mr_engineer

Teal Swan is the woman you should watch. She is an expert on this stuff. Her completion-process is the best when it comes to inner-child work and trauma-work. Which is something you should be doing if you're facing this situation.

If what he's saying is true, the West is not a secular society anymore. Cuz a secular society respects all religions, while reserving the right to be atheist. This is starting to look like atheism is the new religion! Embarking on a holy war against Christianity. What this shows us, is that 'atheist' is not necessarily 'secular'.

What happens when the people who are attached to it protest against it? What happens if that number is greater than some progressive dictator's numbers? Prove to me that there is no God. Or that the world is meaningless. You do need God for it. With God, comes a certain mythology. Your cultural identity is based on that. And, this is very important to keep a cultural cohesion, to develop a sense of togetherness as a people. This is very important for people to be attached to the collective and to feel any sense of responsibility/duty towards their collective. Mythology serves the function of giving simplistic answers to people's profound, metaphysical questions. To people who have the questions but who aren't very thirsty for the answers, who just want to do some armchair-philosophy and move on with their lives. Mythology is core to your self-concept, your idea of who you are, if not a petty human. It gives you something to aspire to when you go about trying to stand for something greater than yourself. It presents these idealistic characters to you who were absolutely selfless and courageous, etc.

An attack on Christianity is an attack on the collective of Christians. Because being a 'Christian' is their psychological identity. This is not a criticism in a debate-setting, where they're listening to you with an open mind. This is a desecration of their holy-book we're talking about. I don't know about there but if someone did that here, riots would happen between different religions.

That's a fair argument. And, when you say you're not trying to be offensive, I believe you. Having said that, what do you think about this behavior of throwing the Bible into the trash-bin? Is that offensive? Here, in India, very much so.

1. Law comes from religion. So, outlawing the problematic parts of religion (Of which there are many, I agree with you there) requires equivocal agreement from the majority. 2. When it comes to the parts that aren't that problematic, why do you want to outlaw that? 3. Do keep in mind that religion is responsible for the concept of 'God'. Religion is the reason we can have any discussion of God at all. The same goes for any discussion of 'meaning' or 'Life-Purpose'. The whole idea of a Life-Purpose is that it's God-given, it's a pre-birth intention, something that's beyond yourself, beyond your petty human identity. For that, you'd have to entertain the idea of reincarnation. Also only possible thanks to religion. 4. You don't get past Stage Red without religion. There comes a point in Stage Red where you need someone to come up with the concept of a 'supernatural entity' that's above all humans and that hands down a set of commandments, saying that 'rape and pillage is wrong, you will go to hell after you die if you do it'. Ultimately, all morality is human. But, you need people to attribute a governing morality to an authority-figure/entity that is not human, that is above all humans, so that you can justify forcing all humans to follow it. This is why the idea of 'God' the way it's portrayed in religion. (At Red, every human is their own God. But, because they're not perfect, they abuse their power in any system they enter, cuz they're acting out of ego. And they form their morality on the fly to justify it. But, at Blue, you have to build the discipline to prioritize your morality/values over your ego, because 'the morality came from God, not yourself'. Accountability becomes possible only at Blue, it even has any meaning only at Blue, cuz shame becomes a thing at Blue, and integrity becomes important and 'virtuous' at Blue for this reason. At Red, integrity is not virtuous. Whatever serves your own self-interest is virtuous!) My point is that there are a lot of very important functions that religion serves in society. And there are very important, pragmatic reasons people hold onto it. Don't be naive about it.

'Religion', the way I use it, means, any and all beliefs about God, belief in God, etc. There is nothing fundamentally wrong with religion. And secularism is supposed to respect people's right to believe what they want/practice what they want. (as long as they don't infringe upon someone else's rights) It's the limited way in which mere mortals interpret God's teachings and implement them in society that's the real issue. You can feel free to criticize religion. But, my request is to not disrespect it by throwing holy books on the ground/in the trash-bin. That's very offensive. It makes a statement saying 'I hate your religion'. Essentially, it's hate-speech towards their God. Or, towards God itself, as the case may be. If you don't want the books, return them/donate them to a church.

