I honestly don't know how to explain it. I want to, but it's like a universal language to me. You can only understand it, not explain it. Almost as if it was impossible to explain because others are meant to understand it for themselves because we all have a path that we must take in order to transend onto whatever the next stage may be. We are all here for a reason, and that's to find our way towards God again. Everything in this life, every human ineraction all has the Ego involved - this is why people think they are more popular than what they really are yet there are people who've already found the path towards God for they are humble, or manipulative if they choose not to beleieve in God. The Ego is the veil between Humans and God a wise man once said. Life is a game and we are here to learn to find the right way. I believe in God, so I try to stay as humble as I possibly can and expect nothing. This is why Jesus Christ is the way, the light, the answer. He's the door, but just because one believes in him doesn't mean they are saved they must understand it. and live by what he teaches when they come to know the true meaning of 'Ego is the greatest illusion of all' to the best of their ability because after all, none of us are perfect we all have flaws otherwise we wouldn't be here. Life is truly an illusion yet that's what makes it so beautiful.

A wise man once said, if you see life at 50 the same way you do at 20, you've wasted 30 years of your life. One of the Greatest boxers Ali said that. One of the favourite quotes because it's true.

I wish I could explain it better, but Ego is something that young people cannot understand easily because some people rely on it because they can't accept that their illusion of a life is all a lie because one needs Ego to be happy with themselves, but one can also be happy without Ego. That's what enlightenment is all about. It's actually quite simple really but even I do not know the words to use in order to make people believe but I'm afraid that it's not my place to tell people because it's something everybody must learn for themselves otherwise I would be interfering with Gods plans with us all and that's not something I wish to do.

This is why relationships are hard for me at this point in my life. I don't just want any woman, I want a woman who realize these things as I do. I don't want a woman who wants a guy because of his social status, or because he has a car, or because he has monmey or how I look - Those are all part of the Egos deadliest sins - pride, greed, lust. Although, I must be physically attracted to them yes - that's a must for everybody otherwise they will just continue to lust after other women and be confronted with temptation everyday only simply because they are not attracted to the one they are with. People want to be happy and to be happy they want to be with someone they actually find attractive.

I want a woman where I can sit in a room, and when she doesn't have anything to say without expecting me to carry on a pointless conversations, she can sit there with me, hold my hand, cuddle, or make love all without saying a word simply because silence is truly golden. If one feels like they have to constantly talk all the time it's all because their ego is making them think they have to talk in order to feel better about themselves in life. Everybody in this world is one and the same and it's the ego that seperates that away from us all. This is why people talk about others behind their back when they have nothing better to say - they'll make up stories, rumors and so on and forth to maintain their social status in life to make people believe that they know what they are talking about when in reality they're the real idiot. The same idiots are the circle jerks who let's these people talk the way without any moral obligation to stick up for others.

The ego is one of the best concepts that I like to talk about. Not only because I understand it but because it explains a lot about human behavior and why people do the things they do and act the way they do. Hell, I understand serial killers, well certian kinds anyways. The anti social ones who feel as if there is a part of them missing and that part of them that is missing is their 'ego' something they have yet to understand so they feel jealous, lust towards other people that they can't seem to get otherwise because of their anti social personality that they are willing to kill them, rape them, and god knows what else. Then there are those who are mentally crazy, the kind who eat people; cannibals and those I'll never understand.

It's like me telling you you're incredibly sexy. You want to believe it, because your ego wants to believe it. You'll want to believe that I think your sexy, why do you think women are so easily manipulated by men? Woman are the emotional ones and to be emotional is to have an ego. I ask myself why are women more emotional than men? Is it because she was the first to take a bite out of the apple? This makes for women to have more of a hard time seeing through the illusion of ego - it begs the question as to why more psychopaths are men than women? Or is that just a stereotype? Who really really knows.

I don't know..

But yeah, I'll let it sink in, if you can even figure it out. I humbly take pride in my intelligece that I earned as a result of my hearing loss and other experiments. If it wasn't for my hearing loss, I would still be up to my neck in my Ego and living an illusion, partying, having friends, pretending to be 'cool' and what not like any other young adult does. But now, I'm an introvert. It's all a phase that people are naturally meant to overcome otherwise if they don't, bye bye you go recardinated onto Earth again unless you commited murder or any other harsh crimes against Gods people. This is why people must ask for forgiveness for their sins and mean it with all their heart. I've sinned, I still do and my greatest sin is lust. I love sex, I love women, if given the chance I would sleep with them but if I could pick just ONE woman of my choice, I would never cheat or think of another woman because I would be happy with what I got. Unfortuntely, a lot of woman don't want because I'm unemployed, introverted and most importantly? Because I have a hearingaid stuck in my ear and that - understanding from their perspective assuming they don't understand ego - it HURTS their ego and that's why they don't think twice about me - and that's why I'm introverted and rather not have friends because I don't trust anybody.

