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What are you learning currently? what intellectual food are you using to feed your curiosity? what idea are you obsessed learning about lately? I want to hear you nerd out about your intellectual obsession, ask you questions, and try to understand the ideas and why you're fascinated by that.
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Good for you, more power to you. I can’t do that because I get a lot of clients via instagram. If I want to detox, I just delete the app, not the account or caught myself busy with the real world.
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Remember that we're on a self-development forum. Not a safe space to be validated about your biases without confrontation forum. Calling a moderator when challenged on one's views is on brand for a stage green victim-mindset individual. Notice that when my points were challenged I made them stronger and didn't back down from the challenge. Stage green loves to make their personal flaws a moral virtue. That is indeed the sign of a weak, ego-driven psyche. You take an honest conversation (albeit a slightly aggressive one) as an insult to your character as opposed to an exercise in deconstruction of both the platform and your relationship to it. You don't have to reply to me but take it as an opportunity for introspection, growth and adoption of an antifragile mindset that will both help you in life but also to have a healthier relationship to social media if you decide to go back to it. Having impact requires becoming stronger through adversity, not folding to it.
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@LordFall This is the last message I will send towards you. Stop directing your arguments toward me. The conversation is about instagram. Not myself or my psyche. -- @Natasha Tori Maru, I'd like to flag this message from @LordFall above. Childish and confrontation behavior that's completely unnecessary.
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Since you dodged every single question, you’ve basically made my point: you don't possess the discipline or agency to interface with high-leverage tools without becoming their victim. If your attention is that easily hijacked, total abstinence is definitely your only move.
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@LordFall Instagram is a time drain. Consumers pay an enourmous amount of time and energy for shallow content.
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Nope, only on Puerto Rico! Come and visit sometime!
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I think that's a limiting belief my man. The obvious common argument is that short form content dilutes the message and to reach 3 billion people you have to pander to the masses. Sure, on a surface level. That's why funnels are a thing. You start out wide and you convert people to a different platform where you can engage with them deeper to convey the more substantial aspects of your message. This is marketing 101. I do it in a way that I have city-specific pages so I can reach people in different locales and target my content to them. There are many different ways to do it but it works quite well. If you have true value to give to others why not give it to as many people as you can? I think that's an indisputable notion.
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We are going slightly off on a tangent here but I would say that your point assumes that endless reach automatically means better. I would say this is actually not always true, or at least not for what I am creating. Probably some of the best teachers I've met knew a certain level of growth was actually bad for them. Some of the best I know work with only a few, and knew that growth in this domain would actually hurt their message. The top bar of the hexagram in the I Ching, extreme outer boundary, The dragon flies so high into the heavens it gets lost. One loses touch with the ground. I do not want 3 billion people watching my videos. A video made for 3 billion people would lose the very spirit of the video I set out to make in the first place. I would be careful with this notion. It's in part what has made social media grow so much, it equally is what I believe waters the very root of my thread about why Instagram has become such a poisonous and disgusting place.
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I've already addressed the negative aspects having some validity. The fact that you emphasize the victim-mindset part to me sounds like that hit the right target in terms of your personal dislike of it. If you'd like we can deconstruct it further. What did you dislike about the app when you were on it? Do you feel like you're able to reach your goals in life effectively? Do you ever feel resentment and bitterness towards people with more success than you in the areas of life that matter to you?
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Apps? Do you mean you also deleted other Meta apps like Facebook? And what is a terminal? Tanks for clarifying!
