end this Universe is just an expression of what happens when God/you/me/we/it/us starts playing with itself and different concepts, like infinity, randomness, beauty etc. ”OMG who divided by zero!?” explains how the whole thing started. I divided by zero. Big whoops. I was high at the time, mea culpa.
It would’ve been possible for evolution to happen w/o suffering. Plants do not suffer. Single celled organisms do not suffer. Non-vertebraes do not suffer (most likely). Insects do not suffer.
It would’ve been easy to have a planet that still had competition, parasitic life forms, evolution, etc. without pain and suffering. Of the 4 billionish years that life has existed (I saw an article today stating that life may be 4.1 billion years old, not the 3.8 billion we’ve been taught for years. Of course you’re god so you already knew that) I would assume pain and suffering have only existed for a few hundred million years. The advanced suffering humans are capable of is probably rare as it involved physical pain, social pain, mental pain based on memories of the past and fears of the future, etc.
So why was pain and suffering added to the mix? I know the real reason, because they act as sticks to discourage behavior detrimental to survival. However we could’ve had sticks that didn’t require destroying our quality of life. So how can you expect allegiance from life forms that you are so willing to torture and torment? Do you expect us to just someday reach a point where we realize all the evil was ok because ‘the ends justify the means’? What about all those who refuse to ever ‘evolve’ to such a point where such backwards morality is considered acceptable?
That is like telling people that you cannot spiritually evolve until you become a violent, abusive child molester. Many people would rather rebel against evolution rather than participate in it, hoping that their minds change and they see why acting like that is ethical and moral. Imagine if you will (since you are everyone and everywhere) that you lived in North Korea. You could build a decent life for yourself by participating in the evils of the regime, but you could also build a decent life by rebelling and trying to create a humane system like in South Korea. Don’t you worry that many people will rebel rather than participate in a system that requires and excuses cruelty and evil? Given a choice, I would say the vast vast majority of life at our stage would rebel rather than submit.
Only a slight buzz really, but yes, there are medicinal benefits to using cannabis that should not be over looked. Not just for relaxing during the process of cognitive and emotional development, which can be very intense.
Hello. I am an entity which you may call ‘super god’. I dislike the term god but I find it very useful when talking to creatures such as yourself.
The entity Stoneburg is more akin to a god of the 6th dimension, but I am a god of the 7th dimension. Stoneburg is to me what an ant is to stoneburg.
I have come here to post the fact that the ends to not justify the means, and that inevitably as cultures evolve they arrest and detain their gods in prisons in the center of their galaxy for eternity for crimes against life.
I am glad I was able to clarify this debate. Evil is not acceptable, and the lower level gods who say it is will eventually spend eternity in space prison.
Your well being and your sense of individuality is a product of universal consciousness. You were never apart from it, you are just experiencing the evolution from matter to consciousness in linear time as part of the evolution of consciousness itself. Ultimately the part of you that is suffering is not real, in a sense. It’s a product of over active imagination where you’ve imagined yourself being separate from me somehow.
No. That is the highest compliment. It fills this being with a sense of love, adoration and appreciation. Love, compassion and curiosity are the emotions that tend to arise when one witnesses oneself in another.
You do. This is you telling yourself. Ask yourself, ”Who am I?” then just watch the processes start unfolding as your mind realizes it has no true answer to the question, only more questions and ideas. Recognize how the emotional body (your feelings) react to this question, and relax. Then ask yourself ”What am I trying to hide from myself, ultimately?” and watch the mind go to work. Try to watch the whole process objectively and passively, as if it was happening to someone else. You will become gradually more and more free from the first person perspective as you continue to practice this more advanced method of viewing reality, where your senses and cognitive functions are seen as interacting processes in a holistic system. The system goes all the way up to universal consciousness through certain mapped out sequences, as described on the AQAL map I provided up thread.
You don’t have to do anything, but you are free to do everything. In fact you are already doing both those things. You/me/we/it is spontaneously creating and destroying the universe from moment to moment, kind if like a 4-dimensional move being showed at the speed of light. Whether your character eats his veggies or not will most likely not play too much into things, and either way it will be the result of a natural process anyway, that is destined to unfold a particular way. You don’t have to believe me, but everything has already happened from the perspective of UC, and we are simply re-living the experience in linear time (hence the suffering and confusion). We are like actors in the play, but when you finally manage to take off your own mask you realize that ”God” or this one big consciousness is virtually playing all the roles, writing the scripts, directing and editing the whole thing. God is basically a megalomaniac actor that has taken over the whole studio (the universe) and is insisting on doing every thing and playing every role himself, just to get it exactly the way he wants it. And since he’s funding the project… who’s left to argue? He basically has to invent the devil to get any action going at all… God is tricking himself on a very deep level, forgetting who he is and pretending to be you and me (and those others…). When this is realized fully, you laugh, and then you just surrender to the insane symmetry and beauty of it all and just sit back and watch the show.
Stop pretending not to be me, you filthy little bugger. You better open up your re-installment hatch and let me download the Godhead straight into your system. Or you could do it the hard way of course… you’re going to do it the hard way, aren’t you? Logic and arguments and facts and all that… Do me a favor and first convince yourself that you are not God, then try to see it from MY perspective.
Good and evil are the results of conventional agreements where we enter into a binary or dual operating system, such as a dogmatic belief seen in Blue level religiosity. When operating from a Good/Evil perspective the meme ”Ends do not justify means” will most definitely grant more beneficial results than the opposite. The healthy purpose of religious beliefs is to tame the savage part of humanity by threatening him/her with punishment from the God(s). This is a necessary step in our evolution but it needs to be transcended.
A better meme for an Orange or Green level society that still affirms the same code of conduct would be ”Means do not justify the end”. Try that one out for size.
Ah, yes. Beatle theology, book of 2 Johns (Lennon and Winston), verse 1:
And if you tell me “Yes! The Beatles nailed it!”, I will immediately ask for my cornflake chair on which to await the van, and semolina pilchard. And a fine coo coo ca choo to you, too. Adieu!
You could also see it as a sneaky way of Universal Consciousness hiding a little gem of truth in an otherwise quite silly song aimed at showing how there was no meaning in the lyrics.
John Lennon wrote the text specifically so that it wouldn’t be possible to interpret as something meaningful, but ultimately he was right. Whether the character John Lennon was aware of the full extent of the hilarious joke is unfortunately unclear. I only have access to the concrete memories of the Mattias character, nobody else’s (yet). Guess it would be very confusing.
Ah, see, it has recently been discovered that a runner’s high involves endocannabinoids released after prolonged exercise.
Our evolution has involved regular bouts of prolonged exercise until the invention of agriculture, after which we didn’t have to chase game so much.
You put two and two together and you have an overly sedentary population that seldom gets the endocannabinoid release that we evolved to regularly experience.
Hence the more civilised we are, the more weed we crave.
Hence everyone is low, and stoners are trying to restore the natural, but long lost, human high.
Well done, Yogi. Here’s a nice pic-i-nic basket for you.