LambdaDelta

A bit of a departure from the original idea of documentaries, but here's a resource that allows to stream local live TV from 100+ countries, dozens of channels per. No ads and other nonsense, there's even a randomizer feature. A lot can be understood about a culture from their TV, even if you don't speak the language at all; it's a somewhat different approach with its unique advantages and limitations. https://famelack.com/

Neither for me. Not my goal to engage in sophistry. Since you said you're trying to improve your writing, I'm pointing out an aspect that could use some of that. It's just done in a specific style that may come across as rude. I'm sure you'd agree that there's an important distinction between 'us' as humanity as a whole and 'us' as people on this forum.

Ah, so you have a PhD in the Obvious. All the explication and it's still left unclear which 'us' is being referred to. Btw, quote or tag people if you want them to see the reply.

Apparently not so alien. There's some study Leo mentioned about how 20% of people don't even have insights. Unless by 'us' you mean the loonies gathered here.

Agreed with the rest. But furries could also be people like this guy

That alone isn't enough of an indicator, you may notice there's plenty of people even on this forum stuck on dating, success, etc.; as in, their posts are almost entirely about that without ever touching spirituality. The body of work is that extensive. Good 😘

Someone hasn't done their homework 🤫

You haven't transcended squat if you can't even simultaneously hold such trivial opposites

It's not a handwaving, every time I leave the house I know perfectly well I might die in some accident, or simpler still a brain aneurysm I don't know about could suddenly rupture and kill me on the spot or render me a vegetable wherever I am. It may be the most logical emotionally, but there's higher order logic. Your trouble is identifying with the human you too much, which can indeed be destroyed by Death easier than brushing off a speck of dust. Such conventions don't apply to your actual Identity though. Then there's the whole angle of suicide to consider, but that's unnecessary radical for now. Enjoyable as it was, gonna have to shorten all further posts for time purposes, since it's a universal pattern that people ignore 90% of it anyway.

Mandatory supplementary viewing at least 50x on repeat https://youtube.com/clip/Ugkx2ZkyxTzaFO8TPN2iJUvfTD-KvhStMvTY

You don't need it, but it can be a nice tool. Like having a pentalobe screw head in your toolbox; it has narrow use, but there are things you can't unscrew with a Phillips. Looking at aesthetically ugly things is a shortcut for understanding and appreciating aesthetics. In every domain, not just visually. You look at Trump's behavior and quickly know to do the opposite. How it appears from the outside is of no import.

Fine, have it your way. But remember you started this whole thing supposedly trying to understand, then proceeded to reject every perspective anyone offered. I'm just here for entertainment, there's zero serious understanding to be had on the forum; all the work is outside.

Right-o, but what of your own similar notion I experience no distress (or pleasure) from watching it. The sights never leave not in a colloquial sense, but just 'cause I have a very good memory.

Certain kids are more emotionally and intellectually mature at the age of 5 than most adults can ever hope to be. Contemplate why you're seemingly unable to step out of your perspective on this issue. My weird perspective doesn't deny the experiences of regular people at all, it simply adds the weirdos, making it more inclusive, which is one of the features of higher perspectives Leo outlined.

You're missing the point, even if it was straight up sexual assault the way you're thinking it wouldn't matter very much to an asexual, especially one with other quirks. If there's distrust of humans it doesn't have to come from fear of them, it could come from a conclusion that they're stupid or at least unreliable which was made prior to any such experience. That's not really about Leo or myself, but a larger general mechanism. Which is that no matter how universal an experience may be, there's always outliers. The only absolute is existence itself (yes, gotta bring spirituality into it).

