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Got my first dose of the Moderna vaccine here in Canada. No side effect for me, only slight tension in the arm after injection

You seem to have a lot of ability to notice your own bias. I sincerely think you have great contemplation skills and you can find the truth entirely by yourself. Of course it's easier to distance ourselves from the issues we aren't stuck on believing. It's easy for me to talk about gender dysphoria light heartedly because I'm looking at it from a totally detached state. It's a different thing to detach from the belief. Still, I do empathy with your situation as I had my own "heavy" things to deconstruct as well. Regardless of gender disphoria having been a misconception or not you will find happiness in accepting your current body and your current situation. All identifications are "misconceptions" in a sense. For instance the idea that I am a programmer type of person and not a footballer type of person is just an identity, it's not true. I could practice football and become better at it. Does it mean I ruined my life because I believed this idea about myself when I was young and it affected what I am good at now (RIP my footballer life)? No. If you want to make past identifications/misconceptions into problems you can but this too is a misconception. The truth is that the present moment is all there is, this story about what I should have done or could have been are ridiculous. If you truly accept everything and are fully in touch with the present moment then there is no gender dysphoria, no depression, no psychosis, nor any regrets about past decisions. Ego doesn't like to be told gender dysphoria is a misconception because ego thinks it is a person who has gender dysphoria. Even thinking you are a person is a misconception. Your true nature is much greater than that, even if it's being hidden behing layers and layers of conditioning. Gender dysphoria sure is quite a convenient explanation when you are lost, depressed and insecure about your body and sexuality. It's like a catch-all explanation which somehow explains everything "wrong" about yourself. No need to figure out anything anymore, I just had the wrong body! Reality is often much more nuanced than that. Traumas can be complex and intricate, they rarely are black and white like this. Traumas are unrecognized situations that led you to believe false things. Most of the time they are very specific to you rather than being a vague thing you can find others to have too. You say it's funny therapy doesn't fix gender dysphoria but it doesn't fix the most severe cases of depression either. Those get prescribed hard drugs instead. Of course if you have just some mild depression therapy can help, but there's no mild gender dysphoria. Gender dysphoria is relatively new compared to depression as well and the mainstream progressive opinion seems to be going toward normalizing hormone blockers for children and generally validating the idea of gender dysphoria being an actual (physical) illness. So I wouldn't imagine psychologists trying to challenge one's opinion of gender dysphoria just yet. I think it will take much longer before they realize that identification is limitless. Cause let's say gender dysphoria is fully validated. Now what about people who think they are the wrong species? (Furries) We would generally say those aren't valid because what they identify with isn't human. But are we going to "open up" to this idea in the future? When will we realize that one can literally identify with anything and make a problem out of it if convinced their belief is true? I imagine at some point there will be a crash but for now we haven't crashed yet so modern medicine continue to validate those identification-driven illnesses and so here we are.

It sure is far fetched hahaha, I wouldn't say I believe it but it's an entertaining idea. I'm curious what they will come up with in 2024. I don't think they can win again with Trump so what are they going to try? They are very funded so it's not like they won't try anything.

The GOP knows their only way to reelection is to crank the conspiracy theories to the max. They prob used some lobbying...

I was quite rude to you as well, my apologies. At least it sparked some good conversation

Yet the best way to replace them is to let go and follow feeling. Conceptualizing about the behavior patterns is not going to help you get better ones. The behavior pattern has a root cause (neediness/insecurity) and trying to keep those while artificially changing the behavior is a waste of time. If you stop being needy and insecure you'll stop acting that way. If you approach someone and you care about all of the "behaviors" you need to NOT have, you are worrying. It's stressful, unnatural and this unease will be felt by the person you are talking to. Now you want to "identify" this uneasiness as one more behavior pattern or try to find all of it's symptoms? You'll just end up with an evergrowing endless list of things "not to do" rather than just follow feeling which is infinitely intelligent and always knows what to do without worry, struggle or unease. It's like you are trying to replicate what feeling does through heavy conceptualization but that will always produce results that are worse than feeling.

You aren't the way you acted in the past. If you define personality as just a way to identify with past behavior then your personality isn't you. Doesn't matter which word you use, just don't think you are shit basically. That's what insecurity is. If you fully let go of all identifications, you don't need to do 3D chess analyzing your behavior patterns to try to seduce that girl at wendy's.

