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A woman is literally created to be worshipped by a man .
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What are some corporate psychology books that you recommend? Like the must read? I am opening to read some underrated books. Thanks in advance
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Sounds to me like the guy in this hypothetical example chose an incompatible partner and wants to control her and mold her into a totally different person. If you start dating a woman who has male friends, loves going to the club, posts sexy photos on social media, has a revealing clothing style, and isn't very religious... expect her to stay that way. That's her personality. And personalities don't change much... especially not because of external control. And if you start setting all these rules, you're just using control over a sovereign individual to make up for the fact that you picked an incompatible partner. Just go choose someone else who already matches your values. Like for me, I'm not a clubber or 'sexy thirst traps' kind of person. But I have a ton of guy friends and I'm not religious. And if I started dating a guy who made me stop being friends with my guy friends or tried to force me to go to church, I'd just stop dating him. Clearly there's an incompatibility in our values, and it's not going to work out. So, don't try to use top-down control over a sovereign being to make up for the fact that you got into a relationship with an incompatible person. If you're making a bunch of rules for your partner... that's a relationship that will fail. No one wants to live inside of your rules... especially not in the long run.
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Sugarcoat replied to Mellowmarsh's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
It’s interesting how you’ve taken 5-meo plenty of times and describe it in simple way, while Leo has also taken it a bunch of times and describe it in more complex ways. I suspect one’s psyche in everyday life can influence the trips and also how it’s talked about afterwards. -
Breakingthewall replied to Hyperion's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
limitlessness is, because has not limits. Being manifest in appearances because what not appears don't manifest . Appearances are relative because appearing means relationship . Any relationship is dynamic, is happening , and has a beginning and an end, but the fact of relationship hasn't limits. There are not paradox, just the affirmative fact of being. -
Ofc you are free to treat your ADHD however you like. But consider the side effects of not treating it properly. I'm not a fan of stimulants as well, and loved every progress I made without them (psychotherapy for example), but they can help certain people tremendously. Untreated ADHD people literally have a minus 10 years life expectancy because of risky behaviour, drug use ect. You have to evaluate for yourself how serious you want to take this. But small little lifestyle chances and nutrition hacks or whatever, won't deal with real ADHD sufficiently I think.
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That is the challenging part... sticking to the process of consistent monthly investing and keeping money in the market to compound interest even when there are ups and downs. I suppose it's easier for me to say because I don't have that much invested.
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What's your guys' take on consciousness evolving through individual partitions (i.e. "souls") lifetime after lifetime? Is Hitler working at Walmart right now?
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I was thinking about this a few days before. I am already complete without a relationship.
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Medication was worth it 10000x for me. I also struggled with memory, and holding coherent technical conversations that required paying attention and remembering what was said. Medication has made it much easier. Don't be put off by other people's stories of side effects. ADHD medication side effects are very individual, some people have tons, some people have none. In my case I had mild side effects for about a month and then they all went away.
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AerisVahnEphelia replied to AerisVahnEphelia's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Try to suspend the idea that evil exists as a force in itself. Most of what we call evil is done in the name of something loved, and it’s not simple ignorance but love combined with a narrowed field of view. Hitler’s hatred of the Jews grew out of an inflated, idealized love of Germany, so intense that anything he perceived as a threat to it became an enemy. The same mechanism works on the economic side. A certain strand of capitalism values money, and the structure and power it brings, above any attachment to an ethnically defined nation. Seen from that angle, mass immigration can be read as a way to expand the labor supply and lower its cost, and some anti-racist campaigns as having served, among other motives, to make the native population accept competition in the labor market. You can accept or reject that reading, but the logic underneath is a hierarchy of loves: this capitalist ranks the love of money above the love of an ethno-nation. I’m not stating what I believe or where I stand politically. I’m describing a mechanism. Love creates hatred, because whatever we love, we come to hate whatever threatens it. Stop loving and there is nothing left to hate: everything is perfect as it is, including your own death or the death of what you cherish. But if you want to protect what you love, the logic pushes you toward more hatred. Even the universalist who dreams of a utopia where every people lives in harmony faces this: to fully realize that world, he would have to eliminate everyone who values the ethno-state, and he becomes what he opposes. Every totalizing love produces its own enemy. This is also what conservatives are reacting to in “non-identitarian communism/neoliberalism.” Their refusal of a “mixed world” isn’t (only) ignorance. It’s closer to aesthetics, a preference about what the world should look like. Ignoring that this hatred can be aesthetic rather than ignorant is the real problem. Ignorance can be solved by informing and correcting. A preference about what the world should look like can’t be corrected, so treating it as a lack of information guarantees failure. -
You did the right choice
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And yet, children are more conscious than the average adult. Funny how growing up doesn’t necessarily mean waking up.
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It’s clear to me this is true in my experience. I just imagine a way which that wouldn’t be required. But, I admit clearly that isn’t the case. I see that suffering keeps us alive. I’ll keep contemplating this thank you. There is also a bias or demonization of suffering I’ve noticed that Atheists do as an argument against God. I can see how that isn’t a solid argument because how suffering keeps us alive. And, God doesn’t moralize. Atheists want God to moralize. Treating suffering as evil, is a bias a human has, which God doesn’t. That if God exists atheists will say God is evil. But, they ignore the good that exists in that argument and how suffering can often lead to growth.
