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@Bryanbrax This is not the thread for this conversation.

@Roy Of course

Doesn't matter that it's free. There is much too lose. Money is the least important factor in such things. What is lost is one's understanding of the situation. Such readings can easily delude you with false ideas. False. Every single psychic I visited was extremely confident in their abilities and suggestions. Too confidence. So confidence they often fooled me into their delusions. Confidence is not a good signal of truth or accuracy. Often the opposite. Confidence covers up for genuine not-knowing. No You have no idea if their reading is accurate. It's all pure hearsay.

Then you will not be at peace. Trust me, if the pain gets high enough you will automatically surrender. Extreme pain actually destroys the ego. Pain is actually something that ego creates, so when the pain gets too high the ego cannot keep creating it any more.

This is nonsense. Sleeping with a guy who you definitely know has an STD is way more risking than sleeping with a random guy who has a tiny chance of having it. You are talking about 100% vs 10-20%. Anything is better than 100%. And you should not be fucking randos without a condom regardless. It's not like just because you've fucked a guy 20 times yet he has an STD, that the odds of you getting it diminish. Not every decision should be strategic, BUT that does not mean to be a fool and throw strategy out the window. In this very specific and serious situation strategy over heart is the proper method. The heart easily fools with idiot compassion, especially once you're in love. This case has nothing to do with objectifying people. Her getting herpes is a serious issue and the heart will not solve it. I call total BS on your stats. This is definitely untrue by orders of magnitude. Provide your sources.

He could date girls who also have it. Yes, I understand that. Well, I understand your point. It's a sad situation. But also, is it really humane for him to infect you and other girls with it? Be careful with "idiot compassion". I know you have developed a soft spot for him, you love him, etc. But remember, romantic love tends to be a fickle thing. Chances are your relationship with him with end anyway in the next 5-10 years for other reasons. And then you'll be left single with herpes. That is not a good situation to put yourself in. Don't be so compassionate that you nail yourself to a cross. Also consider your own well-being. In fact, your health is more important than his desire for sex. At least it should be from your POV. Ditching him sounds harsh. But him knowingly giving you herpes sounds harsher. I understand you find yourself in an impossible situation. But nevertheless I think you should have higher standards and move on, as harsh as that sounds. He will understand. It's not like you're being a jerk here. You have the most legit reason ever for breaking a relationship. If you can't break a relationship over this, when can you? A healthy relationship should not involve you taking a bullet for him. What is your age? It would help to know that.

I heard it from a parrot owner/breeder. Not sure if it's true. His point was to never roast nuts for birds using Teflon pans. When I heard that, I realized I should stop using Teflon for myself too. Yeah, but Teflon is not some natural food product like sugar or chocolate. It is a chemical and if you research that specific chemical you will find that it is not some harmless thing to living organisms. Research that whole class of chemicals. It ain't good for ya. That Teflon also always scratches off over time and those flakes end up in your food. That can't be healthy. You are literally eating Teflon flakes like lead paint chips. Impossible to say because there are so many other variables at play with my health. It's not going to be something you feel immediately. Rather it might mean that 20 years from now you don't get cancer which you otherwise would have if you kept eating Teflon. It's just an unnecessary risk to take. You can easily use stainless steel pans for 95% of your cooking needs. The biggest problem with steel pans is that they suck for pancakes, crepes, and that sort of thing. But I don't eat those anyway. There may be ways to make those in the oven instead on parchment paper or silicone. There are many healthier methods of cooking than a frying pan which you should research, invest in, learn, and master.

Yes, many brands available on Amazon. Test them out until you find one you like.

@random dude What exactly did I say? I don't remember saying that. Provide an exact quote and the context in which I was speaking so can look at it.

@Bryanbrax Not interested in that sort of thing. Be very careful believing such things. It's all hearsay. I went to 5 different psychics about my health issues and they all told be 5 different stories, all of them BS. You cannot simply trust a psychic.

No, I'm saying the opposite. Employment is good because it usually involve genuine value creation. Leeching off of hard working people is bad. And that's what playing Wall Street is. This is not a problem at all. Any business that creates genuine value and innovation is a healthy kind of business. A one-man company is not necessary. Trading stocks is not a business of any sort. It is leeching off genuine creative businesses. I know you were teasing. But I replied seriously anyway because people here tend to be confused about this topic. The stealing has been abstracted by the system. It is systemic stealing. The point of the system is precisely to give you, the trader, plausible deniability. So that if anyone questions you, you can genuinely say, "But I didn't break any laws. I just sold some paper to someone else who wanted to buy it. So how could that be evil?" You need to think holistically about how the whole Wall Street system works. The bottom line is this: If you earned a million dollars for clicking a few button on your computer, you obviously didn't work for it by creating any genuine stuff, therefore you must have stolen it from someone else who did. Where did that million come from? It came from exploitation of the labor of works of the company you invested into. That million really belongs to them. But you used the Wall Street system to separate it from them. So while you enjoy your million, some mother working at Walmart cannot afford to buy medicine for her sick child and he dies. But the system is designed such that you don't see that and don't care. In a sense this is true. The difference is that I'm aware of that. And also the difference is that I worked hard for my money and it is not fair to me to have my money inflated. So I feel it is reasonable to hedge against inflation. You can say that's selfish, and you'd be right. It is. But life is selfish. I'm not just gonna sit by and watch my money deflate. The problem is, we're all stuck in Game A to some degree. No matter how much you try to break out of Game A, you can't entirely avoid it. But you can at least not deliberately and gleefully double-down on Game A -- which is what stock get rich quick schemes do. Yes, and I'm okay with that. I also worked for money and when inflation happens someone else is getting a portion of my savings "for free" by eroding it. Some degree of competition is hard to avoid here. My point is to not participate in it too much. Participate in it as little as you can stomach. Yes it is, which is why I don't hate daytraders. I am just guiding you away from it for your own sake and the sake of society as whole. We want to create a society in which the hardest working people are most rewarded, not the opposite. A society in which clicking a few buttons earns you millions of dollars is not a healthy one.

