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  1. @James123 when did you become nothing?

  2. Who Here Is From The UK?

    lmfao replied to LfcCharlie4's topic in Personal Development -- [Main]

    Wow lots of fellow brits here @Space Close to Nottingham eh? For your own sake don't come too close, "if you meet the buddha on the road kill him"

  3. How to have a strong ego?

    lmfao replied to Emanuel Lasker's topic in Personal Development -- [Main]

    @Emanuel Lasker I haven't got strong willpower or strong ego. The problem I've had in creating a 'strong ego' is that my ego ends up running on low consciousness fuel for action. By low consciousness I mean fear and pride. Maybe I haven't discovered healthy ego.
  4. @PurpleTree probs all bullshit Purely regurgitating memory if it serves anyone. David Hawkins claims that an 'error' made at higher levels of consciousness will be destructive than errors made at lower levels of consciousness
  5. Good thread James. I have often felt Leo's teachings give me the impression of trying to accumulate a bunch of spiritual goodies

  6. lmfao replied to lmfao's topic in Self-Actualization Journals

    Sat 12/12/2020, 23:00 ?LA VIDA SOLA VI VIVIRÁS , LA VIDA SOLA VI VIVIRÁS , ANGELS PLAYING DISGUISE WITH DEVIL'S FACES, CHILDREN CLING TO THEIR COIN, SQUEEZING OUT THEIR WISDOM?, god I'm obsessed with this song rn, AOT hype is real rn. Makes me wanna jihad. I fluctuate between high and low energy a lot, but this gets me pumped. --- Need to sort out my clothes and practice my eulogy for a funeral coming up next week. Oh and get a haircut. 1) What else. Email some university people, and do some uni work before Wednesday. 2) A lot on my plate for me, considering my sleep is shit, low energy and ssri come off. Today and 3 days for all that. Make that more like 2.

  7. Science Can't Be Imaginary!

    lmfao replied to Mesopotamian's topic in Personal Development -- [Main]

    Saying science isn't real is a counterposition to snap people out of their unreality, because most people really don't understand or see it. 1 + (-1) = 0. It would be ludicrous and unnecessary to write an essay of addendums and clarifications to clarify you're talking about context of absolute vs relative, you can let that be implicit. Seems a bit amateurish. Your insistence on fleshing out all these things can be genuine concern, but your snarkiness seems like you're being defensive of something. I don't grasp or know if science beings imaginary, but I don't think you do either. I get the sense that you think you know, but it's purely conceptual and is something you've compartmentalised into the realm of the hypothetical and far away.
  8. @Javfly33 the tricky thing is that every idea or abstraction can be part of a story. Often, content of your ideas don't matter, what matters is the context they are in, the relationship you hold to them. And that meta element won't be so obvious to an outsider observer, although you can tell sometimes when someone is speaking from genuine experience. Delusion then is a function of structure, and not content. You replace one paradigm with another paradigm. I've had strong mystical experiences before, had some sort of insight I put into words. The problem is that the mystical experience was something in the past, it becomes memory and you act on whatever concepts mechanically. Yesterday's illuminating insight is today's bullshit.
  9. @meow_meow I was thinking the other day that I don't know what it means to surrender. I would give a theoretical answer but I'll spare that untill I manage to do it myself
  10. Cool analogy with the lucid dreaming and using the dream objects What do you mean developing 'faith' that nothing is real? Is faith a shift of the mind towards determination and intensity upon seeing something profound?
  11. That resonates to me. I think moderation is one of those things that can't fully be contained in some list of rules. Hence intuition and moment by moment judgement, correctly guided and not just someone abusing power. -- Having seen some discord servers. What strict laws/rules often do is that they prevent some wrong through preventing something that is neutral in of in itself, but that neutral thing can be used for 'wrong purposes' ( but also for some good purpose ) The more highbrow approach is to not ban those things, but use intuition and moment by moment judgement to respond correctly to when something arises. All that to say, yeah, I think it's tricky and I agree with an inclination towards situational judgement rather than some fixed set of rules. letter of the law vs spirit of the law. Upon operating from intuition and situational judgement as a mod, I'm sure you've seen yourself criticised or attacked for that a bit since people will complain that you have double standards from their POV. Everyone turns into a lawyer when these situations happen, for good and bad. -- All that said and etc, I still perceive the core of what I said earlier, a doublethink in myself and plenty others on this forum.
  12. @Preety_India Interesting. I don't know this situation about your ex, how you've tried moving on in the past. @xxxx gave really good advice I'll advise something that me be a bit bold, ignore it if you've done it before or you think it will be that detrimental. For the sake of your own growth and emotional healing, have a very honest, open and frank conversation with your abuser (this boy in this case). Have no shame or self-doubt in owning everything that you're feeling right now. And when you talk to him, be honest about how vulnerable and hurt you feel (rather than just expressing anger and hate without admitting your own sensitivity and hurt), whilst also not being doubt or shameful about the validity and worth of your feelings. Maybe you won't get a response from him that shows much remorse or concern. But the important thing is that for yourself, you were able to develop the courage to own your feelings completely and stand up to your oppressor.
  13. @BipolarGrowth How does Neo wake up?
  14. Brother Adeptus makes some good points. Eh, strong disagree there. --- To be honest, it seems as though operating on this forum requires doublethink. On the one hand, you want to remain openminded and honest about your opinions, and everyone conceptually agrees that you need to not believe anything and form your own opinion. On the other hand, Leo locks threads and everyone ridicules you if you deviate from some dogma. You can't simultaneously ask people to be openminded and not believe anything but then chastise people for deviating from your dogma slightly. Someone might try to give some "you're damned if you do, damned if you don't" in regards to policing/moderation, I wouldn't be able agree

