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The word 'appearance' is broad, and it includes more than just the visual field. Physical laws are appearances as well in that framework. Basically, anything you experience can be considered an appearance or something you're interfacing with instead of directly interacting with the real thing underneath. This means there's no direct connection between you and the world, and that there's at least some layer(s) of interpretation between those two. So you aren't really accessing the world through your visual field with the eyes. The eyes are just interfacing with the world in a certain way that includes physicality and such. This model bypasses the question of correcting vision deficiencies with glasses. There's also the emitter-transmitter model, which means the world sends signals and brains receive and process them and eyes and other organs interpret those signals and send the interpretation back to the brain for creating experience. If the interpreter is damaged, it can be fixed. Correcting vision deficiencies with glasses doesn't contradict this model. Not that I necessarily agree with any of the above, but just my 2 cents. -
S&P 500 yes invest when ever makes no different on market timing. Market timing is easier then it looks, its just no one buys when it dumps. BUY NVIDIA... anyone going to do it? nope..
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https://international.schwab.com/story/does-market-timing-work
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@Leo Gura I understand your point that reality is direct experience and that there is no external world behind appearances. But I have a question: Physics explains vision through light reflecting off objects, entering our eyes, stimulating the retina, and being processed by the brain. We can even predict and manipulate perception through glasses, eye surgery, retinal damage, or changes in lighting. If there is no external physical world behind our experience, why do these mechanisms work so consistently and predictably? I understand that you might say the eyes, light, brain, and scientific explanations are themselves appearances within consciousness.But doesn't that just move the question one step further? Why does consciousness follow such precise physical laws, as if there were an independent external world?And what exactly causes vision to change when the physical eye is damaged, if the eye itself is only an appearance within consciousness? //chatgpt helped to formulate my thoughts -
When a man loses both testicles, he develops profound testosterone deficiency (hypogonadism). This isn't simply losing his sex drive. Depressed mood and depression-like symptoms. Reduced motivation, initiative and energy. Reduced confidence and increased emotional difficulties. Poor concentration and memory. Sleep disturbances. Loss of muscle mass and physical strength. Reduced bone density. Changes in body fat distribution.
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Corrected statement: No balls? Lots of Problems, Neutered animals are sicker, depressed and dont contribute to the overpopulation crisis. Heres everything they conform to: The dog has a very high chance of pregnancy. (no... it doesnt) We need to remove the organ because its better for there health. (no... its not) It balances them and makes them happier. (no... it causes life long depression, they are just good at masking it and are easily excitable) We have to avoid pregnancy because? (they havent examined the basic indoctrination that them getting pregnant doesnt matter in the first place) What it does to: Removes 100+ hormones/bio-mechanisms there testicals/overies produce in there body. Causes systemic complications from removal of hormones that regulate, brain health, bone density, Metabolism, Behaviour. Dramatically increase cancer rates, it looks like larger growths/bumps all over there body almost all older dogs have them (the ones that were not neutered dont die like this) DEPRESSION.
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This is not financial advice. I will be buying bitcoin at 35k-45k, this is the right time to buy the next cycle.
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Guilty of that too. But that's ok. Consume what you desire, eventually you will move on to something else. Its only a problem, or an addiction, if it's somehow bad for you. Consider how Leo posts many topics: history, society, crime, and corruption. These are interesting avenues to follow. Watching true crime and war through a "Tier 2" or "actualized.org" lense bring a whole new level of fascination and depth. And I believe Leo intends actualized.org to be something that makes life more fascinating rather than an addiction to an online forum. Ya it is rare. Maybe that's why we keep coming back? And sorry to hear about your health concerns.
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I know a guy who was in his 60s who slept around with a girl in her early 20s. She came unto him though, specifically seeking him out and was definitely using him for rent and gifts. Getting free housing in a big city and stuff. I don't think it was entirely planned, but it worked out that way opportunistically. He eventually stopped sleeping with her but kept her around out of kindness till he got burnt out.
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So here you get to learn that when you give people a test that determines whether or not they pass a minimal baseline of cognitive function where you're otherwise given the label "dementia", if you start with higher cognitive functioning (or more specifically cognitive complexity) earlier in life, this might not happen as often as if you start lower. Of course the point she is making was in the larger context of showing the power of algorithms in her talk about algorithms, but the fact that you can package a clip in this way and people like it, tells you how much the delivery matters for how something is liked or not (and ironically perhaps the cognitive complexity of the average person and ironically about the power of algorithms). You can ask me about the speech I had in a birthday party about that lol. I felt I sucked at delivery so I felt my speech sucked during the speech. (But when I heard it back later, it wasn't really that bad. And that has been a pattern every time I've held a speech).
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It's not really equal to be fair. The milf dynamic is not as potentially exploitive or life altering and it's an ego boost to still be attractive to men past your prime as a woman. Older man don't need looks to pin a teen. It's very American to freak out over age gaps though. But slicing off babies foreskins is completely okay. Culture 👍
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https://www.actualized.org/insights/actualized-quotes-803 AI self deception post is profound. thanks for that one @Leo Gura Also the other posts on Nov 13 are awesome too
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It is long, but please watch this and tell me what you guys think
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@OmniNaut yeah. but the average guy is fucked. you are taking one extreme cases and say everyone can make it. the odds are against you. i tried to find my life purpose for 7 years and i fucked pretty badly. i am now working hard to get out of this mess
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Well I'm with you there haha. He's given so many people the permission to go further into understanding Reality than the average person would go.
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@Leo Gura I was wondering just now if you acknowledge that within religious bodies of knowledge that there is true spiritual science in various documents and chapters that discuss and teach high level spiritual insights, processes, and truths? To me that is clear and obvious as I have studied across several teachers and seen many powerful quotes from people from various religions that address universal spiritual processes. It is for this reason I think there is value in studying religion, even if you see through the constructs of religion and wouldn’t attend to one yourself and even as someone pursuing truth. - I am reading Vernon Howard right now and he has a book called “Mystic Masters speak” and it’s just questions formed by the author and the answer as a quote from a mystic of some sort from some lineage or back ground. The collection of this creates a healthy multi perspective where you start to see higher spiritual truths and wisdoms cultivated in different cultures, religions, schools of thought and practice. I do think doing this is mature, helps cultivate a higher perspective and universal love for humanity as well. I think part of epistemic responsibility is cultivating a taste for treasure where it exists regardless of origin done so with a wide and holistic yearning perspective. I think part of sense making should include getting a foundational epistemology which is largely addressed in Actualized.org, but also in Ken Wilbers work as it give you a meta frame. When people like Vernon Howard really teach the soft skill in a deep and refreshing way to help you cultivate a higher spiritual wisdom. The religions contain thousands of years of human striving and culture. There is deep wisdom in them worth absorbing. Taking them as a whole. We can study the meta structures of them, but also there wisdom, teaching and the love contained within them. This is true what I am saying. You don’t need to swing a pendulum in only one way, but in both ways with a wide perspective.
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This is cope
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Mellowmarsh replied to Someone here's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
So the question is who’s asking, and who will answer. Impossible to say because “Who” can’t be known as an object of knowledge. Through direct recognition the knower is known not by being objectified, but by being self-luminous or self-aware. The knower knows itself simply by being itself, without a gap between a subject and an object. When the illusion of separation drops, the knower, the act of knowing, and the known collapse into a single reality where there’s simply knowing without knowing. In essence there’s only this immediate knowing that cannot be known by an object known because objects of knowledge know nothing of their reality or existence. -
Well that escalated quickly
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As far as prisons go. He’s in a very comfortable prison with lots to do and very safe
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When a girl says "surprise me🧐 " Bim
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Jewish rap
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@Schizophonia Just from the title: are you okay bro ?
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It’s a bit of a clickbait title lol, but it’s actually pretty true. My physical appearance and my face in particular varies from day to day, depending on my self-concept. The ugliest and most childlike appearance I’ve encountered was back when I leaned further to the left and used to watch videos about how President Macron should be ousted, and so on. Curiously, many far-left activists have faces and mannerisms that seem to resemble those of someone with hypogonadism. There are more androgenic leftists here and there; it’s an average. Conversely, the more "emotionally solipsistic" I am—in a state of "passive coping," much like when under the influence of psychedelics, if you catch my drift—which generally manifests as social detachment and a tendency to pass quick judgments ("that’s just how women are," "that’s how Arabs are"—lol—"that’s just life"), the more my face automatically becomes androgenic and sexually attractive. My face looks both stronger and more symmetrical; my eyes are smaller, and I have a more interesting aura in general. I believe that beauty comes from non-resistance; when you do not resist ideas or their intelligence they take root within your persona, and this is reflected in your physical appearance. The more you accept, the fewer obstacles there are to strength and symmetry. I haven’t become a Nazi; rather I think I have a bit too much of an "anti-Nazi" vibe most of the time and occasionally an event has nudged me a little closer toward the Nazis which was energetical evolving in the right direction. Actual Nazis or far-right individuals also tend to be off-putting, but in a different way (coarse features, obesity etc.).
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Your post sounds like something that came from under Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda, prompted into existence with [write like 16 years old Goebbles but skip the bit about jews taking over the world]. ... 50,000 russian soldiers + 25,000 ukrainian soldiers and civilians died just last month alone. The frontline is a complete stalemate turned into a WWI-like meatgrinder with aggressor pushing with increasingly psychotic demands and lies. But yeah... let's argue about how dictators ain't real, giggle at Zelensky and how to save fucking russian trees... 🤦♂️
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