Osaid

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  1. Exactly. Gender labels are good from a societal standpoint. They're practical. They keep things in order. They're useful. But they are not entirely accurate. Just cause it's useful doesn't mean it's based on truth. Sexual attraction is too nuanced and fluid to really be put in boxes. You will always find some small instance where you're like "OMG did that really just turn me on... but I thought I was attracted to something else.. how is this possible" and then your brain malfunctions because you convinced yourself that gender always comes in strict labels and boxes. It reminds me of animals that are classed as herbivores, but will eat animals in favorable situations, like deers eating birds and squirrels. The label herbivore is useful, but not entirely truthful to the nature of the animal.
  2. Sadghuru comes to mind. Upon contemplation, "the good life" is a somewhat nebulous term. Honestly, at this point, for me, the good life is probably just getting my base survival needs met, so like, financial freedom. And then maybe finding some passion to pursue. A lot of rich and traditionally "successful" people come to mind, however, I know that these guys probably have a lot of different problems gnawing at them in the background. I guess the most holistic bigger picture answers are people like Sadghuru or Leo Gura. But really, for me personally, anyone who is really rich financially and are pursuing their passions are people I would deem as being part of the "good life", but I am also aware that this perspective will probably change once I burn through my stage orange karma. Considering the pfp changes every minute, probably not, unless they are some alien shapeshifter
  3. Interesting, I used it before and it didn't do anything, but it wasn't the gelatinized version. I've yet to find a natural supplement that noticeably increases my sex drive. Maybe my body is just built different. Caffeine doesn't have much of an effect on me either. I've heard lots of promising stories from maca though.
  4. What does the vomit look like? Is it like bile? Yellow/green? Kind of smells like chlorine/chemicals? Also, before you vomit, how does it lead up to it. Do you lose appetite? Any shaking or trembling prior?
  5. My main concern would really just be this: how much of the mindset from that past experience has carried into the present moment? Like, who the person is right now compared to the person before. They very well could have completely burned through that phase of their life, in that case, doesn't matter much anymore. So I would pry into that. Like, oh why did you do that? Do you still feel similar now? What did you learn? How did you grow from that? etc. And then from that I would gauge if I should associate with that. Me personally, I'm a very open-minded and empathetic person. And I don't like the idea of someone being permanently punished for something they did previously, which they might even currently look back on and agree that it is completely stupid. I wanna be able to have a more nuanced perspective and see past something like that. Like, if someone said some stupid racist remark when they were 10 years old, I probably wont hold it to them today.
  6. What type are you using? capsule? powder? gelatinized?
  7. Yes. Before you drink water, you think. It's interfaced with basically all your actions. The quality and efficiency of a lot of your actions are linked to how you think. Someone who thinks that suicide bombing is gonna send him into heaven is gonna go do that. Thinking is serious stuff.
  8. Yeah those malevolent entities always lie like that. I had one in a dream tell me I was gonna be stuck there forever, although admittedly it was just a dream, not sleep paralysis. I've heard trip reports of entities saying stuff like that as well, and obviously it didn't happen. I've also had auditory hallucinations during sleep paralysis where I had some voice kind of enter my head and then read out all my thoughts to me, it wasn't really malevolent, just a very odd experience. It is possible to escape sleep paralysis, you can even use it as a gateway to lucid dreaming or astral projection like the guy said. I only know how to lucid dream with it, though. If you wanna escape the sleep paralysis, all you have to do is keep your eyes closed, and keep yourself calm. Think of cute bunnies. Or even think about something sexual, like a really hot girl. No joke, this is a really good method for keeping calm during sleep paralysis, it completely takes your focus off of the experience. Take deep breaths. If you stay calm, then your environment will be calm. Then, while your doing all this, do your best to wiggle and move your body and eventually you'll wake up. If you wanna enter a lucid dream, do the same steps as before, but imagine some sort of vision or scenery, and kind of imagine yourself "jumping" or "merging" into it, and try to move your body as much as possible while doing this. You will end up entering into that vision and it will turn into a lucid dream. I've actually heard of another guy doing this as well lol, they said the same thing. That the entities are actually really weak and cowardly, or something along those lines. I think they chased them out of the house or something.
