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Isn't VR worlds just bigger versions of VR? With bigger goggles?

@Max_V That's nice! Destiny was teasung the audience about who he might debate this week. GG JP. 6:30 pm?

@Scholar Case closed! @Leo Gura and mods, you know what to do.

@Yarco This is the beginning of your 10-year mastery process, from whacky Pikachu modals to Pikachu universes, here we go.

While I am optimistic about other pieces of technology, I'm not sure with this VR world. It seems like a step towards further gaining realism in the digital world, further entrapping its users and admins into getting lost in the maps and mistaking the maps for the TERRITORY. How does VR world benefit me in the following: Do VR worlds make me more money? Do VR worlds help me train more skills towards my VISION of my career? Does having and being inside VR worlds help me socialize, develop relationships? Does VR worlds make me a better fucker? Does VR worlds make me more healthy and fit? Does VR worlds help me relax? Can I make it more entertaining than mainstream? Does VR world help me think in 3d and help me better manipulate the environment around me? Does being involved in VR worlds help accelerate my development in morality and cognition? Does VR worlds help me better do bias correction in myself? Does VR worlds help me further develop my values system? Does VR world have a overall positive or negative effect to my psyche? Will it make me more lor less narcissistic? Am I just distracting myself further with VR worlds?

@DocWatts Yeah, that is one of many historical blunders that are felt to this day. So many consequences could have been avoided, if given enough information and wisdom.

@Leo Gura Christ Langen is one of many examples, of even if your IQ is 250 +, that doesn't inoculate the genius against the mind voice. Technically, Charles Manson is a genius in how he charms and instills fear on people around him.

@BlessedLion I was gonna post about him. Oi, he's my idol, and not yours! But yes, I think he's a good example of having both nature and nurture for his talent of music and lyric pattern matching.

BTW, I have an artist bias, and bias for images, so what an insight is to me, is that it's pictures of varying degrees, small to big, mosaic and collage, that you make use of your sight capacities, whilst being inside, actual or imagined, the image you are having an insight into. That plus other main definitions of an insight.

@Scholar Insight defined by pathway, differences or contrasts between form and nothingness. However, this is not the original definition provided by Leo Gura, going by the actualized blog of what is insight. So, even if you assume Leo actually defines insight as the pathways/differences/contrasts between form and nothingness, and not based on the blogpost of insight by google, the question still becomes, what defines pathways, differences, contrasts, between, forms, and nothingness? Also, going forward, which definitions of those do and are you going to use for this discussion, because, how do you know which meaning am I or you or others use when talking about pathways, differences and contrasts that make up insights? What kinds of insights you will have, are based upon what stage of developmental values you hold, cognitive and moral development you are at, what major/minor personality traits and personas, or the 'you's in your mind are, the states of consciousness and beings you can be, the life experiences you have so far with places and people, and other lines of development, plus ideas/concepts/beliefs from your upbringing and family values and cultural and societal values from where you came from imprinted into your mind. All holistically coming together, to create and generate the kind of insights you have, from the insight that you can draw a circle, to the insight that you exist only, and others/the world is not real. The insights that make you go 'oh! I left my car keys and coffee on the table' to Eureka moments of world destruction. Those types of insights are dependent on your entire worldview and sense making apparatuses in your mind, and how it generalizes, distorts and deletes information that fits with its survival agendas and biases. The differences between form and nothingness, and dissolving the form = nothingness, is a simplification and assumption of what actual could happen if you dissolved form, because dissolution has stages that are observable, to stages that are not observable to one's perception, so when a form is dissolving, it doesn't go from form to formlessness, which is actually the correct binary opposite rather than this form/nothingness, the dissolving form becomes another form, another something, and not go to nothingness or formlessness directly quickly. Addressing each example, first off that's an assumption that because you dissolve a form, that that causes truth as an effect of a form's destruction, for all 6 examples. Secondly: Form is duality. Duality is dissolved. The Truth is non-duality. (Or that the truth is unity and not non-duality) Form is selfish. Selfishness is dissolved. The Truth is Selflessness. (Or that the truth is non-selfishness. Another is that selfishness=bias, so destruction of bias causes a truth, that of un-bias.) Form is fear. Fear is dissolved. The Truth is Love. (Or that the truth is fearlessness, and not love, as love is not the true binary opposite of fear, fearlessness is.) Form is limitation. Limitation is dissolved. Truth is Infinity. (Or that the truth, after dissolution of limitation, is unlimitation, not infinity, because it's true opposite is finitude and not limitation.) Form is dream. Dream is dissolved. Truth is Awakening. (Or that the truth, is a change in one's state of consciousness, one that was being inside a dream state after going sleepiness state, becoming slumber state, then deep sleep, then dream state, then transit into wakeful consciousness) Form is ignorance. Ignorance is dissolved. Truth is Intelligence. (Or that dissolving of ignorance, leads to the truth of non-ignorance, or unbiased thing. and not intelligence. Why? Because ignorance is part of a surviving sentient being's mind, due to limited intelligence and physical/mental/emotional resources, must be selective in what and where it places attention into, as attention spent is calories spent maintaining focus and awareness into one limited are. This causes a large portion of your field of awareness to only show what's being placed attention into, so that your sense of self isn't overrun by the various objects and people around. Ignorance, then, is a function of the mind to safegaurd you from getting lost in the reeds, lost in the music or crowds and so forth.) After reading and re-reading your entire post, it seems to me you have a love and hate relationship with @Leo Gura. Your talking points are very similar to Buddhism or traditional Advaita Vedanta, and Leo may have said something you simply can't nor won't agree with, due to his different method/approach to practicing spirituality. This entire post is, therefore, you vent your disagreement to Leo, which is fine, but you are being sneaking with how you complain about Leo, and not consider steelmanning his point of view, but rather attack him in an underhanded way with all this.

