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Let me guess, it was also dominatrix and that kind of stuff.

Feeling/EQ is the bullshit of the rich. The illusion of abundance creates good feelings. Thinking/IQ is the bullshit of the poor. Scarcity creates thoughts and motivates thinking. The middle class is a mix of both bullshits. Oscillating between the hope of moving up, and the fear of moving down. Many people thrive from selling unfalsifiable claims. Pseudoscience. And on, it goes. Humans, and the circle of bullshit. They use models to study and map nearly everything, but they always ignore these factors, which are ironically the most crucial ones. They even study and map the factors themselves (the whole field of economics), but don't actually factor them in!

@Zeroguy Hey, don't talk like that to my first lady. When she says shut up, you just shut up. No questions, no objections.

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And I didn't say otherwise. I said you stopped prematurely. You seem stuck on this idea that you create your suffering in order to survive, and that since you create it, that must mean that you love it. I'm saying that is not the case. Just because you create something doesn't mean you love it. You don't create food, and you create shit out of the food. But still, you love the food and hate the shit. I don't care what rationalizations you come up with. You eat food because you love it. And you can't eat shit, because you hate it. Now, of course you will say that is all ego, untruth, falsehood, relative, and whatnot. But hey, you also create your ego and all that, so why do you not love it? You see, now you have to choose between your ego and the shit. Which one do you love more? The problem, though, is that it's also ego that would choose to love the shit, so you're doomed to be wrong either way. The root of this confusion is the sneaky alternation between the absolute and relative that you fell for unconsciously. At one moment, you're talking about ego love, and then the next moment you shift to God's love and demonize and discard the ego. I would say this trap is pretty common amongst spiritual people, e.g. Leo, which is why you see them believing that reality is Love. Of course, I could spend hours and hours trying to explain this to you over and over again, but I'm not sure that would be fruitful. So, I'll stop here, and you tell me whatever you want to tell me. I'll read in silence.

@Loba

How do you make sure that you're actually an embodiment of God rather than the devil? How do you stay true to your insights and know that you are not just mentally masturbating? Are there specific ways/methods to test one's progress on the path?

4-5 hours max at night. And a short afternoon nap (30-45 minutes) that feels like a decade.

@Preety_India Horniness is a good thing. It's how you know you're connected to the earth. It feels good, it gives you energy, and it probably means that you want to have children.

@Preety_India You deserve it

@AdamR95 You stopped the inquiry rather prematurely. You don't actually love suffering, you just think that you do. What you really love is the pleasures of life. But those pleasures come at a price, that is the aforementioned suffering. And you would probably be dead if you would avoid it. So, in a twisted way, and on a subconscious level, you've convinced yourself that you love to suffer, in order to cope with how unpleasant it is. The truth is that, deep down, you don't like it at all. If you're in doubt about what I said, contemplate this: Would you rather create a world where suffering is impossible or at least minimum? Or a world where there is maximum suffering?

Music is evil. Old sages demonized it for a reason. Just like alcohol, it makes me drunk, and it's addictive.

@Jannes Of course it will slow you down if you think of it as an argument. See, the problem is that your mind is actually open to that perspective being true on an intellectual level, but not on an actual level. And so, you are trying to get the insight at the level of intellect. But that's not enough openness. Instead, try to experience that perspective. Forget about logic. Focus on your direct experience and see if it applies. If it doesn't, discard it, no problem. You are distracting yourself looking at the map, when in fact you just need to throw it away and look at the territory instead.

Stuck at Green emotionally, and at Orange intellectually. This dissonance is killing me. Contemplating the devil helps, a lot, actually. When you remember the evil nature of all beings, you get in touch with the responsibilities that come with it, since you're evil, too (like it or not). And as a result, you understand the importance of the devil, and the consequences of discarding it. The devil exists for a reason, that is to remind God of his purpose. The devil is God's purpose. No one really cares about you. Only the values you provide to them, from whatever deluded pov they hold. You, as God, have no delusions. You see with absolute clarity. You know what is what, and who is who. Survival, zero-sum game, and chimps in tuxedos. That is all. Orange above all.

Watching @Zeroguy turning 18 years old.

@Preety_India The ox is a symbol for my current struggles in life: The ox-herding pics.

@Preety_India Lol. This account was banned too. But then God sent the bug to unban it. Now, can we talk about something else?

Perhaps instead sit, relax your body and mind, meditate for 10 minutes, and then contemplate why you feel like you have to do the breathing exercise at all. Maybe you don't need it after all. Have you seen this vid? I think mastering body awareness is more fundamental than hardcore breathing exercises. With enough awareness, you don't even need to go hardcore with the breathing techniques. Your body will adjust very quickly to any changes, as long as you're aware. Personally, whenever I practice spirituality, safety is always my #1 priority. And I never force the practice. If it's not authentic to me, I don't do it.

@Hulia Bless you.

@Batman @allislove @BipolarGrowth @mandyjw @Nahm @impulse9 @The0Self @nistake @Mu_ @Inliytened1 Excellent points, y'all. Will contemplate on them.

@Hulia You're clearly biased, because you're a German nationalist/patriot and my username is German, that's all I actually enjoy asking questions. In real life, a lot of teachers, and people who think of themselves as teachers find me very intimidating because of how deep I am willing to go. A lot of the times, they think that I'm just asking deep questions to make them look bad in front of other students. Could be the same here, or something else. Anyway, and to be fair, I'm not the same Gesundheit that was banned a few months ago. I've actually changed a lot. That might not be obvious, though. But technically, I'm not the same person who was back then. So, there's no reason why I shouldn't be here. @Zeroguy You're just jelly @Mu_ This account was actually banned. But then a few hours after the ban, there was a bug that infected the forum and caused it to go back in time 2 days (backup database), so I was unbanned lol.

I can do that, but so can a panda. And Leo says animals are not enlightened. I'm not sure. If I starve myself to death, I probably won't enjoy it. I also need air and can't enjoy suffocation. Well enough to survive, I guess. I don't know anymore at which point the innocent mind turns to monkey-mind. I don't experience that distinction often. Kinda forgot it.

I guess it varies depending on the kind of shit that's happening. For example, I still feel uncomfortable watching gore videos. But how is that a test? I mean, the person doing the killing seems calm as he's used to doing it regularly. A butcher doesn't flinch slaughtering a cow, but a hippy person would probably get angry, even though spirituality is more associated with hippies. The butcher is numb, and the hippy is sensitive. How does spirituality fit in this picture? Notice the shit isn't even happening to the hippy personally, but they still get triggered. I guess what your saying essentially boils down to detachment. But perhaps an interesting question would be: how to distinguish between true detachment and numbness? And, what's the relationship between spirituality and detachment?

Huh? I distinguish between two types of suffering: Resting suffering, which is completely self-inflicted, made up, and unnecessary. Suffering in relation to the hardships of life, kinda inevitable, at least apparently. What is the experience of an enlightened master? Do they not experience both types? Or either? Or do they experience both? What's the relationship between spirituality and the lack of suffering?

She's probably a narcissist. Toss her leeching ass on the side of the road. And don't look back.