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Of course, and the happiness that ideology produces is like a house of cards, it has to be maintained all the time, and can be easily taken away and turned into a horrible suffering, if they ever realize their deluded ways, as you mentioned with a slave-owner example. They seem so busy with all that stuff, it seems very important to them, all the meaning they create, and existencially speaking, makes me wonder how is that different from the meanings that I use to derive happiness from in my life. I find it funny that women wear beautiful wigs. Like, they shave they heads because long hair is seductive to men as they say, and then, they use even more seductive wigs to cover their bald heads. Ridiculous, lol.

https://www.actualized.org/insights/orthodox-jewish-conformity @Leo Gura Do you truly believe that being under ideological illusion to such comical degrees can really produce happiness? If so, how would you even define what happiness is? Just meeting your survival needs?

@Monster Energy It's really strange that some of us who got addicted to porn earlier in life, share the experience of this being the most difficult thing to break out of. People who just casually use it can't understand the struggle of it. But also, it's an opportunity to truly look at the impulses and see through them. Not acting on the urges feel like turture sometimes but only through that suffering can it be solved.

@Monster Energy Thanks for sharing 🙏🏻 will check it out.

Thanks for sharing, I'm struggling with that at the moment so I can relate to everything you said here. It's really tough.

@Monster Energy How did you overcome it? 4 times a day for 10 years doesn't seem easily breakable, I imagine you had many relapses. What exactly happened 3 years ago? What did you change after your last relapse?

How would you define a true friend? And what is lacking in your current friendships that would make them true?

I remember couple years ago I was on one new-age holotropic breathwork retreat, where you breathe heavily for 1-2 hours and then talk about your experience with a group of people. It was that new-age conformist environment where all they talk is about chakras, and magical healing. Most of them told amazing stories like how they had mystical experiences, out-of-body and healing experiences. I didn't experience shit, it was just monkey-mind and blackness. And out of conformity, I also came up with some bullshit story of what I experienced and what it meant, to conform to what all the other people were telling. At the end of the event, I was disgusted with myself. Later I was wondering if some of those people also exaggerated their experiences just to conform.

I always cringe on watching those. Wearing a white dress at a wedding. Couples cutting cakes together at their wedding. Basically, any wedding tradition

Not really, no. Just in theory. Spirituality seems to be an area that provides you with an ability to simply just be without chasing some endless cheese and be okay with that. But I think that only comes after lots of suffering through life and training yourself and your nervous system a lot.

@OBEler Yeah my friend who was also there told me there was definetely something to those temples, Dhyanalinga made it easier for him to access altered states through meditation. Interesting stuff.

That sucks. How did you injure yourself? Lifting too much weight without proper form?

Prioritizing protein is important, also being in a caloric deficit if you want to lose fat. So it's not like eating anything goes to build a nice body.

I remember him promoting that book on Dr. Mike's podcast a couple of months ago. It sounded sketchy the first time I heard about it. He's probably jumping on the looksmaxxing bandwagon with that book (I haven't read it), but some of the points he made on that podcast were reasonable, for example, that looks matter, as opposed to not mattering at all. But his claim that everyone could get an attractive body through surgery sounds like bullshit to me. One more thing: I also criticized him from an ontological standpoint and assumed that he should have looked at the issue from an existential standpoint, at least to some degree. But then I remembered that he's just a bodybuilder YouTuber. I was asking too much. Maybe surgery is what someone needs to realize that, ultimately, it was never really about the surgery.

I love that track ❤️ Didn't know the author though. RIP 🙏