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  2. Yes, I like this… relatively (un) true. 😘😉
  3. Yea, I agree 100%. There are basically three reasons to incarcerate someone; deterrence, rehabilitation and public protection. I think prisons should be built primarily around the latter two. Deterrence doesn't really work that well because most criminals typically don't think they're going to get caught anyway. It ends up being a kind of revenge where criminals suffer to make the victims feel better. Which, while I empathise with it, isn't really something you should build your society or prison system around. The death sentence falls firmly in the deterrence category. It's just systematic revenge. You could make an argument it was about saving tax payer money for criminals who clearly have zero chance of rehabilitation, which I think is somewhat valid reasoning, but in the end most of them are still imprisoned for 15 years in top security prisons which ends up costing the tax payer a fuck ton of money anyway. So that doesn't really stand up to scrutiny.
  4. I hear voices so audio hallucinations. I hear voice inside my head with whom I can talk too. Sometimes voice says he will fuck me up . When I was unmedicated I completely lost sense of Reality because voice wanted my attention at all times.It was hell.

  5. Conformity Examples Mega-Thread

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

    King of conformity: Buying this crap for 70$ at a club. Extrapoints if you pretend it tastes acceptable.
  6. Are you friends with the group of monks I met on a Thai beach? They carried five coolers of beer down on their backs, each had five packets of cigarettes hidden in their robes, and they were sharing them all with everyone on the beach I hope so because those guys were fuckin awesome hahaha In general I absolutely love Thailand. I want to live in Bangkok so badly.
  7. Yeah the places I went def had a lot of tourists but I also liked how a lot of local life and culture was still preserved. We drove on a scooter around and there was a ton of farmers and local life still. I think Phuket had the most tourists. Krabi had it too but much more local life surrounding it. Bangkok was a mix of everything. I got a DTV workcation and hope to go back next year for 3-6 months. Apparently Chang Mai is really worth visiting too.
  8. There you go... that would be one possible way of formulating an opposite perspective. But regardless of how you formulate them, any verbal statement you make is an expression of a specific perspective that has an opposite and therefore is relativey (un)true. Including of course what I just said.

  9. Interview with mod Davino!

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

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  10. Your just begging the question at this point. I'm just repeating myself at this point. Your argument is that it's acceptable to kill, mass murder and rape as long as you behave yourself afterwards. It's like you care more about murderers than the victims. You'd rather give people a slap on the wrist because you dislike perpetrating any kind of violence. It's so unserious. We're talking about monstrous acts here. Like killing your children. Not small time robbery. That just not how it works in reality. People hate light sentencing for serious crime. It makes the courts look weak. It's technocratic hubris to act like courts don't serve an emotional function. People want fairness. Safety should be a given. In your version, it's acceptable to do the worst things imaginable as you long as your sorry. No hard line. That just makes it easier to get away with monstrous acts. They where about to aqcuit Lindsay Clancy for killing her children.
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  13. Challenging Leo on women

