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  2. You have free will in the sense that you feel like you're in control of your actions. If you deny this feeling, you are self-sabotaging yourself. Be very rigorous about distinguishing between the feeling of being in control and any metaphysical notions of free will. They are NOT the same. "I could do this, but there is no metaphysical free will, so why bother?" is a thought that ruins your sense of self-agency and control. It's a purely delusional and self-sabotaging thought, it doesn't help for anything but immobilizing yourself and denying yourself the right to be who you want to be.
  3. So you’re not removing a thing then.
  4. Density isn't a thing; it's a metaphor for a way of functioning, operating, being in which you're trapped by your primary emotional impulses: the need for acceptance, to belong, to be liked, to be loved; the feeling of humiliation through comparison; the need for value and power. When you're caught up in it, you don't see it. You might think you're very spiritual or even enlightened, when what you're really doing is changing the object, not the need. Meditation is the clear observation of all your processes, without deceiving yourself or judging them, seeing them as something mechanical. It's about understanding what they are directly, being one with them, and in this way, deactivating the emotional mechanisms that keep you trapped.

  5. Piano Music

    Nemra replied to Nemra's topic in Off-Topic: Pop-Culture, Entertainment, Fun

    Now, this is awesomeness!

  6. How to cope with getting older

    PsychedelicEagle replied to Ryan M's topic in Health, Fitness, Nutrition, Supplements

    Wise words indeed.

  7. Leo's Blog Discussion Mega-Thread

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

    Dude, classic shirt Leo is back! We are so back. So glad I could use Instagram without an account, I refuse to add another social media account to force me in their algorithm
  8. wait.. wait.. wait... Thats not how i want to describe it... Towards the end, i was leading into this thing about patterns.. But it isnt exclusive from scale, where things are starkly either this way or that way, Instead, I shouldve said this... You all *exist a the surface level, as a hierarchy of what is most prominent. And that is just speaking to the very blatant and obvious observations of who we (you) and everyone else is... Like, we experience ourselves from the most obvious perspective. Everyone knows that. Thats not what im speaking to, though its part of what im touching on... As this part that is also hard to describe too... Like, the patterns of experience are not patterned on the micro scale, nor is the micro scale a priority, though it is a consequence of a system where the surface level things have to go right, have to go *as planned, in order for it to go right/correctly. Like im saying, the priority of experience is a drastic point of experience, and the micro scale is almost irrelevant to it, HOWEVER its hard to express what that means for certain people, cause you may (and most people in the future) absolutely will find theirselves in positions where you have to sort things out in an almost scientific and technical way in order to unravvel the predicaments yous are in, like... You can absolutely find yourself in a scientific/technical places naturally, due to the scientific paradigms we find ourselves in today already. Now thats not quite the way i originally intended to explain it, but fuck it, yolo, i dont know how to explain it.
  9. What do you do with the density after removing it?
  10. Be the best you that you can be. Authenticity is the new goal >:D
  11. Instagram has added the option of snoozing and resetting suggested content, and you can also add keywords to include or exclude content related to that keyword.
  12. Brooooooo 😭 You get it.

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    Emptiness-one replied to Emptiness-one's topic in Self-Actualization Journals

