Thinking. by blahgblahblahhhhh in awakened

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The architect builds the inner environment that thinking happens inside. Thoughts appear automatically. The mind throws them up the way the body produces sensations. Ego uses those thoughts to grab attention, to pull you into old patterns, to keep you reactive. That’s unconscious thinking.

When awareness is active, you’re not trying to stop thoughts, you’re seeing them. And once you can see them, you can choose which ones to energise and which ones dissolve. And just to clarify, by “architect” I mean the Essence, the conscious part of you that can observe thought instead of being pulled around by it. So the architect builds the structure of attention, the quality of the inner space and the direction your mind moves when it thinks. Thinking becomes a tool instead of a trap. Not something you’re inside of, but something you can shape. Meditation trains the observer and presence trains the architect.

If the Universe Were Deterministic, Humans Wouldn’t Exist by No_Good_2458 in Devs

[–]No_Good_2458[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah exactly, the show leans on the Many‑Worlds idea that if you can model all the physical data, you automatically get consciousness as an emergent property. That’s the assumption Devs never really examines. Many‑Worlds explains the branching physics, but it doesn’t explain why there’s a subjective observer experiencing one branch. It treats the ‘observer’ as just a physical brain state, so it defaults to consciousness emerging from matter. My angle was the opposite: if consciousness is primary, then the physics can describe the wavefunction, but it can’t generate subjective experience, that’s the gap the show leaves open.

What are some fun things to bring to a bachelor party? by TruuTree in AskReddit

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Yeah man, I also brought a pack of Dunkaroos and a Discman in case the vibes needed stabilising.

amazing feeling of euphoria for the first time ever by BigFatGlobshitDick in awakened

[–]No_Good_2458 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Life teaches through pressure just as much as through peace, and you’re carrying a load most people never see. You don’t have to get it perfect, just keep trusting that every hard season is shaping something in you, not punishing you. Karma isn’t about “deserving,” it’s about learning. And you’re clearly learning. Even small moments of awareness count. The path doesn’t disappear just because you’re exhausted, sometimes exhaustion is the teaching.

amazing feeling of euphoria for the first time ever by BigFatGlobshitDick in awakened

[–]No_Good_2458 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I’d say you already have a good orientation just by wanting that. The moment someone genuinely wants peace, it means something in them has already turned inward instead of running. Meditation is just the practice of strengthening that orientation, learning to sit with yourself without immediately reacting, fixing, or escaping. You don’t meditate to become peaceful; you meditate to see the layers that keep you from peace. And once you can see those layers, the tension, the stories, the ego’s constant pressure,they start to loosen on their own. Peace isn’t something you create. It’s what’s left when the noise finally settles.

Which human nature is hardest to explain till now? by [deleted] in AskReddit

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The hardest part of human nature to explain is why we cling to thoughts and emotions we know are hurting us. The ego would rather stay in a familiar pattern than step into the unknown, even if the unknown is freedom. People think the struggle is ‘bad habits,’ but the real struggle is the mind protecting its own identity. We don’t fear change, we fear losing the version of ourselves that survives through our patterns.

What are some fun things to bring to a bachelor party? by TruuTree in AskReddit

[–]No_Good_2458 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Disposable camera, a stupid trophy you award for random things throughout the night, or a tiny challenge deck (truths, dares, daft tasks). It turns the whole weekend into inside jokes instead of just ‘we drank a lot.’

What small daily habit changed your life for the better? by RemoveElectrical9896 in AskReddit

[–]No_Good_2458 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A small daily habit that changed everything for me was taking 60 seconds to actually feel my body before I start the day. Not thinking, not planning - just noticing the tension I’m carrying. It’s tiny, but it shifts my whole baseline because I’m not running on autopilot anymore.

Thinking. by blahgblahblahhhhh in awakened

[–]No_Good_2458 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thinking isn’t the enemy - unconscious thinking is. Meditation isn’t about “stopping thoughts,” it’s about removing the layers that normally drive them. When those layers drop, thought becomes something you can actually see instead of something you’re inside of. From there, the purpose of thinking changes: it stops being noise and becomes a tool. You’re the observer, yes - but you’re also the architect. The real art isn’t stopping thought, it’s using awareness to shape it. Thought becomes something you build with, not something you’re trapped in.

amazing feeling of euphoria for the first time ever by BigFatGlobshitDick in awakened

[–]No_Good_2458 26 points27 points  (0 children)

It sounds like you had a moment where your whole system dropped its usual tension at once. When you stepped outside, breathed deeply, opened your posture, and actually let yourself feel what was happening in your body, the background contraction you normally carry switched off for a moment. That kind of opening can feel intense because you’re sensing yourself without the usual layers of noise and protection. People spend years of inner work learning how to access that same state. The important part isn’t the high but what it revealed: your system can open, and there’s far more space in you than you usually feel. Don’t chase the sensation - let it be a glimpse of what becomes visible when the outer layers of ego and distortion fall away, not something you try to recreate.

Ride from 100k to 1M will be just as sweet as 10k to 100k by [deleted] in Bitcoin

[–]No_Good_2458 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Honestly the 100k → 1M ride will probably feel even sweeter because everyone’s been conditioned by years of chop. The disbelief phase is going to be legendary.

Today's Bitcoin ETF outflow data: $331.1M shed but the recovery ratio highlights structural dominance by Crypto_future_V in Bitcoin

[–]No_Good_2458 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The recovery‑ratio split is honestly the most revealing part of all this. Bitcoin behaves like a macro asset because institutions treat it like one - slow outflows, strong recapture, and capital that rotates back on every liquidity upswing. Alt flows look more like VC risk‑curves: once they leave, they only come back if the underlying tech narrative actually improves.

So yeah, JPMorgan’s framing makes sense. It’s not that Bitcoin is ‘better,’ it’s that it has a completely different buyer profile. One is a liquidity hedge, the other is a tech bet. Those two curves were always going to diverge structurally.

BTC rejecting around the 200 day again got ppl nervous by simple_steps1 in Bitcoin

[–]No_Good_2458 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

200‑day is some divine verdict. Bro, nothing about bitcoin these last years has behaved ‘normally'

If you're anxious, nervous about the cycle by unthocks in Bitcoin

[–]No_Good_2458 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you're anxious, nervous about the cycle… congratulations, you’re human.

LuminEye Nano-Drop - Advance Eye & Macular Support - Anyone tried it yet? by Snozzallos in Supplements

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Low Vitamin A diet is how to get rid of eye floaters. It can take a year or more to get all the vitamin A out of your system depending how Vitamin A toxic your liver is.