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Walker wrote: ↑Thu Apr 23, 2026 1:05 pm

popeye1945 wrote: ↑Thu Apr 23, 2026 1:19 am They are built in, unless you're a psychopath--lol!!

That means a psycho could never find one of those internal energy converters ... kind of like folks seeking Jesus or Buddha but wouldn't know him if they tripped over him, because of the preconception that neither would be on the sidewalk, which is not exactly to say that everyone is literally a little psycho although by choice that could be the commonality in surgical precision, which accounts for the attraction of expressionism to untrained artists. Do you understand?

NO.

popeye1945 wrote: ↑Fri Apr 24, 2026 3:19 am

I don’t blame you.
It’s kind of like self-enquiry.
Nowhere to run to, nowhere to hide, no one else to answer.
Neti-neti reveals what the Self is not.
The Self is that which does not react.

There are implications.

Walker wrote: ↑Fri Apr 24, 2026 8:29 am

popeye1945 wrote: ↑Fri Apr 24, 2026 3:19 am

I don’t blame you.
It’s kind of like self-enquiry.
Nowhere to run to, nowhere to hide, no one else to answer.
Neti-neti reveals what the Self is not.
The Self is that which does not react.

There are implications.

To me, the self is a highly functional illusion developed out of the necessity of another illusion, that of the illusion of the duality of the world at large. That, however, seems to be getting a little off topic. All things react within a frame of perception, all organisms react because that is what it is to be an organism, and reaction is the means by which the organism belongs to the larger reality of the Earth. The process is called mutual causation and is the function of the whole. This seems to be branching away from the topic heading, maybe not. Certainly, love has its chemical reactions and behavioural reactions, and is a cause for the subject of one's love.