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@Sven no thoughts. just Beauty

@Aquarius i don't think you or your friend know what success is and how it happens. success is achieving something you work for success comes after several (countless) failures stop listening to feedbacks about success from unsuccessful people. your "friend" is just being hypocrite.

@MM1988 you need to learn how not to put yourself in the context that proliferates the toxic feelings.

what owns a persona?

the Universe is saying this through your mouth. whatever you do, it's the Universe itself doing it.

@Aaron p your frustration tells me that you're on the right track. here's a clue: you can't trust anyone who gives you an answer to your question. there's no authority on the entire universe other than your own direct experience. i repeat: there's no authority on the entire universe. you're all alone.

non-duality does not contradict materialism. non-duality is not a belief and materialism is a practical belief. they refer to different aspects of Reality. non-duality targets the BEING that Reality is. materialism targets the macro layers of Reality.

started today. thanks for the info.

@Baotrader WHAT lives?

@Elysian if the SD labels are messing with your head, then let go of them. just develop a sincere thirst for Truth and nothing can go wrong.

@Tetcher you're looking for a fundamental meaning for psychedelics. the bad news is that they do not have a fundamental meaning. the good news is that nothing has a fundamental meaning. meaning is a mental construction. be free forever.

@Aquarius what you're expecting from your parents cannot be provided by others. it's an impossibility. this is why life is so amazing. now it's your turn. move up! make your life amazing! nobody can make it happen for you, otherwise life would be BORING AS F.

good question, but this is my last off-topic post on this thread. the art of exploring mathematics is about seeing how interestingly far the system goes. beautiful minds do so by proposing challenging ideas, which we don't know whether they're in or outside the system at first. and then they build a deductive path to reach their proposition using only hypotheses the entire community agree with. and then you go like "whoa, i didn't see that even though it's been available since i was born!". the fermat's last theorem is an excellent example. there are also things that we cannot even tell if they're in or outside the system. not because we don't know how to build the deductive path, but because it's impossible to prove them right or wrong. this is a consequence of the largely known gödel's incompleteness theorems. you see, the mathematical world has its mysteries even with a formalized system of finite axioms. exploring the "outside the system" world does make sense because the barrier that divides the inside and the outside is not completely clear. so what seems to be outside may actually be inside. the basic set of mathematical axioms is built upon common sense because mathematics arose as a practical tool, even though the consequences of those go beyond practical! but saying things that are consequences of arbitrary sets of axioms is just uninteresting.

almost there, but the implication works the other way around. the premises justify statements like 1+1=2. if you change the axioms, which you're free to do so and build all sorts of useless mathematical tools, then you'll be able to derive weird assertions, such as 0=1. example... try inserting the following rule in the current mathematical world and see what happens for yourself: "if q is a complex number, then q² = q³."

i was being a little sarcastic (which is extremely rare from me). some people talk about unusual math like "1+1=3" or "2+2=5", but they don't know what they're talking about. "1", "+", "=" etc are just symbols used to manipulate logical derivations from a predefined set of definitions: the axioms of mathematics. so using them to express things that cannot be inferred has no value at all. of course you can define your own set of axioms to make 1+1=7 or whatever. it's no big deal. but people talk about it as if they're saying something very interesting . here's a link for those who want to go deeper. notice the subsections on the left panel.

whoa, we've got a mathematician here

@Leightonm i had many addictions (smoking included). i stopped by asking myself what i was seeking while consuming shit. i wasn't able to find a reasonable answer.

@beatlemantis hello. i've been where you are and i had the same pattern of thoughts that you're having. so this is the best thing i can tell you after coming out on top and healing myself: you're overthinking. neither you nor him are wrong and your relationship is not toxic. you're pursuing what you want and so is he. the problem is that you want different things from a relationship. thus, you're not compatible for such a commitment. the solution is inevitably painful and i'll put it very objectively. break up and face your insecurities by learning how to appreciate solitude. find the love you can give to yourself or die thinking that you're a puppet.

it's inevitable. you can't be anything else but Truth. you're free to think otherwise, though. you cannot change your True Nature. the real work is about learning how to experience an amazing Life. because It is.

@Grant NZ the "physical world" is fundamentally made out of nothing (literally). every single thing is a consequence of a dance without dancers. Reality is always a mystical experience.

@Aaron k hi there. i'm not leo. but i also have a big nose and i have struggled a lot with it in the past. we have to find our True Beauty. it worked for me and i no longer suffer from any kind of neurosis.

amazing video. ego shattering for some people.

enlightenment is also about realizing the lack of fundamental meaning. turquoise is also about consciously building an amazing meaningful life.

@Pilgrim if you don't have to work to feed anyone (aka have children), then do it. when it's about living the life of a monk, the fear of running away is actually a facet of attachment. it's the ego structure screaming "I AM NOT A LOSER. I DO NOT RESIGN".

it's a good advice in general. most people who play video-games do not develop a mature relationship with gaming and become addicts. i was one of them. but nowadays it's very different. i am building a lovely family, thriving in my profession and having fun with lots of things (video-games included). i've been playing skyrim and dragon's dogma (i have an old ps3).