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Originally Posted by spanktehbadwookie
You know nothing about oneness, but know everything about oneness?
I have experienced the fruits of introspection, quieting your mind, letting go of emotion and desire, many times. I have experienced the addictive rush of power and the delusion of insight this brings. I've seen how emotions and desires and looking back and forward cloud judgment and thought. Any moron can do that, which is why so many morons are Buddhists. My 13 year old self wasn't much different to Veedz.
However, I had the minimum working brain cells required to not stop there, and realize that taking "the oneness" beyond its psychological bounds, as Eastern religions do, is also an illusion. If you abstract one more level above the mind-quieting, you see how it all works. Eastern brains seem to have gotten stuck at the "oneness" though, just like Middle Eastern minds got stuck at the all powerful dad-figure (arguably less advanced, but probably more connected to the world).
Again, I refer you to the choices I offered:
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a) There is a "oneness" you can achieve through meditation or the right kind of introspection in which you can be omniscient (a deep human desire for millennia)
b) While introspection can be helpful with gaining insights, due to the psychological processing of information that it allows, extrapolating that process out to claiming that once can reach omniscience by simply sitting there is just one of the latest in a very long list of silly wishful thinking and power-grabbing philosophies that have existed.
The latter is 99.99999999999% to be true, imo.
Both basic and advanced epistemology leads you to "lol oneness".
Last edited by ToothSayer; 07-15-2017 at 11:33 AM.