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@Javfly33 By your logic, why should you ever care about anyone but yourself? In your self-centeredness you interpret the message of "stop violence against women" as somehow taking resources away from men. Yet this message doesn't mean to ignore men's issues. You lack basic empathy for those who are not you. You are like a white guy in the colonial South who walks by a poster that says, "Stop slavery now!" and you say to yourself, "But why should I care about the slaves when white poor folk are hungry on the streets? How is helping slaves fair?" Stop thinking that helping to elevate others somehow takes away from you. This is a scarcity mindset. By caring about women, you will increase your care for men. By helping animals you will also help the whole universe. << this is the proper attitude. Love is an unlimited resource, so you don't have to worry about holding it back.

Capital S, capital L.

Whatever you imagine it is.

@Wyatt Women in their 20's are super flakey, especially if you're trying to convert from cold approach. Expect massive flakiness. A good way to test for flakes on the day of the date is to text her 1hr before you get in your car: "Doing some chores and then will head out." If she doesn't respond, you know she's gonna flake. If she's gonna go on a date with you, she needs to be responsive to texts.

@Austin Actualizing Research DMSA chelation.

That's due to class similarities. Conservatives love to use cultural disagreements to distract from class differences. So lots of simple-minded people end up supporting Trump for cultural reasons against their own class interests. Trump is clearly not going to help low income people because he's thinks they are scum.

That's how it is. Takes a lot of practice to overcome that. Usually years of rigorous practice are required. This problem of boredom is existential. It goes very deep. It can't be avoided. The point of meditation is to face it directly, which creates suffering -- which is why hardly anyone meditates. Meditation is supposed to be so boring it kills you.

That's a classic example from philosophy of mind / phenomenology. Unfortunately even when you give that example, people still ignore it. Materialism simply discounts all phenomena as "subjective" and therefore insignificant. A materialist scientist will simply not understand how seeing the color red has any importance to science. "Okay, so even if I miss the color red, so what? Doesn't change a thing."

@Bno Trying to win over Trump voters is overrated. It's more important to mobilize the progressive base. Of course Bernie and Yang have some cross-over, which is nice. But Biden does well against Trump in polls. Warren would probably have the hardest time. But then again, caring about what Trump voters think/want is not a top priority. They had their chance, they fucked it up, and they show little remorse. If Trump voters admitted their error, then maybe we could have more sympathy for them. But as long as they act like assholes and keep denying any wrongdoing, no deal. There need to be consequences for electing terrible leaders. You don't get to elect a terrible leader and then come back the next time and make demands about how you're not getting enough of what you want, expecting everyone cater to your priorities. Catering to Trump voters is not necessary to defeat Trump.

I simply consider that healthy Green. Be careful holding demonization as a defining feature of Green. That's pathological Green. Of course Bernie has some elements of Yellow in him. It's hard to tell what the exact percentages are without knowing him more personally. To me he is the poster-boy of solid healthy Green.

Love and forgiveness is the solution in such a case. What such a "test" is testing you for, is the breadth and depth of your love. If you fail the "test", that's okay too. You'll just suffer more. The cure to all forms of abuse is deeper self-love, both for the parent, the child, and the abuser. It's very counter-intuitive because when your survival is deeply threatened the last thing you want to do is love. It takes great wisdom, bravery, heart, and consciousness to be able to love in such situations. And therein lies the "test". Such situations reveal your true level of development. Highly developed beings are capable of embracing it with love. But of course this is rare among humans. We are a crude species. Deeper self-love is the cure to all trauma and injustice.

