
Whitney Edwards
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But it makes the sex more wholesome. It cannot be ignored.
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Why is that?
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Whitney Edwards replied to Findus's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
But America never does that. -
I will need to dissect my feelings one by one.
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Whitney Edwards replied to Findus's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Leo did not kick right wing thinkers. He kicked out right wing epistemic brain rot. And that's the right thing to do. -
Whitney Edwards replied to Findus's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Is True spirituality left leaning or right leaning? I think it's neither because both are ideologies of some sort. Spirituality is open mindedness and epistemic Humility to be able to internalize the perfect understanding of every perspective. -
Whitney Edwards replied to Findus's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
I think one crucial difference is that you never this work to gain a following. Whenever someone pursues spirituality with the goal to gain a following, that's when they most likely turn it into a stubborn ideology. -
Whitney Edwards replied to Findus's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Sometimes gurus can be wrong too. -
Whitney Edwards replied to Findus's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
There is a common element in these stories that recurrently keeps coming up - their fragile heavy ego. -
I don't see much difference between occultists and conspiracy theorists.
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Whitney Edwards replied to Findus's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
How is it possible for someone to reach deeper spiritual truths if they're going through such a phase? Wouldn't they be misleading themselves? -
Whitney Edwards replied to Findus's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
One example is Connor Murphy. -
Whitney Edwards replied to Findus's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
He says that the Atlantic slave trade did not happen. Why would anyone believe a person who is so wrong about history? What are the chances he will understand anything at all? At most he will misuse knowledge. He is beyond repair because he is too closed minded. He is like another version of Connor Murphy. Just click bait. -
Yea that is beautiful. I like it too.
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Good one.
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Am I on your ignore list?
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If a hundred crocodiles attacked Leo, how many crocodiles died?
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An example?
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Totally agree.
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I'm grateful for your graciousness in trying to understand women's issues so thanks for opening such a sensitive issue that is rarely discussed. A better relationship with period is quite difficult. I have heard a lot of men resent their girlfriends or wives when they're on their period. An empathetic approach might help. Understanding why some women act hostile and aggressive on period days might help. The aggression comes from experiencing constant physical pain and that pain leads to a low mood, extra sensitivity and mild to severe aggression. It varies a lot among women. Some women are quite lucky if their period is painless. I wish I had that luck. Thanks for trying to understand. However this is not the case with most men. They cannot be patient around their girlfriends on their periods. I understand the frustration. Men want the picture perfect girlfriend or wife and I wish life was that beautiful for us women to be able to give that happiness, joy and perfection to men too. Reality comes in the way though. Mother nature perhaps wanted it that way. I don't expect men to understand much because it's beyond their scope unless they have to experience it themselves. So I get the anger a man might feel if his girl is acting weird on her period. I don't know why I feel aggression towards men on my period. They didn't cause it. But maybe it's some form of envy that men don't have to suffer like this. Or that female sexuality exists to pleasure men. Sometimes I wonder if my life would be great if I were born a man. Then I wouldn't need to suffer physical pain. Also the aggression could be a biological response as in resistance to sex, so converted to resistance to men. Because sex and men are attached in the female psyche as much as sex and women are correlated in the male psyche. I mean I have heard men hate women if they don't wanna have sex with them. Let's say they don't want to submit to sex or feel some aversion to it and a woman begins to grind on them, I think the man is going to hate her for doing that because he is resisting the idea of sex in his mind so he doesn't want the temptation. Probably something similar happens in the female psyche when she doesn't want or need sex, she wants to be resistant to it, in turn she might be resistant to male attention or male glances or attempts to flirt with her. This is how I can best explain the aggression felt against men. Because sex needs equal participation and when that's not the case, the attraction can feel stolen, if you get my idea. I don't think a man will ever understand it. I don't even expect him too. In this sense I have empathy for men because it cannot be imposed on to them to understand something that they never had to experience. I similarly do not comprehend male horniness either. So I don't blame men. And consequently, I don't find it fair to share such things with a man because it's really not his territory. Ironically a lot of women don't understand either especially if they didn't have painful periods themselves. Trust me on this. I had a lot of women shame me haha. They would say things like — it's just a period. It hurts when a woman does it. Slut shaming and period shaming is done 100× more by women than men. If I wear a sexy dress, it will be a woman who will point it out first that there's a problem with