Dontaskme wrote: ↑Fri Jan 24, 2020 10:40 am
AlexW wrote: ↑Fri Jan 24, 2020 1:15 am
Age wrote: ↑Thu Jan 23, 2020 2:46 pm
'Thinking' comes from, or is a part of a, brain. Whereas, 'knowing' comes from Awareness, or what I call the Mind.
How did you figure this out?
Age wrote: ↑Thu Jan 23, 2020 2:46 pm
The difference is 'thinking' comes from an individual brain, and is only a subjective view of things. 'Knowing' comes from the one and only Mind, and is an objective view of things, which comes from ALL.
I agree with you in that there is only one "mind"/awareness/reality, but an objective view of things requires concepts, thus it is based on thinking, not on pure awareness. If you would have had direct experience of pure, thought-less awareness you would know that there is no separation in direct experience/knowing.
Your description of thinking vs knowing (as stated above) is really not more than creating two apparently different categories of thought (subjective and objective thoughts) - knowing is the same as being, life itself, there is no objectivity present at all. All objectivity and relativity is added via conceptual thought.
Age wrote: ↑Thu Jan 23, 2020 2:46 pm
How I rely on KNOWING, is by KNOWING that EVERY One could be in agreement.
Again, you believe that you KNOW but really only THINK.
There is no every one, no separate entities, in direct knowing.
Age wrote: ↑Thu Jan 23, 2020 2:46 pm
Awareness of ALL things is done through an OPEN Mind
Awareness is never aware of things. It doesn't see - the closest you can say is that it simply IS (even as I said before: it neither is, nor is it not - as there simply is only it, to state: it exists, makes no sense)
Only thought talks about things - things are conceptual entities, they are not real in the absolute sense, but awareness is - it is reality itself.
Age wrote: ↑Thu Jan 23, 2020 2:46 pm
For example, when any thing is thought to be true or right, then just look and see if ALL could agree with it. If not ALL could agree, then, whatever it is, has just come from your own past experiences, and not what is necessarily true or right.
There is no ALL that could agree with anything. You mix up concepts referring to the absolute (ALL) and ask for agreement... but who has to agree? Six billion brains? I am not saying this is a horrible idea, it is very nice of you to strive for it, but it sounds a bit like the "Bodhisattva vow", which is taken by Mahayana Buddhists to liberate all sentient beings. A task seemingly impossible to achieve... yet liberating yourself (from the idea of a separate self) you will find that there are no sentient beings at all. Thus the vow is fulfilled. Not by liberating individuals, but by realising that only your own liberation is required to liberate all... Not sure if you understand this, but I thought it's worth a try.
I am sorry, but I can't really work through all the rest of your writings, they are too long winded, too confusing, and it would require 2 hours to actually reply - I simply do not have the time. If you like to keep on talking, would you mind keeping it short and manageable? Thanks.
Beautifully and perfectly explained. Thank you Alex.
The point that Age misses is that this cannot be understood or exprienced by using descriptives. This has to be directly experienced, in that the proof is always in the pudding.
So, according to the words under the label "dontaskme" it is written that the separated "age" appears to miss the point that this cannot be understood nor experienced by using descriptive words. Yet the Truth is the one known as "age" has not missed this point at all.
What the ones known as "dontaskme" and "alexw" appear to have missed and/or do not understood is that it will be through descriptive words that ALL-OF-THIS can be explained, and thus understood, very simply and very easily by the way. What will be included in those words is HOW people can experience 'thought-less knowing', or whatever else 'this' wants to be called. OBVIOUSLY, an 'experience' can not be felt/experienced through ANY words at all, this does not need to be told, this speaks for itself. So, words can explain HOW things are done and/or achieved.
This surely is not hard to understand at all, is it?
Dontaskme wrote: ↑Fri Jan 24, 2020 10:40 am
It's like, A person may believe they can describe the taste of an orange to another person so that they too will know the taste that's being described to them, but this is simply not true,
To even think that this would be possible, or to even think that another thinks this, is one really weird and absurd way of looking at this, from my perspective.
Dontaskme wrote: ↑Fri Jan 24, 2020 10:40 am
it's not until the other person has tasted the orange for itself via direct first hand experience will the person then know what is being described....
OBVIOUSLY.
WHY would you even think otherwise, or the other way around?
This is just MORE EVIDENCE for my claim that you really are NOT understanding what I am saying and meaning here.
It appears that just about everything I say, you seem to assume that I am saying and meaning the exact opposite.
Have you ever even just considered what it would be like to ask for clarification first of what it is that I am actually saying and meaning BEFORE you make these obviously WRONG and STUPID assumptions, like you are showing you make here?
Just imagine for one second, What would it be like to clarify with "another" human being what they are actually saying and meaning, before I go and make assumptions, which may or may not be right or wrong?
Dontaskme wrote: ↑Fri Jan 24, 2020 10:40 am
until that happens, the person will never know what the taste of an orange is by having that taste described to them.
But, obviously through descriptive words, it can be explained how to find an orange, and how to eat it. Surely you can understand this.
Dontaskme wrote: ↑Fri Jan 24, 2020 10:40 am
As such, the same idea applies to knowing who you are and are not. It cannot be described by another, it can only be experienced directly by you the one and only witness and knower.
But there is Truly ONLY One, anyway.
Therefore, the one and only witness AND Knower is thee One. This One can be described in words, because this is exactly what is happening here right now, in ALL-OF-THESE words, written under all of the conceptually perceived different or separate labels, like: "dontaskme", "age", "alexw", to name just three out of about 8 billion.
