Thread: Are You Truly Self-aware?

Now it's time to feed your gillets with some Terrence McKenna...

"Culture denies experience...Cultures put in place...a paradigm. And, then what fits within the cultural paradigm is accentuated and stressed. And, what doesn't fit inside the cultural paradigm is denied, marginalized, and argued against. And, we live at the end of a thousand year binge on the philosophical position known as...Materialism, and it's many guises. And, the basic message of materialism is that the world is what it appears to be, a thing composed of matter, and pretty much confined to it's surface..." -Terrence McKenna

The World and its Double Pt.1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14

~Enjoy!

Originally Posted by SolSkye

Now it's time to feed your gillets with some Terrence McKenna...

"Culture denies experience...Cultures put in place...a paradigm. And, then what fits within the cultural paradigm is accentuated and stressed. And, what doesn't fit inside the cultural paradigm is denied, marginalized, and argued against. And, we live at the end of a thousand year binge on the philosophical position known as...Materialism, and it's many guises. And, the basic message of materialism is that the world is what it appears to be, a thing composed of matter, and pretty much confined to it's surface..." -Terrence McKenna

The World and its Double Pt.1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14

~Enjoy!

Terence Mckenna is a genius.

Originally Posted by SolSkye

Now it's time to feed your gillets with some Terrence McKenna...

"Culture denies experience...Cultures put in place...a paradigm. And, then what fits within the cultural paradigm is accentuated and stressed. And, what doesn't fit inside the cultural paradigm is denied, marginalized, and argued against. And, we live at the end of a thousand year binge on the philosophical position known as...Materialism, and it's many guises. And, the basic message of materialism is that the world is what it appears to be, a thing composed of matter, and pretty much confined to it's surface..." -Terrence McKenna

The World and its Double Pt.1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14

~Enjoy!

I want to note that this is edging to debate on the nature of our existance. I want to know what it is you are proposing what a "good" life is; how we 'ought' to live. You showed that it is by realizing that there is no truth. Furthermore, you added that society functions as a machine to propogate materialism and beliefs in order to alienate irrelevant beliefs.

While I agree with this, I must argue that you are subject to doing the very samething. I worry that your argument is unfalsifiable in the sense that there is nothing I can do to show that your argument is incorrect. You would likely respond by saying that I am attempting to reach a truth that does not exist; a pragmatic approach to nonduality. However, I would say that it is your endeavour to show that truth does not exist that is the very problem in itself.

Believe me, seek my old posts on the fact that language is not transcendental to show how I hold truth can not be expressed by humans. The nature of things (what truth desires to be via human expression) can only be experienced. Your idea of this is evident, but we differ on our methods to attain this understanding.

I await your response before elaborating..

What do you think...?
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