AlwaysBeNice

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  2. Posted

    It's good to have high school diploma, high school is also not that bad time usually, lots of potential to practice love and creativity well with fresh open minds. You should probably be lucky this day and age if you can skip college though unless you really have a passion for a degree, I am not kidding.

    The west is so far steeped in mental glorification of the intellect, meanwhile this severely hinders spiritual progress in many cases.

    Things usually are very simple at the core and then humans tend to complicate it and become attached to it, pimp it, and you can do many things without a degree, like music, simple living work (to learn) in many communities, a lot of jobs happen through natural connections also, self learn through internet etc. 

     

  5. Posted · Edited by AlwaysBeNice

    Iskon, a tradition brought to the west to aid the hippy revolution through vedic chanting.

    The hippy revolution was a peak time in western history.

    The primary practice of iskon is chanting, practicing love through signing, it's the best tool next to meditation or tantra as it involves the heart and daring to make loving sound, vibrates and makes you feel the whole body.

    It's powerful, and it's like work too, bringing results instantly and results in due time, there's truth to work, that may be overlooked in some of the dry non dual teaching.

    This is a spiritual life process, ancient, universal and not a school test.

    The core Hindu book the Bhagavad Gita, inspired by Krishna and the central book is truly profound, 5000 years old.

    Iskon also has 108 temples and or farms, wherein people can often do work exchange, and also do cooking programs and feed many people. True friends of the process.

     

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    Yes I know that, it was a thought response to some judgments towards the white.

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    Well that would just be dishonest of them @Rilles, if you want to think insects should be treated equally as humans, well it's a fact they simply do not experience the potential emotional and mental drama, or emotional bonding we can have with eachother.

    Technically everything is also just as old as everything else.

    And also, practical proportions matter.

    Aside from being thought and emotionless, if I were living next to giants thousands of times larger then me.. well given im human, i probably would care to communicate, but it's getting pretty silly at this point, let's just say I think these proportions are here for a reason.

    Treat insects nicely, why not, they may notice it, idk, comparing it to humans 1 to 1, eh, that's just stupid and dishonest as well.

    And in the end birth and death aren't so important for anything that doesn't have the capability for spiritual betterment and emotional bonding etc. The insects don't even have the capacity to actually think about it.

  7. Posted

    Actually I thought about that for some time the other day, it's also not as simple as 'hey let's enslave another human', though nowhere did I imply abuse or slavery or killing is okay by saying animals may not be able to suffer, at least not in the typical human sense.

    But slavery didn't just happen one fine daym 

    Westerners arrived in Africa, after a long hard journey, and met a tribal people.

    Now you what do you, in Africa, scarcity all around, fear all around, can't communicate with eachother properly.

    That it ended in a war is not so strange. The enslavement thereafter then isn't such a huge leap then, war ain't pretty or easy, it certainly wasn't a trivial or casual choice.

    Once born into a family of slaveholders, you are used to it, and and even if you wanted to set the slave free, where would he go?

    There was still scarcity as well, and admitting a wrong is usually also hard for people.

    It's not like people had no empathy, and just enslaved others, no, people aren't inherently bad, not at all. 

  8. Posted

    49 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

    If you don't care about the survival agenda of an ant, why should anyone care about your survival agenda?

    Notice how utterly selfish you are.

    And when it's pointed to you, you get nasty about it.

    I simply doubted the notion ants (or animals) can suffer, animals probably can but they can't hate others or themselves.

    Then you start with 'enslaving my children', not crying when you serve me my bullshit?? What.

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    Also, humans, not caring about emotionless and thoughtless insects.. selfish selfish.. everyone is selfish.

    The question is whether or not it's cruel or insensitive, and no, I wouldn't call killing insects to be cruel for some rather practical reason, they are certainly not equal to humans in any emotional sense, and thoughtless. 

  10. Posted

    1 hour ago, Michael569 said:

    Soap does not wash of bacteria coming out of your genitals and ass. You also want to clean the bits of your skin, body secretion, sweat, soap's not gonna do that.

    Nonsense, warm water and soap will easily clean everything._ i have done so many times, it's mostly through the warm water that rushes through the cloth as you push it through, there's nothing special about a few piss drops or sweat that's hard to clean.

    Bad examples given above, no a lot of technology is very useful compared to a wmachine, but use it, what do i care

  11. Posted

    3 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

    Sure, slaves probably feel oppressed.

    But the point is that the slave masters don't feel they are doing anything wrong. They feel entitled to having slaves in the same way that you feel entitled to eating plants and animals. You don't feel you're doing anything wrong when you eat a carrot. Neither does a slave master.

    A) That's still all relative.

    B) Humans can only raise their consciousness like that through education and cultural evolution, which requires massive social infrastructure. You can't have the majority of humans become conscious enough to realize that slavery is selfish without first building a massive government which educates them about such things and provides them systems, regulations, and controls to meet their selfish needs in more kind ways.

    Do you see that ants are suffering when you build your house on their anthill? You are too selfish to care.

    Ego generally does not care about collateral damage.

    Are ants? Highly doubt.

    I had some experience of animal consciousness, once on Ayahuasca and once in a dream shortly later, from that it seems animals may actually not suffer, totally zen unconditional love. 

    Though it's hard to imagine dire circumstances wouldn't be very hard on them, i know teachers who have said the same or similar things, i.e. James Swartz, David Spero insinuated it, Naropa also, could be so I think, I mean humans have the ability to withstand pain without suffering as well, though animals do respond to love and pleasure and pain still , 

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    3 hours ago, hamedsf said:

    why do we need all sorts of machines?

    because those are created to automate the boring and repetitive stuff for us, the more you get smarter, the more you will show willingness to give up your part of daily activities to machines or other people.   

