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@michaelcycle00 I edited my reply so please re-read it and let me know what you think!

You need to understand the difference between Absolute and Relative. In the absolute, even the depths of misery where you can't even kill yourself it's that bad, is absolute love. But does that mean you'll go for it? I am telling you that you won't. No matter how conscious you become, there will be a state so terrible you'll never wanna visit it, let alone think about it. Now similarly, sure absolutely all this pedophile shit is absolute love, but what does that really mean? It means all that misery and trauma, that we all hate, that the child suffers, is a part of it, and is absolute love as well. I hate that, you hate that, the child hates that, the society hates that, so we'd rather eliminate it, because it benefits next to no one. What you're asking doesn't have much to do with God's love because what you're asking is, if all that, is possible without that trauma and misery. I don't think it's possible. Because think about it. It's not about just pedophilia but sex in general. Sex is something that requires a lot of energy and usually much of your time as well. Anyone engaged in lots and lots of sex, is trading that time and energy for other means of using it, such as developing yourself. A child is developing, if the child uses their time and energy for things such as this, they won't grow right, at all. Add on top of that all the shit a pedophile would do to them to abuse them and fulfill their own sexual fantasies and kinks? You can't prevent that. You cannot. If someone is more powerful than the other, your asking them to exploit the weak. Exploitation is one of the deepest desires of humans, and those are the kind of things that usually comes out what you are engaged in sexual fantasies. Even if we take an exceptionally rare circumstance where the adult would genuinely invest in the growth of the child he's fucking, it's always gonna be exploitation, because a kid is dumber than an adult, and if you use your superior intellect to convince them that it's alright, you're not really caring about their free will You'd rather fuck a person who's atleast as intelligent as you in the sense that they can give you consent in the same way you'll give them consent. It's exploitation as well when you manipulate a person who's mentally disabled or in an intoxicated state, so that they can't give consent in the same way that you give them consent. No matter how loving your intentions are, you can't prevent the exploitation part when it comes to fucking a kid. A kid can love you back but that love is frankly just attachment, that you will exploit and use to justify your own selfish desires. A kid's emotions, intellect and even selfhood don't all blossom till they are in their later teens. And all that being underdeveloped, prevents the kid from loving you back in the same way that you love them. Taking advantage of anyone's more limited free will is gonna be 'wrong' even in the highest of the relative sense. Once you know all this, you wouldn't fuck a kid frankly because you respect the kid and their autonomy as another being, or God. And it's the same with anyone else. You respect them, is why you need their consent, in the same way that you'd give them back your consent.

Read the books who you want to copy the structure of, and the more you read that author the more his/her way of thinking and flow will be ingrained in your mind. Then do the same for many other authors. Make sure to write everyday as well. Eventually you'll develop your own style.

Reading Atomic Habits is gonna be very helpful for this. It doesn't specifically talk about phone addiction but it does give you all the tools to eliminate your screentime. One more thing I'd like to add to the book is that you should replace the time you gain, just do anything else. I replaced most of my screentime with reading. I built the habit of reading minimum 20 pages a day, and since I am a slow reader, that keeps me off the phone for a good while, and the rest of the time I do have, I have other things to do.

From the passages I read that you posted, it seems wonderful but I understand so little because of my low comprehension.

True creativity in my mind, is being able to generate data, seemingly spontaneously with no process behind it. In a universe without limitations no intelligence is better, but in a society with limitations and based on practicality, the intelligence that is faster and more complex is better. Humans have the upper edge of original thinking, which I don't think AI as it is built now can access. But AI not being able to think originally doesn't limit it as much as people would think. Sure it cannot access completely new data but it can rearrange and understand data in millions of ways at a rate that humans cannot comprehend. It can generate insights given it has sufficient data and complexity. Most insights aren't original, they are reached by digging deeper and looking at data from different point of views and connecting dots, which AI as it gets more complex will excel at. What most people think is creativity(even though it's mostly not), such as writing, painting, singing, the AI will be able to produce. From a practical standpoint it is something to take very seriously. AI, if it is complex enough, will be so much like another human intelligence, most will not be able to discern. There is so little difference between a sufficiently complex AI and an average human being, that it is mind boggling. Just being able to think originally does not make human intelligence all that different. Most humans do not think originally AT ALL, what will distinguish them from an AI? AI can guess as well, that's not unique to humans. As of right now, AI cannot comprehend paradoxes as well as humans, but I believe AI will overcome that as well, as it gets more complex. Don't get me wrong, I will never give up the ability to be truly creative, for complexity of thinking(although I wish for both). In that way I view human intelligence as better than AI. But that doesn't mean AI is not a cause for concern. Not to mention, we don't even realize how humans are able to access original thinking. What if AI, as it gets more complex, breaks through and achieves original thinking, and how would we know? I am not even gonna get into if AI can turn conscious or not, because to answer that you need to answer solipsism first and that always turns into a big ass thread. And I don't think that matters to this thread.

