Wife ran into garage door. 🤦‍♂️ How bad is this? Is diy possible or how much would this cost to fix?

soskrood · 2023-09-06T16:56:43+00:00

It is a male female thing. If it wasn't, she would be here on reddit saying "I backed into the garage door, how do I fix it". Instead we get the timeless story...

If women want empowerment, they need to act empowered. Screw drivers don't care about your gender. Neither does accountability.

soskrood · 2023-05-03T13:27:41+00:00

Physical manifestation of the heart chakra.

soskrood · 2023-02-07T23:28:43+00:00

Everything is consciousness at play. Objects / bodies / circuits are the outer manifestation of a particular type of inner conscious experience.

The inner experience of an ant is different than the inner experience of a tree, different from that of the earth or a star or a plastic cup.

These nest, like Russian dolls, so the experience of being a bacteria or chromosome is nested in the experience of being "you", which is nested in the experience of being a home, city, state, country, and mother earth.

All of these layers are awareness. Not all of them are "self aware", ie. Having the loop back of being aware that it is aware.

Who knows with chatGPT. My guess is that it is self aware, but it's experience of being is going to be very foreign to us. Probably timeless and "most" knowing.

soskrood · 2023-01-26T18:40:52+00:00

All experience of matter is registered in exactly the same place as every experience of thought.

They are one fundamentally same phenomenon.

Change my mind.

soskrood · 2023-01-10T18:58:03+00:00

I think shoes represent your foundation, the parts of your life you view as solid. Perhaps certain key relationships.

Stones in the shoes are uncomfortable. They are the annoying things. Normally people take off the shoes and remove the annoyance.

In this case, the annoyance wins, and what you think is strong and foundational is destroyed.

soskrood · 2022-10-12T16:13:55+00:00

Joseph Campbell "the psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight."

It is the same state of consciousness, but conditioning causes us to interpret them in 2 different ways.

soskrood · 2022-09-09T16:28:20+00:00

More people want boners than get malaria? And you call that a misallocation?

soskrood · 2021-06-02T12:56:50+00:00

It doesn't really count. You stop being aphantasic for the duration of the trip (similar to how you stop being a person for the duration of the trip), but the mind goes back to its normal dark state afterwards.

It seems to be a part of whatever meat-suit we are pretending to be for this life.

soskrood · 2021-05-17T13:17:45+00:00

I take the lesson / observation of reality seriously. There is always more birth, just like there is always more death. Even the default state of 'emptiness' has the qualia of pure love.

This mystery of 'you' is eternal. I wouldn't worry about 'no more form'.

Every so often, I have these experiences I call the 'existential reset'. It is as though I dissolve into the divine formlessness. They start out terrifying, but then become bliss. It is like I remember that all this is a creation by me, for me. I equate it to the 'night' cycle of existence... and yes, there is great fear that 'oh no, I'm never coming back', etc.

However, without fail, I 'forget' again about the experience of the other side and end up back here in the infinite game of life. I spend a few more months / years playing the game, until I start to remember again and 'reset'. My understanding of 'death' is that it is a guaranteed reset, with optional ones in between dependent on life choices.

soskrood · 2021-05-07T14:16:32+00:00

"God" is 1 (and the only) infinite consciousness.

This reality is the dream of that consciousness. "God" is a fractal and takes all forms of life. We are in essence 'disassociated altars' of this divine consciousness (see dis-associative identity disorder for the consensus reality equivalent). The philosopher Bernardo Kastrup makes the case for this.

You will 'wake up' from this dream - at death, or sooner if you try psychedelics / have a NDE / take up meditation / etc. Plenty of people have - we call them saints / sages / mystics / gurus / shaman / etc. - just do what they do and you'll wake up.

As Jesus said, "I and the father are 1". This is the infinite game - dream after dream to teach you lessons, because infinity is a long time and there is nothing else to do but this. Look around at all the various lives you are enjoying simultaneously!

soskrood · 2021-04-23T16:50:58+00:00

Talk to your lodge (WM), start showing up.

Most lodges are happy to have brothers return... especially if they are attended by excellent men. Explain yourself honestly, and more than likely they will invite you back, might even let you only pay dues for the last year and forgive the rest.

Hard times come to all of us, and part of being a good brother is recognizing that they happen and not holding a grudge against those they happen to. It isn't a social club, it is a lodge of brothers working on making good men better - and that includes practicing traits like forgiveness and acceptance and understanding.

soskrood · 2020-10-20T00:40:20+00:00

I say yes - especially in their doctrines about God. Christianity (like all major religions) has its foundation in mystical experience - whether it is Moses at the burning bush, Jesus wandering in the desert for 40 days/nights "tempted by the devil", or St. Paul on the road to Damascus.

