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UnbornTao replied to Ninja_pig's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
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I had this thought yesterday: Being a furry is genius form the perspective of the dao. According to Laozi, weakness is power and power is weakness. If you think about is it's true. The most alpha males you see are actually always the most fragile people. Dressing up as a cute furry animal that goes around and hugs people is incredibly powerful bc it is so simple. If you have the furrsona of some animal that just exists to be cute and nothing else that you can just switch on once in a while is extremely grounding. What this means paradoxically is that you can strive to even more power than any alpha male since you have this regular grounding of mechanism in your life that makes you routinely detach from your power and therefore prevents attachment to this power. This matches with experience. Furries are often people with very high salaries. I want you to look up the price of a furry suit (they are almost always custom-made).
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Hey, that sounds good. I'm actually going to prepare that now. You might want to be mindful of eating those fried potatoes every day. I'd eat them sparingly - either that, or bake them in the oven, or stew them.
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Someone hasn't done their homework 🤫
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And that's precisely the point. The house is burning, Death is next moment. The fool thinks Death is far away, but is always next moment. If this doesnt compel one to seek and notice the urgency of it, then I dont know what will. People at large doesnt comtemplate Death, they are too casual about it, and thats why most are not wise people. Believe it or not, I dont, otherwise I wouldnt have found actualized.org. But language is limited, I have to express the larger point somehow. And I did consider suicide, its foolish for a variety of reasons. No problem, its was enjoyable indeed.
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So you dress up as an animal?
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Nice. What about Hugo and that kind of stuff?
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I agree 100% with this statement. However, does this mean that truth is the most meaningful thing period?
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Hatfort replied to Husseinisdoingfine's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
Iran can make its own commercial and political decisions, Israel and the US don't have any right to attack them. But they did, now Iran has the right to defend itself. For too long it has put the other cheek. Iran has a constitution and holds presidential elections every four years, the last one was held in 2024, which Pezeshkian won. They were held after the previous one, Raisi, died in the helicopter accident. The new one is quite more moderate and open to the West, but with the interlocutors they have, no agreement is possible. The Ayatollah is a different entity, but like many European still have non democratically elected monarchs or religious influential figures. One of the things he opposed all his life was precisely Iran having nuclear weapons, one of the lies consistently shoved by the Western propagandists to go on with this illegal aggression war. The next ones may make different interpretations for having them. On the other hand, the Emirates, and others in the area are in fact obscene family dictatorships, that don't hold presidential elections, despised by their people, and backed by the West. Iran blowing the US military bases up there is good news, at least. -
@LambdaDelta I acknowledge the value of ambivalence, however living life requires choices.
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Truth itself is the meaning. It is the most meaningful thing, for people serious about Actualized.org work.
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You haven't transcended squat if you can't even simultaneously hold such trivial opposites
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"How does it matter if you made meaningful memories and connections if you don't have a truthful view of reality?" "How does it matter if you have a truthful view of reality if you don't have meaningful memories and connections?" If you understand that both statements are equally valid and choose one, not out of belief of superiority of your choice, but because you know what you want and accept that you want it while accepting the choices of others, you have transcended the Actualized.org paradigm.
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MutedMiles replied to BlessedLion's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
1. Why is that he was able to do what he did and many others didn't ? What part of his ability came naturally to him? 2. He talks about getting something happening in ones experience, Ask him how one can start from his words to ideas to actual experience, since in books and talks we just have his words. Even if i move from words to ideas somehow and then actual experience, i mean how? I would have to invent it and wont' be sure? Probably he'll suggest one of the workshops i guess. 3. I would loved to see him expand on principle of honesty that he talks about and how it relates with truth and reality. 4. He says suffering is self created and solution is to stop have problematic thoughts i.e. recognize pattern and stop having them, how does he propose one do that. If i observe a thought, it is something as external as external world it's lightening fast, which he accepts too, i mean what is he trying to say? Is he creating his own thoughts? Or he is saying that once "you get it" somehow trouble making thoughts won't happen. I mean one can recognize thoughts after they happen but is he saying that watching them day after day after day, gradually it changes is that it? And until that happens one needs to be working on them. -
It's not a handwaving, every time I leave the house I know perfectly well I might die in some accident, or simpler still a brain aneurysm I don't know about could suddenly rupture and kill me on the spot or render me a vegetable wherever I am. It may be the most logical emotionally, but there's higher order logic. Your trouble is identifying with the human you too much, which can indeed be destroyed by Death easier than brushing off a speck of dust. Such conventions don't apply to your actual Identity though. Then there's the whole angle of suicide to consider, but that's unnecessary radical for now. Enjoyable as it was, gonna have to shorten all further posts for time purposes, since it's a universal pattern that people ignore 90% of it anyway.
