Devin

Yeah, if your kid wants to spend a bunch of time on an app like that, you're not parenting. But there's a huge difference between them being raised well enough to have better interests, and banning it.

ticktock isn't porn, do you not allow them on the internet as well? Have you seen what's on television? Parent your kid, if they can't survive ticktock then you're not parenting.

Letting kids be kids means not infantilizing them, letting them explore and you cleaning up the mess.

Just practice living in the moment, realize there's not actually time for there to even be a "fastest".

Godspeed StormLight, as they say 'may that hate in your heart carry you higher and higher!'.

I'm confident you're over at the ActualityofBeing Leo hate group but there are forums with threads upon threads hating on Leo, produced YouTube videos, I think you can sleep well knowing he's fully scrutinized and publicly flogged.

Come on be straight with me, what's the point in that though? So Leo will consider changing? Or what?

Read Leo's posts in question, those are not insults that lead down a dark road, "you're not enlightened".

@StormLight So what is your point in this? To wake Leo up? To try to understand his reasoning? To save the cult followers? I think it's the to save the followers, where should they go instead?

It's like also, what forum does he get to go to to openly and candidly discuss what he's dealing with personally? We're not here in the same capacity. Thread title " What do you guys do when your consciousness website is overrun with dogmatic Buddhists?" posted by user baldy1171

I was just offering an attempt to try to understand the situation, the OP raises a legitimate concern but the post is targeted as an attack. ""Thanks again to those who have been on good behavior from the beginning and never needed such warnings and reminders. I will also be making an effort to improve my communication with you to rise to the level of maturity, wisdom, and respect that you deserve." https://www.actualized.org/forum/topic/89380-strict-crackdown-on-duplicate-accounts-immaturity/" This is from the first post, Leo acknowledging he is working on this. This thread should have been a private message to Leo.

How long did it take you to meet and understand everyone? It's a bias. What fraction of people have you encountered even including seeing them on tv or reading an article? 1%? 1% is 80 million people by the way.

@ZenAlex I like many aspects of Buddhism actually, but I was just commenting on the issue in this thread, there is a lot of Buddhism and Advaita thrown around on this forum like it's the ultimate level. Leo is coarse communicating on here, but a common thread I've always seen is don't just follow teachings. Essentially, there is your own path.

They meditate their life away, that's an exaggeration and over generalization but Buddhism in practice tends to just get the spiritual ego going, they don't actually wind up integrating it into life very well, they don't live. I wouldn't say it turns them into zombies, I just said they are zombies, they already were though.

The Buddhist and Advaita stuff not only get's annoying but you also see it 'corrupting' young people on here. People say Actualized is a death cult or whatever, but what's buddhism and Advaita? They're zombies.

Americans agree on almost everything, this makes no sense.

Are you only talking to them to have sex? This hasn't been my experience, but I'm 32 and in the states, maybe the young girls are like this?

I agree. The lose your virginity crap is just that, crap. Sex is stupid without intimate connection.

I like it when someone makes a sincere metaphysical interjection into conversations like these with all the shit slinging. Not to ignore, but to keep them in perspective, and not just for personal happiness but also because that's the only way you're actually going to open your 'opponent's' eyes. It's what Jesus, MLK, Ghandi all did, you have to love and accept, integrate, truly embody, and see the beauty in your 'opponent's position', appreciate it. Otherwise you're just creating another type of 'suffering', not actually breaking the cycle, you're hating your 'opponent' for not loving you, love thy enemy. As far as the animals suffering, it's okay to want to move past that societally, but it's 'bypassing' to use your word to not accept and appreciate the beauty of it, yes I said beauty.

@Roy What is up with your signature?

Refreshing. There's another thread about the meat industry and the animals suffering ?

How about...... Parents start parenting, they should have already been lining up young kids about the world. Tiktok isn't the problem it's just A catalyst.

CDs are almost 5% right now. Just FYI for anyone.

That's only 38% daily value of iron right? If you start feeling off question it. I had a buddy od on iron, he lived, we were kids and he ate flintstone vitamins as candy. I'd be worried about digestive track cancer, or clogged arteries.

Is that actually true?