Careful, you might cut yourself with that edge

It isn’t necessary to travel to the Amazon rainforest to be liberated from the madness of this capitalist civilization. It isn’t even necessary to take psychedelics. All it takes is rigorous self-examination and inner work, and a burning desire to perceive life as it really is. Devoutly and sincerely question all your beliefs about reality, right down to your most basic assumptions about the nature of fundamental aspects of your experience, like existence, self, other, perception, thought, and awareness. Find those gaping emotional wounds and maladaptive coping mechanisms within yourself, and with uncompromising self-honesty bring them into consciousness to be healed.

The article is well worth the read

I think that's what happened here

does it come in pink?

It seemed pretty discriminate to me

That's nothing compared to the unaccountable trillions that disappear into the military-industrial complex

Good

I'm glad he realized his mistake with Avatar 2

Make America West Virginia

It's gotta be the second. If someone was packing a pager with explosives, using the pager as the trigger makes the most sense

The minimum time commitment is what gets me. I can have my phone out and social media open in seconds

we have no idea they all had the same delusion.

You have no idea that they did, and you have no idea they didn't.

That's why I said before that if you can see how religions rhyme, you can find a core message in all of them. And that, I think, is the truth.

What's your point? That religion is flawed? Then, yes, I agree, that was what I was trying to convey in my original comment.

The exclusivity is a product of man trying to control others. Just look at early Christianity, which was non-hierarchical and gender-equal. It was only later that it was turned into the power structure of Catholicism.

What if their reported experiences are just delusions?

If people across time and space who have sought the answer to the question "What is the nature of the universe and what is the meaning of life" all came to the same delusion, then fuck it, let's all be delusional together because it's apparently inherent to human nature.

I didn't know that about the Australian Aboriginals, I'll have to learn about them. And what's the difference between god dreaming the world into existence and god making it with their own hands? It's all allegory for creation.

Absolutely, people who achieve enlightenment interpret the experience through the lens of their own culture. Buddhism is that truth seen through the lens of Buddha's Hinduism, Christianity (minus anything Paul wrote) is that truth seen through the lens of Jesus's Jew upbringing.

There's even people who have achieved it nowadays that interpret life as a sort of video game.

Planes cant hold land

Since it's inconceivable that all religions can be right

It's not that inconceivable. I think religions are flawed interpretations of a single truth that seems to be universal to human existence.

Study enough religions and you start to see how they rhyme.

The real reason the Silver Bridge collapsed is because the coal companies are in complete control of West Virginia economically and politically. They made the bridge be built by the lowest bidder, who built an unsafe bridge that predictably collapsed.

Mothman was just trying to warn people

Generalizations about my out-group 👍

Generalizations about my in-group 👎