The0Self

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  1. The intersection between 1. the infinite nature of your being, and 2. the finite nature of your life... Results in... Heaven when in service to all. Hell when in service to self. So to speak. Take this thought experiment: Imagine what would happen if omnipotent/omniscient God erased God's memory and then incarnated as you, and then lifted that ignorance upon your character's death. How much gratitude or guilt would you/God have for the choices God/you allowed you to make freely? No guilt if the ignorance is lifted, but if God allows you to choose not to lift the ignorance, then amazingly, that's how one could theoretically freely choose hell -- again, this nonetheless would be due to ignorance and not understanding one's own desires. This ignorance can be used to trap oneself in hell, or help yourself and others break out. All for Love.
  2. He described a&p symptoms to a t, and the a&p very often is associated with important insight -- in view, not thought.
  3. Ask yourself if you’re seeking 1. being content with being a loser, or 2. being content with being a winner. Because it’s not clear which one you’re less content with.
  4. The same way you did it this time. Except there is no other time. And it’s a strange loop, so it defies logic.
  5. That’s a phenomenon called the arising and passing away of phenomena. “The A&P” — look it up, as there is tons of info on it, and frankly anyone who has done a decent amount of meditation and study of meditation should be able to tell you that. Congrats though! It’s a big step indeed. Look into the dark night of the soul as well, as the stuff often referred to as that usually follows the a&p.
  6. From one perspective, the moment you die, you’re born again and repeat the same life over again. And again. Each one repeating infinitely, or at least that’s what shape reality appears to be in. That’s basically what hell refers to — but you as God can leave anytime. Hope and hopelessness are not separate. God (your true nature) is completely selfless, so what it longs for (your life), it gets to experience forever, and in so doing, it just so happens to be the most efficient way to create the universe. So whatever you take from life, is actually god taking from life, and will have to give it back through you; whatever you give to life, is actually god giving to life, and it will have to receive everything back… BTW, none of that is true, because what it refers to is beyond the contents of reality. Again that’s 1. a description, and 2. from a perspective, and therefore not strictly true. But the point is this: 1. If it must be true, then it is… 2. …unless you’re awake. Because the truth is actually so much simpler, but the thing is, there isn’t anything that’s not truth, so it can only be pointed to (which can often just look like poetry if there isn’t a very specific type of searching going on). Truth talk in the dream state is kind of thwarting Mother Nature; guess that’s why technically it cannot be done.
  7. Well, there’s no death. More like, in other words, there’s no other life. For instance, what does eternal damnation refer to? Your one life being the only one you get so if you’re selfish and don’t grow, you get that one life as your eternal prison.
  8. Hopefully with the next trial, smart matic or whatever, Fox won't be able to afford an enormous settlement and will have to go to trial to at least reduce its amount (hopefully smart matic is playing 4d chess to force this) -- they'll probably get out of it somehow but I'm thinking they'll at least go bankrupt. Info vacuum might appear, and unfortunately Fox News viewers don't like leftists very much so it won't be them, but hopefully the normies will just stop watching propagandistic news altogether. I have no idea the true significance of this though. I could be missing a lot.
  9. Pipe dreams are great and all but opium is in the absolute most addictive class of drugs around.
  10. Most of the numbers I've seen show that they do have EPA, but it is always at a lower amount than DHA. And there's some evidence to suggest that EPA intake should exceed DHA. So in a way you're correct but it seems like you meant they have no EPA. But it's not like it's conclusive that EPA must exceed DHA for optimal health... I'm pretty sure algae has at least some EPA, and it's not miniscule like 1% of DHA content either, more like 20-50% (at most half the amount) of the DHA content's value, is the EPA content.
  11. Sometimes the best gains come from long periods of not really caring about training, but going through the motions of training... just as an activity you've habituated yourself to. A primary reason for this phenomena is the lack of the significant mental stress and adrenal fatigue that would come with elevated motivation. So if you've been caught in a cycle of falling off the wagon (e.g. training for 2 months and then quitting for a year, repeat...), this could be an effect of your assumption that motivation has to be present to train. Meaning, once your motivation to train goes away, you stop training. You might even think, "If only I could stay motivated to train for the rest of my life, then I would certainly reach and even surpass my goals!" The thing is, motivation never lasts like that -- it may have been assumed to, but that's a false assumption. And again, perhaps serendipitously, lack of motivation actually slightly helps your results, assuming you still go through the motions and train somewhat hard. So basically my advice is: use the motivation to train as the fleeting opportunity that it is to solidify a habit, before the motivation, just as expected, disappears for a while. So then, when it disappears, you'll know that it's actually normal to continue rather than quit the training. The motivation may even come back (in fact it probably will), but it is always temporary. When the motivation disappears, you can do the training in its allotted time, while in general you're focusing on more important things. Many people already know at least the core of this. In fact it is known on some level by basically everyone who has trained at least once every 7-12 day period of their life for the past many years. Nothing particularly noticeable happens in less than 12-20 weeks.
