Natasha Tori Maru

Is this a projection? Huehuehue 🙃🙃🫠💀

Hahaha! Exactly. Not exactly thinking then ay? So why think during sex? Seems backwards 🫠💀

By this I take it you think AI will become aware? IE to generate experience, one would need to become 'aware' of 'something' in a subject/object relationship

Alright no worries! Aversion, like craving, are both the progenitors of suffering. The aversion is source of suffering. Equanimity being the balance between the two (craving/aversion) - the merging of the duality. Aversion is the turning away (duality) that separates from the experience. Generating resistance. I ask is mostly people conflate suffering and aversion/craving.

@Staples The soundtrack is good! But I expected that from Trent My foul hate fest or the film? If it was my expletive roasting I can tell you right now - that is the most entertainment you will get out of this turd fest... I see the internet hate is just beginning to flourish as well Your taste will naturally steer you away - BE GLAD Disney en-shittifies all it touches...

Are you sure you aren't referring to aversion - which can lead to suffering?

I always thought the word 'unnecessary' was really important in Ralston's 'Ending Unnecessary Suffering'.

@Jodistrict

@Ishanga still an illusion - I am pointing to what most people think is the self arising as a result of the social domain 🙃

I love it 😈 swords and chaos, but polite and with grace ! Forum juggernauts clash

@Lyubov Fear is a deception. Total deception. I totally get your post 🌱🙏

@Miguel1 Japanese mainly, but my genetics test revealed Korea & China. I think there is a portion of the Japanese Tori-Maru connection that is mixed Asian descent (a lot of crossover in that region). @Salvijus @WonderSeeker I feel like I had to learn the depths of my inner arsehole to understand the good bits 😅 it seemed a natural progression. Now I figure I know my inner tiger, it is just behind bars. Lock and key. I strategically walk it so it doesn't bust out and destroy some shit! @Eskilon yes I took a lot of risks - that was for sure linked to the whole nihilism thing. I literally didn't give a fuck and felt dead inside. But at the same time I recognise there was immense fear I confronted by flying off to meet a whole bunch of anonymous men I only knew through regular gaming. After I did that, I really drove into facing fear as it lead to the most growth. Now if I feel slightly apprehensive about something (fear) I know there is something to investigate there. That doesn't mean throwing myself off a cliff because I fear heights - more that there is something to contemplate/enquire about and understand that will help me. Just happens that my natural life growth has happened from the furtile soil of hopelessness, dispair, malaise, anhedonia, hate, rejection. I came out from that to fall in love with life. So I know it is possible, and part of what draws me to the forum. That past energy I feel comes from here and I try to understand how I transformed so I can help others.

I think the dive into simplicity and ordinariness was a recognition there is infinite experience to be had there, as well as anything that would be considered extraordinary by human standards. I shift perspectives and engage. And a different type of connection with others came about. A new understanding. That drive for the extraordinarily IS ordinary. I think it is really human to want to explore our uniqueness. It is another aspect of that 'sameness'

Yep totally. Limits generate creativity. A problem is just a set of limits where a solution exists somewhere. The fact that we die forces our hand. Because we face that limit - and on the other side of that is the fear of infinite. It is never the fear of physical death. It is fear of infinite. All is there. No newness. Nothing to create. A calcified existence. It lead me to understanding why duality is here, why limits were manifested. Why everything is configured this way... And why I love life and it's beauty. Even the bad. The good. The ugly. Even my own ugliness. My own beauty.

@Emerald 'But the truth is that every human is fundamentally ordinary, you included. And aging alone will rob you of all relative specialness that you currently enjoy. Can you accept that truth?' Apologies, I cannot quote a section on mobile! But the above is what pushed me into the ordinary. The realisation I will lose all. My intellect. My physical ability. I will age. There were a lot of hidden attachments there that only contemplating true loss revealed. And when I started to step into that surrender - the ordinary and SAMENESS came out screaming for me to look at it! The recognition of sameness. Deep rooted shame begin to unfurl. Because I am unique and special - in EXACTLY the same way we are all unique and special in our infinite manifestations. And there lay the paradox of the beauty of the mundane and ordinary... Sameness 😀 Love & unity

@AerisVahnEphelia ah yes I get it, I think I was misunderstanding 'training' here. For me to really take AI seriously in a grander sense, I would have to see real creativity independent of human input. For now I just use it to render construction images for client proposals. Depends totally on input

@AerisVahnEphelia aren't you proving Leo's point? You are training it in your example. He said without training it is incapable of making new images.

