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Ziran replied to Ziran's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
The first question is: Texture? Is "soft" universally pleasant? Not subjective? If so, why? -
You have to learn how to screen for woman who are good at relatioships and not just chasing novelty all the time.
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Owen has said that he wants to completely remove any doubt and have a delusional level of self-belief. His rhetoric around frame control and how he wants to raise his children to be completely success-deluded are red flags. He's a traumatized autistic whose path to mastery were three of the most Machiavellian domains, pickup, sales, and marketing. He surrounds himself with narcissists and success-obsessives in LA. The man has no chance but to be an extremely corrupt individual, no matter how hard he tries. It wouldn't surprise me if he's one of the most moral Machiavellian's that exist, but he is still stuck within that paradigm and cannot challenge it because he's so obsessed with not being affected by others, giving in to conformity, etc. He's like Homelander arguing himself in the mirror trying to convince himself to stop caring what anyone thinks while being desperate for their attention, but as a consequence locking himself in his worldview. For example, he serially dates women with BPD and then convinces himself that all women are like that, so the only solution is to control the frame even more than he already did. It's a snake eating its own tail because he's so hungry for a super attractive woman who lives in LA, which is selecting for a very niche type of woman in a very toxic environment, and then learns lessons that would scare any other woman away the moment they become aware of how he operates. Great for quick sex, bad for healthy, long term relationships.
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Damn! You bombed here. Deeper understanding is the key. Thanks.
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Wilhelm44 replied to Husseinisdoingfine's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
If anyone is up for actually using their nuclear weapons, is probably this current Israeli government. -
enchanted replied to Husseinisdoingfine's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/top-counterterrorism-official-kent-resigns-134907898.html Top intelligence official resigns due to Iran war -
Habits & Disciplines Journey Entry #135 3.16.26 I LOVE this book that I'm reading called A Million Thoughts by Om Swami. The girl that I'm dating texts me constantly, like bro give me some space. I feel obligated to text back quickly because she texts back in literally mintues every single time. I just don't need that much human interaction. I like my space, my alone time. I am still high right now. I smoked a joint this morning despite having to go into work later. I do love my job so much. So much that I want more than anything to make a career out of it. I feel bad taking my co workers students, building lessons with them, but at the same time "I am ruthless, I do whatever I need to do in order to make it here and get ahead. One of my students wants to go to a dance o rama. But my boss would rather them go to vienna. But I want them to go to dance o rama. It is going to cost her $18,000. Isn't that insane?! I want to talk to the student about it. She must have the money for it, no problem I just can't even imagine. That is literally half my paycheck for the year. Anyways, how did I do yesterday? Morning Routine: Make bed: 5 Journal: 134 Brush teeth streak: 134 Floss streak: 6 Shower streak: 108 Meditation streak: 17 Approaching women visualization: 1 Abundance of sex affirmation: 1 Funniness affirmation: 4 Independent of opinions of others affirmation: 4 Free talk exercise: 4 Night time routine goals: Brush teeth streak: 9 Wash face streak: 9 No electronics before bed: 2 "Whole day" goals: Eat 150 g of protein streak: 0 No alcohol streak: 137 Total number of women cold approached: 5
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Breakingthewall replied to Lunatic's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
A simpler explanation: reality is. Erase everything except this fact. Open yourself completely, without mind or structure, to the fact that you are, right now. If nothing limits your perception, the totality of being manifests, and you are that. -
As much damage as Republicans are doing to the West, if ICC eventually arrests these Republicans for these crimes it could actually be great for the world. But I won't hold my breath expecting a wince from Europe, it still requires a 2028 Dem to make it a priority.