My perspective is quite unique, but can perhaps provide some insight. A lot comes down simply to introversion vs. extraversion — you're strongly the latter if I recall. Same way as it's impossible for me to cognize how could someone be so social and not get exhausted, you may also underestimate the levels of introversion out there. Then there's further genetic shenanigans that take it to even higher extremes. As most other kids I experienced conventionally traumatic things here and there — couple instances of family verbally abusing, hitting me & otherwise not providing love, getting constantly bullied at school, and so on. Some of those had a minor impact that I then healed, but the vast majority were an "in one ear and out the other" sort of thing. I wasn't a child at that point, but a few years ago I went to Saudi Arabia and in a perfume shop at the local market the owner started groping me and following me around. It was uncomfortable, but that's about the level it raised to. My first priority wasn't fleeing, it was contemplating why isn't he afraid of doing this in such a strictly homophobic country, what does it tell us about repressing urges, and yada yada; didn't even care enough to get myself out of the situation first before thinking all that through. Exactly like the strawman Leo likes to make of a scientist that reasons about animal sounds in the forest and gets killed by a bear. In this regard I'm way more autistic than Leo, but Leo is still extremely autistic (in a very loose application of the term). When I sometimes have to remove an ingrown toenail, I'm too busy thinking about which lever angle of the metal filing tool will work best or why does hydrogen peroxide cause blood to bubble and ethanol doesn't instead of feeling the intense pain. That's the level of dissociation an INTP can have. There's perks and downsides to it, but I wouldn't have it any other way. This may be called a defense mechanism, and in a sense it is, but those are usually developed, not something you're born with. I'm perfectly comfortable talking about those things in great detail since it's just a memory and nothing of it remains in my direct experience. I started with perspective and that's basically the TLDR — if you don't perceive it as traumatic, it won't be. But for more profound reasons than simply calling everything a concept Ralston-style. Moreover, I recently became aware that not only are my dopaminergic and serotonergic systems out of whack, so are the oxytocin/opioid ones. I don't feel much of anything when being hugged, receiving social approval and the like; and stuff like O-DSMT and heroin just makes me sick instead of the warm euphoria they're supposed to induce. That's all one interpretation, obviously I can't speak for how exactly it went for Leo, but some part of it definitely plays a role.

Is that what you're doing? If so, congratulations. But most likely it's only unlimited because the mind you dismiss has mysteriously compressed it into a unity without you noticing. If it was actually numerically unlimited for more than a couple hours you'd end up with schizophrenia or DID. Curious where such precise statistics come from. Well, it is rare indeed, but the toilet stage can be transcended such that the falls turn into very smooth landings.

My my, shouldn't mods have higher standards for language they use? At least keep it to reductionistic terminology like I do. If you literally never fall, that means you're always surfing the same wave, which could be some puny 2-3m thing that's not impressive in the slightest. After you fall from a peak you can go try again, or summit a different one. Or even go surf and sunbathe for a while, nothing wrong with that. That's what proper understanding gets you and then some. Part of proper understanding is seeing the possibilities of further development and working to actualize it. I already got the puppet show on a permanent basis, now comes the trickier part of purging my corrupt will to free up the bandwidth for God's.

These are not mutually exclusive. They may preach it from a level where they can take a Mahasamadhi anytime they feel like it, but ultimate liberation is not a lived daily experience, by choice. Which then makes you wonder why would they hang around at this dirty limited place full of suffering; perhaps there's something more important than peace and bliss. 'Somewhere else' is a distinction. Primitive nonduality can easily be turned around on itself like that. Nirvana can be had here and now, as per Buddha. As if. Death is as much in your direct experience as Jupiter. What, it's certain because everyone who ever lived died, you see people in Iran die, your pets and your parents? Weak. In your current direct experience you exist, else you wouldn't be talking to me. Existence is the only foundation you get and the only one you need, death is more fantasy. But I'm not telling you what to pursue, since in your current incarnation you're so focused on liberation and ending suffering, transcending death is probably right for you. Then perhaps after a Nayuta more karmic cycles you'll move on to cooler things. Believe it or not, I never cared much about survival and death, and that's not only because of the very favorable material conditions. In fact someone with such a spoiled childhood should by all accounts have turned out completely dysfunctional and helpless after it was all stripped away. But I constantly go around putting myself in dangerous, challenging, and painful situations, as it naturally feels like a game. There's still stakes, death can get me from behind at any time, but that's what makes it fun. Don't assume all spiritual paths are equal, they're only equal by virtue of their ultimate trajectory. And there's way higher paths than mine, such as selfless service to reality (as in the real deal like Jesus, not the nonsense they teach at Vipassana retreats) and beyond. In a way that's true. All absolutes can be relativized and reduced (an inalienable function of Authority), which can either be done from a place of ignorance or through a process of attempting to verify them via deconstruction; done correctly any deconstruction only reinforces them, that's why they're absolutes. The most intense is not Truth or Love, it's Sanctity. Verbose as I am, I have no words for it, while I could talk about the others all day long. It's infinitely more visceral than death or any emotion. And yet, Sanctity is a quality of Truth all the same, as Love and the rest. They're not even qualities per se, they literally are it. The more facets you awaken to the more you realize that God is an infinite self-luminous fractal of absolute Truth; all the additional aspects are revealed to be gems in this Indra's Net.

