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Delusions of grandeur - a tricky trap.
#5717794 - 06/06/06 01:59 AM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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"When you wake up you will. [,,,] You already have it. You are already there. When you understand this something will happen. You discover that the distinction between volintary and involuntary behaviour dissapears. You will realize that what you describe as things under your own will feel exactly as the things going out outside you. You watch other people moving and you know you're doing that, just like you're breathing or circulating your blood. If you don't understand what
is going on, you are reliable to get crazy at this point and to feel that you are God in the Jehova sense. To say that you actually have power over other human people, so that you have control over what they are doing. And that you are omnipotent in a very crude literal kind of bible sense. You see? And alot of people feel that and they go crazy, they have to put them away. They think they are Jesus Christ and that everybody ought to fall down and worship them. That is only because they got their wires crossed. This experience happened to them and they don't know how to interpret it. So be careful of that. Jung calls it inflation. People who get the Holy Man Syndrome. That I've suddenly discovered that I am the Lord and that I am beyond good and evil and so on. And therefore I start giving myself graces. But the point is everybody else is too. If you discover that you are That, then you ought to know that everybody else is."
- Alan Watts
Heheheh, not to mention names, but this is something someone ought to digest and keep stop spreading the holier than thou attitude that have been polluting some threads lately. This is about waking up, not trying to muster up some evil reality dream where one is planning on torturing the poor misguided bullies that flushed your head down the toilet when you were still a kid in school. Why not use that brilliant mind constructivley, and stop spreading more hate. Negativity breeds its own kind.
Should a man of Justice be able to see beyond the illusory masked conditioning making way for such ignorant deeds?
Peace.
Edited by dr_mandelbrot (06/06/06 02:08 AM)
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Re: Delusions of grandeur - a tricky trap. [Re: dorkus]
#5717811 - 06/06/06 02:05 AM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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Alan Watts educates and confuses me like no one else.
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Re: Delusions of grandeur - a tricky trap. [Re: Fospher]
#5717858 - 06/06/06 02:33 AM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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Alan Watts is one of my favorite lecturers on Buddhism and Taoism. The man is a genious. The fact that he didn't really live up to his teachings all the time, can be interpreted in many ways in my opinion. Maybe he believed in instant moksha upon giving up our individual identity and therefore really didn't give a fuck?
He seems to hold an astonishing understanding of the ancient teachings, and to me he speaks more clearly than most.
I placed this post here because of the petty drama that has been going on regarding delusions of grandeur though. Hope I wasn't out of line. I struggle with it myself every now and then, but good people have their ways of undressing my pretenses. It is like slowly putting on the breaks on a pendulum. It keeps slipping off.
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Re: Delusions of grandeur - a tricky trap. [Re: dorkus]
#5718349 - 06/06/06 09:43 AM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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So someone has been actin like they are beyond good and evil? those bastards!!!
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Re: Delusions of grandeur - a tricky trap. [Re: dorkus]
#5718355 - 06/06/06 09:46 AM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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hmm havent gotten to that level yet.. but sounds great so im looking forward to it!
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Re: Delusions of grandeur - a tricky trap. [Re: dorkus]
#5718369 - 06/06/06 09:50 AM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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Why don't you have the guts to come out and say it's me you're refering to. You cowardly bastard.
-------------------- "Don't believe everything you think". -Anom. " All that lives was born to die"-Anom. With much wisdom comes much sorrow, The more knowledge, the more grief. Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC
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Re: Delusions of grandeur - a tricky trap. [Re: Icelander]
#5718473 - 06/06/06 10:37 AM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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Icelander said: Why don't you have the guts to come out and say it's me you're refering to. You cowardly bastard.
It goes without saying, my old petty bastard brother.
Did you miss the brilliant mind part?
Edited by dr_mandelbrot (06/06/06 10:45 AM)
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Re: Delusions of grandeur - a tricky trap. [Re: dorkus]
#5718721 - 06/06/06 12:07 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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I miss mostly everything these days.
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Re: Delusions of grandeur - a tricky trap. [Re: Icelander]
#5718731 - 06/06/06 12:10 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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Seriously though, Ice. You know I did struggle with this myself. The ego coming in the way. And sometimes it still does. We have conversed on this in PMs. Please bear with me.
I can also admit that upon hearing this lecture I kept thinking of DoctorJ and his latest postings.
I believe and hope that my intentions for posting this was good.
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Re: Delusions of grandeur - a tricky trap. [Re: Icelander]
#5718736 - 06/06/06 12:12 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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Icelander said: I miss mostly everything these days.
What do you mean? I'm uncertain if your pulling my leg or trying to teach me a lesson. Or maybe both?
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Re: Delusions of grandeur - a tricky trap. [Re: dorkus]
#5718774 - 06/06/06 12:27 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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dr_mandelbrot said: Seriously though, Ice. You know I did struggle with this myself. The ego coming in the way. And sometimes it still does. We have conversed on this in PMs. Please bear with me.
