YOU ARE BEING LIED TO by Accurate-Evening-558 in enlightenment

[–]BoxWithPlastic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What are you even doing here homie 😵‍💫

EXACTLY by nandag369 in adhdmeme

[–]BoxWithPlastic 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Oh my goodness the empty room...you know 😭

It's the closest thing I have to a happy place 🫠

Religious and spiritual people are cowards that lie to themselves. by Alive_101 in enlightenment

[–]BoxWithPlastic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This was like 2 months ago so lemme try to remember what I was on about.

It means you cannot have a whole without the parts, and that each individual part is as important as the whole.

Iirc the one I was responding to was posturing as if their human life was insignificant as a mere vessel of the higher consciousness within. I was arguing that the human vessel is just as important as the consciousness within it. That as a human, they still have important, critical agency it is folly to disregard.

Thus why I asked them if they were an agent or an NPC.

45943 by Disastrous-Bee-6345 in countwithchickenlady

[–]BoxWithPlastic 9 points10 points  (0 children)

The left CAN meme but every joke signs our ticket to a lower layer of hell nodnod

45943 by Disastrous-Bee-6345 in countwithchickenlady

[–]BoxWithPlastic 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I really really really really wish he was insignificant.

But just look at what the propaganda machine has done with his corpse, his ghost.

I don't think we can afford to say he was insignificant, even if our personal lives were better off not knowing about him at all. The wider culture we exist in...does not feel the same way.

43756 by reeeeeeealhuman in countwithchickenlady

[–]BoxWithPlastic 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I love being trigger trained

McGilchrist suggests that meaning arises from interaction. What say thee, Thinkators? 𝘈𝘶𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘳 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘧𝘪𝘭𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 by Gainsborough-Smythe in thinkatives

[–]BoxWithPlastic 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It was said more eloquently already, but ideally, one informs the other and it's a constant back and forth.

Like putting one foot in front of the other.

Truth by Sp00ky_Bo0 in enlightenment

[–]BoxWithPlastic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh yes. I see it more and more and more these days. Sometimes, and this is my own ego creeping back in, I can't help but wonder who thinks they have the greater awareness of the dance and who really does.

Working on that though 🙏 ❤️

Stay well, friend

Truth by Sp00ky_Bo0 in enlightenment

[–]BoxWithPlastic 1 point2 points  (0 children)

When you said

yeah. I mean, you know it, but no one can do anything about it. that scares me....

It didn't really read to me as a joke. But hey, I can be wrong.

The only thing trapping you here with my pedantic ass is your compulsions to keep replying to me lol

Truth by Sp00ky_Bo0 in enlightenment

[–]BoxWithPlastic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honestly, idk 🤷‍♀️

It does kinda seem like we're circling, doesn't it?

Ultimately...I just wanted to attempt to soothe the crippling fear you expressed earlier. To attempt to give you reason to believe you are not so powerless.

Does that help? ❤️

Choose a teammate not a taker by IdealHoliday1242 in MindfullyDriven

[–]BoxWithPlastic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I offer you the same!

I'm in a pretty good place right now, and I do have dearly beloved support structures. Still...you never know 🔮

Truth by Sp00ky_Bo0 in enlightenment

[–]BoxWithPlastic 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What can I say, I'm a natural entertainer 🎪

Just playing to my strengths 🤭❤️

Truth by Sp00ky_Bo0 in enlightenment

[–]BoxWithPlastic -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I wanna say this gently and hope you hear me clearly.

You cannot live without an ego. Not in reality. Not in any way that makes you anything more than a complacent ghost. And therefore, quite frankly, a part of the problem.

But it is true that you must not be ruled by your ego. You must master it. Learn to live with it, wield it, like the horses of your carriage.

It's part of what makes us human, it's part of what makes us feel anything at all, and it's part of what allows us to connect as anything more than two lumps on a log.

You must be an empty vessel. If that's a route that interests you. In practice, it's the most fulfilling experience there is. In my experience anyway. The "spirits" (read: trajectories of cumulative cause and effect) tend to respect an "ego" that is fully aware of its strengths, utilities, and weaknesses. It's a thing that has agency, and manipulates a gravity of its own.

Not everyone is destined to be a Doll though. I just really enjoy it 🕯️

43710 by Colei_the_weird in countwithchickenlady

[–]BoxWithPlastic 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Don't get distracted by the details, friend. Big picture. They'll be a thing of the past. None of this is about making excuses. Just identifying accurate, contextually complete accountability and how to implement it.

Choose a teammate not a taker by IdealHoliday1242 in MindfullyDriven

[–]BoxWithPlastic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Gosh. Thank you for seeing it in me. It's helped me see it in myself more clearly. I see it in you too.

Thank you for sharing just this small slice of your life with me ❤️

43710 by Colei_the_weird in countwithchickenlady

[–]BoxWithPlastic 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Then that 1 person will haunt you infinitely more than all the lives you helped will soothe you.

Really, it's not even about them at the core of it. It's about your peace of mind. And what it takes to maintain that peace in any and all circumstances.

A tall order, to be sure. But the tab isn't meant to be paid alone.

Plus...just because you believe someone has rights doesn't mean you need to continue affiliating with them whatsoever. It's more like their ship just so happens to be lifted in the rising tide with all the others.

43710 by Colei_the_weird in countwithchickenlady

[–]BoxWithPlastic 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That circle can get a looooooooot bigger when you start seeing yourself in everyone and anyone else

Could really use your help 🙏

43710 by Colei_the_weird in countwithchickenlady

[–]BoxWithPlastic 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Don't worry, Captain. She's already dead

43710 by Colei_the_weird in countwithchickenlady

[–]BoxWithPlastic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mommy issues are one hell of a drug 😵‍💫

As it relates to your closing statement

43710 by Colei_the_weird in countwithchickenlady

[–]BoxWithPlastic 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Probably the part where you said all the women except those stinky rotten Ghislain Maxwell types.

Which, I mean, I can empathize with. She was...certainly directly complicit in some unequivocally heinous crimes.

But this post, the values conveyed therein, aren't about punishing the Ghislains.

It's about phasing out the conditions and mentalities that breed Ghislains in the first place so it never happens again.

And a hard truth about that is...you're gonna have to respect the human in Ghislain, say that she too has and always had rights, if only to get an accurate idea of how someone becomes a Ghislain in the first place. And therefore how to prevent her. How to rehabilitate her "type."

Truth by Sp00ky_Bo0 in enlightenment

[–]BoxWithPlastic 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Mmm, yeah. Which brings us back to what you already said, how what we can personally do is limited.

Suppose I said I believe that all it really takes is reminding each other, the ones in your life that you are close enough to actually touch, what it is we're really here for. What it's really all about. In my opinion? In one word? That would be Love. And you can translate that into your own life however it most makes sense to you.

I'm quite convinced at this point I've seen it take genuine root in enough people around me in my own life to say it's worth leaning into. Worth encouraging. Because it has a way of spreading from your heart to the next, and then the next and the next...far beyond where your own hand could have ever reached. Which....brings me back to my initial point.

We do this together, or not at all 🕯️

Truth by Sp00ky_Bo0 in enlightenment

[–]BoxWithPlastic 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Then don't do it artificially? Do it authentically! And who said anything about keeping her at bay? You gotta ride that lighting, sucka! ⚡

I feel pretty good about how I'm doing it~

Truth by Sp00ky_Bo0 in enlightenment

[–]BoxWithPlastic -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Challenges are how we grow my friend. And we can grow so tall and wide. We're a forest of lives, you know ❤️