Eskilon

Everything can be a wast of time, that's relative. However, porn has real consequences on the body and psyche beyond opinions on time spent. And porn isn't? Please, bro. It's giga addictive plus it can have drastic physiological and psychological effects on your sex life. I think you don't know what a gooner is.

Gaming is better than porn though, at least it has deep stories, meaning, puzzles, symbolism, philosophy, the author or creator is offering you his perspective on reality, which you can learn a ton from. A Porn user is just an animal horny to release tension from his body -- when consuming porn you are like a dog, or worst. With the ammount of crazy stuff nowdays, I would say porn users are below animals on average.

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Yeah I agree with you. It's just too shallow to be honest. Unless you are trying to get a girl or really horny, I find almost no reason to go out and try to meet people. One thing I also noticed is the sheer neediness in people's face. You can almost touch their sense of lack and need for attention. Like they are beggars and not confortable in being alone and thus they socialize a lot.

Alright chief, this makes sense. Emotions are more raw things and seems to be prior to self. But what are emotions though? Just energy? Still, it's tricky, emotions are definetely tied to self-preservations mechanisms. Even though chronologically the self hasnt risen yet. Or maybe it is always there but dormant, as a seed. So the self is still what's running and emotions are on top of it?🤔 Animals don't have a self? Maybe they do but they just don't know it ? As in, they are not self-reflective? Since you are more informed on this, there's research on this type of stuff? Will we ever be able to know what's the qualia of an animal?🤔 I think this quote is pretty interesting to think about when thinking about this: "Consciousness sleeps in minerals, dreams in plants, wakes up in animals, and becomes self-aware in humans"

Interesting, now that I think about it, mine is the opposite -- emotions are the transient and raw ones, while feeling are more constant, persistent and psychological. I don't know, still a mystery to me. When did the narrative start? Where's the director? We need to have a talk

So you say that emotions are more fundamental than self?

Shortie

Ask your mom

That seems to be a projection of your state of consciousness on the infant. The infant does not have a self at that age, how can it be angry? Again, is a cell angry?

We just got different definitions on anger ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

What kind of goal could a 4 months of age infant have？ Unless you consider basic instincts and bodily impulses as goals I don't see how could they have anger. Maybe they are just reacting instinctively in their biological programming. They are just automatons at their stage, not enough consciousness to have anger. Just like a cell doesn't have enough awareness to have anger. Anger might be an experience that you need sufficient consciousness to have.

Explore the infinity of porn. For consciousness!

Because he is god. Paradoxed. That's what a god-realized being looks like

Will humans make shit about you 1000 years from now? "Leo did transform himself into an Alien once, I saw it. Just once though" -- Actualizer

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The notion that anger comes from outside the ego is really funny. People sure like to twist things lol Infinite self-deception.

Yeah, it's really silly when you think about it. This always seemed stupid to me. Like you are gonna meditate, do psychedelics when you are old, tired, prob have some disease or 2 and less sharp? C'mon. There's a reason great master bloomed at the 30-40 range. Some at their mid 20s but its rare. At the very least in your late 20s and early 30s you are good to go balls deep if you want, waiting beyond that is just delusion in my view.

I think so too. This is why I don't fully like the advice of pursuing spirituality "later" in life. Imagine pursuing something so meaningful, energy intensive, and cognitive intensive when you are not at your peak years. You need huge intelligence for this work. And I don't think the "pursue" when you are older is a universal truth like people on this forum seem to believe. I think if you are on this forum chances are you are more intelligent than the average person, and I don't say this with arrogance at all, it's just my observation. If you are here I don't think you need to wait that much to pursue deep stuff. One should use, one's vitality, intelligence and freshness while one have it because tommorrow may never come. Just my 2c

I think people are just too unconscious though. Like they have no awareness of thoughts, emotions, and so on, they are just in a constant state of hypnosis: Drunk on sex, drunk on power, drunk on money. Basically, machines reacting to primal instincts, there's no space, no consciousness. People just react to Biology. Also, no realization of impermanence, Death, and no self. The solution to corruption is wisdom and consciousness. The guru thing is real, but I think there are still legit gurus who is mega developed, but we probably don't know them and never will.

Which is the final stage? There's a final stage? How would one know？

I don't agree with this. Power doesn't corrupt, some people(or most) ARE corrupt. Power just gives a opportunity for people to express their real self.

Great post!

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