Heart of Space

Honestly man, these experiences mean you're likely doing something right. You will have all kinds of phenomenon happen over time. In my meditation practice I still travel from high bliss at times to more somber moods other times. It comes with the territory.?

The essence of beauty is universal, as is the essence of love. What an individual finds beautiful can be subjective.

Lol I guess that's one way of putting it. I'll take infinite beauty and love over narrative and illusion through. Isn't that the whole point of spiritual work?

So, there's hope for me yet eh? ?

Sadguru's claims are outrageous and I'm skeptical of those claims like many others. However, I assure you magic is very real in some forms at least. I wouldn't have ever believed that until it happened to me. I'd keep an open mind. Many are understandably skeptical of things they've never experienced. Regardless, you'd be shocked at what's possible, trust me on that.

I think that's unlikely. The guy literally could meditate through to death if he chose to with no issue. If what is said about him is true he had no attachment to life what so ever.

I can look at my hand and there it is, but I'm doing while still suffering the delusion of narrative of self. I get what your saying, but it doesn't really do anything for me.

Manson never murdered anyone directly. He spun a bunch of tales to his followers who then went on to murder people. He very well could have been enlightened. But, he was very undeveloped intellectually, so naturally he says things that reflect that. A very low intelligence person in an HIV ward of a prison could become enlightened. You shouldn't think that this stuff only comes in the form of big beards and flowy robes, because that's all just window dressing. Even the spiritual langauge you use reflects this.

This was a top notch troll, everybody bought in too. I agree, though, but we can't mention Leo and Tai Lopez without mentioning Logan Paul.

I only listened to the first few minutes of his speech. Men are suffering and need advocacy too, I think it's wonderful that men are trying to organize and find themselves. I think that part of the reason this is expressed in a toxic way is that it is partly a reaction to the progressive left to demonize and diminish male suffering. It's a damn shame too. Can't we all just come to the understanding that suffering appears in infinite form and does not decriminate based on gender or race? As if you can only love yourself at the expense of another. It's as if people think that there's some finite bucket of love somewhere that will eventually run out, so we have to get all of it for ourselves. It's selfishness with absolutely zero purpose or benefit to anyone.

Hey guys just popped in to let you all know that you're delusional and I'm right and you're wrong. Ta ta!

I'd put Carl Sagan on that list. His speech "pale blue dot" is pure poetry.

There's a lot of naïve optimism? I think you're confusing relief with Trump being out of office with optimism. After reading your post you can clearly see that you are anti-corporatist, but you don't really articulate anything specific. I'm curious what, say, would be your top three most important factors that will go into this supposedly catastrophic fall of the United States?

There will be a watershed moment in our lifetime where you will all see the light. Perhaps it will take the moment an AI constructs a pop music hit that gets 10 billion hits based on aggregate data from the global population then you will start to see what I'm talking about. If I described exactly how society functions 200 years from now and you read this description with no context you would have the same apprehension and fear you have now.

Well after playing for like 10 or so hours on PC my opinion is; Damn, what a missed opportunity. The graphics, music, characters are all phenomenal. It's just so damn sloppy in terms of gameplay, every aspect of it. Fundamentally it's a very generic shooter, with some added elements. I usually opt for stealth and only use hacking to turn off cameras. Guns are poorly balanced, I got a very powerful sniper rifle close to the beginning of the game that is too powerful. I'm playing on hard and the game is very easy. I have endless healing, powerful weapons, and I rarely have issues. I have died a handful of times, usually when I make a mistake or the game decides that the enemy can see through cover and my stealth approach doesn't work. Really a shame, they had something potentially very special. It needed to be cleaned up, more enemy variety, and more interesting combat elements.

Lmao it legit didn't register in my head to actually click on it, so thanks. Some of you people should chill with the fearfulness. It's just a creative piece that explores a possibility of what the future could be like through what's basically a fictional diary entry of a person from the future.

Well, I won't argue too much. It's a valid concern for sure.

Oh, I'm very white. Why do you ask lol?

As far as misuse of power and potential recourse by the citizenry, the cat is out of the bag. Good luck being able to organize a government take over in a first world country. People are far too comfortable and complacent and the government already far too powerful. Valuing privacy for that purpose at this point is relatively pointless.

As reasons for why privacy is good? What are you responding to exactly?

Yea, the only good argument against it would be the misuse of power by the establishment. Don't get me wrong, that is a very pertinent point to consider, but I think that is becoming less and less relevant as society advances. The more we are capable of creating a government institution that makes wise decisions for the betterment of society, the more beneficial handing power to that institution is. The more we progress, the more power will become centralized that way.

I mean, living in the US with the NSA and data collection by corporate entities, how much privacy do you really have? What is the value in privacy? Why is not having it bad? There is massive benefit and practical application of using data to predict human behavior such that it could create a better society. In terms of the time frame you possibly have a good point. But I think most people who are afraid of this sort of future are irrationally afraid. People are very conspiratorial when it comes to this topic.

I'd need more specifics on the owning nothing comment. In terms of privacy, it's overrated. I fully submit to our AI overlords who will be able to predict human behavior and create an economic system with approaching perfect efficiency. AI will rule and shape societies using our data and for that to be effective we have to be as transparent as possible as individuals.

@Mesopotamian The Iran-Iraq war was partially a result of American interference in Iran and the following anti-american Iranian revolution previous to that war. The western world egged Sadam on to fight Iran which devastated both countries. In the wake of that war Sadam made some choices which made the US view him as unpredictable and dangerous, especially following the gulf War. I'm not saying there wasn't some benefit to regime change, but after considering what I reference in history do you not feel there is some level of blundering on the side of the US? I mean for Christ's sake it's estimated that hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis were slaughtered in the name of regime change and false intelligence about weapons of mass destruction? Nothing is ever so simple to blame one side or the other. But there are definitely many mistakes that can be learned on the side of the US.

Yea, I don't watch him much, but I think your description is really good. Not to mention it takes zero balls to be the guy that says everyone should get a bunch of free shit. This black and white always anti-war no matter the context, always say yes to every socialist concept is so unbelievably one sided and stupid. These progressives always paint anyone who disagrees with them as completely stupid in the most smug way possible. Like yea bro, everybody in politics dumb but you, you are the only smart reasonable person in existence. Let's forget the fact that most of them are completely economically illiterate. Reasonable question guy: "Hey man, how are you going to pay for trillions of dollars increase in social spending that would dwarf previous years budget by 500%?" Progressive: "uh well like we payed for unnecessary wars and corporate tax cuts, bro" Reasonable question guy: "OK, I totally agree, but that doesn't answer the question, it kinda just points to other shitty uses of government money, which isn't a justification for what you want to use the money for."