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That's me years ago . Yes there is hope .I'm completely free of anxiety and panic attacks after suffering with it for years . Over the 2021 year ..I suffered from crazy panic attacks .and I made few posts about it here on the forum . I tried therapy of course. I saw a psychiatrist and he prescribed me some SSRI’S. Namely Prozac..Invega... and zyprexa. They have some nasty side effects (dry mouth ..needing to pee constantly. erectile dysfunction and lack of sexual interest). But they are 100% worth it . What SSRIs you take? Also you want to eat food that helps the brain to release feeling good chemicals (serotonin..dopamine etc). Like fish ..vegetables. you have anxiety about swallowing food or you have low appetite? Please clarify which one is it .. why do you throw up? The psychological aspect is not less important. What I did is I tried a meditation technique by watching the space between thoughts I" invented" this technique myself. What this meditation technique does is it blocks away the whole story of your past and the whole story about your future. And makes you 100% grounded in the present moment. And there is no anxiety to be found in the present. Anxiety is always about what's gone and what's coming. So when you block away every single thought about your history and your future and just stay with what's present...you will feel safe and secure.
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This is the key. I’d add that it really helps to find some neurodivergent extroverts with good people skills. These people will allow you to be sociable but remove a lot of the effort and pressure placed upon you to handle the basic social rules/customs that you may struggle with.
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Its basically this: 80%+ content about this topic is just guys living in Miami, LA, Dubai etc.. or guys just parroting it. Also 80%+ content creators are sociopathic / autistic that are chasing the stripper/onlyfans type of chick. They teach you how to handle a lion, when you need to learn how to handle a cat. Similar, but different at the same time.
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Yes. hearing podcasts, sitting in a cafe or restaurant.
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@zurew I'm stealing some of this advice 🙏 I don't approach argument/ thought this way. It can leave me open to objections that I fail to push back on. Cheers!
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thank you:) Good luck to you, too!
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Maybe having a superpower like the US on Israel side has been a major problem in its own way - because both states interests align in dominating the region and US provides a level of impunity to Israel that allow it to dominate and be maximalist. Israel has a toxic combination of impunity from a superpower, and a high sensitive to any threat due to historic trauma (post Holocaust) and a religion that is easy to distort towards entitlement (chosen people framing) meaning less likely to compromise and easily tilted towards supremacist attitude. The world being angry at Israel only intensifies that mentality (us vs the world that’s anti-Semitic). Even now after this Iran war being started - much of the West (US which Israel relies on) is seen as Israel’s doing. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg4g66r3z40o Joe Kent Top US counterterrorism official resigns from Trump Admin ”After much reflection, I have decided to resign from my position as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, effective today. I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.” Read his whole letter: https://x.com/joekent16jan19/status/2033897242986209689?s=46&t=DuLUbFRQFGpB8oo7PwRglQ Strong words against Israel’s role.
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The past quotes was to make the case clearly. The quotes from 2026 carry the same core issue. The point of making the thread is the issue is still going on today. I was curious what people would think when the behavior was presented in a concentrated form, without me adding anything to it, and generally what would happen if I made such a post, because honestly, the behavior has made me ambivalent (not as much completely indifferent) to being in this place so I had less to lose by doing it. But Leo took it as an oppurtunity to at first embrace the behavior ("that was the journey I had to go through to get to this point") and not lash out on me (brilliant move of narrative control) and then only later in baby steps concede that the behavior might be wrong somehow (which @zurew postulates is yet another attempt at narrative control, but we can hope there is some light in the end of the tunnel). And then he hopefully sincerely entertained the idea of perhaps getting an outside look on his own mind, which would of course be expected even as a point of curiousity from a guy who claims to be the most adept at epistemology he has ever met. And to be clear, it's not about "trauma" necessarily (as that can be defined in many ways and tends to have a strong negative association with it), but simply getting a look at the past and how it might affect the present. It might not even be worthwhile and it might not even work, but simply getting the message across that this is the problem (and this might be the solution), is worth it and that's why I made the thread. It was also a way to make people clear on what is being taught (i.e. not enlightenment but something else) and hear what they think about that and whether that is what they came here for. And also to make the case that they should perhaps be more honest about what they think and feel and not bullshit themselves too much about whatever invisible Absolute Infinity carrot is dangling in front of them.
