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The zero hypothesis is that an objective external reality exists independently of a human mind, you need evidence that would work to overturning that, and telling someone to meditate is not it.
If your "equal energy exchange" hypothesis was true, I would expect a comet hitting Peter Thiel's home yesterday. That's sadly not how the universe works though.
And you can't prove that you're not a brain-in-a-vat either. If you were a brain-in-a-vat, you could just be programmed to think and see exactly the way you do. No theistic worldview can change the fact that absolute truth is unattainable.
Oh, so you don't want to do a science experiment yourself to prove anything. Yea, meditating is just sitting still, that's all it is, bro. Perceiving and undoing the karmic fetters that bind you to the existence-illusion complex, well, those are just words you don't know given how much effort you put into ascertaining truth for yourself.
Prolly doesn't even kno there b escarpments
In the density o connections created creatin
A means to see through personal ignorance
By choosing to make self anew by deviating
From what self was; u r yur only impairment
& thus because 'I' is God, ur life masturbatin
Cuz though puzzle has logics compartment
Eve learns first, through intuitive divinating!
And the picture itself removes impediment
From remaking logic w/ God extrapolating
Where pieces fit where logic cannot invent
The faith to push self far; its reinvigorating