Dragallur

@Gabriel Antonio Amazing, those are the types of posts that this forum needs!

Leo does not support this. He said that it is fine if you meet with another person but he does not want Actualized.org to have much to do with it.

@Anna Konstantaki What an amazing answer! Well done!

@Hardkill You are a male, so do not be surprised because nobody is slut-shaming you, but there quite certainly is slut-shaming even in developed countries. It is just that women do not always share this, maybe because it is just happening so often.

Actually, the guy behind the channel is Brady Haran. He always just films the videos of some math professor speaking on some topic so if you check out more of them you will see more speakers, he also has other channels dedicated to different topics like chemistry for example.

@Ilya Well it would be enough if they stopped smoking for now

@AleksM Yeah as blazed said I really do not have the patience to watch so many of these videos and that was why I responded to the 20 minute one and hopefully showed you why it does not make sense, you could have of course at least reacted to that. The thing is that this is not the first time I am confronting this type of evidence giving and pseudoscience and it gets kind of tiring so unless you provide some strong case against my arguments I won't be really motivated to watch the whole 2 hour documentary. To demonstrate again what type of videos you are sharing, I watched the first one "How thought creates vibration and frequency" and here are my thoughts: The beginning sounds quite legit until he talks about two electrons passing next to each other. You see they do not create some kind of wave just like that. How light (photons) are created is by electron with high energy losing it and radiating it away as light. This light or also electromagnetic radiation has huge spectrum, on one part with a long wavelength and small frequency you got the radio waves than in the "middle" there is really what we see and with a short wavelength and high frequency you got ultraviolet light, x-rays and gamma rays. Now he said that thoughts have shorter wavelengths then what we can see, he pointed it on the board, this would mean that thoughts work like ultraviolet radiation at least. Guess what, ultraviolet radiation can give you tan, a bit more sunburn and eventually cancer... if thoughts are like this we should stop walking around other people and stop our monkey mind before we die. (Actually, I just saw how he pointed x-rays on lower frequency than emotions which means that emotions do probably cause cancer). So from my point of view, this is just bunch of people trying to talk science while they never studied it even on high school level... trust me there is a reason why scientists have to spend decades before they do some hardcore research.

@AleksM I agree, it was a bit rude from me to immediately respond without looking on those links, I took notes on the one about water and vibration (20 minutes): Ok so I watched the 20-minute video about water and here are my thoughts: So what is giving the frequency sweep to the Earth? Our pulse? How does that affect the whole world? He is showing what he says is vibrating water on different frequencies, how does that change into the idea that feeling, thought and emotion is a vibration? Btw. these patterns are nice only subjectively. So he basically played some sound to water and then said that this applies to thoughts too, what the hell. Then comes this second guy (or is it the same one?) who says that everything is sound and that thoughts are sound outside of the frequency that we can hear or what. Again he jumped to that conclusion after saying that sand makes certain patterns on a metal plate. Oh, come on! He says that in the beginning the world was sound and it was created like that, how can that make any sense? How is everything sound? At roughly 6:50 he talks about sound and how it affects galaxies and matter, but you know, one does not create sound in a VACUUM! Our heart beats faster when we are stressed simply because it tries to prepare us for some stress like situation (I am not biologist though), there is nothing wrong with a higher heartbeat, it normally happens when........ you are running! They write that water is a concept, of course, we make the concept of a water inside our head to label it somehow and it could be an illusion. About the water crystals even if it really worked like that there is no reason why it should affect the body how good or bad water crystal looks like, again this is totally subjective and metal music is very complex and does not have clean sounds in there. Btw. as somebody else said: If water truly had a memory then city tap water would be one of the most dangerous substances on the planet. So that's it you see? I am of course biased towards my beliefs, you were very much on point with that, but I also think I have raised quite important questions that everybody should ask if they watch a video like that.

@AleksM Anyway if we go back to this metal thing that I mentioned... you know it seems to me like someone who does not like some type of music because it is "harder" than what he normally listens to creates some experiment that "proves" how good words change the structure of water. I think all of you add just too much of an emphasis on human beings as us having some kind of "abilities" while confirming them either with confirmation bias or placebo effect. Btw. I quite enjoy metal music and always feel empowered by it and also I ignore all of my food at home and it does not seem going crazy, would this apply to anything? Like trees in a forest, my table? Do these things understand all languages or does a thought have ultimate "vibe" to it no matter the language? What about sign language thoughts? What if they are sarcastic?

Yeah it seems as though openmindedness turned into madness , how the hell would metal music make something bad?

@TeamBills I have never done retreat but... you mean that in Fahrenheit right? I would train myself before the retreat with cold showers and then embrace the cold, from my experience it can have quite benefits, otherwise, I do not know, bring good clothes?

