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#81

Laid Back Lounge / Re: what is the worst job you ...

Last post by Asmodean - April 07, 2024, 09:53:04 AM

I want a pretty high degree of problem solving in my day-to-day, which I have. Within my sphere of work, I do not enjoy personnel responsibility. I don't like somebody else's job having to depend on the way I do my own. Generally speaking, I easily get bored doing "robot work." I have a high threshhold for acting out on boredom, and can be "just-bored" for longer than any-one else I know personally, but eight hours a day, five days a week, 2000-some hours a year manning a stamping machine or putting together IKEA furniture... Yeah. Don't want to. I'd do it, but I would not be content doing it for very long.

In the realm of jobs I'm not qualified for, I suppose it would be kindergarten or primary school teacher. Kids tend to annoy me when they are in their "squeaky years."

But what I think would drive me from a job quicker than anything, is unproductiveness. I will tolerate having to look after people and even be surrounded by children as long as I am accomplishing something. I think the worst job I imagine, is "getting paychecks for nothing" - no stake, no responsibility, no product generated by my effort. Pride. Some say it's a sin. Well, I want to be proud of what I do, and to do that, I need to achieve certain goals doing it.

#82

Religion / Re: Christian Nonduality

Last post by Asmodean - April 07, 2024, 09:45:44 AM

Awareness is the only ONE real reality.

Explain. What precludes other realities from existing?

#83

Laid Back Lounge / Re: Jokes Thread (Was named An...

Last post by The Magic Pudding.. - April 07, 2024, 09:36:14 AM

If this Partisan Hack"If this Partisan Hack wants to put me in the 'clink' for speaking the open and obvious TRUTH, I will gladly become a Modern Day Nelson Mandela — It will be my GREAT HONOR," Trump wrote.

They'll have to change the words of this song.

77 years of privilege...

#84

Laid Back Lounge / Re: what is the worst job you ...

Last post by Dark Lightning - April 07, 2024, 03:36:31 AM

You're not a pussy for the way your brain is wired. I see videos of guys who climb to the top of towers to replace the flashing bulbs that alert aircraft to their presence. There are steps/stairs to some level, and then they have to free climb. Those towers swing in the wind, to boot. Crazy, for me. When I look out at heights, I get vertigo. I really don't like that sensation. I recalled a memory to my mother many years ago. I was with her mother and my eldest sister, and my grandmother was watering plants. There was a mirror leaning against the wall of that room. I looked into the mirror and it looked to me like a hole (I am extremely nearsighted) that I could fall into and end up in the basement. My mother says I was maybe 18 months old, given my description of the situation. Wild. I knew that there was a basement at that age. I guess that the mirror was reflecting a dark ceiling; I'll never know.

#85

Laid Back Lounge / Re: what is the worst job you ...

Last post by Icarus - April 07, 2024, 03:22:47 AM

Here are several jobs that I would do my best to avoid. For starters, I wouldn't want to be a cop, the worst job for me would be a utility worker doing repair work in large sewers...........I am claustrophobic. A job as a miner would not work very well for me either.Nor would I want to be one of those full time painters who work every day on the Golden Gate bridge, or any other high elevation job. I'm a pussy because I am acrophobic.   

#86

Laid Back Lounge / what is the worst job you can ...

Last post by billy rubin - April 06, 2024, 03:05:11 PM

some people like their jobs. some people hate their jobs. i was reading the news and got distracted by some clickbait

which was a success for the clickbait

and then it occurred to me that the worst job i coul dimagine having right now would be having to write things like this in order to make a living

Caught off guard

One of the teachers, Miss Clara, quickly entered the principal's office and closed the door behind her. "Shit, Eric! What was that? Who is that girl?" she whispered, completely caught off guard by what had just happened. "That's what I'm going to find out now, he muttered as he looked through one of his drawers.

The unexpected appearance of the mysterious girl has clearly left Miss Clara and Eric, the principal, bewildered. Their hushed conversation and the search for answers suggest that something intriguing or perhaps even concerning has just occurred. The unfolding story is sure to reveal more about the girl's identity and the secrets that may lie ahead

i would strangle innocent passersby before i would succeed in writing very much like this.

what would you hate to do for a living?

#87

Religion / Re: Christian Nonduality

Last post by zorkan - April 06, 2024, 12:46:26 PM

I have no idea if that's how the biosphere is likely to meet its doom, or if it will stick around to witness the Sun going red giant on this planet's bottom

Velikovsky fable:
Worlds in Collision (book) "proposes that Venus formed inside of Jupiter, and that around the 15th century BCE, it was ejected from Jupiter as a comet or comet-like object and subsequently passed near Earth, though an actual collision with the Earth is not mentioned. In doing so it changed Earth's orbit and axial inclination, causing innumerable catastrophes which were identified in early mythologies and religious traditions from human civilizations around the world. Fifty-two years later, it again made a close approach, stopping the Earth's rotation for a while and causing more catastrophes. Then, in the 8th and 7th centuries BCE, Mars (itself displaced by Venus) made close approaches to the Earth; this incident caused a new round of disturbances and disasters. After that, the current "celestial order" was established. The courses of the planets stabilized over the centuries and Venus gradually became a "normal" planet."

Suppose Jupiter which is more than twice as big as all other planets combined decides to spew out another comet which this time hits Earth, then we're doomed.
Doomed!
So what, I ain't bovvered.

#88

Religion / Re: Christian Nonduality

Last post by zorkan - April 06, 2024, 12:40:27 PM

Or put a simpler way, only consciousness exists.

#89

Religion / Re: Christian Nonduality

Last post by Me_Be - April 05, 2024, 04:27:03 PM

What makes that reality the real one? Is it real as opposed to, or in addition to, other available realities?

When discussing reality/realities, contemplation using words is always referring to knowledge, something known, always knowledge, because without knowledge there's simply ''thought-free awareness'' aka nothingness appearing as everything without imposing any concept to it.

Awareness is the only ONE real reality. Awareness is not human. Human is a concept known to Awareness. Awareness is the nameless one reality.

Neither the human body, nor the human entity ( some call the spirit ) is "LIFE The Real Self" ( "AWARENESS " )
The Only thing that is "AWARE" of anything, is "AWARENESS", which is "LIFE The Real Self"

You are Awareness Itself individually and uniquely aware as "you." You are individual being. The pure awareness you are is the one universe you experience. Awareness and form are one. Awareness is what you ARE, what you see WITH, and that which is SEEN.

Awareness itself is not the awareness OF any 'thing' or any condition or situation, it is the one infinite and omnipresent "light" you ARE, you see things with, and the 'things' themselves.

You are aware of; conscious of; "alive" to  these words. But it is not "you" being aware of "these words" with "your faculty of awareness." What makes the experience possible is the oneness of Awareness Itself. That which you are aware of is Awareness Itself, and the "you" being aware is the same Awareness Itself. Awareness Itself is existence itself.

[''‭‭1 Corinthians 13:12 For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.'']

#90

Religion / Re: Christian Nonduality

Last post by Me_Be - April 05, 2024, 03:59:16 PM

Further questions, in addition to the unanswered three from above; how does "illusory" come into play? What is the significance of reality as seen as a single system not having any overarching knowledge or the capability of knowing? Can you demonstrate how the conceptualisation is done within infinity? (That which has no starting and/or end condition, which "all" knowledge does)

I can only demonstrate using a quote from biblical scripture, which is simply knowledge arising as itself, to itself and for itself. Just like any knowledge one claims to know.

''‭‭1 Corinthians 13:12  For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.''

This is referring to the reflective world of knowledge/thought (for now we see only a reflection).

Then "we shall see face to face" which refers to the full picture; aka from source to source.

Now I know in part (Now I am experiencing the reflective world of thought), then I shall know fully (Complete and no longer veiled by thoughts, seeing "the light" that thoughts are covering), even as I am fully known (I am truly already and always Fullness/Wholeness no matter what, yet I seemingly experience forgetting this and falling for the illusion the reflection creates, and then remembering the Wholeness.
This is basic Nonduality. In fact pretty much all of the worlds religious text including islamic faith is derived from a base level nondual context at it's fundamental core.