Natasha Tori Maru

I wonder if he will be record an adult baptism next?

They should really be looking at womens eggs too 🤔

I'll add - authority. Humans love authority. Most don't want to admit it, let alone recognise it!

I haven't even gotten to the comment section yet ... Can't wait 😈💀 Now you mention it, he may have just asked ChatGPT to trawl the website and net for a summary and slapped it in. So much chit is being churned out these days I almost feel like I can only trust face to face.

I listed to it. Felt like he needed filler for his content in the video and squished a square peg into the cult hole. Pad that shit my man, pad it hard. Fucken marshmallow into a coinslot. 'chat' room. It's a fucken forum dude. They ain't new.

I sleepwalk too... For some fucked up reason sleepwalk-natasha loves getting the milk carton out of the fridge, decanting it into plants, glasses, mugs and her dogs water. I often wake up to all my milk distributed through the apartment. Like a crime scene from Alien only I killed a synthetic >.< The worst time was when there was a chain of mugs of milk lining my bedroom floor. Needless to say I woke up and kicked them all over by accident in the sleep-haze Old milk in carpet SMELLS LIKE ARSE

Thanks for sharing I shift my views around a lot. In fact, I have issues taking on worldviews and discarding my own to 'try others on' and road-test them. I don't have a fixed frame, and I cannot NOT see things from multiple different perspectives. This can backfire on me as it can make my own views seem wishy-washy and less defined. Like I lack conviction. I can appear to be less principled, firm and insipid. I think I simply acknowledge my views are not fixed, and ever evolving. I am not afraid to commit to a stance, but I don't mind it changing as there isn't a strong egoic attachment to my thoughts. I dislike any sort of fixed frame or paradigm lock. I think people equate firmness with depth.

@Joseph Maynor All good, I took the 'you' as a general term encompassing anyone reading. Less of a debate from me and more just trying to understand your philosophy / worldview. I tire of the interjections from many here 'correcting' others or not really being open to just exploring someone else's views with an open mind.

@Joseph Maynor Cheers. Suppression is never necessary. I like to allow all feelings. Feelings, emotions, thoughts. I view them as contractions of energy. I haven't come across (or know anything about) Abraham Hicks or Spinoza.

Hell, I mean - humans achieve death by diarrhea even. And we are indigenous FFS. We just do it to ourselves with our slow poison

@Joseph Maynor Thanks for sharing and taking the time with this detailed answer. Do you make a distinction between survival based feeling agenda and higher order feelings that arise once we have met basic needs? How do you see emotions different from feelings? This sort of topic overlaps with Maslow's Hierarchy of needs, as basic instincts are fulfilled, this leads us to the next 'platform' (so to speak) of emotion. Or as we fulfil basic needs we have access to higher order emotions. Anger typically isn't seen higher up on emotional scales of wellness - which is not to say it is good, bad or not useful/useful.

@Joseph Maynor cool 👌🏻 Can you give some examples of emotion / feeling arising independently of ego? Might be good to define ego etc while we are at it

@TruthFreedom hahahaha well, there you go - my interpretation was off the mark. One of the best things about art is the symbols mean something different for everyone. Thank you for sharing 😊

Should have just plowed Voldemort with 5meo https://youtu.be/UqWJ6uf8AGE?si=0Xgdq3oe6y5QWaQx

I genuinely do! I want to know what your reference was, or was it purely from recall? I like that no hard black shades were used to bring depth and instead you varied the colour. This always results in a better image, imo. Black shading often makes hand rendered images too much like a simulacra of life. It has the traditional balanced form of the Buddhist lotus position, juxtaposed with the Addidas stripe on the border of the robe - forcing they eye to settle in balance as it traces the stripes, and the up to the sash and symbol. There's a fluid visual harmony in the irony of such a combination - Buddhism is equinimity and balance. Desire / aversion. But then the brand Addidas is about desire, status, attachment. Brilliant chicanery 😈

Similar to the domain of sex for men. That drive has the potential to override rationality. Strong drives override higher order reasoning. For both sexes.

Safety 🎯

It's a myth. Not even - it's part of toxic online communities and algorithms. It's often quoted as a statistic stripped of context, often from dating apps and then applied to the wrong domain. Beauty is very subjective. Status doesn't mean shit to some women. To others it does. Some women want a man with lots of money; some don't. Personality and the ability to engage her positive emotions is usually very attractive to a women. It can trump almost any other quality.

Then 'tis not so Have a nice night

Okay this is why you are quite charged. Read what I wrote again - at no point did I say it was unrefined. More that we can always refine our views. Not you per se. All of us. The conversation is an opportunity for me to refine my thoughts also ! I didn't say it was unrefined - you assumed.

Oh right, got it. I just couldn't see where you argued a clear case that anger was arising outside of ego. I felt like that conversation went by the wayside and didn't even get started. I'm certainly not minimising conflict. I don't mind conflict.

No worries. I didn't even realise there was disagreement.

@Joseph Maynor in the recent line of enquiry I don't think anyone is denying anger in their experience. Well at least, I do not. Anger happens in everyone's experience. I think it is part of being human. This topic is very tied in to our individual affect and temparements in general. As a side point, most people aren't even able to distinguish anger from a whole host of other feelings/emotions that run parallel or can feel very similar.

You beat me to it!

I find when I am not attached to what is being criticised I do not get angry or react. Just as an example - I submitted a claim for a lot of electrical work to a client. One of the consultants wrote an email back raising the lack of diligence in detailed costs and breakdowns. There were some hard words about levels of professionalism and diligence in the email. The consultant was having an emotional anger based reaction because the price was their design - so they felt partially responsible for the price. However, to avoid this feeling of shame for designing something of high price, he attempted to shame me by criticizing my work compiling the submission. I did not get angry due to his criticism. It was a poor submission and lacked detail. What the consultant did not know, was that I had no time for a detailed price; we had to begin the work asap prior to the ceiling being plastered. So the figures were lump sums simply to gain approval. The submission was not to my standard - but sometimes done is good enough under pressure. I gave the fella a call to clarify, and then later provided a detailed breakdown which was accepted. I was heavily criticised in email with the client, superintended, architect, consultants and qty surveyor. I think most people would feel shame in my shoes, but I did not. Even if I had submitted sloppy work with no excuse. So what? I submitted crap work. I just take responsibility regardless of fault. Just need a solution. For me, my work is what I do. It isn't who I am. It doesnt make me more valid. I just ' am '. I perform when I need to under given restraints. I am not attached. Similar to my thoughts & ideas. They happen, but I am not attached to them. Just ideas. The problem is, most people cannot detangle their emotions from their work. Their creation. They are entangled. I still experience being triggered at work, but much less so. A lot of deep, deep shame, trauma and emotional / feeling work has gone to get me into this space. Spirituality is beautiful for this process. I have problems when people treat each other cruelly, or display deep, deep hubris / bigotry.