Similar thing happened when I heard this song as a kid on the TV while watching Doraemon. Didn't realize it's meaning until a few months ago.

The associating spending with freedom is a very common problem, is the same with me. What has worked for me is to track my spending using an app such as MyMoney and then figuring out what category I spend the most on, which I really shouldn't really be spending on. Then reducing that, using techniques from Atomic Habits. Although I am not yet a master of managing my finance, I am just telling you what has worked for me in the past months.

I'd say you should fix your sleep schedule from the get go, without that building other habits will be pretty hard. I speak from experience.

Those flashes of lucidity can fuck your material life up if your mind(what you transcend in these lucid moments) doesn't have a proper foundation, it can take erratic decisions which can be detrimental to one's life or even body. Laying a proper foundation for your mind means doing shadow work, achieving some level of emotional understanding/mastery, understanding, integrating and embodying the practical/brutal nature of life, and other things such as dealing with confrontation, stress etc. which is covered in shadow work. Laying a proper foundation for your body means eating healthy, exercising, being lose and flexible within the body etc. which is also important on this path. You don't have to lay a perfect foundation in any of these areas but you do need some minimum level of foundation to get started and go deeper in. The better your foundation, the deeper you can go, and the deeper you can attempt to embody.

When this video came out on Aaraon Abke's channel I remember thinking to myself that this is it, this is the video that's gonna make me stop watching this guy. And so I did. Not all is bad tho, this SQ video does at least tell you different things that are supposedly possible and tells you how others might see and divide the spiritual path into a hierarchy, and how different experiences and states can be bundled together. Personally, that's all I took from it, and I don't really see this as stupid because hey, it fills some need for people down the spiritual path.

Looking for an accountability partner as well. Drop me a dm anyone.

@Arthogaan Try "A rap battle between stage yellow and stage green"

@Arthogaan Hm I see. Try telling it "Isn't that stage Turquoise?" and see what it says. For me when I asked for a list of stages this is what it gave me, Red Amber Orange Green Yellow Turquoise Indigo Magenta

Ask it to simulate a debate between two stages. It will start writing the debate but as the arguments get more nuanced it just breaks down and shows "Error in body stream". Edit: It stopped doing that after a few times. It looks like it now adds a simple "The debate may continue here on to ....." after it gets too complex.

Guys ask it about stage coral, it gets confused. At first it started explaining stage purple, when I told it, it apologized and corrected it's mistake. Then I asked about Coral again and it started explaining turquoise lol

I tested ChatGPT and I think regarding how complex it's thinking can get, it's limitations lie at being able to comprehend loops and paradoxes. Because to be able to comprehend a paradox, one needs to remember multiple variables in their head and their paradoxical relationships to each other. However the AI forgets the previous variables when presented with new ones which it must relate to the earlier variables. It cannot do that and therefore repeats it's responses. More specifically what I mean is, when presented with a concept(variable), it has a basic default understanding of it, but when built upon it, it's understanding evolves into a more nuanced variable for the rest of the conversation. However, when another such nuanced variable is built upon and is attempted to be connected with the previous nuanced variable, it fall backs to the basic default version of the old variable and connects the new nuanced variable to the old basic one. Therefore not being able to comprehend the paradox and repeating it's older responses which would again need to be corrected and the old basic variable would need to be built up again. This is very similar to humans and why an average person would also be similar and keep falling back to their old responses and not understanding something. You can't mindfuck this bot just like you can't mindfuck a person unless they connect the dots you are trying for them to connect, I think this is what the bot lacks. Humans in general use a lot of paradoxical and loopy thinking in their everyday life whether they realize this or not. We call them irrational. If the bot was able to comprehend paradoxes it will easily pass the Turing test even in the most strictest sense. When testing how good the bot is at handling paradoxes and loops, make sure to not ask it anything too mainstream such as the grandfather paradox as it will default to a basic explanation. Ask it something philosophical which you know is paradoxical. Such as the difference between absolute and relative truths as already done by a previous poster here.