The One is united through these words, which are evolving to eventually fully explain and fully understand thy Self. The Universe is in a process of Self-actuating. The Universe can not KNOW Thy Self, without physicality, a physical machine like a computer, and one that can hold and store infinite amounts of information or knowledge, this machine is the human brain. Obviously, just one brain can not hold this amount of information, but all brains linked together, processing information, by working together, will eventually, through evolution, one day come to a point of working out and KNOWING Who 'I' am.
Through descriptive worlds, HOW to SEE and UNDERSTAND thy Self, can be explained, to ALL those things (of thee One True Self) which actually think or believe that they are separate identities. So, that even "they" can each, individually, learn HOW to SEE and UNDERSTAND ALL-OF-THIS together. So that eventually 'we' can ALL-AS-ONE, live together peacefully as One, which is what we ALL Truly want and desire deep-down anyway. This is because ultimately 'we' ARE One.
Dontaskme wrote: ↑Fri Jan 24, 2020 10:40 am
Age seems to believe that the feeling of ''direct experience'' can be described in a way that EVERY person will understand, and that is where he continuously slips up.
But I have NEVER even thought such a thing, so the ONLY 'slip up' is 'you' making ANOTHER ASSUMPTION, which is completely WRONG, again.
Also, do you purposely use the word "believe" in relation to me because 'you' the individual separate human being believes so strongly that it is impossible to neither believe and disbelieve, or because you really do not listen to what I write, and so completely just forget that I neither believe nor disbelieve anything? Or, is there some other reason WHY you continually use that word in relation to me?
Do you continually use that word in relation to me because you BELIEVE and DISBELIEVE so many things that 'you' also BELIEVE that because 'you' do it, then 'I' must do it also?
All you are doing here is showing your own assumptions, and how much you BELIEVE them to be true, which, coincidentally, in relation to me are just about ALWAYS WRONG.
Dontaskme wrote: ↑Fri Jan 24, 2020 10:40 am
That's the only beef I have with Age, the rest of his postings are correct from his point of view and I totally get what he is saying, but he fails to grasp the inability to know something that is being described by another until there has been 'direct experience' of what exactly is being described.
Well considering that 'that' what you are assuming, and/or believing I am saying and meaning, is not correct, then can this "beef with "age", little 'a'," ever get resolved?
We are both talking about the same 'Thing', we just disagree on the point you keep making in that 'this' can not be explained with words.
Maybe the WHOLE fault of this disagreement all along, is that you have just been saying that the actual 'direct experiencing', itself, of 'Knowing', 'God', 'thee united One', or whatever other terms "we" use, can not be explained with descriptive words, and I have MISUNDERSTOOD this as meaning that 'This', the Thing, Itself, can not be explained with descriptive words, so that eventually one day 'this' could be understood.
I do agree that what each "person" experiences can NOT be explained and understood from "another's" perspective, nor explained in 'descriptive words' by another. This is just the same as we will NEVER know that if the 'red' that is seen from the eyes of this body is the same 'color' that is seen from the eyes of that body. For all we know a 'red' to this body could be a 'blue' to that body. But if we are
IN AGREEMENT that what we are seeing is the same, then all is good. What 'It' is that we agree on is the only really IMPORTANT things here.
So, I have NEVER disagreed that what is experienced within one body can be fully explained and understood by "another" body, and vice-versa, what one body expresses through descriptive words "another" body can not 'directly experience' until they have the 'direct experience' also.
When ALL are
IN AGREEMENT about what the 'direct experience' is OF, exactly, then it is that
AGREEMENT, which is what is IMPORTANT, and which is, literally, what unites ALL "bodies", ALL of 'us', together as One.
Dontaskme wrote: ↑Fri Jan 24, 2020 10:40 am
In other words we can't know what we do not know yet.
So that which is unknown yet, will eventually become known as and when that knowing arises.
OBVIOUSLY, EVERY human being is at different stages of this 'knowing'. So, obviously what is unknown yet to one, can be FULLY Known and FULLY Understood by "another".
But, if thee Truth be KNOWN, within every new born human baby, (and younger but for sake of discussion), every new born baby is born ALREADY KNOWING what is NEEDED to live in peace and harmony, (with every one) as One. They do not yet see separation and only want to be Loved, and living in and with Love, and be recognized and accepted for who they Truly ARE, which is LOVE.
So, what is not yet consciously known, in regards to what is actually True, Right, and Correct to live in peace and harmony, on earth as it is in Heaven, as One, is in fact ALREADY KNOWN, just unconsciously. This KNOWING just needs to be brought out, and/or SHOWN HOW to become consciously Aware of It.
Dontaskme wrote: ↑Fri Jan 24, 2020 10:40 am
And also that which is unknowable can never be known.
Are you even able to provide an example of a supposed "unknowable", which can NEVER be known, for the rest of eternity?
This is WHERE I come to a wondering about what it is that 'you', the human being, known as "dontaskme", who has only lived for how many years, happens to KNOW of some universal KNOWLEDGE, that forever more, and no matter what there is this UNKNOWING knowledge, that can NEVER be known.
The contradiction that there is without doubt A KNOWING Knower, but there is also some unknowable knowledge also, is blinding.
Dontaskme wrote: ↑Fri Jan 24, 2020 10:40 am
So All that can be known is what's being experienced as and through first hand direct experience and NOT through second hand knowledge.
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So, then ALL Knowledge is just KNOWN, through first hand experience. It really is just this simple and easy to understand.
That is WHY God, the Knower, KNOWS ALL things, or ALL-OF-THIS. The answer to the question, Who am 'I'? is just this ALL-Knowing God. 'I' am HERE-NOW in physical form as thee One and only Universe, Itself, and in Spirit as the One and only Mind.
By the way, if you do not provide examples of 'that', which is unknowable, and can never be known, then what is 'it' EXACTLY that 'you' are talking about here.