Seth Ananda

No, not getting sex, your 'neglect' is insignificant in comparison to what objectification and its effects cause, which have their root in slavery. Slavery of half our population. Thats not a straw man argument. Not how you worded it. your simple point was:"But the more they get ignored, dismissed and even further marginalized, the more they will implode.." Your simple point blames women. Women ignore them and so on which is why they will implode... So he decided to Kill, and set out to kill women? Based on a well developed sense of unmet entitlement to women's bodies. Well he was seeing a psych professional if I remember right. I thought you would appreciate a 'Manly' response... But to be fair, I miss read the meaning of your question.

calling strawman is a pretty lousy response but its a good place to hide your misogyny behind.

hmm i was awaiting the typical moronic response from one of the TTB's main misogynists... What?!? Sexual objectification affects all women. It is based on not seeing the woman as a person, but as a sexual commodity. It is dehumanising, and strips women of value if they dont fit the current cultural beauty standard. Bullshit! So having a culture that dehumanises women, gives women value {or lack of} based on their looks {or lack of} where its almost ok to rape them now days if they were wearing a short skirt, and a little while ago, it was totally ok to rape them if they wore a short skirt? Well that isnt as bad as some poor man not getting sex when he wants it? Maybe his personality has been so twisted by our sick society that he is not attractive to women. Maybe he spends all his time in his mums basement jacking off over '10's' and calling them bitches cause he doesn't know any of them? The poor boy... Waaaa, those evil women 'Owe' him sex! Is that what you think? Should women be 'made' to sleep with you cause your feeling sex neglected? Oh its women's fault that they Implode is it? You sir are a sick individual, and here you just justified violence against women. People implode when they have an unrealistic sense of Entitlement. No one is owed sex. No one deservers sex. If you think you are or do, then you are suffering from this thing called 'entitlement' which means you feel on some level, that you have some kind of 'rights' over a womans body. It means that on some level, you support, or justify rape. As for Imploding, its these false set of rights and entitlements that so many men carry that make them implode. That is not the fault of women. Who do we blame? We blame media, and the cultural stories we carry. Stories that say a woman is a commodity. A commodity is something that can be bought, earned, or won. Therefore if you have the right things, say/do the right things then it should be yours right? No, because its a fucking Human Being, not your fucking sex slave. Why should it be a problem for them? No one 'owes' anyone anything. Did you just blame my partner for men harassing her? Be glad you dont live down the street from me...

I have met a lot of lovely feminists, and I would much rather date a feminist than a woman who isn't. I feel like I can trust them more to be themselves with me. Also the 'man haters' I have also met, and they are hard work. Being judged based on your gender is never nice. But I feel deeply for them. They have been judged based on their gender their whole lives, and I am really only copping a tiny moment of that from them, so really I am the lucky one ~ not that anyone actually wins from this situation. Also many of the 'Manhating Femanazi's' have been raped, or sexually abused, sometimes many times... by Men. ​Maybe we could start giving them a little leeway based on their past experiences?

Well, apparently a 'Woman' inspired kill spree... although it was really rape culture inspired, Its so hard, and the sheer level of opposition is overwhelming. It sometimes seems that only a handful of people are actually looking at the situation from a careful astute perspective. That Women have to worry that much more about their physical safety is shocking. That fact alone should keep everyone supporting Feminism. Also to many early Feminists, it felt like war. It was War. They had to rally, bleed in the streets in some places, and cop the onslaught of bullying, name calling and media putdowns and social ostracization. From Men, and the various stockholm syndrome women. In war there can be a tendency to demonise the other side, {Ask any Vets here what they though of the Viet Kong} which on one level is natural and fair enough I say. The situation we have today with these Man/boys {and there are so many of them} is enough reason for a little bit of demonising to continue to happen.

