Carl-Richard

This is just rhetorical garbage. So your generalization that "parenting feeds off your spirituality budget" is not a generalization and therefore other generalizations like "this is how much time the average parent spends on their kids" do not matter at all? Hmmmmm.

Let's also add that if you care about those 1h45m so much, get your children to clean and do shit around the house (works from probably age 5 and onwards). Boom — efficiency. And at more advanced levels, they can even cook you dinner (works at around 12 and onwards). On average for a 18 year run, you might even save time overall (in fact, you definitely will as 1h45m is only from 0-6). And even after 18, they will help you with shit, even big things like moving a house.

You're such a mind-reader. Where did you learn these powers? Some Leo course I haven't heard of? Almost as powerful as "you don't understand what I'm talking about". Yet you make generalizations on whether having a children is a waste of time or not. I just don't believe that time will eat off your spirituality budget, unless you're of course not an average parenter (that's always the assumption, which is the one you're making yourself).

Thoughts on the stats I showed?

Out of all the things to be skeptical of, in terms of time expenditure, resources, etc., having children is not it. You're already way inside a societal scheme by having a job and the expectations and assumptions related to that (having your own finances, expenditures, place to live, friends, status, marriage, heh - children), huge time sink, huge resource sink. Once you are in that scheme, then adding children on top is like nothing. "But I can't afford that little extra". Bahaha - why? You can't skim a few hours of your internet or other hobbies? Having children is the most epic hobby you can have. And look, it's objectively nothing: Even 0-6 years old, you spend more time accidentally scrolling TikTok. And most of those can probably be parallel processed while eating dinner or simply resting after dinner or something.

If your priority is direct spiritual work, quit your job. But it's not your main priority. It's life. Life might contain having children for some people, if not most people if they are honest and not self-deceived. And when life is not enough, then direct spiritual practice might become the priority. And that way, life is a part of the spiritual practice as @Lyubov says. It's where you eventually end up by living life. And of course spirituality might happen along the way, without single-handed focus on whatever practice you think is most efficient or necessary. Odds are, if you have a job, your spiritual practice is already piss tiny, so having kids won't cut into it, probably only the few hours you spend on scrolling TikTok or other internet trash (like forums, youtube, news sites).

Wibe code some website or app or service with ChatGPT and put a paywall on it, run Facebook ads and see if it profits. If you don't have any ideas what to make, ask ChatGPT for ideas that might be profitable and not require too much work to make.

Spiritual or spiritual adjacent (psychedelics) song titles where the titles also reflect the meaning of the songs/lyrics. Note: unsure if that last one is spiritual or simply anti-religious. Oh well, Actualized.org will like it anyway 💀 (not really because not many like death metal 💀).

You gotta lay down the Instagram reels fr.

If you're doing it because you're mirroring them and that's what you're picking up, that's what will happen. I know some women who when talking to them, they are so extremely good at mirroring your own emotional state and how your express yourself (tone of voice, level of energy, excitement, calm), it's almost uncanny (and they seem to do it automatically as a default).

☝️🤓 *Brings out rifle in overpopulated metropolitan area*

😂

Debatable.

Stop posting schizophrenic Instagram reels omg 😂 The video seems to me like 100% acting. You don't just pull out exact four-five digit numbers on the top of your head while performatively looking into your skull like that. Exact manic energy and oversharing of unsolicited information you would expect from a pathological liar who does it for kicks.

The forum used to be like this, it used to have this view, then something very wrong happened. It was a slow change that culminated with the kicking of @Nahm. The forum was never the same after that. That was the best time, all the best people and conversations were had. Now it's a forum of suck-ups and outcasts.

Well, this universe has hardness, correct? So you're conceding that argument. I added a concrete example for clarification. Our minds tend to have a hard time actually/literally imagining things that exist outside space and time (our cognition and thinking is so deeply tied to it), but it is possible to conceive of such things. Bernardo Kastrup has a video on it called "Imagining the Crystal of Eternity" or something like that.

I can imagine an universe without space, time, only association. That would be akin to the Platonic realm or pure syntax/structure/algorithm (see the paper on Revisiting Marr's Three Levels). Space and time are required (or descriptions) for the physical implementation of the Platonic forms. The Fragment can precede physicality, through pure form, no extension, no change in time. Space and time is for us just an abstraction of our physiological senses and the change of their state. Where there can exist a sensation, we replace with space, and the change in sensation, we describe with time. You can experience a proto-version of the Platonic realm by the fact that you can imagine a car without having an actual car in front of you. The issue is of course in your image of a car, you project sensory qualities, extension, etc. But you can also merely investigate the "concept" of a car, its pure structure, without conjuring up an image in your mind (through linguistic associations). The Platonic realm would be akin to the conglomeration of that structure.

Surfing unlimited identity is not some puny thing. After you fall from the peak, you're in the toilet compared to surfing the unlimited, unless you're on the very brink (which 0.000004% of people are).

Application does not mean better than other options. I can apply a seriously inflationary cosmology and it will still be inflationary. Why is the application better than other options? (By what account do you ascribe its status as a Theory of Everything and not say Analytical Idealism?)

I've had similar experiences. Same with improvising on guitar: every note feels more profound, but my motor skills are clearly inhibited, so it just sounds sloppy and limited. The inhibition of motor skills is a microcosm of the larger inhibition of cognitive movement. Adds points to my point in another thread dicussing how psychedelics (weed goes under there) makes you take insights into form/Maya very seriously (it seems very profound), even when it might not be. Weed has its own caliber of this, but other psychedelics might be even more radical in their own respects.

The insistence on "truth" is very probably the intellect in disguise, co-opting the truth as usual. What I've been seeking has always registered to me as simply the "highest/best thing/feeling/sensation/existence", not any specific quality like "truth" (more than any other quality).

Morning: eggs, bread (currently trying gluten free), kiwi fruit, tiny dash of butter, fish oil, vitamin D and cofactors supplements, pepper, 50/40 sodium potassium salt, some water. I barely drink water for the rest of the day except at the gym or when running. A fruit at the gym (orange unless I'm out of oranges). Dinner: 200g of some meat, 450g potato or 200ml rice or 125g pasta (dry weight/measurement), 250g or more of veggies or salad. Sometimes tomato sauce, sour cream, various spices or herbs, EVOO, smaller amounts of butter, cheese, Indian sauces. No mayo or other high-fat dips, no frying (except beef mince on low heat in a pot in melted butter and garlic and/or other spices/veggies), no oil while cooking (only some water), no pizza (unless extremely bored once a few months, and then homemade unless forced), no doughy stuff. Left out some minor things. Evening meal: same as dinner.

Weed dissociates you from salient aspects of your psyche that you want to be connected to for personal development. Perspective change, creativity, may arise, but at the cost of a more narrow cognitive stream (and perhaps expanded being stream, but in a narrow fashion).

Because all people are broken and traumatized.

The logical "proofs" are question begging. You can insert any concept x and justify it. For example, "effluviousness is a necessary quality of reality. Let's assume it's false. If it's false, reality would not be able to effluve. Q.E.D." The question is why is the quality a necessary quality (for explaining some other quality)? In Analytical Idealism, the fragment separates itself from the Absolute through the process of "dissociation" (of establishing a boundary). That's it. Do you need more than that? EDIT: Bruh "effluviousness" is actually a word 💀 I thought I made it up.