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- Thu Apr 28, 2022 4:39 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: New documentary on remote viewing
- Replies: 18
- Views: 4906
Re: New documentary on remote viewing
Communism can only be realized in a highly developed economy with abundance of goods where there would be no competition for resources. This is exactly what Marx taught actually, but his mistake was the assumption that a socialist society can still be built before such abundance happens as a "...
- Thu Apr 28, 2022 4:18 pm
- Forum: Bernardo gets a room of his own
- Topic: Evil abstraction: the psychology of totalitarianism
- Replies: 73
- Views: 70770
Re: Evil abstraction: the psychology of totalitarianism
Four more interesting links: https://multipolarista.com/2022/03/14/ukrainian-leftist-war-russia-us/ https://scheerpost.com/2022/04/09/former-nato-military-analyst-blows-the-whistle-on-wests-ukraine-invasion-narrative/ https://consortiumnews.com/2022/04/09/ukraine-the-broader-geopolitical-conflict/ h...
- Mon Mar 21, 2022 7:18 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Do you think there is extraterrestrial life, and why?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2942
Re: Do you think there is extraterrestrial life, and why?
Addressing this mostly to fellow idealists, because we've heard the potential answers a million times from materialist scientists. Do you think that if idealism is right this also has consequences regarding this question? To clarify, I mean only life in this universe, not other "spiritual dime...
- Thu Feb 24, 2022 1:41 pm
- Forum: Bernardo gets a room of his own
- Topic: If mind's prime directive is to deceive itself, why does it leave means to circumvent this?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 22531
Re: If mind's prime directive is to deceive itself, why does it leave means to circumvent this?
Whatever we experience is real, but we have to set up certain degrees of "how real". We can, I assume, agree that while a dream is a real experience, from the waking state you can realise that while the experience was real, the actual events that took place in the dream are at a lesser le...
- Wed Feb 23, 2022 8:46 pm
- Forum: Bernardo gets a room of his own
- Topic: If mind's prime directive is to deceive itself, why does it leave means to circumvent this?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 22531
Re: If mind's prime directive is to deceive itself, why does it leave means to circumvent this?
Well said. Perhaps that's a good description of Consciousness itself? I would’t think so, Ben. Consciousness IS evolution. We are going to a final participation in the Barfield sense. Then, we are not a loop but an infinite spiral, always finding better ways to connect, toward unification. Or so I’...
- Wed Feb 23, 2022 8:41 pm
- Forum: Bernardo gets a room of his own
- Topic: If mind's prime directive is to deceive itself, why does it leave means to circumvent this?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 22531
Re: If mind's prime directive is to deceive itself, why does it leave means to circumvent this?
I agree. Something that I've been thinking of lately is that while the consciousness states one can experience while on psychedelics can be felt "more real than waking life", to which I can attest, there is simply no way to know whether this is because they are actually more real, or beca...
- Wed Feb 23, 2022 4:05 pm
- Forum: Bernardo gets a room of his own
- Topic: If mind's prime directive is to deceive itself, why does it leave means to circumvent this?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 22531
Re: If mind's prime directive is to deceive itself, why does it leave means to circumvent this?
In one talk - or maybe essay, I can't quite remember - bernardo stated that MAL's primary directive is to deceive itself. Apart from that the choice of words leaves a bad taste in my mouth - it'd sound way better as "MAL's primary directive is to be fully engaged in its imagination" -, th...
- Wed Feb 23, 2022 3:34 pm
- Forum: Bernardo gets a room of his own
- Topic: Another recent BK interview
- Replies: 51
- Views: 59820
Re: Another recent BK interview
A lot of very dubious claims in this interview. Just two of them: Minute 44’ 43”: Intrinsically evil arquetipes in nature. Look at the Serengueti= a blood bath. Seriouslly? Evil dimension in nature? I would think that moral realm appears with human beings. Minute 48’ 24”: Our entire justice system ...
- Tue Feb 22, 2022 1:24 pm
- Forum: Bernardo gets a room of his own
- Topic: Another recent BK interview
- Replies: 51
- Views: 59820
Re: Another recent BK interview
A lot of very dubious claims in this interview. Just two of them: Minute 44’ 43”: Intrinsically evil arquetipes in nature. Look at the Serengueti= a blood bath. Seriouslly? Evil dimension in nature? I would think that moral realm appears with human beings. Minute 48’ 24”: Our entire justice system i...
- Mon Feb 21, 2022 5:47 pm
- Forum: Bernardo gets a room of his own
- Topic: I feel like Bernardo is getting carried away in a scary direction
- Replies: 96
- Views: 100804
Re: I feel like Bernardo is getting carried away in a scary direction
So I gave Steiner's example. The man claimed that establishing the State of Israel was a hallucination and history proved that he himself was hallucinating. He made a false presentation, apparently believing in it sincerely, that he "sees." But in fact his thinking was stuck in the subjec...