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Sometimes it’s good to cope with life using a nice story like The Bible. Some people can’t navigate this unknown world without clinging onto something, so I’m happy you find peace in the Bible OP. Just don’t impose your beliefs and judgment on other people and become an insufferable douchebag in the name of Jesus Christ.

I have a friend who did the what the OP said and ended up fucking up his ankle and his back because he loved pushing himself to his physical limits, and now he’s always limping or getting easily hurt and has back problems, along with a myriad of other complications from over training. Everybody is gangster until they slip a disk or severely roll an ankle.

I've had a similar "realization" on a high dose weed edible before. It all smacked me in the face and right NOW was the truth. It was like I went full blown sober or something. Everything 'clicked' and it all was perfect and everything was where it needed to be NOW. But my question is (other people who have realized the same thing please chime in): if we are "there" (aka here) already NOW, what's an easy pointer to realize it right now? Almost like a "oh yeah that's right!" or an infallible way to 'remember' or fall back into the truth? Because I was there and then I wasn't. And I have been longing to "go back" even though I know it's futile and a paradox because I'm already HERE. Lmao. Sorry if that makes no damn sense.

and it makes sense when some people get annoyed and say 'fuck it! fuck this bullshit' and give up and enlightenment hits them it's all backwards lol

No, I’m not worried. Not in the slightest. On a surface level (where the majority of people just read the title of articles or watch a fear-mongering YouTube video designed for clicks) it seems like Apple is scanning through your nudes and and titty pics but that’s not what’s actually happening. https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/10/22613225/apple-csam-scanning-messages-child-safety-features-privacy-controversy-explained "When iCloud Photos is enabled on a device, the device uses a tool called NeuralHash to break these pictures into hashes — basically strings of numbers that identify the unique characteristics of an image but can’t be reconstructed to reveal the image itself. Then, it compares these hashes against a stored list of hashes from NCMEC, which compiles millions of hashes corresponding to known CSAM content. (Again, as mentioned above, there are no actual pictures or videos.)"

"yes"

i don't know how anti-vax conservative alt right wing weirdos find these forums but it's always really amusing watching them try to rationalize their worldview with 'alternative' facts

The vaccine is an IQ test.

rock on brother!!! and when you nod your head to rap music, that's Brahman loving the beat

Yes!!! I’ve actually been thinking about making a thread about this. I LOVE music but I’m starting to feel like it’s another form of consumption (like YouTube, video games, etc) it’s just a bit more benign. When I don’t listen to music for a while and then I do, the music is so beautiful and vivid to me. But every day? It becomes normal and I get songs stuck in my head all day. It makes meditation harder for me since I’m trying to stay still and a chorus from a popular song begins playing. I notice it doesn’t matter what genre it is either, though the catchy pop stuff is more infectious.

Interesting. Can this happen to someone with years of meditation? Would someone be more grounded and “ah; I get what’s going on” in the moment when this shift happens?

Nice wall of text, but it seems to me like you just want this forum to be the way that you want it to be, so your feelings are spared. You have nearly 24,000 posts in a forum where the admin himself has 30,000--you're on here so much I think it's starting to affect your brain judging by the sheer amount of posts, your threads and your replies to others. Also "religiously reading every comment that Leo makes" is extremely unhealthy. The things Leo says about dating/relationships are pure facts and he has even stated that even though what he says seems harsh and polarizing--he's saying it in a way that men could consume this data into our dumb, knuckle dragging brains. We think with our dicks too much, so he has to speak in a way that we can "get" it. He's even stated the survival strategies of both men and women are ultimately very different over and over again. You expect him to tell men to just have a great personality and be nice and open doors? Lmao. I know you live in India, but in the United States and other "first world" Western countries; it's not all Disney fairy tales and flower petals on the floor. It can be cut throat and brutal if you're a man or a woman looking to date or have casual relationships and not get screwed over. I'd also like to know who "many people have told me the same thing along the lines of - listen to Leo but not when it comes to dating" are. Are you making shit up so you can just make this thread to change the forum so it aligns with your worldview?

I almost never just post a link to YouTube videos but this one really “answered” it for me in a way:

Run for the hills and never look back. Get yourself someone worth a damn that would allow you to go to a barber shop.

Some extremely weirdo energy going on ITT defending what seems to be a confirmed sexual predator but it’s okay because he did an apology video online. Fucking lol, never change Actualized.org.

OP you sound like my friend lol. He got mad at me one time for just being a social butterfly at a party and hitting it off with everyone, especially all the girls (I didn't know anyone at that party and he invited me there). I called his ass out on it and he admitted he felt like he was a loser, too "quiet" or doing all the wrong things to not end up getting laughs and praise or whatever. I told him I could see he was in his head the entire time at the party.. analyzing, thinking, trying to come up with the right things to say, weird body language, etc. You can physically see what a person is thinking inside--even if they think they're doing a good job hiding it. In a funny way, he was acting differently around those people than another group of people we mutually know--so it was interesting watching him change his whole personality just by a shift of being around different people.

LMAO, suckers born every minute. That phone is just going to be a low-end, reskinned Android phone with a marked up price for people who are sluts for "MERICA'S FREEDOM!!!". China themselves threatened the USA that they were working on their own OS for their own phones (like Huawei) but they ultimately completely failed. Turns out they were just reskinning Android. If China themselves were unsuccessful in building their OS without ripping off Android (and actually using Android but reskinning it and calling it 'HarmonyOS') then how is some fuckwad with bad highlights like that guy going to do it? Bwahaha. Building a stable, new OS from the ground up in 2021 is an unprecedented task that boggles the mind. It's like flying a kite and then saying you're going to land on the moon soon.

A LOT of people fear God or the wrath of God much more than the devil. Some cultures even say things like “God willing” or something similar in a serious manner just to avoid jinxing their hope of outcome

Lol when I was a kid, I’ve always wondered that if the devil is so powerful and smart, couldn’t he pretend to be God and become worshipped by everybody, and make God the devil to be feared and avoided? Of course, when I would present this “theory” as a kid I would get weird looks and responses from adults like “that’s impossible” lmao

That’s the crazy part… we’re just playing the spirituality game. Until that cosmic slap in the face happens to you and you snap out of it and realize “who/what” is really watching your life story unfold behind your eyes, then it’s always a game

She's good at Mario Kart

While I do like making fun of incels, no posts here have proved the OP wrong other than anecdotal evidence or underhanded insults to the OP lol

Posting outliers as examples doesn’t help the OPs dilemma btw that just confirms it even more

I had a long period where I willfully abstained from any drugs (ie: alcohol & weed, I wanted to see what it was like to be 100% straight edge for a few years) and it was great but you have to find the right people. I’ve had luck with finding people who don’t do that stuff in hobby/clubs like painting, rock climbing, dance lessons, video games etc. You make friends with them and if they think you’re cool they’ll hang out with you and most of the time it won’t involve alcohol since you can tell them from the beginning that you don’t drink—so your new friendship won’t be based on drinking from the beginning. Other times, I would chill with people who do drink (like old friends, their friends, etc) but I’d get like a Coke or like some tasty drink that wasn’t alcohol (nobody is going to check your drink anyways) and then leave before they would get too wasted and annoying to be around lol. It’s easy to balance all of this if you’re an extrovert for sure.

oh I am dumb as hell no doubt about that