Ananta

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  1. @SOUL

    Okay, you keep saying I haven't talked to you. Even though you repeatedly said if I didn't like what you were saying, then I should ignore you? 

    Well, then, let's get started. ?

    From your first post where I said you sounded crazy.

    On 3/11/2022 at 0:38 PM, SOUL said:

    It's because Republicans are all for big government theocracy

    The definition of theocracy: A government of a state by immediate divine guidance or by officials who are regarded as divinely guided (definition was copy/pasted from webster).

    Well, what?? You got that idea from what?

    On 3/11/2022 at 0:38 PM, SOUL said:

    that love authoritarian dictators and hate freedom despite what they say to the contrary.

    Dictators dictate over governments where ppl aren't free. Where they have no rights and no freedom of speech. That's not the case in the US. So, how can you say Republicans "love" dictators?

    Oh, wait...you say because Republicans HATE freedom contrary to what they say. ?

    What? Come on now. You're a mind reader of the Republican Party? You know what they think regardless of what is said?

    On 3/11/2022 at 0:38 PM, SOUL said:

    If Trump was the president the US would already be in the war... on the Russian side and he'd be trying to drop nukes on Ukraine because he wants that to be part of his legacy.

    Then there's this little gem ? 

    I hate to remind you but there was no war like this when Trump was President, but you want to take the leap to say he'd be dropping nukes on Ukraine because he wants that to be part of his legacy. If that was the case, then it would've happened, right? In your view he would've made sure of it. If it was his legacy.

    But, it didn't happen. Biden is the president and this nightmare is happening under his watch. 

     


  2. 17 minutes ago, SOUL said:

    Look how people behave, that is sad.  Just because I am aware of who it is behaving in ways and call it as it is doesn't justify criticizing the messenger, it's not the fault of the messenger how other people are behaving that way. Remove the veil of partisan bias to bring clarity.

    After spending so much time in this thread crying about people attacking them a certain member calls someone else crazy immediately in their first interaction they initiated with them. Then continues to disparage them even when there isn't any lashing back going on.

    Just pointing out the behavior, it's plain to see. Don't like my message? Ignore me.

     

    You're post about all Republicans was awful and sounded crazy!

    The fact that you stand behind it as truth for all Republicans is ridiculous and I'm not even a Republican. As I said I'm no political party. 

     


  3. By the way, I never said I was a Republican or a Democrat for ppl on this thread who assumed because I think Biden shouldn't be president that I put myself in a political party box. I don't. 

    I don't align myself with any political party. I look at the best person to hold office and I look at issues that I think should pass or not. 

    It's really a shame that there are political parties at all. It only divides the country. Just look how @soul looks at 1/2 the country that are Republican. It's sad, but oh well.


  4. 8 hours ago, Hardkill said:

    Well, Mitch McConnell and the Republicans in the senate wouldn't want to vote for it probably because they would perceive as another form of "government take over of everything!" The Republicans rather have a kind of "corporate takeover of everything!" and "rich takeover everything!" and "white protestant American men takeover of everything!” and “backwards religious takeover of everything!” And "dumb people take over everything!"

    Dude, we are talking about time change, it's not the end of the world either way.

    Relax and maybe take a chill pill, seriously. You're gonna give yourself a heart attack if you keep getting worked up like this over every issue you feel is political.


  5. 6 minutes ago, aurum said:

    The disease is part of an old identity.

    So, since I wasn't taking the injections anymore, or talking about it or letting really anyone else talk about it. I made the conscious decision to get off disability insurance at all cost and go to college for nursing no matter what anyone said about it and trust me they said a lot. Lol 

    I even went to class a few times with an IV catheter in my hand (days of high dose steriods), walking with ataxia and having slurred speech (basically I looked drunk), but that was early on and never happened again once I started the nursing program, as I got adjusted to my new life.

    Focus and attention stayed on my new huge goal, I never looked back and 4 years later I was an RN. I've never needed high dose steriods again. ? ??

    Ps, I only share this, occasionally, because maybe someone reading this that needs to hear it. 


  6. 52 minutes ago, mandyjw said:

    Auto-immune is a misunderstanding, the body never actually attacks itself.

    Um, I don't agree. Maybe Im misunderstanding you? The immune system does mistakenly attack the the myelin sheath in the brain and spinal cord in M.S. when it's active.

    When I had my first attack they tested my spinal fluid and it had a very high white cell count (T-cells). Which is one of the diagnostic tests for M.S.

    https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/17248-multiple-sclerosis#:~:text=Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an,the brain and spinal cord.

    1 hour ago, mandyjw said:

    Incredible. ❤

    I agree, truly ? 


  7. 2 hours ago, AMTO said:

    @Ananta This is exactly what Neville Goddard teaches. To ignore your undesired reality. 

    Hm, interesting, I never heard of him.

    2 hours ago, somegirl said:

    So I don't know. I don't know when one would use this method and when not. 

