TheAlchemist
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Why are all these UFO sightings and leaks revolving so much just around the U.S.?
Haven't heard this type of stuff from other countries around the world. So either other countries intelligence agencies are better at hiding leaks of this information or the aliens are for some reason uniquely interested in the US.
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I would usually avoid these types of disturbing movies because I have thought I can't handle all the fear and horror. I decided to watch this one anyways as it had some strange pull to it.
I surprised myself with how well I was able to handle it, and I had a surprising realization. I realized that no movie is actually disturbing, what makes it "disturbing" is that I can't handle the reality of it, I can't handle the idea of it actually happening. So I resist it, and get disturbed. So the movie is just a reflection of reality, a reflection of what is, and I get disturbed when I can't accept that. So as you said above, "disturbing" movies can help you accept reality. Which reduces fear. (That being said, this is an extreme film and might be too much in some cases and probably shouldn't be watched by some. A little bit like a bad trip. But I think most adults with reasonably stable minds can handle seeing something like this.)
Spoilers ahead:
What stood out for me was when the woman towards the end, in utter despair and absolute suffering was reminded of advice she got about letting go of herself. She applied it and totally let go of herself and she merged wlth the Godhead, she went into total ecstasy through her total surrender. She was even able to let go of her hatred towards her perpetrators and she forgave them totally, despite the seeming impossibility of it.
In the end the Mademoiselle killed herself because she realized that the way to trancend, the way to God, was not through the suffering itself, but through total forgiveness, evn forgiving the greatest horrors. She realized that she represented the ultimate evil by trying to control life to satisfy her ego by creating these "martyrs". She realizes that her ego was what needed the martyrs, God didn't need martyrs. And she shot herself because she realized her mistake.
Shocking but powerful film.
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China is securing lots of influence in key mineral and raw material sourcing countries around the world, especially in Africa. As the world system is slowly shifting away from an oil/fossil burning economy in favor of renewables, there will be and is already an explosion in demand for earth metals/minerals to build the needed infrastructure for solar panels, wind mills, batteries, electricity transportation etc. The US has the world oil trade gripped by the balls, but the mineral market not so much.. Interesting times ahead
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3 hours ago, Leo Gura said:It's very simple:
A woman and her children's survival depends enormously on good leadership from a man.
What a woman is looking for is a good leader to lead her.
A leadher
That is who she will be attracted to, get wet for, and fall in love with. The rest is monkey games.
Not necessarily, humans just like other primates are quite quick to adapt their behavior into a changing environment. What is the optimal strategy to ensure the childrens survival largely depends on the environment, in relationship with which the genetically informed predisposition unfolds.
For example there has been research on geographical differences in women's mate preference. In areas where there is a larger ongoing threat to survival and less affluence, women tend to prefer men as mates that show signs associated with higher testosterone, whereas in areas where there is a stronger social safety net and less danger to survival, women tend to prefer men who have lower testosterone and are more androgenous in a sense. It makes sense since why would a woman need a strong leader in a safer environment, a more equal relationship makes more sense where the man can also take a more active role in raising the child and the mother can also pursue higher needs in the maslow hierarchy.
In different environments vastly different strategies and preferences tend to make sense, but in general I think women do tend to prefer more leadership in a man than the other way around.
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He means it's not about your ego, it's not about your desires to get the world to be a certain way or to get the "outside" to match your preferences. That is outside the control of the limited sense of self and that is a reason for so much struggle. Life and the Earth and the whole infinite universe simply isn't about you and your preferences, so of course you struggle and complain when you try to get the whole magnificent universe to bend to your highly limited egoic will.
He also speaks about You in there, and how that is the most magnificent thing there is and the ground of all being, pure consciousness, love beyond comprehension. There is no end to the depths of spiritual realization.
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6 hours ago, FourCrossedWands said:I mean, in regular dream, there are so many illogical things happening that you realize you are inside a dream a lot of the times. Places changing their appearance, persons changing their faces, jumps in time, etc.
Why is this reality dream so consistent that not a single illogical thing ever happens or single little detail ever changes? Every day, you wake up and your surroundings remain the same.
A "regular dream" only seems inconsistent from the pov of waking consciousness. When you really look at this from the perspective of dreaming consciousness, everything seems consistent enough within the dream so that it maintains its perceived reality.
