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  2. After all these years im still deeply confuse, after watching the why the brain doesn't exist episode Leo claim consciousness doesn't take place inside the brain, there is no evidence Based on my direct experience,yes indeed it doesnt take place inside the brain, existance just somehow appear,or maybe we should say my existance itself is being manifested But I need some answers Do our brain has connection to the consciousness? If someone hit my skull with a hammer, i definitely gonna lost consciousness right? It somehow contradict the idea of our existance doesn't take place in the brain Any expert mind share some thoughts?

  3. Anger is not always wrong

    integral replied to integral's topic in Personal Development -- [Main]

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  4. lmao exactly, im stuck at the procrastinating on promotion, its helllllllllll In need claude marketing!

  5. Novel Recommendations

    enchanted replied to Erol's topic in Personal Development -- [Main]

    It's all the self-help he's done in action. He's probably just having a little fun like we all are on here.
  6. Capitalism is fine, but our system is not capitalism, it's crony capitalism.. the corruption is not kept in check and central banks enable it through monetizing government debt and not holding them accountable for the money spent and where it goes. They don't even really try to hide it anymore, the debt is closing in on $40 trillion and it will continue to double roughly every 10 years, the inflation is here to stay in my opinion. The rich love inflation, because they own all the assets. Plus the cantillon effect means they get first access to new money before it trickles down to the worker bee, which they are now using to gobble up assets. There are way too many loopholes that people can use to avoid being held accountable for bad business decisions, multiple LLCs, trusts, corporate entities, nonprofits. In my opinion if say a private equity firm buys a company and drives it into bankrupty, the parties involved should be able to have their own personal fortunes confiscated, or at least all the money they paid themselves while running said company, as just one example. The phrase "privatize the gains, socialize the losses" is basically true in 2026. Politicians shouldn't be able to insider trade or invest in companies they deal with as they pass legislation either, like they all did buying the drug companies during covid. Human nature needs to be kept in check with more checks and balances.
  7. Neither party will fix this, because they are both full of modern monetary theorists who peddle the "deflation is bad" psyop, so any decrease in prices as seen as bad to them, they're perfectly fine with prices doubling and then when there's any sort of decline, they want to print and do bailouts so the speculators aren't forced to liquidate... God forbid we pop the asset bubbles that have formed from all this money printing that goes to the top 10% mostly. The level of corruption thanks to policies such as quantitative easing is now through the roof, I can see why past civilizations were so focused on inflation and usury, because these same currency debasements and wealth concentration from bad policies continue to happen to this day.

  8. Anger is not always wrong

    IslandWild replied to integral's topic in Personal Development -- [Main]

    When the best person you know is angry, it's probably for a good reason.
  9. No more or less than woke people trying to reassign their child a different gender at birth... the woke and the religious right are two sides of the same coin, both loony cults with loony people who have loony belief systems they want to force upon everyone else. Don't kid yourself, there are plenty of socialist utopians here who would love to force some utopian autocracy on everyone against their will and think it would work when it wouldn't.

  10. Anger is not always wrong

    No1Here2c replied to integral's topic in Personal Development -- [Main]

    Exercise is certainly a good expenditure of energy. I think the latter you describe may actually be a better use of the 'violent upheaval' which anger can cause. Seems like if properly approached & controlled, could lead to contemplative insight. Of course the ability to navigate and control anger is in direct relation to one's degree of self mastery. Self mastery is a constant devotion. Like learning any skill. To ride the currents of emotion in productive healthy ways, requires commitment to the craft.
  11. They are tribal plus they tend to be successful and people get jealous of success. Plus they tend to have power because of their success and wealth and the powerful end up typically becoming corrupt just because of human nature... doesn't really matter if a person is jewish, arab, or from north korea... give a human enough power and/or wealth and they all tend to act similarly. Right now most western politicians are addicted to the central bank printing press. Way too much corruption in just about every government globally, and it's hard to unsee it when you see how things really are, all you can do is practice radical acceptance. All this said, zionism was a cancer on this planet the 20th century. Israel should never have been slapped in it's current location in 1948 driving the existing arab population out. It's been a source of global instability ever since... and why did christians end up such zionists back then? Religious brainwashing? The brits are the ones who drafted the balfour declaration to set up a jewish state.... they had occupied that land. The establishment never really talks about any of this. Then again, as someone who believes more in science, it's not like any race of people has any "ancient claim" to any land... land belongs to whoever can take it and defend it, period. All races have been enslaved or taken land and had it taken sometime throughout history.
  12. Only in Imagination.
  13. No True distinctions .
  14. The distinctions are real. Pretending they don't exist is a kind of spiritual narcissism that closes you off. No one achieves openness with those non-dualistic tricks. You have to know how to differentiate between process and substance; then you can function as a process aligned with your total nature. To pretend that everything is illusory is to deny something that exists, a kind of mental castration that locks you in a dead state that you define as "awake."
  15. 2=1=0=Infinity
  16. I see it different, everything is just the reality happening, processes unfolding, it's not "maya", it's just how reality manifest. The "truth" is the perception of the nature of the reality beyond the form. That doesn't mean that the form is Maya or unreal, means that the form is form, and the nature is the nature. Both are two aspects of the reality. No one is false. But the point is being open to the total nature of the reality, to what is. Then the form appears as what is in this form . I think that this of Maya is not useful to see clearly, but it's just my opinion. Anyway, a pleasure to talk

