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Escaping from Nihilism, the void of Nothing
    #7553747 - 10/24/07 05:37 AM (16 years, 3 months ago)

The first step is to eliminate the concept of infinity from the mind. It can never be a perfect number, it is IN - COM - PLETE.

...And so it can never serve as a useful tool for you other than as a counter to your perfection.
The idea of being infinite should be considered a blasphemy to your perfect and complete being.

Infinity is imperfection, it is the failure of our expectation. We can't expect anything of infinity, it provides nothing for us.

We are away from home now and we must find a way for ourselves, otherwise we are lost at sea.

To transcend the grasp of infinity and become perfect, you have to become a whole (a whole number, 1). In finality, we have the absence of the infinite. There is only you, and you are only what you imagine yourself to be.

This is not an invitation to imagine yourself as a God, or a cat.

You are indeed a human BEING with human faculties................

but there are so many different characters to choose from. For example, I am a writer and a philosopher and these will be my crafts.

Now envision yourself as something. What do you want to be? An adventurer? An intellectual? A mystic? An optimist? That is what you are becoming now and will continue to become, continually becoming a more complete representation of yourself.

You might say, but EternalCowabunga, how can something complete become more complete? How can the number 1 become more of the number 1? The number 1 is the number 1 because it is not 2, or 3. Constantly transcend infinity by focusing on that single point, that perfect whole, which you are spiraling towards. Use your thoughts, use your imagination.

Breathe deeply, your journey is just beginning. Breathe deeply. :sun::heart:


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Re: Escaping from Nihilism, the void of Nothing [Re: EternalCowabunga]
    #7554222 - 10/24/07 09:26 AM (16 years, 3 months ago)

interesting thoughts.

it's kind of like the reverse of peeling the layers off an onion.

in this way you take a void and keep adding new layers until you end up with a whole onion.

create.
creation.
creativity.

:smile:


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Re: Escaping from Nihilism, the void of Nothing [Re: AlteredAgain]
    #7554318 - 10/24/07 09:59 AM (16 years, 3 months ago)

1 = 1 = 1 = 1 and so on... That is infinity. The number 1, which encompasses everything that exists.. will always be number 1.

It will never change. I

t will never become 0, or any other number.

It is a perfect circle.. a perfect point which will never cease to exist. And that includes anything that exists within it. You exist within this. Therefore, you cannot remove yourself from it. You can change shapes and forms, and believe different things, and feel different ways, and know more truths, but you can never be more or less than this number 1.

You will always be.

That is the gift.


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Re: Escaping from Nihilism, the void of Nothing [Re: Ginseng1]
    #7554341 - 10/24/07 10:07 AM (16 years, 3 months ago)

"The idea of being infinite should be considered a blasphemy to your perfect and complete being."

How so?

Infinite is complete because the ending will always be in complete contact with the beginning.

Like a circle. What is more perfect than a circle? No beginning and no end. It is complete. It is a whole. It is everything and unchanging.

Perpetual motion.


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Re: Escaping from Nihilism, the void of Nothing [Re: AlteredAgain]
    #7554795 - 10/24/07 12:34 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

Quote:

AlteredAgain said:
interesting thoughts.

it's kind of like the reverse of peeling the layers off an onion.

in this way you take a void and keep adding new layers until you end up with a whole onion.

create.
creation.
creativity.

:smile:




exactly! that was the idea of the post :smile:


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Re: Escaping from Nihilism, the void of Nothing [Re: Ginseng1]
    #7554807 - 10/24/07 12:39 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

Pretty posting. However, things are not nihilistic, though it all depends upon perception. Many people find themself right square up against mystical perceptions quite often, perceptions which verify that the universe has layers of experience for the sensorium, depending upon what one places their attention upon. The fault of thought - and the blessing of it, is that it changes and shrinks and expands. So thought since it changes is merely a part of something and cannot itself contain the wholeness, or it is itself wiped out, as in samadhi. I would always direct someone to engage in samadhi for a number of years as a method to discover that thought indeed, is not all that there is, nor even is mind.


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Re: Escaping from Nihilism, the void of Nothing [Re: EternalCowabunga]
    #7559614 - 10/25/07 03:05 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

Now envision yourself as something. What do you want to be?

INFINITE


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" All that lives was born to die"-Anom.

With much wisdom comes much sorrow,
The more knowledge, the more grief.
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Re: Escaping from Nihilism, the void of Nothing [Re: Icelander]
    #7559769 - 10/25/07 03:57 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

no problem, just cut you out of the picture.


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Re: Escaping from Nihilism, the void of Nothing [Re: AlteredAgain]
    #7560077 - 10/25/07 05:38 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

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1 is but a loner in a nearly barren desert. Occasionally, it comes across an oasis and drinks it's drink and eats it's eats. However, these are only to sustain it to endure more misery. Die therein, oh couragous one! A feast for the vultures, if only for a moment. Yet, there is NONE left but THAT.
One is only whole in approximation. Unrealization of this removes the w(double vau- the divided ruach) leaving a hole unto which to fall asunder, ripped to dust by Choronzon, ever floating in the abominable abyss.

Hail with me now: SHEMHAMPHORASH!!!
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Re: Escaping from Nihilism, the void of Nothing [Re: lavod]
    #7560832 - 10/25/07 09:18 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

Is imagination to be confined to the finite realm?

Quote:

Infinite is complete because the ending will always be in complete contact with the beginning.




Wouldn't that create an enclosure?


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