Gesundheit

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Pain, suffering, and disease (physical or mental) are all inevitable consequences/symptoms of excessive greed/fear/manipulation/ego-mind. It's God's way of humiliating the ego-mind and maintaining justice in the world. The closer you are to God, the less of those things you will experience. The cleaner your money/survival is, the less of those things you will experience. Not only that, but you pay for your ancestors' mistakes too. Why? Because they left this realm before they could pay their debts, and so they inherit you with whatever they inherit you with, and inheritance contains pain, suffering, and disease. Such a weird and counter-intuitive insight!

We should be grateful. They were called "diseases" before. Disorders is a much accurate term, so that's a good step forwards. I've been trying to understand this topic for a while, and it's really hard to figure out. Do you have any thoughts/suggestions on how to better define health in our modern time?

I strongly agree ?????? This is even more important than the politics forum. It is needed to put our political understanding into the proper context, so that we can understand what we're dealing with here today.

@Someone here Awesome and inspiring work man! Hang in there and keep it up. You can do it. I'd only smoked on and off for a few months and never bought my own packet. It affected my breathing negatively, and I could intuit that it was really addictive, so I cut it off really early before it could get difficult. I'm glad that I did and I hope you will kick that SOB habit out of your life forever. Stay strong.

Tranquillity, or deep peace of mind, which ironically equals the absence of all emotions. In solitude.

@Shin Sorry. I can't take you seriously anymore after you bailed out on our last conversation.

In this life, survival should be the least of your concerns. In fact, it should be completely trivial and not even pass your mind. You should never invest even one thought thinking about survival because it's a waste of time and energy and a cause of several problems including fear and neurosis and so on. Your only objective in life should be to flow with life. You should not think about preventing death because you will die eventually anyways. Besides that you can never know what will survive you better. Just be.

@Origins Different tactics:

@Origins @Keyhole Having fun over there? Leave some sweet messages for me too please.

I want to discuss his point when he says that sex should be on the periphery of life. Well, can sex ever not be on the periphery of life? In my experience, it's like food. At some point you will have enough of it you will not want it anymore until you feel hungry again. I don't know about other people, but how much of the day can anyone spend on pornographic material? Like for real, the most I can make it is to a couple of hours every few days, but that's it. So, it is always on the periphery, just like food. Unless you idolize it somehow, it is always peripheral. Even if you do idolize it and you're some kind of freak, how many hours can you invest in masturbation? At some point, the penis itself will get disgusted and tell you to stop. Jeez! Besides, I don't think he's addressing the core of the problem with his view. It seems rather superficial and judgemental to me. The real question is that why do people resort to pornography in the first place? And what can we make as a society to help people with sex obsession? After all, there must be a reason why porn is so appealing to most males. And it's certainly not because they're filthy animals who just want to screw around with their time and energy. Maybe the lack of a healthier alternative (natural sex) is what makes the easier ways more palpable. Maybe there are other systemic problems that are even deeper than and at the root of providing the healthier alternative.

Are you saying that left bias is relative truth?

Yeah, I totally get that. But I don't think the forum is very skewed towards the masculine. Maybe a little, but I would say it's still reasonable and relatively healthy. LMAO Vegeta.

Looks promising!

@Keyhole Being rough is a very common masculine energy. When you're around a bunch of guys, don't expect them to be all soft and pink. I personally like and request some roughness and would be triggered if I was treated too softly. It would make me feel a little bit, idk, feminine to be treated in such a way. Not that I deny or hate the feminine, but that it's not particularly my type. I am used to roughness and toughness. Kill me but don't treat me like a pink rose.

@Member I don't know what I am anymore. I don't identify with anything in particular except for being a devil.

Enlightenment is total insanity. It is the death of the mind.

@Emerald There aren't different levels to knowing. Just two. It's either 100% knowing, which equals being. Or it's less than 0.000000000000000000000000001% knowing, since God is the largest infinity, and anything smaller than the largest infinity compared to it equals very little. Similar to a mathematics when we divide any number by infinity. The answer is always close to zero. @Whatwhat Because if you know the truth you will cease to exist and you won't be able to talk about it.

Or going insane. You can't "just be" when your ego-mind/identity is threatened. It will not let you be. It will cause you all kinds of disturbances to distract you from "just being". Because otherwise, it will die. But that's the last thing you want.

The fear of fear.

No, not really. What problem?

He might or might not be. But actually you're the one deciding that, whether consciously or not. If you ask for my opinion, I would certainly agree with your psychologist because he's an expert and knows you in person. And because what he says sounds correct from my current understanding. But hey, you still know yourself better.

Look, I'm not currently in a state of fear. But when shit hits the fan, I will most probably feel fear. My explanation for that is that it's a way for the ego-mind to preserve itself. So, if that's the case, the ultimate solution would be to get rid of the ego-mind. What I'm saying is that it's not about current fears, because there's none. It's about future fears that overwhelm me and get me by surprise. And don't tell me oh just be present in the moment or you're imagining the future because I know all that and it doesn't help when shit hits the fan. When bad things happen, all conditioning will come back and all knee-jerk reactions will kick in, and fear is the most fundamental part of all that. If I remove everything else, fear will remain. But if I remove fear, everything else will go with it.

I can't locate it, but so what? It still exists regardless.

What about it? Way too over my head, like always.