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That's what everyone suggests, and it works for most, but there are always edge cases. I do intense and perilous things all the time, that's how I first got into serious spirituality. My sensitivity is broken on many levels and regardless of the degree of intensity it never lasts. There is a way to make it permanent, through pure insanity. Otherwise, that's the sort of condition I live with. Given the infinite potential freakery of Consciousness, it's hardly surprising that such a thing exists. Awakening is a remedy, but no cure; it's a lifelong treatment process. Even seeing God's intelligent design in everything gets boring, believe it or not. Leo calls existence Miracle, and it is, but simultaneously it's a Certainty. Eventually all realizations come to that, and there's nothing interesting about certainty. So forgetting is fundamental to God experiencing its miraculousness. Only the oblivion of death is capable of dissolving ennui this dense. What people like me need is not more intensity, it's more not-knowing and venturing into utterly alien realms of Consciousness. It's not all bad though, there's advantages like rapid progression, lack of attachment, and abnormal risk tolerance.

Too much to explicate on that. The benefits and pitfalls of religion are fairly obvious and known, I'd just be regurgitating stuff. I read loads of texts from a variety of mystical traditions, they certainly enhance the spiritual experiences. I've directly experienced myself as YHWH, ΑΩ, Teōtl, etc. as well as grasped things like sanctity of life at the most fundamental level. In the end these are more like supplements that provide new perspectives on God, but they are not the absolutes. The value is poetic and artistic. It's about furthering creative expression and appreciation of God's Beauty. But you cannot, for instance, derive true morality through any scripture, religion, or tradition. At best they'll just provide a few hints.

What a strange conclusion to make, nothing I said suggests that. Though you do need some logic. How would you even know to look beyond the words in the first place? Or filtering out the noise? The point was not about you, it's highlighting much broader issues, yet you keep going on about your personal approach. Which nobody denied the validity of, so there's no need to get defensive. Truth needs no defense after all.

Here's some simple ones I found today. Just a quick exercise. The second half are a little more involved. https://lichess.org/training/aXw2V https://lichess.org/training/qoALR https://lichess.org/training/0D7DU https://lichess.org/training/O7zUv https://lichess.org/training/1GS05 https://lichess.org/training/GEo5v https://lichess.org/training/QyKaJ https://lichess.org/training/JgwzW https://lichess.org/training/QdGLd https://lichess.org/training/3ua8k https://lichess.org/training/Btv3a

It's in the name — 'ratio', or fraction, which is not the whole. Arithmetically, 'rational' is just "expressible in finite terms", so of course that cannot be done for the infinite. But there is a higher-order rationality where every fraction is a whole and finite terms are revealed to be infinite.

You should still take notes after each one, lest you forget important details. But small unstructured snippets aren't worth anyone's time, including your own. It is best to gradually accumulate and integrate your insights on a particular aspect, or better yet deeply interconnect several of them in a single glorious overarching writeup. You're guaranteed to learn a ton in the process, plus it's more efficient and futureproof too. Personally, I'm no longer going to publish individual reports, unless it's to share information about some novel substance/dosage/ROA and whatnot, for science. The contents, unless properly articulated, can only serve as mild entertainment.

I sure wish my memory was worse sometimes, remembering too many details is a significant contributor to boredom.

Such Christians are few and far between. Most have not even read the Bible, or do it in an extremely sloppy way. In Luke 18:19 you refer to he doesn't necessarily reject that he is good, he asks why the guy thinks he is good. It can be read as denial, but also as a rhetorical question pointing to how he is indeed God. Conversely, there is John 14:6 — Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me”. Read literally, this invites worship; but metaphorically, if Jesus is Love, Father is Truth, and the Holy Spirit is Will, what he says is exactly right, that's what the Trinity is. Seeing it that way requires a God-realization though. There's a number of different interpretations for any given passage in all scripture, which is precisely the issue. Interpretation by default is corrupt and no method is taught for how to correct that, the few that are lead to further corruption. Necessarily so, since the absolutes are noninterpretable. Not knowing what it is you have a relationship with will not end well. It would be more accurate to say that the God most people have a relationship with is actually the Devil. The best Bible verses are nowhere to be found in the lists of most quoted/popular ones, instead they're filled with nonsense about God protecting, guiding, and forgiving you, which is what people truly care about; it is used to excuse their sinfulness cloaked in false humility. "Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is — his good, pleasing and perfect will". Isn't this the essence of Actualized.org in a few words? And yet all Christian explanations of it miss the mark entirely. So the general problem exists and is worth pointing out, but if Christianity or another tradition helps deepen your spiritual connection that's great, it's as it should be.