Firstly, I don't make a big deal about it. I'm just pointing out hidden consequences which you may not have considered to this action. Consciousness is more complex than just mind/body. There seem to be structures which persist between lifetimes. Suicide could affect those structures. In the ultimate sense, everything leads back to total oneness, so there is no problem. But it seems to take consciousness many incarnations to get there. I'm not saying suicide will damn you forever to hell. I'm saying it could be temporary set-back, slowing the overall process. There is nothing wrong with slowing the process, per se. It's all relative. By definition everything that happens is "God's plan". But not in the simplistic sense of everything being predetermined. God's plan is a meta plan which includes your human plans. You have the freedom to make your human plans. No choice is right or wrong. Any choice you make is fine from God's POV. God has no desire to manipulate you and no particular desired outcome. It's imaginary in the same way a brick wall is imaginary. The notion of "imaginary" is much more robust than most people think. It encompasses all of "physical reality". So just saying that something is imaginary doesn't automatically set you free of it. Nope. Humans clearly affect nature with our actions. Even if you decide to take no action, that will have an affect on nature. It is impossible to not take action. Even inaction is a kind of action.

If it works for ya, I'm happy for you. Sure I've been meaning to talk about that model, but just haven't gotten around to it.

Don't be an ass. There is value in talking such things out.

Haha, brilliant!

That's warm but doesn't hit the nail on the head. Your definition is not fundamental enough. It still requires activity like "recognizing" and "communicating", which is 2nd order stuff. 1st order Love requires no action. 1st order Love is simply Being itself. The best way to think of it is like this: replace your notion that everything is made out of atoms to "everything is made out of love". Love is the very substance of physical reality. An exercise I like to do is to look at my hand and just remind myself that it's made out of Love. This reconnects me with Love, reminding me that it's more fundamental than an activity.

Yes, what that video calls the 10th dimemsion is the Absolute. It is everything possible, and nothing.

@WHO IS Hence the concept of a "soul" was invented.

Look, you can do whatever you want. Just don't forget that all actions have natural consequences. When you piss into the wind don't be surprised when it lands on your shoes.

This does not accurately describe why most people commit suicide.

As soon as you start rating happiness, you'll lose it. The proper answer is: who gives a fuck? Reality is whatever it is and you feel however you feel at any given moment. Don't confuse true happiness with mood. That can be a serious error. Trying to "lock in" a happy mood is very counter-productive. You are guaranteed to fail at that. If you want real happiness, stop caring whether you're dying or being tortured. Then you'll be happy. And nothing less than that will hold up.

Karma is much more than fear mongering. This topic is too complex and advanced to discuss on a forum. You'd need decades of advanced spiritual practice to begin to understand such things and I'm nowhere near understanding all that. If you violently disrupt consciousness (via suicide), it's not unreasonable to expect a ripple effect which cascades from such an event, disrupting the evolution of consciousness. Don't think of it as a punishment, think of it as a natural consequence of self-rejection and self-hatred. How can consciousness continue its evolution if it hates itself so much it cannot even finish out one human life?

That's a bit questionable. I'm not certain how much of Obama was Yellow or Orange/Green. It's hard to tell without knowing him more deeply. Keep in mind, the higher a person is up the Spiral the harder he is to assess accurately because there is more uniqueness of expression at Tier 2. Bernie is definitely more progressive than Obama, so I see Bernie as a step up for American politics. He is certainly less acceptable to the mainstream than Obama. America has yet to elect a solid, powerful Green leader. Few people embody solid Green. It's one thing to dabble in Green, it's another thing to really master it as Bernie has. For America to elect a solid Green leader would be a massive step forward. And it would cause a serious backlash as well. Bernie will not be well tolerated by many people even if he is elected. Turbulent times are ahead as America is forced to go Green kicking and screaming. We need to solidify in Green before we start worrying too much about Yellow. Green is good enough for now.

@LfcCharlie4 I rejected RASA so that I could prove out the psychedelic path without conflicting influences. I don't rank consciousness on any linear scale because I feel that would be misleading. Keep in mind that just because a book is on my book list doesn't mean I agree with it 100%. If that was my standard the book list would be empty. I expect you to read books and evaluate them using careful and nuanced discernment. No book can be trusted or followed blindly. Keep in mind that spiritual paths can be very unique. Don't try to follow anyone else's way. Make your own way -- whatever that entails. My way entailed psychedelics and I don't regret it.

It happens all the time. Tens of thousands of times per year. But don't assume the "respawn" is free and clear. There is very likely an enormous karmic debt that comes with suicide. So avoid it if you can.