Comments by "Peter deWolf" (@StoneShards) on "The Occult #267: Spiritual World as Pseudo-Epicurean; Suffering Caused by Excess, Not Desire" video.

  1. You're living ALL your lives RIGHT "NOW"! Time is not what it appears to be! Pleasure and pain mark the limits of your experience, your "dynamic range", as it were. Expand your dynamic range! "Live well and enjoy yourself"?! WHY?! Comfort KILLS pleasure, eventually. But like the boiling frog, you'll never know what hit you. Your ability to feel pleasure depends on the depths of your experience of pain! Yeah! Nature's a bitch!@@ That's why shit gets weird and tricky. hahaha...DECIDE: do you continue beyond the death of the body you love, or not?! This decision sets your direction, up or down.
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  2. "As above, so below; and as below, so above, for the purpose of performing the miracle of the One thing." The meaning of the statement is deformed by forgetting that last part.
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  3. All these "philosophies" are just facets of the same diamond: take what you want of these idea systems, when you want, because you wanna...until you don't. No problem--unless and until you IDENTIFY your SELF with any particular idea set. Then you've lost the thread...
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  4.  @castigousmetamageus8356  <--"Often...you might..." denotes something hardly worth considering; "choosing poorly" is one sure path to knowledge through personal experience! By following your "I wanna", you develop your character naturally, according to your natural proclivities, desires. But character development is only an issue if you have decided that there is continuance after "death". Otherwise, there's no real reason to live a good life. When you don't follow your heart, the mind gets confused, detached, disinterested.
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