CultivateLove

There's your problem (At least it was for me) Don't try to "keep the flame alive" by trying to keep remembering scenarios that made you feel love, once can be enough, then just focus on the feeling itself, dive into it, breathe it in, and feel it in every cell of your body.

Actually I think depth-perception is just like a muscle, it can get better, or you can lose it if you don't use it. Health, fitness and nutrition would be a better fit. Anyways, watch this video

@Preety_India Ok, then it is my view that your worldview is full of self-bias, projection and judgement. But that's just my view.

If that is what you are truly trying to articulate, do you think this is a good way of articulating that message? "Commitment is inherent in love otherwise it's a non-committal casual relationship." "Commitment is not a choice. It's a representation of love. Love without commitment is shallow at best and disingenuous at worst." I mean that which is "so called love" Real love isn't. To me this just sounds judgemental, nothing else.

@Preety_India Perhaps you cannot imagine how you could love someone without committing your life to them, or feeling love without them committing their life to you, but that doesn't give you ground to say everyone else who disagrees with you is just mistaken and doesn't understand "real love" like you do. Maybe open your mind to the fact that there's more than 1 type of love since you know, people are different in more ways you can imagine. Love is the fabric of the Universe after all, claiming you understand what ACTUAL Love is, is basically saying you understand God. Do you fully comprehend God?

Yeah he's good for overcoming the challenges of stage orange but after that drop him like a hot potato.

One of my favorites for sure, and this interview is also one of my favorite from his content, highly recommend it.

A short backstory. A few months ago I got approached by some Mormon girls on the street, and we ended up having about an hour long discussion about God, Religion, Life etc. Ever since then we've been meeting up and talking for about 45-60 minutes once or twice a week. I have mixed feelings because on one hand I find these talks to be genuinely enjoyable and insightful (Doesn't hurt that they're both sweet and pretty, either), but on the other hand, their stage blue ideological thinking, and sometimes bordering on preaching, is starting to test my patience a bit. The main example is them trying to get me to start praying to God more, SPECIFICALLY out loud, because "it's worked for them, and it says in the Book of Mormon that God is BOUND to a promise to answer your prayers if you do). Now, I didn't have anything against doing that before at all, I probably would have done it at some point in my life without any outside influence pushing me, but their insistence has only really made me want to do it less. One time during our talks, we were talking about what connects us as people, and what differentiates us, i.e. how much alike we are, yet how different we can be at the same time, and they suggested maybe I could ask God about it, so I was like fuck it, sure. So I prayed out loud, and genuinely asked God "Dear God, I never really ask you for anything, but now I am. If you could help me understand better how we are similar, and how we are different, so I can better help people in the future, I would REALLY appreciate it! Amen" (Something like that) And holy damn, my last 2 weeks have been FULL of insights about exactly this, a few of them have been huge, and I'm sure they will be super happy to hear about this. But I don't really want to tell them to be honest, because they were too pushy, and I don't want to reward that pushy-ness, because then they're going to take that as a sign that what they are doing is "the right thing" and will CONTINUE to push prayer and other things upon people because it showed real results. Hell, a part of me STILL doesn't want to pray out loud to God because it feels... forced. After some reflection, I see this in my past, and I see it in other people. For example, a close friend of mine has always had a bad impression of Yoga, meanwhile I'm a Yoga enthusiast. One day I asked him what his actual experience with Yoga was, and turns out it was at some class in a Fitness Center (which is the LAST place you'll find actual Yoga), I explained to him that he hasn't actually done Yoga, any more than eating at Taco Bell counts as trying Mexican food. That the Yoga he went to is just a cheap, western bastardization of actual Yoga. This analogy was good enough to open his mind up to trying Yoga again, but not anytime soon, because he kind of feels forced to do it, instead of it coming naturally. Probably the best example of this phenonema I can think of is with girls, if you push just a LITTLE bit too hard sexually, it will turn her off like a bucket of cold water, EVEN IF she had some attraction towards you beforehand. I guess what I'm trying to understand is the underlying mechanics behind this whole thing and how to get around it? Is there a better way to convince someone that something is good for them without being seen as preachy, other than "being a good example"?

I 100% agree

Does this apply to ALL white people or just white people in places with a history of white supremacy and oppression of other races? I'm from Iceland and I'm trying to figure out if I should hate myself and check my white privilege or not.

This is also the way I see it, and how most people intuit it when they use it / hear it. Of course there's Yin in the Yang and vice versa, but to say that these are just constructs and not based in reality like @Rilles is saying, doesn't really make a lot of sense to me and would require a more elaborate, comprehensive explanation than what he has given so far. I'm not totally closed-minded to it, but I just haven't heard a convincing enough argument / point to make me switch sides on this one.

