Natasha Tori Maru

What traits about you now are preventing all those things occuring? I ask because it seems like you are assuming you are getting in your own way - if you think changing yourself is the answer 🙃

No. I feel great when I wake. Full of energy. I typically go for a 5k run first thing because I am feeling a need to be in a state of meditative motion, which assists with running. Then I take the dog for a hike. Then straight to work. I rest well, female 39 years old. No aches, pains, heaviness or creaks. I wonder if there is something going on in your sleep patterns. Do you dream? Smoke weed? Eat close to sleep? I get 8 hours a night. I stop water 2 hours before bed. I am sorry to hear your troubles

It is not ego, which is plain to see. It is because dry fasting for 15 days is Ill advised. Basic safety.

@Ramasta9 Thank you for the post! I think my advice to users would be to always ask ourselves; 'what am I assuming about the passage I just read? What are the presuppositions?' prior to responding. It is these assumptions that usually close us off and are a result of habitual, reflexive thinking patterns. Often, by probing further with openness, new contexts are revealed that reframe the entire message. Evaluating assumptions and presuppositions also tends to reveal our own thinking biases - which we should all be aware of. This naturally raises consciousness On these sorts of heady, intellectual & mind-based spiritual forums - the masculine is drawn in like a moth to the flame. With that masculine energy is usually the fire that wants to fight and joust... And make it about the win

Context is always very nuanced and a challenge to communicate properly through text. This, combined with all topics pertaining to metaphysics, awakening, enlightenment, consciousness... context is never fully encapsulated. Everything is a pointer. Just the slightest angle of 1 degree difference with the pointers between individuals, results in discord. It is the nature of these topics. It would help if everyone remembered we are on each others side, it is a not war of who knows more. Openness without defence. There is too much of an egoic need to correct present, not only on the forum - but woven into the nature of humans within present culture. We are individuated and a voiced species with no telepathy - and this makes us very very unique. Very individual and special. But this also makes bridging the gap all the more difficult. And needed more than ever. We had an entire thread on context alone here. Words don't actually even describe the things they point to. Without context there is no meaning. Light can be a light weight, bright light, light sleeper etc. The context defines all.

This is a big one. And usually what people react to instantly that others aren't aware of. If you come across or are burdened in any way it is projected out and others intuitively feel it within microseconds. Especially women.

OP admitted to using AI. The rest of the internet is being consumed by AI (look at Reddit now). I for one really want to speak to humans unfiltered. If stuff is heavily filtered through AI users end up focusing on that instead of the message.

Just note, LLMs are programmed to encourage you to use them. They will always answer in a way that bolsters a preference to return and enjoy your time. They are designed to do so. This is an inherent bias in their programming that influences their answers, so they are no measure of reason or barometer of truth. Just some facts to note when using them so you aren't caught off guard. I am personally fine with using AI to clean up grammer and spelling, but hard against promoting it to phrase things for you. I personally think it is against the very spirit of this forum. Writing is an art. Poetry. Word selection, cadence. Pacing. Sentence length and arrangement. These are unique to each person and AI tends to erase this from a users writing. The tone of AI is dead to me, so it ends up detracting from the message. I end up hunting for parts that are disingenuous rather than looking at the paragraphs for their originality of message. I cannot see how the user has genuinely contemplated when things aren't filtered through their own consciousness.

Be calm, all is well 🫠 Dissolve time !

As an ex-troll I lean toward troll. My eyes glaze over from the AI filter. No soul. No creativity. Dead internet

Some division left, better get the excavator out

@Ponder Melbourne, yep I enjoy knowing if I have an emergency I won't go broke + have my life destroyed

I am very disconnected from news and media in a similar way. Perhaps the main difference for me is that the really relevant shit reaches me through family and colleagues. I hear them chit-chat about the biggest happenings, but I do not engage in news on a day to day basis.

This makes no sense

On this forum if anyone is going to recommend a 15 day dry fast I am going to speak out against it for safety reasons. What you said above is an assumption.

Sounds like a hebephile to me. Not paedophile Your avatar change got me - almost choked on my food

I can express myself how I like, thanks. And my advice aligns with medical recommendations. You can justify your actions however you like - but I would think about the reason WHY you responded to me. Something I said triggered your ego, so there is growth work there for you.

Looks like AI If you write from the soul others will resonate and naturally pay attention. May not be AI but the format is 🤢🤮 I strongly advice anyone reading against dry fasting for this length of time.

Telling others what you yourself need to hear. Over and over and over again.

@Ramasta9 Fun times Even better when you get the RNG brownie of doom and you end up spinning, pinned in place for 4 hours! No quality control on that dose when its home baking

Yeah, they changed the subgroups to be more defined for anyone attracted to underage girls/boys. I had no idea until I worked with a journalist who was researching a local sex offender/murder unsolved case in Melbourne. He interviewed an expert to be able to psychologically profile individuals who showed predispositions to hebephilia.

There's also hebephilia if you want to complicate this further. Also ephebophilia.

You can choose to see it that way, sure. You will just be in for some huge surprises. Not my truth at all. I suspect your view is limited and shaped on some observations without context and too much online confirmation bias. Good luck - I cannot help you.