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I found a myriad of things from week two to be stimulating, intriguing and inspiring. One that I’m thinking about most is the teaching about the purpose of suffering. It shifted my intention from, “I’ve got to figure out why this suffering is in my life so that then I can control things and make the suffering go away,” to—“If I can figure out why this suffering is in my life, I can learn what there is to learn from it.”
Reshimot it keeps repeating these records. I don’t know how to stop reacting to them. For example I try to quit smoking I leave it or throw it in the trash and later or the next day I dig it back out. Is this what I’m thinking it is whatever it is it is something I feel separates me from our Abba. I am not sure how to deal with this it seems as if it is a character flaw extremely hard to overcome. Can you help me understand it’s not only with that one particular problem is with all my flaws
I loved Tony’s video regarding simulation. I’ve heard the comparison of life and game simulation/VR increasingly in the past couple of years. In my heart I haven’t believed, but I have been unable to counter it. This video provided the counter-arguments I couldn’t muster. True, they probably benefit me more so than anyone I would argue with, so selfishly I’ll likely keep them to myself as there’s little benefit from arguing anyway.
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What is blowing my mind right now?
(Actually, more like horrifying/terrifying my mind right now?)
If there are only 2 things: the creator and the creation
Doesn’t this mean that when all is said and done, there is just one consciousness all alone?
To “Human it up” a bit, I imagine being alone for all of eternity, going insane, making up imaginary friends, hallucinating/dreaming all of this?
If there is only one thing, then there is nothing to compare anything to and everything is meaningless.
How can you be the fastest runner, if there is only one runner?
You’re the fastest and the slowest and everything and nothing.
If it’s just us, we can fail, there is nothing protecting us.
There is this concern that I keep hiding from myself, forgetting the truth because it renders everything meaningless, but then because of my nature, I always remember eventually that I’m all alone.
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