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Where my Aussies at? 💔💔 @Ponder @Ramasta9 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12-14/active-shooter-bondi-beach-sydney-nsw/106141580

It's exactly what this thread is doing 😭

Now hug. Everyone

It might be worth asking 'what is really at stake?'

@Leo Gura My god - this portly fucker is gonna break skippies legs

This is exactly the pattern James is stuck in, repeated over and over. Only James does not ask questions and probe into what the other says - giving them space to be heard - instead it is just more neo-advaita circles thrown at us like a philosopher hurling spaghetti at the wall... Attempting to understand each other is love !!!

I do not have a car. I live 1hr walk from the closest grocery store with the range and prices I go for. A quick bicycle ride, but only for light stuff. Bulk items I need delivered

No offence, but this sounds like a full parrot of something Leo would say...

We can all spend some time fertilizing our spiritual egos with horseshit... to get back on the thread topic AND to celebrate foreign forums and their memes... Growing in ALL directions, even if we are cultivating nothing but weeds

@Ramasta9 That screenshot is very strange.... is it on mobile? iOS or Android? I would dump the cache on the browser you use for the website/kill process and reload it all. I wonder if anyone else has encountered this. Browser change may work

Hmmmm language in my eyes... appears to mediate/filter/stabilize experience (while not having anything to do with the generation of consciousness itself). But I definitely think it is an element in creating out social reality; money, laws, contracts, gender roles, job titles, borders... all exist because of shared language. It also frames perception - we don't experience raw reality, we experience an 'interpreted' reality. Language supplying categories... so I imagine if our language had 10 words for a feeling, we might notice that feeling more precisely. But if the language had no words for the feeling the experience still happens. It would just be more nebulous/fuzzy and harder to hold... maybe even easier to dismiss? Language also creates psychological objects - ego, anxiety, trauma, success, failure. Mathematics as a language would operate the same I imagine... the raw experience of one banana, then two bananas... we can use 'plus' as the operator. It is a tighter cleaner language. Less wiggle room and brutal consistency. Raw experience would be one banana, then another banana. It is 'pre-mathematical' - no numbers required. Even animals can get that far - my little miniature poodle certainly can. Mathematics enters in when we abstract 'one', 'two', 'plus'. Then instead of dealing with the experience of the bananas we are dealing with relationships stripped of content. And that is the key move there - once we say 1 + 1 = 2 the bananas disappear. Apples work... fingers work - anything works! So it turns into structure... Anyway dunno where I was going there

But it is always from negative / corrective frame. You are like a broken record on repeat ... Break free James!

In general the more we speak and try to correct/convince the less certain we are.

How existential outside of this context 🙃 I am at a loss with the temp bans you claim appear ... No one I know is doing that. Nevertheless, the contributions are appreciated 🔥

I think when someone else's truth doesn't align most see it as a threat - that we, by default, must disapprove in some way. I suppose I just see it as their current truth - and maybe I can give them information that might assist them in some way. But I no longer think I have any power to convince anyone or change anyones mind (with reference to truth/spirituality). Perhaps you were at first taken by Sadhguru's teachings - and then found a compulsion/drive to really see if he was true in all facets. And we dig into the teachings and find some things are good, and some are not so good, through our process of wisdom and discernment. Maybe your only guru is wisdom and knowledge - taken from whatever source is closest/truest to you, on your path🔥 James will learn, with time ☺️

There is serious work and dedication going on with these guys. The drugs give them the edge. I think most people just claim the PEDs are responsible but there is WORK. I used to have a free membership to Doherty's Gym and met Ashley Kultwasser, Janet Layug, Phil Heath, Brendan Curry & Shawn Rhoden (RIP). The men were mutant monsters and the women were so muscular - the images of them do not do them justice. So freaky in real life. I met them in Sydney and Melbourne on different occasions. It is VERY unhealthy, obsessive and I would almost say borderline eating disorder/body dysmorphia territory. But there is a fine line between those issues and single minded crazy dedication. I wouldn't want to be them. The olympia boys in particular - it's just a freakshow to see how big and ripped the human body can go. They were abusing insuline HGH and all sorts of PEDs.

With James, it always appears to be trying to point out what others are doing that is 'wrong' 🫤

Both? Deep structures appear to exist whether we're here or not.. pythag, primes, geometry, limits. They appear to behave the way they do regardless of human opinion. 2 bananas + 2 bananas = 4 bananas long before anyone counted... Or so it would seem. But also invented in the sense that the language is ours. I like to think of mathematics as a universal language. Symbols, axioms, co-ordinate systems - human made tools. Calculus didn't 'exist' until someone framed it. Even though change and motion always did. So I think we built a map to help navigate what was always there... So there was always constraints and patterns & we supplied the formal systems to describe them.

Only good thing to come from the recent Tron movie ಠ⁠‿⁠ಠ

Then I think you will be a-okay 😊❤️

It was gradual, but she disregarded her doctor and tapered much quicker than was advised. If you go slowly as your doc advises I think you will not encounter as much emotional distress as her. Very important to note women also have their monthly cycle to work with during this sort of process - and my sister has a bad time with it in general ❤️

I often have conversations with my family around spiritual topics. Unfortunately it usually falls flat because their metaphysics/philosophy is very poor. As soon as I begin to question them harder, it turns into them trying to egoically one-up me in a spiritual way. The odd thing is, this tends to happen with my brother the most. And he loves it. He loves getting angry, raging and then pointing out to me and the rest of the family (who usually end up as an audience) how emotionless and lacking conviction I am, because I do not engage like he does. I think as soon as something doesn't align with his view it is a threat; to me it is just a fellow being, with a different set of experiences, that could never invalidate/validate my own. Needless to say i am... Hesitant... About the upcoming holiday season. But it also goes back to how we want to share experiences to bond and relate, but too often language falls short. Misunderstanding happens. And ego comes out 🙃🙃🙃

That is an issue - but your process of enquiring onto the thoughts seems to be beneficial. Perhaps it is revealing where you are attaching to the event? Aversion/desire Maybe someone else may have advice - one of my ex partners had issues such as these. Imagining scenarios didn't help him like it did me - that process made it much worse. Which is why I thought to ask how you feel after 🙏 Overall I do think it is natural to have these thoughts and strange impulses. Provided we do not act on them. Part of being human. Maybe this might assist you not being too hard on yourself or judging. Tapering off anti-depressants, especially after so prolonged a use, is very challenging. My sister was crying and hysterical, almost mad, when she came of them (7 years on them). It took her a year to stabilise.

I'lL jUsT tAKe A LItTlE pOWeRnAp The bastard will never find me here!