Understanding ego and life, has allowed me to be happy with who I am and not care what others think. I spend most of my time alone yet I'm not depressed. It's just how it is with me because I know God is with me, and I know the best is still yet to happen because I feel it. It's almost as if God is saying 'Don't worry, things will get better'. I honestly don't know how to explain how I feel other than the word 'Enlighten' but I don't think that fits because I'm not perfect and I don't pretend to be perfect.

There are over thousands of different religions, all trying to explain the concept of Ego in their way. Some are vastly different than others. It's hard to explain because it's not meant to be explain. Most people who understand it, learned it with help of experimenting with drugs which comes to them through a Universal language because it opens our mind and makes us think in a much more intelligent way. It's sad, there is a TOS against the use of drugs because it's the dooryway and answers to everything about life. But, I have to respect the rules regardless.

And I'm not even religious. I used to be an hardcore aithest. Remember when I mentioned I understand serial killers? I almost became one myself but I saved myself through God. It's bad I know - but my Ego tried to find justifcation to do it. The urges kept getting stronger and stronger and I tried to fight against it and almost lost but I medicated myself after my Doctors couldn't help me because they only made it worse by putting me on anti-depressents and within 4 weeks my urgers got stronger in fact - I became happy because of those urges so I took myself off them and went to medicated elsewhere with a legal drug that I cannot mention in here but let's just say it gave me the 'Ego-Death' I needed it and allowed me to see life for what it really was, a game, an illusion almost as if Earth was 'hell' that people go to when they haven't learned what it is they needed to learn before they transend onto the next stage of life which I don't have the answer for but that is what 'Heaven' must be a place where Ego doesn't exist, a place where unconditional love exist because without ego one can truly understand unconditional love for others, themselves, because we are truly all one and the same. It's the difference, race, physical appearence, personality, and so on and forth that seperates us all of those things, are things that feed the Ego in one way or another.

It's true, one cannot live without Ego and it doesn't mean you have to the answer lies with the word humble. Even in the Bible it said - being humble is the way to heaven or something along the lines like that. I haven't read the Bible just verses here and there where I can make sense of them. I do believe we are living in the end of times as well. It may very well be our Generation that gets to see that day come.

Originally posted by TheProphetMark
I honestly don't know how to explain it. I want to, but it's like a universal language to me. You can only understand it, not explain it. Almost as if it was impossible to explain because others are meant to understand it for themselves because we all have a path that we must take in order to transend onto whatever the next stage may be.

Spot on, That is something I have found when it comes to explaining the way I have been thinking the last few years. The fog for myself clears, but in trying to explain what I now know, to anyone else, reflects back to me how specific my words are to my explicit experience... and to anothers ears are just words.

So far Great words.

We are all here for a reason, and that's to find our way towards God again.

and that's a shame... oh well, back to the white noise of constant reality and speckles of turbulent endurance called life.

Originally posted by TheProphetMark

It's like me telling you you're incredibly sexy.

Are you hitting on me?

Originally posted by winofiend

Originally posted by TheProphetMark
I honestly don't know how to explain it. I want to, but it's like a universal language to me. You can only understand it, not explain it. Almost as if it was impossible to explain because others are meant to understand it for themselves because we all have a path that we must take in order to transend onto whatever the next stage may be.

Spot on, That is something I have found when it comes to explaining the way I have been thinking the last few years. The fog for myself clears, but in trying to explain what I now know, to anyone else, reflects back to me how specific my words are to my explicit experience... and to anothers ears are just words.

So far Great words.

We are all here for a reason, and that's to find our way towards God again.

and that's a shame... oh well, back to the white noise of constant reality and speckles of turbulent endurance called life.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who realize how hard it but I knew there would be others out there.

You'll find words in my post that aren't worded properly, and can be mistaken for something else. Like for example, when I said ' To feel emotion is having an ego' or something along the lines like that. This is why one cannot live without Ego because for some people emotions are impossible to get rid of. One must also have emotions to live but for a psychopath like me who is invisible to emotions - I can still project emotions at will if I choose to for the right reasons of course and for the right people. I may not be very empathetic towards people, but for the right people I can be empathetic.

