Aetherous

In my experience, I became "hypervigilant"...basically my mind would pick up on tons of unimportant things in the immediate surroundings, it's like you're super-aware, and then it would automatically assume that it was all meaningful and in relation to me. Which is frightening. It's an attempt to create a story out of purely random experience...connecting the dots when there isn't actually a connection. Say for instance, you're walking through a store and you hear some stranger talking to their friend about some subject that you know about. Like spirituality for instance. You might jump to the conclusion that they're talking about you or spying on you. Then you hear the background music, and the lyrics somehow relate to your situation. Or they bring to mind one of your more recent experiences, and you think it could be messages about how to handle something in your life. Then you see some product on the shelf that has the name of someone you know, and somehow these three things relate and you decide that the universe is telling you "You must get this box of tampons to fix your life situation"....even though you're a guy! lol Spiritual people also call this "synchronicity"...but I get confused when they refer to it as a good thing, because in my experience it was more nightmarish than anything. I was scared to really do anything for a few weeks straight because of the intensity of the experience. This might have all been caused by simply a disturbed nervous system (in my case from combining too many powerful practices incorrectly)...if you get tons of good sleep and chill out emotionally, I think as time goes by you go back to normal. In my view these days, it's all just the mind. You can recognize it all as nonsense, and stop paying attention...get rest and stop feeling the need to pay so much attention to your surroundings, and stop believing in things...then things go back to normal. I basically had to figure out that I was thinking delusionally (not an easy thing to admit to yourself when you believe in it), and retrain my brain to stop believing in nonsense. Just be totally mundane and normal. This wasn't an easy task, but is possible. It helps to be clear on what you enjoy in life and what kind of life you want to be living...that can help motivate you to chill out. It's especially challenging in the modern world to experience this kind of thing, where much of what we see is actually an attempt to get inside of your head and make you do things. Advertising for instance. Look over here, buy this, think that. Everyone is attempting to control everyone else, and basically...walk into your local Wal Mart and you're exposed to a cacophony of chaotic bullshit. More so than what normal people see. From the people to the products to the basic way the store is designed. It all sucks and is disturbing. Even a smile can be seen as menacing. You might also see some ulterior motives of the closest people to you, your own family members, best friends, or spouse, etc...it's hard to deal with this! Better to not experience this kind of thing. Ignorance is bliss...and there is nothing wrong with bliss or ignorance when it comes to psychosis. It helps to have somewhat of a zen like lifestyle. Avoid places that are disturbing. I would focus on simple things, like drinking a cup of tea...watching a dumb comedy show. People will find their way out of hell if they want to. You have to really want to...otherwise you could be walking around for years talking absolute nonsense and believing in it. Just my experience...there are different kinds of crazy, apparently.

Sounding like you know what you're talking about is a lot easier than knowing what you're talking about...basically, I call BS on his answer. Not that I know what I'm talking about.

Lets say I suddenly had the power to manifest anything that I desired, such as money, and translocate wherever I wanted safely, etc...I'd probably have a blast. I'd be going on vacations and buying cool things all the time. I'd probably still be up to the same stuff as usual, have the same aspirations in life...but it'd be without the usual limitations such as money, food, shelter, transportation, etc problems. More importantly, I'd be much more able to help people with these types of powers. Everyone ultimately gains meaning in life from being of service...it feels good. It's hard to be of service when you're kept on your knees. I doubt I'd show this stuff off to a single person; burning at the stake, and all of that.

Learning from Loki.

Yew will not die!

Nah it's honestly just a 'how dare she charge so much' thing. The economy sucks, these people are apparently hurting...it takes the lowest kind of person to take advantage of someone in that situation. I don't charge thousands of dollars if I let someone stay at my house, or if I help them out. Lets start thinking clearly here!

There's also karma behind telling people they have entities attached to them, and charging like $4,000 for a removal, like Jenny Lamb does.

"Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity." - Seneca A person who doesn't work toward a goal might be able to seize an opportunity that presents itself...and their luck might be good in some cases, for some amount of time. A person who works toward a goal might not seize, or even recognize, an opportunity...their luck is bad. A person might seize an opportunity but do no work to keep it, and the luck slips out of their hands. The most lucky person will work hard toward good goals, and be on the lookout for opportunities, seizing them when they come along. They will make their own luck. This kind is better than the type of luck that just falls out of the sky into a random person's lap. The random type is an event that occurs, hopefully...but the self-made type is a process that forces events to occur. Even the act of buying a lottery ticket can be considered work. Lets say a person who goes twice a week to the gas station to pick up a couple. It's a minimal investment, for a potentially huge reward, although the odds are very bad. But people do win. The critic will sit back and say "the odds are so bad, you will never win"...but the truth is that person will never win, because they never buy a ticket. That little bit of work involved is what causes the opportunity to make it happen. The doubt is what causes luck to be absent, moreso than the bad odds. Now think about other examples, where a person has control over the odds. In some cases, it could be that 99% of the luck is preparation and hard work, and 1% is an opportunity recognized and taken. So basically...it's better to make things happen than to hope they happen. Look at all of the people who hope they win the lottery.

Yes, but it's in dragon-years.

