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  1. Alright so today I've moved out from my parents (for university). I'm typing so as to get me thoughts and feelings to flow out as I'm thinking about how to manage my relationship with my family. My family is muslim and they do not know that I am not muslim and so I'm wondering what to do about my lifestyle since I wont care about whether I eat halal meat or not, care if I get a girlfriend or sleep around, care if I drink alcohol and etc. I rely on my parents for financial support, but I still think that I should soon tell me parents im not Muslim (and hence I'll be living whatever lifestyle I want). Since my dad is more educated and open minded I'll tell him first. And as far as my mum is concerned, it's probably too early to tell her anything. She is an absolute lost cause in trying to negotiate any sort of compromise or alternative viewpoint. So lets suppose I go through with telling my family that I'm not religious (with the exception of my mother), the only thing I have to consider is what my father will permit me to spend his money on. He may say to me "Do what you want but don't spend my money on alcohol" and/or "don't spend my money on unhalal meat, dont spend my money on pork". And what I wonder is, if I am put in this situation , what am I to do or say? Since I want to live my live with freedom, I shouldn't accept compromise even if it should mean that I financially struggle. On the other hand I want to put forward the fact that I am thankful for the support hes given me and that I am willing to maintain as close a relationship to the degree that he's willing to accept. I live in England, a welfare state at the end of the day and in the worst case scenario I accumulate some debt I have to pay off once I start working. Secondarily I worry about how my relationship with my family will change, but I'll have to accept any changes that come my way. Life is a game at the end of the day.
  2. @princess I found for myself that caring what other people think leads to so much negative emotion. If you become mindful of the process your mind goes through, acting fake and inauthentic starts to dissipate.
  4. @Key Elements Amen Supposing I'm independent, I would tell them the truth of things because that's how things should be I think. I'm gonna live my life how I want at the end of the day and so if they don't accept they don't accept (sigh). I meant to quote you again @Key Elements but I clicked on the wrong comment. Yes.
  5. @Mezanti yes. Both views 1 and 2 are right to a degree, and the degree to which they are right varies from person to person and experience to experience
  6. @Brittany your situation might be different to mine because most Christians are not fundamentalist and they can eat whatever they want, many have premarital sex, don't have to recite arabic 5 times a day and etc. I might be wrong in saying that when considering your particular situation, but that aside it seems like your situation is similar to mine in the sense that your family obviously take religion seriously and would freak out if you told them. Yeah I think I will have to come out just because of how much of a big lifestyle commitment Islam is versus the lifestyle commitment most Christians make. I see no way to point to non-dual ideas. The only accepted interpretation for many Muslims is a literal one. Many Muslims see it as complete heresy to say that there isn't a single entity who is above is who is ruling us. This image of God is one where God is separate from us. The most I do is just recommend meditation to them. Random thought, although altruism and ethical behaviour in religion may be linked at its roots to non-dual experiences most people take up altruism for dogmatic reasons.
  7. @Leo Gura indeed it may be wise for me to accept compromise for financial reasons. Strategic thinking is needed here. I'm into meditation so I won't be a 100% heretic. I won't be good at communicating to them the idea that "Allah" can be synonymous non-duality and that I believe everyone is God, but good suggestion lol. I don't know much about sufism, seems interesting from what I've heard. @Solace You're right. I think I've pretty much come to terms with accepting who they are as people with their beliefs, just a shame I know they'll believe in lies until their death.

