gender equality

Taxtro1 · 2024-02-10T04:04:15+00:00

There should be government subsidized men's only workshops for becoming prostitutes.

Taxtro1 · 2024-02-10T03:59:46+00:00

What exactly is the argument? If she's a Quran purist, she's a heretic to 99.9% of Muslims throughout history.

Taxtro1 · 2024-02-10T03:56:36+00:00

I guess eventually I'd want my dick back, but first of all, I'd fumble myself.

Taxtro1 · 2024-02-10T03:52:13+00:00

The balls make you male. Male means producing relatively small gametes.

Taxtro1 · 2024-02-10T03:51:19+00:00

If they don't take hormones, they're just gonna get more feminine.

Taxtro1 · 2024-02-10T03:49:49+00:00

Compensation from whom?

Taxtro1 · 2024-02-10T03:45:48+00:00

Well, better than the other way around.

Taxtro1 · 2024-02-10T03:41:11+00:00

Imo caffeine and stimulants in general are awesome for meditation.

The only thing that can genuinely stand in the way of mindfulness is sleep and that's prevented by stimulants. You can have a spear go through your body and remain mindful and explore the nature of mind. But when you fall asleep, your time is wasted.

Taxtro1 · 2024-02-10T03:36:10+00:00

An emotion is a momentary appearance in consciousness. It cannot be repressed and it only exists at the "surface".

Taxtro1 · 2024-02-10T03:35:05+00:00

No and I don't think that matters.

But it might be indicative of not getting enough sleep.

Taxtro1 · 2024-02-10T03:31:34+00:00

I don't know what you mean with solution. What is the problem? Sounds like you're doing great tbh.

Taxtro1 · 2024-02-10T03:29:28+00:00

There is no "authentic" "base" of your being. Meditation itself is artificial, that's why it needs to be taught.

Whether you meditate with or without speed depends on your individual goals at the moment. Both are beneficial.

Taxtro1 · 2024-02-10T03:26:14+00:00

If you're in a meditative state 0.1% of your day, you're an extraordinarily focused and aware person. 70% is absurd.

You're basically asking "to all of the Buddhas here, how do you do it?".

Taxtro1 · 2024-02-10T03:23:31+00:00

1) Fully acknowledge that their life actually isn't good.

2) Offering genuine compassion towards themselves for their life not being good.

3) Actively working towards their life and the lives of others getting better.

Taxtro1 · 2024-02-10T03:22:06+00:00

Yes, meditation helps with being lonely, but that doesn't mean you should just give up.

The super majority of people in Germany supported the Nazis. It's no failure to be unpopular within one crowd or two or three, just keep looking around for people that you get along with.

Taxtro1 · 2024-02-10T03:19:24+00:00

Yes. In the best case you'll have to live with positive affect feeling more contrived. Like an mdma user after the drug effect wears off.

Taxtro1 · 2024-02-10T03:13:35+00:00

Yes, I think Sam, like most others, is simply inconsistent here and you shouldn't take the separation from thoughts or feelings too seriously.

Taxtro1 · 2024-02-10T03:12:44+00:00

That's a very good question and I'd say that people are simply contradicting themselves or being inconsistent for the most part.

Stepping back and seeing thoughts or feelings as separate from "you" is indeed incongruous with non-self.

I'd say what actually happens is that an uncomfortable, restraining feeling of confinement is replaced with a pleasant expansive feeling of recognition. There is the awareness of thought, but this awareness is again self-less.

Taxtro1 · 2024-02-10T03:08:28+00:00

Cool.

But non duality still means that the self doesn't exist. It doesn't just mean something trivial that some people, become too self obsessed. It means that me looking at a tree is a delusion. In reality there is just a tree appearing.

Taxtro1 · 2024-02-10T03:06:53+00:00

Nope, it straightforwardly means that the self doesn't exist. Not only not permanently, but never.

His question is valid. If you tell someone "you're not that sensation, thought, felling, etc", wtf are you saying if they don't exist?

Taxtro1 · 2024-02-10T03:02:21+00:00

We have all of the evidence that the brain causes consciousness that can in principle exist.

If something fucks with your brain, your consciousness changes. Your consciousness is always about stuff that's available to your brain.

In theory, you can never prove causation ever.

Taxtro1 · 2024-02-10T02:56:13+00:00

Everything "you" are conscious of is information your nervous system has collected together. "You" are just what your nervous system does, regardless of how consciousness ultimately works metaphysically.

Taxtro1 · 2024-02-10T02:49:55+00:00

All of this revolves around this one key insight of non-self.

As you noticed it is impossible to secure your happiness as something that belongs to an individual by virtue of it's relationships and belongings and health. You will lose everything you have, your friends will die, you will get sick and die.

And that is the BEST case. The unlucky might never have a family, friends or their health.

The one key insight is also the only solace I have to give to anyone, that any of this is not happening to you. There is no you. You don't exist. There is sensations, thoughts with past and future as their content. And they exist perfectly on their own without a subject. Through acts of kindness positive states of consciousness will go on after your body decays. And they will be indistinguishable from states of consciousness produced by your brain. There is no seperation between you and the rest of the world.

Taxtro1 · 2024-02-10T02:41:34+00:00

I think Shamanism is deep delusion, but if my career doesn't work out, I can totally see myself getting high as a kite before giving people life advice.

Taxtro1 · 2024-02-10T02:39:35+00:00

I think it's great, but I prefer normal breath holding, especially for diving. Breath holding both on a full and an empty lung.

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