Gesundheit2

Nothing ever is a waste of time. At the very least you'll get to earn an interesting story to share with others, which helps your social status. So do whatever you like, there's no wasted time except on suffering.

Not necessarily, but it can be. I have come up with something I call the efficacy factor in relation with resources, which basically indicates how good someone is at generating value out the available resources they have. Careful observation reveals that most people have extremely low efficacy, and very few have it normal, let alone high. That means most people don't know how to generate value from the resources that they have, and so they waste a lot of resources mindlessly. I find myself to be on the higher spectrum, and I can do a lot with very little, but I guess I could still improve some more. I still have some unrealized potential that can make me even more efficient once realized.

Paradise can turn into hell with abuse, and hell can turn into paradise with care.

Compliments are best given when and where they're least expected. First date, she absolutely knows you like her appearance. So, there's no point in stating the obvious.

I don't think memory decrease is the most accurate description. For me, meditation has made the memories hazy, or in other words it detached me from them as if they have stopped being mine anymore. I don't think I have lost any of my memories. I can remember things as vividly as anyone else, I think the main difference is that I don't have that on the fly and that I might need some time to get absorbed in the thoughts. Though, I might fail at that, and in many cases that's actually fine and even preferred.

Reminds me of Monopoly when the game is about to end, only that it won't in this case.

I'll meditate on this and contemplate, and then I may give my answer.

If this was true, then logical nerds would be the most attractive, but they aren't. Femininity doesn't require grounding, it requires containment. Think about hypergamy in terms of personality. Grounding is hypogamy, which is not attractive. The feminine wants to expand in the limits of the masculine, but for that to happen, the masculine must be bigger than the feminine.

The past is over. You can't rewind. Think about how you can avoid making the same mistakes in the future, then release the guilt, shame, et. and move on. There's literally no point in guilt-tripping yourself. No positive outcome to have and no one to benefit. Quite the contrary.

The answer depends on the paradigm we're using. If we take non-duality as that paradigm, then they are and aren't separate paradigms both at the same time, you could say neither as well. If we take the conventional dualistic paradigm, then they are separate. If we take the dream paradigm, then they aren't separate at all.

Tell them you want to fuck, and you will win either way.

Thanks for this insight. I kinda do that subconsciously all the time, but bringing this to the conscious mind could potentially take my productivity to a whole new level.

@Knowledge Hoarder But we can aim at a specific target, and that's the most important thing in life. To have a pee purpose

I'm not sure, but it sounds like another variant of the "self-referential thoughts" concept.

You need to know the rules in order to break them. And you need to break the rules in order to learn.

Healthy/Secure/Developed/Integrated masculinity is not about power or dominance. It's about vision and leadership. Healthy/Secure/Developed/Integrated femininity is not about vulnerability or submission. It's about co-creation and co-operation. In both cases, self-agency is intact and self-esteem is high, and there's minimum shadow and repression.

This map you're looking for is right under your nose, it's the word "everything" or "infinity".

Being systemic/holistic includes the ability to deliberately lose systemic/holistic thinking when necessary. The opposite is not true. Tier two includes and adds on top of tier one, but tier one doesn't even see tier two or the possibility of its existence.

The thing is that there is a divine component to everything, as well as a mundane component. Some might say the divine is the mundane and the mundane is the divine, and I don't disagree with that. So it's not that spirituality and music are divine by nature, even though paradoxically, they are. But the same applies to everything else, so it's important to keep that in mind.

I apologize if it sounded like that, I honestly don't mean it that way. Like I said, I am at a point where I'm mostly concerned with utility, so my bias may be coloring my perception, and I sincerely don't mean any offense. Though, I get your point. There's a lot of effort and hard-work involved in the process of generating insights, and sometimes it can be very serious and life-threatening even. But still, I mean, I can think of a few things that clearly are entertainment and a few thing that clearly aren't. For example, music is clearly entertainment, same as porn, WWE, sports, art, etc. even though there's obviously a ton amount of effort and hard-work required to make them happen. On the other hand, things that are clearly not entertainment are things like firefighting, medicine, the military, giving birth, religion and traditional spirituality, etc. So the distinction exists, and I think we can both agree on that. I'm not sure what exactly makes that distinction, though. Maybe that's worthy of some contemplation. Maybe things that have clear and defined goals that are not open-ended are considered more serious and less entertaining. Though, obviously our relationship to the things we practice can differ. For example, a firefighter might become so in alignment with their job that it eventually becomes entertainment for them, even though that's not the general case. As well, music and other more entertainment-like jobs can become tedious and tiring if one is unable to learn how to enjoy the process of creation, even though that's not the general case. The way I see it is that traditional spirituality is generally considered an anti-dote to suffering as a main function of the whole thing. While Actualized.org seems to have surpassed that and transcended it to another level, we might say innovation. I don't think many people have reached this far, given the general cultural status of both religion and spirituality.