'Priviledge' is thinking something isn't really a problem, because its not a problem for you. Feminisms work wont be done until events like the Elliot Rodgers woman kill spree never happen again, which will require a massive change in cultural thinking. The underlying values we are taught by our society, are that a Women's value is based on her attractiveness or sexiness. In other words, she is not human being, she is a commodity, either a bottom, middle or top shelf 'item', a somewhere between a '1 and a 10' trophy. Not that long ago she was chattel, property, and basically a sex slave. Not given the vote, told she was to gentle, delicate and emotional to form an intelligent opinion. And the stupid stupid misogynistic voices here at the Taobums, think that because Women eventually won the vote, that all those cultural attitudes just miraculously evaporated? Most Men basically see Woman as barely more than a machine to keep a vagina alive. Its right there in the attitudes. Women have to be pleasing, yin and gentle, soft and charming. because that is 'feminine' and what they really really are, which is really what the men want them to be, because who wants their sex supply 'playing up' with thinking or rebellion...? "I was good and charming, so I am 'owed' or 'deserve' or am in someway entitled to sex!" I did the things right, waaa, give me sex you withholding bitch! ~ That is not seeing a human being first, that is seeing another human being as a sex supply that you somehow have rights to... Women 'only' like 'alphas' therefore I am gonna be a prick to them so they will fuck me!!! Really? What kind of human being acts like this? Other than a self entitled little shit? {and if they still dont fuck me I am gonna whine all day on internet forums about what money grabbing bitches they all, and why they don't give me the sex I somehow 'deserve' ~ once again perpetuating rape culture, cause if you 'deserve' it, then you are 'entitled' to it, all somehow without the women's involvement} We have a disgusting dynamic at play in our societies, and men nearly always walk around blissfully unaware of it, because they are never {comparatively} on the receiving end of it, and even when they are perpetuating it, think its just a laugh, lighten up lady, oooh she must be a lesbian, feminazi! Just to walk down the street feeling relatively safe is a privilege men usually enjoy without realising that many women don't share this privilege. My partner, coming home at night has something happen, nearly every night. She is 'attractive' and nearly every night, either a car pulls up with some dickhead at the wheel, or a group of guys she has to walk past start trying to get her to 'come for a drive', go out for coffee, come back to mine, lets get a drink, come meet my friends... When she turns them down, or ignores them, they don't politely say 'no problem, have a good night', they call her a leso slut, or some other stupid thing, and do some crazy burnout to demonstrate what winners they are... Its insane really, when you think about it. But what do we do as Men? We say dont take that route, which kind of puts it on the woman. But how do we address the social situation that breeds this situation? Its there in all the movies, usually as comedy or action movies. Its all around us in advertising. We have to do our best to not think of people as commodities, to remove the idea that looks of a certain kind give someone their value or lack of, to stop basing our Ideas of beauty on unrealistic photoshopped images, and to remove the Idea that anyone 'has' to act a certain way, based on their sex. These are some of the things that Feminism is trying to face, and it has a long road ahead of it.

Viva la siesta! I love the various Meso American practices around siesta as a dreaming practice and a very important part of the day. But even that aside, it just feels good to me. Keeps my waking life more vital, refreshed and relaxed, and somehow keeps me more porous in relationship to my unconscious mind, and my ability to receive its data..

Morning ~ Fighting, balancing, climbing, sensory training, wrestling, weapons, and lockpick practice. Lighting the shrines. Breakfast ~ Mid morning ~ Plant alchemy {poisons, balms, and expanders}, item construction, creative endeavours. Feeding the shrines. Late morning ~ Time in nature, gardening and cleaning the residence. Self observation. Lunch ~ Early afternoon ~ Divination, Massage and bodywork, body pleasure pursuits, appreciation of beauty/nature/art... Mid afternoon ~ Trance, seething, ritual work, sexual congress Late afternoon ~ Continued sexual trance, group sexual work, shrine feeding and so on. Dinner ~ Early evening ~ Deity work, possession, group spirit flight, spirit communion, ritual, group sexual trance work, healings or hexings, shrines, offerings, blood letting, pleasure, trance, floggings and pleasuring's, trance... Bed time ~ Possible ongoing sexual unification and trance work, followed by lucid dreaming and deep sleep. rinse and repeat forever...