This is literally how the news is broadcast in some countries, which ain't even North Korea. Is it then any surprise that the world is in the state that it is? Spot the difference

We're in agreement there. But peaks are unsustainable regardless of the methods they were achieved through; if you don't think that's the case you don't know what serious peaks are. Equivalently, increasing baseline is possible through all sorts of ways. I've done so many psychedelics that it permanently altered my perception and brain chemistry. There is of course the danger of catching HPPD and the like, but that's by no means an exclusive risk; people have even induced schizophrenia on themselves by repeatedly chanting the names of Allah. In a week it will be 5 months since my last trip, it's only now I'm starting to feel the need for the next one gradually coming on — higher frequency than 3-4 per year would actually diminish the scope, at the current stage anyway. Otherwise all I've been doing as far as psychoactives go is amphetamines to counteract ADHD and an occasional Z to get vivid dreams, the rest is simply incessant contemplation + observation + learning, and a couple other miscellaneous practices. This yields a pretty consistent and profound consciousness of God if I say so myself (not to be confused with God-consciousness, whole different ballgame). I don't even meditate or do anything of the sort as it just makes me delirious. Consider that it is instead possible to reach No-Self and Stillness through sitting on a moving train surrounded by people and deconstructing the concept of motion entirely in your mind, similar to how Einstein conducted his thought experiments. Sitting cross-legged and so on are only tangentially related abilities, for every such feat I could list an intellectual one that is no less pertinent but still nowhere near anything decisive. As much as I ignore the body, these guys and Buddhists might be ignoring the mind even more. All this may seem inapplicable to the average person, but really not a whole lot more so than what these yogis and other hardcore mystics do. Ultimate liberation while still trapped in a human body is itself, ironically, an illusion of the mind. I'll rephrase, it of course does bring all that to a certain extent. Actual paradise/Nirvana on the peaks, stable unperturbedness and happiness at baseline. That's really about the bare minimum you could shoot for, and the highest bliss is achieved through the deepest understanding. It becomes complete and total once you integrate incompleteness, which is easier said than done at advanced degrees, but can at least be made peace with as a start. Suffering, for instance, is crucial across various traditions. One can suffer consciously or unconsciously, and I'd argue that naively pursuing ending suffering ASAP falls under the latter. Then you'll get neither 😛 ; the reasons are exhaustively explicated in Why Truth is the Highest Value and elsewhere. Understanding is its own reason and reward, same way Goodness is — because the two are identical. Not if you fall in love with the game and harness God's creativity to make your life infinitely fun. But if I do somehow get hopelessly bored of it, I'll peace out of here, remain as undifferentiated Love for a while, then incarnate into some other form after the omnipotence gets too stale and forget all about it. This is not a cycle you can ontologically escape, but you can certainly trick yourself into thinking you did almost indefinitely. Samsara = Nirvana. That's right, what else is this all about. Seems strange to contrast bliss & cessation of suffering with games like that. Does your videogame character suffer when he takes damage, or feel bliss after completing a difficult mission? It's an endless chain of proxies and puppets, very much total yet still only a single frame.

Pfft, I can do the same thing; give me a fat bowl of N,N-DMT or even 5MD, at most I'll just grimace from the harshness of the vapor. There's your proof I'm already permanently awake. Wanna join my cult? That's one interpretation anyway. The other one is that my MAO-A is so hyperactive it shreds those tryptamines to bits before they have a chance to reach the brain. And whichever is true of me or the people in the video, in the end it still comes down to genetics; can't escape that. Liberation, bliss, ending suffering, and so on bear little to no relevance to understanding of reality, which has always been the explicit priority here. They're like a cute extra perk you may get along the way. The highest states of consciousness are so intense one can hardly breathe. This doesn't just apply to psychedelics, Beguines have reported being bedridden for days after deep prayer, so have other mystics across history through whatever techniques they used. When someone can nonchalantly walk around while claiming to be 'permanently enlightened', it's because their peaks are weak sauce. Living from a persistent consciousness of the imaginary nature of reality isn't even particularly difficult, yet many still fail to reach that. The proper metric would be the depth of this awareness and how much you're able to out-imagine Maya before its forces break your consistency.

@Yimpa yup I'm like the walking uncanny valley haha