With her eyes closed no less...the symbol of unconsciousness! lol But a lot of women are interested in meditation type stuff, at least on a surface level. Look how many girls go to yoga classes for instance, versus guys. They love to get their namaste on.

Why? This is the place where you hear about all the cool stuff.

In case anyone hasn't seen these pictures...man, it would be awesome to be in these places! http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/15/buddhist-cave-temples_n_4775101.html

Whoops! Haven't been hanging out here enough.

I don't, and wasn't saying otherwise. In talking about the grid and mathematics, I'm referring to the first half hour of the Stanford video that ralis posted, just to be clear.

In this example, we aren't measuring the relative speed of other race cars based on a non-existent grid that they're all intersected by. We find the relative speeds based on the actual speed measured of each race car in comparison to another actual speed. In pure mathematics, the (nonexistent) grid says that it's impossible for a race car to spin out and start going in the opposite direction. But look at what happens in the reality of the race track...cars can spin out, and can start traveling in the opposite direction. This is because there is no grid that connects all race cars...one car's behavior isn't dictated by the behavior of another in any way, so long as they aren't colliding. Just like it is with other galaxies...unless they are all actually endlessly expanding away from the earth...which would be very strange if true (I'm not the type to just take someone's word that it is true).

So every galaxy-cluster that we're aware of is drifting away from every other? Question for anyone who knows: what is a reliable source for this info? By reliable source, I mean hopefully peer reviewed and based on actual observation rather than mathematics. ... To ralis, I was able to watch about half an hour of the Stanford lecture that you posted yesterday. Busy these days. I was only somewhat able to keep up with the math, but in my view there were too many assumptions being made before even getting into the equations. Basically, from what I could understand, it was set up so that if one galaxy is observed to move at a certain speed in a certain direction, then it's assumed that all galaxies move at an equally related speed determined by this invisible grid (which doesn't exist) and equally outward from the chosen center (which is very likely not actually the center of every galaxy). If we had a way to accurately measure each galaxy's true position and movement, I doubt we'd see what the math assumes. But yeah I fully admit that I only understood about 70% of what I saw in the lecture, so maybe my idea about it is wrong.

You may, but you should be aware that you sound very condescending in asking. I have a Bachelor's degree in Athletic Training, so I've had stuff like college level chemistry, algebra, biology, etc. I haven't had the higher level classes of those subjects.

What's your point...that asking questions is stupid? That if someone doesn't toe the line of Scienceism, they must be stupid?

You don't understand why I said a 7 year old? Because galaxies drifting apart = they were once one mass, is the leap that was made in believing the theory. It's incredibly basic, and who says it's the only possibility? Who even says that every single galaxy is drifting from every other?

Thanks...I don't want to get into a discussion (I'm not well versed enough), but here's a couple of rhetorical questions: is it possible that there are other explanations for why we've observed these types of things? Also, are we sure that we and those who have interpreted the results really understand them? For instance, is it 100% true that all galaxies are drifting apart from each other? At least personally I'd want to read where this was published and really comb over the methods and results, before believing that it's accurate information. Is it possible that we haven't observed all galaxies' movements? Also, if you find that it's absolutely true that every galaxy is moving apart from every other one, you have to acknowledge that it's a huge leap to go from this phenomenon, to the idea that it must be because everything was once a dense hot mess. At least to me, the big bang theory sounds like some 7 year old made it up.

What evidence?

These two seem good to me, in NY state. Tendai is a bit different from Tibetan Buddhist kind of Vajrayana, but from what I understand it's definitely still Vajrayana. http://www.padmasambhava.org/ http://www.tendai.org/

It's unfortunate that this kind of debate is basically set up to cause the masses to root for Science-ism...which (as defined by me) is not actually relying on the scientific method, but is just a form of atheistic blind faith in anything that sounds "scientific". Faith in the big bang, for instance, is nonsense and is the opposite of what science actually is about. When 2 people, and 2 people alone, are pitted against each other, people will want the lesser of the two evils to "win". That's obviously Nye. So the whole charade is basically geared toward making Creationism seem foolish, irregardless of what's actually said...I assume this is why Nye agreed to be involved. I mean we have a guy up there saying the universe is only a few thousand years old, despite evidence to the contrary. He doesn't represent Creationism. But in the minds of the masses, he does. edit: To be clear, I only watched the last question. My assumption is that the debate was meaningless...but maybe I'm wrong and this was actually productive.

Why is a black person fighting him?

Being someone who actually paid attention to the case, instead of being influenced by the media and what I suppose was almost the entire "black community"...it bothers me that people were so outraged about Zimmerman being found not guilty. They gave Trayvon the benefit of the doubt (when in fact he was the aggressor), and painted Zimmerman as a thoroughly evil guy, when he was simply reporting suspicious activity and lawfully defending himself against an attack. They also attempted to paint the whole thing as a race war, despite Zimmerman not even really being "white"...the whole response was clearly just reverse racism being presented as sensible. And now The Game thinks it's a good idea to "beat the fuck out of him for the legacy of Travyon". How misguided are you? You can resolve disputes legally without a weapon, yes, but that doesn't involve assault and battery. That's what it would be called in a real life scenario, and not in a boxing ring. And for his information, that's exactly what Trayvon attempted to do...beat the fuck out of Zimmerman. If he hadn't died, he would have been arrested for it. But anyway...