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Jordan of the Shire replied to Natasha Tori Maru's topic in Dating, Sexuality, Relationships, Family
@Natasha Tori Maru This is a great prompt for investigation in daily life! And I'll speak to it a little here now. I love how authenticity is explored as a gradient, given nuance to suggest that there are different authenticity frames - such as a metaphysical, social and relational. I also like the idea of exploring what authenticity really is. I've never liked the term because of how vague it is. What it means to be authentic. I love the definition you propose. A level of self awareness to know your values and core beliefs and acting in congruence with that, despite pulling and pushing forces outside of you ... or as you had experienced a level of dissonance yourself , forces within you. I think this is a great definition. ----- I'll share a recent development. I have recently allowed myself to function with a mask in social situations that are new. This has helped in cordial communication. It's been a burden off my shoulders because I can let my eyes contract, I can put a smile on, and I can "court" (Robert Greene court). This isn't my ideal posture , but it helps in not letting initial drives get in the way. Such as judgements, attraction, aversion, etc. This sets a reference point or baseline for how authenticity can develop over time without being a sacrifice to ones authenticity. ---- I think authenticity will become more as your build a friendship or relationship. More experiences for the inner self to come out. The quote i've heard is, "someone can hide who they are for the first 6 months". When it comes to showing up with people - I try to embody energetically what it is I want to convey ... it isn't fully about verbal communication for me , though it helps. The qualities of metta, mudita, humor, and authenticity do play a role. For instance , in recently reviewing a video done by Leo on the Law of Transference. I can lead the emotional / energetic state of things , which means I can be more authentic about what I feel because it actually has a benefit impact, if I want to woo a woman, or discern the role I am to play in a given situation. The inward experience doesn't need to be hidden. I can express it. So there are some hang ups when it comes to being authentic. Such as being authentic skillfully to get what you want, or being authentic despite what other people want. My intellectual elaboration here is exhausted haha. --- I also like this prompt because it assumes the person has authenticity to be discovered, which can make people more interesting. What is the authenti-city of this person -
Haha fair. But you can still delete the app and use it on the computer.
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Great for laying down the foundation for a game/app/website, etc. But the usage limits drain incredibly fast. It's a waste of money. Would only get it if you are serious. Think it's best to buy an NVIDIA Spark and run the top AI models locally. Why give these greedy bastards money? The token limit system is like a fucking casino. I am not impressed by Astra at all.
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@LordFall It's not only about victim mindset.
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I don't enjoy mysteries personally; I like solving them. You can always add more complexity to your identity if that helps you in some way but we need definitions to make sense of reality. What is a woman? Greatness. Easy-peasy lemon squeezy. You're welcome brother. You got this!
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NFTs took off entirely as a speculative market. When the rug had been pulled and people realized that you couldn't use NFTs for anything it crashed.
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Yimpa replied to Vynce's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
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I feel like blockchain stuff and nfts are just a solution looking for a problem. There exist already successful digital markets long before nfts where a thing, like Runescape and CSGO. I don't see why you even need blockchain technology in the first place. Backend doesn't make a commodity any more valuable.
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Well yes because most people have a victim mindset and don't produce much in life so seeing people produce stuff and going on adventures is gonna sting. I don't experience that effect myself because I've worked on my psychology to see myself as a continuously improving being and not as a static victim of my circumstances. It gives me ideas for events I can host, trips I can take, and the types of videos I can make. If you have a victim mindset any type of success is gonna hurt to see. You're gonna hate hearing about celebrities, dislike anything related to business and definitely influencers are gonna be the worst because they are much closer to you and me than film actors that seem more out of reach. I agree. The truth is that the planet has 8 billion people on it and you can interact with all of them if you build a successful brand. The less of those people you are able to reach with your message or through your business endeavours the more irrelevant and unimpactful of a human being you are. Social media allows you to scale the impact you have. Some teachers produce great effects on the students they have in school. Their impact is limited to maybe a couple of hundred people per year max. If you think you have value to share with the world why not try to win market share with the 3 billion daily active users across Meta platforms? You could perhaps go as far as to say if you think what other creators are sharing is nonsense and you have higher quality stuff to share then it's your moral responsibility to do so. Why watch history happen when you can be a part of it? That's my view on it at least. I've had many people thank me for the impact I've had on their lives and my main platform for reaching them and setting up events for us to meet in person was Instagram.
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You're just learning that it's a relative statement, not absolute. Will you do maths at the level of Terrence Tao if you just try hard enough? Probably not. But if you try hard enough, you'll do the best you can. That's the only point. Doing the best you can.
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Hyperion replied to Hyperion's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
To anyone following along who still doesn't get it: The whole point of this thread is to point out the inherent limitations of language (and of the definitions/perspectives that are being expressed through it). If you cannot grasp this on a meta-level which transcends language and its lnherent limitations, then I simply cannot help you. Namaste, bitches. -
No way I'm deleting it anytime soon. There's new porn everyday. I just need to fight the algorithms with more porn 🤣 Seriously, I prefer almost naked girls than fully naked. And I don't like watching the act of sex itself as much as the bodies of the girls, so for me IG is more useful than real porn and less addictive. It's all junk food for my imagination, but it does the job better than porn.
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All Others are You. You and Other must collapse. You are imagining all others. Welcome home
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enchanted replied to Monster Energy's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
I know this a straw man argument but it's still funny. (I vote DSA btw and I don't support MAGA. I do like poking fun at my own side sometimes though).
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