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@Extremist27 I have made the necessary adjustments

your comment reflects the reactionary expression of your avatar as well as member name nevertheless I will adjust some of the content

So you are classifying pick up as not doing stupid shit?

Why were you on the verge of crying if he was talking about not doing a dangerous breathing technique ?

The problem is wanting a reason. That can lead to suffering because there are many things in life where we don't get an explanation A reason = an explanation Don't assume reason came before existence Explanation is an abstract artificial concept we use to give us a sense of a control.

want is not reality. At this point it is a close race and Biden may be slightly stronger in the polls. If Bernie has another heart issue before March it could raise doubts in voters minds Latest 2020 General Election Polls https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/latest_polls/general_election/

That's what he wants you to think

Can an enlightened person be evil?

I wonder is Satan came up with nonduality so he could pass through metal detectors and not set off the alarm

Who do you predict will win the democratic nomination?

Both of course Oneness

Two powerful technique in positive affirmations 1) As stated repetition of the positive affirmation as outline in Leo's video, a 5 minute period of saying it (probably best aloud) will ingrain it in the subconscious mind but in addition if you hand write it on a page or two of paper over and over again, I have found that that enhances the method. 2) A study in 2010 showed that a question "Will I " placed before a declarative statement is more effective than just the declarative statement alone. It's called "interrogative self talk". Not that you are under a police interrogation the word "interrogative" just a fancy way of saying questioning . Example " Will I lose weight? Yes I will"

yes, obviously rape and murder is not love (but could be accommodated by people who believe that God = Love & Hate and that God also indulges in devilshment)

This is stealth atheism employing multiple "have your cake an eat it too arguments" This forum including the founder is mainly comprised of people who believe saying "I am God" is a valid statement and people should declare it but you are saying the most profound statement is "hilarious" ??? Interestingly saying "I am God" offends both the Christian, Muslim and Jew - as well as the atheist (if not inspires reactions of "hilarity" by some And to say that you are not God according to many in the forum is devilishment (but you have cloaked it in insulation) . So you are saying separation does not exist but the statement "I am God" (aka God is me) is false because it is a "notion" ??? and notions are statements of separatism? Are you sure about that? Just because something is a "notion" . How do you know it's a "notion" and not "The ultimate truth" right under your nose?? How do you now you not being God is the actual notion ? So 9 pages in you reveal there is no God If that had been page 1 this would have been a 9 page thread? You are saying "I am God" is just a big ego trip, That's what the Christians, Muslims and Jews would say meeting you half way

Related article (again consider the subprime housing crisis of 2007-2010 a housing bubble which caused a big recession with nearly 9 million jobs lost during 2008 and 2009, roughly 6% of the workforce. The number of jobs did not return to the December 2007 pre-crisis peak until May 2014.U.S. household net worth declined by nearly $13 trillion (20%) from its Q2 2007 pre-crisis peak, recovering by Q4 2012.[14] U.S. housing prices fell nearly 30% on average and the U.S. stock market fell approximately 50% by early 2009, with stocks regaining their December 2007 level during September 2012. One estimate of lost output and income from the crisis comes to "at least 40% of 2007 gross domestic product". Europe also continued to struggle with its own economic crisis, with elevated unemployment and severe banking impairments estimated at €940 billion between 2008 and 2012.As of January 2018, U.S. bailout funds had been fully recovered by the government, when interest on loans is taken into consideration. A total of $626B was invested, loaned, or granted due to various bailout measures, while $390B had been returned to the Treasury. The Treasury had earned another $323B in interest on bailout loans, resulting in an $87B profit.[1cession. Climate change could end mortgages as we know them By Irina Ivanova November 8, 2019 / 1 Climate change could punch a hole through the financial system by making 30-year home mortgages — the lifeblood of the American housing market — effectively unobtainable in entire regions across parts of the U.S. That's what the future could look like without policy to address climate change, according to the latest research from the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. The bank is considering these and other risks on Friday in an unprecedented conference on the economics of climate change. For the financial sector, adapting to climate change isn't just an issue of improving their market share. "It is a function of where there will be a market at all," wrote Jesse Keenan, a scholar who studies climate adaptation, in the Fed's introduction. U.S. taxpayers are at risk for homes threatened by climate change Climate change could deliver a $4 trillion hit to the financial system California fire insurance premiums pricing out homeowners No more mortgages? The housing market doesn't yet factor in the risk of climate change, which is already affecting many areas of the U.S., including flood-prone coastal communities, agricultural regions and parts of the country vulnerable to wildfires. In California, for instance, 50,000 homeowners can't get property or casualty insurance because of the increased risk to their homes. more here (but not much more) https://www.cbsnews.com/news/climate-change-could-end-mortgages-as-we-know-them/

