RendHeaven

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    17 minutes ago, Soulife96 said:

    @RendHeaven that rings true. Do you think that makes all annoyance illegitimate? 

    The feeling of annoyance is legitimate as a sensation arising - the fact that it is happening at all gives it validity.

    Just be careful to notice the active role you yourself play in maintaining this feeling/sensation.

    The mistake is to pretend that you have nothing to do with it - to ascribe the sensation to an "external world."

    In fact, you had everything to do with it. It's fully within your power to literally erase all trace of annoyance instantaneously.

    Counter-intuitively, you erase it through acceptance - embracing that it is happening, and respecting its validity.

    The more you deny it or spin circles in your mind about it, the more fuel you add to the fire, and the more the monster rages and the more you start thinking that the external world must be encroaching on you.

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    29 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

    Now, you might say, "But I care more about philosophy and truth than survival!"

    I observe that vaccine skeptics are not actually truth-oriented. You're being very kind here with the benefit of the doubt ;)

    In fact, they may even be more survival-oriented than the masses while hiding behind the guise of truth-seeking.

    The only reason they kick and scream so loudly to prolong the vaccine shot is because they imagine some terrible fate will personally befall them if they accept the responsibility of vaccination.

    This reeks of fear and dense ego-protection energy.

  4. Posted · Edited by RendHeaven

    2 hours ago, somegirl said:

    Friends are a distraction too, if we want to look at it that way. Family holiday gatherings are distraction. Any type of socialization. If you want to reach spiritual mastery, you might as well not let anyone distract you from it. 

    Bingo

    1 hour ago, Flowerfaeiry said:

    Yes but be more specific. Because in many ways having a girlfriend will help you grow.

    Bingo

  6. Posted · Edited by RendHeaven

    @soos_mite_ah You'd be surprised.

    I had a handful of attractive female friends in highschool who I never made a move on.

    Cuddled some of them, in fact. "No strings attached affection" as we'd say. One girl had her face very very close to my crotch while we were watching a movie with a group of friends. The social chameleon side of me says "~~Just platonic friends!!~~" but sometimes I still think about the feelings I had that day.

    Who am I kidding, the next day I was punching the air because in truth I wanted her sexually (at least in that moment) and I was lying to both myself & everyone else about that.

    I've never actually told anybody this btw. So if you were to ask her for her side of the story, she would say:

    32 minutes ago, soos_mite_ah said:

    Lol he was fine. He wasn't sexually or romantically romantically attracted to me. It was just no strings attached affection. No hearts were broken and no balls were turned blue. 

    ---

    I'm not suggesting that she owed me anything btw. I'm just sharing how easily young boys hide their true thoughts.

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    From Youtube support:

     

    "If your video doesn't generate automatic captions, it could be due to one or more of the following reasons:

    The captions aren't available yet due to processing complex audio in the video.

    Automatic captions don't support the language in the video.

    The video is too long.

    The video has poor sound quality or YouTube doesn't recognize the speech.

    There’s a long period of silence at the beginning of the video.

    There are multiple speakers whose speech overlaps."

     

    My take is to just be patient and see if they auto-generate after a couple hours pass.

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    2 minutes ago, Preety_India said:

    Can I do this through Android ?

    No you'll need a laptop to use most strong video editors, including Shotcut.

    If you have a laptop, I strongly suggest sending over your raw recording from android through google drive or something.

    If you don't have a laptop, I can't really help you but there probably are some video editors in the android app store... just don't expect them to have capability.

  21. Posted · Edited by RendHeaven

    Since we're all sharing our "Wishlist," here's mine :D

    1. Integrity/Self-sameness
    2. Femininity/Loves men in general
    3. Spark in her eyes/Intoxicating giggle
    4. Open-minded/Listener/Exploratory
    5. Open-hearted/Trusting/Caring
    6. No depression or anxiety or body image issues
    7. Not addicted to phone/alcohol/smoking/social media/consumerism
    8. Embraces her sexuality but also has standards
    9. Spiral dynamics stage green+
    10. Strong posture

     

    Note - this is all relationship criteria. I'm presupposing mutual attraction.

  25. Posted · Edited by RendHeaven

    20 minutes ago, RMQualtrough said:

    But he hasn't. If there is an objective "thing" that is real outside of observation then he ought to be able to say what it is.

    Good.

    Just to play devil's advocate further - "But isn't it similarly an assumption to assert that there must be NO objective 'thing' that is real outside of observation?"

    20 minutes ago, RMQualtrough said:

    Don't just assume it if you can't come up with even a single thing it could possibly be.

    Plato's theory of forms is the easiest example of "objective being beyond apparent senses."

    People have, for millennia, been coming up with (much more than) "a single thing it could possibly be."

    What say you to that?

    20 minutes ago, RMQualtrough said:

    Sensing is done by nothing AKA consciousness. What is sensed is the something that consciousness manifests as, as in a dream. This is a dream basically, that's why there's nothing external because it's mind observing manifestations of mind. There is only mind so you can't get away from it to some external thing beyond that.

    I get it.

    But again, people who don't get it just won't.

    There are a million ways to pick apart every word you use and back you into an intellectual corner, simply because of the nature of proof.

    To prove anything, you must begin on a solid ground of first principles which themselves are unproven. These first principles are generally common notions held by culture - which you aim to deconstruct. And so your playing field of so-called "proof" is fundamentally different from the playing fields of everyone around you, and your words reach deaf ears.

    I mean seriously, "Sensing is done by nothing AKA consciousness. What is sensed is the something that consciousness manifests as, as in a dream."

    ^This is totally meaningless lmao.

    It's the greatest catch22 of spirituality... to unconscious people, stupidity looks like wisdom and wisdom looks like stupidity.

    So if you've got the wisdom, how do you convey it as wisdom?