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@Joseph Maynor in the recent line of enquiry I don't think anyone is denying anger in their experience. Well at least, I do not. Anger happens in everyone's experience. I think it is part of being human. This topic is very tied in to our individual affect and temparements in general. As a side point, most people aren't even able to distinguish anger from a whole host of other feelings/emotions that run parallel or can feel very similar.
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I do. I would rather not, but I do think he points out a lot about how power works.
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This is the standard line, you articulated it well.
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My concern is that the statistical worldview precludes making meaningful statements. Sure, it’s good to be aware that (almost) everything is context-dependent and not 100% x or y, but it’s important to make clear statements too. If someone is asking for practical meditation advice, it’s probably best to give an answer one way or another based on your experience or say you don’t know rather than making a vacuous statement like “why not both” or “it depends.” I think the way of thinking you’re describing @Carl-Richard is a form of rationalism, which comes with many limitations. This is what Leo’s deconstructing rationalism series was aimed at. If you’re so much of a rationalist that you’re qualifying everything with phrases like “probably” or “most likely,” you’ve definitely gone wrong somewhere.
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Anger often acts as a survival mechanism, a fight or push back against threats perceived as "anger" due to fear or a defensive reaction. Anger is not wrong or right. It’s a natural programmed response, or knee jerk. It can’t be intentional if it’s completely spontaneous in the moment it arises. Anger is just an attribute of sentience, representing a basic "fight, flight, or freeze" response common to humans and many animals. As a component of conscious life, it serves as an adaptive mechanism for survival, reacting to perceived threats, injustice, or obstacles. Nothing wrong about it. If anything it’s completely okay to be angry because it’s simply part and parcel of sentient life’s intelligence. It’s just a release of negative energy that’s all, because the body naturally gravitates toward an equilibrium state.
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Exercise daily, and maybe quit caffeine.
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Okay I grant that under most interpretations "actually breaking the laws of physics" is a gibberish statement, but I think I can give a sense under which it is intelligible. Lets say that by nature we just mean the Universe, and the Universe has certain behavioral patterns (behavior that repeats and that can be observed and replicated given the necessary conditions universally everywhere) and that would be basically the "actual" laws of physics. "Breaking" it would mean changing those behavioral patterns, meaning - even if you replicate the exact same set of conditions, the behavior that applied before do not apply anymore. But we can do the fine-tuning or miracle hypotheticals (where lets say multiple limbs are fully grown back under 1 second). Im just curious how you run through miracle examples, and supernatural examples , and how you update in principle towards supernaturalism being a more probable explanation for any given event. Because, I have seen your criticism of Bernardo, and I genuinely struggle to see it in principle how you can update towards a more robust supernatural view using abductive or any kind of reasoning. And this isnt about closed mindedness for me, this is genuinely lacking the epistemic ability to deal with underdetermination issues (meaning any given observable event or state of affair will be compatible with both naturalism and supernaturalism). For instance - I dont understand how and why given NDE facts you update towards God having metacognition, values , desires rather than staying with God not having any of the listed things. Like why think that NDE facts are more expected under an agential God than under a non-agential one? And if they are not more expected, then what reasons can you appeal to that should motivate Bernardo to update towards an agential God given NDE facts?
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Have you tried focusing on sleep hygiene & improving your sleep environment? Completely dark room (or as close to that as possible) Cool room and mattress temperature Eating at most 3h away from sleep; preferably 4h+ Only use the bed to sleep and have sex Avoid screens (or use sunglasses / orange glasses); also configure screens to be dark and reduce blue light Etc.
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pursuitofspirit replied to Leo Gura's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
https://www.war.gov/ufo/ for anyone who hasn't looked through the UFO files yet, pretty cool stuff. This one was the craziest to me: https://www.war.gov/ufo/#DOW-UAP-PR38-Unresolved-UAP-Report-Middle-East-2013 -
pursuitofspirit replied to Leo Gura's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
It's a good episode and they cover things they didn't cover in the original episode from 7 years ago. Lazar is a fascinating and brilliant man. He gives me no signals that he is lying about anything he says he experienced. -
Natasha Tori Maru replied to TruthFreedom's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
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The reality is that people express anger in very passive aggressive ways or even aggressive ways. Once you see this you can't unsee it. To deny anger is present in your life I think is delusional. See I'm getting at the crux of the issue here and it's not being seen, which I already anticipated. I know this drill, I've had this conversation many times before. There's a desire to deny anger. I would suggest becoming directly aware of your anger more. But this is not going to resonate with people who want to pretend they are above anger. Anger is real in every person. How they deny their anger or try to conceal it is a different matter, If you know someone long enough you can forecast their anger. And your anger too, and my anger. This is not just about pointing the finger outward. You have to accept your own anger and not see it as bad necessarily. Don't try to pretend you have no anger. This is not going to float well with spiritual people, but I want to stay honest and true and I'm open to discussion. Tell me where I'm wrong again please.
