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Well, best case scenario of them is of course acquiring Taiwan without sparking war with other countries like the US, Japan, Australia. So for sure they do NOT want a long-term war with other players involved, but they DO want "war" as in invading Taiwan, sooner or later. They're literally doing military training on a replica of downtown Taipei which they created in their desert. Next level planning lol.

Your "serious epistemological questions" are what you're distracting yourself with away from a lived life, and you've built an identity on it which you now can't let go of. There's a time and place for everything. You don't have your life sorted out but you plan to "solve" existence? Do you really think you can do it from this place? Balance, dude. I'll use myself as an example: I handle things in my life - full-time job, girlfriend, family + friendship, chores, growing as an creative outlet, working on physique - AND pretty much always finding time to focus on reality when the calling comes, upgrading understanding, asking myself powerful questions. Do you realize how much insight there is waiting for you once you DO things in life, instead of just sitting in place and thinking with no experience acquired? There is SO much insight which mirrors the workings of reality in physical training, in relationships, in your job, creative expression, hobbies, basically everywhere. Not to be demeaning, but your "epistemological questions" are really not that important, truly. I get that you think they are, I completely realize that you find what I'm saying here offensive, because this is what you genuinely think YOU are. I am undermining a very large part of your sense of identity and purpose right now, consciously. But dude, connect the dots. You are depressed. You haven't been taking a lot of action in life. You haven't even had a job. This is a wake up call. You are not some martyr, sacrificing yourself for the sake of these deep epistemological questions. This is not your time to be doing this. You just want a sense of purpose in life, you don't want to feel the void inside of you, and so you're thinking, thinking, thinking about these "important" things. Instead of acting, acting, acting. If you are really serious about spirituality, do an experiment: let go of spirituality, and your need to tackle existential/epistemological questions, for the time being. You can do that later in life. Letting go of THAT would be the hardest for you, and thus this would be the greatest growth. A man must be able to burn down everything in his life. Be capable of dying and changing, rising from the ashes. Killing yourself is really fun, when you get into it. Kill what you are right now. "A philosopher". Kill that, for fun. And try to be different things, create different identites, develop other energy sources. I recommend it. Btw, this is completely wrong and backwards. You will not "solve" existence from your current place, prior to engaging with life. And "solving" existence does not help with material success in the slightest. You will achieve a particular thing by acting on that thing and learning while doing so, not by thinking about acting without zero actual doing. This is you: "I must understand EVERYTHING before I can do ANYTHING". No. Paralysis by analysis taken to it's utter extreme.

China is preparing for war.

Good analysis!

@yetineti I doubt you yourself know what you are talking about, and why. Where exactly is there any „conspiracy” talk in anything I wrote? Do you know what a conspiracy is, or are you just throwing words around? If the mere concept of WWIII and high tensions in the world is so difficult for you to grasp, then I don’t know what to tell you. Yes, „anyone can make predictions”, but the point is to make educated predictions which test your understanding. Making good predictions is generally a sign of good understanding. If my predictions are wrong, then I will admit that. But then again, I am not attached to them. If someone completely dismisses WWIII and then soon it actually happens, that says something about the person’s understanding. Then again, if someone is 100% set on the fact that we will get a war and we don’t, that’s also a sign of wrong understanding. But I am not that. I have a prediction but I’m willing to be wrong. And really, stop with the reddit-like obnoxiousness. If you have the same attitude with people IRL, that’s not wholesome 100.

Get off your high horse. This is the most reddit post I have ever read on this forum. The obnoxiousness is appalling. Don’t engage in the thread if you don’t like it. You didn’t provide any arguments or perspective anyway.

