Quote from: Anatta on September 26, 2013, 10:50:15 PM
Kia Ora Kate,
I'm familiar with the concept, but I guess if this is/was the case, my programme malfunctioned and went rogue...The creative nature of the mind is limitless, but some have yet to go beyond what they mistakenly believe to be their limit...
Kia Ora Koe,
I have been doing some thinking as to Pride and what Pride is. People have been talking about their Pride when it comes to being trans. It is my understanding that Pride in that sense is a reaction to shame. Others are ashamed of us or perhaps on some level we are ashamed of ourselves so we adopt Pride as a reaction to shame. We are proud of who we are because otherwise the shame might crush us. But it is all ideas. Isn't it strange that ideas can become a matter of life and death? Isn't it strange that ideas can cause such suffering and pave the way for disease and ultimately death? Ideas are not physical but they can affect our physical health and influence us. Our ideas can superimpose themselves on our experience and affect reality turning a life experience into a living Hell.
Even in the most honorable sense what is Pride? Is Pride taken in a job well done? Compared to what, a job poorly done? Is Pride then a reaction to a poorly done job? So maybe Pride is actually a result of making judgments and placing importance upon judgments. Instead of making a pair of shoes and thinking, "These shoes are attractive and symmetrical, they fit the feet of the wearer and will give years of service." Instead of that one thinks, "These shoes are superior to any other shoes, I make the best shoes therefore I elevate myself above all other shoe makers." Which might seem useful if you are trying to sell your product. The question is then if one experiences Pride then who is the intended consumer? Who is she trying to sell her ideas to, herself?
Pride is an idea that happens in the mind. The mind is like a buffer for events that happen outside of the mind except when the mind becomes an alternative to real life experiences. As a buffer the mind is like a simulation. The baseball player imagines hitting the ball before he actually hits it. If the baseball player misses the ball or doubts his success in his mind then he becomes more likely to strike out in real life. The baseball player could decide in his mind that he can never hit the ball and then logically he would discontinue the sport. If one decides she is a "looser" in her mind then the rest of her life will tend to play out in a way that is harmonic with her belief. So what is pride? Someone believes that trans women are less than other women and that someone communicates this idea to a trans woman. The trans woman adopts Pride as a means to combat what someone told her about trans women. So Pride represents a struggle against an idea that was put into the mind by someone else. The problem is that when we use Pride to battle an idea we create a war in our mind. We think that Pride is the solution but Pride is just an idea and so was the other idea. Perhaps we could just examine an idea and then choose to let go of it. That would save a lot of energy and free up our lives for other things.
Pride begins to lock us into a "reality" and as long as we hold onto the idea of Pride then that reality will begin to superimpose itself upon our own reality and there will be consequences. More likely than not the victim will begin to experience herself as an idea instead of who she really is.
It is my understanding that there exist alternate realities all around us, one inside of another, inside of another and that in order to shift from one reality to another we must shift our own frequency to match the frequency of the reality we wish to inhabit. I believe that Gandhi said, "If you wish to change the world change yourself." If reality is virtual, if reality is a computer program then perhaps what Gandhi said begins to make even more sense. If we can change how we look at the world then the world will change. If we can change ourselves then the space we inhabit will change. Some have said that we are consciousness. That ultimately we are spiritual beings having an Earth experience or a human experience.
The mind is like a buffer for things that happen in the real world. The pitcher throws the baseball in his mind before he throws the ball. If the pitcher experiences a successful throw in his mind, he is more likely to experience a successful pitch in real life.
It has been said by scientists that there is a thing called the observer effect. That the act of merely observing something influences the outcome of the experiment.
What if where we are now is a product of what we thought before we began having this human experience?
What if meditation and consciousness converts thought from a wave function to a particle function?
Then perhaps one could go from creating patterns of interference that have a broad influence but are perhaps weaker and take more time to influence an environment to something more singular and specific? What if the computer code becomes conscious of it self, is that enlightenment? It appears that when matter is broken down into it's smallest particles what you get are bits of information like computer code.
What can be proven? What can be dis-proven? What can be experienced? What if everything is true? What if everything is untrue?
Pride = Resistance. Resistance = War. War = Death.
QuoteI was once asked why I don't participate in anti-war demonstrations. I said that I will never do that, but as soon as you have a pro-peace rally, I'll be there.
~Mother Teresa
I doubt if computer code creates anything by being against something.
