Danioover9000

@Princess Arabia We have an history, ongoing negative relationship between me and @Juan because he dissed and trolled me on a thread years ago about internet addiction, increases in ADD/ADHD and narcissism, and I dissed his Tik Tok in retaliation, so he's making fun of the fact I sometimes don't log out of the forum when I leave and calling me a homeless bum. I can't fight back anymore due to warning points over this drama so I cannot comment further. That aside, what are your thoughts about this issues with cultures and societies commodifying martial arts? Does martial arts humble the ego, with enough discipline?

@Israfil Thank you for the correction Israil. What do you think about the issues with martial arts in today's world?

How can you outgrow stage red/blue when a society makes it part of the culture like this: I might strawman this a lot, but again it's not that simple to just follow your passions, when some of your said passions may involve destroying other people's lives, that's not quite a good enough LP based on various other developmental factors like SD stages of development, cognitive and moral development, personality types/traits, ego development, life experiences and other lines of development, ideological beliefs indoctrinated, groomed and gaslighted by upbringing and culture. When you take LP and other modals like Ikegai, factor these life purpose modals in relation to developmental modals, already it's too complicated to just say 'FOLLOW YOUR PASSIONS' when it may be dangerous. Life is still a series of tradeoffs, be careful your actions don't cause immense suffering to others, including yourself. For example, very bad example but let's say porn and having lots of sex is your calling, at whatever cost, that doesn't mean you should follow that passions blindly for the deep cravings and desires. NUANCE, NUANCE, NUANCE!

@Rishabh R That's the power of visualization, positive affirmations and subconscious training. Don't believe me? Imagine you fucking a hot chick, in vivid lively detail. observe how quick your boner stands up, gets excited, over internal images in the mind. That's how powerful a practice this is.

This video sucks, but it clearly shows how most people in the MMA crowd think, and how typical this is in groups:

@Moksha My guess would be that the confusion starts with confusing CAUSAL for CORRELATION, and vice versa. Oh, plus SELF DECEPTION. External desires are nice, and actual material security is a must in some cases. Don't expect on average that if you or your group is deprived enough of material security that that doesn't negatively impact on spiritual practices. Pretty hard to meditate or pray if I sleep deprive you, or take your bed and roof, or torturing and killing you. These are lack of material security. Don't cite back that some monks can still mediate even when burning, we're talking about billions of people worldwide, from various cultures and environments different to yours, with different degrees of tolerances.

@ardacigin From reading this, I gained an intuitive insight into the nature of forums. That threads are extensions of our ego mind that needs to project a body of text, to attach meaning and story to it, which creates an online life worth maintaining, AKA this thread here which is about 8 days old, and has yet to be deleted or locked, yet has gained some life to it, each member contributing to this cum bucket of rationalizations, justifying the Leo hate train, or justifying counters to this complaining. Not want to argue here, but this thread is yet, in spirit, another bickering and complaining of Leo's positions. If we do two hypotheticals at least (can do more thought experiments) then you'll see why. Just take the conclusion that this thread is trying to make(Leo is wrong, Buddhism is right), and take it to the ultimate level(BUDDHISM IS ABSOLUTELY RIGHT, EVERYONE ELSE WRONG). Also do the same from it's premises as well, because if you're ready to claim that Leo premise of 'Nothing exists but my mind' is false, then you must be ready to falsify the prior conditions and qualifiers to the extreme too, like claiming that Leo's birth was pointless and false too. Even with solipsism, it's basic, not even talking about the metaphysical and spiritual implications, just the basics, the down to earth problems: You can't handle being alone, loneliness, and solitude for too long. That's it, it's a loneliness problem that most people deny they have a deep problem with. Even the Buddhist monks have this loneliness problem, LOOK! They can't even meditate separately and have to do prayers and chants TOGETHER. Can't, it's terrible, the thought of meditating all alone is disturbing, that when meditating is over they eagerly get to have lunch TOGETHER, can't eat by themselves. At the end of the day, each person has their own priorities in life. Take what works, disregard what doesn't.

