Carl-Richard

I have a feeling young people believe they have discovered something new because when they look at their parents or the older generations, they are not in that game, but the truth is they probably used to be in that game but they just stopped caring. Like, you could definitely trace "looksmaxing" back to some dude or gal in Ancient Greece calling it by some Greek name (Looksus Maximus). Or that's just my 0.9% Greek/South-Italian genes speaking (they are carrying all my efforts towards Looksmaxing).

My bar for speaking solipsism with you without pulling my hairs out is that you know the difference between cosmic solipsism and egoic solipsism, and you know the difference between a perception and pure consciousness.

The video format of playing a bunch of random funny clips on top of a droning monologue is so cheap and deceptive. It makes the droning monologue sound more impressive when in reality it's mostly just slop. It's the same issue with food videos that use high-speed cuts and transitions. It hijacks your dopamine system and makes what you are looking at artificially more salient than it actually is.

When I see these videos, of these young people and their limited understanding, I know that I'm getting old:

In my personal opinion, "God" is not a problem for me. People have different knacks for different words. Some are allergic to "ego". Some are allergic to "solipsism" (that would basically be me). The larger lesson of "language is not it" is a good one, but individual words, that's more personal. But I will say, "solipsism" is an absolute communicative self-immolative exercise.

There is a powerful pointer attributed to Leo which goes like "You are creating everything". It resonates strongly with the notion of "God". Besides, God-realization is often used as a description of higher states of divine love not merely reducible to the pure emptiness realization.

You could stop suffering quite easily, but you don't want to, either do what is required or drop what is required, which is very straightforward: everything you value must be dropped, everything you're doing that stands in the way of this must be deprioritized. Then meditation comes quite naturally. You're lucky to do spirituality before you have built a life, to see what is there, because that is simpler than tearing it all down. But you actually want to tear it all down before you get to see what is there. That is the conundrum. People want to mess themselves up before they put themselves back together again. As for when is enough enough, it depends on the person. Some can drop it all at 14-15 years old. Some need more time to mess around. And the messing around can get very tricky, even in the later stages. Some can have many deep spiritual experiences and still believe it's not possible to let go fully of everything. Stuck in limbo, moth and the flame.

Space and form. Consciousness is the space which everything arises in. Intelligence is the forms it takes. The reason "intelligent" people can tend to be unwise is because they are stuck on a limited set of forms, so they become prone to deception, bias, inflexibility, blindspots. Yet increasing consciousness increases the perspective, breaks the attachments to any particular form, and you start seeing between the lines, seeing details some people can't see. Increasing consciousness doesn't make you automatically wise, but across time, it will. Time is an important dimension of wisdom, but again, so is space. Space and time.

I prefer the shitty version (95% oxide/5% citrate) because I think the slight laxative effect has a better effect on my cognition than the magnesium itself (or I get enough magnesium with it).

He might be. That is essentially the entire tension between contemporary non-duality, analytical idealism, the mystical but still scientifically subscribing (naturalists), and Christians, Muslims, who are more open to the super-natural (and the brilliant cross-over: Christian perennialist panentheists, e.g. Rupert Sheldrake, who studies wacky shit like whether the Sun is conscious). Threading the needle is to remain agnostic: if you're a scientific andy, not that much evidence of a God that more or less literally speaks the world into existence through his divinely ordained plan (at least that I know, maybe somebody could make the case better than I can). But it's not exactly a divine impossibility either. I can't believe I'm linking this video of all videos on this topic, but Nick Fuentes (colloquially labelled neo-nazi) presented a similar tension here (not the meta-cognitive vs non-meta-cognitive God tension but the "tendency towards mystical phenomena associated with the Third Eye" tension, sort of tangential but anyway): 1:02-1:23 (when D starts talking, the clip is over).

I think @Cred is right about this forum after all considering this abominable display of context clue awareness 😆 "I confronted Vitality [...]" "Why I confronted Vitality [...]" Besides, you kinda have to think — if between the two options, when one of them is suggested to be light, you pick the one that is not light to contest the claim, not the other person — whether or not you know the difference. In other words, I thought it would be obvious I did not mean Vitaly was light, that's why I did not care to mention it. But sure, Vitality is the first guy that pops up on the screen when you play the first video, so that makes your heuristic prone brain clued to that rather than the perhaps slightly more demanding task of reading the title of the (two) video(s) beforehand (and moving your attention to the other person and comparing their energy). In other words, shame on you for being either a) TikTok brained zoomeroids, or b) merely human.

This guy is in some kind of state. Extremely light energy, piercing eyes.

Getting 2-3 eggs in the morning (I get 5, big boi) together with adequate vitamin D and co-factors should set the stage for the rest of the day. Fats and proteins seem to ground you generally (and pairing vitamin D with fats could make a big difference for absorption).

There is an ego trip and then there is doing what you think is right despite the potential consequences, which is the inverse of an ego trip. Vitaly was arrested the day after. Whether or not the guy who confronted him was also on drugs, whether he lied when he said "I don't do drugs brother", whether he has a "psycho stare", whether his sense of calm in such a situation is due to some psychopathic wiring, he is obviously in some sort of "state", be it mystical or merely psychopathic or pharmacological. I don't pick up "Ramana Maharshi" energy or anything, but it's beyond normal energy, and it's palpable, hence "insane aura". That you use "aura" only to mean mystical genetic phenoms hooked up on that spiritual crack, that's on you. And whether he is indeed hooked up on adderall or coke, that's highly tentative given his calm demeanor, unlike Vitaly who is clearly erratic and jumbled in his speech. Consider your own emotional state while watching the video (or in general, maybe even the last couple of days), or your sense of skepticism, or your expectations coming into the video, how it's affecting your reading of his state.

Perhaps. Vitaly was definitely on stimulants in the video, but you see quite a different aura there.

"It's your character" is straight out of a movie. I'm sorry if you're so addicted to spiritual crack that you can't appreciate other forms of aesthetics.

It reminds me a bit of one time I talked to this girl from psych class and I said something like "yeah I know, that's pretty OCD". And she was like "NO, you cannot use that word that way, OCD means you suffer with OCD symptoms to such a degree that it cripples your daily life and you have problems going outside your house or getting everyday tasks done". And I'm like "yeah, I meant the 'normie conception' of OCD; people use the word that way, whatchu gonna do about it?" And she was like "yeah, but I still don't like when the word is used in that way ". That was around the time when I started realizing and accepting that language, words, are used in so many different ways so you might as well participate in it.

Consider that being sensitive means you can pick out nuances better, while if you can only pick out the very strong from the very weak, you're not as sensitive

The Time New Roman is triggering me in ways I could not anticipate.

Eat eggs for breakfast.

You can recognize that someone has an aura even if it's not a literal jivanmukti beaming pure shakti out of their anus. You can adjust your expectations according to the situation.

You won't knock me out.

Funniest was the Bang Bus.

Unless you are in a constant state of bliss, ego death, rapture, terror, no control, no past, no future, you are in identification with your illusory ego, so you might as well start treating it nice.