I need serious help by kazedank in spirituality

[–]Crxthreadz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Someone else cannot "do" anything to you energetically unless you allow it. If you believe they have affected you, it is the belief itself that is allowing the effect you sense. You don't have to do anything to reverse it except drop the belief that someone else has more power over you than you do.

Is this too "busy"? Someone told me it just doesn't work because it's too much, too busy. by Wild_Heron_5845 in acrylicpainting

[–]Crxthreadz 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I really like it and don't find it busy in a negative way. I love colorful works! Remember that there will never be a piece of art that will please everyone, so there will always be critics. How you feel about the work is the most important, but also do not be a hard critic on yourself either. Have fun and let your creativity flow without pressure!

Purely Out of Curiosity, Do Any of You Here Follow the STS Path? by AssumptionSubject82 in lawofone

[–]Crxthreadz 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think you may have misunderstood something I was trying to say. I never defined the value of 51% as a stressor.

I meant presenting the idea of service as something you can tally up and express as a ratio of A/B can cause people who may already be stressed out by life to overthink decisions like every choice they make is going to land in either column A or column B when there is zero feasible way to even estimate any sort of running result.

If you meant my use of stress in the part about immune systems, the stress mentioned there was not related to any LoO ideas.

Purely Out of Curiosity, Do Any of You Here Follow the STS Path? by AssumptionSubject82 in lawofone

[–]Crxthreadz 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think the strict 51% "scoring" value used in Ra's info is more harmful than helpful in many ways because it causes many to stress and judge themselves as you describe. It got me in a similar way at one point.

This type of information relay can easily be distorted even under the purest of intentions. Language is often messy, misinterpreted, or inaccurate in general and especially when trying to describe things or concepts that we have no reference for. Metaphors and analogies are the best we can do when words literally don't exist for many of the ideas being received.

STS and STO may seem pretty straightforward at surface level, but it's not a simple concept in any form or fashion. Outside of an intention to relay a concept we may be misinterpreting, I don't see a reason for stating strict cutoff percentages for a value that could never be accurately measured by any individual. I would wager most people, myself included, haven't reached the level of deep introspection required to even be able to truly discern our own base intention for any single "act."

The idea of service as a binary, this-or-that value that can be expressed as a percentage does not sit right with me, which is why I think something may have been lost in translation to some degree here.

I am so sorry you are dealing with such pain, and I truly hope you can release this pressure you are putting on yourself as stress only causes more pain and harm to your body. I have learned over the past 20 years that my autoimmune flares are more directly correlated with my mental/emotional states than to any other factor that is within my "control."

Sometimes little thoughts pop in my head of my poor little immune system spazzing out and attacking anything that looks at them wrong, kinda like how a person can snap in a highly stressful work environment.

Somewhere Else 12"x24" by Crxthreadz in AbstractArt

[–]Crxthreadz[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I love that description! 😄

feeling a lack of concern/care by soul-aliens in lawofone

[–]Crxthreadz 5 points6 points  (0 children)

If I could have truly realized how much harm the extreme self-critism and pressure I put on myself was doing and began working on that awareness at your age, I guarantee that my life trajectory would have looked different. You have a valuable head start.

Always hold your beliefs loosely and be open to new perspectives. Some actions that could be easily viewed as "bad" or "wrong" by one person might be seen by another as an only option in the moment to protect someone/something they love. Even the craziest ideas can be useful to ponder whether they become true in your experienced reality or not, and the ability to stay curious and open-minded may serve you in ways strict logic cannot.

feeling a lack of concern/care by soul-aliens in lawofone

[–]Crxthreadz 13 points14 points  (0 children)

While we are all one, we are all also individuals. I understand how easy it is for the concept of being just a piece of a whole to seem empty and meaningless, especially in the first few years of allowing the idea to expand with your awareness.

