Danioover9000

@Jordan Welsh Yikes! You're right, despite how short the debate was, it definitely got into personal attacks on character and interrupting each other. I don't like how the debaters are sitting at arms length from each other, it felt like it could've gone into a physical fight at any moment. Rhetorically, the vegan guy was doing better than the woman. I felt I needed to help her out with dealing with his attacks. For example, he attacked her use of analogy of her personal experience with being a vegan and experiencing negatives as invalid proof to discounting Veganism, in her place I would've countered exactly the same, bringing up his personal experience and benefits, such as his weight loss from such a diet as just his story, having no validity, and bring up malnourished raw vegans as one example of going too far. Throwing in other fallacies as well. I felt like the woman was slightly better at trying to maintain neutrality in this debate and didn't come off as defensive and aggressive as the guy.

@m0hsen I'm not familiar with that work, but I'll check it out later and report what effects it had on me. My way of entering psychedelic states while astral projecting is an amalgamation of different esoteric practices involving different vibrations, from light to heavy, and some alien vibrations as well. This came about from me doing different practices, and customizing them to my particular energies, like cleansing and blessing an area, or envoking and channeling other entities. While there was some element of natural ability, for example the haunting I had decades ago, and some other paranormal events, I still had to put some work in exploring and self experimenting. There's never mostly a one size fits all, that's rare, which is why exploring is needed.

@Swarnim This is also possible, as I've reached psychedelic like states through astral projection many times, that is similar to small doses. I've also experienced dmt like fields comparable to being on a medium dose in deep sleep, so to me Bashar's claim might not be so far fetched. Probably for the normies it's far fetched, but similarly to Bashar, I'm not normal and can access other states of consciousness difficult to access normally. I think the main issue is that it's normalized in him, such that he implicitly assumes some of the people might achieve what he achieved similarly, which is more time than not not the case. Also, even though I'm a freak in nature to this, this still took some working in to access those states, and some assistance from a few entities outside my space to pull me there.

The practice does have spiritual benefits, and much more. Will power and discipline goes through the roof. Shame Leo's gonna miss out on this.

@Davo124 Figure of speech. Don't get too hung up in literal meaning.

I'd consider Bruce Lee as a good example for a stage yellow fighter/fitness/martial artist to develop into. During his time, the majority of martial artists were too stage blue, too conformist in tradition, and didn't like incorporating western fitness into their practices. It took some interest with philosophy, tons of reading, and a love for fighting and martial arts, and a bit of ambition and open mindedness, that he created his JKD system, which other organizations modelled off a bit to create MMA. As long as stage red exists as a developmental path for society to evolve through, for people to evolve through, and as long as there are lower stages of ego development, MMA isn't going extinct any time soon. It might evolve into alternative forms of entertainment and skill excellence.

@Lyubov

While back, I was in a library in college, reading a book at one of the tables, minding my own life. Three women came and sat on the table I'm at. One of them asked what book I was reading. I said poetry, without looking. The other asked if I could watch her bag. I said no thanks, while the third girl apologises for her friends talking. I realized something was wrong, and felt defensive. A teacher came by to silence noise coming from the other tables. I took this chance to place that book in the middle of the table to them, and left. Were they testing me, or what? I was minding my own business.

@Dodo About telepathic communication, I've heard they could occur anytime, even while Dreaming. I've heard it's best to use the largest sum of experiences from your upbringing and cultural spiritual practices, and bless the area or yourself, then you could sleep more at ease. What I meant with the largest sum of experiences, I mean that if your upbringing ie religious, like with Christianity, you use that to bless the area, because it's your bias. If you've brougbt up as a native American, your ego likely has thoee symbols of spirituality in that culture, so use them to bless yourself before sleeping, because that bias has many attachments in meaning that makes it easier to work with. Works similarly with channelling entities apparently. My french is rusty, and Crysty is telling me the literal translation of the phrase is 'I am leaving'. Am I correct?

@Roy Ok good to know I'm heading in the right direction. I have to thank myself for keeping up mindfulness practices in the past.

@universe Thank you for your advice. I think when the teacher arrived to silence the other groups, and the girls stopped, I now remember I felt other emotions, like relief that they shut up, but also vengeful for them making me feel insecure, fear and vulnerable, similarly to what happened in my childhood, at least what I could consciously remember. I also remembered whispering loudly to them, while I was leaving, to put back the book when they're done studying, while the teqcher was nearby. I think I was passive aggressive on my exit. I later on felt some apathy like loneliness, depression, or some form of defeat from not standing up more, although at that time I just didn't know how to stand for myself, and emotionally shut down afterwards. Is this my coping mechanism for situations like this?

@Emerald The two girls were pushy when they talked to me, and the third wasn't, and apologized to me for her friends behaviour. I also remember using the book I had, and my bag to the right of me as some sort of barrier against them. I definitely was caught off guard, and felt nervous, fear, and annoyance, so my replies and tone were defensive. Now that I think more about it, it's likely the two wanted to mess around with me, which also triggered something in me about my childhood.

