IVE REACHED ENLIGHTENMENT!!!

Irish! that explains alot

(Dont worry, im part irish, i think)

lol Scott...that has to be the funniest post I've read in a while. I hearby crown you 'Enlightened'...wait, can an unenlightened person promote someone to enlightenment? we better form an 'Enlightenment Council' straight away before the title swapping gets out of hand.

What's special about Irish?

(if someone would bee kind enough to inform an ignorant foreigner)

you missed the humor: he doesn't know if he's Enlightened or not, but he's at least sure that he is Irish.


nevermind...its not funny when you explain a joke. lol

I always say 'Thank God for the Irish!' (Am I allowed to use the Big G word?) I appreciate the crazy celtic humour in the face of tribulation, the great music, and just plain Irish tenacity.

Harlan, you seem to overlook our unbelievably unattractive accents, also!

Ed, If that joke led to enlightenment, then the rest of you guys must be saints!

Back to enlightenment, I'm unsure if it is enlightenment or something else, but when someone people are around you, their presence just glows with positive energy and you can feel it. I don't know if I made a post about this in here or I deleted it right after I typed it all up
But can someone elaborate on this? Enlightenment (assuming it gives off positive energy) being felt by other people by being near or talking to that person?


EDIT: Whoah, how many times did I just say enlightenment....?

I've met a lot of charismatic and energetic people that were far from enlightened...if I judged (me bad...to judge) from their actions.

Speaking of a 'glow'...I think that is always there...it just depends on where we are as to how we percieve it.

er... no worries Harlan... about the tip...

I hope enlightenment won't prove as difficult to grasp as Irish humor

Take a look at my signature

I could care less if I'm enlightened,even more so if anyone else thinks I am.

Spirit, you have no signature (if thats supposed to be the point, I dont get it)

Welcome to the forums by the way

enlightentment is veiwed as seeing everything at once, everything which we ourselves can not persceve. This goes beyond our human exsistance, beyond ;time and everthing else that makes up exsistence. To reach enlightentment is easy just stop thinking literally do not think, you can feel of coarse because emotions are still there, now these are just the base emotions not the ones created in part by the concious mind (which isnt here if your doing it right, but you wouldn't be reading this either...) The two base emotions are fear and love. Unfortuatly we are all fearful of death which tips many in the negitive as a whole. So it is not possible to feel fear only which would be a kind of enlightentment that would be more like a christian "hell" so to speak however what does one fear while no thinking and therefore losing there attachments.... nothing is one tiny thought somewhere infinatly small still exists you will be fearful, irratrionally the same as we are irratrionally fearful of death right now.

If i take a step back dont take my word for it just do this if you can:
do not think

by not thinking literally you are mentally, and mathimtically becomeing "0" on every scale that exsists in the universe and in this universe you cand see the universe which is-"1" but while in the universe or "1" you cannot see it as a whole like you cant see inside the middle of the sun because being here means you must abide by the governing rules that place peramiters on your perception
so remember this is the universe 01 become the zero and acheive enlightentment NOW STOP THINKING DAMN IT

If you reached enlightment would you even be aware of your attainment of it?

As soon as you become aware of having something you no longer have it anymore. Of course not physically speaking as I'm aware I have a hand and I'm pretty sure it's still there, in relation to the physical world anyways.