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  2. Nothing will Save us from what ? if you mean death then yes but there is a higher intelligence that runs everything. When you sleep ..what keeps your eyes closed? What digests your food right now ? What makes the earth orbit around the sun and around its axis? The ego self has no participation whatsoever in these processes yet something else is doing everything.
  3. @caspex I too live in India. So, it's actually their insecurity that is being projected upon me. I remember once in college I started ignoring a toxic senior I mean I stopped talking to him. It pissed him off .
  4. The content of consciousness looking for consciousness and wondering what it is - has to be one of the most difficult problematic conundrums that ever came to mind, for one very good reason.

  5. Trip Report - On Healing with 4-HO-MET

    Davino replied to reves's topic in Psychedelics

    Great substance, had a very beautiful trip. I liked it more than 4-AcO-DMT. More stable, conscious and grounded

  6. Whats the textures and shapes of DMT

    Davino replied to kavaris's topic in Psychedelics

    @JoshB Others exists as long as I imagine so.
  7. Same here. Naturally introverted too. Although I have noticed that when my heart is open, the point of the conversation shifts from thinking into feeling. I.e. meaningful discussion into having fun. From the perspective of the mind, which is the usual for introverts I'd say, a meaningful conversation triumphs a fun one. This is because after a fun conversation you come out feeling empty of meaning, as if you wasted your time. I felt this all the time. But now after practice I get that for extroverts the fun is the meaning. They are more heart centric. When my heart is very open and active, I can naturally flow into any conversation, have fun with anyone, I become naturally more energetic. I have come to love such 'meaningless' conversations because now I know it's a practice for my heart's openness and not meaningless. When your heart is active, you become naturally extroverted. A gifted extroverted person can easily have you open up your heart too, like a guru. This level of extroversion is very rare though. I still prefer the mind state though. One of my friends is naturally an extrovert. He knows so little of the world, how to do stuff and be efficient. He doesn't have any skills and nothing that sets him apart. This is because he spent all his time socializing rather than building knowledge or skill. He really needs to develop his mind instead of being in the heart all the time.
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  9. Not taking a rude comment seriously does not mean ignoring somebody, what it means is being able to hit back at them. It is not a viable expectation for yourself to not care about rude comments if you are simply gonna ignore these people or agree with them. You are being unfair to yourself. You HAVE to hit back if you want yourself to not take them seriously. I have come to a point where I take criticism very easily. They can be 100% correct and I won't give a fuck. This is because I get to decide what I think of as a problem; not them. I live in New Delhi, had some friends similar to yours. I told them to fuck off. I always turned it into a joke: "You won't get a girlfriend. Even getting a girl would be a huge achievement for you." I'd say something like, ' I got your mom last night though ' . This is the type of humor they expect. People start kicking down their insecurities onto you once they know you won't hit back. Know this, it DOESN'T MATTER even if what they say is 100% correct. It doesn't matter BECAUSE it's them saying it. With social interaction you must value relationship OVER truth. You have a clear standard set for what kind of a woman you want. The only problem you likely face is not enough action and initiative. But understand that it's YOU who gets to decide whether that's a problem or not, not your 'friends'.
  10. @Raze There is plenty of criticism of the war among Israelis as well and you can read some of it here. Israelis have also gone through decades of terrorism coming from Gaza and the West Bank.
  11. No. After 9/11 there was still backlash and outrage internally in America when news of war crimes appeared and politicians had to frame their actions as at least in part helping the civilian population. It is more akin to long term dehumanization of a oppressed population built up over decades due to ideology rooted in victimhood and superiority.

  12. How to improve my empathy?

    Jacob Morres replied to SageMind's topic in Personal Development -- [Main]

    Maybe particular modules in therapy training. They have to do a good amount of that. Maybe regarding active listening, validating, empathy
  13. @Raze Emotional numbness towards civilians on the other side of a conflict is very common among Western societies in general.
  14. His death certificate became my birth certificate.
  15. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xtybd4DDqFo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAaBXlC8-bU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44LQLXt476o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVqANXVTLN4
  16. rofl i'm too employed for this soz
  17. This is false, Israeli society including the left and center defended and excused the crimes and continue to in most regards. Polls find the overwhelming majority support or do not care about the damage towards civilians resulting from the IDF.

