DominatorX1

I went a similar way, with the experimenting and figuring it out.

I started with concentration. It was my own personal magic power.

Then I found vipassana. Then I did concentration and vipassana together for a while. That was a bit too much.

Now I do just vipassana. It's great.

Also, as I said elsewhere in this thread, right after free I'd put "it gets you high". Because everybody likes to get high.

Like, distinctive vibration patterns.

Hmm, surely it's been done. It seems like straightforward good thing.

Totally not the point but from that picture of cubicles. What a great idea. If we entered the cubicle from the top we could fit way more cubicles in.

I believe that you are avoiding my question.

It was just an example.

My point is the specific utility of beliefs. You seemed to be offering an interesting one.

Imagine a landscape made of beliefs. In it you are always standing on some bunch of beliefs. So choosing and navigating is going to be important. To get to the good beliefs and avoid the bad ones.

I think that nazi is an expression of trauma, given form by propaganda.

Take away the trauma and nazi disappears.

Take away the propaganda and you get, I dunno, less organized bad behavior.

You people, always so concerned with being right. It gets in the way of conversation.

Is the phrase diminished if you leave out the author's name?

Are you saying that beliefs are useful (necessary even) for navigating other beliefs?

For example, I believe that my neighbors wont kill me. I do that to stave off the belief that my neighbors will kill me.

Which is more important to you, the phrase or the credit?

Yes, I am lumping them together. I see no need to distinguish them into internal and external for these purposes.

(But if I was going to distinguish them, I might at manipulability, portability, communicability. )

And yes, one may be guided and impressed by a sight as surely as an idea. None of these takes precedence over any other, naturally, as far as I can tell.