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       #Post#: 4785--------------------------------------------------
       Purpose
   DIR By: rgardner
       Date: January 15, 2021, 5:01 pm
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       Because the playground has gone berserk:
       I'd like to discuss the purpose of any living organism, etc.
       The primary purpose of any organism is survival.  (I would
       expect a yea from any organisms)
       Survival implies adapting or manipulating the environment to
       benefit the organism.  (Again, I would expect a yea from any
       organisms)  (IE: make the life experience better)
       Sustainable procreation (Too many babies thrust into the world.)
       (Organisms might agree)
       And pleasure is an unadvertised purpose.
       Crazy how so many resources are spent to avoid pleasure.
       Just my point of view.
       #Post#: 4786--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Purpose
   DIR By: Frits Snips
       Date: January 16, 2021, 11:26 am
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       You're speaking from the point of view that there is an actual
       organism in this world and that this world it lives in is
       actually real reality, and above that, you apparently think
       there is an actual purpose.
       I don't believe that, so I have nothing to ad to this
       conversation.
       #Post#: 4788--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Purpose
   DIR By: j(
       Date: January 17, 2021, 7:50 am
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       The definition of Purpose is: the reason for which something is
       done or created or for which something exists.
       Hmmm, "The reason for" anything is always suspicious to me. I
       tend not to stay there too long either because well, you'll
       never find the actual "reason" for anything - anywhere and what
       you're simply left with is its isness.
       However, I guess the mind doesn't get too hung up here for me
       and from a personal perspective "my purpose" is to embody
       excellence. To engage the actual moment in a way that, in a way,
       does my part to bring about the best in each singular moment and
       each subsequent experience and interaction. And by engaging the
       moment for what it is, I dont actually require purpose in that
       moment other than to be with it. Actually, in order to be in the
       flow, I can't have any ulterior motive. So to me in a way the
       two things I've said above aren't actually contradictory at all.
       "All goals apart from the means are an illusion. There will
       never be means to ends, only means. And I am means. I am what I
       started with, and when it is all over, I will be all that is
       left of me.." - Bruce Lee
       People seek pleasure outside of themselves all the time and can
       have purpose and intention all they want but what he's saying
       and generally what I'm resonating with these days is that no
       matter what your purpose is you had better find the joy in who
       you are or what your engaged with now or you're just chasing
       phantoms.
       Sort of a purposelessness, on purpose as the back door to
       sustainable pleasure that emanates from you and isnt dependent
       on circumstances. Achieving wellbeing by simply being well.
       #Post#: 4789--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Purpose
   DIR By: biisuto
       Date: January 23, 2021, 6:45 am
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       --- Quote from: rgardner link ---
       >
       > The primary purpose of any organism is survival.  (I would
       expect a yea from any organisms)
       >
       --- End Quote ---
       The primary purpose is procreation...pushing DNA forward in
       time, for eternal ends we can only guess at. Survival is
       subordinate to procreation.
       F^ck the craziness. Ignore it... it’s just Atmanic consciousness
       adjusting to the effects of higher order integration, causing
       friction with Maya. She’s pushing back by ramping up the
       insanity. Makes sense ... what are you going to do, what’s your
       plan...?
       #Post#: 4790--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Purpose
   DIR By: Frits Snips
       Date: January 24, 2021, 5:28 am
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       --- Quote from: biisuto link ---
       >
       > F^ck the craziness. Ignore it... it’s just Atmanic
       consciousness adjusting to the effects of higher order
       integration, causing friction with Maya. She’s pushing back by
       ramping up the insanity. Makes sense ... what are you going to
       do, what’s your plan...?
       >
       --- End Quote ---
       No plan. I watch what's happening and try to focus my energy on
       what it is I prefer, what it is I would like to see happening
       next, instead of on the insanity that's apparently around me,
       which is, of course, nothing else but projection. To have a
       chance on a changing outside projection one needs to dig deep
       inside ones mind (not brain, but mind, preferably "big M" Mind)
       to find out why the projection is as it apparently is... and
       then change your mind about the outside world/projection instead
       of fixing the world/projection itself.
       Well, guess I do have a plan after all. [emoji15]
       #Post#: 4795--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Purpose
   DIR By: rgardner
       Date: March 12, 2021, 4:46 pm
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       It's hard to discern purpose when one doesn't care!
       The playground has gotten more than a bit irrational => insane.