  15. Immortality

    lmfao replied to SS10's topic in Personal Development -- [Main]

    Death gets closer and closer. Every breath is one breath less, every minute is one minute less. -- Each time your cells replicate, for each and every miniscule shift in your energy, you age in some way. It's natural. I'd be amazed if such an omnipresent force like physical aging could be overcome. It would be like trying to stop entropy, trying to stop brownian motion. Death as a property of reality is inherent, regardless of lifespan. Flux and impermanence is death.

  16. lmfao replied to lmfao's topic in Self-Actualization Journals

    Thursday 10/12/2020 16:53 This is obviously a weird low point and rut of mine. My body is chronically fatigued and low in energy to do anything. If change can't happen through addition, perhaps it can happen through demolition and subtraction, but that will be a lot more painful and slow. If I forcefully deprive myself of habits and coping mechanisms, well something will have to happen. The question is, how can I get myself to take such a journey when the coping is all I know and consumes my entire day. How do I take those first steps. I want to unattach from technology, one problem being that I still have to interact with technology for the sake of my work, even in the ideal case. ---- I still forget about actuality. Yesterday I realised that I don't know what it actually means to surrender, I just knew the word. --- Part of this will involve making a plan and ruthlessly executing it. And of course consciousness. But also "surrendering" and letting things be
  17. Supposing this alien business is true, which I reckon it might be. It seems as though national governments have been taking the approach of slowly dripping more and more info and hints about aliens into the populace, so that it is slowly normalised and grows in the unconscious, so that everyone isn't as shocked whenever it's confirmed. Because let's be real. How many of us will think "eh, I kinda already knew" when all of this gets confirmed? Whatever information we're given about aliens, it's being given very slowly and gradually. It makes things less exciting and dramatic when they do this strategy of very gradual acclimatisation and hints.
  18. I remember in high school this girl was open with everyone that her boyfriend was like 28 when she was 17, maybe her family and stuff were okay with it I have no clue (this is in the UK). No one said anything about it like it was weird, I just found it odd but never said anything.
  19. @SQAAD Evangelion mood
  20. @Blackhawk fair. You do have a point about it being fear or random sentiments.
  21. @Gesundheit If you're asking why Leo says reality isn't a simulation, I think it's because he was addressing theories about all of us literally being hooked up in machines like the film "The Matrix". The simulation theory that many materialistic Elon Musk followers are a fan of. Criticising the metaphysical implications of simulation theories on ultimate/absolute reality , rather than saying it isn't a possibility for relative truth ( maybe he did criticise it as so, Idk, but I would guess that he didn't. I haven't watched his video.) Not that I think this simulation theory is absurd or something as a possibility (I just haven't thought about it much, and I imagine there a several variants you could come up with). We might try to scientifically make the claim that the brain causes/runs/is consciousness, and that sort of thing has been discussed here a lot (the idea of brain and etc is arising in consciousness). Well now the claim here is that a computer built by some aliens or other humans is causing our consciousness, or "contains" our consciousness. Perhaps if this was thoroughly looked at it, it would be no conceptually different in general structure from the claim that brains cause consciousness. Saying that our brains are simulated in computers kinda just passes down the buck to one level of abstraction further, without changing any general principles. And then this is playing a game of causation, where it's "turtles all the way down"
