Zion

This is your perspective. Fakers of what? What is a great man to one, can be just a loser to the next. Perhaps what is considered a great man is a person of strong-standing similar morals to that of the collective he is in. Which then you could arguably say a great man is a man that is morally adaptable/flexible, given his environment. Perhaps a great man is a man that fights for the morals of the collective through which he stands within. Can a man be considered great without strong morals? Especially without strong morals that are similar to that of the community he lives amongst? A man is great by means of his own meaning of great, & his own meaning of man. What do I personally consider a great man? My first thought is that a great man is a person that is the embodiment of strength, wisdom, safety, & creativity. With that wisdom comes a deep understanding of what it's like to live in a biologically-male body, & how that body interprets the world differently than that of any other biological type. With wisdom comes experience, intelligent understanding, & awareness. With strength comes perseverance & determination. With strength also comes a means of power, allowing for safety to encompass those around him. With creativity comes adaptability, curiosity, & inspiration for continued growth. Of course you have to consider that wisdom is so subjective, a thing is only wise by means of whomever is determining the validity of that wisdom's truth. So it is implied that one must have decided understanding of what they see to be true, for them to be wise.

I've been contemplating the nature of empathy & it's counterparts, finding many fascinating interpretations. I'd love to hear other's interpretations of empathy. What are your thoughts on empathy? What is empathy to you? Why is empathy important from your perspective? Why is empathy unimportant? Is there such a thing as too much empathy? How does empathy relate to selflessness? What does it mean to be empathetic, to you? Can one lack empathy completely? How does empathy correlate with love? What are the pros & cons of empathy? Whats the difference between empathy & sympathy? Can empathy be experienced without love? Can love be experienced without empathy? To what point does empathy become obsolete? Can one truly have empathy? What prevents empathy from being experienced? Is empathy inherent to humanity? Is it learned? Can one live without empathy in our modern world?

A quote I saw a while back changed my perspective on discipline & how it can be used more efficiently. QUOTE: "Discipline will take you places motivation can't." It's not about motivation, I've found that discipline is what creates motivation. Motivation isn't something which is needed to be disciplined, simply the opposite. Once I understood this, I found the key to motivating myself to do/be anything I sought out. The moment I saw motivation as an after-effect from a means of action, motivation was then created. You'll find that you can't get around this. You may keep looking for philosophical explantations of why motivation is & how it functions, however you'll come to the conclusion that motivation can only be understood through first creating it by means of consistent discipline.

Thought-provoking questions: Is the difference between belief & truth intuition? How does one distinct between these two? What are the reasonings people have given as to why belief is used in our psyche? Why is belief not the same as truth? What makes a belief a belief, as apposed to a truth? What districts a belief from anything else? How does a belief function? How does truth function? How does belief & truth function differently in the mind? What makes something untrue? What makes a belief untrue?

Learn to understand yourself, find out how you like to socialize, what exactly you enjoy socializing about. What excites you? What insights you? What grows you? Become more self-aware & you will find what you seek & better understand why you seek it. MY PERSPECTIVE: Once you see sociability as a part of you, as appose to something you need to attach yourself to & force yourself to do, you will socialize with ease. It sounds to me just that you lack both experience & perhaps effective strategy. Your strategy that you use to socialize now, clearly isn't getting you where you want to be socially. So change it up, find out why you feel awkward & need a build-up, because clearly that is just simply your mindset, not true actuality. Try out new social tactics, read books on conversational skills. For me personally, I've found that it significantly helps to understand & be self-aware of why I'm socializing in the first place. Ask yourself "Why am I socializing in this moment?" Become more self-aware of why you have this desire to socialize as frequently as you say you want to. Is it because you want to improve social skills in general? Then experience, strategy, & patience is all you lack. And all that can be found within you. Give it time & dedication, & you will find that it becomes second-nature to you. If you are socializing just to improve your long-term sociability & therefore your general social skills throughout life, I find that all you need is a clear awareness & understanding of how you speak/socialize with yourself. If you are isolating yourself often, you will find difficulty in being social for too long because you are so used to experiencing comfort by yourself. You may find it difficult to be comfortable socializing for a long while, as it is not as comfortable as your isolated state. This is where experience is important. Learn to be comfortable in whatever it is you are trying to grow in, be willing to be comfortable during discomfort for the sake of self-growth. Adaptability in combination with self-awareness (therefore understanding of personal standards & boundaries) is key. This will help you understand why you socialize the way you do, why you struggle at times, & why you kill it at times. Self-awareness will provide you with the understanding as to why you socialize as you do, & why yours & other's sociability is perceived by you to be more or less valuable/effective. If you understand these things, you'll understand what you seek to improve on and why. One thing I'll add; I notice one of the reasons you listed for why you want to improve is partly because of FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out). Seek-to & learn to understand why you fear this. Why do you fear missing out? What is it you feel you'll be missing out on? What is it you don't have now that you are missing? Can you enjoy something as it is without needing it to be the same or different in the future, just as it is right now? What is it you feel you are missing now? Find out what that missing piece is, become aware of why it is missing, learn ways of permanently filling in that missing piece if necessary. So long has you have FOMO, so long you will always be looking for the next best thing & never truly in love with what is right in front of you. Good luck

