A Correction & An Apology

[Phil]

Two or three times the term self deception or self-deception has been used, when what was intended was the term deception. 

Sorry about that. 

[Orb]

I appreciate the honesty 🙏

[Phil]

The hyphen in ‘self-love’ denotes while self & love are two different words, the actually is one & the same. Self is love; love is self. 

Self-deception is a colossal misnomer. Self is not deception, self is infinite.  Absolute-infinite-innocence. 

Infinite can not know finite, such as, deception. 

The notion that self can, is the notion that self isn’t infinite, and is the deception. 

Apparently. 

[Orb]

23 minutes ago, Phil said:

The hyphen in ‘self-love’ denotes while self & love are two different words, the actually is one & the same. Self is love; love is self. 

Self-deception is a colossal misnomer. Self is not deception, self is infinite.  Absolute-infinite-innocence. 

Infinite can not know finite, such as, deception. 

The notion that self can, is the notion that self isn’t infinite, and is the deception. 

Apparently. 

I think when people say self-deception they just mean not being honest with themselves.

[Phil]

@Orb

Sure but that’s a thought (in direct experience). What isn’t in direct experience is a self to be honest with (or not). 

Likewise deception is a thought and is not in direct experience, and is not a thing infinite is doing. Deception requires a deceiver and a deceived, and that is the deception of ‘self-deception’. Self does not require love, and love does not require self (self-love). 

[Phil]

Knowing & understanding aren’t actual, ‘they’re’ no more than the believing of thoughts, which are apparent. 

This is sometimes apparently projected as “self-deception”. 

Yet self is not deceptive. That would be the illusion of / as “separate self”, the knower or understander, that self is deceptive. 

‘That’ is the deception.

Not self. 

Innocence is absolute. 

Infinite can not know finite.