Sir Darius the Clairvoyent

Read the alchemist as a child, enjoyed it. Planing on reading it again, an see if I can get a deeper understanding

I have a sense it is. And the forum seems to agree. Not that I lay around a lot, but how about frequent one night stands? Mastrubation?

I remember my first time. It was when computers were relatively rare. One day I got to borrow one from school home. It’s battery depleted in the middle of the video. Also, like half the class used to go together weekly, for years, at what we called a wank party. Good god haha.

Mhm I haven’t looked into the mechanic, but it boils down the balance to resist UV radiation and vitamin D. In places closer to the equator, people are darker because they need protection to the stronger radiation, while further north people tend to be lighter because it increases their ability to absorb vitamin d. Hunter gatherers in Europe was actually quite dark (some of them at least, they were very diverse) because they got enough vitamin d trough a animal products. This changed with agriculture. Point is, sunlight has notable effects on well being. Here we have something called winter depression. Likewise, white people in the southern hemisphere have problems with the radiation from the strong sunlight ☀️ Belive me, after months of darkness, the first sunlight feels like heaven.

Forgive me for useing a translated Norwegian article, but if you are curious about it legitimacy, NRK is equivalent to BBC. https://www-nrk-no.translate.goog/livsstil/er-papirposen-bedre-for-miljoet-enn-plastposen_-1.14242724?_x_tr_sl=no&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=no&_x_tr_pto=wapp It is more nuanced than I presented it. It depends on what degree the plastic is recycled, and that varries enormously. But the real tradegy here, is that hemp is pretty much universally banned.

Why the confusion @Apech, I am happy to clarify or discuss it with you.

Here I have the same feeling as towards the environment. Asking people to choose green products (that in reality is often not very green, just green washed) is a cheap marketing technique. It is a drop in the ocean. Instead I think the government should put restrictions on it. To take one ridiculous example. The grocery store COOP ones decided to start with paper bags instead of plastic. When asked about why, when paper bags are more harmful to the environment, he had no answer. But he knew it was tje case.

Curious about what you and others think about karma: is just sbiut consequences, or is it metaphysical?

Mhm you’re right. For the rare cases of intersex, doctors in Norway prior to the 70s, used to operate the baby in accordance to what they were most like. The idea was that if you raised someone as a girl, they become a girl. This practice ended with a boy callled Victor. They determined he was a girl and raised him at such, but he always felt like a boy. Here is his self protestor: And here is a really heart breaking drawing at age 6: About the drawing, he said: "this si a boy. The boy is now dead. The penis and the boy got burried in different funerals. Everyone came to the penis. funeral. Nobody came to the boys." From what I’ve heard, he is doing fine now.

In Vedic texts thr sky father (dyeus phter for to proto indo Europeans) Dyava in Hinduism, morphed together with Privthi (earth goddess) into one deity: Dyava-prithvi. If I am not mistaken, there are also texts were the sky fertilizes the earth trough rain (semen).

Rig Veda, tr. by Ralph T.H. Griffith, [1896], at sacred-texts.com HYMN CXXIX. Creation. 1. THEN was not non-existent nor existent: there was no realm of air, no sky beyond it. What covered in, and where? and what gave shelter? Was water there, unfathomed depth of water? 2 Death was not then, nor was there aught immortal: no sign was there, the day's and night's divider. That One Thing, breathless, breathed by its own nature: apart from it was nothing whatsoever. 3 Darkness there was: at first concealed in darkness this All was indiscriminated chaos. All that existed then was void and form less: by the great power of Warmth was born that Unit. 4 Thereafter rose Desire in the beginning, Desire, the primal seed and germ of Spirit. Sages who searched with their heart's thought discovered the existent's kinship in the non-existent. 5 Transversely was their severing line extended: what was above it then, and what below it? There were begetters, there were mighty forces, free action here and energy up yonder 6 Who verily knows and who can here declare it, whence it was born and whence comes this creation? The Gods are later than this world's production. Who knows then whence it first came into being? 7 He, the first origin of this creation, whether he formed it all or did not form it, Whose eye controls this world in highest heaven, he verily knows it, or perhaps he knows not. THE COSMOGONY (Hesiod) [116] Verily at the first Chaos came to be, but next wide-bosomed Earth, the ever-sure foundations of all4the deathless ones who hold the peaks of snowy Olympus, and dim Tartarus in the depth of the wide-pathed Earth, and Eros (Love), fairest among the deathless gods, who unnerves the limbs and overcomes the mind and wise counsels of all gods and all men within them. From Chaos came forth Erebus and black Night; but of Night were born Aether5 and Day, whom she conceived and bare from union in love with Erebus. And Earth first bare starry Heaven, equal to herself, to cover her on every side, and to be an ever-sure abiding-place for the blessed gods. And she brought forth long Hills, graceful haunts of the goddess-Nymphs who dwell amongst the glens of the hills. She bare also the fruitless deep with his raging swell, Pontus, without sweet union of love. The Greeks seems to me have a very different relationship to sex. Zeus, Afrodite, Dionysus…Ritual sex, Eros. A curiousity shared between the Norse, Roman’s and Greeks (which leads me to believe it is of indo European origin), is that homosexual acts were accepted from an superior to a person of lower status or age. Vikings didn’t just rape women… In fact there is little evidence that they raped them in raids, but kidnapping or enslaving them is not any better. Just for laughs: I believe certain acts of sex are very healthy, and that Christianity f’ed our relationship to sex so much that it took an unhealthy form: sex without passion or love, the Catholic Church… Sky father and Mother Earth, man and woman, Jin and yang. Pretty much the same thing, no?

