Danioover9000

This article about it came up. https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/aug/31/bob-ross-documentary-netflix-joshua-rofe

@Blackhawk Update: After entering a deep state of meditation, I was able to visualise the spot where she would stand, on one spot in the backyard. I took one of my old phone to record the spot she was standing on, and a series of things happened: she flickered a few times, phasing from that spot to disappearing. The speed increased suddenly, and a light flickered on where her feet were, and the camera malfunctioned and died out. I couldn't get it to work again and loet the footage.

@kamwalker One of the few best ways it might change your life, is when you come down from it, start studying and applying NLP, address your self image, how you represent your time, do positive affirmations/visualizations, start becoming more positive. Before, it might've been a grind as you haven't used your mind like this, but after awakening, it gives you the biggest picture possible to feel inspired enough to be ok in designing who you want to be, and what you want to do, for the renainder of your time in earth, no matter how grindy it gets.

@asifarahim I see, it makes sense.

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@impulse9 That's fine. Just from your reply, I know that in terms of mindfulness and observation, I am leagues above you. Don't take this as an insult, it is just the difference in psychological, spiritual development and life experiences. I hope you find peace with not just the suffering of animals, but of plants, and be able to understand, from mind to becoming/being level, why they do it, and integrate them. They need some love too. Peace.

@impulse9 That is it. The feeling I get from seeing the lawn cut, the sound of it buzzing, when I operated the machine decades ago when I had grass on the backward to do, the internal images of grass filling the bag. The emotions intitially are a mix of boredom to relief. The same when I had the opportunity to see what they did to pigs in slaughter houses, and see what butchers did to process the pig meats. Yes, the initial differenses of seeing, hearing, feeling externally and internally are different with that of cutting the grass. However, did you know that by carefully contemplating and observation, that I realized both are similar to each other, and have the same common denominator, that a human being, existing as the higher hierarchy of evolution, isthe common factor in inflicting suffering and destruction to animals and plants alike. The need to create crop fields, that cut down forests and wildlife plants, to facilitate raising of pigs and cows to provide meat produce, is the same need to create space to manufacture consumer friendly veggies, by cutting down forests. Same common denominator. I speak from direct experiences of both. Also, most people can't do this as it does require you to be able to maintain mindfulness and observation for long time periods. Can you sit, or stand, or still be in the same area as the slaughter taking place, while being mindful of thoughts and feelings in you, and note shadow parts that need intergrating? Can you place and maintain focus? Can you treat both situations with equanimity, internally in your mind? Can you be at peace with both, wether or not the situation does or doesn't change?

@Epikur I would say 50/50, because both I'm exercising my free will to work out the probability,and I know while being human I can't do certain things, leaving the wheel of destiny to over worldly beings that are designed to effect causality.

Trolling is more relative than you think. I was jocking with another user here years ago, and got warned for being offensive apparently when it's light banter. I was planning on opening a thread to talk about the link between dark humor and spirituality, but some people can't go past sarcasm let alone self deprecation.

I hope he's ok.

No it's not that obvious, even for a highly spiritual person. It's still complex. A highly spiritual person can have high empathy for the animals, but also empathy for the plants being eaten. Every time the mawn is cut, the fresh smell of grass is actually pain signals the grass releases warning nearby plants. Every time a person purchases veggies, and the demand increases, is the need to cut down forests for crops to grow those veggies.

@Hulia He already did a few old videos on what victim mindset is and how to overcome it. I think he might've not wanted to rehash the victim's perspective again in the everyone has good intentions video, but overall this should be obvious at this point for most who have followed and did the inner work he did. The main problem is that most people are still strongly self identified that they make it personal and think Leo is talking to you directly. Not the case. Leo is making a meta point about intentions, and trying to get this point to click in your triggered mind, lost in the content of the example. Again, it's not content of the example, it's the structure. You could have a very diferent victimhood, like being rpped off, or having a lover cheat on you, or walking into a pole. Different areas, but a deeper root issue.

Yeah, something about getting that ringing in your ears while flying in a plane is strangely spiritual, combined with getting a top view of the clouds and the eartb is still impressive.