I guess some of the key questions here, is, does being a genius makes you immune to ego deception? Does being a genius give you a pass in life? My intuition, is that geniuses are even more susceptible to mind traps than an average mind.

What are some artistic careers you guys do, that deal with images? Let's make a small list. Also, if you have a life vision, what changes did you make? For example, this is my list: Graphic novelist of fantasy books. Graphic novelist of web toons, western comics. Mangaka/Doujinshi artist. Illustrator of nature scenes. Cover book illustrator, for children books. Cover book artist for magazines or more mature books. Graphic designer. Interior/exterior decorator. animator. architecture. I've already listed my mission statement and LP statement here, so I'll briefly write my vision: to be a semi realistic illustrator of cover art, penciling and inking comic books, and colouring them. others is writing/editing, and web developing. I planned to go work for a company with the drawing/writing, and was 50/50 on whether to go freelance or work in a company, but after watching this: https://youtu.be/ac3l7vQb5hI I was like no, I'm more leaning towards freelance, or getting into comics like Dark Horse or similar comic companies like that, with the dark and gritty nature of it.

@Devin That's fine too. I can see one tradeoff of staying in one area, that is the children will more quickly be less open minded and diverse in thinking, but in exchange they will feel more loyalty and sisterhood/brotherhood to that one community, so to speak. Travelling a bit more, living from country to country for 2-5 years, having your kids change schools and get used to that country's education standards about public schooling, I think makes them more experienced and open minded than most children that stay far longer in one area growing up. I'm mainly speaking in regard to public schools per country they enter, but border schools or private schools I don't know enough of to make the comparisons. Home schooling is an interesting possibility, but I know enough that parenting is already stressful enough and having to also be their teacher on top of being their parent, for some parents, is too much, but if done the children will have a greater sense if independence and independent thinking than their demographic peers. Of course, in exchange of travelling a lot, exposing yourself and your growing child to different cultures, being more multicultural, the exchange is that they may feel less loyalty, patriotism and nationalistic pride and origin to their original culture and heritage. They will become too open minded, and they may feel more confused as to who they are, socially speaking, as they have to many places. There are other tradeoffs possible that I'm not aware of fully so keep that in mind. Should I stay many years in one country, my home country, and raise my child mostly here before letting them adventure around the world? Or should I adventure around the world with my child, and expose them to many parts of the world and its cultures as they grow? I think, if you or anyone here is seriously considering parenting, should contemplate carefully.