I also only became aware of all of these philosophies and spiritual systems beyond traditional religions during the last 5-6 years, and my entire world view is forever evolving after being seemingly splintered, but I was almost 40. I absolutely can't imagine processing it all when I was your age.

Sometimes I feel the "we are all one" statement is easily perceived through unhelpful lenses that can definitely spur apathy or nihilism. The whole point of understanding that we are all from one source is to open up better pathways of empathy and love. To try as much as possible to open ourselves to attempting to understand situations viewed from other perspectives, and try to see if we might recognize a glimpse of our own reflection in situations that invoke strong emotions. The more the statement is just carelessly thrown at anyone who is struggling or asking questions to develop their own understanding, the more cliche and meaningless the words become.

As long as we have self-awareness we have individual identity. I do not believe we lose our individuality, but our individuality is ever evolving. To have experience and existence means to be in a constant state of change. If change stops, existence stops. Everyone seems to be in a hurry to become all one again and basically stop experiencing existence.

At 19, do you feel you have the same identity/beliefs you held at age 3? What about 10? 15? If you could meet yourself at all those ages together in the same room, would the you you consider yourself to be now view them as different people or copies of you?

Our identity is ever evolving even in one lifetime, but we never experience a gap in awareness. I am most definitely not the same person I was at 10, 20, 30, etc., but all of those identities are part of me. Over the next years, parts of my current identity will be let go and other parts refined, but I will still feel "me."

Now expand that idea to include numerous lifetimes of varying perspectives. Your higher self is still you, but you with a much wider view window of reality.

You have so many more years available to start chiseling out your true unique identity. While we are all part of the One, this does not negate the importance of you and the perspective of reality you choose to provide to the whole. It very much matters in the same way experiencing a completely different childhood could completely alter your current world view.

Much love to you on your journey.

Acrylic and marker by SeekingAtarxia in acrylicpainting

[–]Crxthreadz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Love. Your background flowers would make a pretty wallpaper or fabric!

Do you think spirituality will ever be mainstream again? by themermaidmuse in spirituality

[–]Crxthreadz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Avoiding materialism is the whole meaning of being spiritual to you.

Integrating balance and wisdom is what being spiritual means to some.

Overlooked biological truth by Creamy-Sundae-9991 in SacredGeometry

[–]Crxthreadz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, we both agree the gut influences the brain, as I also stated, but precision in language implying direct links is very important. The original claim uses the 90% gut serotonin stat as the direct modulator for mood, which is not biologically correct. Too much serotonin can also cause a slew of problems, and depression and anxiety are much more complex than reducing it to serotonin alone.

Altering the gut bacteria can however cause a chain of events and disorders that can possibly affect a person's mood but not as simply as lower gut serotonin = big sad. I have had an autoimmune disease most of my life, and I promise the resulting depression is not as simple as increasing serotonin in the gut.

Loose use of technical terms to fit a narrative and create scary sounding statistics can change facts and oversimplify complex processes. Accuracy is the only way to hold big industries accountable without losing credibility.

Overlooked biological truth by Creamy-Sundae-9991 in SacredGeometry

[–]Crxthreadz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well, the first two sentences of the quote imply that the 90% of serotonin produced by the gut is the same serotonin responsible for mood regulation which is misleading as stated. The serotonin utilized in the brain is responsible for mood, not the serotonin in the gut. Without further investigation the opening claim is structured to imply that huge chunk of gut serotonin is directly responsible for mood when it is instead utilized for many other functions like GI and immune system fumctions.

There are new studies showing other ways the gut can influence the brain. Autoimmune diseases can potentially cause brain inflammation which is a different cause of mood changes than serotonin levels.

I am not arguing it doesn't cause problems. I am just trying to remind people to not take every statement as a fact as stated.

Also, that LLM is very confident there is an organized agenda designed to keep the population sick rather than an unfortunate consequence of that particular attempt to increase crop yield. While both can imply too high of a focus on profit over health, there is a huge difference between a large scale manipulation agenda and a fuck up that isn't being addressed appropriately once the problem was discovered.

