Architects and Builders of Self Deceit

How the ego fails us. This contains a few dodgey editing moments as it was originally intended for another project.

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[bignastydragon]

the problem with society is that people, in general, dislike change.

quick fixes can cause more harm than good in the long term, and in my opinion a complete social reform is needed. we need to throw away the old and sit down to start afresh no matter how painful it may be.

to lead this we need people who will thing about their long term descendants more than their immediate self-gratification.

[MenoftheInfinite]

Totally agree. The problem is that people with such willingness are somewhat rare. People dislike change because of their ego-based attachments. They basically need disaster of some kind or for change to be imposed upon them for anything to happen. This is one of the sad consequences of our ego-based natures.

[SanguineSuns]

You can believe in nothing or you can believe in everything. What has always been of salient interest is the cohesion of belief, and the flexibility of perception.

After all we seek power, but what empowers you blinds and limits, so you need clarity, but clarity by itself has no power. And hence we hit the maze of contradiction upon which very few understand, let alone master. All I know are slaves to the causal, to death.

What is the answer "Man of the Infinite"?

[SanguineSuns]

Clever, you force a knife into the girlish thighs of truth.

Nothing is sacred, except your own consciousness. Yes i'm an egoist and self delusion leaves me bereft of real feeling.

[KevinSolway]

@ruirodtube I have several videos on this channel which slam the Buddhist belief in reincarnation, so I wouldn't call myself a Buddhist apologist.

You haven't demonstrated that anything said has been unsubstantiated. And yes, there are fundamental delusions. These are delusions that lead to the formation of the ego. (In fact, there's only one fundamental delusion)

And all Buddhists are in fact atheists. There is no God in Buddhism.

[ruirodtube]

@KevinSolway Ok, so you're a Buddhist apologist. Why not come out and say so?

All the philosophical construction based on so many unsubstantiated claims is a means of tricking people into accepting one premiss without proof and lead them onto the next, which is called manipulation and lies.

There are no fundamental delusions. Only liars and inventors of dogma. Nature and proof is the bottom line.

You're not an Atheist. You're a Buddhist. Don't mess with Atheists we're smarter than you!

[KevinSolway]

@ruirodtube Let go of fundamental delusions, and the ego and all attachments go with them. Yes, this is the essence of Buddhism too.

[ruirodtube]

If I understood correctly the "anything truly fundamental" according to you is the EGO then? The EGO is the foundation which is badly built. And the attachments are things that the EGO doesn't want to let go and which cause us suffering?

So we should let go of attachments to stop suffering?

It's sounding more and more like Buddhism.

I'll refrain from commenting here and I'll continue onto the next video... we'll see where all of this leads us.

[alexxarian]

Brilliant, David. You are making a great contribution to our progress :)

[yupiie]

uhm...