@Roy Just now, I realized that I was also feeling fear mixed in with anger and annoyance while they were at the table. I didn't realize afterwards, but while I'm here I just realized fear was there as well. The apathy feelings I felt after might have helped me forget other negative emotions as well. I might consider getting hypnotherapy done as well, to bypass the depressions episodes.

@integral Because While I'm doing stuff, I don't want to be interrupted. I also don't like being teased. The combination of teasing and interruption makes me feel annoyed, and the longer those people do me, the more annoyed I get, and I might start feeling anger and worry that the situation could get worse. After all that, leaving the situation behind me, I suddenly feel depressed or some form of apathy, maybe to shovel off excess energy from that situation. Like you've said when you edited you're post just now it could be related to the far past of my childhood. I'll have to dig around and take a psychoanalysis person for this. It's honestly not a pleasant thing to go through, like I didn't do shit to invite this to me!

@integral Good for them! Except I wasn't giving any signals to invite strangers for a chit chat, nor invite teasing from strangers. I don't sit down on a table, see a stranger absorbed by his work, study, or book, and go interrupt for casual talk, or tease or whatever. Maybe the better question is how do I full proof myself to stop people from doing this to me?

@Chew211 WTF is this? Is my suffering some kind of joke? I did not ask for this situation to happen. I was reading, minding my business. Because of that, I felt less secure using the library to study notes or read books. Just thinking about it makes me feel a bit depressed. If anything, I have the exact opposite of that post.

@Bando You gave me an idea. Next time, although it's now less likely I'll ever want to be that social because of the annoyance, but next time, I have to tell myself I'll have to nail a woman who's clearly teasing me. Otherwise, I just shut down inside, and later, just leave if I can. I wasn't looking for this.

@Kshantivadin Good to know, except I wasn't open to it, nor wanted this to happen. Though I'm making myself laugh too.

@universe Oh, the ending was that one of the librarian teachers came by, to silence chatter coming from the other tables. I saw how the three girls clammed up when the teacher came. I took that opportunity to get up, leave my book, and leave them. I felt annoyed by this situation because I'm ugly on that day, and did not signal whatsoever my interest on them. I was getting into the book I was reading. Maybe I was acting strange somehow, or looked strange, so they decided to ambush me. I don't know, I know enough about body language and tonality that they were not hitting me up for sure. I was caught off guard.

@Lyubov I'll keep that in mind. Although in future I'm less likely to sit in college libraries for the time being. I just found it strange they wanted to sit where I'm at, because I'm pretty messy looking myself. I didn't even give them any excuses either, just replied matter of fact, straight, no friendliness. That one girl did sound like she was picking on me a bit. I think that's were my defensiveness came up. Yeah, let it go I guess.

@RendHeaven Was not my priority back then.

@Raze I'd give a degree of the benefit of the doubt that her presentation, and the responses to her word usage, is valid enough. Would a different punishment be acceptable? Probably, as I'm not involved nor have insider knowledge in handling these situations, nor have full context of situation. However, I'm also careful when it comes to reverse engineering behaviors like body language, and tonality, because such assessments are mostly context dependent, so I have to have that full conversation before verifying that the punishment afterwards is just. Additionally, some people have abnormalities to their behavior, bodily or speech wise, that makes it trickier to be certain that this person has this mindset exclusively. For example, I've seen some people falsely treated my friend's behavior as aggressive, or in a foul mood, yet this was his baseline behavior, and also partly influenced by how he was raised in his family, and his relationship with one of the family members was negative, and partly from the negative feedback. Some people who have social misalignment tend to give mixed signals, which make it harder to conclude if this is the entire mindset of this person. Am I biased to favor my friend's side of the story? Yes, and because of my time spent with him, I know his normal state far more than a stranger's first impression would have him otherwise. How did this conversation get released in the first place?

@Milos Uzelac This is likely China's strategy going forward with Taiwan.

@Mafortu Probably. However, like I've said so many pages ago, Crysty has a personality that sometimes likes to prank on me. If You fly over, and present a picture in front of me, eyes closed, there's no guarantee I'll answer correctly 100%. Now I've got above average intuition, so however that works, I get the impression, and the answer can form in a number of ways, like a mental image, or memory of a related object, or a sound, which can occur with or without Crysty's input. For example, I get the intuition it's an elephant, and this could be the right answer. However, there's still so much room for interpretation, like the age, or the type of elephant, or it's color, or the situation the elephant is in, or if there are other objects in the image besides elephant. One example of Crysty joking with me is telling me the wrong color, a color that's similar to the genuine one. If she's not in a pranking mood, and is helping me, she adds many more layers of meaning to this intuitive answer, such that it quickly, experientially, feels more complete. Of course, this also depends on your good faith. You've already decided things about me, my situation, so the test is already on shaky grounds. For example, you want to flat out debunk me, so you already thought of ways to make my answers wrong on a high degree. Or you do believe me, and might have supernatural abilities I know nothing of yet, and use them to nudge my intuition, or Crysty's answer, such that I answer correctly. Who knows. It's already hard to prove this if we are operating under materialism or science in a traditional frame work, which already leans more against the existence of spirits and other such intangible forms of life.