Lyubov

Some of y'all are crazy but that's ok, you gotta be a little crazy to value spirituality and make it a central focus of one's life. thanks!

Claude is amazing for this and self inquiry. I have a whole project set up I use to understand my beliefs and so self inquiry with.

I’m not saying there isn’t any nut jobs on the left but this is a false comparison. Right wing brain rot and conservative ideologies are far more combative, oppressive and destructive to relationships, people and the planet by a wide margin compared to the nut jobs on the left Well yeah, of course. Like every child deep down wishes from their parents. But I’ve accepted I won’t get that from him nor should I build my life or perspective around being reliant on my dad’s support or approval (or anyone for that matter). He’s stuck in his ways and no amount of talking to him will change that. He has to want to change himself if he wants to change, all I can do is accept life for what it is.

All this doomer crap everywhere. Yea things will change and it will be very hard. Humans are incredibly resilient. Koreans are very proud of their country. They will survive. Bet on it.

Yes, this definitely is part of it. I think this may be one of the reasons there is a such a disconnect between generations these last several decades. We just see the world so differently. I wonder what a few generations from now will think as well? It’s so easy to see our beliefs as some truth about reality when they are just like sunglasses which can be taken off in an instant. The thing is I don’t want to bridge this at all, he is a miserable person to talk to and my energy only goes so far. Yes, every single person in the family sees him this way even my mom but she loves him and the odd thing is she is much more stage green, votes blue, quite liberal. Yet she makes a relationship work with him. I don’t not understand this. My dad is a miserable and controlling boomer conservative who is unsupportive of me. I just accept this, which is a bit of a hard pill to swallow sometimes for my inner child, but I know god is in me Andy true value so I allow myself to align with this and know regardless of my relationship with him I’m still valuable and life is beautiful. The funny thing is my dad was a hippy, I swear to god. He was born in 1950, went to Woodstock, smoked pot, protested the Vietnam war and studied to be an artist. He even did LSD a few times if I’m not mistaken. Thinking though old stories he told me about himself and how he used to live life, he used to be more moderate by comparison to now, he was more open minded. Somewhere along the way he shut down. He’s not like a totally miserable person but he is not pleasant to be around, very difficult to relate to and have a relationship with when literally every conversation culminates in something about Trump, or immigrants, or guns or some typical conservative fixation. He has talk radio blasting all afternoon. It’s not exactly possible to enjoy a relationship with a person like this even if they are your parent, it’s reality 🤷‍♂️

Of course he will try for a third term and even have people rioting for it, maybe even try to shut down the election. People already forgot January 6th…

Have you spoken to the average Trump supporter? They will find a way to mention politics or how the USA isn’t great no more almost every single day.

I’m fine and mostly accepting of the one I have. It would be nice if he were less negative but that is not under my control and I am fine with that.

Why is this though? I noticed this as well with certain old people from certain countries. Just insufferable.

I was creating very painful emotions and judging myself, someone told me about those 10 day vipassena retreats so I did a few, and then from there I started searching for stuff on meditation and spirituality and Leo’s videos came up. From there I did a lot of work on myself, got into psychedelics then quit. Then I started studying Taoism after really having a consistent and strong awareness of spirit during each waking moment. Here I am now ever learning and growing!

Reading is very helpful and incredibly useful. I don’t think it’s ever a time waste for most people if you are sticking to self help classics and spiritual texts. The thing is most people will benefit from reading more because they may lack a bit of information needed to answer their own question or set themselves up to move forward and discover something else. Do you want the guy operating on you to say he doesn’t read and learned everything on the job? If you’re so caught up in reading and literally doing nothing then it could be a waste of time but most people can barely finish one book a month so I would say it’s not something to worry about. Just choose the right books.

This clown fails to mention right wing efforts to ship labor overseas, right wing efforts to union bust, right wing attacks on labor rights, deregulation. It’s like how these jokers tout how the invasion of Iraq was a mistake yet it was fueled by right wing ideology…. Their ideology and policies caused the issues but as time passes and people forget, they can create some faceless boogeyman of elites who did it, most Americans are even so dumb they don’t even look at what caused the current situation they are in. They just scream how it’s a problem and how the left caused it.