@ValiantSalvatore Pretty nice post! Am also blown away because Gemini is my birth sign, and Google is using Gemini's name for their A.I language program, which is neat! GO GEMINI!?

@Rishabh R I've done enough of CBT, and I'd say on my end it's decent and can help improve how you think and how you see yourself, marginally will depend on the quality of the therapy as well, good for learning a bit how you think in patterns. Give it a go, and tell us how it went!

Also a deep problem, sometimes not most times, is when your calling or passion is valued greatly, and feed back or what others say, from your family to friends to lovers and to other members of society tell you, is devalued extremely less in your mind, is where problems can arise from this extreme individualism, For example, if I completely disregard societal and family norms, of socially acceptable behaviors, disregard whatever the social programming is indoctrinated and gaslight into my mind, and prioritize what my heart and my subjective experiences are, and my desire and deep cravings, for instance if it turns out what excites me and makes me turned on is killing people and raping hot chicks in secret Mr. Brooks style, that has it's own list of costs and prices to pay, plus if this starts to scale up such that now people become more authoritarian and Libertarian and extremely selfish we start having problems. This is why I believe calling and passion is on a spectrum, shared with your upbringing and environment and cultural values. Your passions and calling is interconnected with all your other developmental factors, and your emotions, and to some extent, fear. FEAR IS A CONCEPT ABOUT THE FUTURE, which is why majority of the time, you mostly don't misbehave as much because you DEEPLY FEAR going to jail, getting sued, going to high security prison, locked into an Asylum, and even fear retaliation and karma. I believe that calling and passion is also partly informed by your environments and other developmental factors. Kind of like a very complicated RPG game, except you're the character wearing the skin.

I think @Leo Gura or another mod's input would be nice 9in this part of the video, where they talk about the red pill solutions, seems like both Destiny and Charlie were kind of wrong, few parts were right, but both misunderstand PUA and how PUA can actually help self development of mostly males(some females too). I kind of agree that when it's long term relationships PUA is limited, but short term and dating experiences PUA seems like a really good approach. Seems like to me both men have limited experience with dating and PUA techniques, and make a whole lot of assumptions that are mostly, intuitively to me, wrong, and not just on this specific issue but on various other contexts the assumptions were pretty loaded and leading. Of course, I don't mean to be personal attacking Charlie or Destiny, but what gives them the right to condemn PUA in some way? Destiny for one didn't practice PUA and hasn't used PUA to hook up with Melina, nor used PUA to start a relationship with his ex wife, so seems like he's talking from inexperience. Similar to Charlie.

Part 1 was them talking online, this part 2 is face to face: Great interviewing and framing control skills, leading and loaded questions and statements, and manipulation dynamics. Also lots of lessons based on SD stages of development, cognitive and moral development, personality types/traits, states of being, other lines of development in life and society, ideological indoctrination in one's upbringing and culture, and self biases and preferences. Also some degree of misinformation and manipulating narratives. Comment below, what are your thoughts and feelings and takeaways of this video?

@Juan Okay won ton soup.

@Epikur ?

This seems like another decision that has negative domino effects later on in the military and society. I don't know much of the government bodies here, but if this is the case then the civilians will have less power in nominating a higher position, and the presidency having more power: What are your thoughts?

@Yimpa You know, it's been 4 years since I've joined Actualized.org, and NOBODY picked up this reference at all! Even the few proclaimed otaku mods here! So am glad finally someone realized the meme.?

@Yimpa Quick on the post son! Also agree, let's strange loop analysis to analysis, meta analysis.

HAHAHA! I guess I've inspired this guy to body analyze James Cameron: Very interesting takes.

