Schizophonia

Can you give an idea of Peter Raltson techniques ? 🤔

I know tons of communist thinkers; They're by far the most rigorous. The far left, in general, is where the intellectual level is the highest, even if I don't like some of the ideas that are quite common in this milieu (laxity with justice and immigration, typically). Whereas it's quite weak on the right and basically completely nonexistent among liberals.

There is no left in the United States to win back the popular vote.

What do you call Junk ? There isn't a single day that goes by where I don't eat a good amount of refined starch/sugar or oil in various forms lol (white pastas/rice, oils/butter, chips, fries, cakes, bread, pizza, sandwiches, candy, soda...); I just recently replaced the coke with sparkling water.

@Sugarcoat @Breakingthewall @Salvijus It's funny because the more time passes, the more I see things in a non-dual way. For example, when someone talks to me about "cars," rather than simply quickly embracing the concept of "car" as something obvious and obligatory, I'll view it with greater detachment and contemplate the absurdity of investing in something relative. What? You "like" "driving" "a car," a "block" of "metal" that "moves"? And there are plenty of people who like "cars." If you see what i mean.

There is nowhere to go.

I eat junk food all the time. I just eat enough nutritious foods on the side and sometimes take vitamins.

Eheh.

Yes.

My post was a little aggressive mea culpa.

I don't understand why you say that children and animals are closer to non-duality while at the same time you tacitly imply that they are more positivist than adults. The older and more mature you are, the more you realize the complexity of the world, the closer you feel to others, and the closer you come to a non-dual state. Unless you're crazy; You talk about psychosis, but precisely psychotics live in a fantasy world. Children are closer to psychosis than adults. I thought it was clever to say that stimulation = mental discourse in the constitution of the sense of self, that's all. It's a punctual reaction.

Smart deduction.

@Sugarcoat Lol. There are two things, in parallel: 1)We use the forum too much to build a more balanced life, because it's easier. But then our "libido" automatically tends to override the rules. Even sometimes compulsively. 2)Beyond the obvious rules of decency, which I admit I myself have wrongly failed to respect here and there, many people in spirituality or personal development live in an imaginary crusade.

Caricature 🤨

Contradictory

Laughter is revolutionary eheh. https://www.amisderabelais.org/le-rire_en.html

lol

It's not an intelligence problem, it's an anxiety problem; you're anxious, and your particularly intellectual concerns are rooted in this anxiety. So when you communicate with others, rather than chilling out/having fun, sharing normal and varied libidinal anxieties, or even showing interest in others (Especially women! Women are more anxious/manic than men, and the sexual issue particularly takes the form of a transfer of anxiety from women to men), you must, I imagine, rant ad nauseam about your favorite topics and accuse others of not being intelligent enough if they don't want to eat this calorie-laden soup of language. Just understand that behind this narcissism, there is actually anxiety. Just tell yourself that behind all these concepts that you put at the center of your life, there is in fact a childish anxiety; Learn to see how your centers of interest, intellectual constructions do not have that much importance objectively, that it is just a hobby of some kind.

If you're that smart then you would find a way.

Yes Even if it's not conscious, the compulsion to generate repetitive mental discourse, unconsciously to maintain one's sense of self, is very energy-consuming. Anxiety isn't necessarily "stomach knots" or stress; it's an excessive inclination to invest in one's self-concept in general, with both positive symptoms (rumination, anger, stress, OCD, etc.) and negative/indirect symptoms (immobility, fatigue, apathy unless you do extreme things, etc.). Flow is about dissolving one's sense of self; there's no need for video games; even walking in nature, with enough presence, you can return to being a child and enjoy feeling the warm sun, seeing the landscape, seeing the leaves rustling in the breeze, smelling the fragrant wind, having a vision/flashback because of the scent, etc. And when the conversation returns, empathy returns, and we once again need manic things (fast food, gossip, spirituality, politics) (jk) to alternate between pleasure and boredom. To return to 5 MeO DMT, I haven't used it like that, but I have a friend who really likes to use it in small doses for this reason. For him, it's almost similar to cannabis, but without the loss of connection.

Yes, that's why anxiolytics like Buspiron or certain antidepressants have a similar pharmacology, but less potent, than 5 MeO DMT.

Life is a treadmill.

To be the gay friend maybe.

2 is already the maximum, except in exceptional circumstances beyond this number you are friendzoned or at least a plan B.

Continue to get to know her; This will take 1 or 2 additional dates at most, and then escalate explicitly by offering her "a restaurant" or something like that. Push, and if you see that she's tacitly reluctant, block her and move on to another one.