Dontaskme wrote: ↑Sat Oct 02, 2021 6:59 am
Dontaskme wrote: ↑Fri Oct 01, 2021 9:09 amThere's no point in arguing the beliefs of others
Lacewing wrote: ↑Fri Oct 01, 2021 4:14 pmWell, I think there can be. It depends on the people involved. That's how we expand our thinking. And it can be very entertaining. It doesn't matter if agreement of a certain view is reached. Value comes perhaps from expanding each person's view/understanding of capability and potential.
We can expand our conscious intelligence by intuitively hearing what we already know, by listening to ourselves in the form of imagined other.
This is an exceptionally good way of putting 'It'.
Thee Knowing, already exists with-in. 'It' is just not yet consciously KNOWN. Thee Knowing, sits there, deep down unconsciously, just waiting to be uncovered. Or, revealed, in other words.
As this, as of yet unconscious Knowing gradually 'comes to be KNOWN', through the human evolution process, with each revelation, grasp of inspiration or enlightenment, can come with it that 'aha' experience, which comes because 'we already KNEW', and had always ALREADY KNEW. We have just been covering up thee Knowing, or Truth, with, as some might say, ' our own "noise" '. ALL of our own Wrong, False, and Incorrect 'thinking' covers up and keeps down thee 'Knowing', within.
Literally, 'thinking' conceals 'knowing', and keeps thee Truth hidden.
Dontaskme wrote: ↑Sat Oct 02, 2021 6:59 am
The real truth about ''TRUTH'' is that it does not demand ''Proof'' ... ... If it did, then it wouldn't be Truth.
''Truth'' doesn't NEED or require proof.
Very True.
Truth, actually, and literally, speaks for Itself.
Dontaskme wrote: ↑Sat Oct 02, 2021 6:59 am
Expanding awareness can be seen to be the direct and irrefutable sense of 'Otherness' which means, one is simply aware they are aware. And in knowing this to be true, is how the creation of ''otherness'' is formed, namely YOU, or I.
There is an 'I', so This exists. Thee (One and ONLY 'I') is just Awareness (Consciousness or Knowing) Itself. The 'i', however, (which is just the individual older human beings, or 'ego' as it is sometimes called) confuses 'itself' as being a separated thing, and when the 'i' starts thinking that it is better or knows more than ANY "other", then that 'ego', literally, gets to big for itself, and starts BELIEVING that 'it' is an, or even thee, 'I'. (This can be CLEARLY SEEN and PROVEN True throughout a lot of human history writings).
Dontaskme wrote: ↑Sat Oct 02, 2021 6:59 am
It seems all so obvious that awareness has evloved to become self-reflective, and can know there is no boundary between every other living conscious sentient being.
This actually, is one of those ALREADY Known Truths, within. EVERY human being is born KNOWING this, again unconsciously of course. HOWEVER, during childhood children, especially in the latter stages of evolution, in the days of when this was being written, were continually TOLD to 'think' that they are separated, individual 'things'. So, although 'you', personally, may have overcome this Wrong "teaching" and have discovered/uncovered more of thee Truth, which upon reflection is TOTALLY OBVIOUS, there are MANY, upon MANY human beings, in the days when this is being written where that Truth is still NOT YET OBVIOUS. Thee Knowing, which has been SHOWN and REVEALED to some, like 'you', "dontaskme" has NOT been UNCOVERED and REVEALED to ALL, YET.
ALL 'knowledge', (right and wrong, true and false, correct and correct) is learned, throughout human interactions. Thee True, Right, and Correct knowledge, however, although is stored and KEPT DEEP WITHIN, (the very fabric of our dna or the 'life' within itself), is NOT consciously KNOWN at birth. This Knowledge although IS controlling and manipulating EACH and EVERY living body, it is ONLY through thee evolutionary process HOW 'It' 'comes to be consciously KNOWN'. EXACTLY like how it "takes time" for Life, Itself, to KNOW Thy or It Self.
Dontaskme wrote: ↑Sat Oct 02, 2021 6:59 am
There's simply no boundary there, except imagined. We know this because everything you know is appearing within your own consciousness, nothing is outside of it.
Although the first sentence here may be 100% irrefutably True, the next sentence will NOT make sense to the peoples, in the days when this is written, because they still do NOT YET KNOW, for sure, what the 'we' is, the 'you' is, what 'consciousness' is, nor what 'your own consciousness refers to, and thus is.
Dontaskme wrote: ↑Sat Oct 02, 2021 6:59 am
The 'imagined other' imagined to be outside of you is actually a projection of you.
The word 'you', itself, implies "other". Of which there is OBVIOUSLY NOT one. There can be, and is, however, an 'I'. This word, when used, in relation to there being 'NO other' is NOT self-contradictory, like the word 'you' IS.
Dontaskme wrote: ↑Sat Oct 02, 2021 6:59 am
In other words, you create me, and I create you. The external world is the mirror through which I appear to exist.
Although this may well be 100% absolutely and irrefutably True. 'you' are NOT going to succeed in getting "others" to UNDERSTAND 'it', with the choice of words that 'you' are using here.
To be Honest, neither have i.
This is just a process, which 'we' can doing NOTHING but live, and learn, through, and from.
Dontaskme wrote: ↑Sat Oct 02, 2021 6:59 am
There is only one Truth as the character known as Age would say, and he's right of course, because other than the ONE that needs no proof, all else is pure imagination.
Sorry for the meta ramblings...

it's as though my thoughts just want to literally take off, every time I start thinking about philosophy.
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The reason WHY 'we' ALL start 'rambling', with our OWN 'ramblings' is because DEEP within EVERY one of 'us' thee One and ONLY 'I' exists - KNOWING what thee ACTUAL Truth IS, and which is READY to REVEAL 'It' ALL. That KNOWING within 'drives/controls' 'us', but 'we', individual mistake the drive to SHARE thee Truth, with wanting to share our OWN personal truths. Which can be, and at a lot of times is, what causes us to only SPEAK, and NOT LISTEN.
'we' ALL have a drive, and a NEED to be heard, and LISTENED to. If we did NOT, then we ALL would die at birth, young childhood. So, this drive to be HEARD, and LISTENED TO, is VERY INSTINCTUAL. 'we', individually, and sadly, grow up to WANTING to be HEARD, for just about all of the wrong reasons.
'we' have ALL, also, been brought up HEARING and LEARNING the wrong way of expressing things. So, as we get older we, naturally, just express what 'we' have LEARNED and been TOLD. No matter how Wrong, False, or Incorrect they are, and were. 'we' have been TOLD and TAUGHT the wrong meanings/definitions for some words, and, the wrong way to express some things. Unlearning these definitions, and, this way of expressing, just takes some time, and effort, so that we do NOT teach 'what is wrong in Life' to all of the following generations.