Sorry for all my spell and grammar erros. I'm usually a spelling Nazi but I did this one quite fast so I wouldn't lose my train of thought.

I love talks of enlightenment and the ego. It's been one of the central preoccupations of my adult life and something I've given an incredible amount of time processing through, in my own mind.(how egotistical of me)

At the end of the day the only thing I know to be truth, regarding this subject, is that one does not kill their ego in a vacuum(if at all?). It's very easy to say one is enlightened when isolated and alone. It's quite another matter to take what you've learned and go out in the world and act.

Go out and be the person that can help others along that same path. Kill your ego, if you can. Be an example. Be an adult.

Otherwise, trying to reach enlightenment/peace/God independant of others, is the definition of ego. You and you alone.

Love people

Originally posted by slowisfast
I love talks of enlightenment and the ego. It's been one of the central preoccupations of my adult life and something I've given an incredible amount of time processing through, in my own mind.(how egotistical of me)

At the end of the day the only thing I know to be truth, regarding this subject, is that one does not kill their ego in a vacuum(if at all?). It's very easy to say one is enlightened when isolated and alone. It's quite another matter to take what you've learned and go out in the world and act.

Go out and be the person that can help others along that same path. Kill your ego, if you can. Be an example. Be an adult.

Otherwise, trying to reach enlightenment/peace/God independant of others, is the definition of ego. You and you alone.

Love people

edit on 20-3-2013 by slowisfast because: (no reason given)

People like you are a prime example why I come to ATS.

You're right, it's hard to live in Society without letting your Ego take control of you. Temptations to be better than others, to show others you know best, and God knows what else. Honestly, I think I could do it if I could actually hear properly and someday I will once there is a cure. The reason I can't, is because when I'm around groups of people I can't keep up with them and often find myself lost in the midist of the conversations. How do you know what to say when you don't know what people are talking about half the time? Even if you did know, other people would fight to keep their illusion alive even if means calling you delusional.

I wish I could do more for people. People might think I hate them because I don't associate with them but I don't. I rather watch movies with subtitles because at least I know what's going on. I wouldn't even watch a movie I love without subtitles, so the same applies to people. Besides, I've been told a lot by some that I have been around in person that I'm a totally different person when talked to online via messaging compared to the one they know in person. I tell them it's because, I can't hear and it makes me dumber than I really look. There's a stereotype that deaf people are dumb but that's not true. That's just people being ignorant without knowing what they go through. It's not as simple as people think.

I think I know what your trying to say. You just haven't said it.

I have something else I would like to talk about..

Free Will, what is it? It's definitely not what most people believe it is. Some think because we have free will we are able to make the choices we want. As in, we can go outside when we want, we can do what we want and when we want, I can stop typing this now at will if I choose to, I can wave my hand in the air. The future is NOT set in stone but God has seen every possible outcome and we have the free will to change the future even if it's not heading in the right direction.

This is why God says, 'Nobody knows the time or hour by himself'...

Free will is two choices. You can either feed your Ego, or your Soul. By feeidng your Ego, most people who are evil are doing wrongful acts but those who are not evil will simply have a chance to learn from their mistakes by being recardinated again. Those who feed the soul, are those who put others before themselves and show unconditional love for all of humanity regardless of who they are or what they are because they know that they are still on the path wither enlightened or not. They are the people who choose to live humbly rather than egotistially and arrogantly. I wish I could cite verses on the top of my head but I remember there's a verse that says that being humble is the way to the kigdom.

Just because you do good things and donate to charities doesn't mean you're humble. Being humble is an enlighted state of mind that I have no idea how to explain myself. We are bounded and restricted by language sometimes I only wish we were able to communitcate telepathically because the World just might finally know the real meaning of peace because then we would all know the truth regardless of how hard it hurts.

There are over thousands of different religions, all trying to explain the concept of Ego in their way. Some are vastly different than others. It's hard to explain because it's not meant to be explain. Most people who understand it, learned it with help of experimenting with drugs which comes to them through a Universal language because it opens our mind and makes us think in a much more intelligent way. It's sad, there is a TOS against the use of drugs because it's the dooryway and answers to everything about life. But, I have to respect the rules regardless.

The light of a lamp will never shine in you again. The voice of bridegroom and bride will never be heard in you again. Your merchants were the world's important people. By your magic spell all the nations were led astray.

"magic spell"
5331 pharmakeía (from pharmakeuō, "administer drugs") – properly, drug-related sorcery, like the practice of magical-arts, etc.

Your "Christ" isn't Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the Saviour.
Your "Christ" is a false anointing, a false spirit.
Do you understand what He is telling you above?