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The train scene now has become so cliche. It is irresistible to have one's take on it now. It's like a postmodern meme now. It is played with in many action movies. It is an overuse of a trope though on some level. Directors and writers can't resist using it! It is like a formulaic essence of high-intensity action "go to" now. But the train scene was pretty good too. But a lot of these movies now are using cliches from prior movies like a formula. There is still creativity there but it is like layers of riffing off the same theme by artists.
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Most of the countries if it's Asia, South America or Africa have their cultures seen invaded by at least in the recent couple of hundred years by European countries. And some of them (at least in Asia have Chinese and Japanese invasion as well) There are only a handful of countries left in the world that have never been colonized. I lived in Nepal for 2 months, they are proud never have been colonized, although they are heavily influenced by their sister country India, but India has the history of the British colonization so if you want a more pure Hindu experience at some point Nepal is a good country. Beautiful as well if you like the Himalayas. If people have locals have an opportunity to travel to a more advanced country compared where they are coming from they can bump their consciousness level quite fast. The problem in most of these countries is the IF. Most of the people outside of developed areas in SE Asia don't have the money to travel locally, so International travel is totally out of the question. Also you realise how difficult it is for people coming from developing countries it is to get all the paperwork. Not all passport are created equal. If you have a passport from a developed country doors open more easily and quickly. A lot of people are denied entry to developed countries. Yes and that even includes Europe and the Schengen visa. You start to realise how lucky you are to have been born in a developed country, that gives you easy access to a lot of things that other people are denied. For me my journey in SEA Asia: 3 weeks Bali (old school holiday kind of thing) 2 months Nepal (volunteering in an orphanage) 6 months Cambodia (First visiting later spending time there for relationship) 6 years Philippines (working as a Scuba diving instructor) For me I when I came to Malapascua (Philippines) the travel bug disappeared. Instead of outward travelling, I travel inwards now. ATM I'm in my country of birth, but will return their at the end of the year.
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A bit. I actually came up with the idea in the middle of my life coach training program and shared it with the group because it was part of our assignment. But it wasn't a big deal. It wasn't like some grand vision at the time. It was like a half-baked seed idea. Back then, being a YouTuber wasn't a thing. I didn't know YT would work. It was just a website idea.
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Mellowmarsh replied to VeganAwake's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
You, Breakingthewall, are not really listening to your own falsely constructed mental narrative of what you believe self to be, because you are too busy identifying with your own self constructed narrative as being your reality. In reality, there’s no sense of self actuality being a self, except in this conception as it’s being narrated. This recognition is a misidentification, it’s an illogical irrational problem that only you are creating, albeit artificially, because what exactly is a self without its self constructed narrated construction of such. You are always under construction, you never complete as a claimed fully fledged figure called a separate ( I ) or ( self) because you are infinite. Infinite possibilities never complete, or repeat. Infinity has no self to maintain. Infinite is extremely no maintenance. -
Did you tell anyone about your goal of creating Actualized.org when you first started building it, or even earlier than that?
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LoneWonderer replied to Leo Gura's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
Prob not a very productive use of my time but daaam do Jesse Michaels and Area52 release some great UFO gossip content. Can't get enough of it at times! -
Backrooms, Hokum & Obsession are three recently released horror films. All very good and very scary!
