Of all ridiculous things the most ridiculous seems to me, to be busy—to be a man who is brisk about his food and his work. — Søren Kierkegaard

When God loves His servant, He opens for him the door of actions [i.e., religious and pious acts] and closes the door of theological disputations. — Maʿrūf al-Karkhī

"The intrinsically first being, the being that precedes and bears every worldly objectivity, is transcendental intersubjectivity: the universe of [transcendental subjects], which effects its communion in various [phenomenal] forms." — Edmund Husserl The UFO narrative is a distractor. While I believe that there are other civilizations and alien visitors, I don't believe that they travel in spaceships that might crash and some dead aliens might be found. That's nonsense. Read this to understand why: https://misharogov.medium.com/what-dmt-induced-experiences-teach-us-philosophically-f9ee7f5c6929 P.S. Why are all UFOs of such primitive forms? Because when a psychonaut from another nexus of universal transcendental intersubjectivity visits our world, our nexus cannot constitute his body as it is constituted in his world (for our nexus doesn't have the corresponding causal structures), so it constitutes only a primitive phenomenal sign of his presence — a ball, a triangle, a "saucer", etc.

Jesus, the last prophet before Muhammad according to Koranic revelation, appears to the Sufis as the ideal ascetic and also as the pure lover of God. A homeless pilgrim, wandering without knowing where to put his head, he instructs the devout about the importance of modesty, peace, and charity, for “just as the seed does not grow but from dust, so the seed of wisdom does not grow but from a heart like dust.” It is the Jesus of the Sermon on the Mount whose image is reflected in sayings of the first generations of Sufis, and he continued to be a favorite figure in later Sufi poetry as well: he and his virgin mother become exalted symbolic figures—the woman unspoiled by worldly concern, the pure receptacle of the divine spirit, and the prophet born out of the divine command, surnamed “Spirit of God,” became models of the pure spiritual life. — Annemarie Shimmel

Be with this world as if you had never been there, and with the Otherworld as if you would never leave it. — Ḥasan al-Baṣrī

The strength of a person’s spirit would then be measured by how much ‘truth’ he could tolerate, or more precisely, to what extent he needs to have it diluted, disguised, sweetened, muted, falsified. — Friedrich Nietzsche

It seems to me that the nature of the ultimate revolution with which we are now faced is precisely this: That we are in the process of developing a whole series of techniques which will enable the controlling oligarchy who have always existed and will always exist to get people to love their servitude. — Aldous Huxley, interview at University of California Berkeley (1962)

[God's] guidance is radically different from any guidance in the world, for it offers no objective certainty; it coincides with man's complete attainment of freedom. For it operates only by way of the freedom of subjective certainty. — Karl Jaspers

The essential equality of all men lies alone in those depths, where to each man the road is opened by freedom to attain to God by leading an ethical life. — Karl Jaspers

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere. — Voltaire

All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume. — Noam Chomsky

Don't try to behave as though you were essentially sane and naturally good. We're all demented sinners in the same cosmic boat — and the boat is perpetually sinking. — Aldous Huxley

Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence—those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. If war, waste, and moneylenders were abolished, you'd collapse. And while you people are over-consuming, the rest of the world sinks more and more deeply into chronic disaster.” ― Aldous Huxley

The modern equivalent of the "baby Hitler" ethical dilemma is the "baby AI developer" ethical dilemma. For a bodhisattva, however, there is no such dilemma:

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Yogācāra 🕉 Buddhism

[Bodhisattvas] may know the state of mind of another [person], knowing, “This person here possesses [the intention to at this point commit some g...

#OpenAI is the Manhattan Project of our time. Just as in the days of Oppenheimer, a few decent people tried to stop the mad rush, but demons prevailed again. Further down the spiral.

Reality, as you currently experience it, is something like a waking dream. It is disguising deeper and more intensified levels of being and knowing. For those who are ready and willing, the doors to those other levels now stand open. — Daniel Pinchbeck

In Kant, transcendent "noumena", aka things-in-themselves, are no noumenal world but “problematic X” of which nothing can be said at all, even whether they do exist or not. We must eliminate this absurd “problematic X” from the ontological equation for the sake of conceptual parsimony of ontological idealism: there are no "noumena" (e.g., mythical “physical matter”), there is universal transcendental intersubjectivity—the universe of transcendental subjects—harmoniously projecting their intersubjective phenomenal worlds (e.g., our world) from the infinite potential (described mathematically as the “universal wavefunction”) of transcendent consciousness-in-itself — the only true "noumenon", the nondual Light of mystical/transpersonal experiences.

Only a complete idiot such as Daniel Dennett could consider the only empirical reality ever given to us—the reality of phenomenal consciousness—to be an illusion, and the metaphysical myth of "physical matter" to be the only reality. It's just ridiculous that so many people buy into this crazy nonsense.

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Philosopher Daniel Dennett On the Illusion of Consciousness

The cognitive scientist has written stacks of influential books, but his new one is in an unfamiliar genre: memoir.

There are many signs that we live in Kali Yuga, but the most solid among them is the triumph of the atheistic pseudoscientific metaphysical mythology of materialism/physicalism which obscures the truth that Consciousness is all there is. Wake up.

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“A world is what it is only as over and against an experiencing I. Everything it contains is either directly experienced or belongs to the…

Metaphysical materialists (physicalists) are ridiculous. You don’t have to fly to Mars to “preserve the light of consciousness”, for the Light of Consciousness is all there is. The problem Musk wants to solve is fictional, and it is an escape from real problems here on Earth.