  9. Never too late. What's the alternative? Not working on yourself? This is not really a red flag, it's only a red flag if you assume a bunch of things about the person: 1. Their previous friendships involved friends that weren't toxic 2. They had many previous friendships, if any at all 3. Their reason for not having friends is because they eventually broke up due to their own fault, and not anyone else's fault Honestly I don't have anyone I would consider a "best" friend. My mind doesn't even operate that way. My friends are unique, I can't really categorize one as "best". It's like asking which is better, pizza or cake, both are unique and have different flavors. So I would immediately fail that test lmao. You gotta realize that this type of stuff works both ways. I personally wouldn't wanna be with someone who assumes so many things about me off the cuff. If you genuinely think there's nothing wrong with this aspect of you, then it's actually a good thing that they cut themselves off, because they are unaligned with a deep aspect of you. Have some standards for yourself as well. You become sloppy with standards when you're too dependent on validation from others. Similar to how your standards for food decrease when you haven't eaten in a week. Stop starving yourself of love. These are all just excuses you've created in order to gaslight yourself into thinking you're worth less. Someone that loves you. Start with being able to love yourself first, though.
  10. Lol me every time I see these rich people
  11. Who knew God would hide itself in such a process. It's like finding a glitch in a video game. Yeah you have to take this specific substance and shove it up your ass and you'll be booted out of the game into creative mode for a bit.
  12. It might not be the alkalinity itself, but all the different stuff from the previous diet that got cut out when switching to the alkaline diet. And also the more healthier foods that tend to come with the alkaline diet. I'm personally opposed to PH based-diets, just because I believe that the body is amazing at maintaining balance and homeostasis and that it has many functions to regulate its PH. For example, consuming something alkaline is not gonna really affect your digestive acid PH, because of homeostasis. This pattern of balance and adaptation can be found everywhere in the human body. At this point, I would say there is more evidence in opposition of the diet, as there are many different functions in the body which help to balance things out regardless of food intake. Food can affect the PH of your urine, though. And I do admit that more alkaline bottled water tastes better than more acidic bottled water for some reason, don't know what the correlation is, but the acidic stuff tastes like plastic.
  13. I was shocked when I saw that he was responding here at all lol
  14. Something interesting I've noticed is that my anger and irritation depends on who did it. For example, if someone spilled something, depending on who did it, I will have an angry or more understanding response. Similar to how you would have a different reaction to a spill if your pet cat spilled it rather than a human. I think this tells us something about anger, which is that when we perceive an incident, we might make up a story in our mind about the person who did it and why they did it, and then that story makes us more angry. If a cat spills it, you might even find it cute. Oh, the cat just didn't know what it was doing. It's silly to expect better from a cat. If a human spills it, you feel very angry. You expect much more compared to the cat, I think this is where the anger and resistance begins. How can this person be so unintelligent? After all I've done to educate them? How much longer do I have to put up with stuff like this? And then you get pulled into this rabbit hole of anger and blame and frustration. Simply put, your expectations don't align with reality. And then, on top of that, the ego actually has another human person to blame for this, which is the perfect recipe for cultivating anger. The ego loves shifting blame and responsibility onto other people, it gives it a vessel to direct its anger into. So overall, I think it's a matter of grounding yourself and not getting caught in the stories and assumptions that you instinctually pull out. Easier said than done though.
  15. I'm getting deja vu from this message, almost like I've seen it in a past life or something
  16. Yeah basically. I never thought that was weird, I thought that was normal for everyone, but now that I think of it, a lot of non-English speakers have to go through English learning classes and stuff. It still boggles my mind how any languages are learned to be honest. Like, I've never in my life consciously decided "I wanna learn this language", but here I am. Parents are from Pakistan but I was born in an English-speaking country. Maybe that's why I was able to learn English so easily. I guess I kind of learned two languages at once, but my first language was not English. They teach very basic English in school, like in kindergarten they would make you write 5 letter sentences or whatever. That's about all the training I got. I was always an anomaly when it came to English, though. I would score 100% on every single spelling test they handed out in middle school and I never had to study for any of those even once. I also spent a lot on time on video games which had English speakers, and I was also very fascinated by words since I was a kid. Like for example, I would see the word "universe" and "university" and I would see the pattern that both of the words have "uni" in them and then I would look into it and realize that "uni" means "one". So that curiosity combined with all the chatting on video games probably helped a lot. Thanks, that came out of nowhere lol
  17. You can call it compassion or forgiveness. Same as love/understanding. Love in essence is just an absence of hate/resistance to reality, and then that absence of hate/resistance might come in different flavors and degrees, like compassion, forgiveness, excitement, joy, etc. All of these involve an embracing and acceptance of reality. Essentially love is an embrace and acceptance of reality, rather than denial or resistance to it. Depending on which aspect of reality you're trying to accept or understand, you might feel different forms of love like compassion, joy, etc.
  18. The psychic probably freaked out when they realized Leo's soul was not human or alien, but rather a mouse
  19. Looks really interesting. Will probably check it out later, thanks.
  20. I'm surprised I know how to speak at all. No one really teaches you. It just happens, you pick it up from childhood somehow. Man I learned so much from that game, including how to type like 500 words per minute on my keyboard.