Tony is geared toward stage Orange people. If you are just entering stage Orange then you will love Tony and he will be useful to you. But once you outgrow that, you should move on. Tony was useful to me in my stage Orange phase 12 years ago. Always remember, the most popular teachers are never the best. And he is the most popular. So that should tell you everything you need to know before you even buy his stuff.

Food sticks more than a Teflon pan, but mostly it doesn't stick so bad. You just use some butter or oil and heat it proper. Don't put food into an unheated steel pan. Food tends to self-release as it cooks through. Cleaning steel pans is very easy. Pour some water in it. Let it stand a few hours and the food bits will scrub off easy with a brush. I make eggs in my steel pan all the time. Not a problem. Of course if you are used to a Teflon pan nothing will be that easy or nonstick. Steal pan requires a bit more worl and care. But they also last a lifetime. All pro chefs use stainless steel pans. There's just a bit of a learning curve. And they are 5x more expensive.

All that is still finite. There is only one actual INFINITY, of which all your conceptualizing about infintities is a tiny part. The trick is that INFINITY cannot be turned into a concept, which means the logical mind cannot ever grasp it. Which is why spiritual practices teach you to shut off your mind.

Total surrender to whatever is happening in the present momemt, no matter how "bad" it is. The escape from survival. Ego cannot do peace. Ego does war. The ego's function is survival.

Teflon is a poison. If you roast some peanuts on a Teflon pan and feed it to a bird, it will drop dead.

Making that much is devilry and manipulation itself. The manipulation is built right into the market so that devils like you cans say, "See, I didn't steal from anyone." But actually, you did. Since you didn't generate any real value. That's capitalism. All the systems are unconsciously designed to steal value from people yet all the theives can tell themselves that didn't steal anything and thus sleep well at night. Your millions came from many working people losing what little they had. Your freedom costs 10-100 people to be wage slaves for life.

How many Infinities can there be? ONE If you think there can be two Infinities, you weren't thinking of Infinity to begin with. The problem is that your idea of Infinity is actually finite, and thus not it. Another way to understand it is like this: How can there be two Gods? If God is the creator of everything, and you think there can be 2 or more of them, then which God created the other God? And what is the point of the 2nd one if the 1st one is more powerful than the 2nd, since it was first to exist.

They are okay I guess, but I don't like dealing with them. Hard to clean. Bulky.

From the start. But it also grew with tripping.

The key difference is that I do not use the stock market to make my money. It is a problem when you guys try to use the stock market as your method of getting rich. Stocks are fine for holding some savings and getting a 8% average annual return. The problem comes when you expect your stocks to give you 10x returns and make you rich. Make yourself rich, then put some of your riches into the market to avoid inflation.

Stainless steel. Never buy non-stick or ceramic. Ceramic pans are a gimmick. They are not truly ceramic, they have a cheap ceramic chemical coating which chips and puts toxins in your food, just like teflon. Your pan must have no coatings. Any coating will chip.

It is not a philosopher's job to change society directly.

Dutch Tulips 2.0

Certainly that's part of it. But, no, it goes much deeper than that for me. My brain is literally wired for psychedelics. Any psychedelic is 2-3x more potent for me than other people, and perhaps not just potency but also qualitative differences too. It's hard to compare qualitative differences so I can only speculate there. Basically any starting dose of psychedelic for me is a crazy breakthrough. 2g of mushrooms, 120ug of LSD, 15mg of 5-MeO-DMT, 70mg of DPT, a few puffs of DMT, etc. And at higher doses my trips are simply unreal in their strength and holism. I've friends and others take psychedelics without anything near this reaction. I would say that their reaction is 10x less than mine would be at their dose. Not just less quantitatively but qualitatively. To be honest, it feels like I was born on this Earth to consume psychedelics. Like God designed my brain specifically for that purpose. You can call that delusional, but I've tripped enough at this point to feel that there is a deep intelligence behind my discovery of psychedelics and I know for a fact that my spiritual journey would be incomplete without them. They were not some side-show or distraction for me. They were CORE to my spiritual growth. Now, that does not mean you are the same. That may not be true for you. All of my deepest wisdom came from psychedelics. I know for sure that I could not get it otherwise. Maybe some other people could, but I could not. And in the end I gotta do what works for me. But I suspect it will work for thousands of other people too. But not all people.