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@Human Mint thank you. I could benefit from practicing shifting the conversation to things I am more interested in. This day I was very low energy so I was happy to not participate so actively. I guess I just don't like people putting me in a introverted box just because I'm quiet when they see me. Not sure why I don't like people assuming things about me. @Olaf Thank you for the fuck em energy. I am very sensitive to shame it seems, and I am ready to build up a stronger tolerance for it. Yes, love open ended questions. I guess they can be used both for building connection but also preventing it if only one person is talking all the time. People have picked up on my energy when I was quiet and asked me straight what was going on. I have a lot of mental activity, like a thousand things trying to happen at the same time. Unless I trust the person asking I'm not inclined to share too much. I want to share because I want to, not because I should. I used to overshare in the past, so I'm learning to be more conscious of that. But theres some social rules at play also, I guess it depends how I want to be perceived, but I would probably benefit from a bit more idgaf attitude. I u
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So what’s your situation now? How serious it is ? Are you going to get chemotherapy? Etc
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@Emerald As I mentioned above, I completely agree with you. It’s just much harder for me to follow your advice now that my own money is on the line. So far, I’ve invested 20% in widely diversified stock ETFs, plus 10% in gold. For now, I’ll hold onto the rest and put it in a saving-account earning an average of about 3%. Maybe for 5–6 months. Above all, I want to wait and see how the midterms turn out.
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Someone here replied to Majed's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Where did I say any of that ? I distinctively said it’s emotionally difficult. Religion targets the emotional part of your brain, not just the rational. You get brainwashed with religious beliefs as soon as you start to have some basic intelligence to understand, very early in childhood while your brain is still fresh like a sponge and very prone to absorb brainwashing. because as you’ve suggested, you can show a religious person proofs of the Big Bang and how there is no scientific evidence for the existence of any gods or supernatural entities,and how Darwinian Evolution debunked the biblical story of creationism etc ..yet there are still billions of Christians and Muslims in the world today who are diehard believers. And a huge chunk of them are actually aware of the problems with their religion because this is the age of easy and available information.Yet they can’t let it go just like that . It has become part of their identity. -
Bitcoin goes up when stocks goes up. So there is no point owning bitcoins. Wide and cheap index funds is the way to go. Throw in some bonds and metals if you like. Do not buy individual stocks.
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Thanks for the support. As a child, it dawned on me—through a lot of suffering—that understanding is much more fundamental than what people were doing. It's a thing that comes to me by interacting with reality through pure observation. Gaining understanding on my own for the sake of understanding is a greater joy for me than just knowing, or especially just believing, something. Without you, I would not have known how important truth is and would have remained in a state of stagnancy. But I don't claim that I have become someone who is conscious of a lot of truth or a master of truth.
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I was. Tho not that guy you mentioned before.
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Habits & Disciplines Journey Entry #244 ~ Mon Oct 12 '26 I am confused at times in regards to what to read. My schedule is all written out and I love it. But what is a positive thing to read right now? Should I just let myself drift towards whatever I want? Or would I like to have a goal of finishing a certain book by a certain date. How about this, I want to finish The Book of Not Knowing by the end of the year. Also, I'd like to read 12 books a year. AT LEATS 12 books a year. Some books that come to mind right now are: How to Get Rich by Dennis Felix (B&N Audiobook) The Book of Not Knowing (physical and Audiobook) The Four Agreements by Don Miguel (physical book) The Happiness Hypothesis (physical book & audiobook) Dark Secrets Women Don't Want you to Know (B&N digital) Memoirs to Her (Digital) My sister is a joke to me. She's afraid of EVERYTHING. She lives her entire life afraid of whats to come. She's incredibly anxious, a complete people pleaser. It makes not even want to be around her. Its like I'm disgusted by her. How have you gone 35 years on this planet and haven't dealt with this AT ALL. You should be embarrassed. You should be ashamed of yourself. Now I have to officiate her wedding even though she is not into it at all, she just wants to get it over with to shut her fiance up. They've been engaged for YEARS, like 3 or 4 years. I mean what a fuckin joke of a life she is living. Truly, its a fuckin' joke. I feel for her, but at the same time, I don't feel motivated to help her. She strikes me as not wanting to help herself. Why would I waste time on someone that isn't even trying? Daily goals: Make bed: 68 Take medication: 85 Shower: 85 Groom hair: 85 Brush teeth: 85 Floss: 0 Kriya yoga: 0 No porn: 0 No ejaculation: 8 No electronics before bed: 0 Brush teeth before bed: 2 Wash face before bed: 2 Weekly goals: Workout 3x: 1 Give yourself a haircut: 4 Do laundry: 10 Clean room: 11 Clean car: 9
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Actually reading through the gospel of Thomas is a refreshing experience and makes you wonder about ancient Christianity.
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@Vynce also being medicated has a lot more cost to it than it is worth. It still will not allow my retention to be cured. It becomes another dependency to just be normal.
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I agree with this post. some women test their men with these things and they even get turned on when their men fights over this things. It's very toxic and unsustainable. My last GF did all the things on list 1 and when I mentioned it she would start a fight and bc i did not want to fight I allowed her to do them, but every time she did them my self esteem would decrease. Over time she would do more things in list 1. I believe she wanted me to fight, maybe to feel cared. I remember one episode where I did start an aggressive fight and she got super turned on. At some point the level of things in list 1 would be unacceptable to me, so I had to let her go.
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