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

    Alright so today I've moved out from my parents (for university). I'm typing so as to get me thoughts and feelings to flow out as I'm thinking about how to manage my relationship with my family. My family is muslim and they do not know that I am not muslim and so I'm wondering what to do about my lifestyle since I wont care about whether I eat halal meat or not, care if I get a girlfriend or sleep around, care if I drink alcohol and etc. I rely on my parents for financial support, but I still think that I should soon tell me parents im not Muslim (and hence I'll be living whatever lifestyle I want). Since my dad is more educated and open minded I'll tell him first, And as far as my mum is concerned, it's probably too early to tell her anything. She is an absolute lost cause in trying to negotiate any sort of compromise or alternative viewpoint. So lets suppose I go through with telling my family that I'm not religious (with the exception of my mother), the only thing I have to consider is what my father will permit me to spend his money on. He may say to me "Do what you want but don't spend my money on alcohol" and/or "don't spend my money on unhalal meat, dont spend my money on pork". And what I wonder is, if I am put in this situation , what am I to do or say? Since I want to live my live with freedom, I shouldn't accept compromise even if it should mean that I financially struggle. I live in England, a welfare state at the end of the day and in the worst case scenario I accumulate some debt I have to pay off once I start working. Secondarily I worry about how my relationship with my family will change, but I'll have to accept any changes that come my way. Life is a game at the end of the day.

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

    @moon777light Yeah my sleeping pattern has always been a mess lol, primarily due to technology. I've wasted a lot of time playing Gears of War, Marvel Spiderman, Mario Kart and etc.
  10. @xbcc Everything is me. I do not exist at all. -------------------------------- I completely have free will. I have no free will whatsoever. ---------------------------------- The statement within each of these pairs of statements is pointing towards the same experience/truth as the second statement in that pair.
  11. @Hamilcar yeah idk how that other formula works but I think it's safe to say that there some dodgy manipulation which is still referred to as "addition" lol.
  12. @The Don Jordan said that his IQ was tested to be over 150. He said that when you break down the sub components of his test he's only 90th percentile numerically (I might be wrong don't quote me) but on the other hand he is very high verbally. So his cognitive ability is a factor here. He's just got a talent for public speaking and talking in general. He's a psychologist who has clients as well so he's done hours and hours of talking and listening to people. Another thing worth mentioning is that Jordan Peterson will often express in precise terms what most people will express in unprecise terms. Even if the truths and messages he conveys are vague and broad in what they are refrencing, his language is still precise. Academics learn how to be good with language it seems.
  13. @SageModeAustin how much can you expect from someone who doesn't want to take conciousness work practices seriously. He is an expression of nature like we are, he can't help but do what he does.
  14. @Hamilcar Grandi's series is divergent. As you increase the number of terms of the series you are not getting closer and closer to a particular number, so the fact that the sum=0.5 shouldn't be a brain fuck because 0.5 is arrived at from choosing an arbitrary method of summation. 1+1-1+1-1+1... To infinity has no real solution but something like 1/2 + 1/4 +1/8 +1/16 + 1/32 +.... To infinity has a far more real solution. Because infinity isn't an actual number (and hence "limits" as a concept are defined) , "addition"is defined as acting different for a convergent series than it is for a divergent series. The way addition is defined for a convergent series is what everyone is used to, you could say that people just decided to invent a different type of addition for summing a divergent series. Here's how 1/2 was the answer for that series you mentioned. Let's consider a new sequence for which the nth term of the new sequence tells you the mean of the first "n" terms of the Grandi's series. E.g., (1-1+1)/3 = 2/3 and (1-1+1-1)=2/4. We are going to redefine addition in a sense, and say that Grandi's series is equal to the "infinitith" term of this new seqeucne We have "1,1/2, 2/3,2/4, 3/5, 3/6, 4/7, 4/8, 5/9, 5/10, 6/11,6/12,7/13.....". Because I can't type limit notation and sequence notation on this site, consider what number the numbers in this sequence are getting closer and closer to as you progress along the sequence. When n is even we have 1/2. Look at the odd terms of the above sequence "1/1 , 2/3, 3/5, 4/7..." the odd terms are getting closer and closer to 1/2. Infinitith term is therefore 1/2. It is from this that you can see: From the presupposition that ("1+1-1+1-1+1-1+1-1..." to infinity)= ( infinitith term of "1,1/2, 2/3,2/4, 3/5, 3/6, 4/7, 4/8, 5/9, 5/10, 6/11,6/12,7/13....."), Grandi's series= 1/2 Infinity isn't a number, so if I was to be formally correct in my argument you would have to use limit notation. But I hope you know what I mean.
