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@Michael Jackson I think all fears boil down to fear of mental and physical pain. Why would someone ever fear death or anything else if it wouldn't cause any pain?

@Barna 'Things are Fine just the way they are. Yet still things are a Nightmare' I love this paradox :-)

@Michael Jackson Yes but I don't enjoy agonizing excruciating pain. That's what I fear the most.

@Vibes Thanks for the advice man. I agree with you on some level. Yes I keep repeating the same 'mistake' because .. I have this strong attraction to violence.. I can't explain it. I think it's curiosity of what will I have to endure as God.. I don't watch gnarly content most of the time but I keep coming back to it and then I always regret it. Mostly I regret it because of fear. Fear of unraveling my mind. Also I fear viewing reality as a dystopian place.. It's a cycle. Today I saw a on news a video of Ukrainians torturing Russia soldiers. It triggered me to watch other gnarly content. I will attempt to stop watching these type of content. But it's difficult because I am also into serial killers, drug lords, etc. You don't escape the brutality. It's everywhere..

@undeather @Michael569 Yes that is great advice. But today my eyes are feeling good. I don't know if I should visit a doctor any more ... I will definitely do so if this happens again.

Let me first give you some brief data about myself. I have myopia and wear glasses since I was 12-13 years old. My eye condition is relatively mild and has not significantly increased since then. I am now in my late 20s. I am into programming and I heavily use a desktop computer for the last years and never had I an issue with my eyes or anything But few months ago, I sold my computer. Then I began heavily using my phone. Didn't have an issue for 2-3 months until few days ago.. 2 days ago I was reading some very small text on my phone and then my eyes began hurting quite a lot.. First time they've hurt like that.. It felt like i lifted some heavy weights with my eyes.. Now 2 days later, my eyes feel better but they are still sore and itching a lil bit.... This has made me anxious, worried and triggered some deep loss aversion in me. I fear damaging my eyes now. I know very little about the eyes and I try to avoid googling for hours because i tend to obsess about these things and make myself miserable in the end. All I know is that it's good to lower brightness and keep some distance when using screens. I have been using my phone without a problem until now. I don't know why this has happened exactly. I assume it has something to do with the screen size too. Now I am planning to buy a new computer in the next few weeks. If you are more knowledgeable than me about how the eyes work, any information and advice is highly welcomed. I am trying to understand what is going on.

Besides the fact that he is a moron who has tripped an infinite number of times and still doesn't get it (the non duality thing), this commentary clearly demonstrates what I always knew : Joe Rogan is a hypocritical stage Orange steroid injecting bully who gets orgasms by watching fighters getting brain damaged.

@Carl-Richard Also Joe works for Dana White and the UFC for the last 2 decades. A Ruthless company which pays most fighters 10 to 20k per fight. Imagine being a world class athlete, enter the octagon, get some brain damage and get paid 10k. How would that make you feel? Joe is not an angel in any way shape or form. He is as self centered as anyone else. Check the below video to understand the logic of UFC. Pure Delivery.

@Reciprocality You don't understand my position. I would not give a damn if Joe was not a public figure. But He influences millions of peoples. If he was less of an idiot many millions of people could potentially learn about non duality, eat less meat, and then make this planet a lot better in a shorter period of time. Public figures must be heavily criticised in my opinion because they have a huge societal impact.

@Reciprocality That's not true at all. It speaks a ton about how he has interpreted these experiences and his baseline level of consciousness which is quite average relative to Stage Orange.

@Carl-Richard The reason he doesn't get it is because he has been brainwashed by people like Sam Harris. Watch the podcast he had with Sam Harris and you will clearly see. Joe Rogan does not use his brain a lot. He has others do the thinking for him. He has never managed to truly escape the delusions of his egoic mind. That's why he is concerned with materialistic pursuits while in his 50s. Joe Rogan is a materialist. Which is truly a shame after all these trips. An opposite example would be Russel Brand who clearly is a lot more thoughtful about his metaphysics and he hasn't even touched psychedelics I think I was also a materialist until I had one good trip. That's all it took.

Joe Brogan, at it again making ridiculous claims to justify his meat consumption. The ways he will justify his delivry is insane. I am not judging meat eaters. I eat meat as well but I don't justify my delivry with bs that sounds good to my ears. And this one below is an older video that puts things into a larger context.

The Marshmellow test only gave a narrow view on upper middle class kids and their results don't apply to kids of different socioeconomic status. Very interesting watch.