🥰 20th des

Just throwing it out there. Me being honest about a short break with reality, and you, a stranger, useing it for internet points or judgement is… pathetic really. Not much more to say.

Haven’t read trough all, but speaking of experience, you don’t exactly feel proud afterwords. please don’t get to caught up in technicalities and sematics.

…. Cobid 🤯 Why do you think exposure to the sun influenced skin color?? @ChiDragon How would you describe it?

So, this is a personal one. But it is anonymous and I have a good impression of the folks here. I have had experiences that I would characterise as super natural/spiritual and others as delusions. I am not psychothic, but I do know that I am at an increased risk of developing it, and have experienced tendencies in the past. Whats scary about it, is that it appears just as real as anything else. Lets say that I suddnely under the delusion that the CIA was trying to assinate me (I am not, just for illustration haha). That conviction would appear just as real to me as the fact that I am writing these words, right now. What scares me about this, is that once you start questioning your ability to distingiush whats real and whats not, you start questioning everything. On the other hand, I recieved "messages" that I would characterize as spiritual. Helpfull. As if some force, imagined or not, were communicating truths and insights and advice to me. My question is, if anyone can relate or if they have any advice? One thing I intend to start doing, is grounding/presence. Any ressources that could be of help, or "just chill"?

Well, I am not one to argue with you, as you has a much clearer understanding of eastern thought then I. I always interpreted chi as some kind of.. vitality/lifeforce?

AI made this by reqeust for more, to illustrate Socrates analogy of the sould. I LOVE IT

I mean, I dont like to tell people they are wrong, but sunlight has notideble effect on wellbeing. There is a reason why humans vary in skin colour, after all.

There is something deeply archetyple about that sort of man... I threw it in a spoiler to save space. Btw, now that you are an admin, is it possible to change sizes of images? I came accross this article tho (https://eternalisedofficial.com/2023/09/25/the-psychology-of-the-wise-old-man/#3-the-wise-old-man-archetype-) but tbh, I didnt bother reading it. His youtube channel tends to be high quality tho.

I have now done the work. I realize that few if any will bother read, and that it would be more fitting in the personal blog section. Ive decided to share because I think it would be effective for me, and potenially helpfull to the two people who might scim trough it. Honesty is key. 2025 – a year to improve Introductory Thoughts That’s how everything in life is. Not just for myself, but also for what I’m made of, those around me, and my environment – the planet. We are an ecosystem, a superorganism. It is my duty and my purpose. Hope, Inspiration, and Responsibility Our Best Day Guy Ritchie’s Philosophy: Be the Master of Your Own Kingdom Hardrådes Saga My wounds were bleeding as I rode; And down below the bondes strode, Killing the wounded with the sword, The followers of their rightful lord. From wood to wood I crept along, Unnoticed by the bonde-throng; 'Who knows,' I thought, 'a day may come My name will yet be great at home.' The Soul (245c–249d), chariot anaology by Socrates Quotes Carl Jung – Ending Your Inner Civil War Jordan Peterson (Personal) guidelines for Life Aurelius - meditations __________________________________________________________________________ Karma in accordance with Dharma: ___________________________________________________________________________ Sacred texts Havamal Hymn to Zeus Unkown (if you read this, much love) __________________________________________________________________________ Maybe a change in perspective? Is it possible to simply enjoy excistence, as it is? __________________________________________________________________________ 2024 - Reflections Focus Areas for 2025 Plans for december and january Ill end with some piano and this qoute by our friend @stirling The world is a mirror of your delusions. What hurts or feels like a "bad decision" in your life experience happens because of your attachment or aversion to a specific outcome. If you realize what that attachment or aversion IS and drop that pattern, you change the world. If you want to live in a world where people are kinder, be kind to other people. If you want to live in world without hate or violence, stop hating and being violent in your thoughts and actions. Stop responding with "bad decisions" and change the world.

Original title: How does one gets ones life in order Changed due to the following post About every new yeaar (I used to) set goals and plan on which aspects i wanted to improve on, what i wanted to achieve and how. If I am serious about improving my situation.. which I am not sure I am haha. Anyway, what process do you use, if any?

I saw that the emoji I used didnt get translated on to the desktop version. Considering it is such a small place, ill overcompensate: