Eschalt said:

Yes but for some, certain obstacles can never be overcome and even if they could doing so might be worthless. It is best to simply not place them in the first place. The most obvious and general example is believing in something that there is no evidence for the existence of and attempting to attain it.

How one could recognize what challenges are worthy and what's not intuitively is beyond me. I seem to have done some things the hard way and luckily I managed to realize that I keep making the same mistake.

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It's better than nothing.

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The cause of human suffering and conflict

The cause of human suffering and conflict is our commitment to the illusions we call values, morals and ethics. Values, morals and ethics do not exist outside of our cultural- existential minds. They do not exist in reality and are therefore a figment of our culturally and existentially indoctrinated imagination. We believe or think values exist when in fact they do not. This describes the schizophrenic mind. The schizophrenic mind is separated from reality and centered in unreality or what psychologists call fantasy, believing this fantasy to be real. Cultural/existential humanity exists entirely within the framework of illusionary values, morals and ethics and is therefore absolutely schizophrenic. We are either affirmatively committed to the existence of values, morals and ethics or we are not. If we are committed to the existence of values, morals and ethics, we are schizophrenic and consequently insane. If we are not committed to values, morals and ethics, then confusion, conflict and insanity are not a part of our psychological nature. The term insane is used to describe the personal and social actions of the schizophrenic personality. There can be no conflict without the values of right or wrong being offended or defended. There can be no guilt or repression without the values of right or wrong, good or bad having been applied. There can be no psychological neurosis or psychosis without the fears associated with the loss or gain of that valued. There can be no anxiety without the anticipation or expectation concerning future uncertainties about success or failure. There can be no frustration without a desired goal being thwarted. The illusionary concepts of values, morals and ethics exist so that we may judge, separate and divide, and then pit the one side against the other. This enables the persons involved to feel either superior or inferior as the case may be. This is the underlying motivation for all cultural-existential activity. Due to the divisive and conflicting nature of duality, cultural/existential humanity can be described as being not only sociopathic (anti-social) in its attitude and response to humankind, but also psychopathic (aggressively anti-social) much of that time. Since confusion, conflict and insanity are the consequence of our commitment to values, morals and ethics, and peace exists when there is no confusion, conflict or insanity present, it can be concluded that peace is the consequence of having no values, no morals and no ethics. If values, morals and ethics are the direct cause of all human suffering and conflict and do not exist in the tao/eden/reality, and if peace and sanity are to be realized, we must refuse to take part in their use.

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dustinthewind13 said:

Eschalt said:

Yes but for some, certain obstacles can never be overcome and even if they could doing so might be worthless. It is best to simply not place them in the first place. The most obvious and general example is believing in something that there is no evidence for the existence of and attempting to attain it.

How one could recognize what challenges are worthy and what's not intuitively is beyond me. I seem to have done some things the hard way and luckily I managed to realize that I keep making the same mistake.

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It's better than nothing.

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Eschalt said:

dustinthewind13 said:

Eschalt said:

Yes but for some, certain obstacles can never be overcome and even if they could doing so might be worthless. It is best to simply not place them in the first place. The most obvious and general example is believing in something that there is no evidence for the existence of and attempting to attain it.

How one could recognize what challenges are worthy and what's not intuitively is beyond me. I seem to have done some things the hard way and luckily I managed to realize that I keep making the same mistake.

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It's better than nothing.

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How can "nothing" be better than itself?

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Icelander said:

Good luck giving up culture.

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Culture is a useful tool for communication and propagation of latest ideas and technology. I have no desire to give it up. I do however desire to escape the mainstream egoic structure and consensus reality which is only limiting and miserable.

dustinthewind13 said:

This resonates with me a lot, except for:

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In other words I enjoyed the psychosis and integrated it well. My case manager tells me its very rare to see someone like me.

Hope this helps :

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Almond Flour said:

How do you guys view psychosis. Simple biology, or something more along the lines of possession, or something more unorthodox? Do you think people have a choice or at least some power over the workings of their mind? Or do you think if you are going to go psychotic, it was programmed into your genes at birth?

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