Very good points, I agree. I think what people miss is that the start of WW3 doesn’t have to look like nukes flying over our heads. Do you really need to see something so explicit to see the world is at war, or approaching it? Before WW2 „started” in 1939, war has been raging in the East since 1937 and Germany has been pursuing expansive policies since 1933. When Hitler annexed Austria and Czechoslovakia in 1938-1939, would you call people stupid who said the world is heading to war again? Have a little imagination. There is a LOT of tension in the world on so many different fronts. The world seems to be literally itching for war, where most countries would in some way be entangled, due to alliances and such. That’s what makes it a world war. I’m not talking about nukes from the get-go. And a character like Trump is only accelerating everything, putting pressure and strain on country relations. This is not unreasonable in the slightest. Anyone dismissing it outright is simply closed-minded. At least provide arguments, lol. My bet is that there will be a world war by 2028, most likely by 2027. Again, because there is simply too much tension between countries and the leader of the most powerful country on Earth is an unintelligent egomaniac. We already have a war in Ukraine since 2022, a genocide in Gaza and a looming regional war in the Middle East now. Add Koreas to that when North Korea senses there is a good opportunity to strike. Add China when they sense a good moment to strike Taiwan, when the US is distracted. It doesn’t take much more to get a world war, where major powers are entangled. But we’re not talking about ground invasions of the US/China/Russia or necessarily using nukes. Really, just open your mind to scenarios. @Leo Gura I encourage you to make a definitive prediction whether WW3 will happen soon (let’s say by 2028) or not, based purely on the state of the world right now. You can add to that what you deem a world war is - we need to be on the same page. To repeat once more for clarity, I am not necessarily talking about nukes from the get-go or ground invasions of top countries. If you ask me whether a nuke will be detonated by 2028 anywhere in the world - I don’t know. I don’t think so, but it’s possible. I give it a 20% chance, let’s say. If you consider your analysis of the state of the world superior, make the prediction and stick to it, and we’ll see what the future will bring. Your dismissals with zero arguments are disrespectful and not fun to engage with. Btw, I’m not attached to this and I’m not some conspiracy theorist. It’s just what I predict will happen, based on what is today and the characters involved. My posts here are not fueled by fear, moreso by curiosity and excitement.

Really though, why do people think a world war is SO far-fetched? I don’t get that. There is so much tension for so many countries, the world is literally itching for war. And Trump is the perfect idiot to set everything in motion - with bombing Iran, for example. But it will go much further than that. You guys are underestimating humanity if you think we can’t have another world war. New abysmally low points for humanity are waiting to be met. That’s my take (and has been for a long time now).

Unreasonable position. Moreover: I think WWIII should be talked about more and it should be brought more to the surface, because people for sure ARE having thoughts about it. Better to talk about this than not. I’m not paranoid about this. But to me it’s quite obvious that WW3 will happen rather soon. Hell, it’s oblivious to think that we won’t have a world war in our lifetime. How can you be surprised that a world is brought to war when people elect morons like Donald Trump? I genuinely don’t know what’s surprising about it.

I also doubt Russia would invade Europe. Perhaps just the baltic states. Like I mentioned, I also think direct nuclear clashes between top countries is rather unlikely. Perhaps the issue here is a definition of a "world war". I suppose most people here think of it as major powers nuking each other. I don't, necessarily.

All of this is literally irrelevant to your life. Your problem is that you are too stuck in the head. "How can i know that studying hard will make me get wealth and payoff ?" - You should be able to do things for the sake of them, not the wealth and payoff. Developing character, acting on your motivations, growing in the process - THAT'S the point. "Given the fact that I cannot know with 100% certainty what is objectively real.. how can I know what is morally correct with 100% certainty?" - For your purposes this is a useless question, just stop thinking and start acting on what resonates. "How can I know anything on the practical level if i don't know anything on the metaphysical/existential level ?" - You can know, and you do. There is zero problem here. Basically, this entire issue of yours is self-created mental prison. Focus on realizing yourself "ordinarily". Let go, see where you are led towards. Acting in reality and getting the "ordinary" things done is, at least in my experience, what brings happiness on a very fundamental level, AND it is the most resisted thing and the mind wants to do literally anything else. Speaking from experience. "Anything but actually doing the things in my life!!!" Drop the fantasies of living in caves and thinking about nebulous concepts all the time, even if you think they are the "truth". You've built an identity on that and letting go of it feels like dying, I get that. But you're not actually losing anything. Good luck.