@Dauntment Yes, I mostly agree, plus PBD has a libertarian bias and believes in libertarianism, so naturally he'll strongly lean into free markets and individualism at the expense of demonizing the mainstream and conformist office types. Sanders is nearly the opposite of PBD and that he's a socialist/progressive with some reasonable takes, although to be honest Destiny is far more reasonable. Also in this heated exchange I intuit that it's mainly this capitalist versus communist paradigm far more at play.

@Danioover9000 Also, he's ignorant in that he's underestimating the scale of danger and damage here, thinking that the LGBTQ movement is a greater danger, when in fact throughout history it's been the traditionalists, Monarchs, Feudalists, and Nationalists, of which white supremacists and Ethnocentric nationalists take advantage of the system to bully and demonize others different to themselves, who also happen to be majority heterosexual and traditional males and females. Sweeping the vast amounts of historical events of demonizing LGBTQ people, by predominantly heterosexual people, under rigid systems, and sweeping counter evidences of how vicious the bullying and demeaning actions towards minority groups, which this PBD guy is also a part of.

What an ignorant take by PBD: He's ignorant of how history is all a development, based on SD stages of development, cognitive and moral development, personality types/traits, 9 stages of ego development, states of consciousness, other lines of development in other life and societal domains, especially ideological beliefs indoctrinated, groomed and gaslight by culture, and self biases and preferences. PBD is ignorant that he's also indoctrinated by this anti LGBTQ agenda, and is spouting nonsense here. Never seeing this guy as credible, and blocking this guy's content.

What a great video, one of many examples of stage orange values corrupting stage green values: Also a lesson in masculine and feminine love here too. The whale to me is obviously too sick and too far gone to be released back into the wild, and the obvious solution is masculine love here, yet it's like in Sun Tsu's Art of War, and the entanglement and contested grounds, in which whoever and what army makes the first attempt to capture a swamp land or some inhospitable terrain, gets the disadvantages first, and nobody wants to be first or initiate first, so instead they're left with inaction. That combined with the social ramifications of what might have happened, nobody wants to nor can't exercise masculine love. Regardless, it was a good attempt, yet deep down, metaphysically and epistemically, there's a lot of bias with these decisions.

@Philipp No dogma of any kind, and calling out individuals and groups for their bad faith tactics, uncharitable interpretations and lack of good faith. Call them out as ideological, deluded, and correcting that worldview is a start to how we can clean the epistemic ecosystem.

@StarStruck 'Porn is wrong for men'. So, you would rather revert back to history, and have men impregnating women, consensually or non-consensually, because 'loads of men not reproducing because busting a nut is a click away'? Do you have ANY IDEA how hard it is to raise a family? The financial, emotional and psychological costs of raising a child, just because you had to get your wife pregnant, especially accidental pregnancies? Not just related to pornography but also condoms use and sexual education. Do you have any idea of the consequences of your over simplistic wish to restrict and prohibit pornography could lead to for other parts of society? True, that sexual impulse been part of the driving force of humanity, but are you correct in assuming that entire battles and wars were ONLY fought for pussy sake, really, only for the pussy, and not for example expansion of empires and civilizations, gaining more territory and lands and riches? Yes, pornography plus sexual education has reduced rapes and unwanted pregnancies, yes partly true that that statement doesn't change that pornography is a 'super' stimulus for the nervous system(partly true but I think you meant for the neuro networks and neuro pathways in the brain, not the nervous system) but that doesn't necessarily mean that it's equally as addicting as cocaine here, yes the neural pathways that cocaine and pornography watching and masturbating(also real sex) light up, but the chemical differences and chemical addictions that cocaine has is not present equally when watching pornography and real sex because pornography and real sex and masturbation lacks the chemical addictive substances that binds and enforces your brain in seeking out more cocaine. In fact it's far more emotional and psychological than chemical, as you're falsely equating cocaine to pornography here.

@Schizophonia How does this: Answers @zurew's question? How is reserving your sexual power for a real woman an argument against both amateur pornography and onlyfans?