What’s wrong with some rando trying to support politicians or whatever?

Even if they’re Russian

Define le god as the universe?

Do they just really want a way to disenfranchise the opinions of pro-gun people as “Russian manipulation?”

The abstract highest ethic ideal human, the creating creator

Nah

When Russia stopped being comminust, it became the evil. Now whatever they do is colluding and meddling.

I like to think of it as love

Being in the presemce of god is loving or something like that

It's a whole bunch of things that I'm too tired to put into words

I think it's a psychological phenomenon that is unique to humans

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But since materialist science has taken over people seem to think coinciousness isn't as real because it's not physical

Buddhists dont have a creator god in a sense, so you could easily view those lectures as a psychological view

I've only just started acting as if "God" is "watching" and it makes me think a lot more about what I do. I lie less for example

@HungBunny wut

Consciousness is real, we just dunno what the fuck it exactly is

Or why its there.

Never heard someone say it's not real.

Derren Brown has an example in one of his shows. He has people backstage do a task and score themselves with an empty room and they just about all lied (they were being filmed)

Also, do you view lying and honesty as the same thing?

I think there is some nuance there.

He had another group also left alone. But before the stage hand left he mentions not to touch a specific antique chair, and says something like "they say it's haunted or something silly, like there's a presence around it"

Everyone of that group didn't cheat the test because they felt like they were being watched

What do you mean?

I think if someone purposefully gave themselves a higher score on that test that's lying

Like is it dishonest specifically because you lied, or is there another factor?

Like intent, or content?

Sounds like justifications

If you say a falsehood out of ignorance for instance, it is technically a lie, but it isn't really dishonest. Right?

I mean when you know you're lying, especially to yourself

Nah I am just exploring how we view honesty as a concept, not justifying anything.

Say for example if you're on a diet. And fall back into eating bad but lie to yourself through a variety of different ways. There's probably better examples but i am le tired

Oh those big people that say yeah I eat healthy I don't understand why I'm big

It's just that we lie a LOT, and we develop to be better and better liars, and better at detecting lies. It seems to be a very defining part of human society.

Well because you're a liar and not hard enough on yourself

So denial

It's still a lie

I suppose. But does it make any difference that you aren't aware that you're lying to yourself?

Like is it less bad?

We lie because we hate ourselves and try to turn reality into what we want it to be, instead of what it is

We also lie for good reasons. To protect other peoples' feelings for instance.