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  2. Posted

    2 hours ago, thelerner said:

    I'm close to Kakapo's understanding but a little different.

    Spiritual hygiene to me is not filling your head with nonsense, real or not. 

    Truth is less important to me, if a lie moves my progress along.   I get that from my Aikido sensei, who'd say Everything I teach you is a lie, but a necessary one. 

     

    The Speech

    "..Just because something isn't true that's no reason you can't believe in it. Sometimes the things that may or may not be true are the things a man needs to believe the most. That good always triumphs over evil. Honor, courage and virtue mean everything. That money and power. Power and money mean nothing."

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1-KbmIagFw

     

    I'm a believer in the power of Karma yoga.  Doesn't take traveling the world or doing great or mystical things.  It's giving your time to help others.  It benefits them, helps us manage our ego and see the world with better perspective.  

     

     

     

     

    vītam impendere vērō

     

    Stake life upon truth.

     

    -Juvenal

     

     

     

     

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    3 hours ago, Daniel said:

     

    You're excluding yourself?  That's excellent progress.

     

    Hi Daniel,

     

    Since you have my email, you are more than welcome to email me and we can discuss this in private. 

     

    Unfortunately per the site rules I can't discuss this on this forum, even in a DM.

     

     

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  4. Posted · Edited by kakapo

    Spiritual hygiene to me, means not filling your head with false nonsense, and not wasting your life with fake practices.

     

    Demanding good hard objective evidence, and only listening to teachers and systems that can provide that.

     

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  6. Posted

    17 minutes ago, ChiDragon said:

    I was able to delete all the posts of JKJB in my PPD. I think it is very dangerous for us to have such option. May I ask the Adm to cease this option for future confusion and mistakes?

     

    Hi ChiDragon,

     

    I personally asked for a PPD so I could post a topic and prevent trolls from being trolls. 

     

    If it's your PPD you should be able to delete people who are heckling you in it.

     

    They can create a new topic and say what they want in the general forum if they disagree with you. 

     

    The option to delete posts in the PPD is taken away, that would be a very bad thing in my opinion.

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  10. Posted

    9 minutes ago, Owledge said:

    Now it is getting outright silly to call that a Siddhi. Get your 'magical thinking' stuff out of the way. Englightenment begins at the basics. The most common reason for not being able to spot BS is a deliberate choice to not care about it enough to put in the effort.

    Same reason why police want to use mass surveillance. Such a convenient externalized power tool.

     

    Basically: 'I am just not good at being human, so everybody should be hooked into the Borg collective.'

     

    You certainly are welcome to see things that way. 

     

    Con artists are a thing, and most people never notice they were deceived until after they lost their money.

     

    I want to live in a society where I can have an AI guardian.

     

    To be honest I would like to be as independent as possible, producing all my own food, energy, etc. 

     

    I would prefer not to interact with other people, let my AI act as a liaison or intermediary. 

     

    I would prefer to live in a collective with other people, and we could use AI to verify that all communications were the truth.

     

    Our society is overrun with lies and deception. 

     

    I think it would be amazing if I could prove via technology what I was claiming was true. 

     

    I think it would be amazing if this technology was so common place that anyone else could use it. 

     

    I wouldn't want to deal with people who refused to prove their honesty. 

     

    You see this as dystopian, I see it as necessary to correct some fundamental flaws in our society, and psychology and perhaps genetics.

     

     

  11. Posted · Edited by kakapo

    On 12/10/2023 at 2:54 PM, Cobie said:


    Can you give an example with an actual IRL person, something that touched you personally?

     

    Sure if you want a personal example.

     

    The company I work for loses tons of money because our procedures state we have to provide a secure access code to anyone who calls in and claims to be someone they aren't. 

     

    So long as they can answer 5 questions correctly, by protocol and procedure we have to provide a secure access code to a scammer, leading to all kinds of problems for them, for us, for everyone.

     

    We lose a lot of money as a result of this.

     

    The solution is super simple. 

     

    Force them to update their phone number on file in person, so we can verify their identification, and then they can get a secure access code sent to their new phone number.

     

    Upper management sent out an email asking how can we stop hemorrhaging money, reduce risk, and mitigate losses.

     

    I was like umm... we can stop providing secure access codes.

     

    The utility of a secure access code is that only a customer's phone can get it, and if we hand them out it defeats the purpose and we might as well not even use them. 

     

    I was met with complete and total apathy.

     

    The situation is completely and totally insane, but we'll keep on doing it. 

     

    There are many more situations like this talking about specific problems we face as a species, and no one cares about anything more than whats for dinner and whats on TV.

     

    The apathy is so painful to me.

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  12. Posted

    15 minutes ago, Owledge said:

    It is not a good sign that you are simply repeating yourself when facing fresh impulses. That is expression of being trapped.

     

    BTW, you are already living in that world you describe in the quoted sentence, blind one. It has always existed.

