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Breakingthewall replied to Majed's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
### **1. Types of Treatments and Typical Ages:** #### **a) Puberty Blockers (GnRH Analogs):** - **What they are**: Medications that temporarily pause puberty (reversible upon discontinuation). - **Ages**: - **Netherlands** (pioneering protocol since the 1990s): Initiated around **Tanner Stage 2-3** (ages 9-12), after psychological evaluation. - **UK**: Until 2022, the *Tavistock Clinic* prescribed them starting at age 12, but the **Cass Review** (2022) recommended restricting their use to research settings. - **Sweden** and **Finland**: Since 2021–2023, limited to clinical trials or exceptional cases. - **Spain**, **France**, and **Germany**: Permitted from age 12 with parental consent and multidisciplinary assessments. #### **b) Cross-Sex Hormones (Testosterone/Estrogen):** - **What they are**: Hormones that induce secondary sex characteristics of the desired gender (partially irreversible). - **Ages**: - **Netherlands**: From **age 16**, after years on blockers and rigorous evaluation. - **UK**: According to the *National Health Service (NHS)*, only from **age 16** (with parental consent for minors). - **France** and **Spain**: Similar to the Netherlands (16+), though exceptional cases have reported starting at **14–15 years**. - **Sweden** and **Finland**: Since 2022–2023, restricted to **age 18+**, except in clinical trials. #### **c) Gender-Affirming Surgeries:** - **Ages**: Rarely performed on minors under **18** in Europe. Exceptions include mastectomies at 16–17 in the Netherlands with judicial approval. --- ### **2. Documented Cases and Controversies:** - **UK**: - The closure of the *Tavistock Clinic* (2023) following the **Cass Review** revealed that between 2011–2021, **2,383 minors** received puberty blockers, and **1,334** received cross-sex hormones (mostly over 16). Only a handful under 13 were prescribed blockers, linked to precocious puberty. - *Detransition* cases (e.g., **Keira Bell**) fueled criticism of inadequate evaluations. - **Sweden**: - The *Karolinska Hospital* (Stockholm) halted blockers and hormones for under-18s in 2021, except in trials, citing unstudied risks (e.g., bone health, psychological impact). - **Spain**: - Units like *Hospital Sant Pau* (Barcelona) report starting cross-sex hormones at **16+** after 2-year evaluations. The 2022 *Trans Law* allows access from **age 16 without parental consent**, though this remains contentious. --- ### **3. Key Regional Differences:** | **Country** | Puberty Blockers | Cross-Sex Hormones | Notes | |------------------|-----------------------------------------------|---------------------------------|----------------------------------------| | **Netherlands** | From ~9–12 years (Tanner 2–3) | ≥16 years | Pioneering protocol, now scrutinized for lack of long-term data. | | **UK** | Restricted to research (post-Cass Review) | ≥16 years (with restrictions) | NHS reviewing all prior cases. | | **Sweden** | Only in clinical trials (since 2021) | ≥18 years | Most conservative policy in Europe. | | **Spain** | ≥12 years with consent | ≥16 years | Trans Law (2023) sparks debate. | | **France** | ≥12–14 years with evaluation | ≥14–16 years (rare exceptions) | National Academy of Medicine urges caution (2022). | --- ### **4. Controversies and Current Trends:** - **Growing Scrutiny**: Countries like the **UK**, **Sweden**, **Finland**, and **France** have tightened policies, citing: - Lack of robust evidence on benefits vs. risks (e.g., 2023 **Nordic Council of Ethics** report). - Exponential rise in cases (e.g., UK saw a 1,000% increase over a decade). - Concerns about rushed diagnoses and detransition rates. - **WHO Stance**: In 2021, it declassified gender dysphoria as a mental illness but offers no specific guidelines for minors. -
Breakingthewall replied to Majed's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
What's crazy is giving sex-change hormone therapy to 12-year-olds, and it's done. There are parents who dress 6-year-olds as girls because they feel like girls. Let's see, when you're 6 years old, you don't know anything about that. They're creating people who base their emotional balance on their self-image. It's a symptom of a society centered on narcissism. The problem with narcissism is that it's synonymous with profound unhappiness. The welfare state seems beautiful from the outside, but from the inside, it's rotten, just like a narcissist. -
Breakingthewall replied to Leo Gura's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
That idea that someone who has an easy time getting sex doesn't rape is wrong. Rapists rape because they like to rape, not because they can't get sex. People who can't get sex pay prostitutes, they don't rape. In fact, the profile of a rapist isn't that of an incel or a guy who isn't accepted by women, it's someone who is turned on by power. Many women are also turned on by being dominated by powerful men, which is why the extremely boring novel 50 Shades of Grey was so successful. -
Breakingthewall replied to Majed's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
It's not so simple. People with gender dysphoria truly hate their bodies and their gender and are obsessed with changing them. If you're obsessed with something, you do it. The case of bodybuilders is also extreme: crushing your body to weigh 125 kg of muscle, risking your health, working hours and hours in the gym just for more volume and definition. It's totally crazy, a sick obsession. But that's how the human mind works. Without obsessive people, humanity doesn't advance. I've been quite obsessive in the past and really wasn't very happy, but obsessions are satisfying; they allow you to escape your misery and move toward a golden goal. Then that goal maybe is nothing but the effort is something. -
