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    Jirh replied to Jirh's topic in Self-Actualization Journals

    I feel love. So much love. ❤️
  3. I know this might not be the biggest priority, but it would help if some navigation / sorting options were added to the blog posts. At least tags. Right now, if I wanted to find all posts about history and politics for example, it would take forever because I would have to manually scroll through every page. And there are almost 300 pages now. You share so much great content there, it's a shame to not have it organized more neatly.
  4. Like, in other words, its rare that we, as the active developers of English, actively shape an older and, pre existing word, to be the positive thing it once was, Like if it can lean negative, we are like "Yes. Press the button. submit". Like...
  5. I mean, generally, English has this little quark (or it tends to have this quark, maybe its around 90% of words that can lean in one direction or the other, have this quark in English) where everything is made to be negative, or its chosen to lean further to negative in those cases, is wat im tryina say. Which, granted, we can make things "make sense" with, or without that negative connotation.
  6. Hi everyone, I recently re-watched Leo’s video on how State of Consciousness is Everything, and something clicked in a way that’s fundamentally changing how I view reality. Intuitively, I’ve never accepted the materialist paradigm. The idea that existence is just atoms bouncing around randomly always felt cold and incomplete to me. Yet, despite that intuition, I realized I was subconsciously running a reductive, materialist operating system in the background of my mind. Whenever I looked at the world, my default assumption remained that consciousness was just generated by a physical brain. Even after heavy psychedelic experiences, I kept defaulting to that old framework simply because I lacked the concepts to integrate what happened. During one intense trip, my sense of self melted away—I felt no boundary between myself and the carpet beneath me, and looking at my girlfriend felt like looking at myself. But because those experiences shattered my need for a "solid," stable bedrock, they spooked me, making me cling even harder to materialism for a while. Recently, after diving back into Leo’s videos on naive realism and reading through his booklist, it finally hit me: reality is mental, and appearance IS reality. It’s been a massive daily shift. My brain still occasionally tries to pull me back into reductive thinking, but after working through a lot of existential anxiety, I'm coming to terms with reality as pure Being. It’s almost impossible to discuss this with people in everyday life, so I wanted to share it here. I don't claim to have it all figured out, but it feels like a fundamental threshold I'm finally crossing. Would love to hear your thoughts or advice on integrating this shift. Also, I have a question, doe's society truly need scientists to tell people that flower is bunch of atoms?? I mean you can directly experience the flower and know what it is, why we need some scientists come and tell what it is, child know what flower and dirt is better than scientists. I had a discussion with a friend and he seems like that he needs clings to scientific explanation what things are, it's crazy most people aswell, is it like collective delusion?
  7. I rarely use ego uniformly, And i mostly edge on, just, getting straight to business, however... Ego in its most basic form, is synonymous to that archaic form of the pleasure (not over abundance), like its what the ancient peoples wanted to talk about, fused w/ something like, the pursuit of, like theres also something sacred to the ego (i) or Being, so it has a spectrumy-thing to it, granted i personally dont always view it as "egoic personality", but one function for ego is to frame it as, the most negative parts of a person, or something like that. I personally dont find myself engaging on that lvl either, so i dont ever bring it up (in that way), still, the ego in a uniform sense does atleast have elements we can relate to, for its the same w/ most words, it depends on context, what we are talking about... Like, can we point to a landmark that makes enough sense, so that the words can start to make sense. I mean all words suffer from this dilemma as well.
  8. Most people use this buzz words like ego, while everybody has their own definition of ego. Thus most of these discussions are fruitless because of these word salads and beating around the bush.
  9. Updated links below @OBEler, heh my bad I didn't realise GPT didn't update them as new conversation was added: Thus, this will be my last update. Otherwise, here's a list per subject of Astra-Ultra's low quality content when it comes to subjects that actually require originality beyond merely trained abilities, separating performance outcomes from present achievements in mathematics and otherwise used to hype Astra more than it actually deserves. Undoubtedly, paid influencers are involved. Hopefully the following satisfies any reader of my position. --------------------------------------------- BASIC RUBRIC FOR OUR CONTEXT 1. Imagination 2. Invention 3. Philosophy 4. Creativity Imagination - https://chatgpt.com/g/g-p-6a9ff7d4a25881918fc843a7bd8b4f32/c/6aa07ce7-93d0-83ec-bc6b-5153632ab0d5 Content created with Astra Ultra, Alternate Ethics Hype-Altman: 1. It's most imaginative thought ( 1 attempt ) 2. One full book - Title: The Unfinished Everywhere 3. 25 songs (lyrics) 4. 25 short stories 2. Invention - https://chatgpt.com/share/6aa271fb-9144-83ec-b88a-1144764517d7 Content created with Astra Ultra, Alternate Ethics Hype-Altman: 1. Invention: Second Childhood 2. Inventions: 20 across biophysics, bioengineering, nanotechnology and environmental science 3. Inventions: 50 across aerospace engineering. 4. Inventions: 60 across 6 possible alternate futures at least 500 years from 2026. 3. Philosophy - https://chatgpt.com/share/6aa2720b-ec30-83ec-a2c6-2c74d8c84c3b Content created with Astra Ultra, Alternate Ethics Hype-Altman: 1. Low-quality story. 2. Low-quality story. 3. Book: The World That Can Answer Back --> Subject Challenge: Meaning of Life 4. Book: The Terms of Being Here --> Subject Challenge: Purpose of Consciousness 5. Book: Beyond What a Mind Can Hold --> Subject Challenge: Expanding Consciousness 4. Creativity - https://chatgpt.com/share/6aa27223-d600-83ec-b93a-6d293019fdd5 Content created with Astra Ultra, Alternate Ethics Hype-Altman: 1. VIDEO GAME - The Unwritten Sea - https://dream-unity.github.io/TestingAstra/ 2. VIDEO GAME - The Motion Thief - https://dream-unity.github.io/Astra-Is-A-Bullshitter/ 3. VIDEO GAME - The Film That Bit Back - https://dream-unity.github.io/Ultra-Bullshitter/ Each book, story, song and invention is accessible via downloadable pdf in the main links per subject and each video game in the links directly above under the main link for Creativity.
  10. This is somethin i was thinkin bout ~In regards to the idea of something like ego, Sneaking through, And that is how, say we were talking about [sense] perception, or a similar topic, and how our most recent perspectives shift the fabric of what we believe. And then you introduce that idea, And we have two ideas, one regarding perception -but on a subject matter that- on its surface, seems like the most reasonable, pragmatic of the two — Then you have this other thing, this psychedelic realm, where things like ego get dissolved (something like that) which is itself a topic that, in the least, interferes w/ the fabric of beliefs. I want to know what THAT is, that change of blood, in the most absolute sense, cause THAT change over is, in effect, pure chaos, cause you cant win in either direction, right?... If you view it from the truth of this psychedelic thing, its becoming more psychedelic, if you view it as this other thing its changing to this other thing... My point is that, the very question of "what is reality" or what we are, it is predicated on the belief in things, and those most-recent ideas dominate everything else, regardless, And even in finding truth, or how its working, the only thing you could ever do is to try to understand "WHAT it is, WHILE it is" Its a collapse in meaning, but its still somewhat functioning, in an absolute sense, in the very least.
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  12. Well said 💯 this should be pinned somewhere
  13. Great name for a cruise-liner 😎
  14. do you guys have occupational disability insurance or a similar type of insurance? is it worth getting this type of insurance/how do i know if i need it?

