Carl-Richard

What is cognitive ability?

Ever since I was little, I had a strong intuition that this kind of blind discipline is not only highly unappealing, but also dangerous. In fact, the very word "discipline" always gave me a bad taste in my mouth every time I heard it. If you're not plugged in to some higher principle or underlying impetus for doing something, or you're not listening to the control mechanisms of your various mental faculties, you're not just flying blind, but you don't know where you're going; you're flying on no fuel, and you have no idea if there will suddenly not be air under your wings, or that where you'll be arriving will not be empty as air itself. I always struggled with cultivating "discipline", but what I discovered was that true discipline unfolds spontaneously when you have your priorities right. It also cannot be dictated from the outside (although it partially always will be that, but a large part of it has to be an internal drive, or else it's just not sustainable). And this kind of more spontaneous discipline is more in line with your general sense and ability to feel out where you're going, so you'll not become this neurotic mess and slave-like drone to whatever superficial conditioning you happened to be indoctrinated with.

Lions can be very fierce and violent.

I watched the whole thing. I gotta say (and I've said it in various ways before), although my values don't perfectly align with him, Tate is definitely a specimen of a human being. It's no accident that he has become as famous as he is. He is a bit like a lion mauling a prey: ferocious, capable, majestic, terrifying. And he is tapping into something, despite his faults. You can't speak that fluently and passionately without being "plugged in" some way. And he speaks a lot from life experience, which you can learn a lot from (even if he interprets the lessons through his own value system and it's different from yours, with some discernment). Although I also get the feeling he is a master bullshitter for so many reasons (but that too would make him a specimen of a human being, because as Leo would say: humans are the bullshitting animal ?).

Isness is Absolute Truth.

You know how it is when somebody is making fun of the prophet

Your writing reminds me of my first college essay

@nuwu Why is your post structured like a ChatGPT answer? ?

You can drop them at some point, but then you have to truly see their insignificance at a deep level. I don't believe there is such a thing as dropping something before you reach that point. Before that, you can only delude yourself that you've dropped it, but in reality you're dragging it behind you and letting it wear you down. You should rather pick it up and carry it with pride until you see the finish line. And before that happens, it's possible to carry both ideals and desires at the same time. You just need to balance them.

26 (13 fear + 13 avoidance). I would've probably scored 60+ a few years ago.

He literally said to me while dying of laughter: "I literally became a window, and I had this peculiar feeling that "today is the day where windows are to be sold!'"". You can't make this shit up ?

This is good that you're becoming aware of your desires, but there is no reason to hate them, even though they're not obviously in alignment with your higher values. In a sense, becoming more conscious is about becoming more aware of yourself and ultimately being OK with who you are. That doesn't mean you can't have aspirations or future plans, or growth or change. Those are also aspects of yourself that you should accept if you want to become more conscious. This to me seems like a sign of growth, and growth isn't always a linear upward trajectory. Growth sometimes entails coming to terms with something you've been neglecting and having to re-adjust course, and it can look like a loss in the short-term, but it will ultimately be a win in the long-term.

My friend tried Salvia and woke up in an alternate reality where he became a window on sale.

Nice.

I was thinking about the forum in general

The only thing worse than that is somebody trying very hard to prove that they're awake

The way you put it in the title seemed like you were reducing consciousness to the quantum field, which is not necessarily the same as saying they're the same thing (as one could be more fundamental than the other). But I could understand why you would like to say they're the same thing.

It's not getting much engagement, so I figured I would ask some of you guys (and by the way, it's my very first post on there, so trust me, I've yet to be completely swallowed by the Destiny cult, I swear! ).

The quantum field is that which's excitations are physical particles. Consciousness is that which's excitations are experiences. What is a physical particle but an experience in a physicists mind?

My dude, this is the entertainment section of the forum. You don't go here to get enlightened. Besides, this hyper-puritan mentality isn't good for anyone. Don't get too caught up in the personalities and focus on the issues that are being discussed.

I know. It was just oddly specific

Having a grandiose self-image or low levels of empathy doesn't necessarily mean your primary values are strength, loyalty, respect, courage, etc. For example, I think MrGirl (a once relevant internet personality) is a good example of somebody who is pretty narcissistic but also has Green-Yellow values (or at least proports to have them, or is at least able to engage with them cognitively). But the thing about especially narcissists is that they're very good at manipulating people around them to serve their selfish needs, so they can construct a mask of being a highly virtuous person with an advanced set of values, which in reality is masking their real low level values. So you can argue there is some overlap with lower value systems, but narcissism and sociopathy are of course much more nefarious than merely being simpleminded.

Lol my fake UFO video is 10x better than that ? https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGJQym3ab/

Yesterday on one of my evening walks, I felt like doing something weird. I usually walk for 5 minutes in one direction around the neighborhood and then walk the same way back, equaling a 10 minute walk. This time on the 5 minute point, I landed on the top of a hill viewing a house on a mountain in the far distance. I felt kind of groggy that day, so I think I wanted a way to feel better, but I ended up doing a tiny meditation-like thing where I tried to stand as still as possible while focusing on the house, almost as if I wasn't really there and I was just a transparent camera of awareness. I did that for like 10 seconds, and if somebody had walked from around the corner or peeked through a window, that would've looked really weird. Regardless, only from doing that for 10 seconds, my vision became so much clearer and my mood improved significantly, and the walk home was great.

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