Posted September 8, 2020 Just now, Dodo said: Listen to Nofap commander Morpheus, boy! A strategy is still being formulated... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted September 8, 2020 43 minutes ago, mandyjw said: @Johnny5 Well, in order for it to be masturbation, you have to be... alone. I wouldn't be so sure about that... 33 minutes ago, Johnny5 said: @Dodo If I can't take masturbation with me, I ain't going Understandable. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted September 8, 2020 (edited) @mandyjw "If a man speaks his mind in a forest, and there is no woman to hear him... is he still wrong?" ? -- Sir Ken Robinson Edited September 8, 2020 by Johnny5 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted September 8, 2020 3 hours ago, meow_meow said: Would this happen to be you by any coinsidence? I can confirm it's not, however it'll take more than a quick denial to convince me this white supremacist mental patient isn't you. 5 hours ago, Johnny5 said: ? The cretins will consider you unenlightened for that. But in my ever-so-humble opinion this already puts you way beyond them. Much appreciated. I will acknowledge though that I am definitely trying to overcome having such reactions. But for now I just want to see all conservatives sent to hell. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted September 8, 2020 12 minutes ago, dyslexicCnut said: Much appreciated. I will acknowledge though that I am definitely trying to overcome having such reactions. But for now I just want to see all conservatives sent to hell. Main takeaway is that you don't try to make your reactions "wrong". Repression can only ever take you in the opposite direction of where you want to go. Perception drives behaviour, not the other way around. Or I guess in "spiritual" terms, "right view" leads to "right action". And given your perceptions, your reactions are perfectly natural and valid. The key here, and in general, is that you address root causes, which are your perceptions. The other way around doesn't work. That's one way of framing "the path": Addressing mistaken perceptions. Everything else follows from that. And that's very different from all the endless self-improvement projects where somehow you're just never good enough. That's a non-starter, not just because it doesn't work but because that in itself is a mistaken perception. That said, you're not entirely wrong about what you see as "enlightenment cretins". Your reaction against it merely suggests, to your credit, that you take it a lot more seriously than they do. And also to your credit, you can tell the difference. Hence my previous reply. "Thy shrunk voice sounds too calmly, sanely woeful to me. In no Paradise myself, I am impatient of all misery in others that is not mad. Thou shouldst go mad, blacksmith; say, why dost thou not go mad? How canst thou endure without being mad? Do the heavens yet hate thee, that thou canst not go mad?" -- Ahab Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted September 8, 2020 (edited) @dyslexicCnut Btw I'm probably stupid but I don't get how this was a political/partisan issue, so maybe I misinterpreted why you reacted the way you did. FWIW... Edited September 8, 2020 by Johnny5 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted September 8, 2020 24 minutes ago, Johnny5 said: @dyslexicCnut Btw I'm probably stupid but I don't get how this was a political/partisan issue, so maybe I misinterpreted why you reacted the way you did. FWIW... The OP 'Enlightenment' previously posted a thread "BLM/Antifa Devilry Examples Thread" where he cherry picked examples of civil unrest incited by BLM protests. I can't imagine being so evil/stupid/unenlightened to interpret these examples as demerits towards what BLM is intended to stand for. It should be obvious that marginalized groups will see more destructive behavior among themselves since poverty universally begets criminality, and these socioeconomic factors continuously drive the negative cycle, making it an unavoidable side effect that mass movements for the liberation of such groups will bring about this foreseeable unrest. Citing videos of black people looting without any contextualization, as if we're just supposed to innately react "those rowdy minorities are at it again", is just about the most cringe worthy and unflatteringly telling action one could take. Disgusting. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted September 8, 2020 @dyslexicCnut Ok thanks for that and apologies for any confusion. I don't venture out of this subsection much, politics least of all, so I was unaware that it had spilled over into this thread. All I saw was two "joke" videos about enlightenment, and I assumed that's what you reacted against. I hadn't even noticed that OP's name was Enlightenment ? so... that's where I wrote my replies from. Nothing to do with politics, nor with OP. Hope that makes sense... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted September 8, 2020 (edited) @Johnny5 I certainly would not have wished he be cast out from spiritual oneness into "his own realm devoid of good things" had this been his only misdeed. Haha, If you thought I was biting this dude's head off merely over the joke, I'd say you definitely have a strong tolerance for others' defects . A quality I'm trying to gain. Edited September 8, 2020 by dyslexicCnut Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted September 8, 2020 @dyslexicCnut I don't really see much as defects anymore, so the question of tolerance comes up less. Perception drives behavior. Looks like I simply mistook this whole thread for something else how embarassing... I remember your other thread about the unpleasant nature of reality, so I assumed you were driven to "the search" out of suffering. Someone in that position can easily get triggered by people who take it less than serious. Because to them, it's literally life or death. I'm sure you can see how that would be much more relevant to them than the silly partisan shenanigans of the day. So I thought that's where you were coming from. ?♂️ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
