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Originally Posted by Igzy
The above shows a lack of common sense. No, really. This is what I'm talking about. If all your mental constructs are ephemeral and delusional then the above statement is as well, and I should ignore it.
In other words, if you don't have at least some confidence in your ability to sense reality, then you can never do it. It certainly is a contradiction for you to be pontificating if you think your mental constructs are delusional.
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My mental constructs are temporary. I put them out as such. If I think they are permanent, and equivalent to reality itself, then I am delusional. I allow my thinking to be changed, over time. That's one reason I think aloud here on this forum. I do appreciate when people pay attention and comment, and usually I'm more helped by critiques than by praises.
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Originally Posted by Igzy
Yeah, you are kind of cranky this morning. But that's okay, it humanizes you when you admit such things. As for your comment. It's pretty funny. There's no such thing as food either and I've never eaten any, nor have you. "Food" is just a mental construct.
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Food the object that has nutritional value is different from the word, which has negative nutritional value. When I open my mouth, force out air and aspirate with my incisors over my lower lip to make the sound "ffff.." and follow it with "ooo" and then the the glottal "d" I burn calories. You can't eat noise. But food, by contrast, has calories, and we eat it for that reason.
Suppose you are eating a big meal, and in the middle of the meal you suddenly stop eating, look up, and exclaim loudly, "I am eating food!" Actually you stopped eating food, to declare that you are eating food. If you eat and speak at the same time it does a bad job of both. At the very least it's poor manners.
Likewise, if you go to church and exclaim that you are "experiencing Christ" you are posturing. You may have been, but as soon as you took your eyes off Christ and onto the "experience of Christ" you lost. You looked away from the things of God, and down to the things of men.
But so be it. Our "experiences" are full of vacillations, away from reality. Look at Peter: one minute he was channeling the Father, next minute he was a vector for Satan's wiles. One minute he was walking across the water, the next minute he was drowning.