Unless I'm missing a different one; rook to h3, pawn takes, knight g4, f3 pawn takes, and queen takes queen. But that 'wins the queen' only in the strictest sense of the word, after that knight takes rook and black is set to lose no matter what. There exists no other winning sequence for black than the queen sac. White dug its grave with that queen d8 move; should've taken the rook right away, then it's game over.

There is a special edition of the Bible that uses red text to indicate direct quotes of Jesus. Rather sneaky, initially it seems like a good idea. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_letter_edition

Qxh2 was the first thing that popped into mind without even fully examining the board, but for whatever reason it didn't seem right; too deceptively simple perhaps. So I started calculating various positions from Rxg2 until it was apparent that there's too many pieces on that square no matter how you slice it. Went back to the initial idea, and turns out it's a checkmate straight after rook to h3. Funny how intuition works. I knew pinning would have to be involved, but didn't see the most obvious place.

Sure don't. Most often it just comes preinstalled, like religion. There's lots of balanced options to be found, you could even dual boot. But it now becomes more of a matter of ignorance. Lots of people don't know what an OS even is, or that there exist any others besides Windows. There's still people in my university classes searching document text with their eyes and sharing 'screenshots' that are photos of their screen. I vaguely remember seeing a video where they switched some people's computers to Linux skinned as Windows and hardly anyone noticed the difference. Naturally, conformity and ignorance are deeply intertwined, but one can be more pronounced in a given situation.

Far be it from me to criticize the guy since I'm undisciplined and inconsistent, plus he seems collected and thoughtful when he's not putting on a loudmouth persona in one of his motivational speeches. His achievements and mental fortitude are undeniably extremely impressive, but none of it moves me in the slightest. It's simple personality and intention misalignment. For someone of phlegmatic temperament and insecure volition, there's next to nothing to take away from Goggins besides the bare essential universal principles of growth, endurance, and overcoming limits. The combative language (armor, war, beat down, competitor... from the first 20s or so) just doesn't resonate, my perception of the world is fundamentally different. Guess I'm also lacking in the masculine, haha. But it is certainly valuable if you have high levels of outward ambition and a desire to prove yourself. As far as mastering one's mind goes, figures like Jung, Ralston, or Leo are infinitely more inspiring to me; in fact these techniques are more flexible and can yield similar results if directed that way.

Counterexample: refusing to use Windows. So much of the FOSS/privacy activism is conformity. The subtle or sometimes not so libertarian ideologies they share, using LibreOffice and other inferior alternatives just cause they aren't made by Microsoft, rendering many websites half-functional due to overly aggressive JavaScript blocking, getting outraged at Google ToS changes without investigating whether it'll actually affect them, showing off neofetch screenshots... Windows is still extremely customizable through registry tweaks. It's not quite kernel level control, but sufficient to make it highly personalized and largely devoid of bloat. Pair that with WSL and maybe a remote headless Linux server, and you got the best of every world.

It's the same when spiritual people talk about 'sacred duty to reality' and whatnot. There's no such thing. Duty is just easier to handle since it's limited in scope, but it's an artificial concealment of other options. Such an attitude betrays a lack of trust in oneself and a misunderstanding of what Love/Goodness/Sovereignty, and a slew of other facets are. Oftentimes there's a double standard: easy decisions are framed as voluntary, done out of the goodness of their heart; but when it's complicated or costly, they fall back to the duty explanation.