I think about the self a bit. I am like that I think about the most fundamental thing in reality. Seemingly “obvious” things.
I thought to myself why there has to be a self. It’s a quite tragic phenomena like Jim Newman has said and I agree. No matter how we flip it we can’t overlook the tremendous suffering in the world that all boils down to having a self. Am I not right? No self would entail no suffering. Who would suffer? Even physical pain wouldn’t be suffering without a self or am I wrong? 
If so, maybe the self is needed to avoid physical pain to sustain the body’s survival?
Why did evolution have to create an ego? What’s the purpose? Is it needed for conceptual thinking maybe? Can you think conceptually without a self? Is it needed for daily functioning? I mean some non dualists say you function just as well without a self. So why did it have to arise at all? It must be serving a function otherwise it wouldn’t arise right? 
 
Maybe I sound negative. But that’s how I been feeling lately. Battling with the most fundamental thing in reality. 

It depends if you’re with the right partner, and you have high sexual compatibility with that partner.
Sexual compatibility is separate from social compatibility or values compatibility, or intellectual compatibility.
When you have high sexual compatibility, the sex just keeps getting better and better and better for years, it does not slow down.
Also, if you want to have good sex stop masturbating. And have sex once a week. This is the ideal recovery time for explosive sex.
This will also depend on another factors like if you have a low sex drive. Then at that point it’s always gonna be a mediocre.
 

People have been contemplating this question over 2000 years. Of course you won't figure it out in 1hr.
What is math? is ultimately a metaphysical question.
I don't fully understand what math is. It's an area that I need to contemplate more.

But what about the underlying unit or quantity? What is that?

I knew this, I was just confirming. You can't know all the endless forms.
You said that sentence in a different sense in that video. 
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This discussion made me go into existential investigation and solipsism (I'm feeling as if it was pointless talking to you bcz I am being conscious and somewhere I know you are imaginary and I am alone.) 
and I realise I should write only after enough contemplation. I'll come back later. I'm not going to leave this thread untill it's resolved. 
 

When we say that reality or God is ONE, is that just a human invention? A symbolic thing? Or is ONE something deeper? And if ONE is something deeper then what about 2? And the rest?
Things for ya'll to contemplate.

It certainly is not that.
Computers perform multiplication. They are not just reading answers off some pre-calculated table.
You can build a mechanical, physical, multiplication machine. That is the basis for all CPUs and GPUs.

They are. Especially in cases like these which is technical analytic philosophy.
Philosophy of mathematics is a serious field. You can get a PhD in it.

The only reason I brought it up was because someone here was claiming that all Russian women are hotties. Which is not the case.

I am half Russian, half Ukrainian, and half American.

I helped my now ex raise her daughter, and I currently have a son. 
Parenting can help you grow by making you more responsible and patient. But kid behavior can also rub off on you, and stress or tiredness can sometimes lead to not so mature reactions, lol.

There's no general rule.
Orange/Green is where most people start.
There are many starting points.
1g of mushrooms or 100ug of LSD is good for beginners.
Not really.
Hard to say. It just depends how mature you are.
I suggest waiting till you're 25.

Save the playlists from this channel that are relevant to your situations : 
https://m.youtube.com/@DocSnipes/playlists
Watch this : 
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=I44AMQ0ADsk [Eckhart Tolle] this is a relevant video. 
Transcript : 
@Staples