     

    Certain people may have such a Siddhhi,  I don't think it's something most people have.

     

    I do not have such a Siddhi.

     

  14. Posted · Edited by kakapo

    58 minutes ago, Owledge said:

    Because only your pain matters here. You lust for a weapon to wage war against insane people, but that weapon is being provided by the same psychological current you are trying to fight. It is all a power trip over externalized power that is easy to control by others and weakens us internally.

    You are at the very beginning of the spiritual journey, so to speak, if you so willingly commit follies that are even in the realm of popculture examination. You want to cut the arm off that hurts. You believe that insane people can be changed by slapping overwhelming truth in their face. That in itself could be seen as a form of insanity.

     

    Here is a movie I can recommend to you - Revolver (2005):

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0365686/

     

    And here is an excellent spiritual primer about the foundations, probably best watched after the movie so as to not diminish the experience:

     

     

    For me I want artificial intelligence to solve a social problem.

     

    Everywhere, all the time people deceive other people. 

     

    I want to live in a society where this problem is solved. 

     

    Either remain silent or speak the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.

     

    I actually want to live in a society where I can verify the claims of another person as true, and I don't have to accept on faith they are being honest. 

     

    I think AI could be used in such a way to level the playing field.

     

    I would like to live in a society where AI oversaw social interactions to ensure that information exchanged was true, and that dealings were legal, ethical, and moral.

     

    The way I see it there is a flaw in human behavior, and it is within our power to fix it, and I would want to live in a society like that.

     

  15. Posted

    On 12/4/2023 at 12:43 PM, Maddie said:

     

    I'm always warry of those that want to develop powers. It sounds like a very egocentric thing. It also reminds me of a bunch of kids on a play ground playing Harry Potter.

     

    Wanting power for the sake of having power itself is vulgar in my opinion.

     

    If you need to feed your family and can't afford food,  using a gun to hunt a deer is a perfect use case for owning a gun.

     

    If you need to defend your life, home, or family from intruders, it is another perfect use case for owning a gun.

     

    If you want to own a gun so you brandish it in public to intimidate other people, you are an idiot.

     

    Most people who seek power are idiots and don't even know why they want it, or what they will use it for when they get it.

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  17. Posted · Edited by kakapo

    12 hours ago, Owledge said:

    I am speaking of a utopia, not the dime-a-dozen dystopian concept that empowers lies further through the blind declaring war.

     

    One man's trash is another man's treasure.

     

    I don't see what I described as a dystopia at all.

     

    I don't mean to get this thread too far off topic, but I would like to share a life experience I had with you.

     

    I used to work in IT at a local college. 

     

    We had one employee they had almost iridescent purple hair, and had an extremely narcissistic high maintenance personality.

     

    From day one it was walking on eggshells with this person, but eventually we settled into a groove that was manageable.

     

    One day we had a vaccine clinic at work.  

     

    On my medical paperwork I indicated an allergy and spoke with the nurse about the allergy, to ensure the formulation they were using did not contain it.

     

    I won't die but it causes my arm to blister and weep, something I would like to avoid if possible.

     

    The purple haired employee came in at the right time to overhear my conversation.

     

    Immediately after I had my vaccine the purple haired employee let into me in front of our department.

     

    Purple Hair: Kakapo! I didn't know you were an antivaxxer!

     

    Kakapo:  I'm not I was just discussing an allergy wi...

     

    Purple Hair:  You think that vaccines cause autism.

     

    Kakapo: No I don't think that.

     

    Purple Hair: Yes you do!  You think [previously mentioned allergen] causes autism.

     

    Kakapo: No I don't think that.

     

    Purple Hair: Yes you do!

     

    Kakapo: No I am pro-vaccine.  Vegans don't eat steak, and antivaxxers don't get vaccines.  I am just trying to avoid exposure to...

     

    Purple Hair: You are a dumb [expletive] because you should know they took that out of vaccines.

     

    I pull out my cellphone and go to FDA.GOV, which has an a recent article on this exact topic, and it shows that all multi-dose formulations of the vaccine contain this allergen.  I attempt to show a chart to purple hair.

     

    Purple Hair:  I am not looking at your antivaxxer nonsense.

     

    At this point we had a small crowd staring at us because of the scene purple hair was creating, so I politely excused myself from the situation.

     

    There are a lot more details of things that happened, but for the sake of brevity I'll omit them. 

     

    I received a text, email, and multiple in person requests for a private off campus after hours meeting.

     

    Finally I was told the meeting was mandatory.

     

    I respond to their email, and set some boundaries stating I needed another employee present for the meeting, and some other things i considered reasonable. 

     

    They possibly edited my email, I am not sure exactly. 

     

    This wound up being an HR issue, and HR refused to listen to anything I had to say about the topic.

