communication can have an illuminating effect if we take the time to describe our vantage point. if you dont feel understood, explain yourself in more depth.
It is not understanding that is being sought in this instance but compliance. I am being told that my answer to a question does not qualify as an answer and therefore does not deserve consideration.
I love the bill hicks idea of "one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively" but I can't see any real evidence for it. Yes, i have expereinced the 'one-ness' through psychedelics, but I have also experienced geometric shapes etc. which are clearly figments of my imagination, thus I have no reason to beleive that this 'one-ness' is any more real than anything else 'percieved' through psychs. Does anyone have any evidence for such a theory???
Why the distinction between perception on psychedelics and perception at any other time? The oneness experience is accessible without psychedelics.
psst! dopey went from Mr. sound bite to Spin doctor. He thinks the only thing that he is being misunderstood on is an answer about matter. He doesn't address everything else he saying. He only wants to ague and avoid any real line of questioning or providing any proof of his statements. His posts are by design, inflammatory. Why do you think they call it dope?
All ingenuity is ingenuous, that is artless, in the light of what is yet to be learned. Some say inflammatory, some say provocative. I would like to speak for myself.
You have to keep exploring down the rabbit hole until you come to the point in yourself where you can experience this oneness directly. You begin to understand whats real and whats not the more you get used to psychs. There will be a point of breakthrough where what your witnessing is too complex and too beyond your own knowledge to be something just in your head. This is the point where are illusions are dissolved and one realizes the connection of all things. It is possible for you to experience this oneness without psychs too. Religions are the attempt to explore this oneness. This is what Jesus and the others call God.
I guess you'll never really know for sure what exactly it is that you are, but you sure as hell will never be a God in the sense of a person who can smite people with magical powers that flow through their fingers, like Me. However, there are some unvalidated theories that suggest all is One and this One is God, So feel cool knowing you're about 0.000000001% part-God.
Aaaaaannnd..... We reach the same conclusion that we always find ourselves resorting to... We don't know jack shit. However it is fun, albeit futile, to try and come up with rational conclusions about the nature of reality with our mammal brains. Dope is just expressing his personal observations on the matter. Where the fuck do you want him to reference from? The God Encyclopedia? Page 11 of 11. Good job itsallgood... You've started 2 huge threads in a row.
I love thedope's posts. don't worry so much about how someone is writing, or why they are writing like that, these are beside the point. we are engaged in a transaction, scrutinize what the product does for you, not the packaging.
Your indigestion is caused of nothing consumed of me. You said you stopped listening. Your symptoms began when you stopped considering. Your indigestion is your own purgatory.
Many thanks to zeroface and also to everyone else who had input....The idea came into my head after i heard " God Bless You"...When in the hell was this thing passed down for when somebody sneezes...i believe theirs some voodoo behind it Lol
Several possible origins are commonly given. The practice of blessing a sneeze, dating as far back as at least 77 AD, however, is far older than most specific explanations can account for.[1] A legend holds that it was believed that the heart stops beating and the phrase "bless you" is meant to ensure the return of life or to encourage your heart to continue beating.[2][3][1] Another version says that the custom originally began as an actual blessing. Gregory I became Pope in 590 as an outbreak of the bubonic plague was reaching Rome. In hopes of fighting off the disease, he ordered unending prayer and parades of chanters through the streets. At the time, sneezing was thought to be an early symptom of the plague. The blessing ("God bless you!") became a common effort to halt the disease.[3] One explanation holds that people used to believe that your soul can be thrown from your body when you sneeze,[1] that sneezing otherwise opened your body to invasion by the Devil[3] or evil spirits,[2] or that sneezing was your body's effort to force out an invading evil spirit.[1] Thus, "bless you" or "God bless you" is used as a sort of shield against evil. A variant of the Pope Gregory I story places it with Pope Gregory VII, then tells the common story of "Ring Around the Rosey" being connected to the same plague.[4] Alternatively, it may be possible that the phrase began simply as a response for an event that was not well understood at the time.[1] Another belief is that people used to see sneezing as a sign that God would answer your prayers[4] or an omen of good fortune or good luck.[1] In this case, "Bless you" would be in recognition of that luck. Tibetan Buddhists believe a sneeze (like meditation, falling asleep, preparing to die) can provide a moment of "clear consciousness," when people are opened to greater understanding.
Wow thank you for that....I greatly appreciated it...I was thinking it was because someone came up with the idea that each of us are walking Gods amoungst this place and "God Bless You" was said as a way to slip in the idea of the ability to "Bless" ones self....I love Sneezing, it does provide almost a cleansing of of my chest but also of how the Buddhists described it Lol...Fascinating
