RE: Awaken... What does it mean to be awake?
I personally believe all the shades of grey are not Gray. They are just different levels of black and white mixed together.
I also think many folks should be "Awake" but are consumed by grey teachings and fuzzy warm feelings that they have been exposed to.
Honestly there are some absolutes in this life. Even if we try to paint them rainbow or grey they are absolute.
You will die. Some sooner than others
You don't chose your parents, nation of birth, language, gender. These things are absolute and you can say they are not but that doesnt change that facts from the day you were born.
I can go on and on but we have an entire mass of people that are trying to bend the reality to meet their twisted minds.
That is only manipulation of the facts not new facts or new Ideas.
Do you honestly think there is anything new under the sun?
What if we are just a parallel dimension that is a reflection of another dimension. Wouldn't that mean everything we think we know is just an illusion/reflection? Therefore non existent only a figment of our imagination.
Indeed. I never said there were not. I just said they are rare. People also use references to making something absolute such as everyone, always, never, all, every, noone, etc in many cases (I'll even hazard the majority) where what they are talking about is NOT an absolute, and their attempt to frame it as an absolute makes their statement inaccurate.
I agree 100 percent that there are no absolutes when it comes to the human condition, attitude, mind, thoughts etc.
I thought you were talking about all absolutes.
It's easy to play the what if game. The key is to not let the WHAT IF paralyze you. Observe, and use reason.
WHAT IFs are often just us speculating, forming hypothesis, etc. The danger comes when we push our speculations as FACT and forget they were just something that MIGHT or MIGHT NOT be.
The reason I brought that up is because so much of what I thought I know was based on some one else’s "what if" and has never been proven.
Common sense isn't so common when you spend life being programmed with falsehood. Reason is a good word but it means so much more than what I think in my reprogrammed box.
Just consider what you and I think say compared to someone who was born and raised in N Korea.
Have you watched any of the propaganda videos on youtube from N Korea?
Even though my reality is different from maybe yours we might both be completely wrong based on false perceptions we think we know to be facts.
Maybe only death will expose us to the truth? I am not sure death just might be a new level of what we have now. That being walking blindly though a dimly lit tunnel.
I would think that after the 1000s of years of human existence we would be much further along in knowledge and wisdom to progress all humans and our world.
Surely something is hidden from us that would break us free of the divisions that we have that are so minuscule compared to what we have in common.