WaveInTheOcean

Get some high quality MDMA and take 120 mg both of you while you spend an evening together. It will be mindblowing and good for you (and her too, sure).

Yet, my friend, why does an innocent little child like to build sandcastles then? "If life is so utterly meaningless, why are you depressed about it? That's meaning! Notice this point very deeply." Leo has a brilliant point here. Become mindful that you are actually alive as a human being. It is a mysterious miracle, when you think deeply about it. It's also fascinating that you can realize life is utterly meaningless while simultaneously becoming depressed about it.

I agree, pigs on cozy local farms, where they are allowed to go out on big fields in the actual nature under the sky, those pigs have better lives than your average porksteak in the counter. However, this raises another issue. If all eaten pork in the world came from such local farms, we humans would have to leave this planet and find another one to live on, because there wouldn't be space for us, at least not any space to grow crops to feed us. There are fucking 800 million pigs alive in the world right now. A typical pig is slaugthered when they are around 6 months old. Quick math: There are slaughted around 1,5 billion pigs each year worldwide. It's fucking unbeliveable. I live in Denmark. The human population here is around 6 million. It's a small country. The pig population is 13 million. Where are they all? Locked up in small factory farms. I'm disgusted.

" And no, we were not talking about how animals are treated but about eating meat." I think these two things go very much together, don't you? :-) Unless you, as Leo says, go out in the woods and hunt birds on your own.

Nuts, dark chocolate, potatoes, many vegetables (especially leafy greens), whole grains also have decent iron content. It's no problem for a vegan to stay "well-ironated". However, young women who menstruate quite heavily should consider supplementing with iron.

@Toby "In fact, you could reframe being a meat-eater that - unlike vegetarians / vegans - you help that animals are being born that otherwise would not exist." This is one of the most retarded lines of text I have ever read on this forum. Must be nice being born a pig on such a pig farm huh?;)

Your average pig farm in Europe. This picture is from Italy. A friend of mine said it reminded her of The Matrix (the scenes where humans are unconsciously kept alive and used to generate energy for the robots).

Imagine you haven't eaten anything for 7 days straight. You're craving something to eat. Anything. Suddenly you find yourself immersed in a big garden with beautiful flowers, trees and nature all around. It's warm. The sun is shining, the birds are singing. The sky is blue. In the middle of the garden is a big outdoor kitchen with all tools you could wish to cook anything you want. Around you there are crops with all kinds of vegetables, potatoes, broccoli, carrots, celery, nuts, rice, cabbage, onion, tomatos, cucumbers, artichokes, beans, squash, fruits, apples, bananas, pears, grapes, berries. Also around you are going free cows and pigs. There are also all the tools you'd need to kill those big animals including loaded pistols or whatever method you'd like. What will you do to satisfy your hunger? What will anyone do?

have you ever had a girlfriend? "One of my biggest fears is wasting time" " personal development is more important to me than having a girlfriend," If you've never had an actual girlfriend, then I feel I should tell you that having one will develop you in ways you can't imagine. "“When you are in relationship with people, in a thousand and one ways you are provoked, challenged, seduced. Again and again you come to know your pitfalls, your limitations, your anger, your lust, your possessiveness, your jealousy, your sadness, your happiness all moods come and go, you are constantly in a turmoil. But this is the only way to know who you are" - Osho.

If you believe you exist as a separate self (inside your skull and/or as a body), you have no free will. If you realize you don't exist as a separate self but as God/The Self, you are free to the degree of how deep this realization is. I think this sums it up. Remember that God/The Self (the real you) seemingly often find it more amusing to be dreaming for a lifetime than to wake up. I have the uttermost respect for people who believe they actually really exist. The Self/God inside such a person is playing a so far out game that I can't help but to take my hat off, just like I can't help taking my hat off when I watch a sublime actor in a theatre play.

I think Leo invents relativism when he feels like it. Just like when you take a shit, it's because you felt like it. When you are enlightened, you realize that it is of no value to 'stick'/attach yourself to any belief-system/model of reality, because every model/belief-system is ultimately false and incomplete.

Everything. Narrated by Alan Watts.

is this app better than headspace?:D

i'll save that music for my next trip. wow that's calming as fuck. have a nice trip.