Get married only if you want kids. There is no other point to getting married.

@StarStruck Position yourself for higher-quality women. Raise your standards. What she did, was a mediocre move. Ignoring texts, that kind of crap. What you're doing right now, is you're putting up with this mediocrity on your dates. Stop doing that! Let's say this girl becomes your girlfriend. And, you gotta go out of town for a couple of weeks. What will she do? Will she look at your texts? Will she reply? Will she stay in touch? Or will she cheat? You should not be having these kinds of questions in your mind about women you date. When I say 'mediocrity', I mean, in terms of communication-skills. Try to teach her good communication-skills, maybe by role-modelling it or something. Cuz she has work to do on that front, for sure.

Lol. I don't even know what people like about those dance-videos, to be honest. Other than that they're under 60 seconds. A 15-minute video will get less traction than 15 1-minute videos. Doesn't this go against the whole concept of holism, where the 15-minute video is greater than the sum of its parts?! How long do you think this is going to last?

No.

Depends on who you are. And what kind of relationship you want. If you want love and you're not willing to settle for anything less than that, you want someone who understands what that is. Or whose mind is open to learn about it.

@Chives99 Outsmart them. Typically, they're all brawn but no brain. Play to your strengths. And if they're way too powerful, just suck up to them. Sometimes, that'll do.

What's actually being meant, is that there will be a return of Christ-consciousness. Which is the consciousness of free will. Which means, that people will get out of the consciousness of victim-mentality and enslavement and choose freedom and conscious creation of the world they want. People will stop submitting to authority and their whims and stand up for themselves in the face of oppression.

@Rob06 I mean, it's not all negative. He does believe that Jesus will return soon. Way more hopeful than believing that climate-change will destroy the planet. He's fine. If I were you, I'd look to be more positive and optimistic in my own worldview, learn something from him. About the Trump stuff, Trump is just one man. I'd suggest you don't give one man so much power that he can polarize you to this degree.

Do some push-ups. Channel your sexual-energy!

The 1st Amendment rights would apply in theory. In practice, censorship would not at all go away if they were made public platforms. In fact, before going ahead with making them public platforms, they would have to create a 'Ministry of Truth' in which they lay down their doctrine of Absolute Truth. And anyone doing 'misinformation' would be officially cancelled. (Sounds Orwellian, but this is what they would have to do to clearly define their agenda for censorship.) If they don't do all of this stuff, they would lose their function of 'protecting people'. And the government and its politicians would die. Because in a world where true freedom exists, they have nothing to do.

@StarStruck Don't approach in front of a child. Pick-up is an adult activity. If it's a family-friendly environment where families are spending time, they are very likely to frown upon you trying to pick up girls there. Go to a better environment for it, like a bar or club.

And I was asking you to prove to me that it was about 'culture', I was asking you what you know about culture and what the 1 guy did differently from the general trend of the culture. You didn't answer me. What am I supposed to infer from that?!

Fine, then. Mods? Please look into this. You don't get away doing shit like this on my watch. Is that clear?!

You have to, to prove to me that you're not racist. To save your own face. Says the person giving the orders right now. Do you know there's a forum-policy against racism?! You have to justify your comments and prove that you're not being racist here.

You have to. It's not an option for you. And, what did he do differently from the other guys?

Prove it to me. Have you seen Indian guys who aren't 'misogynistic and entitled'? Listen, ma'am. You have made a racist comment and I'm asking you for an explanation. I don't give a fuck about your opinion when it comes to 'feeling better about myself'. Is that clear?!

It was a racist stereotype. If you're unable to come up with counter-examples of individual Indian guys who aren't 'misogynistic and entitled', how am I supposed to believe your points about the culture? Definitely comes across as ignorant about the culture and lacking in just knowledge and exposure to it.

You should thank your lucky, privileged stars that people are taking your racist opinions seriously.