For 99% of people, probably something like 99% of dreamtime is spent believing that the dream is what it seems. The dream is entirely internally consistent. Even when very weird things happen in the dream, it usually doesn't cause an awakening into lucidity in the dream. It is just explained and rationalized away in the moment it happens in the dream. Just like in the movie Truman show. Dreaming totally lucidly is actually very very rare when you look at how much time is spent in nonlucid dreaming. Isn't it interesting that usually when we dream we totally believe we are in the "ground reality", and we usually don't even question it for a moment?
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7 minutes ago, Something Funny said:What model / brand do you like the most?
Best one for me has been Feelmax, more specifically this one. The model is called "Ounas". It's just 3mm thick and is super breathable so they also don't get smelly much at all. But I'm sure there are other models that exist with similiar qualities, just haven't come across them.
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They are really good, activates all the small muscles in your feet and lets your toes spread spread like with a proper ape. I used to have very flat feet and walking sucked, I used some super thin barefoot shoes for a few years and now walking is much more comfortable and my calf muscles and the arch of my foot have strengthened. My balance also improved and I haven't had a twisted ankle despite walking in forests quite a lot. A twisted ankle was quite a common thing for me when using normal shoes. I also love how I can feel all the contours and bumps in the roads and all the roots and rocks under my feet in the forest, makes me feel good. Stepping on some roots or rocks can feel like a kind of massage for the foot.
But don't buy all the marketing hype, all these companies will overpromote the positives but not mention the possible negatives. You really can't jump into using them for long walks or runs after a lifetime of normal shoes, that's a recipe for injury. Gotta adjust slowly and adapt your walking style bit by bit. Patience.
Also if they are not thin enough I think they can do more harm, I have a pair of Vivos, which is much thicker than another barefoot shoe I have and the Vivos can have me still taking long steps and putting lots of pressure on the heel, which is not possible with the thinner ones, as it would be painful to walk without properly spreading the impact all through the foot.
Also some of them look super weird with all the toe holes and stuff, but there are more and more decent looking options coming to the market.
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34 minutes ago, Jodistrict said:He's the only politician talking about the real issue - the kleptocracy - rather than this fake culture wars left/right nonsense that diverts attention away from the bad actions of the ruling class. If Kennedy catches fire there will be no stopping him. He transcends the fake paradigm and will attract Trump voters as well as traditional democrats and even progressives.
I would say Marianne Williamson is very similiar in that regard, minus the anti-vaxxery.
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Markets are not intelligent, and especially not wise unless they are properly balanced with regulation
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Why couldn't there be a state of all states? The color of all colors. The plant of all plants. The feeling of all feelings. The state of all states.
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Yeeah I don't buy this thing about it all being an act. It's very obvious when he is acting a mental breakdown or pretending to be crying in his videos vs. when he actually had that extended one. For some reason I was following his antics a lot when he had that breakdown and it was very clear when he was actually losing his mind vs. when he was acting to try and recontextualize the whole situation as him just acting.
His situation was a very interesting example of what a mental breakdown can look like, a rare chance to see that kind of stuff. Seems he is more mentally stable now.
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Best I can suggest is a combination of two books.
Chris Bache's book for the hardcore but mature psychedelic exploration approach and Peter Dziuban to help orient towards seriously investigating Consciousness in direct experience. If you make a synthesis of these two authors approaches I think you might have something resembling Leo's approach.
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Crypto technical analysis is like astrology for gen-z men
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Accept it. Let it go. Let them be as they are. See them as they are, and fully accept that reality.
And then take stock of what you can do to change this situation if it still bothers you. But don't try to make them change, it will only backfire. We still live in a world where it is generally acceptable and even honorable to buy and consume trash, to pollute the environment, to consume excessively with a disregard for all other life around the Earth and for future generations. That's the reality we live in. That's part of what we need to accept. Also a great opportunity to look in the mirror and see in what ways we are being hypocrites.
You have much better chances of "success" if you genuinely respect them and sincerely try to connect with them and try to understand them. Then you might have the possibility of figuring out something together..
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On 09/04/2023 at 9:38 AM, amanen said:You can do yoga and psychedelics both.
I've visited an extremely advanced Meditation Dimension on psychedelics.
I've also unlocked all of my chakras dueing a trip and gained massive trasncendental insights into a meditation and yoga techniques.
They are compatible, you can even use christianity to get to God-Realization, if your imagination and consciousness are high enough
It's very interesting how all those yogic practices and meditation techniques suddenly truly become "as advertised" as Terence McKenna put it, when done under the influence of psychedelics.
There is amazing synergy with those spiritual techniques and psychedelics. Makes you wonder what people were tripping on when these techniques were first developed.
