UnbornTao

"What do I find threatening to my worldview about other people's legal, respectful and consenting sex lives?"

Pursuit of Wonder guy, perhaps. There're a few popular YT channels on these topics but they need to be searched for, similar to the one above, perhaps.

I think you might be misunderstanding things and tackling matters superficially. Coincidences and anecdotes aside, you can openly look into things, questioning what they are. Being grounded serves this.

Aren't there two of these threads? Can they be merged?

@Keryo Koffa "I missed the part where that's my problem."

Like Plato defining a human being as a featherless biped. Diogenes plucked a chicken, brought it to Plato's Academy, and exclaimed, "Here is Plato's human!" In response, Plato and his followers modified the definition to include "with broad nails."

At this point, we might as well ask what are self, self-concept, identify?

Why do birds suddenly appear every time you are near?

Not practically possible, unless you had the requisite basic survival skills. Without any human interaction at all, eventually, like Tom Hanks in Cast Away, you might end up befriending a soccer ball. It'd be like experiencing radical solitary confinement in the long term. I suspect that, at some point, we all would miss human interaction to a greater or lesser degree, even if we consider ourselves "loners".

Notice your state when listening to the video below. I'd like you to contemplate that it might be manipulation, and why that is. Also, don't think of manipulation as a negative thing, or confuse it with the conventional social form of covert, deceptive manipulation; the word itself means managing or handling something skilfully. For example, the calming effect it may produce on you, which might be its purpose; the video affects your current internal feeling-state. Now contrast that with what plain communication really is and contemplate the difference between them.

yep

You know who else? Ken Wilber

Everything you do is a manipulation.

Recognize and acknowledge that everyone, including you, is operating in the domain of belief, whether religious, scientific, philosophic or cosmological; the truth of the matter remains unknown. Getting this in your experience takes work and can be deepened.

James Clear, Shane Parrish (Farnam Street).

Joe Dispenza Deepak Chopra

The future has no future. Seriously though, no idea on what the future of work is going to be like.

The Power of 1% The Power of 10% How To Achieve More With Less How To Do Less with More Fuck It, It's All Meaningless Finding Your Purpose The Joy of No Purpose How to Be Still (a 340 pages manual) The Art of Joy The Joy Of Art The New Korean Way to Tidy Up

Loved Black Ops 1 and 2. Zombies mode was appealing to me. Hopefully BO6 does things reasonably well; zombies looks promising.

Sounds good!

I suspect that everyone faces similar challenges in interpersonal relationships. This is a good opportunity for you to question what this behavior is really about. Could it be an attempt to avoid getting hurt? Perhaps it’s rooted in an aversion to vulnerability? I'm painting with broad strokes here. A good question to ask oneself is: What do I assume is true of myself such that I get to show up as this person, in this particular way? Contemplate the assumptions that might lie behind the motivating factor. Keep contemplating what this pattern is about and why it occurs.

Sounds like a pipe dream.

If we ignore its nature, what are we declaring war on?