Carl-Richard

Anything can be a distraction from spirituality. But social games tend to drag you in in a particular way. If your friends go out to drink, they will say "hey, you joining drinking tonight?" and if you say "no" they'll say "cmon man, everybody needs to relax some time, am I right?". And if you say "no" enough times, they will think a certain way about you. But to be honest, if we're being realistic, you probably won't spend all of your available time doing spirituality anyway (which might be a good thing) and you will spend your time doing other things, and some of it will likely be mindless entertainment. Then you might as well socialize for a chunk of that time, and it will probably be healthier and more fulfilling than the alternative (depending on the circumstances of course).

Let's put it this way: do you want to listen to the couple of brain cells in the front of your brain (the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, the frontopolar cortex, all that good stuff) that tells you " tHiS iS tHe sCiEnTificALly oPtiMaL wAy tO liFt", or do you want to listen to literally every cell in your body? That rush you feel to move that weight super fast and super forcefully, that's billions of years of genetic memory at work pushing you to do that. Forget the memory in your little tiny monkey brain. Let the memory of the entire universe flow through you. Let the spirit of God move through you (literally; lifting at your peak is a mystical experience, it's a Jesus take the wheel type experience). Remember back to grade school when the class went for a bike trip and how all the boys were like rushing and blasting full cylinders from the very start and how all the girls (some of them) were like "you know you shouldn't spend all your juices at the very start, right >:(?" Why would you hold back that natural forceful energy, that primal energy, that natural adaptive force, like some giiiirl (just joking), when you can use it exactly the way it was intended? Evolution pushes you to act within your adaptive capacities and pushing it to the limit. That's how you survive and that's how you grow. (But of course, weaksauce training with immense volume might be better for hypertrophy in some cases, but as a general catch-all approach to training, when looking at all the benefits of training, without a doubt, you should go full intensity, or else you're just wasting your potential).

Wtf And wtf is a "brian (brain) frequency program"?

By aliens? 🫨

Get high enough and you stop seeing your own IQ as a limitation and you care about it less. That's pretty high yeah. There is like one dude on the forum who scored over 150 on some non-official test in an older forum thread, and you can notice.

Sam Sulek echoing the principles of holistic lifting vs reductionistic lifting. Moving a weight cannot be reduced down to simple commandments. You have to develop it by doing it and feeling it out. The church of science-based lifting is what bible-thumping intellectualized religion is to ass-to-grass embodied spiritual practice. And you also have to be aware of your goals. Are your goals improved mood, improved focus, is lifting something fun, do you want to maximize performance, do you like performing at your max, or are you simply about maximizing pounds of meat on your frame? Working out does not just affect one thing, people extremely rarely only do it for one thing (and ideally, you do it for everything.

What kind of degree?

What's your IQ?

Not music related, just a steaming hot man 😜

God created The Architect, but who created God? 🤔 Checkmate theists, I'm an edgy atheist now.

You can load "this" with whatever assumption you want to force a fake sense of closure that favors your perspective. But if you actually ask me, "this" might involve anything and everything that might possibly exist or could ever exist, hidden or immediate. But from the absolute perspective, I can't say one way or the other. In that sense, I'm not a solipsist.

Shut up, you have no experience. NPC speaking to me, pfffft.

Enlightenment is the strategy. Use every challenge for what it is. The loneliness you feel, that is what you need to understand and learn. How does loneliness work? What thoughts create it? What creates thought? Can you let thoughts just be what they are?

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At first I'm like "hmm", then I'm like, "the second body guard looks directly at the first one while he is doing the supposed signal, then he looks around, steps forward, and does his supposed signal". Hmmmmm.

A bedroom separate from other bedrooms doesn't make sense in a non-dual reality. Any moment separate from any other moment doesn't make sense in a non-dual reality. Right at that point where you mention the bedroom, you jump from the absolute to the relative. Again, this is inescapable when arguing for solipsism. The absolute-relative conflation is mandatory (if you want to call solipsism absolute). Go read the rest of my last post to get this point re-iterated.

Meanwhile in Norway, Labour Party leader hugging far-right Progress Party leader after election victory (and prime minister at the end: "I haven't had the need to beat anybody; I have had the need to win trust, and that we have": https://www.instagram.com/reel/DOXiuuSipBl/?igsh=d2p4NWk3Z3k5c2w0 Leader of Labour youth party and Progress youth party joking around between shoots (probably slightly cringe if you're native English speaker): https://vm.tiktok.com/ZNdbGfE3P/ Leaders of youth parties joking around during joint interview: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZNdbGpfWt/ Even if American politics is an absolute shithole right now, it can get better, I say from my national-identity-mediated high horse.

What evidence does Leo cite for this?

Most Schuldiner Schuldiner solo ever: 2:15-2:41

Solipsism is not necessarily true. Consciousness is necessarily true. Treating awakening as an escape will come back to bite you in the ass. Because awakening is no joke.

Just 20 seconds of staring at a wall can have a drastic effect on your awareness. But if you want deep results like awakening-type experiences, 1-1.5 hours in one sitting is the sweet spot imo (and of course practiced consistently, at least once per day).

No Sarah mentioned in the article?

I don't see the point you're making. What if the entire universe of form were to end? You would have no form. Yes, and? If you want to collapse the distinction between simultaneously and "one at the time" (essentially you create an infinite singularity), then you can do that, but then it makes no sense to say "only my bedroom exists", because it's the same as saying everybody's bedroom exists. There is no difference between your bedroom existing right now and somebody else's bedroom existing at some other time. Everything that will exist or could ever exist, exists. You seem to want to collapse the distinction, but then you also want to favor the "one at the time" one? It seems like you're almost getting it: you need to collapse all distinctions to get to the absolute. But if you want to start favoring one over the other, then you're back into the relative again.

We're in a situation here in Norway before our election where both the most Right-leaning parties as well as the Left-leaning parties claim to be in the best interest of the common man, of the low earners, students, etc. And it shows that the thing about politics is you can always tell a story. For example, the Right says that cutting the wealth tax benefits businesses which creates more jobs which reduces state expenditures which means you can decrease taxes more and it's a snowball effect. On the other hand, the Left says keeping the wealth tax means you can use that money on for example lowering employment fees which increases hiring and more people get into work which reduces state expenditures which means you can decrease e.g. the employment fees even more and it's a snowball effect. But whether one story is actually better than the other, has to be tested, and then you can decide based on the data. But the problem is that a state is not a science experiment where you can have a control group that isolates the effect of an intervention. And if you let one administration test out their politics and it fails, they will always blame something else: "ah the world economy, the war in Ukraine, the Covid pandemic". So how does one get around this? Are there indeed better arguments for keeping the wealth tax than cutting it if you are rooting for the common man? Or is the image too complex? Also, are there arguments for keeping the wealth tax "in principle", before you look at the data?