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  1. @CreamCat There's nothing you can say to teach about enlightenment, all a guru can do is just keep pointing and pointing towards the traps your awareness falls in. Thoughts, language and communication are all apart of one happening like everything else so you create a paradox when trying to communicate enlightenment. Like honestly, when I'm trying to be aware of the process of me typing on this forum I feel as though the words coming out of my mind is just baseless gibberish.

  2. Personality Types MegaThread

    lmfao replied to Sahil Pandit's topic in Personal Development -- [Main]

    @Sahil Pandit INTP master race. "Intuitive types" are probably super common on this forum. MBTI is complicated to the point where it can be hard to type yourself. Videos by a guy called "Michael Pierce" on youtube are good for understanding typology. Remember to always take it with a pinch of salt, but I believe there is something substantive to this. Watch the very well made videos on this playlist (idk about the introduction) to understand a particular type. I found them to be very illuminating lol
  3. Right now I listen to Leo Gura and Alan Watts, and I've started reading "The Book of Not Knowing" by Peter Ralston. Someone like Ralph Smart is a complete turn off to me, the guy seems to teach very little mindfulness. Who do you like listening to? Who do you think are the "best"?
  4. @Pristinemn after much trial an error, I've found that the only thing which works for me in regards to addiction is cold turkey. Your ego might scream and cry, but if your awareness is high enough you'll see through the illusion and start to be at ease with whatever you feel.
  5. @Yonkon I've found from personal experience that letting go is initially aggressive but then becomes passive. Aggression is put in to break your autopilot/habitual lower consciousness functioning.

  6. Spiral Dynamics Obsession

    lmfao replied to StardewValley's topic in Mental Health, Serious Emotional Issues

    @StardewValley I used to have a similar problem with MBTI when I first heard about it. I would use MBTI as a way to demonise entire groups and segments of society ( all "sensory" types pretty much). I found that obsessing over MBTI did nothing good for me. I was using it an egoic way to justify my own superiority to other people. "I was born like this and you were born like that so I'm better than you". Are you using Spiral Dynamics to assert your own superiority to others? Are you using Spiral Dynamics to categorise entire segments of the population as being lower than you so that your ego has been given a rational explanation for the misfortunes in your life caused by people of a lower stage?
  8. @princess I should have mentioned this in my previous response, but not only does caring what people think cause negative emotion but caring what other people think is a consequence of being neurotic and anxious in general. You can think of the trait "Neuroticism" from the Big Five Factor Personality Scale if that helps. Decreasing neuroticism involves that you challenge your psyche in deep ways: exercise, meditate, eat properly, sleep properly, start good habits and etc.
  9. @How to be wise the problem I have in trying to express my thoughts on what you've written is that the concept of "truth" is very slippery and cannot be pinned down. The way I see it, from the perspective of "absolute infinity" all of reality is one happening and everything inside of this happening is true. But to reach this perspective you have to see through your inner thoughts as just another part of the happening, which creates a paradox when trying to use thoughts to describe enlightenment. Other than that, I agree with the gist of what you're communicating. Just remember that not all scientists are ignorant.
  10. @Mikael89 Like a strange loop.
  11. Alright so today I've moved out from my parents (for university). I'm typing so as to get me thoughts and feelings to flow out as I'm thinking about how to manage my relationship with my family. My family is muslim and they do not know that I am not muslim and so I'm wondering what to do about my lifestyle since I wont care about whether I eat halal meat or not, care if I get a girlfriend or sleep around, care if I drink alcohol and etc. I rely on my parents for financial support, but I still think that I should soon tell me parents im not Muslim (and hence I'll be living whatever lifestyle I want). Since my dad is more educated and open minded I'll tell him first. And as far as my mum is concerned, it's probably too early to tell her anything. She is an absolute lost cause in trying to negotiate any sort of compromise or alternative viewpoint. So lets suppose I go through with telling my family that I'm not religious (with the exception of my mother), the only thing I have to consider is what my father will permit me to spend his money on. He may say to me "Do what you want but don't spend my money on alcohol" and/or "don't spend my money on unhalal meat, dont spend my money on pork". And what I wonder is, if I am put in this situation , what am I to do or say? Since I want to live my live with freedom, I shouldn't accept compromise even if it should mean that I financially struggle. On the other hand I want to put forward the fact that I am thankful for the support hes given me and that I am willing to maintain as close a relationship to the degree that he's willing to accept. I live in England, a welfare state at the end of the day and in the worst case scenario I accumulate some debt I have to pay off once I start working. Secondarily I worry about how my relationship with my family will change, but I'll have to accept any changes that come my way. Life is a game at the end of the day.
  12. @princess I found for myself that caring what other people think leads to so much negative emotion. If you become mindful of the process your mind goes through, acting fake and inauthentic starts to dissipate.
  14. @Key Elements Amen Supposing I'm independent, I would tell them the truth of things because that's how things should be I think. I'm gonna live my life how I want at the end of the day and so if they don't accept they don't accept (sigh). I meant to quote you again @Key Elements but I clicked on the wrong comment. Yes.
  15. @Mezanti yes. Both views 1 and 2 are right to a degree, and the degree to which they are right varies from person to person and experience to experience
  16. @Brittany your situation might be different to mine because most Christians are not fundamentalist and they can eat whatever they want, many have premarital sex, don't have to recite arabic 5 times a day and etc. I might be wrong in saying that when considering your particular situation, but that aside it seems like your situation is similar to mine in the sense that your family obviously take religion seriously and would freak out if you told them. Yeah I think I will have to come out just because of how much of a big lifestyle commitment Islam is versus the lifestyle commitment most Christians make. I see no way to point to non-dual ideas. The only accepted interpretation for many Muslims is a literal one. Many Muslims see it as complete heresy to say that there isn't a single entity who is above is who is ruling us. This image of God is one where God is separate from us. The most I do is just recommend meditation to them. Random thought, although altruism and ethical behaviour in religion may be linked at its roots to non-dual experiences most people take up altruism for dogmatic reasons.
  17. @Leo Gura indeed it may be wise for me to accept compromise for financial reasons. Strategic thinking is needed here. I'm into meditation so I won't be a 100% heretic. I won't be good at communicating to them the idea that "Allah" can be synonymous non-duality and that I believe everyone is God, but good suggestion lol. I don't know much about sufism, seems interesting from what I've heard. @Solace You're right. I think I've pretty much come to terms with accepting who they are as people with their beliefs, just a shame I know they'll believe in lies until their death.