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I will wake up at 4am New Zealand time today to watch Spain play! 🇪🇸
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Yes, the movie was mid. Poor ending. I was expecting much more. On the other hand went to see Backrooms, Obsession and Hokum recently too. All great films all quite scary, engaging and unique to the horror genre! Watching this latest Jesse Michaels drop atm. Thoughts? :
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How so? To clarify, I’m not saying they want the same type of status, that’s not what I’m arguing. I’m just saying both are highly susceptible to what society tells them a “high-status/value” woman or man is, and that both men and women can be extremely conformist and manipulated by society in terms of what they should seek and find attractive, which was the original point. That’s how you get incel men who get fed and influenced by red-pill ideology, conservative tradwife content, pick-me content, or ultra-filtered “baddie” looks Sydney Sweeney meme, and then genuinely believe they should keep chasing that type of girl and that they “failed as a man” if they don’t get something like that. Or they feel ashamed if their actual girlfriend has too “high of a body count,” or someone from their friend group might call it out, or she’s not really someone their friend group approves of or finds cool, attractive, even though the guy might actually like her, etc. The point is, men are also heavily socially influenced here and can be very conformist in that sense. Even if they might be attracted to a specific type of girl, style, or personality, if that doesn’t really conform to what their social group or society tells them is appropriate girlfriend or wife material, many won’t even introspect on it and will just follow it blindly too. I’m not saying women don’t do this either, but I just haven’t seen less or more conformity on either side. Plenty of men will keep chasing whatever social media idealized girl without even questioning if that’s what they actually want. So to say men have some sort of more or less objective radar or are less influenced by what social standards deem as "attractive", I don’t see that as true, but I might be wrong.
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Wasn't he a pdfile though?
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Fucking JJ mystery boxes. It's a lazy trick to avoid actually writting something smart and interesting.
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Mellowmarsh replied to VeganAwake's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Our existence is defined by the external recognition of an image in the mirror. So what is being looked upon in the mirror is nothing but Imageless reflections of images. Nothing else. The ‘self’ as it’s known to be called, never actually sees itself externally or internally. Looking, can only reflect what’s looking. What is seen, is only the reflection of this empty looking reflecting upon its reflection, and in that moment of instance there appears to be a recognition where the looking meets the looked upon, where the idea of a separate self is born. This sense of self recognition arises purely as a mentally constructed image of the imageless, thus the sense of separation is an artificially formed form. This mental image formed is the mistaken identity appearing to have form, but is no form, mental constructions are formless images. Infinite seeing is empty of any Identity. In reality, there’s no real identified image called ‘myself’ being born, because Nothing is real. Nothing is reality. -
You are blurring the lines and creating a misleading equivalence. Men don't need nor care about a woman's status. That is not what men need.
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He says a lot without saying much.
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I didn't like the ending so much. This has some spoilers in it. The very end was weird to me. I can't tell why it was done that way. I didn't get the impact or why it was done that way. I wanted to hear the message. Michael ended in a weird way too with "his story continues ..." Seems like a clunky way to end a movie. https://www.menshealth.com/entertainment/a71592039/disclosure-day-ending-explained-listen/
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What are two male foster parents doing in this situation? Such situations are fishy. I shudder whenever the word foster is brought up.
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But Connor really put a lot of effort into himself. He should get the credit for that.
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All else being equal, a man will choose the high-status girl if he can get her. It’s just that women’s status isn’t the same as men’s, but to claim it isn’t heavily socially influenced, or that what is considered a high-status girl doesn’t change across location, religion, “social tribe,” and time, is definitely not true. And that men aren’t sensitive and don’t take it into consideration when picking a girl, and that it’s based on just "objective" attraction, is also not true; or that somehow women do it more or less objectively than men, I suppose. That’s also how you end up with a lot of incel men who cannot find anyone they think is "worthy" of a long-term relationship, or who even mess up basic hookup dates because they’ve deluded themselves into thinking about what kind of girl they “deserve” or are “supposed” to be with. Men also LOVE to chase girls far beyond their “league” or “status.” Of course, there are women and men who don’t care, are more grounded, or/and are non-conformist and will just date more "normally, within their range". But if we take your average guy and girl who are playing more of these dating “games,” then both are heavily influenced by social media, their environment, social groups, etc., and what they think their definition of attraction and success is. I’ve heard and seen a lot of conformist takes on both sides: men who pick attractive women but don’t care about being around them, they just keep them around to "flex" to society; and women who try to find and demand the most from “high-status” guys, "princess treatment," etc. The way people mostly date is just that they find people they’re comfortable around through hobbies, getting along, workplaces, or someone within their attractiveness range, maybe a bit less or more. All of these other takes like hypergamy, social games, overly filtered “baddie” looks standards, resource-sharing dynamics, "high-status, high-value" are a lot more red-pill, extreme terminology.
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Oh God!
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You can see yourself out.