  17. Anger is not always wrong

    integral replied to integral's topic in Personal Development -- [Main]

    If it lasts 2 days then ya i can see why your spiralling. Got to find a healthy coping mechanism to manage this, have you tried exercise to change your hormones? Mine doesnt last long enough to need coping, but during the 15 minutes of intense anger i am thinking very deeply and calculating alot of possibilities. Im searching for "the way out", considering many perspectives. Im thinking of "the bigger picture" and placing everything in order of importance. But i have no idea if this is useful for people who get "stuck" on a emotion, i do no that when people get stuck is because they are rambling in there head very negative thoughts with out forcing themselve to think about higher order things. They will sit in there one bad perspective and often act like a victim and blame everything. In this case they have to force themselse to look at more then one perspective and zoom out. But i dont know if this works.
  18. I call it 'Dream' because that is a better reflection of its True Nature than the Implications we have tied into our term 'Reality' Reality regardless of what you conceive of it to be, is the quote un quote "less real" It is the Illusion. Maya. Play. Dukkha. Lila. It is as Psychedelic Visions. It fades off. But Truth always remains. Truth is what is 'real'. Everything you know is Illusion. Including the labels which have you confused about the Nature of such. The 'mental mess' is as a result of drawing distinction within the Indistinct. Catch 22 'Reality'. Contrast is the foundation for experience, as human, we create so many contrasts, that we get lost amidst them all. We cannot see how it is fundamentally Two that must contrast in order for there to exist anything at all in experience. What the 'Two' contrasting elements are, is the foundation of Maya. It is Illusory. Underneath that, lies Truth. Complete & utter, empty Formless Freedom.
  19. Nice! Claude code (I assume you used it) makes implementing apps like these so much easier these days, you just need a solid AI workflow and you're good to go. Have you checked Claude Design? I procrastated on side-projects because I hate design work, and now that's not an issue any more, no more excuses
  20. This is insane i really enjoyed leo talking politics but roy dug down to the root historical causes of why American politics is a mayhem now republican really are willing to destroy the whole system at the cost of cutting tax for the rich, its so backward how they thing oh gosh a whole conspiracy theory was created about the moon landing but apparently backward politics pushed back the space exploration to the point where Saturn rocket now is considered a lost technology

  21. Challenge: Invent A New Word

    Terell Kirby replied to Leo Gura's topic in Personal Development -- [Main]

    Swaggadocious - exhibiting extreme swag (swagger + braggadocious)
  22. School (or rather "education") is a rule, it's mandated by law; all but 11 countries in the entire world have it. And if you want people to follow the law, you need them to understand the law at a basic level and perhaps be able to read and write, and mandatory schooling is supposed to ensure that. You could say "but I don't want schooling to be a rule", but then I would say you underestimate the impact of 200-300 years of mandatory schooling in the West and how it has created the well-functioning society you see around you. School can be improved, but you would probably still want something similar to the current system if you want people to follow laws. Interesting fun fact: Norway was the first country in the world to get mandatory education laws in 1739, beating Sweden by over 100 years lol. As opposed to what? Consuming YouTube videos? Obedience was not a problem when you said society needs rules.
  23. Then why do you call it dream if it's the same than the reality? A dream is something less real, an illusion. An illusion is illusory because it's not real. If anything is an illusion is in comparison with something that is not an illusion. If everything is an illusion, then it's just you putting labels to create an unnecessary mental mess
  24. Everything is dream because everything is the dream content. I make no distinction. The realm of dream is exactly the realm of reality. The space in which both are held is the exact same. The content of both vary, the internal rules & consistency of both do vary. But the underlying fabric is identical. The distinction between dream & reality is something you are presently drawing. You are doing it right now. Otherwise, it does not exist
  25. It's much more simple: everything is real because everything is the reality. Or maybe are you one of those non dualistic who make an absolute duality between real and dream?
  26. Real, as I have come to find, is a term only valid from within very specific & narrow states of consciousness. Real, as conceived by the human mind, does not exist. Experience/perception does arise, experience/perception does fade away. This is as Maya. Truly, what I would call 'real' given my bubble, and the perspective implied within it, would be the Infinite. The Formless. The complete open expanse. That is what I would point toward as 'real'. Otherwise known as Consciousness. Pure, Empty, Consciousness.
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