Breakingthewall replied to gengar's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
I don't see suicide as an option. I see life as a path to deepen and ascend. Perhaps is not, but intuitively, that's what it seems. Any opportunity must be seized; you have to fight to the end. It can be hard, extremely hard: old age, paralysis, dependency, loneliness. It can really be difficult, but I think you can always find a path to greater openness, greater depth. In the end, you die, and you've done your job. If you commit suicide, it seems cowardly to me, unless it's to avoid being a burden. Although, who knows, perhaps in a situation of incurable illness, it's the only viable option. You never know what is going to happen next -
Breakingthewall replied to Oppositionless's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Why you call it Conciousness? Conciousness is just conciousness, perception. Absolute is absolute with or without perception of itself -
Breakingthewall replied to Something Funny's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
China's manufacturing volume is $4.8 trillion, and the US's is $2.5 trillion, half that. The US has a large military industry, but it's organized to generate profits; its efficiency is highly questionable. Right now, Russia has more ammunition manufacturing capacity than all of NATO, as it kept its Cold War-era factories open, even though they weren't operating or profitable. Its weapons policy was never that of a company, but rather that of a state service. The US manufactures the most expensive but not the most efficient products in weapons. Its objective is profit, as it assumes its weapons are simply deterrents. I would say that the conflict in Taiwan is almost inevitable, and there we'll see the US's attitude and China's response. Fortunately, a real war, sinking oil tankers and bombing cities, would be so catastrophic that even the craziest people wouldn't see any benefit in it. So, all of this is a hypothetical scenario. -
Breakingthewall replied to Something Funny's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
I suppose a real war would be impossible today, plus atomic weapons are part of the equation. But in the hypothetical case of war, China has much greater industrial power and a similar technological level, as well as a mass of impoverished population that could see war as an opportunity, despite the risks. If china can produce 100 thousand missiles per month and US 20 thousand, who would win that war? And probably the difference would be greater and china could organize millions of people to work without salary very fast and US is not prepared for that. China has 800 millions in age of work, and very disciplined and obedient, like soldiers. -
Breakingthewall replied to Majed's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
I mean that absorbs all the energy of the person who is trans, it's very hard for them -
Breakingthewall replied to Majed's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
The problem I see with being trans is that it's so all-consuming. Everything revolves around being trans, nothing matters except the trans issue, and all for something as silly as gender. Who cares about that? Gender it's over all how others perceive you, and obsessing over how others perceive you is always a bad idea. -
Breakingthewall replied to Scholar's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
To say that reality is mind is solipsism. It implies that what you perceive is real as long as you are aware of it. Therefore, consciousness is reality. Red only exists because you are creating the red with your consciousness. You are not aware of the properties of an object, and one of its properties is that it reflects light in such a way that you perceive it as red. No, only perception is real; nothing else exists. This is impossible for a simple, incontestable reason: it would be limited. Reality would be limited to one dimension: your mind. And nothing else would exist. Reality cannot have limits; therefore, there must be other infinite dimensions of consciousness and other infinite unconscious dimensions. It's inevitable. The very absence of limits implies that all these dimensions are within you. They are you. They are apparent. They are reflections of the same absolute reality. And that absolute reality is absolute nothingness, since anything else would be limited. Only zero and infinity are unlimited. Understanding zero with the mind is impossible; you have to be open to it. It's an act . Then, we're entering the slippery terrain of mysticism. That's right, hence the great difficulty of spiritual openness. If it were mentally comprehensible, it would be easy, but it isn't. Nothingness is everything, and everything is nothing. Limits don't exist, but separate dimensions are infinite. How? Because their reality is the reality of a reflection; they all collapse into the absolute zero, which is the total source. -
Breakingthewall replied to AION's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Leo had many direct experiences with God and how he dreamed reality, so he came to the logical conclusion that he could do things like cure diseases or transform into an alien. If you're God, that's nothing. You could alter the laws of physics or create a universe. But then he realized he couldn't do anything at all. Revealing, isn't it? -
Breakingthewall replied to Something Funny's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