Depends which one you take though unless you have some condition most of the things will provably be fine and I am quite sure that on Vipassana allows younger people too. Just search a bit.

Sometimes supplements are needed, if you are vegan for example you need to take B12 otherwise you just have to pay attention to your diet and make sure about calcium, vitamin D, iron, B12 those are one of the most underrated or easily forgotten vitamins/minerals (you will have less of others too unless you eat enough vegetables).

Also what Leo probably did not mention. It is essential in this age to learn to type with all your fingers without looking on the keyboard! You will save yourself so much time by learning it!!!

I will be on the other side here, partially at least: Alternative news is probably a bad idea, simply if you take only information from there you might get extremely biased and get your views twisted, that is dangerous. Otherwise, I would recommend everybody here to still watch or read some kind of news. One of the reasons is that you need to be informed to make informed decisions like voting and voting is the key for a functioning democracy which is the key for your freedom that you need to live a fulfilling life. Also if you do not know about what is happening in the World you will never be able to help people who need help since you will live in your own bubble without understanding other cultures and that there are people outside of Western civilizations. I am not saying that every type of news can get you this but I am against of the idea of this community that seems to be about mainly shutting yourself away from the news.

That is argument fallacy, stop projecting on other people.

@abrakamowse While Scientific American is not probably the best source, you can observe this for yourself.. plus who would be controlling the thoughts? Another thought?

Day: not gonna count them man! So its been quite a while. Leo is not updating, not that I watched the two last video huh? I am almost done with the tests for my school and I am back in school again. Interesting things happening, for example something changed in the way I perceive other human beings and also my thoughts. I had problem with computer games I can not ever be sure again that I solved it or not which is quite funny considering how confident I was before. I am learning how to use LaTeX which is pretty cool and advanced version of Word (and there is whole meme page dedicated to it). I still listen to metal, I guess I like it even more than before. I am still taking cold showers and I guess I am vegan now. I have problems with meditation though. Dragallur

Nah, it is just that those documentaries are bad, and there is nothing to do about it, you will fail if you try to do a documentary about FLAT EARTH.

@art I see, but nobody claimed that they are searching for absolute truth, they are trying to find out how what we see around us works and scientific method works quite well for that. Edit1: The scientists will drop the theory if there is sufficient amount of evidence against it. So far it was only proven right and it might just be ridiculously hard to find out counter evidence, but as they mentioned.. there are things beyond standard model like dark matter but those are also new things that lack the decades of work. To prove or disprove the theory one needs huge collider. Also they are saying "the beginning of Universe" simply because we have a bit of an idea of how it might hace worked. Nobody even dares to say what was before Big Bang because it is just pointless.

@art It seems like she simply came to these people with the idea that "CERN is evil and they are going to destroy the whole world". I completely understand why the lady in the end did not want to debate the guy. How are you going to explain in a short interview all of the physics involved? This is just another conspiracy theory, just because there are high energies does not mean anything, there are high energies in the other parts of Universe too and nothing actually serious happened. Because there is lot of energy does not equal the creation of black holes. This is just absurd.

@Edvard You have a good point I do not think that everybody needs to be happy. Maybe some people will sacrifice their happiness to do something else, like help to spread humans on other planets (if that is a good idea is not the point of course and who knows what will happen in the future).

285th day: Ahh... Well I could say that I took a break from meditation though that would not quite describe it. I was doing informally self-inquiry though at least and I have been meditating some days. Today I did again 20 minutes or so. It seems like a nice experiment though it involved bunch of other shit which I need to take care of right now. I would not believe how long addictions can last even though you are not acting anymore on them, it is quite fuck up. I am ok though, I read two books in two days and there are only two left for my school that I need to finish. I also listened to Chronicles of Narnia in German which was very interesting. Just few days ago I had mindfulness fuck up. I just was so mindful and it was continuous for such a long time. I went cycling yesterday, nice change! I want to push to another level with self-inquiry, that is also fuck up btw. I really like how Leo changed the "levels" that we have under our names, it certainly makes sense! Oh well no more ideas. Dragallur

273rd day: Exchange year I am just sitting here and this is my last night at my host family's house. I have been here for almost 10 months (because I arrived 3 weeks later than was originally planned, normally it is longer). It feels kind of weird, I do not think I can describe it exactly it is unique experience of doing actualization (etc.) and being 1 year away from all the people that you normally know. Now the text continued much longer but I decided to not share it here publicly, sorry. Dragallur

@JustinS I would be very skeptical, apparently they had similar claims before: http://www.snopes.com/alien-mummy-peru/