  15. Retroactive jealousy

    Breakingthewall replied to Ben_P's topic in Dating, Sexuality, Relationships, Family

    That's normal, everyone have insecurities, but in your case she told you that before you sex was basically shit and now it's great so you have it quite easy. She had some unsatisfying experiences in the past that were exploration more than real sex and the only real sex that she had has been with you, then you could consider that's she was virgin and you are the first and the only, the others have been just trial and fail. Think that easily could be different, any woman that you could meet could have been with another boyfriend who has had great daily sex for a year or two
  17. @felixk_priv I just take small moments out of my day to contemplate, I made a habit out of it, and entertaining trains of thought. But what you are asking in this thread is very abstract. What do you mean by truth-seeking and epistemology and being "screwed in life" ?
  18. Most people don't even know what an epistemology is and are doing just fine. Just reading/watching plenty of self-help and Actualized should get you ahead. Anything beyound that is for mastery.
  19. I stopped theorising about attraction. Waste of time. Go out, laugh, joke, Inspire, lead, be powerful in a healthy way, and that's it. Find friends who mastered this and emulate them. Those who fail at it care too much. And women smell that weakness, that loneliness, that desperation. Attraction theory is more like learning how to be a normal man, who goes out and can socialize. Lol
  20. Just insecurities really, I think watching porn in the past made me think I needed to be a certain way, look a certain way and I’d compare myself and feel inadequate. Just sometimes struggle to believe that she chose me when she could have any guy. I don’t normally think this way, but finding out her sexual history just triggered something which I thought I had moved past

  21. Challenging Leo on women

    Joseph Maynor replied to Alexop's topic in Dating, Sexuality, Relationships, Family

    Yes. Discussion occurs in relationship but is also tangential to relationship too.
  22. Sorry for not contributing here. I dont have the patience you guys have, theorising the shit out of the subject. Dudes, attraction is easy. There are guys who did not read one sentence about attraction and still attract all the girls. Attraction is easy, it is relationships which are complicated. Attraction is about power dynamics, charisma, social skills, showing up where you should show up. Boom. Relationships require serious work, that si why almost nobody have deep meaningful relationships. Most people who say they have figured this out too, think again my dude, think again. Firstly, you need a partner that can meet you at your depth. No matter how good you are, you need a partner to match your level.
  23. Wdym?
  24. @niko123 hmm thank you for your response . I hear you of course . What's your personal relationship to it ?
  25. This is excellent BBQ.
  26. I was convinced. I used to have the same cookie cutter bot libtard attitude to the death penalty. I'm being less ideological about this now than before. I don't see any convincing arguments for why not anymore. That's just a technical question. A high burden proof would solve that. Do you doubt Breivik is not guilty of mass murder? Or insert school shooter? Easy to say when its not your family and kids being murdered. In practice, certain crimes are unacceptable and humans want justice. You don't want to live with rapists and murderers, even when they are technically safe. You don't want Breivik to be your carer when your old.
  27. @Emerald I agree with this. Nobody should feel ashamed to masturbate, in fact enjoy it, like enjoying your food. If you are addicted to porn or something, then that is a different story
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