Gesundheit

The world is an ugly place. Luxury is blinding, so it's not really your fault. Change your region, and then you will definitely realize this ugly truth.

Yes. The devil is capable of lying and probably lies very often, yet he isn't obliged to. So, he will say something true from time to time. And basically, that's how he maintains the lies, by inserting a little bit of truth within every lie so that it can seem true when it isn't. Mixing truth with falsehood is the devil's main trick. If everything he would say was a lie, we would have had him already figured out and beaten. But since he's so sneaky, he's doing a fine job at deceiving us.

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Good luck! I haven't tried fasting for more than one day, but it's always been a dry fast, Islamic style. I wonder how different this practice is.

Shaitan, aka the devil. Yes.

According to Islam, thoughts come from the devil.

Organized crime is literally a non issue, in fact its GOOD! It means that the nation is capable of sourcing power from an overprivileged part of society and putting that power into guarding the nation. That's Orange mindset. Green mindset focuses on serving the people instead of worshipping some imaginary borders.

Everyone is a racist, but not everyone realizes that. Just different forms of racism.

@Rilles Don't eat the troll

I find it quite strange that I've never been atheist in my entire life. The only time I was seriously considering it was when I was extremely frustrated with Islam as the one true religion. I was suffering from depression, OCDs, multiple neuroses, and even nearly suicidal at that point so I wanted to adopt anything that could give me relief. But strangely enough, I would always find my way back to Islam, even when I was at stage Orange. Can you imagine being able to believe in Allah and prove that Islam is the one true religion through logic? Even logic could not make me atheist.

Because enough with capitalism.

The opposite of opposite is the same thing as the thing itself.

@Someone here Lol. I hate to pull a Leo, but you are not awake. Seriously, consider that you are currently paradigm-locked and aren't capable of seeing beyond your little nihilistic bubble because you're unaware of the nihilistic lens that you're using. So, you think that there's no lens while there is. It's like being under a spell, or an illusion of your own creation. Please don't repeat the same nihilistic rhetoric again. Open your mind. It's not us who are projecting a non-existent meaning onto reality. It's you who is unaware of the inherent Divine & Absolute Meaning. Just because you're unaware of it does not mean it isn't there. Rather, it means that you are not looking, or perhaps looking in the wrong places.

Then don't be disciplined. When something feels suffocating, it means that it's not authentic enough to you. Follow what's most authentic to you, even if it is lack of discipline. You can't always inhale, sometimes you have to exhale, and that's fine. Have no fear. You will come around eventually. Now is the time to shed the inauthentic self.

You're probably just imagining things because of drugs.

I also think he's delusional sometimes, specifically when he talks about absolute love and that nonsense. But cult leader is clearly way off. Although I cannot know his intention.

@Someone here "Subjective" and "Objective" are just labels that you put on top of the underlying truth of Absolute Meaning. You can always choose to remove all overlays and enjoy the view of pure truth ✔ It's worth saying that I still disagree with the "absolute love" perspective and I even consider it delusional.

Happiness is a state of consciousness. Money is not. So, they're completely unrelated things. You can be the richest person in the world and still feel miserable. And you can be the poorest person in the world and still feel happy. Some people even claim that money is antithetical to happiness, but I disagree with that and stick to my opinion that they're just unrelated. The bottom-line here is this: If you can't feel happy while being broke, you won't be able to feel happy while being rich. Happiness is all about mastering your inner world. Once you've mastered your inner world, the outer world becomes irrelevant. But to be completely honest and realistic, that's only true because enlightenment is cheap and learning how to master the inner world does not require money (Ironically, spiritual wisdom is all over the world that it's ignored and even considered worthless). Otherwise, if enlightenment was a secret that only a few humans were allowed to access, then only the rich people will be able to learn it, and in result only they will know how to be happy. Poor people, on the other hand, will probably be even more miserable, unless they're somehow spiritually gifted.

Different delusions happening to the same truth; You.

No! Being is Meaningful. I can't explain it better than I did above. It's one of those things that you either get or don't. But of course, don't take my word for it. Realize it for yourself.

@Someone here I did not say or even think that anyone was advocating anything, and you completely missed what I said. You said you wanted opinions, and I gave you mine. But then you just repeated the same nihilistic rhetoric. I don't know if you identify yourself as a nihilist or not, but it seems like you didn't even bother try to understand what I said at all. There are answers to all these questions, but they are not grasped with logic/ego-mind. You can become directly conscious of Absolute Meaning as the ultimate answer to nihilism.

@Preety_India Spiral dynamics stages are not a description of who we are, they're an estimation for where we're at. SD studies the different value systems that different people have. You probably just want a strong boyfriend, not necessarily red. Red can be weak or strong, like all other stages. But the difference is that red values strength above everything else. There are strong people at any stage, as well as weak people. An example of a weak red guy in our modern world is one that is stuck in wage slavery but ironically wants to be rich. A strong red is a Trump kind of guy. An example of a weak green guy is a nice guy that lacks purpose and boundaries. A strong green is a passionate career-driven kind of guy.

