Natasha Tori Maru

@LoneWonderer holy shit. I dated someone who's extended family were all from Zimbabwe. Similar corruption in the police force with similar stories reported by his family. Maybe not to the level you shared....but bad enough!

Fuck you, Ames Window (many of you have probably come across this): Demonstrates our brains prioritise assumptions over raw data. Perception is a best guess not a direct feed, here we are predictively processing. Reality = sensory input + built in expections. Depth cues like perspective and motion are ambiguous... When two cues conflict the brain fucken brute forces it, picks one interpretation and makes it fit what it thinks will happen. What we are 'seeing' in reality is like a controlled hallucination mechanistically. The brain is constantly predicting, correcting errors and then making shit up to fill the gaps. I feel betrayed 💀

You cannot grasp solipsism as a concept without some split; dualism. My mind Other minds. Inside. Outside. The concept of solispism can never be if you forget all. Never known.

This is a good point. In an interview with Dr Mike, Bryan was challenged on his Don't Die ideology. Mike raised the example of people who suffer from chronic pain, health issues and terrible life circumstances and queried how 'Don't Die' is for everyone given these people aren't in the position of privilege Bryan is in. Bryan diverted twice and avoided addressing the question. I think quality of life, health and state are a big part of living longer; who the fuck wants to live longer in chronic, incurable pain? He has good intentions, but Bryan's philosophy is poor.

Solipsism relatively is a concept - it relies on presuppositions. Inside, outside. I, other.

@Carl-Richard every time you vs the forum solipsists. Admirable good sir! I've no idea how you have the stamina...

@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 🫠🫠🫠