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  1. godnotgod

    City passes proposal to remove Trump's star from Hollywood Walk of Fame

    Well, just considering the others and their offenses, should their stars be removed in your opinion?
  2. godnotgod

    City passes proposal to remove Trump's star from Hollywood Walk of Fame

    Would you agree that Pick Axe Boy's motive was to attack the symbol for what it is supposed to represent?
  3. godnotgod

    Police unions pull out of Dolphins game over anthem issue

    ...and the impending death of competitive sports....YAY!
  4. godnotgod

    Reality: What is it?

    So to be clear: is there a self that is aware, or is there only awareness itself, without a knower of awareness called 'I'?
  5. godnotgod

    Reality: What is it?

    If the answer to the question is directly seen, without thought, without a 'see-er of the seen', then isn't there freedom from the narrative in that case? The problem of freedom may not have to do with the question, but with the concept of a self that is involved in the narrative. Also...
  6. godnotgod

    Reality: What is it?

    OK, but the question is WHY. Any thoughts?
  7. godnotgod

    Reality: What is it?

    According to the definition of perception, awareness is involved: per·cep·tion pərˈsepSH(ə)n/ noun noun: perception; plural noun: perceptions the ability to see, hear, or become aware of something through the senses. "the normal limits to human perception" the state of being or process of...
  8. godnotgod

    City passes proposal to remove Trump's star from Hollywood Walk of Fame

    It's not just the dishonesty; it's what that dishonesty is doing to people. If you were a Jew who survived the holocaust, (perhaps you are), how would you feel to come into contact with a monument to Hitler that honored him as a patriot, for example? What would you want to do to that monument...
  9. godnotgod

    City passes proposal to remove Trump's star from Hollywood Walk of Fame

    I posted those offenders not because Trump is a sex offender, but to show that, even with past achievements, we strip them of recognition and power when their offenses can't be tolerated. Bill Cosby and Weinstein don't have the power that Trump currently wields. Trump is abusing his power on a...
  10. godnotgod

    City passes proposal to remove Trump's star from Hollywood Walk of Fame

    Maybe so. Maybe that applies to both the left and the right. Maybe we all are evolving, and in so doing, have come to realize that our thought patterns of yesterday not only do not apply to an awakened consciousness, but are actually harmful, especially when destructive action is taken on their...
  11. godnotgod

    Reality: What is it?

    Does perception make any sense without awareness? Something has to 'know' how to interpret what is being perceived.
  12. godnotgod

    Reality: What is it?

    But the 'separation' is part of the drama. It never happened.
  13. godnotgod

    Reality: What is it?

    Because that is how I experience it. 1: How? 2: Something is aware of the process. What is that? A selfless awareness?
  14. godnotgod

    Reality: What is it?

    So, then, would you agree that you and I are included in what the world is, namely, 'Brahman'?
  15. godnotgod

    Reality: What is it?

    Yes, silence is the ultimate answer, but in navigating to that point of departure, it can be productive to use the intellect to reach that threshold as 'a finger pointing to the Moon'. Rumi is simply noting that the description is not the described, a common error in thinking that man makes...
  16. godnotgod

    Reality: What is it?

    Yes, but these are all conceptual frameworks created by the subject/object split in the mind, a split which does not actually exist in nature. The 'subject of awareness' is exactly just one of those conceptual frameworks. From the POV of The Universe, does it see such a 'subject of awareness'...
  17. godnotgod

    Reality: What is it?

    But the question must be asked: Who, or what, is it that knows that consciousness cannot see consciousness?
  18. godnotgod

    Reality: What is it?

    OK, in other words, there is no 'perceiver of the perception'; no 'experiencer of the experience'; no 'narrator' of the narrative. As Deepak Chopra stated: "The spiritual experience is the merging of the observer, the observed, and the entire process of observation into a single Reality"
  19. godnotgod

    Reality: What is it?

    I'm so glad you discovered that, something many overlook, or cannot see because they have been so conditioned with that something 'extra' added in. No, a tree is not made of wood; it IS wood. No, there is no such 'It' that is raining; no 'whirler' of the whirling water of a whirlpool, etc.
  20. godnotgod

    Reality: What is it?

    OK, but is the world apart from Brahman, or is the world none other than Brahman, playing itself as 'the world' via lila and maya?
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