There is a ladder with grades and levels to get off the checkerboard floor, the low, base, beastly, carnal, fleshly consciousness stuck in the pleasure trap and baser instincts, evolving towards a higher ego, a higher self, a higher consciousness, a higher soul. Consciousness, self, soul, ego are references to ourselves. Some people try to make the ego itself an […]
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These are common questions. Maybe you say it every day, or you have it said to you every day. And how many times do we say it to different people, and how many times does it get said to us in a single day? This question can become tiring to engage in, both to ask and answer. Do we answer […]
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Don’t you like to win? I do. There’s something about winning that makes us feel good. While losing can tend to make us not feel good. We can play a game and experience wins or losses. The potential to win is attractive. If we could only lose in a game, no one would play that game, because it’s no fun […]
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There is something going on, and something needs to be done about it. Sometimes you can’t do anything to solve a problem. But someone decides to do something, even though it’s irrational and non productive to the actual problem at hand. They could do nothing, but they can’t stand doing nothing, because they want the problem or situation resolved. So […]
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I learn and look at what is valid or invalid in anything I choose to reflect upon, by comparing it to principles of truth and morality, then I try to figure out what lays underneath its manifestation, and I target the underlying causal forces that produce the effects, manifestations, symptoms or results. Study the effects, manifestations, symptoms or results to […]
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Bad things can happen. Not everything comes from the power of human actions to produce something wrong into the world, but a lot of things do come from human actions. Evil things are not an accident. The evils in our world would not exist if human consciousness did not create them into existence. If there is evil somewhere, it’s because […]
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The deep emotional and psychological connection between human animals and other animals can be profound. Many people have a deep emotional valuation of nonhuman animals they connect with, and even see their animal companions as the most important others in their lives, more than other human-to-human relations they have. The nonhuman animals are their life, and often the animals share […]
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Cognitive dissonance is a warning signal about conflicts in our automatic or willful journey of understanding reality. How we resolve that internal disharmony is another issue. Cognitive Dissonance Cognitive dissonance happens when external information contradicts internal information, or when our own behavior conflicts with how others are behaving. We then feel that conflict, disunity and disharmony. That’s the general broad […]
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Yes, I know the media likes to hype up the preferred drug of choice for the masses — and I know people like how it makes them feel — but most everyone deep down knows there’s a problem with alcohol with respect to our health, despite the alleged benefits it can provide here or there. One of the biggest health […]
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No, not entomology the study of insects. Etymology is the study of the true meaning of words. To see what the word was created to represent. Words are created with a purpose to express meaning about something. Words are imbued with a meaning. Words symbols are created to reflect and represent aspects of being in reality, or something we imagine […]
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