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Johnny Argent
@JohnnyArgent
This culture, with its faux devotion to "the individual" is designed to not allow it. "I got bills to pay, I got mouths to feed, There ain't nothin in this world for free. No, there ain't no rest for the wicked.. Till they close their eyes for good!" - Cage The Elephant
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Johnny Argent
@JohnnyArgent
Yes, and if "you" are lucky, "you" will retain enough of "your" faculties to watch "your self" more or less evaporate into the mist of it all. Unless it happens during sleep, of course. Duality's as convincing an illusion as it gets, Right?
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Johnny Argent
@JohnnyArgent
Hence the quotation marks. What makes it tricky? The others don't get it & "they" will put "you" in "prison" if "you" don't pay "your" "TAXES" ..So, eventually, all our airy transcendent philosophizing gets sorely tested. Yeah, I know it's true, but so's brain Cancer.
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Johnny Argent
@JohnnyArgent
I get U; 55 yrs ago, I read everything I could find about consciousness, duality, Maya, the illusory nature of identifying as a separate being, but what you're saying can seem like intellectualizing if you're being stabbed in the face & someone says, "Relax, there's no YOU." C?
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antoine sugar
@joedan346
You come up with the goofiest hypotheticals. "Stabbed in the face"... lol. All I know is if attention is observed, when it is not on a thought, the sense of "you" is absent. But if you're worried about getting stabbed in the face, it's not gonna work 😆
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Johnny Argent
@JohnnyArgent
You seem 2 B in great shape in terms of dealing with it all with serene indifference. It sometimes appears that you're one who finds it all sad & cruelly pointless & would prefer to not be here, but now "you" have taught me that "you" don't even exist, hence..No problem, Eh? :-)
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Johnny Argent
@JohnnyArgent
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@joedan346
But nobody's born & nobody's suffering, Right? Honest, I'm not trying to antagonize or pointlessly argue. I think we're in agreement on both points. It's just that my question above points up that while technically true, it can count for little while the powerful illusion holds.
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antoine sugar
@joedan346
There are bodies. Lots of bodies, being birthed & suffering & dying. There is no "self" in these bodies. That's all that is being said. It's like when you're in deep sleep. There is no thought. Hence, no sense of self. This is not really that difficult.
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