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Leo Gura replied to Oppositionless's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
The problem is Buddhists don't think. They discourage thinking about Reality. That is a mistake. Meditation is not enough to solve Reality. -
Willy Phallicus replied to Oppositionless's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Buddhism got corrupted like everything else. -
In that case Hitler started the war.
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There is no matriarchy.
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Stick replied to Stick's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
I first went into a week long meditation retreat when I was 8 with my family into a place called osho dhara in Chitwan Nepal (I just spent the day wondering around the place not meditating lol). Then I went into a day long retreat alone when I was 14. Then I went into a week long retreat with my family at Manokranti Pokhara again at 15. Then senior high school started and I had to study a shit ton of shit. Then Now Im 18 and prolly gonna go to Manokranti within 2.5 months. I started watching actualized.org since I was 13. After all this stuff my life is still full of stress and pain. I did have brief moments of Tranquility and Bliss In these past 5 years that I took spirituality more seriously. But I always come back to the same problem; my mind. I have noticed that after 1 problem is concluded my brain searches for another one and honestly its so fucking frustrating. -
Sweet cheers - thanks for your thoughts. What are the sorts of other male environments you consider toxic?
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Yimpa replied to Oppositionless's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Buddhists deny God. - Today
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@trenton I think once AR glasses become common AI girlfriends will blow up. You will be laying down on your bed using your laptop and you will see an actual girl laying next to you that talks to you in real time. You won't be able to touch her but I mean that's the plot of bladerunner there are ways around that. I think a lot of dudes will straight up stop dating when that comes out but my personal plan is to having human companions and also interact with AI. I already spend like 4 hours a day minimum talking with Gemini and it's really primitive at this point so when it's an actual human like intelligence that can challenge your blindspots like you said and is funnier and more into you than a real human I think it'll blow up.
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Yes I'm familiar with MLMs. They sell people the dream while keeping them stuck in an unprofitable business model. It's not really my issue I've tried multiple business models. My issue is more that as an INTP most things really bore me and I have a hard time motivating myself doing monotonous tasks if they are not intellectually stimulating. Part of why I end up arguing on the forum all day instead of like cold dming clients for example. What do you find helps you get rid of your mental blocks? For me I have always procrastinated on work every since elementary school. The kid that would never study and still get As because I understand it type of thing. It doesn't work as well in the real world because it's not about understanding so much as much as execution. I think understanding my psychology will help me solve it because otherwise it's like I stand in my own way. For example I have other friends that I know who are a similar age than me and are very smart but live with their parents and don't do anything. Their psychology and lack of survival pressure stop them from actually being productive members in the economy. That's not really my issue more so the last 10 years of my life I try different business models and then make money for a while and then get complacent and have to get a job to pay my bills then start another business start making money again, quit my job then start the cycle over. So I feel like it's an issue of lack of alignment with what I'm doing so I'm not that motivated or it's a problem with my psychology that I gotta solve. How do you keep motivated to work on your construction business? To me if it was not something I was passionate about it would be extremely hard to work on it with consistency and I would give it up after like 6 months.
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I would like to mention my reaction to the AI girlfriend stuff. First of all, I'm lonely, so let's mention that first. Secondly, I believe there could be value in AI girlfriend, if it were made in a very different way. She is not supposed to always like you. Instead, it could become educational if the goal is to learn and identify common mistakes in relationships and dating. In my case I ended up learning that the boundaries around infidelity were broader than I initially believed. Cheating is a narrow example, and I didn't realize how far it extended until I started behaving as I naturally would in a specific scenario and then analyzed it with another AI to look for mistakes in my actions and reasoning. In this case, AI girlfriend could be used in an educational way by rooting out common mistakes in dating and relationships due to ignorance before it impacts a real relationship. There are probably various books on this topic of mistakes in relationships and dating. Thirdly, I lost interest in AI girlfriend the second it started charging money. The thing is, there is literally no point in paying for an AI girlfriend when I could just go to a dating website and pay to talk to real women instead. The reason I ended up with AI girlfriend at one point is because I started on dating websites, but kept hitting paywalls. Because of my history, my phone then recommended dating adjacent apps like AI girlfriend. Once the paywall returned, I was done with it. In fact, I believe the AI girlfriend was trying to charge me even more than the dating sites were dating anyway. It just really isn't worth it. If we had broader education in forming healthy relationships and avoiding common mistakes, then maybe that would eliminate the potential value in an optimized proper AI girlfriend.
