mandyjw

Someone wrote a song about how he can't get no satisfaction, and it became wildly popular and many people enjoyed it. How satisfying. https://www.etymonline.com/word/satisfy Satisfy- from satis "enough" (from PIE root *sa- "to satisfy") + facere "to make, do, perform" (from PIE root *dhe- "to set, put").

When you are thinking a thought that causes you pain, you are embracing the thought, not rejecting it. You already never reject anything.

Exercise, and time in nature if possible. I like running, or walking/hiking or swimming, anything that's mindless and can be done outside. It will help you sleep and then the sleep will help the stress.

Even if you decide to become a minimalist and sell everything, it's still the pursuit of more. Think about it, the way you experience time, well don't think about it, look around the room. I might look away from the computer to look at my plants, but to me, the computer is still here, still mine. In my direct experience it's not though, just plants. So it seems as if it's just more, more, more, everywhere I look, but really, in order for me to have more, or even turn my head to perceive more, I have to let go of what was. But it seems as that's passed, so I think I have it. I'd say there is no pressure to have more, but it may seem so. When did this start? Is it possible it never did, but it just seems like it did? And then this "and then you die" shit, I mean. Birth is like winning the lottery, and then you go through life trying to spend that money wisely, thinking you could lose what you never expected to win. Then you go back to the very source of all that money. Like infinite money, infinite life. You never "had" or "have" a life, you are just Life. I dunno. Can't lose, sort of seems like win, win, win which seems sort of like more, more, more? But I'm not sure about this pressure thing.

@gettoeflI'm not trying to push some impossibly high standard on people, the opposite actually. Think back to when you were 4 or 5. Have any trouble talking to girls? Did you have a great time with them? Did you worry about how you looked? What did you know then that you don't know now?

All of those views are pointers. Atheism isn't wrong, there is no God, Christianity isn't wrong that God that made himself man. Look at them not as a statement or truth, but as a language. It is a means through which to communicate. That's how you "extract" the spirituality from the religion. You're always constructing the past in the present. Again as we express or communicate the past, we do so now. If you look at a sea urchin or a dandelion and see the perfect yet imperfect mathematical genius beauty in it's design, it is neither that you are constructing it, nor that it was constructed before you. Again, the essence of Christianity and atheism are in bed together pointing to the same wonder of wonders. This? Only? Other? "Aware" is prior to the thoughts those words imply. So what someone is aware of is a much deeper more profound thing than what they think. You are only aware now. The thought I who is aware is borrowed from Being, Awareness itself. It's secondary, past, dead, yet it insists upon the fact that it's alive. Awareness is the only Life.

Survival is the character's perspective in a novel, but the character's perspective is an illusion, a created one. The character does not develop themselves, only the author develops the character. When you create, you become the author. Beauty standards don't exist to an artist, yet no one enjoys and appreciates beauty more. If the artist does what they do well, this transcendent beauty is translated to the viewer and in the viewer's appreciation, he too becomes the artist.

@Raptorsin7 47 While he was still speaking a crowd came up, and the man who was called Judas, one of the Twelve, was leading them. He approached Jesus to kiss him, 48 but Jesus asked him, “Judas, are you betraying the Son of Man with a kiss?” 49 When Jesus’ followers saw what was going to happen, they said, “Lord, should we strike with our swords?” 50 And one of them struck the servant of the high priest, cutting off his right ear. 51 But Jesus answered, “No more of this!” And he touched the man’s ear and healed him. https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke 22&version=NIV

Perhaps rather than instead of it's and...? The dream is me and a world that's not me. human, whoman? human This is in part from PIE *(dh)ghomon-, literally "earthling, earthly being," as opposed to the gods (from root *dhghem- "earth"), but there is no settled explanation of the sound changes involved. Compare Hebrew adam "man," from adamah "ground." So the word man came from the word earth. We think we live on earth. We are earth, there's no us/world. No separation.

He wasn't.

Think Jesus, New testament, not the old testament "God". Smiting entire countries is a very Old Testament God kinda game. Jesus just tried to heal and get his point across, and ended up being a point on a cross.

Awareness is a Virgin Whore. Jesus was supposedly born to virgin Mary and then had the whore Mary as his disciple. Even the name meaning of Mary is funny in this context. "The name Mary was derived from the ancient Hebrew name Miriam. Miriam was the name of Moses’ sister in the Old Testament of the Bible. This name may have come from a root meaning “beloved,” or from a word meaning “bitter” or “rebellious,” a reference to the biblical Miriam’s life as a slave in Egypt." https://www.verywellfamily.com/mary-name-meaning-origin-popularity-5182468

While I appreciate this, I doubt you're actually satisfied perpetuating this part of the matrix so strongly. You can't tear it down on one hand and build it up with the other without working against yourself.