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Me too. And in the end I'm trying to get used to what I found is most sustainable. It's just eating more or less healthy unprocessed home cooked meals 80-90% of the times and leave some room for deserts or something processed every once in a while (after I lose access fat) Calorie counting is a temporary tool that I use to make weight-loss easier. Good luck 🙏
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No bro wtf is wrong with that sentence. Loneliness is you being cut off from yourself(the rest of the world) so how would you be okay with less than you could have? Get better at social skills and stop judging and shaming yourself for it. See it like a video game and get better each week. Go to meetup.com and pick one meetup to go to each week in your city is an easy place to start if you don't have a solid group of friends now. Learn the basis of social circle game which lets you create your own events and organizations instead of having to bed over to established ones. Find cool people you like and together find cool things to achieve. If you're a highly sexual person fuck the attractive ones that you get along with in your circle and profit endlessly. What is the alternative you're proposing to your own self? Meditating until you're okay being an incel? An incel literally means involuntary celibate. Your will is endless. Stop using it towards accepting a mediocre life.
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that sounds like a decent plan! i have gone through many different extremes, hence why i am trying to figure out what's healthy for me in the long-term and it's why i am asking what works for other people. i know a lot of nutrition labels by heart after having had an eating disorder for a long time, so i have a lot of knowledge about nutrition, but i am uncertain to what degree it's good or bad for me to let that influence my food choices. i'm still figuring that out.
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You dont necessarily need to argue for it, you can just stay inside their frames and let them explain why they go with certain perspectives over other perspectives and then after that you can lay down your version and frame it as a perspective and then check if they would buy into it or not and if not ask them why not. The only thing you need to establish is some hierarchy of perspectives (you dont need to necessarily establish that there is some kind of top to that hierarchy), and the case that certain perspectives are more inclusive and take more other perspectives into account. Perspectives dont necessarily need to be mutually exclusive, they can be inclusive. You can also remind them that they already take it that certain truths are not perspective dependently true- for instance, the claim that "all or most truths are perspective dependently true" cant be perspective dependently true or if it is, well then you can ask them why they buy into that rather than into the negation of that claim (and then whatever process or epistemology they will describe or appeal to there, you can just use that as a ground to build your case on). But I often times dont like these talks, because its unclear what they mean by perspective and most of the debate is dependent on clarifying that phrase and often times people have a hard time explicating what they even mean by it.
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@Judy2 Actually that turned out to be harder for me than losing weight in the first place. Last year I lost 15kg but later I regain all that back and +5kg more. So now I have a very hard learned lesson that I need to change my eating habits or else losing weight wil be meaningless because I'll regain all back. Then I analyzed my eating habits, reasons behind binge junk-eating sessions, trigger points etc, and now I'm working on fixing some behavioral patterns that are causing over-eating. It's not hunger, it's not addiction to junkfood or anything, I found it was just an emotional coping mechanism that was triggered after guilt, shame, bitterness, etc. And I did things that caused all that. Anyways, to keep the story short, when I reach goal weight, I'll still track calories for 1-2 months to just get additional feel for what portion size maps to what calories, and then I'll try to eat 80% clean, and break binge eating habit. Hope it goes well. If you are considering counting calories, it's just an effective strategy if you don't want to leave weigh loss / maintenance up to chance. Also if you have unhealthy eating habits, it's a nice way to get used to and measure what's the proper amount of food for your physique / goals. But if you don't want counting, you could always just eat less and move more. That's the golden rule.
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Again, this is what I think and feel. No claims of Absolute knowledge. This should be obvious and not something that needs to be said. This overly defensive attitude is indicative of the very dynamic I'm pointing out. Everything that is said is not that serious. It's a thought, a feeling. You can share it without expecting it to be taken as some absolute insight into reality that must be adopted or else you're fooling yourself and not being openminded enough, etc. By reading the quotes in the original thread, what do you think I was pointing out? By reading what I literally said in a later comment in the thread, after being done hearing what other people might think about it, what do you think I was pointing out? And how do you think therapy might possibly tie into it? And do you think I was sincere in suggesting that as a genuine solution or step in the right direction, or was that just an expression of outrage? Let's hear what you think and feel. No need to "you can't know this" anymore. That's done now.
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Nobody has to help me. I need to find the way to move forward.
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@bazerathank you for sharing! how do you think you'll handle this when trying to maintain your goal weight? if you have given that any thought so far.
