On the chance that some may be curious....

[chansen]

BS is kind of a catch-all acronym.

 

[Kimmio Laughterlove]

BS is kind of a catch-all acronym.

Yeah, except that's not so not so damaging if you don't take the stories literally at face value and instead really look for deeper meanings that are conducive to a better, fairer, more peaceful world. Even if you have to reject old or generally accepted meanings to get there. I don't see anything wrong with that.

 

[Hermann]

Yeah, except that's not so not so damaging if you don't take the stories literally at face value and instead really look for deeper meanings that are conducive to a better, fairer, more peaceful world. Even if you have to reject old or generally accepted meanings to get there. I don't see anything wrong with that.

Yes, of course. Everyone has some kind of belief system, and everyone's belief system is BS. Having a belief system does not make one into a BSer. Taking it for absolute truth does.

"But there must be an absolute truth!" some people will say.

Yes, there is an absolute truth! The objective reality is absolutely true, and when we experience the objective reality, we experience absolute truth. But absolute truth is in the pure, unconceptualized experience reality, not in what we think about it. The pure, objective, ontological reality is absolutely true, but what we think and say about it is a conceptual creation, re-creation or "subjectification" of absolute truth. Conceptual truth is our own, self-created, fact-based fiction, our own self created BS. Of all of our self-created BSes, scientific facts come closest to absolute truth. But scientific facts don't give us much meaning, and they don't adequately explain everyday human experience.

What I just said in the above paragraph is, of course, my own, self-created BS. I don't expect you to believe it--I myself don't!--but I urge to to go deeply within, in stillness and silence, immerse yourself in quiet contemplation, meditation, reflection, etc., and let your pure experience "speak" for itself!

"You offer spirituality without the bulls**t!" one of my followers once said to me. But I don't have many followers because I don't have any BS to follow. And, when I do accumulate a few followers, I shake them off by insisting that nothing I say is true. That they must discover their own truth.


From heaven high I come to you,
To bring you tidings strange and true:
I'm telling you
That not a thing
Of what I say is true.

-Hermann

 

[GeoFee]

As we heard it said in our youth:

" I am he as you are he as you are me And we are all together... "
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As one wholly liberated by this name and no other: I am who I am. And yet, as noticed just above, I am equally not who I am.

George