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offline Barcode from United Kingdom on 2009-11-25 08:56 [#02346833]
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*The human thinking is born out of some sort of
neurological defect in the human body. Therefore anything
that is born out of human thinking is destructive.

*Anything you experience based on knowledge is an illusion.

*There is no such thing as truth. The only thing that is
actually there is your 'logically' ascertained premise,
which you call truth.

*The day man experienced the consciousness that made him
feel separate and superior to the other forms of life, at
that moment he began sowing the seeds of his own
destruction.

*Only if you reject all the other paths can you discover
your own path.

*'Be selfish and stay selfish' is my message. Wanting
enlightment is selfishness. Charity is selfishness.

*All our experiences, spiritual or otherwise, are the basic
cause of our suffering.... The body is not interested in
anything that you are interested in. That is the battle that
is going on all the time... There seems to be no way
out....

*I don't have any thoughts which I can call my own--not one
thought, not one word, not one experience.

*What I am trying to say is that there is no individual
there at all. There is only a certain gathering of
knowledge--which is thought--but no individuality there.

*All I can guarantee you is that as long as you are
searching for happiness, you will remain unhappy.

*The plain fact is that if you don't have a problem, you
create one. If you don't have a problem you don't feel that
you are living.

*When you are no longer caught up in the dichotomy of right
and wrong or good and bad, you can never do anything wrong.
As long as you are caught up in this duality, the danger is
that you will always do wrong.

*The extraordinary intelligence of the biological organism
is all that is necessary for good living, but we are all the
time interfering with its natural operation through the
medium of thought.

*When the movement in the direction of becoming something
other than what you are isn't there any more, you are not in
conflict with yourself.


 

offline Advocate on 2009-11-25 08:58 [#02346838]
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LAZY_TITLE


 

offline RussellDust on 2009-11-25 08:58 [#02346839]
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Bedtime thinkers part 2.


 

offline cygnus from nowhere and everyplace on 2009-11-25 09:01 [#02346843]
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i love UG Krishnamurti

he was full of shit, a crazy old man, but a great person. i
heard from a good friend and teacher of mine that ug lived
with Jiddu krishnamurti for 12 years.


 

offline cygnus from nowhere and everyplace on 2009-11-25 09:02 [#02346844]
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(i think the theosophist society and his family drove him
crazy)


 

offline Barcode from United Kingdom on 2009-11-25 09:02 [#02346845]
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ug thought k was a fraud


 

offline glasse from Harrisburg (United States) on 2009-11-25 09:17 [#02346854]
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now you are spreading christian ideas?? i thought i had you
pegged, barcode, but look at this!

*The day man experienced the consciousness that made
him
feel separate and superior to the other forms of life, at
that moment he began sowing the seeds of his own
destruction.


Genesis 3
The Fall of Man
1 Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild
animals the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, "Did
God really say, 'You must not eat from any tree in the
garden'?"

2 The woman said to the serpent, "We may eat fruit from the
trees in the garden, 3 but God did say, 'You must not eat
fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and
you must not touch it, or you will die.' "

4 "You will not surely die," the serpent said to the woman.
5 "For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be
opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and
evil."



 

offline RussellDust on 2009-11-25 09:20 [#02346856]
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Crumb has just released the book of genesis in comic form.
He tried to keep it as close to possible to the real thing.
I can't wait to get my hands on a copy.


 

offline Barcode from United Kingdom on 2009-11-25 09:23 [#02346859]
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huh? ug spoke sense not riddles


 

offline glasse from Harrisburg (United States) on 2009-11-25 09:25 [#02346860]
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lol

yea that crumb book looks good.


 

offline cygnus from nowhere and everyplace on 2009-11-25 09:33 [#02346861]
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in new york a few years before he died, someone asked UG
about jiddu and he said, "j krishnamurti was the stupidest
hoax of the 20th century"

i think its in this video, same video he says, "mothers
are monsters. kill them all" LOL



 

offline RussellDust on 2009-11-25 09:47 [#02346862]
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He makes me laugh. Not at him, with him.


 

offline RussellDust on 2009-11-25 10:00 [#02346863]
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"And then, towards the end, I insisted, "Come on, is there
anything behind the abstractions you are throwing at me?"
And that chappie said, "You have no way of knowing it for
yourself". Finish -- that was the end of our relationship,
you see -- "If I have no way of knowing it, you have no way
of communicating it. What the hell are we doing? I've wasted
seven years. Goodbye, I don't want to see you again". Then I
walked out"


 

offline j4ck from United Kingdom on 2009-11-25 10:25 [#02346864]
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the only one who knows this ounce of words is just a token,
is he who has a ton to tell and must remain unspoken


 

offline cygnus from nowhere and everyplace on 2009-11-25 10:25 [#02346865]
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see this is the complication - both UG and K used very bad
english that complicated what was already very horribly
complicated subject matter

that in itself could've been the undoing of their
relationship when you think about it. when you read quotes
like that, you have to think - were they speaking bengali or
hindi to one another, and as he's paraphrasing it now has he
translated it into english?