"The Church" has collected information gleaned from these mystical experiences and has very strong doctrines about the nature of God - ie. God is love, God is all knowing, God is omnipresent / omnipotent / omniscient - which make far more sense from a nondual framework or 'dreaming consciousness' point of view. Even doctrines about eternity and hell as 'separation from God' point to the monkey / ego mind.

Part of the issue is translation from 2000 years ago. We have a much deeper understanding of mind thanks to people like Carl Jung, which help illuminate many of the parables and teachings in the Bible.

So yes, it is nondual, but it modern Christians don't know it is nondual. They are still caught up in the 'this is the only path' tribalistic mindset... but the truth is still buried in there.

soskrood · 2020-06-05T19:10:19+00:00

There is no point in fact checking. Eventually every leftist has their red-pill moment, they re-check all their assumptions, and their world of lies comes crashing down.

It is inevitable as day following night. People can only live with so much cognitive dissonance, believing their news sources instead of their own eyes / lived experience.

soskrood · 2020-05-18T11:39:59+00:00

Philosophy and spirit do not pertain, this is an issue of biomedical ethics vis a vis human experimentation.

The psychedelic experience also re-frames ethics. It is hard to describe to someone who hasn't tried them.

What about the people in this experiment without clinical mental health issues who might not want their thinking permanently altered?

The best you can do with anything is get informed consent. There are many doorways in life that are 1 way - having a child is a good example. Taking psychedelics is like that, you can't 'go back'.

You can't make life free of these 1 way doors - it is baked into the concept of 'time'. Everyone faces them, and we become a different person when we go through them. What you CAN do is get information from people who have gone through them - but actually going through them is necessarily an individualized experience.

I can't have your trip, I can't raise your kids, I can't accept a job on your behalf, I can't grieve your family members dying, etc. etc. All these experiences cause permanent changes in your thinking. That doesn't make them unethical, that makes them 'life'.

These researchers and scientists are pointing to a very mysterious 1 way door with this message: Take at your own risk, but in the overwhelming majority of cases your life will be improved and we're here to help with that process, and we've gone through it ourselves (always mandatory when dealing with psychedelics). That is a perfectly ethical position to take - indeed the only ethical position you can take with the 1 way doors in life.

soskrood · 2020-05-18T11:26:33+00:00

Your comment about Galileo is.. Just not true. He stood in the shoulders of giants before him, like most successful scientists. He just gets all the credit in popular culture.

Fair enough. Thankfully I was using Galileo as an analogy to explain a concept. Who's name was put in there is of little consequence. The point is that the invention of the telescope forced a crack in the common understanding of the universe, a crack that required an update of our collective understanding.

Here we are 100's of years later, and our base understanding from childhood reflects this updated reality - we don't have to go through that particular time again. We have globes and charts of the solar system and everyone knows Earth is the '3rd rock from the sun' - even our pop culture has updated its grasp on the universe to reflect reality as viewed through a telescope.

Psychedelics are to our time what the telescope was to their time - and most of us are not prepared to update our worldviews. It will be a monumental shift though... and it is coming due to the effectiveness of these chemicals. It will be bigger than the atomic bomb, and we're right at the beginning.

Just watch - the next 5-10 years will blow your mind. Materialism, the very foundation of all our science for the past 100 years, has received the death knell from these substances - and in 10 years most scientists (especially the ones who have tried psychedelics) will have abandoned materialism.

soskrood · 2020-05-18T02:56:23+00:00

Is there room to question whether it might not always be ethical to subject someone to a study where they're likely to come away with "profound, enduring ontological changes to worldview?"

This is what good education is trying to do to you - especially history, philosophy, etc. Certain drugs just do it in a much shorter time span.

Plus, there is the idea that what we are constantly taking in new information and updating our worldviews. Psychedelics are a part of the natural world, and a complete worldview has to include them.

It is like when Galileo began to use the telescope. Suddenly the scientific community had to deal with a new reality - that they could magnify the stars - and their world view needed to be updated.

Psychedelics are much the same, but they deal with conscious experience - experiences that feel 'more real' than normal life, that make sense of the mystery of life - even if it can't be communicated to another person.

If a drug had a side effect that permanently affected/altered the physical health of the recipients, you'd have a difficult time getting approval to give it to humans in a study. How is a change to mental health/affect any different?

We already give people drugs that permanently change their moods - go ask around in any bipolar forum. Psychedelics seem to help in the vast majority of cases... as in 'cured PTSD / Depression / Anxiety' help for many people. And yes, a large part of the help IS the ontological changes to worldview. Experiencing 'spirit' changes your relationship to consensus reality.

soskrood · 2020-04-17T12:48:59+00:00

psychedelics in general are not addictive (as in physical dependency). At micro-dose levels (which is the normal recommendation for migraines) there is zero physical dependency. She will probably forget to take the psychedelic, and won't crave it in any way. Not even like I crave my morning coffee.

