Natasha Tori Maru

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

@Husseinisdoingfine /fit/ was the biggest circlejerk of soy boy trolls back then... @MsNobody I come here to destress and remember that there are groups of people who's interests really jive with my own. I cannot talk about any of this stuff in reality as I am simply not understood. We all may argue and get heated and end up locking horns - but at the end of the day, we share the same interest I really enjoy the experiences you shared above ! @Eskilon Thank God I have emptied out most of the troll within there. I was really bad at one stage - and when I was raiding competitively in WoW. I was really a little shit back then. Really elitist gamer mode. Would go around shitting on everyone.

My point still stands. You have to build solid foundation before you swing from the highest treetops - or you will topple and fall from rotton roots. False meaning is derived from truths learned too soon, so some of those guardrails exist to avoid that.

I know this is side tracking a bit but this is so true. I am not for organised religion, but the guardrails some of these ancient traditions have in place are there for a VERY good reason. Too often people think gatekeeping teachings or information is a power play & end up frustrated or infuriated - no. It is there to protect until ready.

I think it is a function of our perception of time - memory. If we had no memory - would the mind wonder? Or would we be amoeba just looking for next meal

@AION Cheers! And yeah, well, I wanted to know your genuine opinion - so a whole bunch of metaphors and similes doesn't cut it due to ambiguity I like to see some testicle !

One of the biggest flags for fake spirituality is catering to 'good' feeling that creates pleasure. Choosing truth based on how we feel about it, without deeply investigating WHY that thing makes us feel that way. Having clarity around the source of the feeling & how we identify with it. Sometimes feeling as the barometer cannot be trusted if rooted in attachment.

@AION i'll leave you to that thought. I was interested in your opinion, but I see why you might want to dodge the question

He got that supermodel hip-pop going 😁

I get that - but it is well known AI is simply a reflection. But do YOU think it is intelligent? I struggle to see it doing my job for example. Even projecting out into the near future

Yes, it was just one member of the family. Once they were out their views caught on to the rest. To me it just looks like cope for isolation - they like going to church, the friends it has revealed and the social scene. I have witnessed less practice and more engagement with the social aspect. The only part about them that irritates me (I am a very tolerant person, up to a point where my personal boundaries are being encroached in which case I stomp) is their outsourcing of evil. The evil is always external. Like Jordan Peterson's family - it's always an attack. A spiritual attack of devils. It is actually their own thoughts and behaviours leading to perceived 'attack'. Additionally it frames it so they need to 'defend' 'sheild' from something, when there is nothing there. This is seperate from real paranormal stuff. All mind stuff. Hell. Burning. Devils etc

@Inliytened1 I am sorry to hear of your news ❤️ I'm not ashamed to admit I used to have rose tinted lenses on when it comes to romance - I have to be careful not to ignore issues that could possibly lead to incompatibility. I think we really don't see what someone is truly like until 2+ years in. And even then, we never truly, truly know another person. They can always up and surprise you. We can only choose to trust. But it sounds like she also evolved deeper into religion and the incompatibility grew over time, even if initially you were like 2 puzzle pieces. I hope your healing isn't too rough 🙏

@Joshe one half my family went all Christian. 'found Jesus after jail' They have compromised moral systems that the needed to fix via 'Jesus' so project out that everyone MUST lack integrity like them. So everyone else needs Christianity. All the while failing to realise some people don't need external guidance to know right from wrong ...

Do you think current AI is intelligent? End user AI we see, that is