     

    They were convinced I was lying and that purple hair was the victim, and I was trying force poor purple hair to have a meeting after hours off campus that they were uncomfortable with.

     

    I was terminated after the meeting with HR, and no amount of reasoning or evidence mattered.

     

    In my life I've had multiple instances of similar nonsense from people lying and twisting situations to create problems for me.

     

    I would absolutely love love love love,  to have a video record of all social interactions, and the ability to have AI know my true intentions, and if I was lying or not. 

     

    I would love to have the ability to point the finger back at them and say well hey if you are telling the truth, prove it!  Let's get the AI involved and have it vouch for your honesty and sincerity. 

     

    I would love when I had business dealings with a person that I could have a way to certify their true intentions, and vice versa. 

     

    Ideally I would want to be in a collective of people in a situation where if we interacted with others by design if we were attempting to deceive another our intentions would be known. 

     

    I would like my and everyone else in the collective's options to be remain silent, or speak only the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.  Always and forever.

     

    You see this as dystopian, and I see it as a godsend.

     

     

  18. Posted

    On 11/14/2023 at 10:01 PM, Owledge said:

    I mean, does this even exist?? I don't mean some cheesy comedy about someone getting the truth serum vibes, but a portrayal of a functioning society where everybody is openly communicating sincerely.

    If there has never been at least one such movie, how telling would that be?!

     

    I look forward to a future where I can record every second of my life in 8k+ super high definition. 
     

    There could be no question over who said what, or when.

     

    I would love to be able to have a mind reading AI be able to read my intentions, sincerity, and know with certainty if i am telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.

     

    I would want to only interact with other people who used AI in this way to prove they were being honest and sincere, with no ulterior motives. 

     

    I would want to live in a society where deception was impossible by design. 

     

     

  19. Posted

    On 12/8/2023 at 8:07 AM, S:C said:

    So how did you yourself - personally - come to the conclusion or observation (if I may ask)?

     

    During my practice I had the experience of my consciousness shifting.

     

    I stopped being one singular entity, and became trillions of beings talking to one another. 

     

     

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  20. Posted

    9 hours ago, Unota said:

    Hello~

     

    There's something that I've been thinking about a bit, lately. For a very long time, I have always been so indecisive to the extent that I would make my own decisions with a pocket-full of dice I carried around with me everywhere I went. I later switched to a 'spirit coin' that fit more smoothly into my pocket. This was how I managed to get things done, because I was so forgetful that I could not remember what needed to be done, and I was unable to prioritize what needed to be done the most.

     

    I've decided that I don't like to do this anymore! I've become a bit more capable of making my own decisions, and I've been able to prioritize a bit better. I do not need to let random chance decide for me. I want to make my own decisions. There is one thing I've been struggling with though, as I've been interacting with people a bit more, especially under the anonymity of the internet. It is that I'm not entirely sure how to introduce myself.

     

    Even my username here was randomly generated with a conlang program called 'polyglot' and means absolutely nothing to me or anyone else. It feels strange to be addressed by various names in other places that don't suit me as I juggle with one after another. I go through one name to the next, none ever really sticking, because they do not reflect the kind of person that I am. But, I don't know what kind of person that I am! I don't know how I come across to others. I also do not know what things are most important in my life, to attach it to myself as a label of any sort.

     

    This probably seems like an insignificant problem, ahaha... But it's a little important to me. It makes me feel a bit frustrated. So...Anyway, what does your username mean to you? How did you decide on it? Maybe hearing from you can help me figure out how to label myself in the future.

     

    This video:

     

     

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  24. Posted

    19 hours ago, Giles said:

     

    The analogy is a straw man argument @kakapo.

     

     

    Usually a straw man means that you are misrepresenting your opponents position. 

     

    For example if I said that I think cars are good, and my opponent claimed I said that I wanted to accelerate global warming, that would be a straw man.

     

    My position could be that hybrids are ok, but electric cards were best, but he created a misrepresentation of my argument so he could use it to discredit me. 

     

    So I am not sure what you mean here, because I am not arguing with anyone, I just stated the purpose of my practice.

  25. Posted · Edited by kakapo

    15 hours ago, NaturaNaturans said:


    that means something to you. I feel like music, as well as other forms for art, has an ability to speak to you on a level that words alone can not. Or maybe articulate an idea that you are not capable of articulating yet. Do not be shy, get it out there

      Reveal hidden contents
    Play 'em our home movies
    If they wonder who I was
    Even if they don't
    Then play 'em just because
    Let 'em see the highlights
    And don't forget the lows
    Everybody's got a story no one knows
    So just let 'em play until the credits roll
    There's a story, I didn't know we'd write it
    However long it took, it's an open book
    If you love surprises
    There's a song underneath the silence
    You can hear the crowd sing the words out loud
    In just the right pitch
    But what we both didn't know
    Was how far this thing would go
    And we might not make it through
    But if we do