  12. Yep. Then you’re good, in that regard at least. More still might be better but something about <125 can be associated with crashed T3 in subjects. Yeah, it’s pretty hard not to get that much. Kinda just means don’t eat keto style — at least not for long.
  13. My friend does it. I know how to do it to the bare minimum degree but I wouldn’t advise anyone on how to break the law. However, there are guides on how to use it (how to use TOR; Onion; dark net markets). It may indeed be risky, but from what I’ve seen, if done correctly, it works basically every time, seemingly.
  14. Yeah, it helps. So do psychedelics. Can, anyway. So does finesse and savviness. You lead on the surface, while at the same time, she’s leading on the subtextual level — the more she sacrifices for you (essentially give her permission to do so via your confidence), the more (interest) you give her. Because the more you sacrifice for her, the less she gives you back (if you were to lead on the level that you should let her lead on).
  15. Happens all the time. But not on the planet, the planet of course being totally imaginary. Though some of it you don’t forget, you do necessarily have to block out quite a bit to function as whatever will be an adequately believable form-role — but it’s not really a causal relationship (at least apart from ultimately being imagined as one).
  16. Especially if you suspect you may have thyroid issues, ensure that carbohydrate intake (net carb, as in fiber doesn't count) doesn't fall below 125g/day at a bare minimum. Going below this can crash the T3 to T4 ratio, resulting in depressed mood and other negative symptoms.
  17. Basically he had a mental breakdown but now has recontextualized it as being his purposeful journey to becoming un-cancel-able via pro-trans, pro-gay, pro-inclusivity sentiment. So that he can.. What exactly? I find it hard to believe he's doing it so he can be an antifeminist -- can't imagine going through all he has and not having learned anything. Maybe he's going to be a covert-pro-equality "antifeminist" -- target audience: Andrew Tate fans -- so that he can help destroy that ideology from the inside. I really don't know. I feel he's an example of what happens when a narcissist pumps themselves full of psychedelics and nonduality with no reservation.
  18. Huh? Tons of people here use psychedelics frequently. And of course, dark web is probably the easiest way to get anything if you don't socialize with groups that have access to such things. Clearnet for legal stuff though -- of which there is a lot.
  19. 1. Set up a standing desk. 2. Consider doing exercises that target good-posture muscles, as these are bound to be somewhat weak if you spend a lot of time sitting in front of a screen -- strengthening these muscles with such exercises can help you have more energy because bad posture requires more energy and work to sustain than good posture (at least partially because it increases the effective weight of your head due to the moment arm increase associated with anterior dominance), and this extra background-stress/work can potentially have a prominent effect on your overall fatigue/stress accumulation. You want to be either 1. posterior dominant ("go muscles"), or 2. balanced, not anterior dominant ("show muscles"). Exercises: facepulls (most important exercise for posture; set above eye level; pull high to low and have hands beat the elbows in a race to the finished/back position; do tons of them, with orange or red elitefts resistance band from amazon; 2-5 sets of 20-100 rapid-fire reps [it's with bands; no momentum, so you can do them really fast] 3-4 times a week), rows, reverse incline superman, rev inc Y-raise, and optionally neck extension and neck curl (stretch and warm-up the neck muscles before training... and only move the top joint connecting neck to head, NOT the joint connecting neck to torso! & don't tilt your head back too much [and especially avoid tilting head back AND to the side!] as this compresses the vertebrae in a problematic way). 3. Don't look at screens within 2 hours of going to bed. At least reduce the blue light you come in contact with for these last 2 hours. 4. Aim to be completely asleep between 1 and 3 am, preferably already having begun deep sleep (begins 3.75 hours after falling asleep) or REM sleep (begins 45 minutes after falling asleep). So the best time to fall asleep is between 9 PM and 12:15 AM. Total daily sleep time should always be greater than 4 and less than 9 hours (up to 9 hours bed rest), depending on the total current accumulation of physical and mental stress load. If you are neither lifting heavy weights, nor at least doing very challenging training with calisthenics/bodyweight exercise, then it's unlikely you'll need more than 7.5 hours to feel best... Especially if you aren't doing training that compresses the spine. If you are compressing the spine (some squat and deadlift variations; almost all barbell SQ/DL variations), then you should be decompressing it as well with hanging leg raises, reverse hyper (best), and vertical pulling (chin/pull-up). Perhaps: Lights out 9-6 or 12-9 if you need 9 hours. Bed 9-4:30 or 12-7:30 if you need 7.5 hours. Maybe 11-6:30 if you need to get up fairly early and you need 7.5 hours but you don't want to wake or go to bed super early. Etc. Try aiming for a multiple of 1.5 hours as this seems to usually have you waking up at the most optimal point in the sleep cycle (not in deep sleep). Waking up to your alarm whilst in deep sleep can be a harmful factor in excessive daytime sleepiness -- it was once thought that once you've had a certain amount of sleep though, usually you don't cycle through deep sleep anymore, you just alternate between REM and light (stage 2 I believe) sleep... so if you get enough sleep to get past all the deep sleep, you don't have to worry about waking directly from deep sleep anyway, but supposedly sleeping only for multiples of 1.5 hours (i.e. 4.5, 6, 7.5, or 9) can further decrease the chance... but it turns out that seems to actually be even more important as there is at least some evidence that deep sleep cycles continue throughout the night; the deep sleep portion just happens to decrease with each passing cycle, while the REM and stage 2 portions increase each cycle: So basically, you want to wake up either 1. directly from REM/dreaming, or 2. shortly after a REM/dream cycle (while in stage 2 sleep), and you do NOT want to wake up during the short period of deep sleep that precedes each REM cycle -- waking up directly from deep sleep can contribute to sleep inertia... which is perhaps part of the reason why the body directly ensures the chance of that is lower the longer you've slept. Timing is definitely a thing, but I'm not entirely sure that's all taken care of simply by ensuring 4.5/6/7.5/9 hours sleep / bed rest... Adding trial and error to this would be most effective. 5. Complete darkness in bed (there are photoreceptors even on your skin) -- Melatonin (5mg max) should be considered if this is not possible. And get some sunlight on your skin during the day, especially around noon or earlier. Vitamin D supplementation is not at all necessary if you have fair skin and live in a reasonably warm and sunny climate, but if neither of those is you, you may want to consider vitamin D -- but only take it with the first fat-containing meal of the day (preferably soon after waking), as vit. D is in some ways essentially the opposite of melatonin. 6. Don't go more than 2 days in a row without moderately intense exercise -- Each bout of intense exercise robustly promotes better sleep, but only for the 72 hours following it. MWF or TuWeFrSu etc works well as a lifting/exercise schedule, because you don't have more than 2 off-days in a row -- never 3+ in a row -- and therefore always get to benefit from the 72-hour-better-sleep-promotion, post each training session. 7. Meditate first thing in the morning. Some good styles are TMI, witnessing/inquiry, noting, and Metta. Before bed can also be good (in addition to first thing in the morning, not instead of) but in my experience meditation energizes so well that it CAN sometimes result in longer sleep latency / time to fall asleep... although it probably enhances sleep quality.
  20. I've actually been wondering about how it affected your blood work. Sometimes the blood work at 3 months on a particular diet style isn't nearly as useful as that at 1+ year, because a few months is just not enough time for blood work to seriously change. Definitely expected for all-meat to worsen blood work at 1 year. What was affected the most? Triglycerides and HDL? Triglycerides and VLDL? It sounds like all-meat is just the least worst option for some like you and JBP, but I wonder if you can mitigate its negative effects with vegetables or healthy carbohydrates that don't irritate your system, or with EPA and DHA at a sufficient amount and optimal ratio. Especially if triglycerides have worsened, 2g EPA + 900mg DHA (or at least 600mg EPA + 300mg DHA) daily might help a few things. And exercise, and perhaps limiting fat intake.
  21. Sounds utterly diabolical. Par for the course for RSD.
  22. Yes, this sentiment cannot be overstated.
  23. That's why so many people are incels. Getting the whole dating thing off the ground takes tons and tons of rejection, so you have to basically be rejection proof eventually, though in the beginning it's hard. For me it was an extremely stressful process that I can now see many men are afraid to start, and for good reason, but if those guys only knew that that's simply what it takes, many of those guys would be fine.