Carl-Richard

I love Steven Wilson

@mandyjw ?

And how would you even begin to explain what something like Twitch is? ?

Then the next step is that feel-good philosophies and spiritualities are shallow, inauthentic and lead to denial, repression and finally breakdown. You're never safe from the truth.

and mainstream ideas like reincarnation, the afterlife, nihilistic atheism, simulation theory etc.

Does this include youtube videos of Eckhart Tolle, Mooji, Alan Watts, Ram Dass, Rupert Spira etc.?

I dunno. There is just something deeply satisfying about delivering fat packages ?

Yes, drugs are bad . I just provided some context to what creates the stereotypical addict, and most people completely miss that part of the equation. People act like taking a chemical once is a gunshot to the brain. It could be; 10 years down the line after suffering the living standards of an addict.

That's what they want you to think ?

Your brain chemistry tells you when something is wrong. Trust your brain chemistry.

I'm willing to bet a large sum of money that they're fronting a positivist framework.

@Leilani When I first learned about spirituality and later non-duality, I did a lot of stupid stuff that I regret later on, like not joining my best friend to play music for a year because I interpreted the idea of improving my guitar skills as an "ego game". I also messed up my high school grades by "living in the now" (smoking weed full-time and repressing every thought resembling a conscience). I even bet if I never discovered those ideas, I would still find a way to screw myself up somehow, because I had some unresolved emotional issues that I had to work through (repressed id/Red). My point is that there will always exist ways to fuck yourself up as an unstable person, and it's not as easy as saying "outlaw this and this and this, and everyone will be safe". Although it's true that the more radical the teachings become, the greater the danger for misinterpretation and the ego co-opting it as a survival mechanism, that is a possibility with literally anything. I mean, I basically interpreted "live in the now" as "fuck up your future" ? (like, hello??). Remember that we're anyway living in a highly dysfunctional world. You can child lock it all you want, but dysfunction will still be a fact.

So do you think these beliefs which are already floating around in the mainstream collective consciousness are putting people in immediate danger and should be kept under wraps?

Lol you think you can measure infinity? ?

How backwards is it that a teaching like "all separation is illusory – everything is Love" is problematic, but things like simulation theory and nihilistic atheism are somehow completely fine.

Don't you run out of ammo after the first few? I don't like the feeling of shooting blanks ?

And if we go a step further and take what has been said earlier into consideration: what if that medium is all you have? That should elicit an even deeper sense of understanding and empathy. When given the true context behind a person's actions, the first response should be "I understand you". Likewise, when you feel like you don't understand someone, the first instinct should be that you're lacking context. That saves you a lot of energy spent on confusion and resentment.

Locked for asking about how to source drugs. Growing mushrooms is a source of drugs.

Then do that yourself instead of complaining about other people not doing it. I personally like to teach people how to meditate, because I know how it works and I know that it worked for me when I was in his situation. If you like to spend your time doing comprehensive, in-depth inventories of people's lives, then do that. I'm primarily on the forum to have fun, not to serve as a disposable personal life coach.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Holdsworth#Influence_and_reception His playing consists of some of the most alien melodic and harmonic passages you'll ever come across.

You can't change your life overnight. You take it one step at the time. Besides, you never know if you might be missing out on some very foundational things that have a wide impact on your life, and that's exactly where things like diet, exercise and meditation come in. For example, look at this thread: The guy seems to be doing everything right, but apparently the problem is just that he skips breakfasts. Sometimes the most obvious things are the easiest to miss.

Who would've thought the lesson was "eat your god damn breakfast"?

Seatbelts make zero sense to me because you can literally die while wearing them.