Read first: * The Curse Of The Counterfactual * Meditation, insight and rationality Partially enlightened means my journey is far from over. I am not totally free of suffering, though I do find suffering very entertaining, whether it's other people's suffering or my own. I am suffering right now. It's,...
Good advice! Not that it's any business of yours.
I'm too drunk for this.
Apparently I have no mind at all.
the goals you present to have
What goals do you perceive me as having?
There is no 'better'.
Speaking of enlightenment is the height of vulgarity.
I would rather reveal my own foolishness and be corrected, than hide it and keep it.
Speaking eloquently, I would have nothing to say.
By speaking at all, I reveal nothing but my own unenlightenment.
Leaving shit out in the sun, flies are attracted.
If I understand your meaning, then yes, that is correct.
Edit: actually no, not quite. Those things happen to be true (I think), but it might not be because I wouldn't trade a minute of my time for them. Might just be a coincidence. I don't know.
I'm glad you asked this question. I read my post to a friend who sees as I do, and she suggested that people would react very negatively to that part and it might explain the volume of downvotes. She has much greater insight into how normal humans think, and so I'm inclined to defer to her judgement on this.
It's quite an offensive idea isn't it.
I recommend you check out The Curse Of The Counterfactual.
Fear and guilt about suffering (whether perceived in ourself or someone else), do not undo suffering. Nor do they motivate us in a healthy way to act.
Humour liberates.
That sounds to me like an expression of your own beliefs. You believe that bias and a lack of money/time/attention holds you back from crafting a life where you could put your time and attention in places that you fundamentally enjoy.
It's really the other way around. When you start to put your time and attention in places you fundamentally enjoy, your situation changes to support you in that (though it rarely seems that way at first). No crafting required.
Matter rearranges itself to suit whatever purpose the mind sets. Ultimately there is no matter, because there is no universe, only the mind and its projection. The universe is a bit like a dream. The dream we experience is never more or less than a symbolic representation of the content in the mind of the dreamer.
None.
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Partially enlightened means my journey is far from over. I am not totally free of suffering, though I do find suffering very entertaining, whether it's other people's suffering or my own. I am suffering right now. It's, so funny.
Edit/clarification: it's not really suffering that's funny, it's perception of/belief in suffering. Suffering is in the map, not the territory.
Partially enlightened means I understand the true nature of the problem you are trying to solve (bias) and almost everything you discuss is redundant to me. I have overcome bias to a degree that is inconceivable to the ordinary mind. that from my perspective, there are no... (read 193 more words →)
Less wrong is still wrong. There is a way of seeing that is not wrong.
Works for me - thanks to The Work I'm not even vaguely the same person as the one who started with it.
Moreover, in 15 years I have yet to find a single problem that didn't, upon investigation, turn out to be an instance of the counterfactual curse.