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

    Dictature of the truth of what you really crave to do when you are with someone.
  15. Non-Opposing concepts are not mutually dependent and do not form a single reality. 🤔
  16. Amazing! I didn't know they had a branch in the Netherlands. Thanks for sharing and keep up the great work!
  17. @cetus "You say you want to get back into the dream. But from reading your story, what I'm hearing is you're not happy with the way your life is going." True. . Do you want to get back into the dream so you can be content with the life you live now? Or is the life you live now the problem regardless of whether you see it as a dream or not? I would say both ways pretty much. Again I'll bring some examples. So I'll just bring the initial sentences that I alredy spoke about, and then make an continuation to it, so things will be more clear. . So one conclusion in one sense the balance in you is seriously gone. Like I'm unable to do a simple meditation like mindfulness (barely get any thoughts which are required to bring upon for this meditation) but then move kundalini energies across my body and be aware of it. (So in a sense, body became quite sensitive on one side while deprived on the other side). And the second conclusion is I'm unable to do mindfulness because life turned out to be quite empty and very alientated because I'm out of sync with the dream. ... And third point is I actually I did loads and loads of exploration to get in touch, in sync with the dream. But no matter what I do none feels like I figured it out. Stayed in himalayas for 3 months, Tried repairing small vehicles, Drawing- I did these and I feel my head overloaded. Then I did 6 months of documentary filming course --- especially this one because documentary filiming course is about capturing truth, but then what I realized after doing this is, the truth that you capture should satifsy your ego (not in a negative sense), at least at the lower stages, like for example why I care about the story of some total random guy?? So its about capturing your world --- Anyways this is one place where I felt closer to the dream than most of the other activites, because it felt like a very grounded expression of the world to directly witness the actuality, but then there's much you in here --- Even now I get thoughts related to this activity. However my legs ache a lot when I do this. (My legs ache even when I do a simple activity like walking). Reading archival materials & stories --- This time it hits the head. Then I stayed in AUROVILLE for 3 months, It's a 16.sq.km experimental township founded by Sri Aurobindo & Mother - 1930s enlightended Gurus. People from 75 countries stay here currently and are permenant members. Feels like you are living in a forest, place is very alive, feels like you are healing, but has type of Aura that feels quite good to me. Also Sri Aurobindo & Mother literally call that 'AUROVILLE' is a dream. There are many types of voluntary activties in here but then I haven't tried any. Just stayed there for 2 months & felt closer to dream than most other activities. I socialize but doesn't work much because its like I have nothing much to speak about, already spent lots and lots of time in nature. And when it comes yoga and meditations, since even mindfulness is becoming quite difficult, I'll have to go to much more lower hierachies and basically this'll lead to yoga asanas related to root chakras. Surya Namaskar feels quite helpful, Jnana mudra seems to calm the head to few active meditations. These asanas of yoga do feel helpful. But it feels none of them are able to solve the problem of alienation (And I can even feel the aura and it is actually black in colour). Anyways most of thing that I mentioned above were indeed helpful, but none feels like the are actually solving the core problem. (First foremost Alienation & lack of healthy flow of thoughts then overload in the head or ache in the legs). ... Nothing seems like working at the core. Most solutions feel partial. That's is why I said it becomes quite complicated to figure it out earlier. Though I am looking out for more things to explore. Thinking of doing voluntary farming in AUROVILLE, making chocolates, to practicing few Sadguru meditations that for some reason feels like right to me. Looking for therapists who can deal with these things. So lets see where it goes. Anyways, So Third conclusion would be I'm unable to get in snyc with this dream because of imbalance to engertic overloads & alienation with in me, and the way to solve it, is to figure out exactly where the balanced layer/balanced state is present at and then find the expression of that state (dream). So I can be in content with life. (@cetus ) So if anyone has any suggesstion, pointers to similar challenge that they solved, they can present it out which would be insightful!!!
  18. Again, what would be the opposite of this statement/perspective?

  19. Aging parents

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

    Same here, my dad turned 71 this year. He is in good shape relative to his age despite having had a minor cardiac event before he turned 70. Good to be present to the fleeting nature of life and health so we give it the proper value. And even then, it's hard to not take some things for granted. Kinda like a medidation practice where we need to always be catching our mind wandering and bringing it back to mindfulness.
  20. How can one thing exist ?

  22. What is some music you like?

    Joseph Maynor replied to itsadistraction's topic in Off-Topic: Pop-Culture, Entertainment, Fun

    I think this can be appreciated by some on here.
  23. Opposing concepts are mutually dependent and form a single reality.
  24. What would be the opposite of this statement/perspective?

  25. Aging parents

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

    Time really flies. It’s sometimes really quite astounding to fathom. I’m 35 now, seems like yesterday I was 22 and just thinking my dad was this ever present person. My dad is in good health but 76… at that age most of your years are behind you.
  26. Great work!
  27. They hadn’t lived through movements that claimed they would resolve it only for them to get worse
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