    Is it boring? Can be fulfilling, and good to feel the body. It's natural to do some bodily activity. 

  14. Posted

    On 7/6/2020 at 6:16 PM, lostmedstudent said:

    so i understand a guy can build up his attractiveness by doing pickup and socializing with girls in public. so what can a average looking or even below average looking girl do to find love or partner??

    This may sound like a false cliche, but it's actually true. All women are beautiful at heart and all certainly have the potential to look really good on all fronts as well, this is not a joke, all that is needed is presence, just presence without all the fake babbling, hate and neurosis on top of it.

    That's enough. And okay, don't be too overweight. Though of course some are build larger and that's fine.

    I guess girls have to worry more about not falling into a bad relationship, by clingy unspiritual mediocre guys, and being afraid to speak up or leave, getting a relationship shouldn't be a problem at all.

     

    @Preety_India i cant remove the namebox, somehow it was in my chatbox before i wrote this)

  15. Posted · Edited by AlwaysBeNice

    On 7/7/2020 at 2:10 PM, seeking_brilliance said:

    My washing machine has a speed wash setting just for this reason. Not everything needs to waste tons of water to get clean

    Sure but that speed setting usually only goes down to 15 min, 1 min could be enough.

    Talking about washing machine settings on the actualized settings, ye

    Oh before you throw the machine away, machine does have have the benefit of not wrinkling the t shirts as much, though that it doesn't tend to look that bad or noticeable otherwise imo, and not sure how much wrinkle a washing machine also creates actually

  17. Posted

    Just now, universe said:

    Have fun washing your cloth for 15 minutes, while everyone else doesnt spend more than a minute getting it into the machine and out ;) Its not like you have to stand next to the machine for 1-2 hours while it cleans.

    Next you are telling me dishwasher is a scam because you found out you can do the dishes on your own

    19 minutes ago, Carl-Richard said:

    Good one, yeah often you can reuse a plate or give it a quick rinse, also a pan and oil can often be used again, doesn't have to take much time at all while staying clean.

    No but really, this takes a minute, and doesn't need to boot up a whole machine and wait, be naturally active a bit.

    Washing clothes for 2 hours is almost a norm but it's truly absurd.

    And thinking about it even, that we all got a huge expensive machine for it is absurd as well, guess the taboo around being found dirty came in handy for the corps.

    @Carl-Richard you can redo the water, or use a shower head, but I use light ecological soap so no need.

  19. Posted

    First, I first found out that a 15 minute wash tends to clean just as well as a 2 hour long wash.

    When I moved to a studio without a washing machine, I discovered you can just get a bucket with warm water and some some soap, rinse your clothes for 15 seconds and ta da, that should be enough. If you get some stain, scrub with a brush, could be easy, maybe get some anti stain spray if needed.

    So no, no washing machine is needed afaik.

    Sorry, hope it's not too off topic but falls under life advice, and can perhaps be really helpful. 

     

  21. Posted

    @Preety_India wrote some really good stuff.

    All the safety they to think about, all the future security as well.

    If a guy is without money, it's hard, he can get on with some help.

    If a woman becomes vulnerable, she can be helped too, but she has the chance to be a abused, in almost every developed country even still, that's no joke.

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    As for attraction, learn deeper presence, only real way and then, meet them through social spaces.

    I think cold approach can work but can be hard, also depending on where you live.

    Even clubs are often extensions of social groups, often, but night life can work with the right chemistry sometimes.

    And that's the trick, love is magic, it happens by it's own accord most through spontaneous resonance, can't be forced

    ----especially when you get into spirituality and become less interested into short pleasure and authentic, you may become more attractive,

    but sex becomes less casual also.

    Or you want to go deep, and many people are hesitant for that.,

    Especially instantly, but that's how you become. But that's also the way to be attractive. Yet it's abnormal too..

    So relationships then become about going deep, are so from the beginning, else you just extend your own shit, so you also happen to only want a partner that can fit well.

    _ i still can crave easy sex (not that I am so enlightened but I am developed), but that's not possible to a casual woman 99% of the time, not appropriate.

    So it's funny, you may get more attractive, and then you don't want it anymore.

    Though or I still enjoy sexual encounters in dreams, a lot for years, it's basically the same, that's nice of God to help me out as this young guy.

    Or ye go to a hooker ? That's where sex also can happen without all the other stuff involved, but idk, and then you'll probably see such sex ain't worth much anyways, better to practice even then to just loving her without want, non even sexual perhaps, for much better result, truly, and the hurt they may have gone through as well.

    Not to mention the drama you can get yourself into! Emotionally attached etc. She gets hurt, her family, allegations possibly etc.

    That's kind of common too you know.

    As for virgin, who cares, a lot of people are virgins  and especially when it comes to meaningful or relationship anyways, and all statusses have to be burned now or later.

  23. Posted

    You haven't experienced infinite loneliness else it would still be the case now, you experienced temporary apparent loneliness. 

    You can say it's alone, but feeling lonely is an experience that comes and goes.

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    As for torture, temporary torture, minds get deluded and suffer, and then after they experience release from it, but consciousness doesn't get tortured. And yes it comes from the existential happening originally without choice.

  25. Posted

    There are people who have done 100s of trips and are still (trying to) entertain themselves with nonsensical concepts, it doesn't matter if you have no intention to want to go beyond your own mind, see all thoughts as untrue, that's the most important choice. Ego renunciation, self minded renunciation. 

    Psychedelics are okay with sufficient understanding and then still intense, amd else they can delude one further. Having an already kind of stable life, no sins or bad unresolved pasts, that is in fact totally mandatory believe it or not.