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Sucuk Ekmek replied to TruthFreedom's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
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I was wondering how instant gratification applied to this forum. It's definitely not as bad as other platforms and can actually be a good source of delayed gratification. But this forum can certainly be used that way. When I read a good insight I assume it gives me a dopamine hit because I want to read more. This is how I felt reading your post. What I don't get is, does taking 3-5 minutes out to read your post and receiving a hit instant or delayed gratification? How much delay is there needed for something to be qualified as delayed gratification?
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This is a really great post. I read this last night and thought about it for a while. For me the insight "instant gratification is a Red-stage operating system running inside a person who has the capacity for Orange and beyond." was the best one here. This explains a lot for me. I really enjoy the approach of looking at it from many perspectives. It helps define the problem a lot. I also enjoy how your explanation naturally explains the phenomena of increasing Nihilism in the world. Here's a shower thought, instant gratification mode is like hunting for prey in the savannahs. When you are doomscrolling you are searching for that dopamine hit. It's a complete hijack of our animal brains. I really enjoyed the perspective from Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. Our needs are being met artificially so well, why would we want to do actual work? This made me think; Humanity's goal in all of this development was never to increase love, happiness, consciousness or anything else, it was so meeting these needs became easier. In that sense, Humanity has succeeded tremendously. You don't even need to leave your bed now to feel secure, a sense of belonging, sexual climax, satisfaction of hunger(food delivery) etc. Humanity misunderstands how to achieve happiness and self-actualization. Removing restrictions actually helps compulsions take over, it extinguishes your free will and makes you a robot. I now know why early massive civilizations could be so philosophically advanced(Looking at Upanishads). It was because they actually had it easier despite the lack of technology, with the abundance of resources to go around (for at least the upper class) and the lack of technology which would otherwise trap you in instant gratification, it actually fed into philosophical inquiry and insight. Humanity lost the plot somewhere along the way.
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I think what you might be sensing is the vainglory involved with Online Journaling. Actually most online journals I see are motivated by vainglory. Is there anything wrong with vainglory? Well, it's a compulsion that drives you to do things you otherwise wouldn't. It's your choice to do what you will with that. I remember I started a few journals (not here) which I ultimately dropped because I realized I wasn't producing anything of value aside from looking for validation. If not for the public aspect of it, I wouldn't have a journal at all. The whole point was that others would read it. I am not free from vainglory and it's a sneaky compulsion just like envy. I have two active journals right now, both of which I started due to vainglory. But now I only post in them when I think I am actually producing something of value. This way at least I am compelled to create stuff I consider valuable. You could also start an online journal for the purposes of public accountability. I think if you are having fun it's alright but it's important to be conscious of where all of that is coming from. Vainglory makes you sit hours in front of the screen just like lust would. Thankfully it's possible to make it constructive rather than destructive.
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Mellowmarsh replied to TruthFreedom's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Lovely! ⭐️ -
Mellowmarsh replied to Loveeee's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
To become God you have to die for there’s no room in here for two. -
Mellowmarsh replied to Loveeee's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
That’s why time exists to stop everything from happening all at once. -
Mellowmarsh replied to Mellowmarsh's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Yes. There’s no object without space and there’s no space without an object. The two are too close to be separated. They are One. -
Maybe, but I've heard of a sober version too. But probably mainly the shrooms.
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okay, thank you for explaining...i will try my best.
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yes, somehow naps increase the likelihood of having vivid dreams and sleep paralysis....
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Razard86 replied to Loveeee's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
1. You become God when you remove all bias from your mind and choose to love everything Consciously. 2. You become a slave to goodness. All you want is to be the most good version of yourself you can be that you spend months in deep contemplation and planning on how to make that happen. 3. You awaken to the fact that you are God.
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