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  2. Does understanding god entail losing ones mind?

    Xonas Pitfall replied to Elshaddai's topic in Psychedelics

    Losing your "old" mind, "ego-mind", yes! Losing weight is shedding your old body, but you don’t lose your organs and bones.
  3. @Someone here Your life is a piece of cake until Life hits you really hard eventually.. Also because your parents are taking care of your survival and investing heavily on you.

  4. Leo's Blog Discussion Mega-Thread

    integral replied to Leo Gura's topic in Personal Development -- [Main]

    @Daniel Balan Its all good my man, they did the same thing to me last week. there is a issue on the forum with making claims about peoples perspectives and then denying them clarity when they try to explain themselves. The problem is when you clarify with any hint of emotion this subconsciously reinforces there beliefs and that the explanation is "defence" there for "wrong". People care about vibe more then what is said.
  5. @Elliott Your responses makes sense as you shared Kinna and Graeber on the other thread and lean anarchist? You see the state as the only meaningful source of domination. But that lens creates blind spots - you treat private power as harmless individual action instead of something that can consolidate, organise with others and choose to impose violence on others living ''freely'' in a world of anarchy where no state exists to protect them. It’s ironic because both Kinna and Graeber critiqued corporate and financial power as forms of domination - not just the state. They included economic coercion and private capital as forms of violence. Yet you excuse oligarchs, minimize 2008 and shift all blame onto ‘individual consumer choice’' which is tone deaf just as Apparition Jack has called you above. You dick ride capitalists instead lol ''BaNkErS cOmItTeD nO HaRm BrO'' You’ve adopted anarchism’s suspicion of the state, but ignored its structural critique of private power. Graeber would’ve shredded the arguments you’ve been making.

  6. Does understanding god entail losing ones mind?

    Jehovah increases replied to Elshaddai's topic in Psychedelics

    There are states of insanity that you can explore, and you will go insane for a time. These are not waking up as God, per se, but I guess it can happen, though. Have fun.

  7. Leo's Blog Discussion Mega-Thread

    integral replied to Leo Gura's topic in Personal Development -- [Main]

    Believing you have the right to vote when the rich select the candidates you choose. Believe your making choices at a grocery store. Believing any choice you ever made was not hijacked by trillions in marketing for centuries. Believing your thoughts are uniquely synthesized and not the product of mass conformist group think hallucination indoctrinated from birth. Getting a mortgage. Loving your children. Breathing air (genetic conformity)
  8. @Husseinisdoingfine i think it's an unlikely scenario that they would become completely open-minded overnight though.

  9. Why tf do we not talk about COVID?

    Apparition of Jack replied to Apparition of Jack's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events

    Life isn’t a zero-sum game. Someone’s suffering doesn’t disappear because someone else had worse suffering. If a kid came up to you crying because he was just beaten up by bullies, would you say to him “don’t whine, my neighbour lost his legs in Vietnam?” do you think that would help the kid? Losing your legs is “worse” than being beaten up, but does that mean what the kid went through wasn’t bad? Also I’m not just concerned for Australian kids. There’s kids in America, the UK, hell goddamn everywhere going through this. Fuck, do you think kids in the SLUMS weren’t affected? In fact, many of the poorest communities had it worse. They were the ones stuck in apartments, stuck in the city etc because they didn’t have big houses with gardens. Again I keep saying COVID affected EVERYONE. Not just white kids. Not just wealthy kids. EVERYONE. What about all those “slum” kids whose parents lost jobs because of the pandemic? They exist, you know. What were they “supposed” to do? Be born rich? Lmao EDIT: You also havent disproven what the doctors have been saying. I ask you again - are they lying? EDIT 2: What about long covid? What’s your answer to that?
  10. Trump debunks his own bullshit without even knowing it when he opens his gob.
  11. Still on the ad hominem kick I see...
  12. I was pointing out the indoor culture here. I mean, baristas are striking at Starbucks too... people like to whine. Lol, Google "slum" and then get back to me about these Australian kids locked out of school.for 5 months. Where is this person at that I dismissed their feelings? You're hurt by covid, I don't mean to dismiss your suffering, please share.

  13. Family is upset that I'm not a Muslim

    Husseinisdoingfine replied to Husseinisdoingfine's topic in Dating, Sexuality, Relationships, Family

    I want to go because I love my family but I’m worried that they’re going to try to convert me and are not going to be open minded to Eastern spirituality. I tried opening their minds by introducing Buddhist scripture and (New Age) spiritual books but they shut me down and told me to read the Quran instead. By the way, I am not a Buddhist and most of the literature I read is not Buddhist. But it’s like, they don’t know anything about Eastern religion, Actualized.org, and the New Age. Have never bothered to read any books, talk to any spiritual leaders, or visit any temples. but… They know that it’s wrong, so they don’t have to study it.
  14. @Apparition of Jack Elliot is unable to analyse at a systems level or entirely underestimates structural factors. His analysis hinges on the individual being the ultimate decider of his fate. The same blind spot shows up in conversation with yourself, Blueoak yesterday, and me in a previous conversation about the 2008 banking crisis where he didn't see how predatory and fraudelent banking practices harmed people - instead it was the consumers choice.

  15. Why tf do we not talk about COVID?

    Apparition of Jack replied to Apparition of Jack's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events

    No, but when kids are suffering, you don’t pretend that they’re not. Would you tell someone who was beaten by their parents as a kid not to feel depressed? Or someone who went through war not to be angry about what happened? People need to HEAL, you don’t just dismiss people’s suffering. I mean shit someone in this thread legit has long covid lol
  16. Then the stillness is true and the movement is false. What is real is the existence, the thought itself. The interpretation is also real, as an interpretation, it's just an energetic flow. . The absolute is absolute. Consciousness is relative.
  17. @Someone here When you are a child you you want your mother to treat you like a king so you try to impress her. When you are 12 your queen tells you you arent good enough so you make up a random quest that you are useless and you must go out and find something that dosent exist to fullfill yourself. You can never find this thing.
  18. A king of pussies descided to step up and save humanity.

  19. Why tf do we not talk about COVID?

    Apparition of Jack replied to Apparition of Jack's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events

    what does immigration have to do with anything? 💀 corona didnt care if you were Latino or white lol Obviously not everyone was seriously negatively impacted, for a lot of people (including kids) life has moved on. But for too many people it hasnt either. When doctors, nurses, teachers, parents, kids etc are saying there’s a problem then there’s got to be a problem. I mean just look at this comment from a YT documentary about coronavirus from a nurse. Obviously nurses are different to most other people, but it’s not like other people weren’t affected too. Considering, you know, it was like, everywhere 💀
  20. Humans are not fragile napkins. Trials and tribulations, hard times, are things that grow people.
  21. I feel much better now than when I wrote this post. Thanks for your answers.
  22. This was helpful, thank you.
  23. If it never happened, how do you what is meaning of age or what is 3 or 4?

  24. Why tf do we not talk about COVID?

    Apparition of Jack replied to Apparition of Jack's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events

    What about the paranoia of catching the disease itself? Millions of people - kids included - became terrified of going outside, touching people , catching the virus, etc. It’s like human worry doesn’t exist to you.
  25. 20%, I'd say, you disagree? I go to parks in a major city. And most of the families there are 1st generation immigrant. Australia is different than the u.s., but Americans spend a lot of time indoors.

  26. Why tf do we not talk about COVID?

    Apparition of Jack replied to Apparition of Jack's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events

    Like I said, tone-deaf and callous. Also subtle hints of out-of-touch too.
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