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@Mikael89 Not to mention, the A.I we have will continue evolving that it would either wipe us outright or create ardeids with human qualities to it, like a human machine fusion.

@Dodo It's simple really. Aliens have spent too much time space travelling they forgot how to bait and fish. It's clearly shown on military cams on jet fighters the UFO was just circling around them, as if it wanted to hook in the jet fighters like they were fish. It was lucky that none of the pilots were trigger happy, because a UFO sighting can induce panic. One day, who will represent all of humanity when we have to be diplomatic to these things?

@Mikael89 Okay, if it absolutely has to come down to shooting an alien spacecraft, which country would you peg likely to shoot it down? And who get's the first dib on the wreckage? I also would not be surprised if we can't reverse engineer such technology, because we had a real world occurrence of a USA drone crash landing in a middle eastern region and they picked it up, filmed themselves attempting to learn and reverse engineer the drone parts, but it failed.

@Mikael89 Definitely corals and A.I are lower in intelligence than humans.

@Dodo If aliens ever visit us, we should hold a tournament to decide who amongst us will teach them how to bait and fish. I'm forwarding your name to this tech tournament.

@Mikael89 LOL! It's problematic depending on which side or position you see an alien spacecraft getting shot down, but ultimately Truth is impartial to whatever happens, even if we end up shooting an alien spacecraft, because in most cases keep in mind that misunderstandings can mostly occur especially the greater the differences. Depends on how they interpret our action against the spacecraft. Who knows, they might interpret it as an act of war, but also they might be neutral and patient, understanding that we seem primitive to them, or they might congratulate us because we happened to wipe out a group of alien terrorists for them, and from this violent act, we inadvertently get on their good planets to peace treaty a trade with!

@Leo Gura That just makes the aliens look weak, like they need to kidnap and mind rape a person for research and intel. What insecurities do such things have to stoop down to that level. A highly conscious and advanced alien species and technology might even be non-physical and manipulate energy and matter that's very hard for human minds to grasp. If they're so selfless, why so crude in intel gathering?

This chanting prayer is quite powerful, but I've learnt another powerful chanting prayer I've personalized to myself. The chanting starts like this "No no no! No no no!". The purpose behind the chanting is to get you ecstatic. Repeat for 10 times, to get the mind into the rhythm, then another 10 along with light shaking of the body.

@EmptyVase Firstly, congratulations! A hurting brain is a sign that you've put lots of effort into breaking down these dualities. Now it's time to recover, so if you still want to continue, great time to micro dose on those psychedelics and shift your contemplation/self inquiry into concentration/meditation, and emphasis the letting go or do nothing meditation. Or stop with the psychedelics for a while until you given your brain some rest, and do some body awareness types of meditations.

Okay, let me say this plainly; I have to make three squares. I can only move 3 sticks. I don't know if those are actual sticks. If they're not, the puzzle is unsolvable in the first place lol! I don't know a limit to the number of times I move the sticks. I know the quantity limit is 3, but not the repetitions. I don't know what counts as a 'move', like me removing a stick might count, but I don't know if returning or replacing a stick counts as 1, or a swap counts as 1 or 2 moves. I don't know what's considered a square in this puzzle. Sounds stupid, but look closely: the sticks are not straight lines, so technically we can't make any squares at all, because we need 90 degrees on the corners. Also, I don't know if these squares must be separate to count as squares, because in my visualization of this puzzle I'm running into an irregular shape. My solution after 30 minutes of visualization: remove the bottom left stick from the lower left quadrant(1), move the right bottom stick from lower right quadrant to the left bottom of the left lower quadrant(2), and remove the right side stick from the lower right quadrant(3). You technically have 3 squares, and I say that because these squares share two sticks together, so really it's an irregular shape, so it's probably hopeless to make . Now refund me my 30 minutes please. Thank you! Edit: OMG I just realized it's a static picture, so technically I can't even move the sticks in the image in the first place lol!

@Einsteinonacid Usually, the more expensive, the better. However, you still need to clarify to yourself want you want out of a therapist and therapy session. The more clear your intent going in a therapy session, the more faster the results you get out of the therapy session. For example, am I going into a therapy that's C.B.T,(cognitive behavior therapy) or R.E.B.T (rational emotive behavior therapy)? What if my intent is better served with a psychoanalyst, psychiatrist, clinical hypnotist, life coach or councilor? Do I know what each role process of procedures in a session? Once you clarified, you also need to dream big, chunk that down to specifics, and hold some system of records and accountability to yourself. More advanced tips are to continue meditating, contemplating, spiritual practices, and most powerful, create a Tulpa for yourself. Having a Tulpa has a few benefits, and one being that you can do your own therapy session and confide, fully honestly, what is really troubling you. Good luck!

@Ananta Wow, sorry to hear that happening. It's good that you're being agnostic in his discussion, cuz either side is going to lose much more.

It's very twisted that projection is everywhere; users here can't relate to normal mainstream folk like Trump supporters, projects that onto users that support Trump or have agnostic positions, and project religious/political beliefs and their own failures and humiliations on Trump's mistakes, while a teacher once condemns all forms of criticism, criticizes and bashes Trump, lovingly going along with the mass projections of Trump's failings. Friendly reminder: You create your own hell and misery, and blame everyone and everything else but yourself, hypocrite.