Nihilism is a Buddhist belief, or rather a Buddhist sneaky trap. Most Buddhism-based teachings fall into this trap unwillingly, and rather unconsciously. And then unfortunately, they get stuck into it and fail to escape it. Yet, Buddhism is not an exception. Any ideology can look at Meaning through distorted beliefs instead of the lens of Actuality. @Someone here It seems you have been indoctrinated with this belief and now are trying to move past it. If that is the case, don't worry, bro. I got you. The root cause of nihilism is the desire to escape ideology at all costs. As if that's humanly possible. And this puts you in an existential bind. You see, how can you escape the inevitable? How can the mind escape the mind when it is the mind itself? How do you escape yourself when you actually can't? That's right. You/the mind invents another ideology that calls itself truth and a non-ideology, and then denies all attempts at exposing that BS and explaining how it, in and of itself, is just another ideology, and then moves on to demonize everything else, so that nothing remains except that one, ironically, precious ideology. This usually happens after a human realizes Nothingness/the Formless aspect of God but then fails to integrate it and incorporate it with Being/Form. What nihilism basically aims at doing is to strip meaning away from everything, including itself, in the hopes of finding "objective meaning". What actually happens, though, is that it strips meaning away from everything except itself. And so, it ends up creating the most hypocritical blindspot in life. Because it claims that everything is originally meaningless and that meaning comes in later only after the mind gets involved. But that's actually false for various absolutely true reasons: First of all, everything is originally, deeply and profoundly meaningful. And that's absolutely true without the shadow of a doubt. Meaning exists as an inherent part of God. For anything to exist at all, it must have a meaning/purpose, otherwise it couldn't exist (regardless of what the ego-mind thinks). But the confused/unenlightened mind is not capable of seeing that. You can observe Meaning (with a capital M) in your direct experience, regardless of what's happening. Notice how there's always Meaning, regardless of the content. It's not necessarily verbal (for example; you can realize the meaning of breathing), but it cannot be removed nonetheless, therefore it is Absolute. Although, it can be denied, but that's what delusion is, and God allows delusion, and therefore delusion is Meaningful (I'll explain how later). Secondly, and like others have stated earlier, if everything is truly meaningless, then is meaninglessness meaningful or meaningless? It's a nonsensical inquiry. Thirdly, all of the obsession around meaning and meaninglessness is just ego. What does it matter whether or not reality is labeled meaningful or meaningless? Who's trying to figure that out? The ego, of course. And it does that simply because it's afraid of facing the truth, which is Absolute Meaning. And so it creates this cognitive dissonance called nihilism in order to avoid facing that fear. Fourthly (which really is just another way of explaining thirdly), Absolute Meaning is already the case, and the mind and all of its BS are nothing but a distraction from that. And that in and of itself is also meaningful, but that meaning is ignored and therefore gets missed. The underlying meaning that the mind misses by creating BS is that what BS actually is, is really literally just BS, no matter the label or the packaging. And the purpose of creating BS is to replace what's non-BS with it. In other words, to replace truth with falsehood. Fifthly, the whole framework that this topic usually gets discussed under is flawed and stupid in my opinion. Let me explain; Why do we separate meaning from truth in the first place? Obviously, because that distinction helps us see things with a little bit more clarity. It helps us see how many of the meanings that we used to create and attach to things are in fact just delusions of our own creation for our own egotistical purposes, but the problem is that that distinction tends to run amok, so it does not know when or where to stop, take a step back, and investigate. It just replaces the old ignorance with a new one. And that's where awareness and introspection are most necessary and critical. Instead of denying meaning altogether or accepting it altogether, we can create another useful distinction, one that separates Meaning into true meaning and false meaning. And then we can link true meaning with usefulness and false meaning with uselessness. Notice that usefulness is a relative notion, so by definition, any given thing is always automatically Useful from a certain pov, which still leaves everything Meaningful. False meaning is basically the lies that we tell ourselves, and lying serves certain purposes, so even false meaning/lies remain Meaningful eventually, as everything is, originally. So, this makes for a better model. (Note: This is not a rant against Buddhism or a personal attack on anyone. I just don't know a better way of articulating it. Please don't bother me with personal offence accusations and all that nonsense).

Just like death, sudden and inevitable. I always knew this day would come eventually. R.I.P my phone. https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/zenfone-2-wont-turn-on-or-charge-just-vibrates-every-few-minutes-pls-help.3623067/ In the link they say their phone came back to life after 30-40 days. Well, that's weird. I will wait 10 days and give it a try, then 20, then 30, etc... I wish I could fix it or buy a new one, but I can't. It's become impossible with this economy. I think it'll be good, though. I will finally be able to end many of my phone-related addictions, including porn, music, internet, and forum. Two and a half years ago, I was in a similar situation. At that point, I only had the phone but didn't have an internet connection. I basically spent several months in a total media blackout. And it lead me to experiencing my deepest awakenings ever. Right now, I'm using a low-end Android tablet. It's too slow for anything, and it doesn't have enough RAMs or storage. It's a temporary fix, and I won't be using it frequently, that's for sure. There's no way I'm downgrading to this BS. I prefer no phone over it. I'm just using it right now to let anyone who might be wondering why I disappeared know that I'm still alive.

On perfectionism: “The best is the enemy of the good.” --Voltaire “Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.” --Confucius “Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.” --Shakespeare