Crazy what has been normalized in the past 8 years, this guy complaining about his portrait… USA is a madhouse.

I actually think nofap has its place but it also has a lot of limitations and there are higher belief systems and practices that are better for most guys. For me I want to do this less because I think it’s getting in the way of me being more intimate with my girlfriend out of some fear of being separated on day. So for me addressing that instead of retreating would be beneficial.

We need a deeper discussion on what happened to Joe Rogan, I still don’t entirely understand what happened to him.

Idk I’m not charmed by it 🤷‍♂️ I’m sure there were plenty of Nazis who were personable and you could sit down with over a cup of coffee and have a laugh with, they probably liked playing sports like me and we could bond over some things. It’s not really surprising to me since I know dangerous people still are human.

I don’t think this type of language and characterization of reality is helpful. People think because there’s a lot of difficult shit to face in life that we got to poison the well and say we live in hell. If you find that empowering, sure go for it. If you want to use victim language to make your experience feel valid, go for it. I just think this is a poor teaching and characterization of things. I’m not saying there isn’t some incredibly challenging and complex situations in life which require compassion and understanding, some which come with a lot of pain. But labeling it hell… expand consciousness and build your vocabulary. Giving power away to these negative labels.

A clock is right twice a day? Dems push fringe issues and have strange ideologies in their party. Republicans do the same but it’s basically shutting down democracy. Pick your poison. 1 upping in the online comments over a trans person who wants to fit into society even if these changes are bizarre OR losing your democracy and living under Christian autocracy.

I think it’s very personal. I wouldn’t say meditation is less than contemplation / inquiry. They are just different tools / processes. I prefer self inquiry but I think it suits my personality more and my story more. Some do better with meditation. I do both. I think self inquiry is a bit better for people who have gotten themselves stuck because it allows for a more gradual re engineering of the mind. Meditation I’ve found does less of this if there is a bunch of shit in the way. It sort of cuts through it but you return to the stories. But at the same time meditation builds focus and it’s useful to be able to see different perspectives. Both are great it’s just personal which one works best.

Easy targets to punch down on. I could see them using this as warm up and then trying to mess with the opposition using bizarre laws and strange and twisted interpretations, for example claiming anyone protesting is in violation of the whatthefuckisthisshit act of 1901. Twist stuff and clog up the courts. It's a good way to cause more grid lock and confusion and it can tie up government resources.

Yes distraction is a big thing and most of it is mental chatter and unresolved issues one is choosing. You got to resolve big picture belief based problems in order to get out of the way and let the way guide you.

There’s plenty of things on can do to alter their state, alter their perception in radical ways, have mystical experiences. What’s important is does it lead to insight, understanding and lasting resolution. Does it fundamentally change oneself so one is living with integrity? A lot of this stuff is usually based on the idea that it’s a short cut or you can just swallow a pill and it somehow solves your problems, lack responsibility.

Yes. And this is a big problem. I had a discussion today with my girlfriend about this. How a well known influencer faked it with lies until they made it, and in that process they learned marketing. Because of course you can become a decent marketer regardless of whether you are telling the truth or not. So now this influencer has sort of laundered their past away and apparently does have some decent information base products to offer but these skills were built in exchange for integrity. It lacks truth and it’s not someone you should really look up to even if they have developed some valuable skills through telling lies. The same applies to stuff like this. The person is harnessing their power as the creator but doing so out of ignorance, stage green new age superstitions.

That’s an insane cover. Has it always been that way? Some people have really figured out how to monetize and bottleneck the male search for sex / companionship into a way to leech cash from men. Onlyfans, club covers, premium dating apps, the list goes on. It’s disgusting. Men in the west need to get stronger and rise above this crap and take back their power. But they are too underdeveloped to see that if everyone uses the same strategy to do this it turns into a rat race to “escape the matrix” with a few winners and a lot of losers. It’s ridiculous how an entire population of lazy men basically lazy’d their dating strategy away to a small percentage of people at the top who now milk them for cash.

Listen if you want to get lost in what you don’t like about reality go for it. I’m not saying there isn’t anything we as people don’t like or dislike. There’s a section at the bottom of this forum for that.