Dontaskme wrote: ↑Thu Aug 25, 2022 1:24 pm
We are all under the delusion of our culture as a collective hive mind. When you were born, you had no concept of the world into which you were born, you had no belief about it, nor did you even have an identity.
So what happened next?... as soon as you felt the urge in you to communicate with all the other people in your life...you then started to take on a knowledge that your parents were feeding you, including your school education. You became aware of knowledge, and this knowledge was passed onto you from other people and their beliefs about themselves and the world. You took those beliefs on as your own.
That's what Roy was pointing to when he mentioned CULT mentality.
But this is how we are supposed to operate. We are a very social species; we have to create a common culture to survive in the way human beings do, and always have. Bees have the collective hive mind, and they wouldn’t be able to function as bees if they hadn’t. Human beings also have a collective social mind, but it allows for much more individuality than bees enjoy. How happily the individual can exist in his own particular society depends on the nature of the society, and those in control of it, but, for good or bad, societal living is what we are evolved to do; it is our nature.
If I reject the beliefs my own society has passed on to me, and replace them with the beliefs that Roy is offering to me, aren’t I merely just switching “cults”?
Remember, you were born into a system that was already set up by other people beliefs and ideas....that were never your own.
Neither are Roy’s beliefs and ideas my own.
Roy is the messenger of a message...which you the reader can accept or reject to be the truth.
No disrespect to Roy, but I have more confidence in my own ability to figure out the “truth” than I have in his.
Your current mind-set is fixed due to your indoctrination.
Yes, that’s the assumption Roy is also making. I wonder why either of you think you know enough about me to justify coming to such a firm conclusion.
But that which seems to be fixed, can be changed, because there is nothing fixed about anything we think about, everything can be changed
If anything needs to be changed, I will decide how it needs changing, not Roy.
You maybe happy being with the knowledge you have of yourself, or you may want to question the knowledge you have of yourself...but that's up to you,it's your job to know you.
I am always questioning.
Roy's message about suffering coming to an end is true. He is living testimony of that truth, and so am I
I don’t believe for a second that Roy suffers any less than the rest of us. I am puzzled why you just believe what he says without question. And, forgive me for saying this, I do not believe that you don’t experience suffering.
Roy is a fraud, in my opinion, and his “message” and videos are more likely part of a commercial enterprise than a philanthropic mission to save humanity. Again, I can’t help wondering why you just believe what Roy says about himself, especially as I don’t find him the least bit convincing.
Take his appearance, for example: By his unnatural body shape it is clear that he spends a significant amount of time pumping iron, or whatever they call it. Working out at the gym is a trend that has been popular among certain types of men for a while now. It’s a sort of herd mentality; it is going along with the crowd, and suggests a tendency to be influenced by others, which is precisely what he is criticising the rest of us for.
We can only offer that truth as a reality to someone else, but we can never make it true for them. They have to test it out for themselves, but only if they want to...if they are not interested in testing it, then that's fine, they do not have to.
That sounds patronising, in a I-know-better-than-you kind of way.
If you have never suffered in your life anyway, then this message will be of no use to you, but if you have suffered and you would like that suffering to be no more, then the message will maybe of some use to you, but only if you put it to the test first.
Everyone suffers to some extent; it is an unavoidable part of life. We can minimise it by making wiser choices, I suppose, but there are too many things beyond our control to eliminate the possibility of it. The concept of being able to eliminate sadness from your life while retaining your ability to experience happiness seems very suspect to me, and I’m not sure I would want to be in that state even were it achievable.
You are not a failure if you choose not to understand the message.
I don’t choose not to understand it, I choose to dismiss it as a fraud.
failure to be open to having your mind changed about anything you believe to be real, will keep you in your current mind-set, and that's ok.
Again, you are making baseless assumptions about my “mind set.” What do you actually know about my mind set?
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