Whitney Edwards

Has the war helped Putin in any way?

I agree somewhat but a lot of underprivileged and disadvantaged people come from poor backgrounds. Do you think such a system would consider their concerns?

He is whatifalthist. https://youtube.fandom.com/wiki/Whatifalthist

RIP great guy.

Sometimes the forum usage also depresses me for some reason and one day I have to learn to cope with it as well. I don't know how much positive affirmations will benefit me. Maybe I tend to overthink but when I put my emotions on paper is when I get a clear perception of them. This is also a technique I had widely used when I was Buck Edwards on the forum a year ago.. Time flies and I can't imagine that I spent a year on this forum and how time flew. I keep rambling into the wind. I think hitherto my best conversations have been with my own self as I always tend to come across some contemplative truth when I have them. Everything begins with self. Sometimes my thoughts and feelings are all over the place. I'm guilty of this. Yes I'm. To be completely vulnerable requires some degree of self honesty. Some journals are closer to my heart than others.

Ditto.

When someone doesn't respond to you/me, the best thing to do is walk away. You have that power, the power of saying no. The power of setting yourself free. Sometimes I love life. Sometimes I hate life. It's a mixed bag of emotions. You have to look at things from a different perspective and the open mindedness needed to do this is a crucial and critical part of spiritual work.. I can say Sadhguru helped me a lot in this process. Even Leo.

People can feel close and they can still feel far. Rejection always hurts a lot. I have emotional needs of a child. Probably because I never felt the love a child needed. And I still keep wanting it. My husband is always by my side when I'm depressed and that's a ray of sunshine in my life.

When I wake up from nightmares, it's a difficult situation. Because suddenly I'm in a different world. And the negativity I experience in that world is unbearable. I felt like everyone hated me. I need to deal with these babyish emotions as they're a hurdle to my growth. It's not the end of the world but it feels like it. Still the same addiction to thoughts and feelings. It can be a torment.

What psychedelics have you tried?

What are we exactly searching for?

Maybe reality is a simulation of that which doesn't exist.

You don't see problems with democracies? What if the votes are mostly submitted by large number of ignorant folks?

I understand your point about the conservation of energy. However, consciousness and subjective experience seem different from physical energy. Do you think they are subject to the same laws? What do you think happens to consciousness after death? Do you believe in an afterlife or some form of continued existence? Have you considered that 'existence' might encompass more than just individual human lives? Perhaps it refers to the ongoing cycle of life and death, or the vastness of the universe itself?

My main goal should be to let go of the need for validation as this thing irritates me a lot. Also why can't I be more selfish than I already am? I'm so hung up between the concepts of selfishness and selflessness. Embrace selfishness. And yet I can't really do it.

Funny observation mathematically — Reality is love. Reality is imaginary. So.... Love is imaginary.

Give me concrete truthful honest examples. Which dreams of yours have come fully true? There's another phenomenon called premonition if you're alluding to that. Premonitions are different from regular dreams. I have never or seen anyone fully prove that dreams became real. If you don't have concrete examples, it's your own invention then.

So you mean dreams lead to the truth?

Where's the evidence for this?

Exactly. Beautifully and wisely put.

Relationships aren't about clinging. They're about sharing joy and mutual growth. So I disagree with you wholeheartedly. Relationships are beautiful, amazing, wholesome, content, nurturing, compassionate. Relationships are a huge gift to mankind. You only realize this when you find yourself in a beautiful blossoming relationship. Relationships are also like money. If you have a positive mindset towards them, you'll have them in abundance. If you have a negative mindset towards them, you'll stay poor, hungry, complaining and coping. It's unfortunate you have this negative mindset towards relationships. But you do you.

Also this will never make masturbation better than sex. Masturbation is just a crutch, a replacement, a substitute, deep down all men know this.

You make points. But this has nothing to do with a forum. Most people who are introverted will struggle with socializing and dating in general. Regarding cost of sex, it's not the quantity but the quality that matters. Some extroverted man getting a lot of sex might still be frustrated because he didn't get the right kind of sex that he expected. So it truly depends and varies from person to person.

I have sometimes mixed my lucid dreams with reality and I have had trouble making the distinction. Sometimes it happens.

Sometimes I tend to blend reality and illusion because of it.