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If you think it’s difficult now, it will only get more difficult as time goes on. The moment you start having serious doubt about long term and start feeling trapped, it’s best to end it because the longer you wait, the harder it gets. At least, that’s how it was for me. I was so worried about hurting them that I couldn’t break it off, which led to hell on earth, a couple of times.
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CARDOZZO replied to integral's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Sad to hear it. I had a similar experience last year. We had to do it. Tough decision. This day I saw how love is a spectrum. You love them so much you want them do die to stop the suffering. Damn, so hard. -
@CredIm not sure if they could develop one, I think what you are talking about there is more ADHD. A baby in a chaotic environment cannot run so it has to develop a survival mechanism of looking away earlier on. I think this is where ADHD comes from. Like a baby has to start 'running' very early on it does this my shifting its attention. When the person with ADHD cant focus on something it dosent like comes from this. They dont feel safe focusing on something they dont like as a survival mechanism. So when they are laying there if mommy and daddy start screaming again it starts to look around to pretend its not there. Autistic just dont make up that they are a person. Basically not having an ego.
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I never cared to look into it but I was going through severe burnout and trying to get to the bottom of it, and that search led to ND. I always kind of just felt like, “so what if you’re ND, it’s just a label, you’re still you, it doesn’t change anything, therefore a useless abstraction that usually traps people in victim mindset.”, but I was wrong. It was very explanatory. The literature actually has words to explain us very well. One benefit to finding out was increased self-acceptance. I even had the thought “what if what I’ve been calling my ‘Ni’ is just ND”, lol. It could be, and if true, funny af. I had your thought about evolution as well. I think OP has a strong point that the vast majority of people attracted to this space are likely ND. If I were to guess, I’d guess you are.
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@Jodistrict that's so cool! How was your experience with that Shaman? Could you talk more about how the area got traumatized? I'm unaware of this stuff right now. I did look up rubber barons though
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Just a funny tweet by Bernardo Kastrup that is all
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Where does it prove, and what point does it prove? Reference unclear. Glad you could clear up in your mind it doesn't work, nevertheless. I am happy to help guide your contemplations. Good for you! Work is getting you there Again as above, directly quote where I say or imply this. I note you weren't able to quote my other request also. Quotes will assist backing up your accusations. But as I do not see them, I will merrily dance on
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Not only wants but requires - control of platform is more essential than the product traded upon that platform - especially in a financialized empire where the exorbitant privilege is afforded to the reserve currency. The OS (system) is more important than what any single app is trending on a given day. New trade corridors emerging that bypass US controlled geography and institutions is a threat to the system - not so much to national security (although potential remains) but to an financialized empires platform. Eurasian Silk Road and Arctic pass are outside of US control - meaning no possibility of leverage by choking off adversaries. It also means if trade wanted to be conducted outside the dollar system the US wouldn’t be able to interdict that trade the way it would by sea. Meaning sanctions and SWIFT lose their veto power in controlling nations to fall into line with the empire interests. If your a Atlanticist empire what’s the best way to prevent Eurasian integration between the two largest markets in the world (China and Europe)? In geopolitics leverage is constantly being negotiated, maintained or denied to rivals - or in this case allies. Artic trade route opening up gives Europe optionality and leverage it didn’t have before. US wants total control over this to deny that leverage to what it views as subordinate junior partners within the Atlanticist US empires orbit Why do multiple countries have bases dotted along the Red Sea? Why is there an apparent rift between Saudi and UAE currently? UAE was creating dependant non-state actors (an axis of secessionists) to gain access to local nodes (ports) along the Red Sea. Non-state actors are more easily controlled and dealt with - especially by smaller states. The doctrine is divide and insure rather than divide and outright conquer. No one wants any one player to have veto power of a choke point. Saudi had to step in due to a red line being crossed South of its border in Yemen from UAE backed groups. ——————- Trump doesn’t have to understand any of this in detail - he just wants his face on Rushmore. That doesn’t mean there isn’t some strategic (even if flawed and counter productive) logic that exists. The Arctic has been relevant for decades and only increasingly valuable now - that’s a reality. There doesn’t need to be an imminent threat for a country to act and lock in a favourable geostrategic position before it’s too late. Iraq wasn’t a national security threat, yet the US waned a foothold and to dominate a valuable region of the world. Only a critical mass of elite consensus needs to exist to allow the state machinery to move in a certain direction and not get in the way - as long as the overall direction is in line with the imperial objective to maintain primacy. People will comment and roll eyes but tacitly approve of the end objective. In general there is usually a continuity of agenda, but a change in method and execution from president to president. This is why when Obama pivoted to China as a threat to start paying attention to - it was maintained through admins without much rollback.
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UnbornTao replied to integral's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Ah shit, breaks my heart. Recently saw a video on Reddit of people saying goodbye to their dogs. Broke me in half. My doggy is ten. Time really flies, God. -
Natasha Tori Maru replied to Inliytened1's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
@Breakingthewall It is my understanding you are not a solipsist? To be clear my questions are just trying to make out your cosmology. Not here to tell or convince anyone -
I thought it was indeed a phenomenal speech, made me proud that this is our leader.
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Not learning russian and chinesse Not to relax and be myself Not to start coding
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In a certain sense a Master of the Infinity is a Master of Nothing and at same time of Everything.