Great analysis, the decline of the United States was inevitable; supremacy cannot be maintained solely with the dollar. It has been tried; it is a mafia strategy supported by force. Libya was destroyed by its Dirham Gold project, and it worked. The war in Ukraine was planned to delay the fall by nullifying Russia, causing its dismemberment and plundering it, but it hasn't worked. Now Trump is attempting something impossible that will blow up in his face, and when it does, the only solution will be war. The United States has military strength; i bet that Trump is considering something as crazy as war against China. The positive thing is that it is not viable, since the United States would be absolutely crushed. The situation is more tense than it seems. Now everything seems to be Trump and his antics, but when the United States enters a serious recession, it won't be so funny. -
Breakingthewall replied to Spiritual Warrior's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
We could distinguish two kinds of nothingness. One in which nothingness exists, absolute zero, and another in which movement exists but no consciousness. Both are merely theoretical possibilities, since if something exists at some point, or if consciousness appears, as is the case here, that is sufficient demonstration that reality develops and manifests with what we call something and consciousness. If all this manifestation were to disappear, there would be nothing. But since it already existed, it is absolutely inevitable that nothingness would manifest again, since it was the potential for this manifestation and the crack without anything would be just nothing, then no crack But the interesting thing here is to realize that nothingness houses the potential for manifest reality. Nothingness is constantly opening up and releasing its essence, its total potential. All reality that appears and moves is nothingness in its limitlessness, manifesting forms inevitably and eternally. -
I worked as a slave from 19 to 23, and I saw that it was absolutely depressing, almost suicidal. I was fixated on starting a business, which I did. It's a good solution, but you have to be obsessive; you have to be absolutely focused. The good thing is that this eliminates depression, since you're focused all the time. I suppose it's not very mentally healthy, and it's totally anti-mystical and anti-Buddhist, but I remember at 24, riding around the city on my motorbike thinking: this is the jungle, and I'm a predator whahahaha. There's only one path: victory or death. Money wasn't just money, but the salve of reality, with which I was shown the path. It was intoxicating, magical. Later, I became like a hippie, sailing the oceans on a sailboat for about seven years, which also had a quite strong war component. Now I'm back in the city, with the necessary and inevitable obsessive focus. How else can I live? Anything else is depressing, boring, unbearable. We're fighting machines; if we don't get going, it's absolutely depressing, better be dead and reincarnate in anything less depressing than a human that works as slave, maybe a rat or anything
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Sounds very profound, like the revelation of the nature of reality, but if you read it carefully, it's dual and absolutely false. The speaking entity says that it is the creator of all things animate and inanimate, which implies an evident duality in addition to the action of creating and the creative will, that implies limitation and finitude. After that it claims to be pure and total consciousness, which is impossible, since if it were pure consciousness it would not be out there creating things but rather it would be that, pure consciousness, which on the other hand does not exist, since without an object there is no consciousness. As much as mystics say that they reach a state of empty consciousness, there is still an object which is in this case the same subject, really the same as always, consciousness is the perception of oneself, but reality exists without consciousness and there is no creative entity that speaks of Buddhas and dimensions. There is a potential that develops to infinity, and Buddhism is plagued with contradictions that are assumed because they sound profound, same than other religions
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Breakingthewall replied to rudirotbart's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Leo is the best teacher ever for young people. His message is direct, intelligent, and engaging because he tells you that you can have a direct experience of the divine without becoming a hippie living in an ashram. He also says something very radical that hooks people on spirituality: that you are God dreaming reality. The small problem is that this isn't exact, but the important thing is that people who weren't interested in spirituality are getting started. Afterward, each person will go their own way, but they've discovered a new dimension and understood that it's something real, now. Furthermore, his other videos on various topics are intelligent and insightful, inspiring people to delve deeper and see for themselves. In short, positive work done with passion. -
Breakingthewall replied to AION's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
It's the same. Open means breaking the barriers that make the limitations. The problem is that the barriers are real. You are absolute in your essence and absolutely limited in your form, limited in infinite directions, that's why you, as god, are infinitely powerless, because the very nature of the absence of limitations. Any form is the absolute, and any form is the absolute reflected back on itself. But since limitation is impossible, the absolute reflects back on itself infinitely, so everything that appears is infinitely synchronous with infinite forms. You are infinitely free as a substance, but infinitely trapped as a form. So it's necessary to understand what your limits are and how you can expand your depth as a form. I don't see any other options. Suicide seems like a bad idea. I'd say it produces a, let's say, contracting effect, and you, as the absolute, push for expansion; that's what you want, since that's your nature. It seems like a rather complicated dance, but seems inevitable. There is only one possible freedom in the form: that for you any form is the same than another form, because you only see the absolute, then the limits are just images. That's what is called enlightenment. Who's enlightened permanently? Seems quite difficult , but I guess that as you are "open" to the absolute more often, less important are the forms -