  18. lmfao replied to lmfao's topic in Self-Actualization Journals

    Alright so today I've moved out from my parents (for university). I'm typing so as to get me thoughts and feelings to flow out as I'm thinking about how to manage my relationship with my family. My family is muslim and they do not know that I am not muslim and so I'm wondering what to do about my lifestyle since I wont care about whether I eat halal meat or not, care if I get a girlfriend or sleep around, care if I drink alcohol and etc. I rely on my parents for financial support, but I still think that I should soon tell me parents im not Muslim (and hence I'll be living whatever lifestyle I want). Since my dad is more educated and open minded I'll tell him first, And as far as my mum is concerned, it's probably too early to tell her anything. She is an absolute lost cause in trying to negotiate any sort of compromise or alternative viewpoint. So lets suppose I go through with telling my family that I'm not religious (with the exception of my mother), the only thing I have to consider is what my father will permit me to spend his money on. He may say to me "Do what you want but don't spend my money on alcohol" and/or "don't spend my money on unhalal meat, dont spend my money on pork". And what I wonder is, if I am put in this situation , what am I to do or say? Since I want to live my live with freedom, I shouldn't accept compromise even if it should mean that I financially struggle. I live in England, a welfare state at the end of the day and in the worst case scenario I accumulate some debt I have to pay off once I start working. Secondarily I worry about how my relationship with my family will change, but I'll have to accept any changes that come my way. Life is a game at the end of the day.

  19. lmfao replied to lmfao's topic in Self-Actualization Journals

    @moon777light Yeah my sleeping pattern has always been a mess lol, primarily due to technology. I've wasted a lot of time playing Gears of War, Marvel Spiderman, Mario Kart and etc.
  20. @xbcc Everything is me. I do not exist at all. -------------------------------- I completely have free will. I have no free will whatsoever. ---------------------------------- The statement within each of these pairs of statements is pointing towards the same experience/truth as the second statement in that pair.
  21. @Hamilcar yeah idk how that other formula works but I think it's safe to say that there some dodgy manipulation which is still referred to as "addition" lol.
  22. @The Don Jordan said that his IQ was tested to be over 150. He said that when you break down the sub components of his test he's only 90th percentile numerically (I might be wrong don't quote me) but on the other hand he is very high verbally. So his cognitive ability is a factor here. He's just got a talent for public speaking and talking in general. He's a psychologist who has clients as well so he's done hours and hours of talking and listening to people. Another thing worth mentioning is that Jordan Peterson will often express in precise terms what most people will express in unprecise terms. Even if the truths and messages he conveys are vague and broad in what they are refrencing, his language is still precise. Academics learn how to be good with language it seems.
  23. @SageModeAustin how much can you expect from someone who doesn't want to take conciousness work practices seriously. He is an expression of nature like we are, he can't help but do what he does.
  24. @Hamilcar Grandi's series is divergent. As you increase the number of terms of the series you are not getting closer and closer to a particular number, so the fact that the sum=0.5 shouldn't be a brain fuck because 0.5 is arrived at from choosing an arbitrary method of summation. 1+1-1+1-1+1... To infinity has no real solution but something like 1/2 + 1/4 +1/8 +1/16 + 1/32 +.... To infinity has a far more real solution. Because infinity isn't an actual number (and hence "limits" as a concept are defined) , "addition"is defined as acting different for a convergent series than it is for a divergent series. The way addition is defined for a convergent series is what everyone is used to, you could say that people just decided to invent a different type of addition for summing a divergent series. Here's how 1/2 was the answer for that series you mentioned. Let's consider a new sequence for which the nth term of the new sequence tells you the mean of the first "n" terms of the Grandi's series. E.g., (1-1+1)/3 = 2/3 and (1-1+1-1)=2/4. We are going to redefine addition in a sense, and say that Grandi's series is equal to the "infinitith" term of this new seqeucne We have "1,1/2, 2/3,2/4, 3/5, 3/6, 4/7, 4/8, 5/9, 5/10, 6/11,6/12,7/13.....". Because I can't type limit notation and sequence notation on this site, consider what number the numbers in this sequence are getting closer and closer to as you progress along the sequence. When n is even we have 1/2. Look at the odd terms of the above sequence "1/1 , 2/3, 3/5, 4/7..." the odd terms are getting closer and closer to 1/2. Infinitith term is therefore 1/2. It is from this that you can see: From the presupposition that ("1+1-1+1-1+1-1+1-1..." to infinity)= ( infinitith term of "1,1/2, 2/3,2/4, 3/5, 3/6, 4/7, 4/8, 5/9, 5/10, 6/11,6/12,7/13....."), Grandi's series= 1/2 Infinity isn't a number, so if I was to be formally correct in my argument you would have to use limit notation. But I hope you know what I mean.
  25. Alan Watts is my favourite teacher lol