Fair enough but saying to someone "your personality suck" is quite ironic then, because you are just trying to put more weight into the pile of insecurities, which is the source of the personality "sucking" in the first place. If you agree with me that "bad personality" = "being insecure about yourself" then being insecure about your personality is totally circular and ironic. Thus your personality is never bad, this is just an idea being believed and thus realized. In practice your personality is infinitely great, you just have to stop believing it's bad and thus making it appear as bad.

"Being good with women" is a fake skill, most women don't want to be treated like a rubix cube you learn to solve, just like a normal human being. If all of this charisma stuff essentially comes from a place of neediness that will be felt and none of this charisma will matter. On top of that being charismatic essentially comes naturally if you let go of all that neediness and insecurity. Do you think the most attractive guys studied how to be attractive? No, it just probably never was a problem for them. They never made it into one so they never became insecure. What if super unattractive women tried to study you to "crack your code" so they can trick you into sleeping with them? Would that make them more attractive? Of course this is ridiculous because I stated the assumption that they are unattractive. What makes you unattractive is not your lack of "women skills" or "charisma" but insecurity. It's not about understanding how to talk to women, it's about understanding the person you are talking to in front of you. I do see this mentality as being a big factor. My idea was that if you are jacked AF, even with this trash mentality you can still score and hopefully this can help someone gain the confidence they need to let go of that mentality. But hey, if it's possible to look like superman yet be so needy you can't find anyone I guess this is possible.

That's just your assumption. For someone to be turned off by your personality they need to actually know you. If he's trying to do pick up in the street I'm not surprised if that doesn't go anywhere. There's so many other possibilities too, the guy could be 4'2 for all I know....

Nothing sucks more of a personality than being the guy who gets off saying shit like this lol

Hard to say what's your problem from my POV but if you are jacked and passionate about your hobbies you would do well on dating apps. Where are you trying to flirt exactly?

You can play the number's game if you want or you can just hit the gym and improve yourself. You can talk about chemistry all day but if there's no physical attraction chemistry is not even considered. Why did I reject this fat and low self-esteem women? Was it because of poor chemistry? No, it's just my survival bias gearing me toward women who are hot. Of course if she would ask me why I didn't want her I would say something like "oh we just aren't made for one another, we don't have chemistry" but really that's kind of a whole spoon of nice bullshit.

Yes, IMO gender dysphoria is a misconception. The idea that you are a woman in a man's body is false and vice versa. People feel bad about themselves and start imagining it's because their body have the wrong sex. Then they go to the doctor and get diagnosed, validating their misconception. No matter what your current body is (even if you already have transitionned) you can accept it the way it is and live a happy life. You can hear the thoughts of a trans person, but I'd advise hearing the thoughts of an enligthened trans person instead. Trans people are valid and they should have all the rights everyone else. People should be able to transition if they want to but no misconception about your true self should force you to transition. Mental illnesses like depression and gender dysphoria are construct of the mind that our current health system hasn't been designed to solve or understand. Thought can construct any number of mental illness which can be believed and through belief acted out. Those misconceptions can sure be deep, it doesn't suffice to tell someone suffering of gender dysphoria to just "wake up" just like it doesn't suffice to tell someone seeking enlightenment to just wake up either.

How would we even know the answer to your question? After all we only have our own direct experience which cannot be compared to the ones of other, as we don't experience the life of others from their POV. Anyone claiming they know genetics or environment is a factor to enlightenment is full of shit since they cannot compare their genetics or environment to the ones of anyone else. All excuses made by the ego to avoid awakening. A guru after doing a lot of 1 to 1 work with many students could try to answer this question from the perspectives of the students rather than his own, but we cannot know whether this man is just creating generalizations about his students or is actually right. It would be very easy for the guru to start believing "extroverts have it harder" when it comes to enlightenment and start using confirmation bias to confirm his theory. None of this would make it true though. One could try to answer those questions with statistical models but we don't have such research at the moment and it's insanely tricky to determine whether members of a population are "enlightened" or not. In practice, if you believe anything holds you back from enlightenment you are bullshitting yourself and it's that exact bullshit that separates you from it. You are it, not matter what your body is like, what your story is like or what your genetics are like. If God wants to experience being a kangaroo, God doesn't stop being God for the kangaroo.

That's George! Met him on my last DMT trip. He's quite a chill guy but a bit shy.

This is pure generalization though. Most of it fights symptoms therefore all of them fight symptoms? You can learn how pfizer vaccine works directly, it puts into your body the RNA sequence your antibody system would have obtained anyway if it had contracted the virus. Whether you get vaccinated or you get the virus your body will get this defense, except one of them puts you at risk of dying, having decreased lung capacity forever, brain damage and spreading it to others.