    Reality Is A Strange Loop - The Beauty Of Paradox + GRAPHICS Intro The I/Self/Person is a strange loop, this is due to consciousness being self-referential, then when it sees itself, it reveals it's infinite. When there is a hierarchy that is tangled, and when you ascend, you go back to the beginning. 2D & 3D examples A > B > C > A this creates a loop that shows a letter scenario of real world examples. What is a thing that has no ground? Consciousness. The strange loop is a chicken and egg dilemma, in this way, consciousness is an example of this, as consciousness requires a consciousness to create a new consciousness. The Strange Loop is the chicken and egg problem demonstrated in mathematics. A perpetual motion machine is an example of a strange loop, boundaried by thermodynamics, laws of energy (energy cannot be created or destroyed, only converted) & entropy (energy dissipates with interaction with the environment). Recursion is a feature within strange loops like two mirrors face each other. How does a strange loop apply to religion? Story telling due to its logical limits, turns into a strange loop, which is why story telling is a problem when it comes to using stories to justify god. Strange Loop descriptions Strange Loops are predicated on self-reference, though are generally illusory and predicated on a 2D world. Real word examples of 3D strange loops are Godel's incompleteness theorem and the self. This is why the Buddhist idea of the self is illusory and subject to repetition compulsion. Godel's incompleteness theorem may explain why the narrative structure of the bible creates a loop. Implications for the nature of reality Leo believes the materialist paradigm has constrained Hofstader as existence is the strange loop, something like the diamond net that self-references into a recursion/infinite stream. Reality is nothing, which is everything. The physics seems to demonstrate that everything is excitation. This is the quantum level of fluctuation. Reality is a continually expanding nothing as it is continually expanding. This has parallels to Jung's idea of the collective unconscious. This links to the pantheist worldview which given Jung's gnostic inclinations, then this would stack up. Exercise to grasp strange loops Subject object dissolution, this is an explanation that you are the 2D loop in a 3D space. This requires dissolution of all duality, or the realisation of the infinite stream of dualities as a unity.
  14. Watching Leo’s IG reels on repeat to train my IG algorithm. Train the algorithm, or the algorithm trains you.
  15. @Basman There were definitely male witches. Later on people started calling them wizards, but they were put under the same category of witch and it had no gender distinction early on. And yes, there was definitely paranoia over black people being rapists. What happened was the slave owners noticed that black men had bigger genitals than them. They therefore figured it was because black people raped constantly due to the belief that they were closer to animals than humans. There are all kinds of political enemies that get labeled rapists to radicalize people through the moral panic. It could be Hispanics, undocumented immigrants, Nazis, Russians, LGBTQ, blacks, Jews, Muslims, or literally anybody else. Governments are no exception Institutional abuse can happen with any group including the CIA, law enforcement, and so forth. The CIA had some huge sex scandals due to their attempts to torture and psychologically break people. There is also sexual abuse perpetrated by other youth. This is not well spoken. It is actually very serious, potentially even more common than parent-child sexual abuse is sibling sexual abuse. We seem to have a hard time calling children child sex offenders, although sometimes this is the case. A significant portion of CSA is perpetrated by youth.
  16. Only you can know about that.
  17. @Leo Gura Happy Birthday Leo :-)

  18. Leo's Blog Discussion Mega-Thread

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

  19. Nothing describes nothing.
  20. you mean after physical death?

  21. AI Anti-Hype Examples Thread

    Butters replied to Butters's topic in Personal Development -- [Main]

    Cal has fantastic sobering takes , highly recommend
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  23. Happy Birthday Leo!
  24. I love Leo's straightforwardness. Very clear and concise advice - I guess it's just about awareness after all. Leo thanks again, and thanks to person who just posted this.
  25. we pray to allah 5 times a day thanking him for your birth leo
  26. Lol, someone mentioned something about this clenching anus thing not too long ago -That i wanted to add something to, cause I thought of another aspect to it, And make sure yous read everything first, or yous wont know what im talking about, trust That is, based on my response to it too, which was something akin the "immune system, generally, and the anticipating of something SUDDEN, before it happens", atleast thats how i describe it when you boil it down. So when you drop down into a stillness mindset or a vacant parking lot or a desolate forest, those are all instances of having begun in a certain gear, but then having ended up *shifting gears, where your mind and body are trying to acclimate to the environment or situation or sudden change in attitude. And that was all related~As the original poster was talking about butt-clenching in certain situations and what I would probably call, outward expressions of the immune system. But i also thought about another important aspect to the overall immune system (in general) and that is this thing about the Carnival vs. Safari, specifically in the area of food, but it might also apply to other things too. That is, when you pulverize your food, atleast ive noticed, it starts tasting the same, like the flavors of a carnival, sortve this odorless cotton candy. Do yous know what im talking about? On the other hand you have the opposite, that is like, fully formed flesh of lettuce and broccoli (or full peanuts, nuts and things like this too) and like what i would call, "Tasking your body with the digesting of the whole safari". Obviously the idea is to find the middle-of-the-road, between food being not-fully-pulverized and somewhat still fully formed, but it goes to show you that theres this extreme that happens at two ends, that atleast for me ive been to these extremes so many times, and thats why im bringing them up; As it goes beyond just food, but its like, you are trying pulverize and digest what is like this ~ Almost sand, like turning everything into sand, and trying to interpret reality based on sand particles that all look identical, and that are all equally thrown into this carnival of personalities. Then you have where, you are seeing and experiencing everything in its most natural form, out in some African wood, or S. American Rainforest, or high up in the Himalayas or something like this, trying to digest the world and its manifestations in a way where they arent really in a form that can be fully digested per say. Iuno, i was curious what yous thought about that: The Carnival v. The Safari *p.s. Just because Science says things happen at a *micro- level, doesnt mean that thats how things operate, down at some micro level, because the way it really works is through surface-level patterns, and Science has conflated those patterns w/ indiscernible things.. Something for yas to think about.
  27. Happy Birthday!
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