  18. Starving Patriarchy

    Wilhelm44 replied to Rafael Thundercat's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events

    @Rafael Thundercat, when i watched that woman's video about matriarchy as the next wave of feminism, her energy felt free of anger and i really did sense it was more about egalitarianism. The more i listen to you the more i sense a kind of objectifying of "whiteness", "maleness", or "Europeaness" as some kind of problem out there. It feels more like reverse racism to be honest. I understand that the divine feminine has been suppressed for thousands of years, and it's natural for there to be a backlash. To me this still feels very much like the backlash phase. Is this movement coming from a place of love, or is there still an element of revenge there ?
  19. Rina Anati https://x.com/RinaAnati/status/2055886380165677292?s=20 In October 2023, the world was shocked by the horrific crimes committed by Hamas against civilians and stood entirely on the side of Israel. About three years after the massacre, the focus on Hamas' crimes became marginal, if at all, and the global spotlight was directed entirely towards Israel - the world is concerned with Israel's crimes in Gaza and its treatment of Palestinians and prisoners. A country whose thousands of terrorists occupied its communities and committed monstrous acts that the mind cannot bear, who murdered, raped, and burned civilians from infants to the elderly, whose citizens, including infants, were kidnapped from their beds and held in inhuman conditions, who were tortured and murdered in captivity - not only completely eroded the support it had gained following the massacre, but also led to the fact that the world no longer sees it as the injured party, but sees it as the aggressor - the one from whom the world must be protected. I don't think anyone imagined that in a short time Israel would transform from a country that was brutally attacked with crimes that could be defined as crimes against humanity, from a country that the entire world stood by and expressed shock and disgust at Hamas's criminal acts, into an almost isolated country, one whose crimes are discussed and its actions condemned throughout the world - and this dubious honor for turning the tables is reserved entirely for Benjamin Netanyahu. The turning of the tables didn't happen by itself, the world didn't decide one day to switch sides and see Israel as a criminal - it happened because Netanyahu embarked on a protracted war of revenge whose sole purpose was to forget his responsibility for the massacre by "defeating Hamas" - the result is that the massacre was truly forgotten, only that, contrary to the great leader's original plan, its forgetting took place precisely on the global level, where Israel needed it most - for the world to remember that it was the injured party. And if the prolonged war of revenge, which resulted in neither the elimination of Hamas nor a victory over it, is not enough, then the global propaganda arena has been silenced so that instead of hearing the voices of professionals and balanced and eloquent people who would explain Israel's position in a matter-of-fact manner, the world has received Amichai Eliyahu calling for dropping an atomic bomb on Gaza, Distel screaming that there are no innocents, and Smotrich, Struck and Ben Gvir calling for the obliteration of Gaza - and the world saw and heard the voices of the Netanyahu government and responded accordingly. Let us recall that throughout its years, Israel has known difficult and bloody wars with thousands of deaths, but never has a war been waged for an entire term with the leader delivering propaganda speeches to the citizens about "total victory." Never has a war been waged in which Israel has been in enemy territory for such a long time, resulting in both many casualties for the soldiers and military and psychological exhaustion that was also expressed in the actions taken by the army. Never has the same territory been conquered again and again and each time the leader came out declaring victory. Never has a war been waged in such a way that it was clear to every sane person, and no one hid it, that it was a political war of the leader and the government. And this war that Netanyahu waged, ostensibly a legitimate war on Hamas, but in fact a war to cling to power and forget the massacre, is perhaps the greatest crime that Netanyahu committed, because it puts Israel and the IDF on the same page as the Hamas terrorists. Netanyahu has brought about the fact that the world not only sees IDF soldiers and Hamas terrorists as two sides of the same coin, but judges the IDF even more harshly than the Hamas terrorists due to the fact that the war is so protracted and the actions are spread out over years and are visible to the world - and this is an unforgivable crime, because Netanyahu, as