None of this is evidence though. If you have extra evidence that UFOs are aliens feel free to post it in this thread. All of the blabla that comes with it has no value, either the evidence speaks for itself or not.

@dlof My bad for even linking that video. I'm not a UFO debunker nor am I going to dive deep into any individual case. The author of the video is one though and if you have a video request for him, hit him up. That being said, the idea that "it can't be anything else than aliens" implies that the only phenomenon that is unknown to man is aliens. You equate aliens to unknown but the area of unknown things is infinite. You asked me to provide examples of what unknown things are (you said "Like what?") but this is a bait, the unknown is not known I cannot send you unknown things. In the 1200 hundreds though, electricity was not known and thus there was motivation to attribute the phenomena to magic. What else could it be? We already eliminated everything else, it must be magic. There are infinitely many things we don't know. UFO footages could be produced by tons of different things that we don't know and of course I cannot provide explanations for things we don't know. But just claiming it's aliens doesn't change anything, it doesn't lead to further explanations nor it makes you know it any better.

Yes because your sister being attacked by a dog isn't global scale phenomena that would interest thousands of experts in astronomy. What's the point of academia and the scientific community? Peer review. In Academia and famous scientific journals you cannot claim shit out of your ass just like you can in the flat earth forums or whatever other forum people use to spread their beliefs. Whatever you claim in a scientific paper will be tested by a 3rd party so you cannot just make shit up. This is the value of the scientific community. If you want believe it's "religious" or a conspiracy, I won't go there with you. There are way too much people lost in conspiracy theories for me to argue with each of them one on one. This has already been posted in this thread. I feel like we are running circles. I'm here for the meta argument about not being able to accept we don't know, not about the lack of evidence itself.

Nice post! It's blocked in Canada but we can listen to it here https://www.cbsnews.com/video/innovative-young-kenyan-scientist-is-turning-nairobis-mountain-of-plastic-waste-into-paving-bricks/

Nothing is confirmed, it's all speculation from people outside of the scientific community. Electricity "defied" the laws of physics at the time, our understanding of physics didn't include electro magnetic fields. We discovered a new phenomenon and it wasn't what some people would have thought it was : magic. What are those flying objects? They can be of various sources. "They move in unexpected ways" and "They are spaceships of living things" are very different points. If you want to get from the first one to the second you need solid evidence. Some people can offer an illusion of evidence through lengthy pseudo scientific rants but this isn't actual evidence. No matter what your reason is to believe those dots are spaceships driven by living things, it's just belief. There is no evidence that speaks for itself on that, only people who likes to speaks way to much about inconclusive evidence.

Yes I agree. It's not a big deal for me either. Leo can believe in whatever he wants about aliens it won't make his future metaphysical content any less good. But this is because I no longer see Leo as a role model, just as a messenger. I wouldn't mind listening to anybody about any subject, the author doesn't define the quality of the content But for more vulnerable people they kinda have to judge who they can trust in terms of self-help and generally people will use all types of ways to judge people. If you are the guy who claims to be infinitely open minded, who claims to dive into epistemology and be "the best" at knowing what Truth is, then what the heck is this? At the end of the day it's really none of my business. I just think this explains the frustration perceived in this thread much better than some sort of clinging to there not being aliens.

Maybe I'm totally wrong and the "opposite pole" you describe are actually triggered by "UFO evidence" and this evidence shatters their worldview but IMO, the fact Leo and so many others are so eager to believe in aliens after seeing UFO footage is much more "triggering" for some. For many Leo is a role model and it's a bit like discovering your role model is a flat earther. The dude you've been listening to videos for ages, the dude who got you into meditation and changed your life. Yes the same dude looks at blurry pentagon footage and is already 100% convinced those are evidence of aliens, refuses to provide further proof and calls anyone who disagree with him "dense". I think this is a factor but also the frustration of people being naive and buying into theories so fast. It's easy to judge other people for doing that when you already dislike yourself for doing the same in other areas of life. "Ah if only I wasn't so naive and didn't buy into every bullshit story my mind creates!" this can make a lot of struggle that is then projected outward to other people who buy into cheap stories online. At the end of the day nobody would cry if those UFOs were actually confirmed to be aliens. Nobody would "suffer a shattered worldview". I don't think anyone actually cares about defending that no-alien worldview it's much more about the meta-POV of "Do I believe cheap stories? Am I able to admit I don't know?".