Hey you! Wanted to say I appreciate you & your perception of reality. It has inspired so much thought in the world that would have not been there otherwise. Thank you for sharing your love of life & gifting yourself to the world. You are beautiful, you are appreciated, you are love. Feel free to share your love of life below

Practice doing it for yourself, emotionally supporting yourself & once you get good at doing it for yourself to a point to where it is second-nature to you, it will be a breeze with others. Note: Those that it is difficult to help support are those that may be better supported without you because they have much to learn on their own time. Or if you find it difficult to support them/yourself whilst with them, you may have much to learn from them. Once you can emotionally support yourself, your intuition/gut will be able to better help you gage who you can & cannot help support & to what degree. Good questions you can ask yourself: "What makes me feel emotionally supported?" "What do I think of when I think of 'Good emotional support'"? "What is emotional support to me?" "How emotionally-supported do I feel right now?" "Why?" "How can I improve?"

One of the very significant things I notice myself, is that Leo seems to be getting bored, annoyed, & a bit sad. As though his perspective isn't getting enough validation or appreciation from people other than himself. And with each video, he hopes to inspire & change the world to a point to where he gets the feeling of "Finally, people see what I'm talking about. Finally the world will understand itself better & be on a faster path to love & truth." Thats how I gage his persona right now as it pertains to his lifestyle & overall teachings. I see Leo as someone who is just in slight sadness & anguish because he is living in a society/culture/world that doesn't encourage the things he preaches to the degree he cares about. It is because of this, that perhaps he is annoyed & yet still trying to push through to lead by example to show his perspective of reality. It is this idea that I theorize Leo is holding onto & he's aware of the downsides it comes with, given the implications of his teachings. I think he makes content to create, what he sees to be, a legacy of understanding understanding for the world. And that is what gives him motivation, what inspires his discipline, what keeps his habits in place. Given this theory, I think he's losing appreciation/care for the previous understandings he's had of the world, such that, it's creating annoyance & arrogance in him. Annoyance & arrogance that the previous understanding he had of reality are no longer worth his time to participate in being a part of. With that, why would he preach anything but his newfound understandings? I'm not sure how true any of this is, he may be cruisin through life, just loving every second of it. Who knows. Only Leo. With regards to your critique, I see a lot of what you're talking about. Personally, I think his teachings still bring immense value to the world & inspire people to think very differently than they would otherwise about life, which is so valuable & crucial for healthy change in our modern world. While I don't think all his videos are that effective or necessarily mature as of lately, that does not mean they aren't. They just aren't to me, or you, etc. So long as he puts out new teachings, I will be enticed to hear his perspective, as not many think to the degree he does about a given situation. It is when he correlates his reasoning & methods of practice to his "newfound awakening", his biased perspective, or his "new state of consciousness", that I don't always put my time into & rather; take with a grain of salt. He has tidbits of wisdom, & that is where his inspiration lies within me. I don't watch him as often anymore, as he does come off as though he doesn't want to keep doing this profession. Either way I'm grateful for his perspective. It will be very different for everyone else. It is clear he has biases, everyone sees his biases in different ways, such that what I see to be a bias, you don't & vise versa.

Ones that provoked a real challenge & interest in my mind were:

Right, let's say that's the case. Within this collective bias towards peace, would personal favoritism be needed to accomplish it? If so, to what degree? How much is too much & how would it be done? I'm realizing more & more the gravity of what I'm asking myself & others to contemplate here. Its basically like asking what is the perfect system that allows for selfishness & selflessness to coincide with one another? What are the ideal ways they should both be practiced to accomplish a balanced system of peace & tranquillity?

