Human Mint

Lessons that I liked: The counter-intuitive nature of life. Facing fears makes you grow, life gets good this way. The possibility of investing in your happiness. Answering the question of what makes you appreciate your life more? The clarification of what the Universe really is. That I am of Cosmic proportions. The change of mind about Solipsism. That you can fall in love with it and that in fact that's the only way of understanding it. That if you find it ugly it's just delusion, that that would be just more hallucination. How utterly astounding. I went through a lot to get to this point, I did have to wrestle in the mud for long periods of time until finally accepting some things. Still I understand 0.01% of what's intended. But I am ambitious and at peace at the same time. Life is so so weird.

Guitar duos!!

Below it's a good video on the practical side of learning music. When you're young you're like a sponge and you can learn something, not practice for 2 months and still being able to remember. But as you get older that task becomes harder, but on the other hand you become a better and more conscious student. The biggest challenge for beginners is going through the long phase of slow progress (everything is a weakness the first years). As you continue you find what you like in the big universe of music, and you work your way that path.

@oOo By timelapsing do you mean focused work/practice? What you describe I associate it with developing mastery. Are you a historian?

That could only happen in a japanese anime

Very cool, how long have you been playing? The French Horn is such a weird instrument. That record has a lot of wind intruments, sweet sound.

@Joseph Maynor What instrument do you play?

Next Curt Jaimungal's thumbnail.

Legendary winning prediction by @Gesundheit2 there. I remember that cup like it was yesterday. Time did flied by.

It was just something worth noticing. It's like the bitternes that follows a former christian after droping his religious indoctrination. I've met such people, you can't trust them. But your experience sounds more like you were watching from the distance. To be a guardian for your beliefs takes a lot of responsibility. Beliefs is mostly one lying to oneself, ommiting things you did and being exaggeratedly a victim.

Bicycle?

Right, no. But you can get lost in being rigorous without advancing much in your understanding (being rigorous over the wrong idea). But also to be able to generate insights it takes intellectual hygene, which in a sense is applying rigor. Making space for your insights is being rigorous. You can take advice from others but ultimately you know what to do.

A cult can mess up with your sense making and it would take you some years to heal. It is like a regression. Isn't that what the "The Social Matrix" video of Leo explains?

How it will affect you all depends on the type of person you are. There is drama here because people create drama by themselves, that's the function of the ego. I genuinely feel more concerned about studying my own defense mechanisms after spending time in here. People share intersting stuff here. Trip reports, transformational videos, life experiences, insights, etc. I would rather scroll in here than Tik Tok or Instagram. Cause' I'm a Chad. But to make a point for you, it would be better if people posted mostly at their best state.

Could it be that your experience made you paranoid about this place?