       What species would hoard knowledge, require money for education
       and healthcare?
       Oh, yeah!
       #Post#: 4796--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Purpose
   DIR By: biisuto
       Date: March 17, 2021, 9:37 pm
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       Hi guys! Just came back to see if my lack of notifications is a
       tech thing or a lack of content thing...
       Just reading this last thread here, about purpose...have we ever
       discussed the wetiko mind virus? I was reading about it a few
       years back and (who needs to hear about more mass-insanity,
       right?)  stopped short of reading Paul Levy's book on the topic.
       But then I just stumbled across this article that brought it all
       back - WHAMMO!
  HTML https://www.awakeninthedream.com/articles/terminal-insanity/<br
       />...from which I quote,
       --- Quote ---
       > "Wetiko is a quantum phenomenon, in that it contains
       superposed within it both the deepest darkest evil imaginable,
       while hidden within it is its own medicine. Encoded within
       wetiko’s pathology is not only its own cure but a precious gift,
       as it can—in true quantum style, “potentially”—introduce us to
       our own agency in calling forth our experience of both the world
       and ourselves. In other words, the wetiko epidemic is revealing
       to us our nature as empowered co-dreamers/creators of a universe
       that is more malleable, plastic and dreamlike than we have
       previously imagined."
       --- End Quote ---
       I've been underground, on the edge now of completing a year's
       fulltime study in mental health, via a diploma in counselling.
       I've just been offered a nice, plum 2-hour Saturday night
       timeslot back at my old radio station 107.9FM and am going to
       use it to dangle a shingle in the mental health space - takes
       one to know one, right?  ;D
       But in line with Ray's OP, about purpose... mine seems to have
       become tracking my own insanity in the 'outer world' and
       dialoguing with it.
       Can I ask anybody here in our little group for your
       consideration of what you are doing now and how it has been
       impacted by the little parallel journeys we all undertook
       together for a while? While our trajectories have all been
       unsurprisingly different, the place we arguably all touched1 is
       - if it is indeed anything at all2 - one and the same.
       Which, as a nominal human yourself, you have to agree is a
       pretty frikn remarkable experience.
       This board is still here and - like Mr. Jung - I don't believe
       in coincidences.
       1 ...and therefore necessarily have at least a psychological
       pinky-toe still resting upon.
       2. a nod here to Nessa and J(
       #Post#: 4797--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Purpose
   DIR By: j(
       Date: March 18, 2021, 10:57 pm
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       I like that Mike, I'll just tell people I caught a mind virus
       that taught me how reality works and just tell them to look it
       up to save us both time lol
       I've often considered what hashing it out with you guys and
       reading Jed McKenna books meant...chalked it up to alot of
       growing up on my behalf. Looking at things from different
       angles. Looking at things for what they are. Using experience to
       lend to understanding lending to improving experience. Id be
       game to talk about any aspect of that really as its an ongoing
       process.
       Glad to see you're putting your experience and understanding to
       good use because if you can help people while you're at it then
       why not?
       #Post#: 4798--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Purpose
   DIR By: biisuto
       Date: March 19, 2021, 6:16 am
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       Thanks for responding, J(... got a big weekend here will try to
       log in later tonight or in a couple of days! &#128522;&#128077;
       #Post#: 4799--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Purpose
   DIR By: Frits Snips
       Date: March 24, 2021, 1:43 pm
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       --- Quote from: biisuto link ---
       >
       > Can I ask anybody here in our little group for your
       consideration of what you are doing now and how it has been
       impacted by the little parallel journeys we all undertook
       together for a while?
       >
       --- End Quote ---
       Well, as you may remember, I've been on and off and on and off
       this board many times over because of collisions or clashes of
       ego's — most of the time mine. And I needed that to grow, and I
       did, I grew up and became a spiritually en mentally adult.
       That's why I decided to settle down in this group of
       board-people now that this ego thingy of mine is pretty much
       silenced.
       What I am doing now is writing about my perspective, which I
       call (in line with Jed McKenna's writings) the adult
       perspective. I write for a weblog and I write on Facebook, and I
       am writing something that may or may not someday become a
       (God-forbid) book. Sometimes someone finds my on the internet
       and has questions or is stuck, and then I try my best to help
       them, free of charge.
       That's what I do and I hate to admit it (nah, just joking... or
       am I?), you guys did play a part in it.
       So thank you! [emoji120]
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