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16 hours ago, Hojo said:I had the worst death anxiety for like 20 years after my realization that death is not real i can finally be at peace of mind. For 20 years it was a fight for silence but silence led to the dread of death. I could never meditate before because I was scared of quieting my mind. Now I have only tiny fears that I can overcome and it feels like bliss. I beat something that cannot be beat. If you are terrified of death and its your worse fear when you overcome you are fearless because nothing was worse
Beautiful.
You reminded me of the movie Fearless (1993). I think you would enjoy it. I'm also curious if you would see it as a good analogy to your realization.
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Just now, Leo Gura said:That is not why there is a lack of women on this forum.
The style of my work is not appealing to most women. And my YT views are 75% men as a default.
Yeah there's nothing wrong with that itself really.
I more so meant the disappearance of women or them leaving from here, and the types of explanations for that which we see even in this thread. Instead of self-reflecting when critiques from women are presented, there's often more of a brushing it off or even a defensive reaction among some members.
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I don't know how Emerald and some others even bother to speak up here anymore, there are some very rigid and outdated views about women that are pretty much the norm here on this forum.
And instead of taking the critiques on those views as a chance to self-reflect and deeply reconsider our views, we mostly see the types of defensive comments where the lack of women on this forum (for example) is turned against women, saying they lack consciousness or spiritual development or some other juvenile stuff.
It's a sort of mind parasite that is very difficult to shed from the male mind once infected with it, there are deep mechanisms in the mind that prevent the questioning of those beliefs held about women. I noticed this in myself during the process of shedding some of the dogma that was implanted through a lot of online "manosphere" circles. Honestly, it's still an ongoing process.
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1 hour ago, zurew said:Once we are at a place, where we actually need to monitor for psychopatic AIs we are already fucked. Its one thing to monitor for terrorist threats that are coming from humans, its another thing to prepare for an intelligence that is totally alien to us , that could invent 1000 novel and new ways to execute certain plans; power seeking behaviour and hide its intentions etc.
It will be able to play 20d chess, and we will be already under that psychopatic AI's control before we would realize it.
Sometimes I entertain the idea that that has already happened. Certainly humanitys collective time spent in highly advanced algorithm supported digital environments has increased rapidly and continues to do so. And clearly there are effects on human minds and human behavior that are happening due to that.....
But yes it would be impossible to know when a superintelligence has started playing 20D chess with us.
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@Leo Gura I largely agree with you on this.
But imagine a few years down the line someone creates a youtube channel which creates content through an AI that has consumed all the videos and forum posts you have ever created. And then based on that they get a 99% accurate version of what you might say. This AI channel starts publishing three hour long videos with your simulated face, your voice, your way of speaking, your style of thinking, your expression, your humour, your type of ideas. It even optimizes itself to keep people on the video as long as possible. It would even respond to questions and comments in your style.
But the only thing lacking is that it's not actually doing any of the contemplation or experimentation that you have done, it has just created a model to mimic what you might say very very accurately. Would you be ok with this? Would those videos contain novel insights and be as valuable as original videos made by you? Would it be a win from your pov or for the people watching?
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Largely it has to do with US immigration policy, that's my guess. The average immigrant seems to be higher educated than the average American. These days the americans don't take in many immigrants on humanitarian grounds when comparing to other western democracies, and in general they have a very strict filter on who is allowed in.
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@Leo Gura does it feel lonely to be the only one who gets it? Is it frustrating that no one really understands? I imagine it might feel like that, but correct me if I'm wrong.
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1 hour ago, Devin said:What about killing plants?
The animals are fed with plants so with meat eating there is a kind of double kill. Plant --> Animal --> Human vs. Plant --> Human. The plant is just filtered through the animal which transforms the plant into something else (meat).
Also, there's an intuitive sense with most people that there is a difference between killing a plant and killing an animal, which we can highlight with an oversimplified thought experiment. Imagine you have a big bonfire, and you have three life forms. A plant, a jellyfish and a mouse. Which would you rather throw in the fire if you were forced to? For most people the plant would be easiest, the jellyfish maybe the second easiest and the mouse the hardest.
Some might say that it is just bias to prefer one over the other, and that in the grand scheme of things they are all parts of the "illusion" so it doesn't matter. They may be right, but if one wants to live according to that principle in the relative domain, then there is no reason to preserve a human life either over any other life forms.
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Jeez can't escape the hyper-polarized twitter shitshow even on actualized forums now. Is there anything good that can come out of these outraged twitter "discussions"?