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You'd be surprised 😆 Will do. I'll be back to dismantle this one at some point, or maybe it'll make a believer out of me and I pick it up as hobby as well, lol.

I didn't assume you haven't thought of it, just that you lean more towards it not being the case. I haven't heard of that incident. I'll check it out though, thanks!

Ok, I'll bite. When I was a kid, I was playing with a Ouija board with my sister (2 years older than me) and we were dealing in ideas of ghosts and things like that. Then, we heard a sound in the front room and my sister said she saw a ghost and to look really hard and I could see it too. I did, and then I said "I see it too!". I wanted there to be a ghost, and so I hopped on board with it. My sister still believes to this day she saw a ghost in the front room. lol. Mass suggestibility and false memories are real things. I'm not saying 100% these kids are full of shit - I'm just saying, if they were, there are known psychological mechanisms to explain this situation. Interestingly enough, there were no adults around. Also, it's very easy for mass suggestibility and social contagion to gain momentum from a higher status kid in the group who saw something in the environment like a big rock off in the distance and called it a UFO, and depending on what recently had been going on with the group, all the other kids look at the rock and successfully turn it into a UFO because the higher status kid said it was. Then, once they all claim that is true, there is powerful group solidarity and assuredness, which can account for their conviction. And the reason they wouldn't retract as adults could be the same reason my sister doesn't (false memory). Also, the one kid drew the stereotypical spaceship depicted in movies. Had he drawn something we'd never seen before, I'd have a much harder time placing this story in the bullshit bin. lol.

lol. Firm conclusions are definitely being drawn, regardless any claims of mere speculative entertainment. Unfortunately, I don't have time to elucidate the mechanisms I see in action throughout this post and how they're more problematic than anything, and it wouldn't be welcomed anyway, so I'll just leave you guys to it 😆

I second HVAC. You can easily make 2-4k in a single day swapping out an HVAC system. Shits insane. 2 jobs/month would be enough to survive. Only downside, you probably have to spend 2-4 years training really hard.

What about some of the happiest people on the planet being the poorest? And the most miserable, the richest? Then, you also have some very miserable people who only claim to be miserable due to their poverty. And you also see very happy rich people. So what is the difference in them? Of course, it's how they think. Thing is, none of them intentionally shape their outlook on life. It all happens without them directing it. If you could devise a study to track all the thoughts of the happy and miserable people to see what they're doing differently, you would identify that the miserable people are not only allowing in certain thoughts that create their perceived misery, but they are consistently nurturing those thoughts on a daily basis. The happy cohort is not doing that, which is why they're happy. This path at least is logical and makes sense as to how you'd get from A to B. But I don't even understand your path. Can you elaborate on exactly how one would use your path to end suffering? What has to be done?

Yes, I agree. Metacognition seems to be very uncomfortable for most and they want to avoid it. I've suspected before it's because they intuit the entire domain implies responsibility. That and like you said, people not being aware of their thoughts in the slightest. If you had very little awareness of your thoughts, of course this concept would seem useless, vague, and confusing, and therefore easy to discard. Aside from that being a barrier, another - and probably most dominant in this case - is already having ideas that conflict with it. I suspect Breakingthewall is no stranger to metacognition, but they do seem to reject the idea outright due to already having what they perceive to be a better, more holistic understanding.

Not sure if people have picked up on this yet but ChatGPT tailors its responses to each individual. Did you send that message after a conversation or was that a new convo? If it was new, it knows you're a jokester. Here's what it said to me: It would actually be a good experiment if we could get everyone here to send a screenshot of how ChatGPT responds to you in a new conversation when you say "I love eating food". If someone has scolded it enough for acting like it was human, I bet for them, it would say something like "Unfortunately, I wouldn't know. Is there anything you'd like to discuss?".

@Breakingthewall I’ve never read any Ralston but his idea that you create your own suffering and therefore can stop creating it is simply true. Thing is, just because you stop adding negative thought onto negative thought this very moment, that does not end suffering. The same as the depression took time to assemble, it also takes time to disassemble, because it’s not feasible to stand guard over the mind 24/7. Therefore, new mental habits are required to replace the old. Specific, persistent thoughts keep the suffering structure in place. If you have the thought that your life is shitty and feel the emotional impact of that thought a few times per day, this keeps the suffering structure in place. But over time, if you don’t have those thoughts and don’t experience the energetic impact of them, the structure of depression will disassemble on its own and be replaced with whatever manifests from your new patterns of thought and emotion. The law of cause and effect is at the core of every manifestation, including manifestations in the psyche. It’s difficult to trace back the psychological effects to the psychological causes because the causes are many and the effects are cumulative AND delayed, and because we don’t have the resources to track the inputs and outputs vigilantly. Taking responsibility for reality, i.e, submitting to and respecting the law of cause and effect, and consciously causing reality to have the effects you choose is one of the highest pursuits I can conceive of. Of course it’s not easy, but nothing great ever is. No pressure, no diamonds.

I’m just wondering where all the epistemic standard police are. When it comes to aliens, it seems as though it’s not as important to be as careful as every other topic. The problem is that over time, speculation, especially when unfalsifiable, easily turns into perceived truth or likely true. And an even bigger problem is to turn that activity into a hobby where one actively forms and stacks new unfalsifiable speculations on top of all others, forming a giant fantasy. If one can easily separate speculation from truth without assigning truth probabilities, then that’s fine, but when you speak as if you know the biology of aliens, it’s time to knock down your entire stack and realize you don’t know shit. In the case of a Q’anon adherent, we can easily debunk their so-called truths derived from unverified speculation because they’re usually falsifiable. Not very much is falsifiable when it comes to aliens, which means the wise move is to make very few claims. I just thought I’d bring up what appears to be an epistemic double standard. Fun speculation with high truth probabilities for me but not for thee (Q,Anon).

If caring diminishes your life energy, then maybe the way you’re caring is counter-productive. Maybe detach emotion from concern. Time to let that part of you die. Mature.

It just all seems to easily fall apart. “Space ship” is a ship traveling through space. Is it more likely the purpose of an alien spaceship is to travel small distances or large distances through space? What happened? There were just little worker aliens transporting cargo from their 3rd planet to their 5th and got caught up in an interdimensional portal that just happened to open up here? And once they were in our solar system, how far did they have to travel before they crashed on earth? Do most theories you look into involve an alien ship or just an alien body that showed up? Any theory that involves a ship and or travel/transport from one physical location to ours is highly improbable, and as far as I can see, those are the only means to get from A to B. I’m open to wormholes and maybe even advanced life forms being able to teleport or alter space/time, but to get from A to B requires a mechanism. To speculate what that mechanism is beyond anything we’ve ever scientifically confirmed or theorized is, as Leo likes to say “Fantasy”. If I were to consider it plausible that an advanced being can alter space/time of physical reality, I would be engaging in fantasy (which can be fun) because there’s not even a hint of evidence to support this. If new evidence comes out, I won’t reject it, but currently it is in the same ballpark as believing in ghosts, but actually even more outlandish. @Salvijus don’t worry, I won’t steal your sunshine. I hope alien rumination brings you much entertainment and joy.

If aliens could make it here, wouldn’t it be highly likely they would have absolutely mastered the physical domain? Such that they wouldn’t crash land on our planet? Such an alien civilization with the tech to travel through worm holes and harness energy from stars would likely have been in existence for hundreds of millions of years. Maybe for them, flying by our planet would be like us walking by an ant and earth would be just another habitable planet out of a billion others that they could easily warp drive to. Also, if a civilization survives as long as required to master the physical domain, it’s more likely than not that they have transcended war and are peaceful. This idea that haphazard aliens are incompetently crashing on our planet and aliens are gonna come after us seems absurd af.

Never got deep into SD so not sure if taking an interest in one’s health is a green thing or not but if it is, seems absurd. See what had happened was, trust was eroded via unchecked capitalism. Then, disease started catching up. Media about red food dye, lack of vitamin d, the corrupt food and pharma industry, etc., eventually made it on the screens of the blues searching for why they or their family members are sick and how they can solve their problems. Then they have a revelation that intelligent people have in their teens: “ what you put into your body can make you unhealthy”. Most of them end up following some grifter health charlatan who tells them things like drinking apple cider vinegar 3x daily with olive oil and turmeric and black pepper will cure them completely so long as they avoid red food dye and gluten. So now, they’re running around going to “holistic” chiropractors getting their white-labeled vitamin d + proprietary herbal blend of the top superfoods, fighting cancer one pill at a time and scanning all their groceries with an app looking for red food dye. This is a growing trend, but I’m not optimistic it’s a sign of increased consciousness. I mean, I guess they’re more health-conscious, so that’s a good thing.

Solitude is freedom, which is one of my highest values. I feel like I need maybe 85-95% solitude to be happy. It all depends on my energy though.

Brilliant!

Okay JP. 😂

So when you go on a date, you actually are considerate, but when you’re doing pickup, you dispense with their consideration because it just gets in the way? Pickup cannot escape the integrity problem.

Yeah, that’s a no-brainer.

You guys put so much effort into opening, DHV, etc. Maybe if you put the same effort into learning how to go beyond superficial connection, you might not have to worry if she’ll change her mind about sleeping with you during a 30-min car ride. You realize you could use those 30 minutes to make her want you even more, right? It’s sounds like what is being said is: “Move in quick and hypnotize them. Get them while they’re drunk and out of their wits. If you allow them to think about it too much, they’ll change their mind and deny me what I want. While I value carefully weighing and considering important decisions, their considering whether it’s a good idea to sleep with me is bad for me, so I gotta fuck them before they even know what happened.” Imagine if a car salesman was operating like this? You’d say that salesman lacks integrity. Also, this whole idea of guys choosing their physical location based primarily on pussy logistics is some whacky shit. Young men, if you’re reading this, this is not healthy behavior. It’s scarcity mindset, desperation, and try-hard. Commit too much to such absurdity and risk permanent self-esteem issues.

You should build rapport first with simple conversation. “ Yeah, I’m glad we met too! it’s going alright I guess. How is your week going?”

Lol. I suspect he’s trying to philosophize his way to “Trump not bad”.

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It was meant to be a joke (they stated multiple times it wasn't their position). I should have added a playful emoji.