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Hojo replied to RisingLane's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
No free will to do something but free will to feel about it. How you feel will change the dream. Similar to if you have a nightmare and get scared it gets worse. If you have a nightmare and feel strength the nightmare reflects and runs away. Is it bad karma if you can feel good about it? Also never tell ishanga sadhguru is wrong or contradictive he will lose it and get bad karma. -
Carl-Richard replied to Ponder's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
Pollution and pesticides are still ongoing sources of harm, especially for marine life in the vicinity. Even so, you have to think about it in abstract quantitative consumer terms. Without sales, the plantation cannot exist. So you're funding plantations when buying the banana. Your contribution might be in the millionth or billionth percent overall, but so is your contribution to the meat industry by buying a steak (and a steak is not a whole animal either, let's say 0.06% of the meat you get from a whole cow [430kg] you get for a 250g steak). So how many animals (or maybe "animal biomass" is a better quantifier if we care about "lesser" lifeforms as well) does your pack of bananas cost, all factors considered? Is it more than 250 grams? -
Someone here replied to RisingLane's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
@Ishanga hi there .we've discussed the topic of free will and choice before. The framing is false and I don't even need to clarify why or how . No one cares what you prefer ..that's a different question than is there actually free will or not ? You understand right? You can only do what you end up Doing. Stuff can be done and will be done via the body-mind. This is not to be confused with free will and choice . See choice implies a you and two simultaneous events. Choice A and choice B... Let's say you want to choose between A and B... That means you must have two instances of existence at the same time.. To evaluate two different instances at the same moment.. This is impossible.. When you are aware of A you are not aware of B.. When you are aware of B you are not aware of A. -
Ambiguity is their point. It is necessarilly confusing when you deconstruct gender, but then also assert certain ideological conclusions politically.
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iReddit and instantly fell back asleep
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Reciprocality replied to Butters's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Is the next natural question .. Do we reject others, why so? Could we do so without it accompanying the unique self? And is the natural antimony following therefrom, this? Either we can both be original but must remain in the unique self-construct, or be unoriginal and achieve a state of no self? -
Being so wise and creative is great for survival. You will run circles around people. Superstar success is rare regardless. Most people are not willing to do enough work for it.
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The word you might be searching for could be intriguing or eerie.
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I liked the first episode, but the rest didn’t keep me engaged. Honestly, waking up in an empty small town all by myself doesn’t sound too bad. Twin Peaks is another intriguing show inspired by The Twilight Zone.
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Yes, but understanding what Leo teaches is not necessarily good for survival. Hence only a few that break out get launched into superstar status. The majority of nails that stick out get hammered like nails. I do think it is possible to circumvent this. But it takes relentless creativity, reinvention, and patience.
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Love is Infinite Maya It is Ah-Maya-Zing!
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Yes... boobs 🤔that's when you know God is a sadist. The day that God created Boobs.
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He's imagining Me, I am Imagining Him,,,It makes no sense too me why anyone would buy into this way of belief or understanding how life is but to each their own:) Taking psychedelics and then coming out of it thinking this is the Reality of Life, well I can take coke and think I am superman, does that mean that is reality? NO!
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You suffer because you believe the beauty is in a person. It isn’t. If beauty were actually located in her, in her face, body, or presence, then she would produce the same effect in you every time. But she doesn’t. Sometimes there is intensity. Sometimes there is nothing. That alone exposes the truth. You are generating the experience. You are the source of beauty, meaning, and charge. The person is merely a trigger. Obsession arises when you believe she carries something essential that you lack. In reality, you are projecting the power of your own consciousness outward and becoming enslaved by your own projection. When this is seen clearly, the chase collapses. Not because the world becomes dull, but because you realize that the beauty was never in her. It was always you. Stop being a slave to a person. Reclaim the source.
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Just watched Wake Up Dead Man, and it’s my favorite of the three Knives Out films. Thought of Leo twice while watching. Excited to hear that Rian Johnson plans to make more.
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Make Tripping Sexy Again MTSA
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de-enshittification. A couple of days ago, I was disgusted by the fact that I was on my hands and knees, sucking cocaine-laced horse manure through a straw. Yesterday and today, I've decided to do something about it. I started by deleting X and Youtube on my phone. If I'm going to watch Youtube, it'll be on my laptop. And X is cancer, so I'm not even going to bother partaking anymore. With both apps off of my phone, I have no more incentive to bring my phone into my room at bedtime, forcing me to read books. I need to be careful to choose books I will find enjoyable, or else it'll feel too much like a chore. I'm currently reading a book on the history of Jesus that my friend lent me, but I also feel called to read Isaac Asimov's Foundation series. Last night was the first night in awhile that I didn't go on X right before falling asleep, and I woke up in the middle of the night in a pool of sweat. My night shirt was soaked to the point that I could almost wring it out. I think that's my body beginning to release all of the excess adrenaline and cortisol in my system. We'll see how I sleep tonight with my phone out of the bedroom altogether. I watched a video this morning that reminded me of Cory Doctorow's brilliant term "enshittification," which describes how massive online-centered corporations like Meta and Amazon have made their platforms increasingly unpalatable. They start with seemingly good intentions and provide a valuable service, and then they slowly abuse the consumer with increasing ads, fees, and detrimental algorithmic changes that ruin their service. What if by living in this system, we all enshittify ourselves to a certain degree? In my 20s, I started with a pure, authentic vision for how I wanted my life to unfold. I took the Life Purpose Course and thought big. Then, in taking action on said vision, I rubbed up against the systems in place that make actualizing it more difficult than anticipated. Then, I became more inclined to take shortcuts, or whore myself out in subtle ways just to pay the bills. Those ventures have grown and demanded more of my time and energy, so I've directed time and energy away from my authentic self and original vision. Before I know it, I've enshittified my own lifestyle to cater to outside demands, making it increasingly unpalatable. This journey I'm on, then... this Journey back to that Someone I knew... I could call it de-enshittification.
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Being “polite”. Some Bible thumper caught me at a grocery store and I stood there listening to him instead of telling him to f*ck off and leave. Conformity on his part and mine.
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Scheduling Beans’ ketamine therapy session meow. Planning to hang out in nature the day before.
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They get spiritual fools swooning over them.
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Tested out a new cannabis strain today. This one has chill and contemplative vibes. I feel more compelled to understand how my mind works rather than ignoring it.
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Windows has so much powerful software that you can't find anywhere else. Not consumer software but powerful tool software for getting complex stuff done. Win10, highly customized, works very well. No need to upgrade.
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@Leo Gura I've always wondered, what's the use of that? Why should one do it? Do they get something out of changing their name to a spiritual one? Indian words are popular as spiritual names.
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Reciprocality replied to Butters's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Can rejection be cause for originality, or can the reason you reject something also be the reason you have an original thought? Why do you reject certain things at all, and in which contexts? Are there patterns to the rejections, are there patterns to what is rejected? Could these patterns be anything else than an intersection of events, an identification of what is the same between different things? How many terms can be substituted for "rejection" where originality is still necessitated some of the time? Is this list of substitutions exhaustive, invariant under any change of environment or discourse? If so, what is this nebulous principle pertaining to all these? You may propose some specified intentionality as that principle, is there anything that could substitute for that? If not, what is the intentionality necessary to produce original thought independently of whether it does so through whatever can substitute for rejection (if the situation were such that your mind can not naturally allow you to think of anything that can substitute for rejection such to achieve originality then shouldn't this be quite telling as to what originality essentially is?)?
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