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kavaris replied to Majed's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Ya should get into Alchemy (Hermeticism). I was actually thinkin' of doin a thing, right on the forum, explaining how Alchemy goes beyond just like, chemistry, and spirituality, etc., though yousll hav to start it, as theres WAyyy too much to go over -
Joseph Maynor replied to BlessedLion's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
He seems to have a real issue with playing down immoral acts. The cutting someone off in traffic example is fine. But what about more egregious immoral examples. He makes it seem like the only reason morality exists is because of your mindset and attachment to a you. Sometimes people are doing bad things to others on purpose that bother and hurt them. If you don't think about it, it goes away, i.e., morality is a social illusion seems a little naive to me. Also an exception to his social reality example. There's also the issue with talking to yourself. Even if there is nobody around, we still talk to ourself. Not sure if that is social, but it's not how we conventionally think of social. He seems to be making an argument that language is inherently social and therefore corrupted or untrue. Notice his answer regarding fear or being afraid -- "It's always we don't need to do this". That's a very bold statement. He seems to think we create our minds or can create our minds entirely. He seems to think we have total free will and choice and can fix our own unreasonable thinking by contemplating untrue things we're presupposing. And the untrue, he associates with the social which I find odd. He wants to turn off the social oddly. He's in many ways very much like Jean-Paul Sartre: Q: What kind of world do you want? A: We get the life we deserve. The assumption is: All of us have 100% responsibility and ability to create our own life. -
Majed replied to Majed's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
@Cred What you wrote is beautiful, congrats. -
I use a combination of LED and flourescent lighting. Aputure makes good LED lights. You want really high CRI or it will look bad. Flurescent can look better than LED. It requires lots of experimentation to get it looking good. Also depends a lot on your camera's color settings.
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I think "alien" is an interesting concept. Novelty implies something graspable. Something that completes you and extends your existence. Alien however is so utterly separate from you that its existence negates your existence rather than completes it. I think the thing that comes very close to an alien for us is someone who's whole existence is conformity. In order to exist, they need to sync themselves up to some identity from outside. Everything they do is a symbolic action with the purpose of signalling something to others so that they can sync up to that. A bit like in a beehive or a swarm or something. When you tell them they should analyze one of their thoughts, they become confused because they don't have any thoughts. When you tell them to analyze an object, they become confused because analysis does not have symbolic meaning. All they ever do is sync up and signal. Ironically, I think that this stereotypical alien with super advanced technology and knowledge about everything would be way less alien to us than this human I just described.
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Ziran replied to James123's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Perception is being shaped by expectation. The shaping is internal. Because of this, it can be observed in isolation. This simple fact escapes the tautology. -
MutedMiles replied to AION's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
I'm not sure if there is someone like that, who will punish anyone about their use of words. However i think you are right in the sense that It doesn't mean anything, considering purely the context in which this word has been used and secondly it doesn't help anyone. It's just a spiritual rebellion sort of. Like young kids smoking to rebel , because it's perceived as prohibited. Psychedelics are same no matter whatever kind of twisted logic someone invents for it.. It's interesting in that sense! -
I'm more curious about the sound setup
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@Leo Gura Do you have any conscious ideas around monetization of content