Damn, that's powerful words. Cheers!

@zazen Cool! Thanks so much for your perspective and insights. 1. Honestly I'm not necessarily thinking of WWIII as a nuclear showdown between top countries. Like I mentioned, I think even in a world war nuking would probably still be very limited. US would probably not nuke mainland China or Russia and vice versa. But more strategic targets elsewhere - perhaps. 2. I think enough pressure can create buy-in for a significant war, using ground troops. It's not completely unlikely. An attack/strike on US would be more than enough, for example. Think Pearl Harbour. 3. Perhaps going against asymmetric warfare and going against main rivals are 2 different things, decrease in confidence in one doesn't need to decrease confidence for another. I dunno tho.

@yetineti The guy has exceptional understanding of history. You can watch his longer lectures. There was no fearmongering in the video. You guys are really judging badly.

It isn't impossible. Open your mind. Iran definitely could force the US into invading it. All it takes is putting enough pressure.

@PurpleTree Maybe. Or maybe not. 🤷‍♂️ Perhaps there could be a world war with limited use of nukes. Nuking is very taboo, after all. If a country used it, everyone would turn away from them. It would be their "social annihilation" and probably also literal annihilation. Why not just nuke Kyiv to force Ukraine to surrender, from Russia's perspective? Even if the world didn't respond with nuking Russia (and they probably wouldn't), Russia would be completely cooked on the world stage. It all depends whether we cross that boundary of nuking each other. Once it stops being taboo and everyone does it, God help us.

We'll see how things unfold. I'm pretty much set that there will be a World War by 2028, especially since 1) the US is at its lowest point with Trump (intelligence-wise, and with the US population being torn apart) and 2) there is too much unresolved tension in the world (between China and Taiwan, North and South Korea, India and Pakistan, Russia and Ukraine, Israel and Gaza/Iran). The best time for everyone to try accomplish their strategic goals is now/soon, and it'll most likely be done all in one time. Hence a world war. Simply too much tension. The dominos will fall. Does anyone actually doubt it? I'm not saying this to fearmonger. It's quite exciting, and I'm curious to see the world afterwards. There would be a lot of change. But the time of war will of course be difficult as fuck.

Stop bullshitting and go work with your „ordinary” life. That’s the hard thing to do. That’s where you are actually led, seeing beyond what you are writing here. You will engage in a thousand fantasies of living in some cave or whatever before you confront the simple reality and do what’s actually necessary in your life. That which will heal you and make your actual dreams come true. That’s what is most resisted. And the way to let go and make your true, „ordinary” dreams happen is to let things be and see when you are led when you’re not insisting on anything. Follow that, it’s natural to you. Stop running away.

That’s a bad judgement of the owner of the channel I shared. The guy is sincere, if you care to look into him.

"This is not a religious post" Writes a religious post

I was wondering how the hell did I garner 1.8K posts in less than 3 years? On my previous account which I used for 3.5 years and then abandoned (I wanted a different username, got approval from Leo) I only had like 600 posts. So, out of curiosity, I dug in into the data. Distribution of my posts per subforum (stats from this account) Average daily posts per year (stats from this account) Pretty neat. Took me around half an hour to get the results. I really like analyzing data.

@TruthFreedom Please watch what you say next. You’re walking on a thin line.

