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Just seeing that it's disgusting and often taken in overwhelming quantities (especially with many store-bought sweet products) goes a long way.

You can fry most demons by pitting them against each other.

Visit a slaughterhouse one day and see how that affects your mind. Then ask yourself if there's any wisdom in eating meat. If you hunt, fine, that's incalculably better. If you eat packaged meat full of hormones and literally evil energies, then you're simply not behaving in a wise manner and there will be consequences for it. Karma is a bitch. And animal products such as milk and cheese aren't any better either. Those cows are artificially inseminated, and then their calves are forcefully taken away, just so the cow produces more milk. Imagine that fucking trauma for one second. And you're drinking milk from those cows. And the chickens in the egg industry typically live all their lives in a small cage. Imagine that kind of life for a second and what you're supporting. Generally speaking, people prefer ignorance about this because it's far easier to look away and keep pretending this isn't a problem. But at some point you're gonna have to face the reality of where you get your food from. One of my core philosophical principles is do no harm, and that naturally leads to a vegan diet, which I have enjoyed for the better part of 2 decades. Anyone who claims a vegan diet isn't viable in the long term should see this video for some healthy perspective: And if you ever do choose to go vegan at some point, you should take B12 supplements. That is necessary for a healthy vegan diet, unless you prefer risking your health by eating dirty food which I assume wouldn't sit well with most people.

@Leo Gura Lions do not have industrialized complexes where mass torture is committed on an incomprehensible scale, nor do they have alternative options. Humans are supposed to be the civilized ones, and we don't have any excuse whatsoever to behave this way. It is pure stupidity and myopia. Any advanced civilization will be vegan.

It's just a way of grooving with the world. You're free to do anything.

Eating meat is extremely stupid from a spiritual point of view. Just imagine all the concentrated energies of fear and torture that you put in your body. And then you wonder why you're so neurotic.

Warning video contains stupidity of unimaginable scale.

Karma is a real belief.

These experiences can be very reality shattering, particularly if you're unable to contextualize them. Serious and prolonged meditation practice is a way to ground yourself.

No, you are 100% correct. Our society just trained us to think these must necessarily exclude one another.

Because the ego enjoys unconscious, hedonic experiences, and that includes unhealthy food. If you're really aware at the peak of heightened consciousness, even an apple will taste divine.

Goes to show how powerful and amplified beliefs can get.

I could do it easily as a kid. Can't do it anymore as an adult, but it's probably something you can train.

@Opo Heh. Have you studied formal mathematical and computational logic? I have. The argument that somehow only stupid people are skeptical about vaccines cracks me up.

We'll all find out eventually.

Put your eyes out of focus and stare at the edge of things.

Always funny when people try to claim freedom by taking away your freedom. I'm with @Clint Eastwood and George Carlin on this one.

Eh, I don't think you need research for realizing that psychedelics have very real risks. Consider just the possibility of a horrifically bad trip on something really strong. I don't care who or what you are, you're gonna bear that burden for the rest of your life because it will literally be the most horrible thing you ever experienced. I was just watching this clip yesterday, and I was thinking, fuck if this started happening to me I'd be in some serious trouble And yes it's a cartoonified version (I mean, literally), but it's surprisingly spot on. If this kind of trip starts happening to you it's gonna be literally the most damaging experience of your life, and that shit will leave psychological scars that nothing will ever heal again. Not saying that trips have to be this way, if you prepare correctly you minimize a lot of risk (but never all, I'm sorry but there's no such thing as 100% safe psychedelic usage, these are not tomatoes so maybe let's stop treating them as such). The way some of you are promoting psychedelics is bound to lead to misuse somewhere down the road. It's said that psychedelics find you, you don't find them, and probably for a good reason.

Psychedelics aren't useless, but they will never enlighten you. They offer a taste of the mystical, but that's all it is - a taste. If you want the full thing you're gonna have to do the impossible and let go of your ego and your attachments.

Because they're dumb. Jokes aside, what else is there to do? Not practice? You're free to live your life however you want. Spirituality is just a way of digging and grooving with the universe. Some of us just dig that vibe.

Enlightenment isn't like anything else in your life. It transcends every single thing you know or think you know about reality, it's impossible to achieve it for this reason, it would be like trying to drink the ocean, or move the Earth with your hands, or some similar impossible feat like this. If this doesn't make any sense, it's because enlightenment doesn't make any sense. Enlightenment is the direct perception of your divine and infinite nature.

You know when a master sees a person all they see is Shiva doing some form of magical dancing around, that's why they usually chuckle, they find it amusing. So you're like that, you're this ego pretending to be very serious about enlightenment, jumping around and doing all these complex dance moves, because you think something, somewhere, somehow is going to enlighten you and then you'll be fine. The funny thing about this is that you can always just stop doing the dance and see, hey, here it is. Here is enlightenment. Here is what I've been searching for. And I'm not above this. I have the exact same problems. We all do. We're all dancing around, huffing and puffing for no reason whatsoever. It's funny.

It's impossible to the ego. But you, the real you, the unbounded you - you're perfectly capable of it. In fact you are it, and there's nothing to get.

A master came by when a novice was meditating. He asked the student, "what are you doing?" The novice replied, "I am meditating in order that I become a Buddha". The master picked up a brick that was lying on the floor, sat down and started rubbing it with a piece of cloth. Seeing this, the novice got curious and inquired the master about it. "What are you doing?" he said. "I am polishing this brick in order that it becomes a mirror", the master replied. The novice, confused, responded instantly. "By no amount of polishing will you turn this brick into a mirror!" The master, smiling, responded "by no amount of meditation will you become a Buddha." This is a famous koan that touches on this issue. You need let go of your desires, even the desires about letting go of your desires, and only then can you understand the truth. No amount of doing, or not doing will get you enlightened, that's what makes it a mindfuck and you have to appreciate this fact rather than oppose it.

Yes, CO2 is the scapegoat. It may turn out to be a massive problem, but I think we should look at our behavior in a holistic way because nothing can change unless we collectively fundamentally change our behavior.