Natasha Tori Maru

Too many humans.

We needed another hierarchy, desperately!

Did you think I proposed that question thinking I would be weighted favourably? Wrong. It's just an interesting alternative data point to analyse. But I know you love me, and this is how you continually express it constipated as it may be! You want to be in my most liked club!

A better question to AI is who is demonstrating spiral dynamics stages through the interaction here.

Fucken worth investigating, ay. Feelings are treated as sacred. "I'm just expressing my authentic feeling". "I am expressing so I don't repress" Meanwhile, 90% of these "feelings" are based on a narrative and interpretations of events constructed, totally divorced from what can be observed. Free of interpretation.

@oOo I think social media and online content does more to raise kids these days. Unless parents are diligent around appropriate use ☹️

They have been present. But he has stated multiple times they cannot control him, despite taking away his hammers (for example) for the bonesmashing. And attempting other methods which fell short. They tried to prevent his steroid use also, which he abused in college. He was ultimately kicked out of college for possessing stockpiles of contraband substances for looksmaxxing. Personal use. This is all reported from Braden himself in interviews.

Seconding this - external help or assessment is required.

@LordFall I agree he is very immature. I expect him to reach 30 and think "what the fuck was I thinking?" At the same time, rape accusations are serious. Guilty or not - it will be a challenging media storm for him. And nobody deserves to be accused if it is false due to how seriously it is considered by society. If he had some other value's he embodied and emphasized in other domains - diligence, focus, responsibility, life purpose, agency, excellence, integrity, growth, intellectual honesty - I would not think so lowly of him as a role model for young men. He represents so much of what is wrong with male dominance hierarchies when they are engaged in just to shit on other men.

The main issue I have with Clav is the black and white, all or nothing mindset he embodies. Any cost for looksmaxxing is okay with him. Cycles at 14. Bonesmashing. Research chemicals - all injectibles. Surgery. Using methamphetamine. Starvation. He does some crazy mental gymnastics by claiming "what I do is extreme, it's not for everyone, you don't need to take it this far". But then perpetuates the myth looks are everything (emphasising this is a highest value) by acting in a way contrary to his message through extreme behaviour. In interviews when he is backed into a corner, and really pushed on the dissonance in his message, it's the same game played every time. "Moral outrage" claims of "disingenuous" and "dishonest" conduct from the interviewer. He's a poor role model. Has low integrity. He's entire message is a net drain on the system. Just build aura, halo effect. Float on by easymode. All the whole contributing very little toward building character, integrity, skills and giving back to society in some way.

I do. But as is clear form my actions - I risk it ☹️

Do we have one? Rolling. Post that shit. Shorts, reels, tick-tock turds. Do your worst short format. Boomer cringe. I love the spittle on the guys mouth 🤮🤢 https://vt.tiktok.com/ZS45V1Enf/

The Vidya 🥹 World of Warcraft

That is a question for You

I'm a piece of shit. Had too https://www.actualized.org/forum/topic/116359-if-you-self-identify-with-any-upper-sd-stage-youre-cringe/

@Olaf I approached/made the move for 3/5 of my long term relationships. Of those 3, we were either colleagues for 2/3 months prior or it was an online friendship I confessed feelings for (we were WoW Raiders in the same guild, I moved states for him). I am very direct and to the point Not a cold approach. But I basically said "hey, I got feelings for you - you wonna?" There Are some wildcard women out there. You never know who you are dealing with.

@Zenterus You're causing them to crash out.... Self reveal to defend themselves !!! Delicious!

This actually means you have zero overlap in cognitive functions. The cognitive functions are not N, F, T, S - they are Ni, Ne, Ti, Te, Fi, Fe, Si, Se I would share Ni & Se with you. I would share Fi & Te with Yetineti.

When I have to work extremely hard to separate the useful conceptual content from the performance I tend to lose all desire to interact. There is a lot of skill involved in effective communication. Much less so in stream of consciousness text output where we flirt with simile & metaphor in an increasingly recursive manner. Especially if we want to actually have others TRY to understand us. Instead of remain on our pedestal of "I am too above everyone to be understood".

Any sort of pursuit that puts us face-to-face with confronting our attachments can be a process of working on conditioning. The more you clarify and remove the obscurity of conditioning - the closer to truth we become. Sometimes we need to expose the conditioning for awareness to do the work, so we no longer operate on an unconscious level with our consumption patterns. Sometimes much more than awareness is needed to break reflexive habits. For many, food can be a coping mechanism. It can have a self soothing function. It also has a place in ritual. Coming together. Celebration. Deeply cultural. But it is also entangled with survival as a need. How spiritual it is depends on what sort of relationship we are working on with food. If it is in any way negative - I would argue, it is worth inspection.

That's valid. We don't know for sure. Hearsay (for now).

He has made claims he has autism. It may explain some of the messes he seems to get into.

Maybe we could term awakening as "realising ultimate truth" and enlightenment as "embodying" that truth, which would entail significant work accomplished on our individual conditioning. And residing in equanimity. Overall I am remarkably undecided! What do you think?

What do you mean by awake? Do you refer to siddhis? I think many people do not understand the markers for awakening. And expect all conditioning to be dissolved when it is seen. Integration and grounding. These might be markers of enlightenment, but not awakening. I struggle to even believe in some of our great teachers being enlightened by this definition. They have historically been just so derogatory to women (some of their quoted statements break my heart). We are less than. Awakening cannot transcend incentive structures or biology. Maybe enlightenment could. But what even IS that!