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Lian

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Re: Jed Rant... You are special
« Reply #30 on: October 29, 2016, 05:02:32 am »
In the world of ego, one is rewarded for the energy one gives to something. For instance, if it's easy to be fat, then you are attractive (socially valuable) if you are thin. Thin people are attractive because everybody knows (subconsciously) they make a lot of sacrifices to stay thin, so people say they look good.

Apparently not looking to see the truth is a sacrifice one makes in order to be attractive. If you don't analyze anything, then you carry a great burden, so you are socially valuable.

Jed McKenna

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Re: Jed Rant... You are special
« Reply #31 on: October 29, 2016, 06:18:40 am »
Not the same here. Being fat is a sign of success and opulence. You had an abundance of food and an abundance of food is not the norm here.

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Lian

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Re: Jed Rant... You are special
« Reply #32 on: November 03, 2016, 02:47:36 am »
It is natural for the body to want pleasant things and move away from the unpleasant ones. This natural mechanism is used by the ego to create noise by emphasizing these things more than it is necessary.
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Jed McKenna

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Re: Jed Rant... You are special
« Reply #33 on: November 03, 2016, 02:50:33 am »
It's source is the urge to survive, nothing more. Body and ego survival.

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Re: Jed Rant... You are special
« Reply #34 on: November 03, 2016, 04:13:59 am »
is there any reason for the body to survive. The survival of the ego or self or what ever thinks it runs the show is fantasy.
What is it though that influences the survival of the body.

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Re: Jed Rant... You are special
« Reply #35 on: November 03, 2016, 05:52:59 am »
Nothing ''survives''... ever.

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Lian

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Re: Jed Rant... You are special
« Reply #36 on: November 03, 2016, 07:39:56 am »
People base their actions on a script that exists in their minds. They never bother to think, acting like mindless automatons.

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Re: Jed Rant... You are special
« Reply #37 on: November 03, 2016, 07:44:10 am »
How do you know that Lian? Can you be sure there even are ''people'' out there, or an out there, out there?

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Re: Jed Rant... You are special
« Reply #38 on: November 03, 2016, 08:31:22 am »
People are just apparitions, part of the scenery in the movie that only 'I' see moment to moment. Seems to me anyways. But what do I know?

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Re: Jed Rant... You are special
« Reply #39 on: November 04, 2016, 10:32:47 am »
odd, yet ordinary segue back to something that has struck me again:

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Why does a baby draw adult's attention? A child is what everyone is striving to be like but they are going about it bass ackwards. They are piling on garbage when they should be (if so inclined) removing garbage. Your self-esteem, the maintenance of your special illusion of a real somebody, a self, someone special...  are very weighty and will burn you up just bearing and wearing them... unless you stop by the roadside of life and remove that burden. Just gently put it on the roadside and say, ''Thanks, but no thanks, not any more''.

this appears to me to be the optimal use of 'no'.
a healthy ego is a sturdy thorn.


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Re: Jed Rant... You are special
« Reply #40 on: November 04, 2016, 10:42:37 am »
i do my best to see others, not as ghosts, illusions, or hindrances, but as authentic beings with something interesting to offer. it makes the game more surprising and enjoyable. i don't know if such a perspective is easily adopted by 'others', but it does not matter, because this is only ever about what's going on with(in) me.

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Re: Jed Rant... You are special
« Reply #41 on: November 04, 2016, 11:16:03 am »
In the world of ego, one is rewarded for the energy one gives to something. For instance, if it's easy to be fat, then you are attractive (socially valuable) if you are thin. Thin people are attractive because everybody knows (subconsciously) they make a lot of sacrifices to stay thin, so people say they look good.

Apparently not looking to see the truth is a sacrifice one makes in order to be attractive. If you don't analyze anything, then you carry a great burden, so you are socially valuable.

'everybody knows' is a flaming red flag planted right in the center of your unexamined beliefs. and it's an easy way around taking responsibility and looking deeper.

apparently, not looking to see the truth is what allows you to continue to churn out assumption after assumption without demonstrating much gesture toward peeling back the layers.

it occurs to me that i am minding lian's business rather than my own, but it seems to be all one business of untruth unrealization.

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Lian

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Re: Jed Rant... You are special
« Reply #42 on: November 04, 2016, 11:54:39 am »
Thank you, Maryam. Many times I was surprised by my intellectual findings, then I saw the ego gloating, realizing I wasn't really going anywhere.

Actual progress occurs every time I have purity of intent, implying both the mind (the intellect) and the heart (mostly anger toward lies).

mariam

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Re: Jed Rant... You are special
« Reply #43 on: November 05, 2016, 12:12:18 pm »
Thank you, Maryam. Many times I was surprised by my intellectual findings, then I saw the ego gloating, realizing I wasn't really going anywhere.

Actual progress occurs every time I have purity of intent, implying both the mind (the intellect) and the heart (mostly anger toward lies).

so you progress by way of what you call purity of intent, relying on a questionable mind and an angry heart? did i misunderstand?

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Re: Jed Rant... You are special
« Reply #44 on: November 05, 2016, 12:28:33 pm »
it seems entirely possible to be discontent or dissatisfied, to stoke purity of intent, without disabling oneself with intellect (which is false) or anger (which is ego tantrum).

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