Introduction Last week I took 300ug of LSD, mostly with the intention to confront fears I encountered during previous trips. Those included: After serious ego loss and intense fear of death arising, fighting to have a purpose for my life, as if that was what would save me from death. The reasoning was, as silly as it sounds: “if I can’t come up with a reason for my existence right now, I will die”. A tribalistic paranoia, fear of being discovered by someone, fear of being closed in the room and someone else being in the apartment, fear that someone is behind me. Fear during the state where I don’t know anything, I literally don’t remember anything at all, what my name is, who I am, etc. Fear of reality “simplifying itself” to the point of death, fear of being motionless / falling asleep during the trip because I think I will die. Fundamentally, fear of death. To counter these, my focus was to: “Let Death into my heart”; Open the gates Accept being purposeless, that it is okay and I will not die Accept no identity and not remembering anything, that it is okay as well Relax and feel into being safe in God Confront other key fears listed above I simplified these points of focus, wrote them out on pieces of paper and laid them in front of me, so that I would come back to them throughout the trip. Moreover, since I always experience profound feelings of Self-definition during my trips, my intention was to focus on 3 key archetypes/energies which are important to me right now, once the identity was gone, to program myself: I am a Man. I achieve my Goals. I Act. I am an Artist. I express my Voice. I Create. I am a Sage. I nourish my Peace. I Meditate. I said goodbyes to my gf I live with, closed myself off in my room for 3 hours and went from there. Throughout the entire trip I wrote in my notebook. I mostly sat on the floor, surrounded by a few sheets of paper, and took everything in, while observing myself and responding to fears. Key Awakenings I don’t exist For the first time, I really awakened to the fact that I don’t exist. This was during the beginning of the trip. I was writing a stream of consciousness in the notebook and I asked the question: “Do I even exist?”. The question reached my awareness and suddenly I was completely dumbstruck. My jaw dropped. My initial reaction was like “Of course I exist!!!”. But I looked and there was no me. Mindfuck. After that, so much energy started emanating from me I thought everyone around me in the residential block was feeling it. It was incredible. Nothing I saw utter Nothingness. It was like I was in a completely empty Void. There was NOTHING satisfying about it for me. I was scared of the truth being negative in some way. In retrospect, I see that I wanted to discover SOMETHING. I wanted to discover some kind of divine love, inspiration, hope, reason. I wanted nothingness to be something good… but no. No love, no hope, NOTHING. It was exactly what it was. Nothingness. Devoid of any features. I saw it clearly, and it was humbling. I AM; SOMETHING is there And yet, in spite of seeing that I don’t exist, of not remembering anything about me and after seeing the Nothingness, I later felt that something was calling to me. It was as if it was hidden behind some veil, completely inaccessible to me. There was SOMETHING there, and it was ALIVE. I wrote in my notebook: I am SOMETHING. But what? This SOMETHING was instantaneous. I felt that I was it, but I was in no control of it. It was Same to me, and yet completely Other. It was writing things through me, without my conscious intent. For the first time, I felt MYSELF so clearly. I AM. Still, I don’t yet understand the dynamics of it. But I feel there is something amazing to be found there, and I’m excited about that. “Alien” vibration penetrating me Okay, so this is another thing that’s been difficult for me in previous trips, which I forgot about. Maybe I cut it out of my memory due to the great discomfort associated with it. Lately, each time I take LSD and lose my identity completely, I feel penetrated by some weird, “alien”, unifying vibration, by which I feel raped, used, taken advantage of. Feeling it, I feel like I’ve made some big mistake taking LSD. I feel possessed. At times, I feel something is taking control of me and I’m acting in weird, unpredictable manners, which is scaring me. During this trip, this happened when I was very high-level, and later on each time I focused on accepting the fear of dying and being no one. I felt this foreign vibration running through me. I felt discomfort, but I tried to persevere. I was set on confronting any fear and letting go of myself. Still, I felt taken advantage of. I don’t have good words to describe it, but that energy was weird, alien-like, sexual, foreign, flowing through me when I let go. If I had to describe it visually, I felt it as something white with 8 eyes, spanning through the entire visual field, inhuman, all-unifying, sexual, flowing. But I might as well be bullshitting myself, that’s not the point. The most important thing is: I don’t know yet what it is, and how to deal with this. I know I must separate my feelings about it from the actual thing, and it’s difficult because I feel great discomfort towards it. I’m wondering whether I can start approaching it differently and experience more positive feelings towards it. She is Other to me Close to the end of the trip, I contemplated what my girlfriend is. I was like: “Well, of course she is me. Right?”