Maverick York

love more than anything else

Revisado: 04-30-25

Experiencing love is why we are here, and Jeremy has learned that fact and shared it with us.

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EXCELLENT!!!

Revisado: 09-01-21

Read it, and apply it, and you will be less miserable and certainly make everyone in your life less miserable. I wish I read this in high school.

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Typical Eastern Thought with Aliens too

Revisado: 01-05-20

I agree with him that materialism is no longer supported by the evidence found through science, but to say that everything is conscious energy is also not supported. Energy and matter are the same thing, but energy and consciousness are not. The author doesn't clarify the differences between particles, energy, and consciousness as much as I'd like him to. I think the substance dualism description that there is a conscious substance (spirit) that is different from the energy substance (matter/information) makes more sense of our experience than this description, but I'm not writing about that here.

Then, when we adopt the Eastern philosophy that everything is One, and the reason we see everything as two or more is because we haven't learned to accept and forgive (love) enough to realize our Oneness as god, we end up dividing reality into TWO by default. 1) Our conscious perception of reality is as if many things exist, but actually, according to Eastern thought, 2) all things are One and the same. All things (plural) are an infinite god (one) that has broken itself (not himself) into a zillion illusory parts (plural) in order to experience the reincarnation / karmic and suffering-filled process that each of those parts has to go through in order to learn that it is actually god and One with all the other illusory parts. Each part subconsciously chooses the life events it needs to learn that it is One with everything. So, we supposedly know what we need to learn, that we are One, enough to choose the life events (where we are born, our race, our disabilities, etc) in order to learn that we are One. My question is, why did the one god divide itself into many parts that would experience tremendous suffering in order to teach itself that it is actually one god? Sounds infinitely masochistic.

Love is defined as what we are and as acceptance and forgiveness and as having a density existence that is less than that of wisdom and unity and of a gateway to seeing that the self is the creator that divides itself into infinite aspects. Love accepts every bad event as a lesson that the self/creator knew we needed in order to learn that we are the creator. Oh, except when someone is stealing from you or you need to defend yourself, in which case you can sue the person or fight back in self defense. I guess you could say that the one thing sometimes needs to fight itself to defend itself in order to teach itself that it is the creator and cause of fights within itself so that it can accept the teaching it is trying to teach itself.

Sadly, you need to stop using logic to accept this worldview. Eastern thinkers applaud the idea of not using your mind or logic (with one hand) and yet they don't seem to realize that they are then dividing reality into TWO parts again, one that uses logic - the everyday world - and the other that doesn't - actual reality.

Also, do we really want everything (living and nonliving) to be of equal value? Do we really want to believe that plants are having the same experience we are having - except much further away from realizing their Oneness than we are?

This description of the Oneness makes it responsible for all the evil done by itself (everyone). Not only that, but the evil is chosen by the victim (same as aggressor) in order to learn what the victim subconsciously knew it needed to learn and therefore brought the evil upon itself in order to learn it.

And there are aliens visiting Earth all the time, except the only pictures we have are from the days of black and white photos or on cave walls, not from cell phones. The aliens are much smarter than we are, but they can't seem to communicate anything to us. They instead confuse us by making art that can be seen from the sky or by building big rock structures that we can't build today and not leaving instructions for how they did it.

I'm not returning the book, because I appreciate reading other people's attempts at describing reality, even if I disagree with them.

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Not the answer to the human condition.

Revisado: 12-19-19

In a nutshell, stop feeling guilty about the bad things you've done, because there is actually no good and evil.. There is simply a war going on between your animal instincts and your quest for learning scientific truths. Now that you understand that, you can stop trying to prove your value and instead share and cooperate with everyone. You should feel less guilt now that you have had that explained to you.

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Great thinking of long ago.

Revisado: 02-19-19

Calvin was a deep thinker. I believe he was mistaken about the election and predestination and freewill, but he was right about a lot of ideas. I'm thankful he wrote this book and for audible book reading.

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I disagree with Pinker

Revisado: 06-05-18

Pinker assumes there is no spiritual component to us humans, and then writes this book as if the mind and brain are one and the same thing. He admits that we don't understand consciousness, but then writes as if we do. This book does not make sense of our experiences; it essentially explains that we are physical machines. It was difficult for me to listen to this book because his ideas are so preposterous. If Pinker is correct, then he didn't have a choice but to write what he wrote and I didn't have a choice but to dislike it. If the mind and brain are identical, then the mind cannot escape physical laws, which means we can't choose what we believe and think or write about in a book or listen to. I disagree, because one of the main feelings I have is a feeling of freedom to think and focus on what I want. I'm going to use my freedom to exchange this book for one I like.

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shallow and repetitive

Revisado: 05-24-18

all you need to read is the title, and you will know the whole book - milk toast

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Excellent. Helps me appreciate our freedom.

Revisado: 12-31-17

We have freedom because of many brave people laying down their lives for us. I'm very thankful.

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a great read

Revisado: 07-18-17

Lewis seems to have thought about almost every deep and controversial subject and then written about it.

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delightful

Revisado: 04-28-17

He is a comic with wise advice for everyone, not only pastors or speakers. Thank you audible.

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