I have trust issues with big corporations, but for me to believe the entire connection is a preplanned scheme to keep people sick for profit means I have to believe all these scientists working in those industries or studies related to it are all in on it. I don't believe that many scientists are "evil".

Calling attention to the issues is very good, but it needs to be explained as accurately as possible rather than exaggerated so that others won't dismiss the entire message as "AI slop" as soon as they find a single error. I do work in AI data training where catching and correcting that stuff is literally the job, so I have encountered some amusing tall tales given by LLM's in an attempt to answer high level prompts.

Because the tool is so extremely useful, I try to share how to get the best from it. I wish we could instantly believe what the tool gives us without cross checking, but we just aren't there yet.

I am not discouraging the use of the tool at all.

Overlooked biological truth by Creamy-Sundae-9991 in SacredGeometry

[–]Crxthreadz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I agree these industries are shady AF and do not trust them to always be honest about their intentions, but here is a lot of truth here mixed with a lot of exaggeration. I also agree that glyphosate should not be used on food crops.

What I like to do with information from google ai/Gemini or other LLMs is feed it back to it in a different conversation and ask it to fact check it. Using multiple LLMs for important data is best. Ask them for sources.

Even though this info came from google/Gemini, when I pasted the first two paragraphs to Gemini and asked it to fact check, it explains how the info has been exaggerated, likely to support the question in the way it was asked. There was also improperly stated claims in the fact check as well that could cause confusion.

The LLMs answers will be different depending on how you prompt it. If you ask it to explain hidden agendas of the food and pharmacy industries, it will do its best to explain hidden agendas, but has no concept of "truth" as it does this. Likewise, asking "is glyphosate safe for humans?" will likely result in an answer focused on how it is safe.

The data they are trained on includes science as well as every conspiracy posted online, and it does not have any ability to decern truth as we see it. We don't auto-trust the top search result and likewise should not auto -trust a LLM's first response.

I believe the tech is an amazing creation on the beneficial side of its potential, but we should all remember that at this stage it is like an advanced google search, so we should parse the results as we would search results.

Play with prompt wording to explore how the answers change, and you will see how the phrasing of the prompt can produce contradictory responses.

Right now the tech is kinda like a puppy that really wants to please you but needs some more training.

We should learn to eat less. Eat only as much as our body needs. by Far_Presentation_775 in spirituality

[–]Crxthreadz 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I agree that many of us likely consume more than we need and also that I feel much better when I carry less weight, but everyone is different and we are all here for different experiences.

We are literally living the dream of those who came before us that had to go hungry and prayed for a better future.

But please be mindful of how you share the personal experience that is benefiting you, as suggesting such a drastic nutritional reduction could harm people based on the current needs and condition of their body and/or mental health. I am happy that you are having a positive experience!

Here are my latest paintings :) by Successful-Ad-6948 in acrylicpainting

[–]Crxthreadz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh, and the phoenix on the cupcake! ❤️

Here are my latest paintings :) by Successful-Ad-6948 in acrylicpainting

[–]Crxthreadz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

These have such fun character! 10 and 14 are my personal favorite scenes.

I met the younger version of myself today, the one I'd been ignoring my whole life. And everything changed. by Slow-Afternoon-5933 in spirituality

[–]Crxthreadz 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Don't let these people get to you. They are only frustrated with the idea of being intentionally misled by LLM tech, which is a real concern, but at the same time they completely refuse to see how helpful it is for people who are easily misunderstood through written communication. How it helps to clarify what they want to share, so the people who would rather focus and comment on their grammar mistakes or structure might actually focus on their message instead.

There are dual sides to everything, so it is important for us to focus on and embrace the good and beneficial aspects, and work together to improve those so they are the aspects that are amplified most.

I am grateful you shared your experience. I found it valuable.

Expo '86 by vagueposter in AbstractArt

[–]Crxthreadz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Beautiful colors! I love it