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The light and dark are equal. Humans are heavily focused on the dark side as a species. But if light and dark are equal, for every breaking, there is an equal healing. For every horror, there is an equally powerful joy and harmony that ensure that horror never wins. In the big picture of course. You can still have many shitty lifetimes. But ultimately, no piece of reality can overpower another, and dark doesnt win over light. So when you ask "why all that crap" well, the because the crap is not the full picture. It's just half the picture. Crap exists in balance with light, joy, healing, reconciliation, renewal. The rotting butt raped corpse decomposes and becomes fertiliser for a beautiful majestic tree. I say humans have a bias toward the dark because everyone wants to talk about the butt raped corpse not every leaf, tree, rock, or blade of grass. We are selecting, through pure arbitrariness, bits and pieces that we want to see, focus on, and talk about. There is no rule that says we should spend our time talking about each grain of sand or each tree one by one, analysing it the way we are analysing each person that was horrifically killed. It's only that talking about horrific situations and tortured entities serves our survival interests better in our quest for comfort and security. But yeah, dont just believe me, find out for yourself.

Chicken feet are delicacies in China btw. That cup is like the equivalent of a pizza or spaghetti themed cup

Example: A kid is often bored in school, yet basic education is life-changing for survival, even if they find it ridiculously boring. So yes, an adult can have the self mastery to never be bored and truly love being disciplined, but that might be too far down the line for people just trying to get their basic shit together. But even a kid in school would do better if they stopped being bored and knew how to love it. Yes, that was me noting your disclaimer

A labour of love is no labour at all. Boredom means you're missing the ever-present grandeur of reality. You don't need boredom to be disciplined. You can simply find real pleasure in it. Your framework has value to newbies who might be at a totally different stage of life.

The Grand Budapest Hotel is flipping awesome for those who haven't watched it

Zekrom. The design is just badass

Part of integrating different perspectives is to see the limitations of them. For this white supremacist thing, it's so obvious that this is kindergarten stuff. @Majed feels sincere and honest in the exploration, and I actually applaud your openness and honesty which is quite exceptional and valuable really. But there is a trap here of indulging in delusion that enables other real fools to have their supremacist ideology validated and rationalized. I think if you added some analysis on how to integrate this perspective in a healthy manner instead of just indulging in it full stop, it could be constructive. But that's not what was done. I agree that there should be minimum standards here

The time spent in that suffering is relatively short. You wake up for 50-70 or more years every single day and everything is fine before you die. That suffering is a blip. It's a very human, but irrational thing to hyperfocus on that little suffering blip in life. Even if you suffer for a few years (and being run over by train is just minutes or seconds!) It's not long. It's short. But you spend years, almost every waking day of those 50-70 years worrying about those few years of suffering, maximum. In that, the suffering you create for yourself is immense. It's not about that moment of getting run over. It's all the years you spend fearing it and suffering in anticipation of it. Instead of worrying every day about those few moments, wake up and say "wow, everything is fine today" and do that every single day. And actually mean it. Then not only will you feel fulfilled, and less fearful, you will be objective in the relative wellness of life. It's not objective at all to torture yourself and hyperfocus over the short blips and worst parts. Nobody makes a forum post saying "today, I was healthy", it's always the short blip, the worst parts of life that people focus on as a part of survival. I do not disagree that suffering is real. It's just that this whole thing (and you're not alone) lacks perspective. So what? Is my question. Live your life. Today I was well, I woke up, I did great things, I lived my life. And yesterday, and the day before that. So what? Instead of worrying the inevitable, live more fully. People are blowing up these suffering blips and hiccups into hairy, traumatic messes and living their entire lives upon this basis and backdrop of crippling imminent fear. That's sneaky delusion.

So much love, thank you.

@Basman Firstly, you don't know if they're enlightened or not, secondly, they are clearly repressed and neglecting their needs. If you think some mystical states or monkhood is going to automatically cure you of your neediness, that's a fantasy. Celibacy and asceticism is real, there schools where that sexual energy can be transmuted, but many schools just don't have the tools to help their ascetics do this. Maybe it was lost along the way, which is why they end up repressed. But all this is irrelevant to us. We are not ascetics nor should we larp or pretend to be one. If you're not having sex, at least rub one out, repression is equally dysfunctional, that's taking things to the opposite extreme. Most men are lacking balance, it's either chase and cry about sex like a horny dog, make it a big deal, or become repressed, create a sexual shadow and mess yourself up, there is no groundedness.

I second Inner Engineering / Shambavi from Sadhguru. I've not missed a single day in years and the power and efficacy of it is beyond any description I have. I cannot understate how insane it is

Another thing on the population size. When the poplulation increases, the size of the economy also increases so there is a balancing effect because there is also now more goods and services generated by the bigger economy for that bigger population. If you keep the dollar amount constant without devaluing it, it will find its own balance, with each dollar (or subdivision) being worth some amount goods exchanged for some currency held my someone. So again, printing more dollars has nothing to do with it. It's devalued because of excess spending, debt, centralization, greed, and just the function of how a society goes through its rise and fall.

Bonds today are crap. Holding bonds is outdated investment advice from a time when bonds were actually, safe and stable with good yields. Bonds are only for giant institutions who are usually regulated and can't hold anything else, are chasing stability (not that bonds are actually stable) , or can make use of bond liquidity in ways us normal people do not. Bonds and cash will be the first things to implode when the current monetary system collapses. And that's not an if, it's a when. Bonds are the bedrock of the financial system but that's why they will be the first column that buckles Meanwhile we have technologies like Bitcoin which is truly a marvel and prevents this whole currency devaluation thing. If you are only looking at it through the lens of volatility and buy/sell price changes, you're missing the technology of what bitcoin IS and focusing only on its market performance. And then there's new stuff like Bitbonds (bitcoin backed bonds) You don't need to print more dollars to give money to more people. You simply need to divide the existing money into smaller denominations, which is the ass backwards of what is happening. The problem is that the underlying value of the money is being devalued period. They don't care about more population because value of existing currency can be preserved by infinitely subdividing it, through issuing smaller denominations of that currency. Clearly this never happens. Because that's not how things work. When you devalue the currency, you are not helping this, you are doing that in spite of this. As you yourself mentioned, currency devaluation is a story as old as time. The part that you might be missing is that it's dire in all cases - it's directly tied to the rise and fall of civilations and the collapse of their systems. Which is why I said the collapse is a matter of when, not if. Devaluation is real and severe. In fact, it's a bigger problem than most think, because people just see their stocks and assets going up in dollar terms and they think they're getting richer.

The desire for sex / intimacy is always there, but a low level of development leads one to pursue it imbalanced ways. It's about being able to meet one's needs in a healthy way. If not, that's when the desperation and bitterness comes

Right on! Totally agree