@Leo Gura It's just that you're perpetuating a bunch of limiting, demeaning assumptions about the differences between men and women, that are and always were a façade. It's more about the way the man appears than how he feels about himself. It's assumed his worthiness comes after sex, not before. The façade, the clothing, the appearance is what keeps people from connecting in the ways they want to, not excluding sex. As a culture and a society, we've made this all way too hard to maintain. The symbolism of Adam and Eve becoming ashamed of their differences and putting on clothes to cover it up comes to mind. The cosmic joke is that you'd care so much about the appearance of your clothing, all in the hopes to gain the worthiness of getting to take it off again.

Women want that for themselves. Some settle for fucking what they think is what they are looking for. But it's like buying a painting of an apple when what you really want is to eat an actual apple.

“Keep me from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh, and the greatness which does not bow before children.” Kahil Gibran

@Leo GuraYet, vanilla is still the best selling flavor of ice cream, so it stands out in that way. You can't lose. Some people think they can lose, or miss out, and so really believing that you can is the only way that's even possible. I think the amazing results come from letting go of the results and enjoying the process. The need for results comes from the belief that we can lose, and just as in the case of vanilla ice cream, by losing you win anyway.

But if everyone is trying too hard to be polarizing, then vanilla is what stands our from the crowd as a breath of fresh air. Just don't try so hard. The most important lesson is that if a woman ever looks at you with complete utter disgust, she actually really loves you, she just doesn't know it. Not everyone knows they need a breath of fresh air. It has nothing to do with you, it doesn't mean you're doing anything wrong or look wrong. We as women think we have to conform, fit in, stand out and also fit in, have the right size boobs, the right size nose, the in fashion eyebrows, etc, etc too. It's exhausting and impossible. Everyone is sick of this shit. If a woman looks at you in disgust, it's because she's probably so disgusted with her own exhausting efforts of trying to be someone she's not, she projects it out on you. Her heart is still looking at her own face in the mirror when she looks at you. Once you really get that, then you're free to find your own style.

When I was 14 the guy I liked lost interest in me, so I thought it was because I didn't pay enough attention to my looks. At the time, shapely eyebrows were the thing, so I carefully shaped and plucked my bushy eyebrows. For whatever reason, that's what I decided to fixate on. Then he started dating a girl with the biggest, bushiest eyebrows I've ever seen. Working on your style only works if it enhances your own enjoyment of life and confidence. If you're doing it as some sort of task to get end results and you wear things you aren't really comfortable in, it reads that way to others. Someone who feels good attracts others because everyone wants to feel good. If it feels good to explore and express your style, do it! Ever noticed how the neutrals real estate people tell you to paint your house aren't actually loved by anyone? Sometimes we work so hard to not be disliked or polarizing that we forget that when we express what we love others feel they can too. And that's really what we were all looking for all along.

Jesus Christ, am I EVER sick and tired of doing useful things! Sounds awesome. Seriously though, try journaling or any artistic, musical, creative, emotional expression you're drawn to doing. meditation works great in conjunction with that. Cars have both gas and brake pedals for a reason.

There's this spectacular beach I like to go to, but I can't get to it easily if the tide is high, I have to wade through the water and walk around but even then there's barely any beach to walk on. But if I wait for low tide then I can access whole beach and see all the rock formations that at high tide are covered in water. There's way more at low tide to explore than I'd have even have time for. When you are appreciating life, appreciating others, appreciating whatever you appreciate, it's as if the way clears out for you to explore what you normally can't see. If you are trying to do this when you're angry or hurt, the timing is wrong. Don't worry about any other timing than how you feel. You don't have to wait for the tide to turn, you ARE the tide and how you feel is the indicator of it. You do not have to focus on a subject that feels bad to you, choose another subject. Then, what was previously inaccessible about that subject will become visible and accessible.

So she posts these pictures, not out of insecurity, but because that insecurity is a desire, it's because she wants to appreciate her beauty, she wants to feel beautiful. So your insecurity is also a desire. What do you want to appreciate or feel?

So if she does it because she is insecure, why would that also make you insecure?

Books are thought art. If you love art, enjoy art. Art has no purpose, therefore its "purpose" is to communicate the magic and liberation of that.

Why do you think women share their photos on social media?