Breakingthewall replied to Yidaki's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
That's true , in china, or some Arabs countries that's really difficult -
Breakingthewall replied to Yidaki's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Weed is a psychedelic quite strong and it's almost everywhere. I think that weed is stronger than DMT. 5meo is different, it's useful to break energetic blockages, could be a great help. Mushrooms also are very strong and you could learn how to grow them, they are almost in every place -
Breakingthewall replied to AION's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Wrong 😅I said; if you open the range cause effect....etc -
Breakingthewall replied to AION's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
People believe in God because the structure of our mind is the cause-effect relationship. Therefore, if reality exists, there must be a cause, a creator. Anything else is impossible. And even more so if you observe the cosmos, its perfection, the fine-tuning and all that, it seems designed. But if you contemplate the matter deeply, you realize that God is an impossibility. The only possible God is you. Everything is you. You are absolute. It's an indisputable fact: if you open the range of cause-effect relationships completely, there remains the inevitable conclusion that reality, ultimately, is absolute. If reality is absolute, you are reality, and therefore you are absolute. You cannot be a part of reality, since reality is absolute, which means it has no parts. If you are absolute, you are the only God there is. Everything that appears emanates from you, it is you, then you can go deep into your substance, which is the substance of reality, and realize that you do not control reality since you are reality, and you have no limits, therefore you simply are, and that's it. -
Breakingthewall replied to trenton's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Nothing is the absence of change. For something to exist, movement is necessary; without movement, there is no "something." This makes us contemplate the nature of reality from a different perspective. We assume that reality is something, and that something does things; it manifests itself in different ways, but the reality is that something = manifestation. Without manifestation, there is nothing. This implies that the difference between nothing and something is not an essential difference but a difference of state. Nothing is reality in a static state; something is reality in a dynamic state. The essence of reality cannot be movement; rather, reality manifests itself in movement, since nothing limits its development. This implies that absolute nothingness is exactly as real and absolute as the manifested cosmos. The difference is in appearance, not in essence. You could say that nothingness does not exist because there is always movement. This only means that always = movement, and never = lack of change, but in essence, always and never are the same. Absolute means that it is the manifest and the unmanifest, always and never, something and nothing. The difference between something and nothing is only one of state, not of essence. Nothingness has total depth, just like something. The essence of reality is this total depth, not its manifested qualities. These are the veil that prevents the realization of the absolute, which is why it is difficult, because they are "always" present. So you must enter in "never," but you will never be able to do so, since you are always. But you could realize that always really is exactly than never, then the nature of reality will be opened. -
Breakingthewall replied to Magnanimous's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
If I were you I would foget everything anyone has said completely. Imagine that everyone is a delusional schizophrenic and that you live in a special mental institution for cases of incurable and absolute stupidity and insanity. The only possible guide is within you, not in schizophrenics. But don't forget that also you are schizophrenic. -
Breakingthewall replied to Aaron p's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
As long as you think you're asleep, or deceived, or that some kind of reality-manipulation exists to make you perceive whatever it is, you'll live in a self-induced delirium. You're not asleep; waking up doesn't exist. You live in a limited mental dimension, and you can open yourself to an unlimited dimension. The limited dimension isn't a deception; it's real. It would be like saying: It's a deception that I live in a house, I live in a galaxy. No, both realities are true. It's just that you're not aware that you live in a galaxy, but you are aware that you live in a house. It's not a dream that you live in a house, nor is there a playful, mischievous god deceiving you for some reason. Everything is in you, you are unlimited, there is no god but you, and you are unfathomable, what means that you have not the ability of create the reality, because there are not limits, you are not on control because what's limitless can't be controlled. You can open the field of consciousness that you actually are without limits, but if you think that there is a god beyond the scenes creating a show for you, you are going to be limited for ever