Favoritism definitions: - Giving preferential treatment to someone or something. - The practice of giving unfair preferential treatment to one person or group at the expense of another. Is favoritism necessary for a peaceful society? Why or why not? What are your thoughts about favoritism? Is favoritism biological? Is it necessary? Why is it important? How does favoritism contribute to an efficient peaceful society? Is favoritism healthy for the human race? What are the pros & cons? If it is necessary, how can it be practiced in a healthy way? If it isn't necessary, why? And how does one mature out of it? What would a world without favoritism look like? Please share your thoughts, let's have a discussion!

@thisintegrated Why do you think you're supposed to be biased when it comes to romance?

I took creatine (monohydrate) for almost an entire year while I was pursuing bodybuilding. It works wonders...with potential long-term side effects (depending on what you're doing with it). I didn't have any major issues whilst taking it. While I was bodybuilding, I was doing a hypertrophy program that was designed for me to get big in 12 weeks time. In doing that successfully, my muscles stretched out to accommodate the constant exercises. The creatine aided that process too in providing mass to the stretched out areas. After a while, I stopped hitting the gym to focus on other things at the time. I ended up going back again roughly 8 months ago whilst on creatine again to maintain my look. Stopped it permanently 5 months ago. Here's the effects I've personally noticed: - It stretches out your muscles to places they wouldn't otherwise go while trying to put on mass - Increases your strength noticeably quick, even if you aren't working out on it. - It makes you feel dehydrated a lot quicker. You need to be drinking a shit ton more water on the daily - Since taking creatine, I've noticed that my resting-hydration has been bumped up. I need to drink more water per day that I did before I ever had creatine. - While on creatine, If I wasn't working out too hard, no side-effects other than the above. It was rare, but when I was doing a lot of hypertrophy with intense workouts, a few times my heart felt like it needed to work extra hard. I never felt that when I was doing hypertrophy without creatine. - My resting-weight has increased. My normal resting-weight when I'm not regularly hitting the gym was roughly 150-155. Now its 162+ & I eat very healthy now. Basically my muscles are permanently stretched out & retain their shape now, but because of that, I also have permanently-increased mass that requires more daily water & more daily food. *Also be careful not to take expired creatine monohydrate. That has some potential unfavorable effects as well. I'd say its "safe enough", but I wouldn't recommend it, even if you're trying to put on muscle. It affects everyone differently, so be careful.

Saw this Joe Rogan episode & this clip stood out to me, please share your ideas on this if you have any!

As I've slowly matured over the years through means of self-development & continue to do so, I have struggled to see what humor is & why it exists. I understand the feeling that humor gives, though not its purpose(s). My current loosely-based hypothesis is that it is rooted in pain. It seems to me, if you go deep enough into your own emotions & overall ego, you'll find pain as the culprit. What I'm getting at, is that I haven't seen or understood humor to be anything other than something that puts something/someone down. At least, that's the way society teaches humor through sub-communication. Though you could say simply that a sound such as a fart could be funny without any reasoning for anything to be put down or degraded. So I'm left with the question still of; what is humor? Why does humor exist? Is humor only what we want to be funny? If so, why do we crave things to be funny? For comfort? Is humor a phase of humanity's evolution? Values of humor: - Alleves insecurities and emotional struggles temporarily. - Laughing relieves stress in the body temporarily - Entertainment - A good common-ground for effective communication whilst building relationships What's your perspective? What do you think humor is? Why do you think it exists?

Let's create an amazing list of profound questions that may be simple, but still extremely deep & wise to personally contemplate. Post any questions you may have written down or thought of, that have helped you gain insight or a new perspective in some way: Note: These are questions that are supposed to help someone see a new perspective or have a new insight by simply personally contemplating the questions that are posted. Here's some I find valuable: - Is faith all you know? - Can one live without faith? - What are you doing out of fear? v.s What are you doing out of love? - Should it matter to someone how beautiful they think they are? Why & why not? - Why do you fear not having certainty? - What is compassion? - Is _____ productive? - What is the wisest way for me to live lie as I currently am & continue to be? - Do you take credit for who you are? - Ect. Thank you for any participation.

How would one go about fully embodying something?

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@PepperBlossoms I'll let you contemplate & not feed the addiction..

How ironic of a question..

Why be? How can something be understood? To what point is there?

I second this

Check out this radical video I decided to watch whilst researching the history of banking & money: If you're able to get through this whole documentary, please post your thoughts! Thank you.

Very powerful ones already, thank you!

Examples of Feminine Compassion. This can be anything from quotes to videos...