 

offline RussellDust on 2009-11-25 10:31 [#02346866]
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I don't agree. :) He's definitely clear to understand.


 

offline Barcode from United Kingdom on 2009-11-25 11:16 [#02346867]
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UG and K understood each other perfectly well. Fact is, K
was a hypocrite. He had an affair with his secretary's wife,
so who was he to preach about how to live your life? His
biggest fraud, as UG often pointed out, is stating truth
cannot be captured, crystalised or passed down from one to
another - then doing the complete reverse by setting up
numerous foundations across the world. Osho was a joke.


 

offline RussellDust on 2009-11-25 11:24 [#02346868]
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Osho's 'fuck' rant was quite funny, though incorrect.


 

offline cygnus from nowhere and everyplace on 2009-11-25 13:29 [#02346882]
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link?


 

offline RussellDust on 2009-11-25 13:35 [#02346884]
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watch it on xlt


 

offline AphexAcid from Sweden on 2009-11-25 13:48 [#02346887]
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lol


 

offline AphexAcid from Sweden on 2009-11-25 13:51 [#02346888]
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genuine lol


 

offline cygnus from nowhere and everyplace on 2009-11-25 14:08 [#02346890]
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lol


 

offline pulseclock from Downtown 81 on 2009-11-25 16:01 [#02346921]
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This all seems very human. Can't humans be liberated from
the confines of their own framework (of thought) and
actually make something useful with their energy?

More simply, where's the wrong in using your brain to absorb
the frameworks of OTHER things instead of just the essence
of humanity?


 

offline cygnus from nowhere and everyplace on 2009-11-25 16:18 [#02346925]
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UG would just say "nothing to be liberated from"


 

offline pulseclock from Downtown 81 on 2009-11-25 16:26 [#02346927]
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U.G. asserts nothing, therefore talking to him is like
talking to yourself.


 

offline AMPI MAX from United Kingdom on 2009-11-25 16:51 [#02346933]
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When the movement in the same direction of becoming
something other than that thing what you are isn't there any
more, you arent not in conflict with yourself anymore.
also im glad barcode has found a way of perfectly justifying
everything he's ever believed. he can even write most of it
down on a napkin and keep it in his pocket for when he goes
on walks


 

offline Barcode from United Kingdom on 2009-11-25 16:55 [#02346935]
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u could at least quote it properly smega brain


 

offline AMPI MAX from United Kingdom on 2009-11-25 17:08 [#02346938]
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Whenyou are not longer caught up in the dichotomy of right
and wrong also or good and bad, you cant never do that thing
that is wrong.
As long as you are caught up in the duality the dangers is
that you will most times always do a wrong thing.
some of these could really change the world and i dont think
we are ready



 

offline cygnus from nowhere and everyplace on 2009-11-25 17:10 [#02346940]
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he always emphasized that you are the one giving meaning to
anything - nothing has any meaning before you come into the
picture. he would say, "i am a dog barking, you are making
this dog barking sound like meaningful insight". "i am not
putting any ideas in your head. you are throwing questions
at me like stones at a dog and i am barking" , LOL


 

offline pulseclock from Downtown 81 on 2009-11-25 17:27 [#02346947]
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yes, all of that is obvious. But in this state of entropy
that we're in, we are inside of another thing, which is
commonly known as life. This reality has its own set of
characteristics and sets of laws, so knowing that, it is
impossible to sit here and say that everything is creation
of our own mind when we are here, mortal lifeforms,
vulnerable to outside forces. It's like UG is trying to
establish a rock-bottom field for which all people can
commonly agree to. but that is not the truth, because we are
all affected by things that are not of ourselves, to deny
this in any way is just arrogant.


 

offline AMPI MAX from United Kingdom on 2009-11-25 17:36 [#02346948]
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so i am the only one giving meaning to everything around me?
YES bitches im so cutting off humans/society/morals/my
instincts/my feelings on everything.


 

offline pulseclock from Downtown 81 on 2009-11-25 17:39 [#02346949]
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it's just backwards shit. it's saying, i have the capacity
to understand, but understanding isn't necessary.


 

offline pulseclock from Downtown 81 on 2009-11-25 17:40 [#02346951]
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lol and throwing stones at a dog is different fro masking
questions in which the whole POINT is to try and retrieve
meaning from the person giving the answers.


 

offline AMPI MAX from United Kingdom on 2009-11-25 17:53 [#02346956]
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understanding is tantamount. everything mentioned in this
thread is from the theoretical point of view of one
consciousness and seems to completely disregard the idea of
any kind of society. thats why its silly shit, we live in a
society and have social needs. a human is not one mind so
get yourself a coffee cos theres loads to figure out


 

offline pulseclock from Downtown 81 on 2009-11-25 17:53 [#02346957]
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word is bond.


 

offline AMPI MAX from United Kingdom on 2009-11-25 17:54 [#02346958]
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sry not meant to be a followup but it happened so get
yourself a coffee cos theres loads to figure out


 

offline AMPI MAX from United Kingdom on 2009-11-25 17:55 [#02346959]
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oh you came back on that quick. no more coffee


 

offline Tractern from Brighton (United Kingdom) on 2009-11-25 18:21 [#02346973]
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*The extraordinary intelligence of the biological organism
is all that is necessary for good living, but we are all
the
time interfering with its natural operation through the
medium of thought.