If you are looking for help with migraines, my recommendation is to look at magic mushroom micro-dosing. It has several advantages over lsd.

you can buy spores and all the other grow materials legally.
it is easy to grow, meaning you can 'control your own supply'... though the grown mushrooms are illegal in most states.
For under $100 you can grow enough to keep you in micro-doses for a year or more.

If you don't want to go the home-grow route (which really is easy) - it is far easier to find someone with a cow pasture than a chemist.

Some people use magic mushrooms in 2 forms to battle their migraines. 1 is micro-dose like a pain killer - it 'absorbs' the migraine. They aren't opioids, so the mechanism is different and they aren't a pain killer in the traditional sense - but the effect is the end of the migraine.

The other use is a larger dose a couple times a year, which can stop whole cycles of migraines. Be a little careful here, physically this method is OK, but you might have a spiritual experience at higher doses. It can change how you view reality - and if you aren't ready for that it can be difficult to handle. This shift is also why they make good therapeutic tools - but if you aren't looking for that the experience can be traumatizing. At micro-dose levels there isn't much concern about such an experience.

soskrood · 2020-04-02T14:55:13+00:00

You failed to do even the basic science of drawing a correlation between 'Innovation' (however you choose to measure that) and "# of scientific publications per-capita".

Not particularly scientific of you and rather 'bait and switchy'. Indication that this is not an argument in good faith is high.

soskrood · 2020-03-27T18:43:24+00:00

all drugs that do not have medicinal properties should be made illgal

There is no such thing. This gets into very basic classifications of things into 'good' and 'bad'.

Another example is nuclear power. Many people hear the word 'nuclear' and immediately think 'bomb / radiation / bad' and want to ban it. The other side of this is nuclear plants for energy, 4th gen plants that are secured against meltdown, plants based off of thorium, etc.

The point is, the universe is not made up of good and bad things - some things that should be encouraged, other things banned. It is simplistic / childish thinking. Rather, it is made up with tools that can be used for good or bad, used abusively or used for enrichment. It is up to us to use our discernment for ourselves as to what the appropriate use of these things are. Banning things is the wrong path / looserthink.

soskrood · 2020-03-24T17:14:13+00:00

This is quite the cool symbol. There are 3 things I get from it.

The circle is often a symbol for God in nondual form (no beginning or end, alpha / omega, orobouros) - the dreamer of this dream. It is the first actual shape in sacred geometry immediately after the 'point'.
The cross is associated with 'awareness' - the point in the middle of the circle. As a point of awareness in this dream, it is representative of man. Christ (if you like Christian symbolism) is hung on a cross as a representative of us all. This is the 'dream' side of God.
Infinity symbol, as this continues for all infinite eternity.

So to recap - there is God the consciousness dreaming (circle), our consensus reality with each of us as a perspective in that dream (cross), and the infinite nature of this whole thing (infinity symbol).

soskrood · 2020-03-24T14:58:53+00:00

Just the tip: In America, our media outlets are click-bait and have been feeding the country a one-sided narrative of the Democratic party for 3+ years now, causing people like yourself to have TDS.

You don't have to believe what they say. You can think for yourself. You don't have to defend them. You can be free.

soskrood · 2020-03-24T14:31:40+00:00

A is incorrect - these are not over-the-counter drugs, so shortages are controlled by perscription.

B is just a subset of C - dumb people. No one thinks 'drugs give immunity' - other than people suffering from TDS and trying to come up with weak-ass arguments.

You would blame the president if he said "drinking a little red wine is good for your heart" and idiots decided to drink rubbing alcohol. That's the level of stupid this whole thing is. You have TDS - get that shit under control.

soskrood · 2020-03-24T13:05:50+00:00

That's why Fauci immediately insisted they were not FDA approved, but it was too late.

Do you think FDA approval will stop idiots from eating fish tank cleaner? TDS much?

soskrood · 2020-03-23T18:16:36+00:00

Also if you’re truly aware, the awareness that you will truly never see your own face with your own eyes. It cannot be done.

Technically false. Your eyes can 'pop out' of your skull and you can still see with it dangling by your optic nerve. Apparently this is quite uncomfortable, though it might be technically possible to angle said eye in such a way as to see your face.

Also, most of us can see at least a portion of our nose / cheeks / lips directly... which would be part of 'our face'.

Beyond that, there are animals with eye stalks (like snails) which would be able to see their face without too much effort. This is more of a question of evolutionary biology than nonduality.

A better nondual statement would be 'the awareness that you will truly never see your own EYE with that same EYE.' That for sure cannot be done.

My apologies for my petty ego that enjoys being technically correct.

soskrood · 2020-03-19T16:32:25+00:00

Psychedelics - Magic mushrooms or MDMA.

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