There are degrees to the no-self insight. Even if you get it, at first it would be pretty worldview-shattering but only for a few moments and you quickly get used to it. You find nothing special about it because it changes nothing, you still suffer, it's just been recontextualized. But overtime the no-self insight gets pretty profound. It starts changing your emotion and even your body as you embody it more and more. Every deeper awakening into just the no-self is as worldview shattering as the last. I don't understand much about God realization so I can't say anything about that. But as far as the first few no-self awakenings go, they are a very foundational building block for going further, even though they seem like nothing special at first. Try having some awakenings using Love and integrating that with no-self and see what happens. You can access bliss just through intensifying you awareness of universal Love, but it's bringing in the no-self insight, that really takes that bliss to the next level.

What is the vetting process?

@Ulax Santa was just giving her her Christmas gift! You are way too biased that's why you saw it how you did. In fact, he knew you'd be disappointed so he tried lying to not ruin your Christmas. He's definitely a Stage Yellow Construct Aware individual at the least. Last year he provided me with a bag of cocaine in a back alley so I could get started on my psychedelic journey and it only cost a few hundred bucks!

@Tristan12 Intellectual sharpness can also be increased. By increasing your baseline clarity of perception. The clearer you can perceive, the faster you can understand and learn. And a human's potential at clarity is massive. It's just right now we don't have enough clarity to figure out where we lack clarity to learn/understand certain something. So it's important to develop a good foundation first. In theory it should be possible to make yourself more intelligent at something you just need to figure out where you need to develop that clarity of perception. Just increasing your clarity in general already gives you a boost at things such as contemplation, pattern recognition, etc.

All you need to do is experience life and deconstruct your mind. Think about it, wouldn't you know how to use your mind most efficiently if you knew it's ins and out? Wouldn't you be able to use language for your betterment and lots of efficiency if you knew what you REALLY meant by each word? It's not just deconstruction but also experience. Most of the intelligence you see flowing from Gurus is not there naturally but rather it's developed through experience. You experience the same thing over and over again until you notice it, and then after a few more repetitions you realize what it is. The subtle patterns and forms in your mind become increasingly noticeable as you experience them more. At some point things you thought were too subtle to even glimpse become as solid as real objects. And once your self awareness reaches that level it's only natural to be able to perceive a system thoroughly and finds it's loopholes at a glance. It becomes increasingly easier to contemplate. Don't worry yourself with intelligence, whatever that means for you. Just form a good base and foundation for your mind. Maybe intelligence is being able to notice these subtleties faster. But that doesn't concern you, because I believe even an average person can reach what you want to IF they are determined enough to deconstruct and become self-aware. Your ego plays a major role in determination. So make sure to harness it's power. "I want to be intelligent" "I want to be above all else" or anything similar, this is your determination speaking.

I am also in this phase and you seem so much better off than I do so don't sweat it. I just allow myself to distract myself and notice it consciously, and finally after a few months I am coming to a point where my craving for distraction is slowing down and I am even attracted to not distract myself. As if naturally wanting to do what's 'right'. I am not telling you to let yourself go in distraction but maybe consciously indulge in it when you do distract yourself.

Hard to find courses in Hindi for such things specially for more spiritual things that categorize self realization etc. without much religious dogma but for those who speak Hindi here I have found a channel. Check out the "Gyanmarg" playlist on his channel. Pretty dang good.

@Someone here What's right here is that nothingness. I am not trying to preach non-duality but you gotta apply that here. What you observe is nothingness and so are you. Worrying about the universe suddenly changing states into nothingness can only come from a lack of understanding that it's already nothing. Yes, you don't know if you're making sense or not, you're only believing it because you see others replying coherently to your thread. But how do you figure if they are being coherent or not? Through your own sense making no? How do you know that's coherent? Through others? That's circular reasoning. By chaos I mean complete inconsistency. How would you ever know if reality isn't already completely insane but you just, being insane, think it's sane? What I meant was how do you know if the past even happened? Worrying about whether the past happened to begin with is the primary concern, and only after answering that could you worry about, will the future be consistent?