For some context, I do follow Bob Ross and watch his painting episodes, and I really like how he makes his landscape paintings looks effortless. P.S. I recently watched Leo's latest video on how value is developed over time, and it got me thinking how much time and effort he really put into painting the way he did. Like he could just plop a random small mountain after doing a painting halfway through.

Lol seriously, even someone with low common sense and low intuition avoid dating suicidal people. They can literally feel how that person can drain their time and energy, that would have been put elsewhere. Tell the person to get help, and next, unless you have unlimited time and energy to involve yourself with such people.

@preventingdiabetes For example, if you really want to be good as a writer, read other works from writers, and do fanfiction, and so on. Same if it's related to art like being an illustrator, concept artist, dancer, fighter, musician, so on. Consume the products or services in the domain of life/mastery, in the ideal medium you want to be as a creator, as that also feeds the subconscious mind raw data to process and synthesis with other related or unrelated field, like a graphic novel is just book plus images. Also, get in touch with what inspired you to be involved in that field. Also be willing to diversify your sources of inspiration, do exercises and drill in techniques, set aside time to put yourself into creativity, and keep a catalogue and portfolio of what you do.

@gettoefl This does cut through most of the bullshit quickly.

@Synnergy Other than Donald Trump or Joe Biden, there were no other alternatives to vote for at that time, so they, the people in America, voted for Biden. There are also other people other than Biden who've also nudged Biden's decisions that we don't know of, so it isn't just Biden only causing this to happen.

@Synnergy The assessment is a bit simpler, Afghanistan is undergoing a change in rulership, and now the native culture in that region is transitioning to take over Afghanistan while American forces are leaving. This creates a vacuum that intitiates an incentive for not just Taliban, but ISIS and other groups to rule over the population, that is a mix of stage purple to red and blue values, with red to blue style of government, basically a typical authoritarian regime. Yes, there will be some fighting between tjose groups, but soon it'll settle down and the group with the matching value system of the population will rule over it. The only disaster is mostly in Afghanistan, as that is undergoing the transition. This is merely embarrassing for the American collective ego politically and ideologically in terms of how other countries view Athe USA, but the overall negative impact on America is little. But in Afghanistan it is relatively higher. The other factor that could escalate this is if and when China or Russia steps in to aquire Afghanistan as part of their territory.

@The0Self Basically, a reverse fish eye perspective, with ever increasing distortion of the cone of vision. Take a spoon, and look on the inside curvature, that's reverse fish eye, the outer curve is the fish eyes.

@Nobody_Here Yeah, persuasion is a balancing act. Too much bluntness and some people misinterpret, but too little bluntness and people think you're weak. Furthermore, you can't even be perfectionistic, as that point of balance could shift anywhere in a spectrum. Although lately, I do think Leo has slightly less blunt as he did admit he needs more practice with podcasts.

@taotemu Very dark purple, and very round.

@integral It's a lovely spice. Turns morning wood to morning glory.

@Thought Art The first issue is gonna be communication. If you don't speak straight forward, man or woman, you will be misunderstood, and conclude from there, either something is wrong with the other person, or something is wrong with you. Feeling either is not a good place to be, which is why communication should be first priority. Now, as a guy, the ideal relationship with a woman, short term to long term, would be for him to feel like he's leading, like being a boyfriend, or a provider and protector matters, while the woman is not infringing on his purpose in life. There's almoet no escape from direct experience, or learning from failures as men. Ideally, intuition is helpful here, but most men don't have that level of intuition, and some need to explicate from the situation, sometimes many times, until they get it. Intuition is not only a natural gift, but a mileage, from gaining experience a lot. By definition, this already guarantees failures. Good luck telling most men to control their sexuality. Most common mistake is resisting and suppressing sexuality, and feeling horniness, which leads to other coping mechanisms that are not healthy, which sometimes develop into serious problems.

@Nobody_Here The first video I watched from him was about anger part 1, and it took months to settle down and watch his other ones, as the anger one put me off a bit. The main bit was the bluntness, and lack of empathy for those who have anger issues. That's several years ago, so I don't know his current view on anger. Maybe the same.