I can also admit that upon hearing this lecture I kept thinking of DoctorJ and his latest postings.
I know who you were refering too. 
I believe and hope that my intentions for posting this was good.
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Re: Delusions of grandeur - a tricky trap. [Re: dorkus]
#5718784 - 06/06/06 12:29 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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dr_mandelbrot said:
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Icelander said: I miss mostly everything these days.
What do you mean? I'm uncertain if your pulling my leg or trying to teach me a lesson. Or maybe both?
What I mean is I rarely read posts anymore in depth. I often just post based on the title or the first sentence of the post. So I miss details. Usually I get away with it.
-------------------- "Don't believe everything you think". -Anom. " All that lives was born to die"-Anom. With much wisdom comes much sorrow, The more knowledge, the more grief. Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC
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Re: Delusions of grandeur - a tricky trap. [Re: Icelander]
#5718792 - 06/06/06 12:32 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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Why would you do that? What is your intention to post?
This coyote is boggling.
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Re: Delusions of grandeur - a tricky trap. [Re: dorkus]
#5718866 - 06/06/06 12:48 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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I usually can tell what a persons point is that easily. I don't need alot of verbose detail. It's my way of developing certain skills in myself and playing. Nothing here is very serious. Could you tell by my replies that I don't read everything?
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Re: Delusions of grandeur - a tricky trap. [Re: Icelander]
#5718880 - 06/06/06 12:53 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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I'm not sure. It seems to be a hazardious game to play young feeble minds like that. But for all I know you're psychic. Anyway it is non of my business, so I guess it's all good. 
So without having read my first post, could you elaborate on it's content? Don't you find details of importance at all?
Or whatever. Just forget about it, if you want to save time.
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Re: Delusions of grandeur - a tricky trap. [Re: dorkus]
#5718912 - 06/06/06 01:01 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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I scrolled down your post. Saw the word inflation. Saw you were talking about DJ and then posted my little joke to you. Is there more I need to know? I am already familiar with Jung.
-------------------- "Don't believe everything you think". -Anom. " All that lives was born to die"-Anom. With much wisdom comes much sorrow, The more knowledge, the more grief. Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC
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Re: Delusions of grandeur - a tricky trap. [Re: Icelander]
#5718931 - 06/06/06 01:08 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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There is nothing you need to know. You are right.
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Re: Delusions of grandeur - a tricky trap. [Re: Icelander]
#5718986 - 06/06/06 01:21 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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I'm just the opposite. I love crazies. Wild freespirits.
I would like to see more Holier than Thou type people, i think they're beautiful. Weird intense bi-polar chicks, hermits, people brave enough to say I think I'm talkin' to god. Because yea, everyone is.
also, you mentioned something about polluting the message board, lol that is silly i think
kinda like being mad at the graffiti on some bathroom wall because the joke was funny to you.
negativity breeds its own kind yea here is what negativity does- our tribe is small and we only have so much bread to go around this wanderer is sick and hungry, if we let him join our tribe there will be less food for us, so lets be unkind, ever so subtley, so that he leave us, because i want that bread for myself.
positivity breeds its own kind too it says, all good deeds and love are returned ten thousand fold let us wash his feet, and share our bread if he is delusional, surely we can straighten him out, if it be that we ourselves are whole. whole shapes heal unwhole shapes, so they begin to take on the same shape.
it is a tricky trap yes but one that must be encountered and dealt with the path is beset on all sides by delusions and test and tribulations
and a life that is free from these things is one that is surely coming to an end
if you're going to be delusional already, at least have Grand Delusions, rather than trendy common average simple delusions.
i'm disappointed with the piece by alan watts, because apparently he can't distinguish between the fact that there are both people who think they are holier than thou, and those who actually are holier than thou. it is True that a Whole man (holy man) teaches little girls to read. meanwhile an unwhole man would abuse them. are you saying one isn't holier than the other? because i'm saying yea, one is. lol
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Re: Delusions of grandeur - a tricky trap. [Re: Icelander]
#5719064 - 06/06/06 01:54 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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Icelander said: I usually can tell what a persons point is that easily. I don't need alot of verbose detail. )
How can you know what I am about to say? You don't have the knowledge of everything any member can post in the board, so how can you grant yourself the authority of saying otherwise?
Your self-importance will be your demise.
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Re: Delusions of grandeur - a tricky trap. [Re: Telepylus]
#5719277 - 06/06/06 03:01 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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You hold good points there, telepylus. My intention was not to drive anyone away from the boards. I think Watts is just speaking about how the realization that we literally are God naturally should make us conclude that so is everyone else. If this is just a dream, we all should end up as One in the end. Therefore the drama isn't as important or evil or ugly as it looks from below. There is an inherit, harmonious order at the top - or core if you'd like.
But yeah, I hear you, and agree with much of what you say.
We should aim to include. And ignoring people by freezing them out of the crowd is a cruel thing to do. It is counterproductive to healing.
BTW i talk to my cat, to the walls and to birds flying over my head.
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