Hardkill. Maybe girls have an easier time getting laid. But why do you fucking care? You only care because you enjoy going down the victim road. Stop being a fucking victim and deal with reality as it is instead of running away from it.

"I'm currently going through my first ever breakup and the worst part of it is that I'm still roommates with her and we sleep in the same bed. She quickly started dating other guys and sometimes tells me about a particular guy she likes. " You must be joking, right? If not, then as others have said: GET THE FUCK AWAY FROM THAT GIRL. You are better off sleeping on the street than living together with her.

We are egoistic and self-centered only because we are so humble to falsely believe that we are not God but instead an isolated, lonely organism/agent running around on a planet of dirt in a big cold universe. Because we feel and see ourselves as an isolated and separate self, we naturally 'do stuff' to negate this feeling. And this 'stuff-doing' is most of the time harmful to our environment (society, other people, the Earth and so forth). The paradox in this is that everyone will tell you that you are self-centered and narcissistic if you tell them that you know that you're God. But knowing that you are God is just knowing that the organism (the mind-body, the apparent you) depends on the environment and vice versa; the environment depends on the organism. You evoke the environment. The environment evokes you. The Sun evoked organisms on Earth. The organisms evoked the Sun. Thus you and the rest of the universe (what you normally would define as 'not-you'/the external world) goes together just like the north pole and south pole of a magnet goes together; they are inseparable. Without an eye there is no sun. Without a sun there is no eye. * Existence is relationship. Existence is an endless, infinite series of transactions which God is making with himself. There can't be any selling without buying. No buying without selling. God sells the dream of life to himself (there is nothing else but himself to sell it to). In hardcore reality there is only this non-dual God which is YOU. But in this apparant dualistic reality you currently see yourself in (the dream of life) -- because you're purposely half asleep -- you can maybe instead view yourself as a unique transaction out of infinite transactions happening in God's infinite mind. In that way, you are a son of God, as Jesus said. The point is not that light should triumph over darkness. The point is that light needs darkness. Darkness needs light. Together the polar -- but inseparable -- opposites create the dance of life: the drama, the peace, the tension, the calmness, the beauty, the ugliness, the happiness, the sadness. You wouldn't sit down and play a game of chess if you already knew who would win. You play, because you don't know. And when either black or white finally wins, you promptly restart the game and start all over with a fresh start. It's an endless dance of immense complexity. Yet from God's point of view it's all so simple. It's just infinte being. And it's pretty cool. --------------------------------------------- * The nervous system in the back of the brain creates the phenomenon, light, out of the electromagnetic vibrations which the Sun emits to the eyes. The nervous system creates the phenomenon, hardness, when the electrons of a hand gets repelled by a stone's electrons. etc. And a sun is only a sun to you because it seems to emit light. And a stone is only a stone to you because it seems to be hard. But this is only half of the story. The brain evokes the light. And the brain evokes the hardness. Thus the organism evokes both the sun and the stone. And of course the Sun also evokes the organism! Because without a sun close to the Earth there would be no energy to create life on Earth. And naturally, without stone ("Earth") there would be no place for an organism to grow and 'walk'. The Earth is not 'infested' with life (nor infested with human people). The Earth (together with the Sun and the rest of the the universe) evokes life. The Earth 'peoples'. The whole universe 'peoples'. Human people are intelligent (per definition at least). Thus - naturally - the universe is also intelligent and not a 'stupid automatic random machine', which most atheistic scientists seems to believe it is.

what about wheat? do you think spaghetthi and bread (i.e. wheat) can affect acne?

If you really love him and feel the relationship is worthwhile to develop, then you should buy this book: https://www.amazon.com/She-Comes-First-Thinking-Pleasuring/dp/0060538260 to him. Tell him you love him, that you're sad about your sex life not going so well and that you want it to be great for both of you. Tell him that you really feel that he should read this book. Hell, you should also read it yourself perhaps. If he agrees to read the book, it shows that he has a deep passion for the relationship and wants to fix it because he loves you. If he doesn't want to read it, because he's close-minded and not open to new ways of thinking about how to pleasure a woman, then leave the relationship imo.

If I lost complete eyesight + all my hearing, i.e. no visual input nor audio input from the external world, then I would probably take the rope.