A hit like this could lead to a domino effect on the U.S. economy Property looses caused by in California foreshadow future problems as well as the potential for future increases in flooding (recall Sandy in NJ/NY) hurricanes and other weather patterns recall the housing crisis of 2007-2010 The United States subprime mortgage crisis was a nationwide financial crisis, occurring between 2007 and 2010, that contributed to the U.S. recession of December 2007 – June 2009. It was triggered by a large decline in home prices after the collapse of a housing bubble, leading to mortgage delinquencies and foreclosures and the devaluation of housing-related securities. Declines in residential investment preceded the recession and were followed by reductions in household spending and then business investment. Spending reductions were more significant in areas with a combination of high household debt and larger housing price declines. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/climate-change-could-deliver-a-4-trillion-hit-to-the-financial-system/ Climate change could deliver a $4 trillion hit to the financial system Climate change could deliver a $4 trillion hit to the financial system By Irina Ivanova April 5, 2019 / 4:07 PM / MoneyWatch U.S. cities owe $3.8 trillion in debt that's increasingly threatened by extreme weather events and economic disruption driven by climate change, according to the investment giant BlackRock. Seattle's economy will be least affected by climate change, while Miami and Houston stand to lose about 4 percent of their GDP. Commercial real estate would also be hard-hit, which hurts not only corporations but the many others who invest in their properties. Climate change is a problem of epic proportions. For BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager, it amounts to nearly $4 trillion. And Seattle will weather that damage better than Houston or New York, according to a report the financial company released this week. The report, which looks at the physical risks of unchecked climate change, pinpoints the Gulf Coast, the Atlantic seaboard and Arizona as the places that will lose out the most in a "business as usual" scenario, in which policymakers do nothing to mitigate climate change. While a handful of northern counties, clustered in the upper Midwest, could see a net gain under unchecked climate change due to longer agriculture seasons, the potential losses are much bigger than the gains. "Some 58% of U.S. metro areas would see likely GDP losses of up to 1% or more, with less than 1% [of metro areas] set to enjoy gains of similar magnitude," BlackRock estimated Trickle-down effects from extreme weather More worrying, per BlackRock, is how those losses could trickle down into the entire finance system. That's because cities -- which today generate the vast majority of the U.S.' economic growth -- fund many of their services by issuing municipal bonds. U.S. cities currently have about $3.8 trillion in bonds outstanding, Federal Reserve data shows. These securities are owned by mutual funds and various institutional and individual investors. The returns those bonds generate rely on a city's economic expansion, which climate change can undermine in a number of ways. Consider extreme-weather events, such as wildfires or hurricanes, which in 2017 did $300 billion worth of damage. The cost of cleaning up after these disasters can lead cities to accumulate more debt, which has harsh effects on bonds they issue. Severe natural disasters, like Hurricane Maria, can lead to population drain and dropping property values, further eroding a city's tax base and its ability to pay back bonds. Bonds issued by a specific project, like a water or power utility, could be hurt even more, since these utilities can be disproportionately harmed by floods, droughts or hurricanes. No major cities benefit in this scenario, but some withstand it better than others. "Seattle, with its relatively temperate climate, shows the most resilience with little projected damage to GDP over time," BlackRock finds. On the other hand, the New York region is projected to lose the equivalent of 1 percent of its enormous GDP by the end of the century. Miami and Houston will each see damage equating to about 4 percent of GDP, the report said. The silver lining is that "the projected losses are not set in stone. Larger, more diversified MSAs [metropolitan statistical areas] such as New York are in a better position to fund adaptation and mitigation projects," which would prevent the worst of climate-change damage down the line. Corporations, too, stand to lose in this scenario, thanks to the sheer amount of real estate in storm-prone coastal regions. That hurts not only the corporations but the mortgages secured by that pricey real estate, which themselves are a fairly common financial investment. Just three cities -- New York, Houston and Miami -- make up one-fifth of the value of commercial mortgage-backed securities, the report finds. If recent hurricanes offer any evidence, most of the buildings flooded in storms won't carry flood insurance, meaning even greater financial losses. Flooding isn't the only risk: Within 30 years, the chances of a typical commercial property getting hit by a Category 5 hurricane rises 275 percent, the report finds. "Bottom line: Climate-related risks are significant today -- and set to grow in the future." First published on April 5, 2019 / 4:07 PM

Who are the Wisest Psychonauts? - NOT who is the most expert on psychedelics or who is most expert or describes the most about psychedelic experiences but who, that has taken psychedelics many times has spoken or written the wisest things about life in general in your opinion?

