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Vaush isn't peak green though. Peak green is largely absent in the public sphere. You don't have to be very green to hate Donald Trump.

Ego death happens when you stop talking to yourself, or you see the talking as just talk and not yourself. However, the amount of detail and clarity of which you're able to perceive the content of that talk, the mechanics of how it arises and how it functions, of the manner in which the sound vibrates; that is more what God-realization is about. Essentially, ego death is when you become aware of the background, the emptiness which grounds experience, but God-realization is the different degrees of how aware you are of the content or structure of experience (or atleast that is my take on it).

Although initially it can seem very intriguing, not to sound dismissive or anything, but this is some rather inconsequential stuff. It's one of the most defining aspects of a low dose of acid, and it's called "symmetrical texture repitition" on Psychonautwiki: https://psychonautwiki.org/wiki/Symmetrical_texture_repetition Pharmacologically speaking, I believe it's primarily mediated by 5HT2A agonism (serotonin 2A activation), and you can actually induce some faint resemblance of it if you elevate your cortisol or if you're hungover. I've also heard accounts of people who have personality disorders associated with serotonin dysfunctions (OCD and anxiety) who sometimes get these types of visual distortions to different degrees during strong episodes. To what extent you want to assign this to being some sort of inherent property of God is up to you, but I wouldn't try to get too caught up in that if you're aiming for self-transcendence. However, I still think it's fascinating to think about how and why these shapes are created, and it was actually one of the main things that puzzled me back when I first tried acid.

Ah nice! If only they knew how lucky they are haha

That's so cool. What type of course is it and how are you incorporating it into the course?

So that settles it. Westboro baptist church is less hateful than the KKK lol: 3:19-3:47

Nobody asked.

That's an assumption. You could probably have a sincere discussion about whether or not bodybuilding is worth somebody's time, but at the end of the day, you're not going to change the main goal of the forum, and you're the one wasting your time. You don't go to the pope in the middle of a sermon and try to debate him about the pitfalls of Catholicism. You seem to conflate high consciousness with passivity and anemia. Higher consciousness leads to a finer level of discernment, a sharpening of the tools, which means that you would be more concerned about details and the quality of content. You don't go into a holy temple blasting heavy metal. If you want to call it closemindedness, sure, but aren't you then being closeminded about the value of discernment?

@Enlightenment

In other words, bodybuilding forums exist with a specific goal in mind: to help people pursue bodybuilding. Cardio training is actually in some cases bad for overall muscle growth. If the pro-cardio person gets shut down, it's not necessarily because cardio is a worthless pursuit in itself, but it's because it's not helpful for building muscle. This forum is about increasing consciousness, and only the leaders of the forum can decide what that really means. Any forum with a goal must itself define what the goal entails and what things are detrimental to that goal and how this applies to the moderation of its content. If you want a "free speech" forum where anything goes, then you should seek out such a place (by the way, it doesn't exist).

I don't understand what you mean by that. Yes. This is a high consciousness forum. If you're providing nothing but low consciousness, then you're anti- high consciousness. If you come to a bodybuilding forum with an anti-bodybuilding attitude, you should expect to be shut down.

Imagine that you are on a bodybuilding forum and all you want to talk about is how bodybuilding is bullshit and a waste of time. If they choose to ban you for that, is it a cult?

Unlucky.

Just stop already.

We still "feel" like we have free will in many different ways, and it grounds our sense of personal responsibility. Even though it's an illusion, it's a useful one, not least on a collective level. If you rid people of any sense of personal responsibility, you would only ever see the chaotic and animalistic sides of humanity. A society that embraces determinism should do so not out of a denial of personal responsibility but rather as an effort to protect the individual. In other words, teach the importance of personal responsibility, but don't hurt or kill the people who don't get the memo.

Don't underestimate anything, not even meditation.

@Hatfort This one makes so much more sense after the WAP debacle hahahahaha (PUA Shapiro): (I'm not going to derail the topic any longer )

Pictures of a transgender Joe Rogan comes to mind. That could actually be a Michael Brooks character loool

Then I consider you unlucky, because those are some of the more interesting discussions on here. There are different ways to express a disagreement, and sometimes it's not even necessary to do so. The types of less mature outbursts that take up the most attention on here are usually about much more than just a matter of disagreement.

@Mikael89 Just rewatched this classic with both Dyson and Sheldrake:

@Mikael89 Freeman Dyson is a cool cat.

You're not "legally forced" to refer to anybody's birth age either, or atleast I don't know what you mean by that. I also want to clarify that I'm not necessarily going all-in, blindly supporting all possible types of transage sentiments. I just don't see how the general sentiment is in conflict with the general sentiment of being transgender. True. However, you can compare this to how some progressives don't want to play the political game and want to go straight to socialism without any intermediary steps. It's something to aim for, but it's not a realistic short-term goal.

You can't really blame Hawking. He was literally stuck in his own mind.

The philosophy book that I'm currently reading brings up the point that scientists tend to get very immersed in the details of their field to the point where they forget the bigger picture. They develop a type of blindness where they get lost in their own assumptions. There is a distinction between "insight" (or focus) and "outsight" (or overview). This is generally very hard to avoid, because there is a cost that comes with investing time and energy into something, and you often end up focusing more on one thing over the other. It's very rare to have excellent detail-driven insight and simultaneously maintain a sober overview. That spot is reserved for the great geniuses of history.