2025
January 1st - A tower, a spire, red and yellow ball creatures. Bad portent as "The Tower" tarot card, but more towards neutrality or positivity in potential. Year of upheaval and yellow (caution) and red (danger) thoughtforms in the collective psyche. A painting on a house, owned by a 'doctor' (possibly a negatively oriented Carl Jung) and a Minecraft pig. This suggests a message about what Leo calls epistemic pigs or an intelligence of malfeasance manipulating this New Year's day. A cardinal, representative of flight but also of the Catholic Church and rigidity, which will be a side character such as Squidward from Spongebob. Bubbles, jellyfish, Sandy, Spongebob. Significance of this day is that it is like a reef under water representative of the subconscious, leading to fields and rainbows of potential but with blackbirds portentous of trickery. Celebration and potentiality backdrop context for the upcoming year, characters preparing with this context as background.
January 2nd - Black bird, yellow bird, birdbox, nails, camp, summercamp, temporal hyper-interconnection, eternity, The Sun, baby, wealth, happy. Geopolitical events related to money, religion, and Cairo. Trump will say something related to death, red for blood and box for coffins. Fixation on possibility of war negative but overall positive, like Snape. Accuracy of war possibility not happening associated with positive vibrations and well-built, but with minimally good objects, accuracy of it happening associated with aesthetically acceptable men with boots, but mostly paucity. Car crash deadly. Incidents related to Twitter, Bluesky, and SCOTUS.
January 3rd - Piracy, crime, sex crimes, kinks, Michelle Wu (mayor of Boston), mountains, rivers, Mulan (androgyny?), buildings, family, chastisement, specific events related to frugalness of economy (so high spending but low prices or high prices and low spending), lions, girls dressed as lions, girl dressed as lion saying "I have a lot of money" where money is a metaphor for subtle energy expenditure, lions represent bravery and beauty / decorativeness.
January 4th - Darker day, leadup to Jan 6. Trump on phone, making aggressive or neutrally confused call. Picnic on one hand. One woman and one male as well as me and one other person have some cosmic and planetary importance. There is a dark manipulator behind the scenes even as people try to use positivity as a context for the upcoming event-perspectives. The manipulator is associated with snakes. Leo will disbelieve the prophecy but believe as he reads on. It is too much for it to simply be random. It needs symbolic associative significance.
January 5th - Pyramid shaped mountains. Suggesting energetic working upon Iran. Weakening of the IRGC. Ali's inevitable conversion to intuitive sufiism. Iran on path to become social democracy by 2050. On this day mountains of evidence of this inevitability or necessity in 89,000,000 Iranians.
January 6th - Earth pleasurably massaged (like a prostate). Orion constellation triangle-shaped craft. Desert. Function. Nickelodeon playing frequencies that hush. Ra Egyptian related to human sexuality. Manipulator may be related to kundalini or root chakra. Images associated with manipulator: Trump, Vaush, my parrot, Jar-Jar, assassinated IRGC General Soleimani and assassinated Hamas leader Soleimani. On January 6th earth has special cosmic alignment, blackness behind sun, green happy and gleeful snake emerging from it. Word for certification of the vote: "Orionic". Big yellow bird, associated with ending of infinite intelligence descending into Israel on this day. No terrorist attack attempted on this day, though significant tension over possibility in collective zeitgeist. Small gathering outside Capitol.
January 7th - White snakes. Fourth density positive birds. Snakes, juvenile playthings of gods. Swords. River running with blood, suggesting sexual connotation rather than literal violence. Extreme wealth and sexuality on this day for earth.
January 8th - Darkness sopping. From Ukraine-Russia. Crayons suggesting creative diversity of events besides that. Trump losing weight, checking weight on scale to prolong lifespan and reign. The nature of the manipulator is a fourth density being, Gonzo from The Muppets (mental image form), which has attached itself to Trump, to me and my thoughts or paranoia, and through various emanations to the world. The only way to stop it is through violence against it, red (color of grounding and root chakra), purple (color of higher consciousness and unity and sight), mixtures of these colors, the root chakra and the chakra above the head.
January 9th - Hot, heat, Ripley and Noot from Aliens, screaming, xenomorphs, attack, reality system difference or divergence, Trump embarrassed but not so too too much less emboldened by reality, manipulator has been on earth for 64+ years, manipulator has morbid associations with reptiles in relation to death and stagnation and unencumbered darkness, high-vibration birds and electromagnetic highness are "concluding" counterbalance.
January 10th - Basket of naan. I will probably eat Indian food that day.
January 11th - Road, operation of "the devil" entity from my dream, phallic imagery. Dark day for the world. Emergence of warring entities upon the earth (attempt deflected). Entities that are so evil it's impossible for them to physically exist; that level of negativity could not physically have a body or be compatible with our physical reality.
January 12th - "sick"
January 13th - Ra, good guys hiding undercover, like Lando at Jabba's Palace. Manipulator in silly ridiculous form.
January 14th - Good guys infighting.
January 15th - Patterns and habits continue much as usual across the globe. Dark aliens energize and power above the glove but don't do and can't do and don't know about doing much. Progress with Iran and The White House in preparation for Trump.
January 16th - Actualized.org becomes bastion of beauty. Randomness in relation to entities, needs extrication from bad reality systems and uptick towards beauty, protecting beautiful entities from poor environments, beautifying environments and entities.
January 17th - Squirrels, representative of vital beings and parasite and buggers from the nervous world or the astral plane, clowns like cotton candy, rainbow curly hair, rainbow suggesting LGBTQ renewal in face of mockery or adversity, bridge to vital world, vital buggers stale tickets, meaning, meaning changes according to retrocausality and which year the meaning is selected according to. Trickster archetype. Anakin saying, "You underestimate my [WOER AAAAAAA"
January 18th - Joaquin Phoenix shutting his eyes in scientological-esque auditing. Joaquin is symbol of actor, good actor, where good acting is realistic replication of personal and situational energy patterns. Negative side he retreats inward (shutting eyes situation). Positive side he exists in action-laden and -upcoming situation but with "conclusion" of sexual assault (a la Joker Volie a Deaux) leading down into the negative path (eyes shut). This transforms extreme energy and meaning to the negative path, extreme power. This is related to the archetype across the world in the form the trickster [or joker, if you will].
January 19th - As to whether Luigi would get jury nullification, image of shovels and spades. As to no, large pyramids. This is a contrast of local small tools moving versus nonlocal large tools stationary. Clarification: He will not get jury nullification. Likely will get mistrial, due to intensity of probability in meaning. Jan 19th melting glittery furnace light and lava.
January 20th - Luigi will not be assaulted in prison, as this is not a full repeat of Volie a Deaux, or Volie a Deaux is not a direct oracular comparison, Luigi is more positive and Arthur Fleck is more negative. Jan 20ths curtains, theater, the show beginning, people in seats, Thomas Campbell physicist appears on JRE, Trump inaugurated, experiments with crystals continue above the earth. Infinite intelligence having casually restarted descending into Israel slows before stopping when Trump touches the Bible.
January 21st - Obnoxious Trump speech, incompetent bumbling, nonsensical ineffectual transition as all competent people file out or do nothing. High schoolers' lives continue with new background. Image of soup with eyeballs, suggesting "Kronos" the Greek god eating eggs and sperm (eyeballs = eggs, soup = sperm). Humorous. I really can't figure out what that means either. It suggests a corruption or ridiculous-ification of reproduction and production in society due to Trump corrupting the human race's context (for the next four years). Positive souls make positive humorous use of it. Manipulator less powerful than deviations from truth due to Trump. There are two bowls of soup, a larger one for those who either duped or sardonically-satirically accept the nonsense and a smaller more sensible one for those who don't, who are serious and can't really handle it that much.
January 22nd - Crucified Columbia angel. Recognition of Trump's foolishness sets in.
January 23rd - Goldengate Bridge, represents suicide.
January 24th - Looting, theft, burglary themes.
January 25th - Trashy angels, clock, alarm clock, improvised biological alarm clock, injections and veins, RFK Jr., melting, Big Ben, Uri Geller telekinesis and foolishness, Uri Geller telekinesis despite delusional belief in Trump, grassy knolls, teletubbies (media?), The Sun. Connection to 2017.
January 26th - Telekinesis, telekinetic practitioners, tele-whatever hills, telepathy and telekinesis baked right into the environment of a specific location in Himalayas.
January 27th - Croc or alligator on Trump golf course.
January 28th - Swimming pool seemingly abandoned but clean.
January 29th - Trophy on end of pencil presented to girl for academic achievement.
January 30th - Teen suicide, overdoses.
January 31st - Candace Owens, pervertry, stupidity, goldengate zero (cosmic intelligence).