thanks for sharing this video, you are tough to be able to finish it. I have listened to much of it. I wonder if you hadn't fasted how it would have been different here is another darkness retreat account https://hridaya-yoga.com/reflections-on-a-40-day-dark-retreat/ Reflections on a 40-Day Dark Retreat by Kali Aney ___________________________________________________________ Also https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/11/the-caves-of-forgotten-time/414894/ The Caves of Forgotten Time Two spelunkers lost track of entire weeks as part of an experiment on the effects of isolation. When Josie Laures came out of her cave on March 12, 1965, she thought it was February 25. A few days before Antoine Senni came out of his cave, on April 5 that same year, he thought it was February 4. The two cave explorers emerged from their holes in the French Alps, near Nice, 50 years ago. Each of them set the then-world record for time spent alone in a cave—Laures set the female record at 88 days, and Senni the male record at 126 days—as part of an experiment to see what the effects of extreme isolation and loneliness would be on their bodies and minds. While in their caves, which were separate but just a few hundred yards apart from each other, Laures and Senni kept in touch with researchers at a control point, who tracked their sleeping and eating habits, as well as memory and vital signs. The researchers did not, however, give Laures or Senni any clues about how time was passing up on the surface. By the time they emerged, wearing dark goggles to spare their cave-accustomed eyes from the sunlight reflecting on the alpine snow, they had lost weeks of time, by their own reckoning. In chronobiology, the study of biological rhythms and how they relate to the environment, the German word zeitgeber means “synchronizer.” Natural light is the best-known, though not the only, zeitgeber that syncs human sleep patterns up with the Earth’s 24-hour day. Absent any cues from sunlight or even from clocks, Laures’s and Senni’s sleep schedules got wacky—sometimes without them realizing it. A Chicago Tribune article titled “Sleepy Caveman Calls it Quits” proclaims Senni “a great sleeper, sometimes nodding off for 30 hours at a time and waking up believing he had simply had a short nap.” (In years since, researchers have found that people often slip into 48-hour sleep cycles when isolated from the environment.) This being the era of the space race, and just a few years after President Kennedy’s call to put a man on the moon, the subjects, researchers, and NASA alike saw the cave jaunt as a window in to what astronauts might experience on long, lonely space missions. The experience was definitely trying. Upon her exit, Laures told the Associated Press: I am so happy to have lasted it out, that I have forgotten everything. I can tell you though that it became very difficult toward the end and I felt terribly worn out … At the start of my stay I read, and then I lost the desire. I didn't suffer from the cold. I was well heated in my little tent. My tape recorder refused to work the first few days, but later I managed to repair it and I listened to music. Outside of that I knitted, and knitted some more, and looked forward to the time when I would finally see the sun. But aside from that, the many old AP and Reuters articles I read about Senni and Laures didn’t say much about their physical and mental states post-emergence. Senni was apparently pronounced “in very good physical shape” by someone at the control point. And Michel Siffre, the speleologist who oversaw the experiment, told the AP that Laures was “in perfect health” after her stay, according to the hospital tests, though he noted that she had some temporary color-blindness, and trouble getting back to a normal sleep pattern, which does not sound perfect to me. Later studies on isolation have found not only effects on sleep cycles but anxiety, hallucinations, and a decline in mental performance. These were sensory deprivation studies, though, and at least in the caves, the subjects were welcome to read or knit or listen to music. Siffre’s isolation studies, of which Laures’s and Senni’s was but one, drew criticism as well as admiration. “Some people think he is a bad boy,” the chronobiologist Franz Halberg told The Los Angeles Times in 1988. “But Siffre does what nobody else will do. He has, by far, the longest records of people in isolation. Others who have studied similar situations have done it for weeks; he has done it for months.” Siffre also experimented on himself. In 1962, a couple years before Laures and Senni descended into their own stalagmite-studded holes, Siffre spent two months in a glacial cave in the Alps. Ten years later, in 1972, he did an even longer stint—six months in a cave near Del Rio, Texas. “Physically it was not tiring, but mentally it was hell,” Siffre told the German magazine Der Spiegel, in 2014. Siffre was so lonely in the Texas cave that he attempted to catch a mouse to keep as a pet. According to Der Spiegel, he spread jam on the floor of the cave, and while the mouse was licking it, brought a dish down over it to trap it. But he aimed poorly, and when he lifted the dish, the mouse had been crushed to death by the dish’s edge. “Desolation overwhelms me,” he reportedly wrote in his diary. Laures, too, turned to rodents for friendship during her time in the cave, but with happier results. “A white mouse was her sole companion during the three-month ordeal,” the AP reported. “It came through the experiment in good shape.”

Does separation exist?

NEW SADHGURU , NOV 12, 2019 How Do You Recognize An Enlightened Being? - Sadhguru

quotes: Don’t be dead serious about your life – it’s just a play. If you resist change, you resist life Just ask yourself – what do you really want of life? That is the direction you should go. If you choose, you can be joyful every moment of your life. It’s time you made your choice. The mind is a powerful instrument. Every thought, every emotion that you create changes the very chemistry of your body. The mind remembers only certain things. The body remembers everything. The information it carries goes back to the beginning of existence The sign of intelligence is that you are constantly wondering. Idiots are always dead sure about every damn thing they are doing in their life. If you think you are big, you become small. If you know you are nothing, you become unlimited. That’s the beauty of being a human being Right now, you don’t have the necessary faculties to know anything which is beyond the physical. If you recognize this, if you understand this, if you accept this absolutely, only then the other dimension opens up. Are you here to experience life or to think about it?

time is a hoax that has been going on for years

Ok, so what ever is believed is true. Interesting theory, all beliefs are true

you had a post in in late May called "Problem with procrastination" Have you made progress since then?

@cetus56 which is true: 1) there is no God, that is a fantasy 2) God is everything and you and I are God 3) God is everything. We are only tiny particles in the body God 4) God is an entity and we are a separate entity