it. I remember my sister thrashing and beating me when I was on my period laying in bed. I kept screaming in pain and she violently dragged me out. That was also my first suicide attempt because I was in unbearable pain. My mom confessed to me one day that my grandmother did not even teach her period hygiene. All that aside. I generally look up to women who are more sympathetic and kind and who give me the sense of true company. So they don't judge and offer a shoulder. In this sense my husband has been my biggest blessing. He almost acts like a nurse on my period, always gives me space and speaks comforting words to make me feel better. That's a great gift. I wish all boyfriends and husbands would do that. I appreciate you being supportive. My periods are very regular, almost to a perfection. There's something (I don't know if there exists a medical term for this) like an anticipatory anxiety that I experience with every period, right before the period, I know the date when it's approaching, so my body begins to tighten up or tense up a bit in anticipation and my mind gets nervous knowing it would be coming. I think women have a lot of period related anxiety, especially women who suffer difficult periods, these anxieties can be about the length of the period, socially embarrassing situations (hard to express this one but I have this fear that my clothes might get stained in public and the anticipatory anxiety of this embarrassing situation makes me avoid public outing on my period so I cancel doctor's appointments or events in advance.) I canceled many of my zumba classes before my period just out of fear of not being able to attend due to the stain problem. So there's that. A lot of men don't understand that women wish to stay absent on their period days and they assume it to be an excuse. I hate it when it's misconstrued like that. It's also partially women's fault too, because women make it sound like a taboo when such things are discussed openly. There is no disgust in explaining things that need to be understood especially by the opposite gender. Men shame this as well. I recently saw a thread in which I read this on this forum Overly feminist people. Too much of gender equality related content. Too many of shorts in which people are saving girls. Too many of sex and periods related talks using the excuse, "we are progressives", "we are liberals", "we are a cool generation ". I guess that's the difference between eastern and western men. Eastern men consider it a taboo to discuss period related stuff. Not trying to attack the user but just trying to make a point. In Eastern cultures, female sexuality is suppressed very badly and anything related to sex, women, period is shamed and tabooed. It's definitely progressive to openly discuss such topics and there's no shame or taboo or overly feministic about it. So such opposition of feminism is quite regressive Yea with time it gives me an idea when to expect my period. As well as what to expect. They have a strong correlation to how women react to sexual urges toward men at least in my perspective. I can't account for all women. But if you are asking for my individual opinion then my sexuality is definitely tied to how I feel hormonally. I'm grateful you opened this topic. Very few men care to understand the woman side of things so cheers for being the man to take the lead. Thanks to you too.
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I can relax right now. I was worrying about my passport work.
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I postponed my passport work because I don't have money right now.
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I guess I'll have to be my own therapist because my family decided that therapy shouldn't be an option anymore.
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Yea I've been in similar situations quite recently. Where I experienced hate. So I used two ways to deal with it — I mostly forgive them whenever an encounter comes up. I let them go and let them do their thing to me. If they judge me I let them do it. I call it giving space. Meaning. Let them be how they are and I won't react. It's like I give them that freedom to trigger me. Because I understand that a part of them makes them do what they do and I try to take the high road and understand it from a meta perspective, the way a parent would understand a child. So I try to not get worked up by what they do. Instead I just let them and my heart expands in the process. Although I don't experience intense love for them, the hate sort of dissipates a bit in the process of trying to understand where they come from. I live my life from a very feminine energy based perspective. The male perspective can be quite different.
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One thing that's hurting me is that despite everything I could not achieve my goals. I got distracted by my family issues. I also did not make a solid plan on what should have been done. My emotions as usual were all over the place. I still hope that 2025 will be a great year for me and my problems will be at least partially resolved. Also my addictions. Something I need to control as much as possible. I stopped my zumba class too. So feeling down because of that. I used my addiction as a cope against my destructive emotions. I did not make much progress. I had started with the thought that I would make great progress and this was somewhere in September and when I joined the forum. But I failed fantastically. It's because of I did not have any discipline. It was disappointing. Parts of the year were good like my marriage. I was filled with thrill. Parts of the year not that good. I did not have a rigid discipline or a rigid routine. I even told my mom to give me my medication. My psychological medication. I'm on Abilify and Lexapro currently prescribed by my psychiatrist for my depression and borderline personality disorder. ...................... Maintaining emotional stability is not easy. I rely on food, especially a quick sugar fix to fix my anxieties. I sometimes feel like drinking but I don't drink. It's like bad days are back again. I want to see my mother happy before I die. I wanted happiness. I wanted my good moments to last longer. Life is hell when you don't have a good family.