'Can create any image of landscapes from memory' Kim Jung Gi 'Hold my Hite Korean pale Lager'

I know this sub-forum has been updated to include family, with the list of relationships, sexuality and dating, but it just feels that maybe we need to make another sub-forum to just be dedicated to sexuality and dating, while the relationships and family is in another sub-forum. @Leo Gura please consider maybe separating the family/relationships from the sexuality/dating topics please. I just feel strange, to type about kids in a sub-forum that talks about one-night stands, lay counts, short-long term BF/GF relationships, sexualities, how to have sex and watch porn. I mean, if OP is asking me how to raise sexually healthy children, how to teach children to date, or manage relationships intimately or socially, I can see how quickly it'll get personal and heated. I know of some things that I did when I was a kid but am not sure if sharing here explicitly is past pg-13 rating. I'd say, if you are a parent, very broadly and generally teach them how to self-massage and explore their bodies. Having said that, from personal experience at nights, I didn't need much encouragement to explore myself. Any reprimands you might do to your kids, slightly tone it down as they will associate hate and negativity to that experience. Ideally, you'd help yourself and deal with whatever dating/sexual issues in your psyche, before raising kids, as you are very likely to project those issue onto them, immediately corrupting the raising them to a healthier outlook part.

@Carl-Richard Very nice post.

@Devin Hi kids, wanna see me stick nine-inch nails inside my eyelids? Basically, both the city and countryside, and much more. The more life experiences they are exposed to, the smarter they become.

@ThePoint I used to think video gaming was a waste of time, until my mind can see more in 3d because of my accumulated experiences with camera angles, fixed and adjustable, in video games, which I now use for other areas of my life. The golden ores are a metaphor, or what's most important to you, that your intuition is pulling you to, that feels like the right direction, despite years of built-up toxicity in your body and ideologies and beliefs you hold in your mind preventing smoother communication with your intuition, what fear barriers and resistances your mind voices towards going there, despite that critically toned voice tells you. Well, while it is now mostly forgotten to your conscious self, it's now a part of your subconscious mind, so if and when a situation happens in the future that needs that piece of information, it'll resurface to be of help to you. No, your mind places importance on the book it thinks is of use, not the brain. The brain is a simple organ that is subservient to the mind, only collects sensory information and processes it through its many neurons. But don't worry, brains don't exist anyway, it's only the mind that thinks it does, to obfuscate being more responsible for its survival than it already is.

@EugeneTheSage I see. Do you mainly do 3d modelling of characters or buildings? Is it related to engineering and architecture, or is it more CGI rendered animations?

@ThePoint Ok. It may be considered to you a waste of time, but to me I see overwise. After all, you don't know what time has in store for you, maybe learning from that review and anime may reveal those hidden golden ores.

Was this thread inspired from the thread above?

Some freaks of nature of strength and skill: This boxer, BTW, hits heavy bags that weigh 400 + pounds, so that when infighting, he can generate tension and contraction against heavier boxers, as he's a shorter heavy weight boxer himself.

The one and only, @Leo Gura. Just look at these videos below: Have you ever seen another human being communicate to you, in such an explicit way, that you are GOD? Apparently, only the prophets and sages that majority don't know, worship, or kill off early. These types of people are special, in that they are like angels that can communicate to something you won't or can't directly communicate to yet, but they somehow can. I think this qualifies these types as freaks of nature somewhat, for example the Buddha, as the majority aren't accessing those types of divine communications.

@Razard86 I love both the anime adaptation and manga of Death Note, so many lessons to learn from it besides power corruption.

@ThePoint Before I give my view, I want to know some specifics first: For the couple of hours, you watched Anime, what anime was it? What genre of anime, and what was the story and characters about? Are you referring to the modern anime adaptations, or the anime of the 2000's, 90's, 80's and 70's? Because the level of skill, work, quality and detail of modern anime compared to older anime are apparent. For example, a Seinen anime film series/movie will be different to a shounen/shoujo anime or a Chibi anime. Also, what videos of anime you watched? Was it anime review channels? Anime critic channels?