  15. Alan Watts is my favourite teacher lol
  16. @Viking is it possible you are struggling with vocabulary? I know that if I ever read a good book I'm often looking up definitions. I have mild dyslexia and one thing that happens to me when reading a sentence is that I'll read half of the sentence and be very confused, but then after finishing the sentence and paying attention to the position of commas the sentence will make sense. The pauses you take and the specific chunks of words you take in at a given moment in time when reading a sentence can distort meaning, and I've often found myself falling for this trap. It's impossible to avoid this trap completely as it is the case that sentences can have two very slightly different, yet equally valid, meanings depending on your interpretation. However, this difference should be small. Another thing that bear in mind is that complicated words don't make the message of a sentence that much more complex than the type of sentence used in day to day life. I've been reading a maths book "set theory and logic" recently (it has lots of verbal commentary) and I've found that sentences which have a simple meaning can be worded in unfamiliar ways such that they feel alien and unnatural to read at times. All this type of stuff gets better with practice. If dyslexics can find a way to read so can you.
  17. @TheBeachBionic@TheBeachBionic@TheBeachBionic@TheBeachBionic as the other posts here have probably already got you to think about, consider the possibility that you are mostly wrong in thinking that you can't find guys to have sex with. Men are very thirsty. Unless you are extremely ugly, you can find people to have sex with. And as Emerald has mentioned, consider whether what you're looking for is non-committal sex or a relationship. It's easier to have casual sex than it is to have commital relationship. You said in a previous comment that men will have sex with anything, so why is it that you say that men wouldn't want to have sex with you? I'm going to consider the scenario where your assessment of guy's interest in you is right. Whether it is that you struggle to have non-committal sex or struggle to find a good relationship, there are things you can do to "fix" this. And you're feeling frustrated? Everyone has feelings of frustration and perhaps you have strong cravings for love, affection and you feel lonely? Feelings of unhappiness and dissatisfaction are all what consciousness work (meditation, yoga, self inquiry, psychedelics and etc) and self improvement is all about. And the thing is, the more developed and complete you are as a person on your own the more attractive you become to other people. Makes sense evolutionary speaking and from whatever other level of analysis you are coming from. The people who least need relationships usually get the best relationships, is what I believe from my observations of people.
  18. @graded24 mate, to do deeply question time would be to completely flip your experience of life. Logically speaking, we always think of time as the substrate through which anything happens. To copy and paste what I've wrote elsewhere when I made a thread "Is reality discontinuos?" : Looking at your experience, all we have is "now". But I wonder, what is "now"? Let's look at language and thought. Whenever one thinks of a word, e.g. "cat" and has it in their mind, I have the perception that I have this word totally grasped in my mind. However, it takes a time which is not equal to zero seconds for this word to pass through my mind. If everything is now, how does perception exist? Without time, how can sensations and perceptions exist and change? I'm just thinking, that it's all truly spontaneous. It comes from nothing. In my present moment experience causality doesn't exist. There is this experience and I don't know why it is. And if we say that time does exist, then things still change spontaneously. Because no matter how small a chunk of time you consider, it's a mystery why anything happens at all. Reminds me a of calculus a bit here. As for why I used the word discontinuous, imagine a graph with a line. A line has an infinite number of points in it by definition, and its continuous. But a point has no size, and there is no lee way to move around and have change. I used the word discontinuous because of its connotations in studying maths.
  19. @CreamCat good video. On a side note, Teal Swan is certainly somewhat interesting to me. I've only seen a couple of videos by her. Her suicide one was pretty cool. I don't mind her as a "new ager" compared to people like Ralph Smart.
  20. @Leo Gura It was a long time ago that Lance Everett was discussed because someone made a thread ("Leo has no clothes") here by stealing his Quora answer. I wasted my time writing a well thought out response on actualized.org and the guy didn't even respond to what I wrote at all. Also, I think Lance Everett used to go by the name "Connor Frankston" on Quora (not sure though). I asked a question on Quora https://www.quora.com/If-pi-is-irrational-how-do-circles-exist and I'm 99% sure that this answer I got https://www.quora.com/If-pi-is-irrational-how-do-circles-exist/answer/Lance-Everett-3 was written by a user who used to go by the name Connor Frankston. I like Connor because of his maths answers on Quora. Connor left a YouTube comment on your godels incompleteness theorem which used the word "syntax" repeatedly for some reason. You replied to the comment, but I cannot remember anything else.