Huh - where is the self? Point/touch tell. Grab it and show ☺️

Well he just came out praising Alien: Earth. So there's that 'Congratulations to Noah, cast, and team on the massivelyCongratulations to Noah, cast, and team on the massively successful foray into the Alien universe with Alien: Earth. When I created this world almost 50 years ago, I could never have imagined that it would continue to resonate so strongly with audiences around the world decades later. It's particularly exciting to learn that younger generations who are embracing Alien: Earth are going back to our film to see where it all began. The cinematic designs still look sharp 46 years later. Such a clever re-use of the original sets. I bloody drew them personally back in the day. The chamber of computers, Mother's womb, the corridors—it's incredible to see how Noah has embraced these trademark Alien elements while bringing something new for the fans. And as writing is the most challenging part of any production experience, it all follows from there. Noah has kept the beast alive, and dripping scare the hell out of us for some time longer. A big thank you to John Landgraf, his excellent team at FX for all their brilliant work on this new series. Scream away, no one will hear you. successful foray into the Alien universe with Alien: Earth. When I created this world almost 50 years ago, I could never have imagined that it would continue to resonate so strongly with audiences around the world decades later. It's particularly exciting to learn that younger generations who are embracing Alien: Earth are going back to our film to see where it all began. The cinematic designs still look sharp 46 years later. Such a clever re-use of the original sets. I bloody drew them personally back in the day. The chamber of computers, Mother's womb, the corridors—it's incredible to see how Noah has embraced these trademark Alien elements while bringing something new for the fans. And as writing is the most challenging part of any production experience, it all follows from there. Noah has kept the beast alive, and dripping scare the hell out of us for some time longer. A big thank you to John Landgraf, his excellent team at FX for all their brilliant work on this new series. Scream away, no one will hear you.' - Ridley Scott They probably should have kept with the themes of body horror, rape, forced impregnation and violation that the original HR Giger themes revolved around.

I stood out for (what I perceived) unknown reasons through life. I did not enjoy it. I put no value in it. I only had a preference for creating. And I was always very detached from the things I created. I always perceived others as trying to get at me to understand the detached creation - I felt it an invasion. So for a long while, I closed up. I put up walls. I went backwards from my initial detachment and formed a more solid identity. I became attached to a sense of self that formed much later on in life that most. I suffered. So I started to seek. I drove back to the ordinary, boring, mundane self. I felt like, if I was seeking something - it would be in the last place I look. Where no one would think to look. What made me the SAME - and not different. Especially after realising this ID I had formed stole my creative power and seemed to generate suffering. I went hard into the mundane. I was lead to no-self and a massive ego death nondual experience. Then from there, realising all I am is just this awareness - I found such unity and love. Because I am the same. We are the same. The same witness. I lost all aloneness in that place. Peace was in that place. In that mundane - where no one really looks... Creation was in that place. Potential. I am not sure if this makes sense at all - it's just what came to me from your post. And my own failed interpretation of my own experience ❤️🌱

Just wait until they start dying or encountering serious health issues... But no.1 for me is people partnering up and having kids. They disappear. I have always been a hardcore introvert so it has been less of a worry for me (my circles getting smaller). I really enjoy my own mindscapes I only need one or two close relationships to thrive. But this place does let me socialize in a useful way, so I really appreciate it. The nature of my work means there is a LOT of forced socialization and relationships, but these do not satisfy in the same way the dialogues here do.

@Eskilon I was a black pilled little shit back then - only it wasn't called black pill. It was just nihilism and hopelessness Coupled with the fact I was insanely good at videogames, +10 asian gaming genes... and WoW was the elitist of the elite shit. Trolling and shitting on others was part of that culture. It very much rubbed off on me. I met tons of people through WoW - couple of ex's also. Many of my real life mates were met online originally. I even flew across the country to meet and live with a previous partner for 2 years. I enjoy just totally deleting my life and changing it up every so often. I bond with others through shared experience - not emotional expression or knowing their personal stories - so I just naturally got to know those folks better. So their scandalous shit rubbed off on me. Not sure if you know any top oceanic raiding guilds but I was raiding with them all and transferring around. Not Steamboat, Ascension etc. In addition I was smashing Arena PvP for rankings. I can be VERY competitive. I feel like I had to go through a process of getting the inner shithead out of me before I could get to where I am today. But as you can imagine... sometimes there is still some brutal troll dialogue left. I just don't empty it out on others. Well, I try not to... hueheuhue

@cetus Hahaha taking me back to Cartesian coordinate transformations first year uni

@Dodo @cetus Thank you for sharing this. Context, and behind the scenes shit, matters <3

I don't think it's personal Machine gun spray