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"Everyone is Simply TIRED"
thanks to the amazing engineering work of several races.....
originally posted by: bb23108
a reply to: VitaArcana
You state that you are consciousness - so why do you insist on stripping away the emotional aspect of the body-mind, if you are not that body-mind in reality? Wouldn't such a search just reinforce the presumption that you are the body-mind?
originally posted by: combatmaster
a reply to: VitaArcana
thanks to the amazing engineering work of several races.....
Please elaborate... several races?
originally posted by: VitaArcana
Not exactly, mind is the thinking tank, the consciousness is rather different, it's no emotions, no thoughts yet you see everything clearly and to key.
originally posted by: bb23108
originally posted by: VitaArcana
Not exactly, mind is the thinking tank, the consciousness is rather different, it's no emotions, no thoughts yet you see everything clearly and to key.
Okay, but you didn't really answer my question. If you are consciousness (and not the body-mind), why do you need to strip away the emotions of something that you are not?
And wouldn't such attempts to do so just reinforce your identification with the body-mind?
In other words, if one's body-mind feels love for family and friends, why would that affect you, if you are simply consciousness? Can't the body-mind still love others without impinging on your freedom as consciousness?
Is consciousness separate from love?
originally posted by: OhOkYeah
Emotions/instincts are all primal in nature. They are, in fact, the things that are sin. The concept of "sin" is not what is morally wrong, it is what is spiritually wrong. Giving in to your emotional and physical feelings is a sin in any capacity. Only when humanity realizes that their emotions and physical urges are what's holding them back will we ever see a period of peace. In my opinion, an enlightened humanity will feel no primal urge to continue their blood line. The end of the world will come when we make the right decision to discontinue reproduction.
So, never.
originally posted by: VitaArcana
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Things such as love, hate, pain, suffering are all by products of the vessel, they cloud you, misdirect you and make you fall further and further into the coma that is the human condition.
You need to strip all those things to realize what you are, what we are and what we have been doing to one another since the beginning of the human project.
When you strip all those things, you will not feel pain, happiness,love,hate etc... You will just be and you will see the world for what it really is, a big giant test tube where one kills the one and not the other.
originally posted by: bb23108
A few more questions, if you don't mind...
In your version of consciousness, is there any feeling at all?
Is there anything living in terms of being an attribute of consciousness?
Is this consciousness separate from all forms?
How can you, as consciousness, strip away what you are not?
What is this process of stripping away actually involve?
What "arms" does consciousness have to do such a thing?
originally posted by: bb23108
A few more questions, if you don't mind...
originally posted by: bb23108
Is there anything alive about consciousness? If so, what?