1. It is possible to come to complete acceptance of pain and difficulty in life.
2. Ego backlash occurs.
3. If you implement a few habits at a time patiently, it adds up to great progress in the long-term.

In my youth, my dreams were vast: becoming a musician, a successful businessman, a bohemian, a public intellectual, a diplomat, a world savior. But as years passed and the irreversibility of my choices became increasingly clear, each decision narrowed my path, honing in on who I truly am and what drives me.
Now that I'm halfway through my 20s, the reality of my finitude struck me deeply. I realized that I alone am responsible for the life I create, without a divine plan guiding me. The notion that a higher power justifies my choices became increasingly childish and irresponsible to me. Instead, I recognized that my own will is divine and shapes my destiny and ultimately echoes throughout the entire web of reality.
I've also become a lot more chill in the sense that I've come to accept that I can't do it all, and there's no shame in that. All I can do is do me. So I really started to appreciate other people doing their thing and giving their gift.

I want the following things in them : 
 Admirable. Has high self esteem.  Understanding, Wisdom, Intelligence, Common Sense and Maturity. Healthy lifestyle. MMA fighter. Politeness, Caring nature, Empathy. Philosophical. Like-minded. Always keeps commitments. Never loses dignity. Never does anything that makes me feel embarrassed. Has high standards and values. I wanna fall in deep love. I have to cry on their shoulder, when overwhelmed.
I want someone who loves me and proposes me first. It would be the best feeling in the world if someone proposes me. Cz I've always been doubtful whether I can attract sb or not. 
 
 

Hate can sometimes be coupled with a lack of understanding of someone. If you truly understood them and could step into their shoes you maybe wouldnt hate them.  

Hi,
I had different vision of realization (it is mistake from the beginning, any vision at all i know) that after you find, who u really are, you'll get into state of peaceful bliss, joy, love. My realization instead is kinda based of fear, that it doesn't even matter at all, it doesn't make any sense,  there's only "me-god" so i had to make illusion of separate self, to not get lonely.

I know it's only a thought, and kinda of experience, and if u focus on "here and now" and emotions like "love" it gets peaceful, but anyway, it kinda feels like "illusion" because there's literally "no-other". 

It gets kinda sad, and pointless? What's your view on this? ( so basically what's your illusion of this?)

Newport Beach, CA is one of the best places in the US. But hella expensive.
Florida Keys are really cool, but hurricanes ruin it.
Hawaii is awesome but impractically remote and limited.

You actually do have to do stuff to get the money. Go to meetings, write applications for jobs., go to programs.
If they offer you a shit job (like cleaning the park) you have to accept it. Otherwise they fine you/take some of your money. And i think usually it’s much less than 2100

@Candle The world needs new religions. Actual religions are outdated, if you can bring an uplifting system that unites people towards higher consciousness that is very much welcomed.
I've been contemplating that as well, I had a profound epiphany where it was shown to me the need for new Religions to happen, in a very holistic advanced sense.

Hi Indians!