Natasha Tori Maru

Most earnest teachers will tell the student the final step is to discard and abandon the teacher. Integrate the teaching and then leave it. Else you make it another part of your conditioning or attachment. All ground has to go, in the end. It goes both ways - for teacher and student.

That would mean you would have to know what it feels like to be in woman's body No judgement at all. You do not have to define yourself in any way. You do not have to conform to any external standards set by society. Although, I do understand the difficulty in going against the grain. When you fly in the face of expectations, life can be harder, as you challenge others notions of what it means to be 'such and such' just by existing. It's a them thing, not a you thing. I have met many men who express similar sentiment to yourself. What does it mean to you, to have 'fun like a woman?'

You are avoiding something internally - a feeling, sensation, memory? Or food noise? Have you lost weight recently? Need to rule out physiological vs psychological.

The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Jules Verne

@zazen 🎯 cheers for the input

How is this conformity?

That's a pity.

It is a shame there isn't more willingness to explore each others worldviews, instead there is insistence on our own.

I'll be reading this - I enjoy Robert Greene's work. I've read The 48 Laws of Power, The Art of Seduction & The Laws of Human Nature.

Can't transcend biology or incentive structures!

A confession.

Thanks for sharing your perspective 😃

They last a long time. I think it depends on the volume the machines outputs. Commercial printing... the floor run, 3 meter printers? One every couple of weeks or so. However, those machines saw thousands of prints a day. They are still superior to inkjet in many ways. I know the drums are more expensive than toner cartridges, though. The toner and ozone from the fuser would make @integral dry retch 😅

One pitfall to the laser printer are Drum cartridge replacements. The drum is the cylinder inside that is polarised by static, the toner sticks to it and the drum rolls it over the page to run through the fuser to adhere it to the paper. Over time, and many thousands of prints, these drums wear down and must be replaced. The printer will come to a full stop. There is a drum for every colour (cyan, magenta, black, yellow). The drums are very expensive. However, they last a long time! Just thought I would note the additional consumable. NB I used to run a huge professional print house using laser, inkjet and offset printing. Fun fact #1 - almost every printer images a tiny yellow dot raster (MIC) onto every page, that identifies the printer. Date, time and serial number are printed, invisible to the eye.

Let's try not to derail every thread into men vs women.