There are two types of reality, not just the one, as we might think. There is the measurable or quantifiable type, and there is the type that can't be measured, the type that can't be quantified, the type which we...
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There are only two things in the world - either bias or non-bias, and of these two things only ‘non-bias’ is real. Bias isn't real because, as Heraclitus says, ‘the road up is the road down’. Every bias contains its...
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Our loyalty – on the whole - is not to the truth (which is of course what we would all like to believe) but to maintaining the false narrative that we - as a collective, as a group - have...
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The knowledge needed to play a game is the same thing as that game; the information that we need to have in order to operate within the simulation is that simulation. Whatever comes out of the system is that very...
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Being present isn't a task. Being present isn't a task because that is where we are (or how we are) anyway. There isn't anywhere else to be, no other place exists. Being present can’t be a task because there’s nothing...
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When we can see past our goals then our goals are serving us – they are helping us in a practical way in this case. When we can't see through our goals however then this changes everything; when the goal...
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When everything is all about ‘fidelity to the image’ then the one thing we can be sure of here is that there is no humour. There's either ‘getting it right’, which is rewarded, or there is ‘getting it wrong’, which...
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We can live life in one of two ways – either on the basis of thought, or directly, spontaneously, without any conceptual mediation whatsoever, without any precedence (or preference) at all. In the first case we never depart from our...
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The finite will always negate itself, time and time again it will negate itself. This is because the finite is not real. The only way it can get to seem real is if we look at it in a blinkered...
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No matter how much rational bullshit we throw up into the air, we can't alter the bald truth of our situation, which is that life comes down to one thing and one thing only, which is risk. We do anything rather...
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To be conscious of thought is to see through it, but whoever sees through thought? When does this ever happen? Far from ‘seeing through thought’ we’re ‘enclosed within it’ - we only go where thought says we should go, we...
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Under its glossy camouflage, society is a big, ugly machine. It's ugly because it has nothing to do with our well-being or happiness, despite all its claims to the contrary. The point of the social system is not to increase...
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The one thing we can't ever do is ‘manage our thinking’, despite what we might be told to the contrary. Managing our thinking just isn't going to work, not ever. The reason we can't manage our thinking in the way...
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Automatic controlling means ‘controlling that we can't help getting caught up in’, controlling that we're obliged to get involved in, whether we want to or not. This is an unfamiliar notion inasmuch as we normally assume that if there's controlling...
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The self can only exist within an environment that validates it, an environment that supports and facilitates it. Outside of this special environment, there can be no self. The self or ego is a function of this environment therefore -...
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Control is our God. When we see something that we like then we exercise control so as to enable us to obtain it. When we come across something that we don't like, something that we don't value, then we exercise...
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The ‘agreed-upon reality’ which we all inhabit is of course a prison, just as Michel Foucault says. We have no freedom not to inhabit it, in other words; we never had the freedom not to inhabit it, in other words....
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Our firm beliefs about the world are compensatory in nature - they are a compensatory device whose function is to make up for the irreducible uncertainty of reality as it actually is. We make up for not being able to...
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