@Bulgarianspirit While I do agree that each emotion that exists has a positive intent behind it, for example apathy (laziness, boredom, despair, loneliness , depression...) serves us in that the events/actions by people that are too much for our minds at that time to experience get numbed down in order that the information does not overwhelm the maps of reality our minds have made and to continue to take action. However, too much apathy can become a difficult obstacle to deal with when you want to motivate yourself to take better action and to empathize with other people, despite it's usefulness. Is this acute or chronic apathy you're experiencing? Has it been a week of apathy? A month? A year? Because if you take a good look at your personal time line, you'll notice that not all the time you're this indifferent to the world or people. Really find those memories of when you're not indifferent, even if it's a different negative emotion. If you continue this, you'd notice how your mind overblows the apathy problem and that actually it's not that big of a deal. Are you okay with who you are currently and with your actions? When you think about yourself, is it mostly negative? Have any self-esteem issues? Because if you're hitting spiritual practices too much/far, it's very easy to become self-abusive and demonize current actions as negative and egotistical. If you catch yourself negatively thinking about yourself, try and think positively, even if it's a different negative thought story. @Mikael89 I've seen enough examples from other spiritual groups and in this forum that if you push too hard on your practices, and make too much of an enemy of your mind, that it will lead to self esteem issues and self abusive thought stories and a negative visual/auditory/somatic feeling of your self concept. It's so much easier to belief than to take action on becoming a stronger version of yourself with better set behaviors, timeless newbie mistake. I've also seen enough victimhood of the self going around. To me, that's so powerful, like you do know that your mind/you are tormenting yourself? Yes, the world is bitter and so are other people, but that's cherry on the top. You cause way more damage to yourself than any other person or any other world circumstance could ever do. If that's possible, what happens if you could think just slightly differently? Just a little sprinkle of positive, or a different negative thought about you? It gets magnified by a lot.

@tuckerwphotography I would start by gaining more clarity behind what needs I have and what attachments I have, and keep going until it's crystal clear that that's a need, and that's an attachment on top of that need. It's true they could later overlap, but the danger is your mind overlapping them way too early in order to not engage any unwiring or re-wiring of any attachments it develops. Clarity also helps you spot what you genuinely want, and once you eventually identify that, dream bigger than you ever dreamed big before, and then start chunking it down with specific detail until it starts feeling real, and you generate some buy-in to the mind that this change isn't just an after thought, it's a serious change that's gonna happen one way or the other, and you convince it that it will be in it's best interest to start crunching down the numbers to align the manifestations to your intent.

@creator20 Sure, whatever you have to say to maintain your sense of self and mind. Have a good self actualization journey.

Here's a brief intro on the history of tulpae: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulpa#:~:text=Tulpa is a concept in,emanation" or "manifestation".

@arlin No problem! Usually this occurs when someone pushes too far into hardcore spiritual practices, so keep an open mind in case a strong negative resistance to the void isn't so.

I'm currently on a Nofap challenge, and had many past experiences with it. I'd recommend including meditation, concentration practices and a work out program. Also, some eggs as part of your breakfast/lunch, because there will be times you relapse so the eggs help with quicker recovery, and help with new spirited work outs in this journey.

@Carl-Richard @Loving Radiance Meditation has increased my imagination and focus. Normally, negative experiences of meditation are uncommon. Maybe try another technique, and probably get some winter's rest and leave the seafood be.

@Jennjenn Regarding the statement 'higher taxes for higher income, lower taxes for lower income' might sound nice in theory, but something tells me that in practice, with the way economics works in the USA and China, it seems like an overly simple solution to an extremely complex issue like taxation. In mathematics, in the study of quantity, we have ratio, and any changes to a part of the ratio equivalently alters the other parts. At some point, though, we reach what's called 'inverse proportionality' meaning that and up/down scaling of one part does not mean the other parts equivalently change. So, even if we may pass legislation on higher taxation for high income, lower taxes for lower income, some experts has to work out how these new changes to the system will effect upper, middle and lower income classes and anticipate negative consequences for these changes.

This situation reminds me of one of the games I've played in the past called 'Final Fantasy Dissidia' and also 'Final Fantasy Dissidia 2'. Spoilers below for spoiler sensitive users: The game is about two dualistic deities, a god of chaos and a goddess of order. They both wage war against each other, and the way they do this is to take the main hero and antagonist from each universes that had existed ( each game title) and have them fight at each location based off of some of the world setting of these games. Near the end of the second game, both deities had to work together to defend against some other primordial being from destroying their realms and the heroes/villains worked together as well, and the memories of each hero/villain are absorbed by both the deities to further learn about how creation works. The main point is, that every new experience and internalization, you are learning regardless, and at the end of your life, you'd have accumulated enough valuable experience that another manifestation is improved. The inner workings or mechanics of how this happens is incredibly complex that I haven't grasped yet. However, it's happening.

One day, I hope I could channel an alien. Oh wait I do have some channeling capability because I can channel an entity in my waking consciousness.

@arlin Yes, most of the resistance and negativity to the void is from the ego, like for example the fear comes up, followed by an imaginary negative entity or imaginary feeling of hurt or something about the good vs evil of this 'void'. However, there are some experiences outside of personal awareness that can be literally true, like pocket dimensions like the 'Abyss', which most negative entities come from. Otherwise, how do you account for the paranormal events surrounding evil entities? It's more than the conflation of the ego extending meaning to these entities, and a few spiritually gifted people have encounters with such beings.

@Husseinisdoingfine I think it's better if you do provide some solid evidence instead of just a meme like below: because the guidelines are much tighter now.