Huh? Isn't the brain part of out biological make up? And
therefore thought a product of the biological system? It's
natural for humans to think, barcode.


 

offline Barcode from United Kingdom on 2009-11-25 18:27 [#02346978]
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why reduce what ug says to a concept, when it's fact. it's a
fact that you are incapable of experiencing anything,
because as soon as you have what you call an experience,
thought enters and labels it, frames it. the "experience" is
then immediately distorted by thought. there isn't even an
"experiencer", because thought has created that the "I",
the, "self" the "ego". so all your relationships are
contaminated by thought, you never see somebody as they
really are.

morals, beliefs, culture is all entirely meaningless, the
concepts illusory

ug has stated many times that there is no way out. he says
things are the way they are and can be no other way. the
only question is, knowing all this, what sort of world to we
want to create for ourselves? armed with this knowledge, as
a so-called intelligent species we should be streets ahead
of where we are now.

of course, ug also says that this duality does not exist in
him. he does not judge, does not experience, has no
conflict, has no ego, and therefore cannot be affected by
anyone or anything. apparently he went through a "calamity"
on his 49th birthday resulting in the death of the
experiencer. despite this he never claimed to be different
from anyone and infers that you cannot attain what happened
to him through any effort or method, it was purely by
accident and has nothing to do with enlightenment, as there
is no such thing.


 

offline Falito from Balenciaga on 2009-11-25 18:33 [#02346980]
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hack thu here


 

offline Barcode from United Kingdom on 2009-11-25 18:34 [#02346981]
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i think he means that in humans the brain has become
sophisticated enough to create thought, which has give us
the illusion of being a seperate unity from the body. the
creation of the "I", "self" or "ego" acts as the seperation,
inevitably distorts anything and everything it comes across,
unlike with other animals where the brain acts in unison
with every other part of the body


 

offline pulseclock from Downtown 81 on 2009-11-25 18:43 [#02346982]
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i see what you're saying, but the fact is that in this life
as a human being, to live you have to struggle, you have to
fight to survive, otherwise you die. So while being alive in
this structured way of life, there are things that have
meaning which pertain to this way of life that we as humans
are in as a society, not necessarily just our process of
living as animals that we truly are. Why is ug's self
proclaimed enlightenment really that compelling? how do you
really know what he went through was what you postulate in
your head to be enlightened?


 

offline Barcode from United Kingdom on 2009-11-25 18:52 [#02346983]
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I already explained in another post that ug did not refer to
himself as enlightened, as there is no such thing. I don't
know what he went through, just telling you what he said he
went through.

I don't agree with everything he said, why should I? To me,
he was the most interesting person that ever lived and
completely changed my way of thinking about life. What he
says is actually frightening, and you are strongly compelled
to resist it because you find comfort in your illusions. You
resist the fear of being nothing, noone - knowing that
everything you do above eating, fucking and sleeping is
utterly meaningless, purposeless.

Then on the other hand, it also brings incredible calmness.
You are no longer caught up in the ridiculous trivialities
that cause the majority of people so much mental torture.
You play the game called life a different way that's all.


 

offline pulseclock from Downtown 81 on 2009-11-25 18:53 [#02346984]
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I'd rather live in the illusion that I and every other human
was born into than try and bring myself to believe the
illusion that i successfully could do anything else.

- pulseclock, I, self, ego.


 

offline Barcode from United Kingdom on 2009-11-25 18:59 [#02346985]
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of course, you are selfish. you have no choice anyway.


 

offline pulseclock from Downtown 81 on 2009-11-25 19:02 [#02346986]
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yeah 'm sorry i really do understand what you mean now, like
the purest truths of life are the ones that we take for
granted. like the fact that our names mean nothing. that we
only matter as organisms. But we all are individuals, you
must agree with that. And how can ug or anyone else even
really prove that our concept of time is an illusion? are
animals living lives that are 3 seconds as seen in our eyes?
How can we really be the judge of that?


 

offline AMPI MAX from United Kingdom on 2009-11-25 19:03 [#02346987]
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our 'distortion' of moments can be summarised as
interpretation of any kind of stimulation and its the
definition of us. its not an illusion because a fresh
reality is defined within the context of human stimulation.
within that reality (which exists within the physical
construction of our brains, making it no less real than the
physics of a rock/tree/sphincter muscle) everything matters.
in other words; human has its own rules bitchface and not
the rules of existential theory.


 

offline AMPI MAX from United Kingdom on 2009-11-25 19:05 [#02346988]
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and (if ive made myself clear) I WIN


 

offline pulseclock from Downtown 81 on 2009-11-25 19:06 [#02346990]
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that sounded kind of mean. how am i selfish? if you mean
animalistically than yes, i am very selfish. i like to be me
and be fine with that while others are fighting with
themselves. it's not like there's a god to answer to or
anything.


 


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