    So, I had tried to manage the disease by doing what the doctors had said, mainly by taking painful intramuscular inj several times a week back then and they were very expensive and made me sick. My insurance didn't pay the whole cost. My monthly cost was as if I had a pricy car payment. 

    Anyways, I got sick and tired of being sick and tired. Got really sick of ppl always asking me about it. Sending me self help books on it. Lecturing me to change my diet. Lecturing me period. Tired of the yearly brain MRI's, tired of it all. 

    So, one day I decided I was no longer going to take medication for it, talk about it, think about it or let anyone around me talk about it.

    So, that's my story and yes, it's crazy that it worked. 


  8. I was diagnosed with relapsing-remitting M.S. at 21 that continued to progress with at least 2-3 exacerbations per year that lasts weeks at a time before remission. I had to go on long term disability for 10 years. 

    The M.S. has reversed and it's in long term remission (they say it can't be cured) by refusing to acknowledge it exists and stopping all my disease modifying injections/medications. I have starved it of attention and only discuss it if giving a medical history or writing the occasional post. I literally don't discuss it otherwise.

    For me, I feel my M.S. was triggered by some deep childhood emotional suffering that continued into my 20's AND a viral illness I had at 16 y.o. that made me very ill for about 6 weeks.

    See with M.S. they know the symptoms usually don't appear until at least some damage (demylination/lesions) have formed in the brain. They think about 5-10 years prior to the first symptom.

    Anyways, after I decided to starve it of attention it slowly, but steadily improved, dramatically over time. I eventually rarely saw the neurologist. However, i went if I needed some low dose steriods or thought I was having an occasional issue. She talked me into getting a comparison brain MRI, since I hadn't had one in about 6 years. 

    The outcome was shocking. She said lesions had noticeably shrunken through my brain and although there was a little bit of scattered demylination, it wasn't much, especially since 6 years had gone by. She said she never sees lesions shrinking in M.S. patients, ever.

    That was about 8 years ago now, I think. I can't remember, but I haven't gone back to the neurologist since and never had another brain MRI and I haven't had anything but extremely minor, not long lasting symptoms ever since.

    I can't explain it. I don't really recommend other ppl to do what I did, but I just knew that's what "I" had to do. It also wasn't diet related at all. My diet was crap then and basically still is.

    So, it's 30 years past my diagnosis and although I was told when diagnosed my life expectancy was 25 years with the rate of progression I had with the M.S. Here I am alive, well and able bodied. Go figure. ? ?

     


  9. On 3/11/2022 at 0:38 PM, SOUL said:

    It's because Republicans are all for big government theocracy that love authoritarian dictators and hate freedom despite what they say to the contrary.

    If Trump was the president the US would already be in the war... on the Russian side and he'd be trying to drop nukes on Ukraine because he wants that to be part of his legacy.

    Do you realize how crazy you sound?

    Asking for a friend. ?


  10. The way to escape the cycle of birth and death is to realize you aren't part of it to begin with like @Gili Trawangan  already said.

    The reason Vedanta says that self- realization ends the cycle of birth and death is because through self-enquiry, the truth of one’s true nature is revealed and the virtue of gaining such knowledge is that it ends the person's (jivas) suffering within the context of the present incarnation.
     


  11. 4 hours ago, Gesundheit2 said:

     

    Obviously you didn't see the solipsism video. I watched parts of it, so I'll tell you that he started out by bringing the definition of solipsism from Wikipedia and then arguing for it.

    Leo doesn't claim that he's the most awake being because he agrees with the other teachers. Rather, he does that precisely because he disagrees with them and doesn't even think that they actually exist, nor any of us here. Leo thinks solipsism is the absolute truth, and for him that's what all awakening boils down to, hence we are all not really awake. But don't take my word for it. Ask him and see.

    I listened to the video on audio. After ppl here were flipping out that there was a video of his taken down, then I searched for an audio version and it took a whole 5 minutes to find it online. 

    Anyways, I just re-listened to the first bit and he does read the definition, then does go on to say he's talking about "absolute solipsism". Although he does then go on to say any current guru (ie, Rupert) isn't awake if they don't know this, etc. There seemed to be some mixing of the relative and infinite orders of reality. I'm not going to relisten to the whole thing for examples, but I recall thinking that the first time.

    It's just not a good pointer, like I said. Starting off twisting a definition for a word to mean something it wasn't meant to mean, isn't good teaching, unfortunately. 
     


  12. 1 hour ago, aurum said:

    Part of the problem is that solipsism is already defined. And as its been defined in the past by philosophers, its extremely misleading and NOT absolute truth. “Solipsism” in that way essentially means “my ego is all that exists”. Lol.

    Exactly. Agreed ?, this has been my issue with it, but many want to argue the definition isn't the definition and under certain scenarios it can mean "absolute solipsism". No, you can't change the definition of a word to fit your narrative. It's a terrible pointer and just needs thrown out. Period.