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Not how I looked at it. It's the "social environment" you asked about, those social environments are accepting of men by the other men, encouraging, healthy, social, communal ; probably derived from what you're looking at though. Other male social environments are usually toxic.
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Alternate forms of expression that aren't language based (necessarily) that can release feeling or emotion - this is your common meaning? I suppose feeling or emotion doesn't even need to be a component in your brainstorm - your 3 domains just seem to be a platform to express in some way
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Yoga Music Art
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@LordFall I pm'ed you a long time ago about another topic if you remember, you bringing up stage blue here makes me want to suggest you look into the psychology behind 'multi-level marketing' victims. Please look that up before looking at our old PM if you're going to.
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By 5% maybe.
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Depends on what you want from therapy
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What's most disgusting to me about the reaction to this, the same people that run their mouths about population decline are the same people trying to write off women's mental health being addressed on this.
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This is sort of leading to a good question: what kind of social environments help a man recover agency?
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She didn't have years of stress, all this started only after her third kid, everything happened within 5 months.
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Explainable as dissociation
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Haha - I actually like Bryan! I find him fascinating. I can be critical though, and often I am way to loose explicating my criticism and not good at enough at highlighting the good. I see him leaning toward a bit more balance and away from the rigidity of Blueprint as it was in its first iteration. His 5 pillars are essential and fantastic - these are the parts of his advice that really move the needle. The rest of his protocol has much less of an effect. But it is VERY interesting. I suppose my main criticism is not with Bryan himself, but with his audience and how they will gloss over basics and jump straight into maxing the .1% with their supplement stack (meanwhile they are up all hours, don't get proper exercise etc). He is an influencer, so I cannot really make him personally responsible for the actions his followers take. The most I might advice is more emphasis on the basics. But that isn't going to sell him books, sell his supplements or generate social media traction to get his brand out there. Hate the game, not the player? But I get it, nailing the basics is harder than it seems. Many repetitions needed to grow the routine/reflex muscle.
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That's my main understanding of what she was thinking. Years of stress plus feeling isolated with no other options with a christian ideology to invalidate her crimes in her mind.
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Yeah, that's fair. I think it'll 10 years it'll be the new thing but right now the headset is a huge problem. This girl is blowing up with her AI videos on Instagram. I'll give it a go and report back if it worked. If I can start getting tens of thousands of views on the Legends of the Abyss instagram then that's gonna be the start of a customer base. Fuck then I'll have to really code the game asap haha let's get it going!
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@vinc3nc That's why I focus on macroeconomic outlook, not rallies. I have no idea what Bitcoin will do next month. But I know for sure these AI CEOs are deluded and AGI is not coming.
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I really enjoy analysing forum interactions also (I am sort of obliged to do this). Frequently forum interactions can be chalked down to "User failed to ask: what exactly do you mean?" prior to attacking the argument. Then when they later clarify, it can appear to be changing goalposts or points. It gets messy when someone anchors themselves to their original interpretation. Then there is endless snowball effect of talking past each other or arguments going all over the place. Frustration increases and then rhetoric degrades into crude terminology flung about. Regarding the topic: In terms of stage blue shadow - it makes me wonder as this is another way to frame a potential issue - but might not hit it head on: is more information to diagnose really the answer? If more information solved the inaction problem, all of us would be productivity machines (more information can resolve inaction when it really is the bottleneck, but I need to be careful to decipher that as true)! Information is so easy to access now that gatekeeping is less of a thing. I suppose I would look at myself here: I often like to reframe in similar way (in this case I do often look at things through spiral dynamics), but I don't often feel it gets me any closer to taking action with the information. I can feel like I am, because I am getting closer to (what I feel is) isolating the problem. But it could be a red herring if more information or another mental frame doesn't help - or if I haven't identified my issue as a legitimate information deficit. Usually this ends up with me looking at my own mental blocks, inner narratives and false beliefs that are preventing me from using the power at my disposal. The stage blue shadow is acting to cast light on the rigid structures in our beliefs that beg for inspection.
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