  21. @Leo Gura LYNCH THE COMMIE
  22. @MM1988 The average person maybe doesn't suffer as much as the average person here (honestly though this difference might be quite small), but all people have their deep problems when you probe enough. When it comes to people in my school year for example, many people who looked very happy to me on the surface appeared to be in more suffering the more I learnt and observed about them. Have you watched Leo's body awareness video? Walk around in a busy public area and look at how tensed up peoples faces and expressions are. Everyone (yourself included) walks around in a constant state of worry, tension and anxiety. Everyone walks around and carries with themselves a so obviously phony persona and self righteousness. These are all indicative of not being satisfied in the present moment and being unhappy. It's all very clear to see imo I was attracted to Leo and this forum because I was addicted (and still am) addicted to technology and have depression. I became addicted to escape the reality that I feel disconnected to the people around me because I feel the average person to be dumb and foolish but it is perhaps the case that I am more foolish but in different ways. So I don't crave the blue pill because to crave the blue pill would be an insult to my sense of self and ego, and also because the blue pill is not truthful and is boring in many ways. I know that my temperament is such that the blue pill would make me overtly miserable.
  23. I'M GOD I'M GOD I'M FUCKING GOD. I've never felt this good in my entire life I can't contain this ecstasy. It's so surreal at the same time. I just wanna shout this experience to the world.
  24. @Leo Gura Yeah that's very true actually, science as it is practiced isn't a wholehearted search for truth. It makes money. Information/logic which would destroy the current paradigm would be twisted and resisted. That's so true in general lol about science, it is rare that you derive a "truth" for yourself. Loads of beliefs I have which I just take for granted from other people. People who are philosophically inquisitive about metaphysics, even if they aren't into consciousness work, can start to "see through" science. People who aren't into consciousness work will probably lose track of what reality really is, the present moment. Even though I would say that I was this type of person before doing consciousness work, I remember watching your video on true vs false skepticism. At multiple times in the video I would reflexively think "what the hell is this guy saying", I would then pause think about the thing like 3-4 times and realise that I couldn't fault you and you were "right". I feel like logically speaking there is no proof that logic will tell you the truth about anything. And you're completely right about mainstream sources being an orange propaganda machine. It's something I forget, the propaganda is too hypnotising and I'm still in orange probs. On top of whatever metaphysics are associated with science, the orange view of the world gives you a unsuccessful method for being happy as well lol. I need to become woke like squidward
  25. @Finland3286 I don't think you're gonna get "proof" of the paranormal from mushrooms. I have no clue whether paranormal phenomena are real and I haven't taken psychedelics. The only thing I see mushrooms doing is make you more open minded about your experience in general and make you question whether a materialistic/rationalist view of the world is something you must hold on to. I'm guessing an experience with mushrooms can really make you come into contact with the "hard problem of consciousness" and so you question how your perception exists/works. And as far as psychich phenomena go I'm skeptical that they exist like you (I think its possible they exist though, but it really depends on how you want to define this term). Leo seems to be criticising materlistists for failing to pick up on it but if the psychic powers have an effect on the "external world" (things which are in view from the perspective of multiple conciousnessess, e.g. A chair in a room) which is observable, then the researchers should be able to observe it. If the existence of this stuff was hazy and probabilistic but still had an effect observable to both the doer and other people then I don't see why psychic phenomena would be denied in mainstream science. In what way could psychic phenomena have an impact on an "external world" not able to be verified by scientists? Are the scientists bad at their job (and are not recognizing the statistics Leo is citing)? Or are we to say that "psychic phenomena" have no impact on an external world? In which case the materlistic paradigm fails? And if the phenomena don't involve the exchange information/energy in the external world, then what is the definition for such a phenomena?