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Permalink Reply by jen o on June 27, 2009 at 4:07pm

yeah I don't either lol. my great-grandmother died peacefully in her sleep at home.

when i am referring to reality, i mean it in the sense of what is happening right now. no attachments to thoughts, just full awareness of the present moment. we are the storymakers of our world, awake or asleep. we come up with the most silly stories that we really believe are true, and we identify with these made up stories of our own version of reality. this is where we become perpetrators of our own suffering.

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Permalink Reply by Cara Coleen on June 27, 2009 at 3:36pm

Ha...
I don't really care if people really care about what they say they care about. I think they're all dumb, which leads into the second question...

Yes, I do sometimes think that maybe I'm actually dumb because dumb people think other people are dumb.

And yes, I mostly think that no one ever FULLY understands what someone else is trying to say.

No, I never wish I could stop "over" thinking because Christianity told me to stop thinking so much... I place my brain on a pedestal, even if I suspect it may not be THE brightest.

I'm generally pretty good about not lying to myself. I "over" analyze things so much that inconsistencies don't have much of a chance.

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Permalink Reply by noisician on June 28, 2009 at 9:49am

1) not to a huge extent. or at least i think most people are mostly honest most of the time.

2) yes, i tend to question myself first and think "hey, maybe i'm wrong" more than i need to.

3) sometimes.

4) no. maybe i don't have that problem, or it doesn't bother me.

5) hmm... no. but that's an interesting idea. then again, if you live by a philosophy based on reason and evidence, it's less relevant because you can usually gather evidence if you've forgotten it and logically get to the answer again. and also because you are open to reassessing your position when you find new evidence, so if you get to a different answer because you have new evidence, that's ok. so you don't need to worry about this too much ... unless i misunderstand your point (or you misunderstand my clumsy reply) !

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Permalink Reply by Robert DeVore on June 29, 2009 at 11:38pm

1. YES
2. YES haha
3. SOMETIMES
4. SOMETIMES - I generally like my overanalytical self though
5. YES

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