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Carl-Richard replied to Inliytened1's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Non-dual understanding is One. No two ways about it. When I sat in class and had an experience of time stopping, was that me awakening onto time being an illusion? Was that me having an Absolute Time awakening? Or is it the fact that the non-dual experience of course has no time because time is a duality between past and present, between moment to moment, and non-duality is just one moment. All of my awakenings have had timelessness to them. It's just in some of them I get fixed on the timeless aspect, because again, that's how our attention and conceptual mind works. It's limited, piecemeal. -
I got laid more when I went out to have fun than when I went out to get laid Once you know how to relax and have a good time when you go out then you can focus a bit more on getting laid and it comes across as much more authentic. “I’m a fun guy who just wants to get laid tonight” is fairly attractive mindset once you have the “fun” part down
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I suppose this touches on a wider scope - if ND is becoming more prevalent; when does it begin to appear to be an evolutionary manifestation of human intelligence, as a response to our rapidly evolving technological environment? You could argue a case that with the advent of smartphones, we are already cyborgs, or a form of. I do not feel I am ND. Maybe others here can assess how they view that within me, I have NO idea how I am perceived or much about ND. I know I am wired very, very differently. I just do not label myself.
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Macron be like “we’re on the same page with bombing brown people in Middle East, but your picking on junior partners of the imperial core now? Common Donny” Europe morally grandstands and condems empire while living off it - which is nauseating to many outside the West and increasingly those within it. They outsourced the hard work of survival and security to be under a US military umbrella, vassalizing themselves whilst largely benefitting from the imperial arrangement as junior partners. They’ve been complicit in sanctions programmes and much US imperial adventurism - whilst acting as if their beyond power and survival dynamics living in some garden of Eden with sub 1% military spending because their so enlightened. Ironically France has the most strategic autonomy thanks to De Gaulle. The entire continent now has to pursue that together, stop virtue signalling and start capacity building. Carney was brilliant today: The leaders of Europe need to adopt much of his mindset - pragmatic not ideological. Know your strengths and weaknesses, plug your vulnerabilities through diversification, play powers off each other rather than hitching solely to one which can then dictate to you and whose head of state you call daddy like an utter retard. A reductive but helpful framing is Atlanticist vs continentalist. Europe is connected to the largest landmass on earth (Eurasia) with access to the most resources, markets, trade corridors (Mackinder world island). But the UK and then US tugged Europe into the Atlanticist orbit of both empires. Greenland trade corridors opening up with melting ice allows Europe-Asian trade and integration outside of US control, meaning Europe gains in strategic autonomy and leverage. Theres a reason many powers have bases all along the Red Sea. Trade corridors provide leverage and deny any one power monopoly over choke points. A trade corridor with solely Eurasian oversight (China, Russia, Europe) gives Europe optionality and leverage against a Atlanticist empire wanting keep Europe hitched to its orbit. Hence the capping of Europe strategic autonomy via military (NATO under US command) and energy (Nordstream anyone?). The US basically has a kill switch on European military similar to how China has a kill switch on US military via rare earths - hence the scramble and panic to lock down potential resources and trade corridors while they can, on the cheap. This is imperial geostrategic positioning in a desperate bid to maintain primacy under constraints and pressure in a changing world. Institutional inertia and ideology has locked in a Atlanticist logic that is now being tested by reality slapping Europe across the face. The way the US is brashly acting to maintain this status quo and the structural pressures upon Europe (economically, energetically, public humiliation and domestic discontent) should cause them to *painfully* adapt to the new world as Carney laid out.
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cetus replied to integral's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
My cousin and his wife are having their 14 y.o. dog put down today. They have no children so that dog was like a daughter to them. They have someone coming in to take care of the medical end of it. They wanted to be with her in familiar surroundings at the end. -Just a share. -
This proves the point. Isn't violence wrong? Is violence the way to get people to be amenable? Quick note - it doesn't work. "life" has taught me that no one person's view is absolute. you apparently think yours is. It's comical that you assume yours is since this isn't how people engage really.
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cetus replied to Joshe's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Metacognition and contemplation go hand in hand. Deep contemplation Is metacognition. It is where all higher Truth reside. -on the way to enlightenment. -
Joy: beans chop chop I want a bagel me: there’s all that food in the fridge and out of everything you want me to make you a bagel. ._. You’re so spoiled joy & me (giggling)
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I just went through all your threads. So since mid-October, you’ve gone from studying information technology, to considering physical education, to aiming to become a psychotherapist, to considering a philosophy PhD, to rejecting academia altogether, to trying to make a living from rap, to developing a vision of multilingual and multicultural rap (Jan 3rd), and now you’re saying: «Fuck this, Leo’s work doesn’t work for me.» Dude 🤣
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Mhm. That makes sense. Breh they are distinct pharmacological classes. In what way are you comparing them?
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Tell me the downsides to transhumanism? Ethics etc Lets stick to the topic being argued, not each others person, hey? I made a statement about the topic, you made a statement about me being open minded. I make no statement about technology being bad, or pushing humanity intellectually. Or spiritually. It is not transhumanism per se I have issues with, as much as it is hype, eugenics, ethics and the corruption behind some avenues of it IE chip in brain. And to be clear, my opinion is not a reflection of the moderators, Leo, or Actualized.org. It is an ethical and moral one of my own. I am not about to shut down dialogue, I like open discussion. But I will admit sometimes it is more a comment on the difficulty moderating such topics; some topics are naturally more catalytic.
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He didn't have the cards.
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