Natasha Tori Maru

It is used frequently in residential construction (was, in Australia). Often ground, cut and sawed. Nasty shit.

This thread is like consciousness limbo - literally how low can you go. I have great aversion.

Oh God, not that Frankenstein of an animal. Swear to God, its like he took all the leftovers after all other animals were created, stitched them together and called it a day

Kitchen benchtops?

RIP little girly duck (but damn aggressive girl got her neck snapped for her trouble) Found her: The Dark Side of Ducks - Australian Wood Duck That is the exact breed - and if this article is anything to go off, they ARE aggressive fucks I shouldn't be surprised, everything there is violent

I was actually - I forgot to eat dinner and had no breakfast >.< Ha ha ha! You picked up on something for sure!

But of a tangent; the recent image of duck/lings on the Survival Machines post made me recall a bad time this morning on my ride to work. I came blasting around a blind corner at roughly 30km/h on my bicycle, only to come face to face with 2 ducks and their brood. The type of ducks around here have some fucken TESTICLE, I tell you. TESTICLE. They come at you aggressively with no fear, necks jutting and mouths open. They even make this low pitched open, long drawn out 'quuuuuuack' as they jut at you. Anyway - I killed one. Destroyed by the bike. I almost came off in the process (it was raining slightl) - slammed on the rear break and slid out right across this ducks neck. The male and ducklings lived, and were fine. The female died to me (female ducks of this type, I don't know the name, are plain looking and dull compared to the males) quickly, no pain. Neck twisted at an impossible angle. I stopped to check on her, but she was well gone. C'est la vie But as I packed up and high tailed it to the office my parting thought was "farewell little one, you died to me on my contraption - a death machine" @Carl-Richard Leo posts "survival machines" with a duck and ducklings on the blog - this morning I killed a duck with ducklings and literally recall thinking "I am a death machine". Leo practicing that non-local awareness remote viewing JUJU

If you work in construction; engineered stone. The quartz in engineered stone when cut or fractured is an airborn breathing hazard that can lead to silicosis. Engineered stone was banned in Australia in 2024 - first country to ban its use. I know it is specific, but it is a huge deal in the construction industry. My brother is only 30 and has the (tested) lung equivalent to that of a 93 year old man

The rum, get

But is it Aware?

Brah - 2x INTP no INTJ We collapsing distinctions already? ONLY DIRECT EXPERIENCE WILL SUFFICE

Yep

Should add a poll at the top for types? Not sure if you can even make a poll that large

@Adrian colby

I don't know what other dudes might say - or this this sort of tactic works - but if you aren't as smooth with the sexual stuff you could always own it and just say "I am nervous around you" I was with a guy who was nervous as fuck with sexual shit, but otherwise sly, flirty and funny as hell. He owned his nervousness by just stating it. It was simultaneously vulnerable, honest and really appealing. People tend to be unable to use shit against you when you own it. But I am a women so I probably don't know shit, as per usual.

Keep this shit to yourself, thanks.

Locking this for trolling & low quality.

Authenticity. I find it ill-defined. The word is tossed about flippantly. EVERYWHERE. It is spoken about on these forums frequently. What is Authenticity (in the romantic sense, and interpersonally)? Do you think it is overrated/underrated? Only appropriate at certain times or phases of connection? I find it paradoxical. Authenticity requires enough self-awareness to distinguish your genuine values from the forces acting on you (incentive structures). I think it is about congruence. Congruence between what is actually going on inside you, how you live, make choices and relate to the world. So for me it's being able to accurately know what I experience, owning it completely and acting in accordance with it as the situation deeps appropriate. I feel like it needs these clauses because it gets muddled up with just "expressing" without censure. Authenticity IS NOT just expressing the contents of your mind. "I say what I feel", "I refuse to change for anyone", "I do what feels natural", "I am brutally honest" or "I don't care what anyone thinks, this is who I am" - all of these are not it in my definition. Philosophy wise I don't think to be authentic we require a true fixed self. Values change. We change. What is authentic will change. Existentially I see it creeping toward "am I taking ownership of the fact I am choosing?" My closest definition: Authenticity is the constant, background practice of shrinking the space between what I experience and what I understand myself to currently value. What I claim to be, and how I actually behave... while remaining willing to amend my understanding of me. Would love everyone's thoughts around this loaded topic as it applies to dating, courtship, romance, relationships, attraction etc.

I hope you have lots more time with yours ❤️

Catching up on the recent shares - thank you all ⚡

There's a big reason for it being top 😃 I can't wait for you to read it, if you haven't

@Ramanujan he is attractive to people who have high epistemic standards and an earnest persuit for truth - or spirituality. The combination of his work encouraging deep contemplative investigation + rigorous emphasis on direct experience + resistance to dogma makes ralston rather foundational imo. I personally love he combines consciousness work with embodied practice via martial arts. And that he heavily emphasises a distintion between concept/perception/interpretation and direct experience of what "is" - which is key to his teaching regarding suffering (there is a big difference between what is being experienced and what the mind says that experience means, his books are great for this distinction). He also founded Cheng Hsin. He has many published books, facilitated workshops and great YouTube talks. Good body of work. It probably helps he is highly respected by Leo. Do you have Leo's booklist?

Appreciate you! And enjoy your contributions 🫶

Both of my biggest were sober, funnily enough! Both from unbearable suffering reaching a horrible climax I worked out what happened after the fact.

Reflection 😁