  22. The logic you've been spouting in this thread is far from comprehensive or complete. For many scientific innovations, e.g. medicines, drugs and foods, the "burden of proof" is often on those companies to test that it is safe before they allow all humans to use it. I'm not asking that the same standard be applied be here, but to show the room for error and gaps in your thinking. ---- This isn't me saying I think or know they cause harm. To my personal intuition and "common sense", it isn't a large "leap" to think it's possible that lots of electromagnetic waves in the advent of technology may have an impact on the human biology, possibly in a negative/perturbing way. What seems like a plausible leap or plausible concern to me might seem like an irrational leap to you, and vice versa. Everyone has "common sense" or "gut" concerns, but everyone has different ones. It's quite relative and tricky to navigate. You can't do away with the problem completely by labelling all these hunches as hogwash either. Since we all have correct hunches for things that might be bad for us even if we aren't scientists with studies on hand to prove it. But I have no idea if they do cause harm. It's already known that using technology changes your brain and psychology due to interacting with the content of technology in a particular way (social media, addiction, etc), but that's not the same as saying that these waves inherently cause physical harm. Maybe some studies out there sufficiently 'debunk' the idea, I don't know.
  23. @vinc3nc Good post, I can relate to what you said with my current experience in life. No need for psychedelics though in my case, meditation gives me enough existential terror. Maybe it's the pain of our worlds falling apart that's obfuscating joy. Just continue on with it and see what happens. I don't think it's an easy solution, and these things can't be resolved without a complete dive in. Also very strongly relate to this complete turning inwards as your own source of knowledge and authority. And at that point, seeking spiritual advice from gurus and seekers seems like a complete farce or game to play. You can temporarily push down all the realisations and fears in order to function in life as you did before, but it's simply lodged in the back of your mind, never leaving. It inevitably comes back. It's an unavoidable bullet, it feels as though. One of my favourite quotes: "Your head is already in the tiger's mouth. There is no escape" Once you've gone past a certain point unexpectedly, it will keep gnawing away at you and coming back at you no matter how many times you try to push it down and forget, and resume normal life.
  24. @Galyna What is your relation to "solipsism" now? That I cannot experience or verify other POVs existing, I can't figure out what the meaning of that is. I may logically try and think of hidden meanings and non-dual narratives behind it, but it doesn't amount to anything. I've started meditation again recently, and I remembered (once again) the reason I stopped. It was fear of going insane, emotions which surfaced again. My experience of other people being limited to another perception within my experience. And my mind feeling confused in general from instability. This really all is the overlooked obvious. The experience of oneness means that there's ultimate loneliness and existential dread. I freak out, being completely alone is insane. I have a pattern of stopping and starting again spiritual work because I get scared every time I approach something deep.

  25. lmfao replied to lmfao's topic in Self-Actualization Journals

    @MuadDib Yeah glad to see someone else going through the same thing haha. Very relatable. Only recently am I starting to appreciate the importance of organisation, conscientiousness, planning, etc. I have to form my own routine, signals and cues to work. Right now, my physical environment is disconnected from the reality of having work to do, because it's all compartmentalised to online. The fact that I'm actually supposed to be studying and doing a degree is abstracted away, since my physical environment is just chilling at home,.