@The_Truth_Seeker Thanks bro

Perhaps from the ultimate God-Head perspective (still trying to wrap my mind around that) but I don't think that really applies in the relative context of cultural issues.

Agree, historically the pendulum was too far in one direction (Too masculine, repressed feminine) and is now swinging too far in the opposite direction.

I'm not there to drink the mormon kool-aid, rather to study the mind of people who have. Also, doesn't hurt that one looks like a 20 year old version of Amelia Clark

Obviously. I just wanted to see it in person to get a better understanding of it. The dogma does run pretty deep, lol.

You're right, too much of an energy sink with almost no return. When it comes to their religion, they ARE quite closed-minded and I don't even try to challenge them on that part, but we talk about a lot more than just The Book of Mormon. Many times they have shared an opinion/belief on something and I offer a different perspective or another way of looking at it that actually seems to resonate with them, if that wasn't the case, I would have stopped talking to them a long time ago. I think they are fantastic practice for effectively communicating with people with a very different world-view. I don't want to be in an echo-chamber of people who share my beliefs and worldview. I have yet to take the LP course, it's about time I do that. Can your life purpose be to know people / humanity as deeply as possible, so you can most effectively help them? I've intuited that's my real passion since I was a kid. @Mason Riggle Yeah just a little misunderstanding on my part with the law of attraction / prayer part at first Also, I only watched 5 minutes of the video and I already want to finish it, but I have a meeting with the Mormons now

I get that, but I only see two ways of planting that seed. Either directly (which can easily make the person feel forced) or subtly (which can easily be perceived as manipulative and therefore also doesn't work). Obviously forcing someone to do something NEVER works well (if their best interest is in mind, that is), but that's not my issue. They never FORCED me to pray, but their insistence made me FEEL like IF I prayed, I would have to force it, instead of it being authentic. Same with my friend and Yoga, I never FORCED him to do anything, I merely suggested that the Yoga he tried was a steaming pile of sh*t and not actual Yoga, therefor it was no surprise it didn't do anything for him. Even so, he felt like he didn't want to do Yoga anytime soon because he felt like he'd be forcing himself to go. Sounds more like one way to apply the law of attraction, because there are many ways to get clear on and to express/ask for what you want. You could do it in writing, drawing, visualizing, and yes, praying.

I dunno, seems pretty tier 1 on the spiral to me, green at best.

She's got plenty of vidoes on her YT channel, mostly centered around dating and and men's issues. Here's one that struck me pretty hard:

lol I can relate so hard when it comes to explaining insights or meditative / psychedelic / mystical experiences, usually I end up just not posting it.

WOW I just stumbled upon this guy's blog when looking up stuff about the Tarahumara tribe, and literally 5 minutes later I see this here!

@Yoshy I'm Aquarius, and I'm confused, can you elaborate? lol

Have you tried the life purpose course?

I would say in most cases, you are right, but there are exceptions. I am not lying when I say that I wouldn't shy away from living life as one of those chickens or sheep on one of those free-range farms, and it's not just something I've seen on video, I've seen their living conditions with my own eyes. True, and I try to do the same thing, I just can't do it all at once and completely changing my diet when I finally found something stable that works for me for the first time in my life seems unreasonable, especially when I'm in a fork road period of my life. Can you say with certainty that the insects aren't also mistreated and feel suffering? Also, I have a feeling that they won't exactly go well with my gut, at least for quite a while. Not to mention taste/disgust factor. Yes, it's ego-centric, but who where can honestly say they are pure enough that they can cast the first stone? I've genuinely pictured it several times, what it is like to be born into a world, and then just killed. To be honest, I don't see much suffering in it, it's kind of just like never being born in the first place, unless it's an animal who's mother/father is sentient enough to grieve the loss of her child, which chickens don't seem to have the emotional capacity to do. My mom had chickens when I was younger, and I was constantly surprised by their brutal behavior towards each other and even their own young. I'll look into other sources of omega fatty acids and give them a try, it's the least I can do. There are some seeds and nuts I can think of from the top of my head. I make no promises if it doesn't work as well though, because like I said, I come from a long line of Scandinavian ancestry, which have lived primarily on fish for generations, the effect I feel when I'm on fish fatty pills vs when I'm not is not subtle, it's clearly noticeable. I watched the video on the cow, two times actually, and it's not the first one I've seen, but it IS the first one I've seen here in Denmark, so you have opened up my mind to that at least. And the fact that this was reported to the police and nothing was done because "Just because something is not good for the animals, doesn't mean it's also illegal." disgusts and disappoints me greatly. I can promise you though, I simply do not touch milk, cheese, cow, beef or veal meat, because I think it's one of the most disgusting and cruel parts of the meat industry as a whole. Cows are much more intelligent and sentient than most people realize, and how the majority of them are being treated is due to pure lack of empathy & compassion & understanding.