always, preferred his own self-interest over the political, security and strategic interests of Israel. The damage he caused to Israel on the international level is indescribable damage, one that will take years, if at all, to reverse.To rehabilitate it and return Israel to being a state in which the IDF is the defense army of Israel and not Netanyahu's revenge army, and Israel is a state of law that operates according to the rules of international law. Netanyahu has committed many crimes, the list of his crimes against the State of Israel and its citizens is as wide as the sea. This is a prime minister who has brought about destruction, ruin, plundering of systems and turning Israel into a third world country where violence, bullying, evil and ignorance reign, like him, a country where every criminal reigns and every unemployed scoundrel is presented on the government's incitement channel - but his greatest, most serious and unforgivable crime is undoubtedly erasing the massacre from the world agenda through a long and pointless war, abandoning the propaganda arena and turning the sovereign State of Israel into one that stands in line with a monstrous Islamic terrorist organization. Netanyahu applied the principle that when you enter the arena of the worst among the enemies while losing your temper in general, you adopt their patterns and turn yourself into To be them. Netanyahu has undermined all the principles that Israel had and made it equal to Hamas, if not inferior to it. And that was probably easy for him because the same money financed his office and Hamas.
  20. What about birth?
  21. The Fire That Leaves Only Peace There is a love that does not comfort—It incinerates. It does not ask what you want to keep. It sees what you need to release and sets it aflame. Divine love is not gentle in the way we imagine gentleness. It is the forest fire that clears dead wood, the fever that burns away infection, the crucible that melts down everything false until only truth remains. It burns away your carefully constructed identities, You need to be understood, your hunger for approval, your stories about who hurt you and why. It burns and burns and burns—your anger, your bitterness, your fear of not being enough, Your fear of being too much. And you think you are being destroyed. But when the flames finally subside, when the smoke clears and you dare to look—You find you are still standing. Not the you that you defended so fiercely, but something older, truer, unshakeable. What remains after divine love has done its work is not rubble. It is peace. The kind of peace that needs nothing, fears nothing, proves nothing. The kind of peace that sits in the centre of your chest like a temple you forgot you carried, like a silence so profound It sounds like home.
  22. I LOVE DOGS!!!
  23. 🥹🥹😭 Always in our hearts and minds
  24. They could've resisted our domestification attempts like elks or mooses did. Or like elephants have, and many other animal species that are too wild to "tame". Apparently it had to be a mutually beneficial deal, otherwise they'd have to reject us and get a job instead
  25. @LoneWonderer I LOVE! Whatever we have done to dogs to make them adore and bond to humans - it's real now. The joy I get from my girl - no words. She comes with me to the office while I work so she isn't alone in an apartment all day. 3x walks. I cook her meals because I just cannot bare to think of a being under my care living off nothing but dry kibble and packaged MyDog shit. She is a minipoodle, but unlike most small dogs, is highly trained and doesn't bark. I put lots of time into training her - and she trained me as well. To be more diligent, attentive and careful. I learned a lot through caring for her. It was a symbiotic enriching process. Sometimes I am legit dead at the end of the day, no energy, falling asleep throwing a ball against the wall for her. Worth it!
  26. We love our dog. She is her own dog not beholden to anyone. At the same time is is utterly and miserably dependable on us to feed her and look after her. We love her and she loves us. I also recognize she is completely brainwashed since a puppy to be a good girl and follow directions from us. It's a cruel world. Is it animal cruelty? In a sense yes, in another sense she has a loving home and that's more than most pets can ask for? Is she happy? I dunno ask her! But obviously she would prob be most happy running wild and free with other packs of wild dogs chasing a rabbit for dinner and fighting with the other dog clans. Her name Kaffi, she special to us!

  27. Funny video thread

    NewKidOnTheBlock replied to Raze's topic in Off-Topic: Pop-Culture, Entertainment, Fun

    This is why China is beating our ass right now lmfao bro would probably get imprisoned for 20 years for dumb shit like this
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