It seems to me that Life in general is a never ending challenge. You always have problems to solve. The list of problems showing up in your life is endless. (money problems, health issues, emotional issues, political problems, accidents, tragedies, etc) I had this delusion when I was younger that if I get X amount of money or have this girl then all my problems will be solved. I have come to accept that suffering is an inevitable part of life. You will always face anxiety, fear and other difficult emotions. Life most of the time won't go the way your ego desires. There is no escaping this. Nor should you seek to eliminate all suffering. You can definitely improve your situation but you will never escape the inherent suffering of life. I think nowadays many people have this delusion that one day everything will be perfect. I think God wants Life to be challenging and hard so we can grow more from it. https://youtu.be/PK_sWWUvMjU

@Yarco You don't mind watching content that fits perfectly your bias though. If you wanna learn about the ridiculous claims, I suggest you watch the videos. This biased vegan provides good evidence based arguments aswell.

@A Fellow Lighter @A Fellow Lighter There is no such thing as free will for individuals. There is only God's will. And If life wasn't challenging it would be completely pointless. There are obstacles to overcome whether you like it or not. And suffering is a great friend. It's an intelligent signal from God to guide us to Higher Consciousness. All the great mystics, suffered a Lot.

@Seraphim I've taken large doses of Psychedelics and grasped that there is only God. And God is the one who intentionally creates everything. Even all the nightmares. God is not innocent in this regard. As I said before God is the one chopping heads and raping people. You want God to only be pure and pristine. But God's mind is also full of misery, pain and torture. That's why God is so terrifying. It transcends our limited notions of reality. If rape was not in God's mind, it wouldn't exist. If torture was not in God's mind, it wouldn't exist. God is infinitely intelligent and the horrors serve a purpose. 'It' loves horror movies and struggle. And doesn't give a damn if you get tortured or not. You have this false distinction that God is over there somewhere and you are in some other place. There is not your will and God's will. That's a useful illusion to practice though. I act like I have free will even though I know everything is inevitable and predetermined.

@Seraphim If God is everything then when you see an ISIS terrorist chopping heads then that is God. God willed that into existence. It did not happen by accident. And yes bad things are happening. It depends on how you are defining bad. I think if you got captured by ISIS or some Mexican drug cartels, you would think of how bad a situation this is. So let's not pretend that there aren't bad things. Only person who could say something like this and actually mean it, is probably Ramana Maharshi who could easily die In a cave from cancer and be OK with it. But we are not OK with such things and probably never will be. Since we are terrified of losing our health and etc. You can pretend that there are no bad things but when the torture begins, your mind will start thinking otherwise.

@Seraphim There is no parts of God or lesser Gods. That is an imaginary distinction. Useful at times. Still it's a fantasy. There is only God. God is raping. God is killing. God is saving animals, etc. God takes forms. That's what you mean by parts. God is not innocent and we as mere humans are ignorant and bad. God made it that way. There is noone else to blame other than God. Everything else is pretty poetry. And things are definitely happening. I experience them right now. I experience a flow of sensations that is God.

@Seraphim No. God is not innocent. The ISIS terrorist chopping heads is God too. There is no co creation. This is an imaginary distinction. Its just God.

@PataFoiFoi I have been struggling with the same question for a long time as well.. And I haven't got any fullfilling answer so far. Whether suffering is relative or not,, this does not matter and its just a word game in my opinion. When your fingers or throat are being chopped off by some terrorist or whatever it won't matter at all whether this is relative or not lol. It does not matter if its Love or not either. You just wish you were never born in situations like this. The extreme brutality of life is what can give me existential nightmares and a feeling of dread that is shocking. This for me is the hardest part of spirituality.. Accepting the nightmares And trust me.. Those nightmares are unimaginable horror, pain and despair. If many people knew how bad the nightmares can get they would end up on meds or insane asylums. The good part is that the unimaginable and horrific pain is finite. Still We are in For a ride.

People like Putin make me hate the entire human race. His level of Delusion is epic.

@Epikur I think you are conflating some things which are not the same. Of course for Putin to remain in power he has to play a certain game. But I don't think he had to invade Ukraine. Noone would Punish him for not invading Ukraine. Noone was forcing him to do that. Maybe he fears NATO forces greatly but this fear is delusional. NATO is too conscious to attack Russia for no good reason. Putin will be taken down because he began this whole non sensical war. He made the biggest mistake of his life. Watch how this war backfires on him the over next few years.

This man basically claims that if you say out loud something negative, you make it a lot more likely that it will happen. Also he provides real life examples of this. This is because expressing verbally something negative is like 40 times stronger than if you thought about it. Is this true? What do you guys think? This video has made me kinda OCD of what i say out loud in fear that it might just happen. I get paranoid over this at times. I think there is some truth to this but I really don't know. The mechanics of how this might work are not clear to me at all. The video is worth watching :

@BlueOak The problem is that if I say that a pig will show up my Brain thinks there is no way I can create that. But if I say something like 'I am an idiot' (even if I don't mean it) my brain thinks that Maybe there is some subconscious way this fear could manifest lol.. This video started this whole fear: https://youtu.be/5lCeWtXPKko Also this video solidified the fear a bit more.