Natasha Tori Maru

@YIDIRYIDIR chill man, no need to get so wound up. You commented in reply to a user they responded to the topic title and not body of the post - as if the two had nothing in common. Pretty common for users to do so. My comment is aimed to get you to contemplate what the entire topic is saying about what you could be ignorant to. It's like a koan. Offense can only be taken.

Are you trying to insinuate the title isn't clickbait in some way? 💀💀💀 A notice a pattern:

Both the DOACEO guy and Rogan don't challenge and push back enough imo.

You don't know, what you don't know.

X1 Carbon notebook - cops a smashing by me (ten thousand tabs, bluebeam, revit, autocad + unflattened architecture renders and still has headroom for more). Garmin - I really enjoy tracking my vital stats and noting/observing patterns Qingping Air Monitor - really assisted me working out why I was getting sleepy so often, what triggered my nasal congestion and eye irritation (NB our air is fairly fucked) Samsung S26 - PHUK ifone >.< huehuehue - no, but in all seriousness it is a gadget/tool I use constantly. Pierce Chronograph second world war mechanical watch - from my Grandad, who was gifted it by his mother on his birthday. I've had it serviced to maintain it (mechanical watch servicing and collecting is NO JOKE upwards of $700). It is more a dude thing, mechanical watch collecting. I have a few but this is my favourite. A set of lock picking mechanisms and a lock drill - I can break into many standard cylinders. It will take me 3-4 hours practice on a cylinder type to be able to repeat and get into that cylinder type. I love doing this - just knowing I am capable of it - even if I will never do it. Also a card swipe reader and replicator. Depending on what type of building it is I can crack a lot of security access controls. Sony WF1000XM5 - I love bass. These aren't the most articulate earbuds for breadth of sound but they scratch my musical ITCH

Hmmm. I am just going to stream-of-consciousness spitball off... Do you have many really intense responsibilities at this present time? To others, not just your own survival. Or I should say, do you have a strong sense of meaning and being responsible to that meaning? External pressures that you have willingly taken on yourself. This relates to what might be dormant inside - living authentically to your masculinity. Creation. Work. Mastery. Commitment. I do not mean to make any assumptions about if you are a man or a woman - merely that (man or woman) - that masculine GIVER energy, if not expressed, can turn inward in a negative way and smother its own flame. I went through a period of engaging in spirituality as a form of bypassing. Avoiding engaging in something with high stakes. And it was easy to remain in an unfettered place of peace and love. I wonder how this state might change if you were in circumstances that challenged it? Within my own small realm of experience - I formed a spiritual ego (that I then had to reconstruct) - and I convinced myself commitment, responsibility and mastery to something greater than myself was not worth the endeavour. Especially as it seemed the fruits of such a labour were material and low-consciousness. I am not saying you are spiritually bypassing. I certainly was... You could be in a transition / pivot point in life. These happen. But I also realised I reached a point where I realised I was needing to face challenges to trigger myself - work out where I had a lot of conditioning from experience - and work to dissolve that. And the only way to further 'progress' was to work on dissolving my conditioning. Attachments. Desire/aversions. I get a sense you feel no progress is being made? For me, facing challenges. BIG ONES. Revealed uninspected parts of myself that needed attention. And I was not able to see this without assigning myself a sense of meaning and responsibility. Commitment. Mastery. Masculine energy channelled.

Oh man I see some fucked up shit. Feel some fucked up shit. And HEAR some fucked up shit!! No doubt there is some juju going on

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A whole lot of knowing! This discussion is rather humorous to me, because you and I are what I would consider WAY more open to the woo than most - but still critically thinking and questioning. Responsibility to epistemology 🫠🫠🫠

@Ramasta9 I am not triggered - I just question. Whatever you think you are reading from me isn't correct there. Sort of makes me chuckle that I could be disturbed by the links. If you are making that claim you have seen that Trump is a reptilian, then that's an experience you have had I have to take at your word. Same thing if you had seen a reptilian and made that claim. I just didn't see you state that or make that claim. Offense cannot be taken that I assumed you had not; there was no explicit statement. Unless I misread or skimmed over it... In which case... Oops on me! This is just a discussion. Not personal. If you explicitly state you have seen a reptilian, that is indeed more than hearsay.

I linked my younger brother (he's fucking 38 mind you) a 10 minute clip 'Fuck I can't do that length, sorry. Got a 2 minute synopsis?' Imagine one of Leo's videos >.<

I sound like a black pilled doomer lol Tech has done some amazing shit for sure. But so far it has always enhanced our lives. It appears to be beginning to replace our lives now.... replace humans instead of assist.

Exactly - we are the product. And not only duration of attention and time spent - but the actual quality of our attention has eroded. One thing serious meditation showed me was attention isn't just a binary thing. There are levels of it. And you can enhance the quality of focus and attention through training. Technology/AI/Social Media can do the exact opposite...

I think a lot of this comes down to parenting & maturity. Technology is accelerating at a rate we cannot keep up with. There is no way to fully control a child's access when every other child has access - social media in particular. Many parents do not even know how to regulate their own technology use, let alone their children's. There isn't any wisdom grandparents can pass on to parents around raising kids either. Because half this tech hasn't been around enough for us to establish good, healthy habits based on technology use impacts etc. Then you have the family unit breaking down. Divorce being higher than ever. Social media, AI and phones are raising kids now

@ExploringReality my sister in law teaches primary school. She has made a few comments about how literacy levels have dropped in each grade from 10 years ago.