. And I tried “looking into her”. But to my surprise, she was completely inaccessible to me. She was Other to me. “Wait… how can she be Other to me, if we are the Same?!” It was a mindfuck to realize others are the Same and Other at the same time. I gained a new level of respect for my girlfriend, in particular. Later, I told her: “I respect you, because I can’t reach you with my mind. You are, and always will be, a Mystery to me. I see you differently now.” This can refer to Reality in general. What I said in the “I AM; SOMETHING is there” section: that SOMETHING was also completely Other to me, even though I was It. Maybe that SOMETHING is in everything I see, including my girlfriend. I think that theoretically, I could realize that I can’t reach anything I see with my mind, and that everything is a Mystery, not just my gf - but that’s beyond the scope of that trip. Miscellaneous I felt the above 5 sections were the most distinct, content-packed and worth sharing. Besides these, I experienced other things/awakenings/insights, such as: “Everything stems from the fact that I’m afraid of Death”. Feeling that I’m always running away from myself. I am this Dream which is leading itself Will/Intention being instantaneous and action in reality “lagging behind”, I was a bit impatient about it “Being the furthest away (from “life-content”), you can’t do anything but love.” “I want to be someone in this world. I want to express my Voice.” I felt like I’m not worthy, not “someone” enough. I want to fix something in myself all the time. Can’t I just love myself? At one point, I felt it was hard for me to stay in the body. I was walking around the room and felt so much energy accumulating in me, I thought I’d die. This single thing made me consider reducing dosing in the future. Looking at my hand felt overwhelming at one point, as if God was beaming its full energy at my face. I was looking away. Also, holding the fully stretched hand close to my face, I felt as if it was completely surrounding me. I was scared of it. Loss of consciousness was disappointing at one point. I was on such a high level. I felt cheated going “down”. I felt the “earthly” life was such an insignificant dream/illusion and it was for low-consciousness idiot beings. But this feeling passed quite quickly. At the end of the trip, I focused on manifesting what I want in life - among others, the 3 key archetypes I mentioned in the intro Focusing on the fact that I REALLY wanted the best for myself, that I wanted happiness in life, I wanted hope, inspiration, energy, I wanted to live and accomplish, that I wanted everything to be alright in the end. Key lessons & how to proceed Next time, I will strive to not want anything from NOTHING and to love it for what it is. Unsatisfying, unborn, raw, pure truth. I can see the fact that it's unsatisfying as actually the best thing about it. Shows me my bias perfectly. Focus on looking deeper into SOMETHING behind the veil. I feel there’s something important there for me to find. Perhaps, this is where I can genuinely discover God/Infinite Love for the first time. Seems plausible, given how this SOMETHING felt to me during this trip. I had God-realizations before, but it was more about me being God - never before did I discover God/Love/Intelligence which is „Alive” and Other to me. Understand my feelings of being taken advantage of by the „alien” vibration. Can I change my relation to it? Is it growth to accept this „foreign” energy penetrating me? Should I learn to be submissive, is that the way? What is this „alien” vibration? Goal: Learn to love and receive it. Experiment with being submissive and accepting something „foreign”. Fuck it, if it’s growth, I want it, I don’t care. Consider lowering my LSD dose to 225ug Consider trying a different psychedelic soon, probably DMT Outro Thanks for reading. If you have any comments, feel free to share. Peace! I got the Magic in me! 🌟

Honest questions: Have you done it? How do you differentiate this „accessing of another’s mind” from it still being „your mind”? I feel like you’d say there even no such separation.

@samijiben Thank you! Awesome. That’s what I call „energetic consciousness”: