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Wild trailer. Def gonna watch it
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I never find anything in second hand shops for some reason. But I found some good stuff on second hand shopping online and will go back to it. But only tops, you need to put jeans and trousers on.
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Yaaas ^.^ I am also exploring new styles. Have you considered thrifting?
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@Malkom What do you know about the vagus nerve?
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I also need more black lipstick 💄🖤🦇💞
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Here is a reference of current goth makeup style I’ve been trying out
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I want to buy translucent makeup powder to help my makeup stay in place
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Just sent a shirtless photo to Mom and she said I’m beautiful. And that she likes my hair. What timeline is this?! I love it!
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Something good about client 2, it's very relaxed. As long as I put in the hours no one questions me or gives me deadlines. but all my work gets put in a shitty product that will never be used by anyone and this is not a good addition to my resume. This company is unsustainable so it may even go bust in a few months. But i've been working with them for 1 year and a half and it survived so far.
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Apparition of Jack replied to enchanted's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
Yes, change is the operative word here. The idea of life being about getting a job -> earning lots of money -> buying nice cars -> retiring in the Bahamas will fade out, and be replaced more with participating in communal life and engaging with many of the new emerging technologies to innovate in health, science, literature, etc. ”Bosses” might not be as much of a thing as they once were. 4- or even 3-day work weeks will become the norm. Jobs will blend together as the internet allows people to hold multiple roles at once. For a lot of people this will feel uncomfortable at first (“why am I being invited to some gay community garden event?!”) but as the shock from COVID wears off and the depths of corporate corruption unveiled, people will begin to organically desire something else. Besides, AI is going to take all our jobs anyway, we might as well find some use for our time, lol. So yeah. Evolutionary times ahead. It’ll be different to what we’ve been used to but it certainly won’t be worse, put it that way. -
I've been thinking about this issue for the entire year because it has conflicting interests it's really hard for me to make a decision. I will be totally honest and try to summarize my situation here: I'm a single 30Y, live in Argentina and work as a remote contractor for US companies as an AI engineer/developer. Net worth: 53K USD in stocks, bonds and some Bitcoin. Monthly expenses: Between 2.5k and 3K USD. I have 2 part time clients: Client 1: Pays 36 USD/hr. very good company. project aligned with my LP in AI for health domain. can bring 3k USD /month. Client 2: Pays 55$/hr. Startup that has no idea what they are doing. but pay well and on time. I dislike job bc no one uses our product and it's a very shitty product. soul crushing work. but very relaxed work ethic, I work whenever I want as long as I can ship some new feature every week. On January I'll start an online masters degree in CS. and really want to drop client 2 to focus on masters. but I keep doubting myself bc I fear I may not be able to get a new high paying client w current market situation. I keep getting DMs on my Linkedin for jobs that pay much less and read a lot of negative things about the markets. I fear a Job market crash due to AI automating software engineering jobs Should I try to manage both clients + the masters or just drop client 2. and do what I like: client 1 + masters? I would be happier with dropping client 2, that way I would only do work I love. But I would not be able to save any money with client 1 as my single source of income. Some of my current reasoning: Getting extra $ gives me peace of mind but having free time also gives me peace of mind. if I don't have any free time I won't be happy even if I make good $. I fear losing money but also don't want to get stuck in my career and a high paying client that builds a BS product actually impairs my career. I could use that time to build something real. Would appreciate your perspectives.
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My sweater smells like food. I literally wear the same outfit the whole week because I dont like anything else. Its time to shop, I got a better perspective of what I want now which is a more vintage looking sweater.
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Sticking to an old pattern of mine which is working on abundance rather then taking working things out. Did I really just write that? Well the fact of the matter is I am sitting in a train that is going to Berlin and I am planning to book a hostel to make this a new routine. I think both things would have worked in the same direction though, with a more abundant mindset I can work through the problems at my old theatre club in a more chill way I think. And I need a change of scenarie to get a clear head anyway. I really cant tell what the best move is atm, but for the show today no afterparty is planned and I didnt reserve before, so it might seem a little random. The next show is in two weeks, it has an afterparty and its christmas vibes so that seems better. Could have went to Berlin tommorrow though. Ah men.
