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Yes. No supplement will give you that.
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Focusing on the basics? I’m thinking of focusing harder on the basics. Problem is, I can get quite neurotic in the process — stripping away all my spontaneity. I just wanted to think in a simple way. Don’t overcomplicate things. Just focusing on doing things in a simple way. I’ve started this new therapy and I was contemplating about one thing I can focus on is to build good habits, work on my foundations. And let me tell you they’re pretty shaky right now. I tried to ignore that sort of thing, and do things my way. And the result did not look good. I’m thinking of whether I’m going to talk with my doctor to try to convince him to prescribe me some medication. But I think it would be better if I just try to trust this therapy that I’m doing. It’s so hard to be positive about myself. I honestly don’t like where I’m heading. I’m eating way too much. I feel like my testosterone has gone way down. Like, OK, I don’t need that much but I certainly need some. Anyway, I have to remind myself of a bigger picture. Like, this moment in my life is not pleasant but now I have strategies and resources to pull myself out of this quagmire that I’m in right now.
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There are different levels of hallucination. It is different, Yogananda was telling tales of tigers biting off arms and stuff like that.
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Meow!
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Cults are real
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cetus replied to Davino's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
There has been some interesting debate about this subject lately. We often talk about ego, but what about what could be called the -truly authentic self? -
I don't do that because knowing him, it would be not a discussion. He doesn't discuss things. I am not going to argue with him. By denying that Infinity is Love, he misrepresents Truth. Not calling a thing by its proper name is a kind of lie. So he achieved the very thing he feared.
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cetus replied to Monster Energy's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
It comes in many forms, but you know it when you see feel it. -
Grateful! Appreciated ❤️❤️ I suppose it's not about being right or wrong for me - at this point I am genuinely curious ! Especially as he is getting on in years. I wonder if his reply will be the typical mutant Ralston tongue lashing 🥹
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I am not sure why you try to reduce everything to women vs men. Why does it always turn into feminism and MGTOW in almost all of our discussions? Drop it all. I promise it will help you. Each sex has their issues for sure - different domains. Just because men have an issue with women, or women have an issue with men, does not justify poor conduct and lack of integrious behaviour on either side. You are never earnest in your conversations here. Never down to earth. Never willing to drop frame. It is this topic (men, women, dating, sex) that has your dick in a vice, under so much pressure you cannot think clearly. I've seen you be pretty lucid and wise. But then in this domain it is SHOCKING the ideas you have absorbed from the internet. A few users here have gratiously tried to raise the issues with your worldview, but you double down every time. That's a huge, huge stubborn ego there.
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UnbornTao replied to Monster Energy's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
GPT Energy? - Today
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Sure. I'll ask him about Love. The gap is always there to be closed. Contemplation and not-knowing are deep existential tools.
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He also said that he's done with making promises, but since then made at least 2 promises I can remember that weren't delivered either. A funny meta dynamic. But yes, relatable indeed, I'm guilty of that too. Not at all, in fact forget about Leo altogether, he's just a talking head as far as you're concerned, no different than a news anchor. What I am talking about is the danger of listening to this content for dozens, maybe hundreds of hours, thinking you're developing yourself, but then being unable to apply it in practice. 'We' not as in the ND community, but the Actualized.org community. There are NDs as well as NTs here and everything in-between. Structurally, and even oftentimes content-wise this forum is more similar to Reddit/X than it is different. Can't be helped, Aaron Swartz also had a very different vision for Reddit than how it turned out. Perhaps in the future some major restructuring could take place. The larger issue of society relating to ND I'm not prepared to discuss at present. It can, but doesn't have to. It can also stem from standards you consciously set for yourself, one of which is a healthy balance between self-acceptance/self-forgiveness and ruthless self-improvement through radical responsibility. Careful with holding acceptance as an absolute virtue &or placing the blame on societal discrimination, without nuance it'll turn toxic in the blink of an eye. Had I just blindly accepted myself (the severe ADHD) I'd be rotting in bed catatonically doomscrolling while doing drugs right now (which is how I spent several months of the last year) instead of taking actionable steps to navigate life to the best of my ability. There's neurotic perfectionism, and there's sloppiness; you want neither extreme. The golden mean is an earnest striving for excellence. This old obscure video might be helpful: I did and it makes some good points, but it doesn't apply to my particular case, although I cannot fully deny a minor degree of overlap.
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cetus replied to Monster Energy's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
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Nailed it. Slippery, underhanded behaviour.
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https://www.reddit.com/r/mealprep/ Meal-prep! --
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If you’re staying in the right hostels it’s very easy to make friends. Join any mixed group in the common area in the evening and you’ll be welcomed with open arms. In Thailand there’s a 90% chance that group will end up going to a bar or a club that night. Btw I backpacked Asia for most of 2024 partly to try and get over social anxiety, so feel free to PM me if you want recommendations or advice.
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I understand this of him as well. But the fact remains he IS still trying to teach/communicate something. Terms like Love, God etc will always be loaded. ALL words are - no word has inherent meaning. Context defines the word. Light (weight), light (rays), light (sleeper). All terms are loaded until we strip what context we do not want, and add that which we see fit to attempt to communicate. I am sure there is a saying about ' Why teach? No one well get it. ' So I think it appears quite arbitrary Ralston won't speak on Love in depth, or with nuance. A full understanding usually creates a compulsion to want to flesh the truth out into some sort of word spatter. Especially from someone like Ralston, who has expressed the meaning of his life is his work. Teaching. I have heard him state this matter of factly in interviews. I don't want to assume anything here, just pointing to the gap.
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That may be how you intend it, but it doesn’t read that way in context. In a debate, “fool” is dismissive to most people. If you have to explain to someone how something was actually a compliment, it wasn’t a compliment. Aside from that specific comment, you also just implied lack of intelligence in general and were very dismissive. To then backtrack and try to argue that was meant as a compliment is truly bizarre, borderline narcissist’s prayer type bullshit.
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I've since edited the original message and adding more text, but I will remove the edits and just post them here to uphold chronology. Edit: I just saw that you started following this thread ten minutes before leaving the message. From your reply, I got the vibe, that you don't like my style of communication and are not interested in following this thread further. I think your reaction is kinda justified. Like I think your distinction between ADHD and CPTSD is interesting, but I want to get the most obvious high level stuff out of my system first. Also, I haven't even begun talking about my personal experience with ND people. I think it's funny that you compare my rhetoric with Incel language lol. Again, I don't have anything against working on a model and keep refining it, but we need the foundation first before we can build on top or carve something away. Edit 2: I think it's frustrating to me when people tell me "You need to be more detailed and explain how you came to these conclusions", because It's already time consuming enough getting all my insights down to words. So this would really help: If you see a specific point I make and you don't see how I came to that conclusion, then ask me about it.
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oldhandle replied to oldhandle's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
Poll any Northern European country and it would be 1%. USA is still rotten to the core as much as you guys are trying to be optimistic. https://europeelects.eu/2024/11/04/u-s-election-europeans-would-vote-for-harris-if-they-could/ -
Claiming truth or expertise doesn't automatically make it so.
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Probably shared it before somewhere:
