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@Yarco Yes you are probably right man. Now I checked again and the whole laptop smells like paint, not just the keyboard. I think it has not been painted. Thanks for the information. I just became worried of some potential toxicity. Few minutes ago, I was using this laptop and then after a while I kinda felt a weird sensation in my heart. Nothing significant but I don't know if its related to the smell.... Here are some pictures.

I bought a used laptop from the Internet and today I received it. The keyboard of the laptop smells like paint.. I assume the owner painted it. There is no leakage of paint or anything unusual. Just the smell. Now I worry about potentially harming myself by smelling this paint. Should I be Worried about this? Mostly it smells when I am close to the laptop. But nevertheless I assume the molecules are floating in my room now. Any advice? Should I be Worried about this? I have no clue.

@Meliodas I think you are idolizing Leo and putting him on a pedestal. That's a huge trap. I've fallen into this trap myself with figures such as the Buddha. Even the Buddha seems he was a bit misogynistic and who knows what others defects he had. Everyone is extremely limited. There are many blind spots we cannot see about ourselves. Everyone acknowledges some of their blind spots. That does not mean that much. He has not made a serious path correction regarding his bad attitude at times in the forum. He keeps repeating the same mistake for the last 3 years. And his cockiness is evident at times. That is the trap when you are well developed. You begin feeling superior. I think this happens to all people who become better then average. Certainly he is more developed and conscious than most people you are gonna meet. But i haven't met a perfect human being nor do I expect such a thing. It would take 2000 years of personal development and spirituality to create such a creature. Everyone is fearful, egotistical and petty. But not to the same degrees. Progress is better than Perfection.

I want some feedback about this. This is the video and a quote. "Similar to the narcissist's shared fantasy, mystical experiences and religions founded on these experiences are delusional regressions to an infantile phase prior to separation-individuation from god/cosmos/nature and merger/fusion/oceanic feeling/enmeshment/engulfment (no self-object or object representations)." I don't know why but I got angry at this quote . I think this argument comes from Froyd.

@thisintegrated We are blind to our own blind spots. But other people can really notice things about ourselves that we ignore lol. It's shocking how this works. It's easier for someone else to see my bs than for me.

@Michael Jackson I am open to such possibilities but that is not my experience. My direct experience is that I have zero control over Reality.

@Carl-Richard "Similar to the narcissist's shared fantasy, mystical experiences and religions founded on these experiences are delusional regressions to an infantile phase prior to separation-individuation from god/cosmos/nature and merger/fusion/oceanic feeling/enmeshment/engulfment (no self-object or object representations)." That's an interpretation. And not an accurate one.

@Carl-Richard Mystical experiences may not be post or pre rational. But the interpretation of those experiences certainly is. This professor makes the pre rational fallacy.

@Girzo Still materialism is running the show. Consciousness is considered as a product of the brain. That's the consensus so far. Most scientists are pretty closed minded relative to my standards. Certainly they are more open minded than an ISIS terrorist. Generally peoples metaphysics don't change much. How frequently do you see hardcore scientists becoming mystics? Almost never lol. Also one way scientific people are closed minded is that they hold tightly to their notions of evidence. If you tell the average scientist that everything is one, he will demand evidence. If you tell him about your experiences he will laugh at you. He will ridicule you..How open minded is that? He won't even attempt to take you seriously lol. Until more scientists begin having awakening experiences, this situation won't change much.

@Carl-Richard I am not buying this contructive notion. When you take a psychedelic and everything becomes non dual that has nothing to do with constructiveness. If I give my mother a good dose of psychedelics she will lose all sense of self and she has no idea about these things. This constructive view is just a lazy materalist's way of understanding the mystical. Freud was not a man enough or open minded enough to accept that he had no clue what mysticism is about. Instead he chose to explain away the mystical like its a childlike regression. This is laughable. That's why I respect Carl Jung much more. He was more humble and more intelligent about mysticism. Also I would like to add that this constructive view applies perfectly to materialism. People have literally been brainwashed to believe in an external independent physical world. It applies more to materialism that mysticism. Many scientists hold more beliefs that warp their perception than a serious spiritual practitioner who is grounded in direct experience. That is the irony.

@Carl-Richard I don't know if this can hold true for Eckhart. I've read his biography few months ago. One of the first books he was given at the age of 14-15 as a present, was a mysticism book by Meister Eckhart I believe. And this is where his name came from as a tribute to Meister Eckhart.

@Carl-Richard Everything is a mystical experience. But people are still pretending lol.

@Jodistrict That's a good point. We have a long way to go.

@something_else Sometimes you do the best with what you have. Let's take into consideration someone who is morbidly obese and drinks 2 liters of soda everyday for multiple years. If he replaces that soda with diet soda he will lose weight and decrease his overall risk of getting cancer. It's hard to ask that person to quit drinking sodas all together.

@Gesundheit2 OK but what is your perspective then? I don't understand. If you are not a materialist then what other choices are there except for idealism?

@Girzo @Carl-Richard The problem with Freud and many other scientists is that they have never had an awakening experience. It all boils down to this i think. Of course they are closed minded materialists bc they have never seen anything else. I would be a materialist too without the use of psychedelics. Most scientists are very closed minded. They almost all subscribe to materialism.

@Michael Jackson Yes you are right. I just get easily annoyed by people who are so convinced and sure of things that they have never experienced. It drives me mad at times. Sometimes I may intellectually know that an opinion is Bs but it still bothers me lol.

@Leo Gura That's a very bold claim. How can you be so sure? I think in reality you don't know whether they are healthy or not. They are not healthy for rats that consume 1.000 times more than the recommended amount. For humans they appear to be pretty safe . Personally I don't know. Here Norton reviews this latest study you referred and goes in on a lot of depth.

Extremely interesting interview.

@undeather I think sugar and carbohydrates are not the devil some people make them to be. Also if something is highly processed, it's not necessarily bad for you. That's a bias many people hold that many times has no scientific basis. According to research if we equte for calories and weight loss, inflammatory markers don't differ significantly in high carb or low carb. Keto diets actually raise inflammation a lil bit more. If you eat more calories than needed inflammation goes up very similarly regardless the diet you are on. Also according to Norton we don't understand what short term rises on inflammation actually mean. If inflmmation goes up that doesn't tell us everything. When you exercise, inflammation goes up short term. But it's good for us. Personally I don't really know what is going on or what to believe any more.

@Michael569 Those studies were done on petri dish from what I saw. Norton has a made a video about it criticizing this new literature. Basically he says that you can get the same result by pouring amino acids in a petri dish. And in studies done on people it's a completely different outcome.

@Michael569 No, IIFYM is completely anti bro science. It originates from very hard nosed Stage Orange nutritional scientists. IIFYM is Scientism. Not bro science. Most bodybuilders are just the opposite of IIFYM. They consume religiously rice and chicken and they don't believe that you can eat anything you want (in the context of IIFYM) and have a great physiques. They also believe in lies that you have to eat every 3 hours to keep your metabolism high. They believe you have to eat 6-12 times a day otherwise you will remain without nutrients, even though it i takes 6 hours to digest a regular meal lol.

@nistake Thank you!!

How can you be psychologically at peace and with ease when brutal and sadistic possibilities like this one and many more similar are contained in the mind of God? This just makes my life much more difficult. Sometimes I wish I was just a materialist atheist, like I was 5 years ago. It would be much more easier on me psychologically and existentially.. Sometimes I get really really angry at God... If sh! t like this wouldn't exist, my life would be much easier.

@Barna Maybe it is possible to enter a permanent state of Nirvana like Buddha supposedly did. I think it's a pipe dream but I don't know whats possible.