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@Apparition of JackI kinda see it as an evolutionary time. It can fail or it can evolve into something better but with change.
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Apparition of Jack replied to enchanted's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
People say America is going through its “fall of Rome” moment but I disagree. I think it’s going through its “Crisis of the Third Century” moment. America’s problems are huge, don’t get me wrong, but not to the extent that they fundamentally threaten the structure of the entire system itself, and nothing that can’t be overcome through some visionary, high-energy leadership. In Rome’s case, this was done through Diocletian’s reforms (moving power away from the decaying city of Rome itself, and towards more important and prosperous regions) and later on the new social glue of Christianity under Constantine. A similar process is happening in America - the old, vested capital interests are proving unable and unwilling to address the vast needs of the people of the nation, but a new, highly mobalised grassroots version of democracy is taking shape to resist it (enabled by the rise of social media and spearheaded by figures like Bernie, Mamdani, AOC, and even liberals like Pete Buttigieg and John Pritzker IMO.) Likewise, as Rome’s situation in the world changed, so too will America’s. Rome went from being an expansionist-minded empire dependant on a highly stratified chain of command, to a more stability-minded empire with a focus on more local command chains with more nimble soldiers. America will go from being the absolute, globally-minded hegemon to a more regionally-minded, diplomatic outlook. Culturally it’ll also shift. As mentioned before, Rome managed its increasing social tensions by abandoning unresponsive paganism and lethargic elites and adopting the more egalitarian and civic-minded Christianity. America will shift out of 1980’s style Wall Street orgies and bravado and to more communal-minded civic participation and celebration. Again, the worldview espoused by Bernie (“not me, us”), Abundance liberals etc will be key to this. I have reason to believe that things are going to get better for the West, but we won’t be the sole imperial hegemons that we once were (which honestly is probably for the best.) We’ll still have challenges, sure, but the social energy will be there to not only tackle them but radically rethink how we overcome them too. What all of this looks like in practice though, I can’t say. We’ll figure that out once Trump is gone and MAGA is dead. But I do know it’ll be the long-awaited reprieve we’ve all been waiting for. -
RV note Scene with artist girl yesterday, same thing with me at the old theatre club // So there was a moment yesterday when I was sitting next to the artist girl chilling and a table tennis ball flew behind our bench. I graped for it and accidently slightly punched on the artist girls glasses when I got the ball out. Her reached was mega werid though, she seemed super lovely and in a way tamed about what happened. I was in the wrong movie for a split second. I had the same thing happen to me as well though, in two scenarios where I experienced a very intense situation of thread I felt a shitton of positive emotions. My inner self was almost begging to experience it. I think its just trapped energy from overwhelming situations (of violence) and these situations make working through it possible. Maybe she experienced violence herself. It would fit into another pattern of her which though, when I went for a hug and still had cold hands she was like oh yeah I like cold hands, completly ignoring her own needs. It was pretty twisted. She has a bunch of mental illnesses, depression, bipolar, adhd and something else. At the same time she provides so much comfort and love for so many people. I would really like to get her. My best guess would be that she made very bad experiences and feels like its her fault and that she just needs to provide for people more. But at the same time she displays insane confidence.
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I fasted for 3 days and it did effect my ego. I think the body dosent have enough energy to think so it just turns it off. I was just sitting there brain dead. I wasnt hungry but I started having diarrehea. Like alot it was weird cause I wasnt eating. Alot of nasty stuff came out. the diarrehea was getting more on day 3 than others and it would come out of nowhere so I had to be by a toilet constantly. The problem I see with this story of water fasting is you made it sound like there are 0 side effects to doing it. You said it was bad on day 1 than every other day was perfect and healing with 0 down sides. You dont even mention being thirsty one time. Its like you are writing that you instantly transcended thirst without trying and it was easy and actually fun to not drink water. You dont feel bad at all and you become like Goku on day 2. Then you claim to be a human. Thats not the human experience at all. Thats the experience of robot whos allergic to water. Then you gaslight people who do have negative experiences while doing it, saying that their energy levels arent high enough. The entire time using AI to speak for you.
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Yimpa replied to Mellowmarsh's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
🧸 - Today
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OK it seemed like it might come up in the latter episodes - wasn't sure how much you would touch on it here.
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@zazen Why are you comparing a road going through a mountain to a train going through peoples apartment buildings. They are complete opposites. China putting all their money in big cities just to appear flashy while their people have to worry about their apartment buildings collapsing while they sleep in them. Wow bright colourful lights go china. We dont put bright colourful lights in everyone of our buildings cause we arent showing off. China does this to save face that their building and roads arent made from papier-mâché. The put all their money into the bigger cities while everyone else suffers to appear advanced. All china does it put its money into appearing to be advanced. Their are no birds in Chinas cities because they are all dead from pollution. China says how do we appear advanced? We put colourful LEDS on everything. And for their AI they want for someone else to do it and then copy it in a worse way.
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That's one city your talking about - Chongquing. If anything that shows the engineering capacity to build a city in a place nature wouldn't so easily allow. We marvel at road networks in Switzerland cutting through mountains but in China its ''urban planning sucks'' lol. It's incompatible for China to be the logistical manufacturing hub of the world and have universally poor roads of which those logistics depend on. Chinas consumed more concrete in a few years than the US used in the entire 20th century. The scale of build up is enormous - including the time-scale its all done within. Of course there's going to be viral failures and corruption here and there where standards are dropped or sub-standard materials are used. In the West not a whole lot is being built anywhere near this level. When new things finally get approved they act like its a big achievement - for example in the UK we just got the go ahead for another runway at Heathrow Airport that was deliberated over many years and will cost over £40 billion (will go over budget as always and not be on time) lol meanwhile: Also, what my above comment was talking about regarding containment of parasitic financial elites and steering private capital away from speculation and towards more productive domains. Here is what I mean:
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I assume the 12 days you mentioned were water fasting. Dry fasting is much more powerful than water fasting, and once you truly understand what fasting really is, you realize most people wouldn’t even consider water fasting a true fast. Still, it’s impressive to go 12 days when you felt no benefits at all. The best way to feel the real effects, though, is to cleanse the body beforehand and build up high vitality before attempting long fasts. Doing 1–3 days is fine without much preparation, but anything beyond 5 days really requires proper detoxing and presence. Have you ever done a dry fast, Leo? I highly recommend it. After a week, insights start coming on their own, free wisdom that feels almost divine. Fasting is the best medicine, spiritually and physically.
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Akaash is what happens when you listen to women and mainstream society on how to be attractive. I bet he was told throughout his 20's and 30's just be a "good guy", "it will happen when you least expect it", "just get to know women platonically", "do you have hobbies?"...............Just the same regurgitated gaslighting.
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Breakingthewall replied to James123's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
What is the illusion? The self who believes that is a center. It's not an illusion, it's an energetic node that happens in humans by default to operate, evolve and survive. Why that self wants enlightenment? Because it perceive that is prisoner, it's a closed perspective. How this self can open it's perspective and stop being a tensional node that perceives itself as a center? Changing it energetic flow, releasing the contraction, the fear. Has this any relationship with knowing that it's not real? Zero. This is in another ontological level. Real and unreal are just labels that happens in the comparative level. Enlightenment happens in the energetic level, and the energy that closes the self is as real as the energy that builds the body, the difference is that the energy of the self is not confined, it's more free, with possibility of change of frequency -
Inliytened1 replied to Inliytened1's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Well that is what I am asking. Not necessarily the why but is there a spiritual element here at work. I think so.