Hmm, Some might say that our ancestors are part of our 'red thread' of fate, and thus they are tied to our destiny. Something flows through them that now flows through us... Benefits to the 'mere individual' are that our ancestors want us to succeed ~ Both in the world and in our spiritual pursuits. They may serve as spiritual protection, they can initiate certain sorcerous experiences, they may cause a degree of self knowledge and awareness as contemplating your line and your place in it tends to result in certain insights. When they are happy, its like you have more 'luck' with you, and things seem to go well that little bit more often... But other than that, I don't think that ancestor work should be done for purely selfish reasons. Its kind of incredible to realise that we are only here because of the deeds of others, and they deserve veneration. They look with love in our direction and we ignore them. They watch to see what we do with the gifts they have given us, and are elated when we can overcome the trials we have inherited. Are we living in a way that makes them proud? Their nature/existence is part of our being in some very deep and mysterious way, that is hard for modern man to appreciate. Make a space for them, light some candles, or one candle, give thanks too and prayers for them, offer them food and drink? Just start somewhere and it will slowly unfold. certain things will feel right, others less so.

In my book, knowledge and belief are conceptual things, based on strings of thoughts and Ideas, caught up in time, that may be highly useful or highly stupid for us here. 'Knowing' on the other hand is non-conceptual, it is not based on strings of thoughts and ideas, seems to not come from time, and is always right or exact, for the moment that it arises, and no more... When I say non-conceptual, I mean that its not a 'concept' {a thought} which are things that move, where as 'Knowing' is still, and seems to belong to the space that thoughts and concepts happen within. It is utter certainty that is void of mental processing.

Hi people. I'm giving a heads up about a wonderful novel I just finished. Its called 'Wooing the Echo' by Lee Morgan. There are so few good fictional books written, on the subject of magic, that use actual 'real world' practices, and that stay within the bounds of what is actually possible with magic. This is one of them. I was absolutely riveted from about 10 pages in. The character development is superb, the story is great, and its poetic, deep, sexy and painful stuff from start to finish. Blew me away. A+++ P.S. The occult stance within the book is of a Traditional Witchcraft {TW} stance, which is a new passion of mine. I had no idea until recently that there was a {non Wiccan} witchcraft movement, which is reconstructing and using to great effect early European/Anglo traditions.. It is quite a 'shamanistic' {if i dare use that term} tradition in many ways, with a good heaping of sorcery to go. Very different from the purple velvet/goth crowd that seems to inhabit a lot of Wicca. Nothing against Wicca by the way, just not my cup of tea personally.

probably not.. The christian hangover is strong in some magician circles as well, and to their victorian puritan sensibilities, the ancestor work is probably a bit to 'primitive' or mediumship like.. Sad for them..

If anyone likes this amazing book, please consider helping to pimp it. Lee has all 9 written and only one in print so far. I for one really want to get to read the rest of them, so the first book needs to do the rounds, and get some attention.

The Ancestors watch in joy as we venerate them by mastering the various struggles we inherited, or meet. My appreciation for ancestor work grows ever greater. Its amazing that some people think its a waste of time, or sort of 'low level' occult practice. It is really amazing, and seems to continually grow in strength... Not all ancestral beings are in the category of 'the mighty dead' but some are... wow..

No one is 'entitled' to anyones information, regardless of the subject, unless it was always legally meant to belong to 'everyone'.. I have a ton of stuff in my head that relates to 'freedom' and the 'spiritual quest' and no one is automatically 'entitled' to it, just by virtue of wanting it. Also the secret stuff i have learned stays secret as I keep my word. The only grey area for me is when things become public knowledge that were once secret, and occasionally it starts to seem trite to bother with the secrecy anymore. Still though there are a few things that have finally entered print that for the unready are very unstabilizing and potentially dangerous, and I still wont share them, 'just because' someone wants them.

who cares, its a cult. The body of 'teachings' around the practice most definitely meet the cult criteria...

~ Nods wisely ~

Well it sure makes it easy to look {sound?} wise when you say nothing... you mean if I say nothing, then I am 'obviously' the one who 'knows' and does not speak, lol. I think from now on I am going to crash conversations with my silence, and when people get annoyed, I will sagely tell them how I am wise by keeping my mouth shut, and implicitly imply that they are not, by speaking... I will sleep so well at night knowing how much better I am than others

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someone brainscan those crickets, they are sounding spiritual!

Can you imagine how quite it would be here?

In Fact, once we nail the neurology of awakening and its various forms, on those brain scan thingies, then we should ban anyone ever claiming any form of spiritual awareness or authority, ever, without first proving it via brain imaging tech, and thus getting a diploma, showing mastery, and entitlement to speak.

Hey, i'm with you mate, if "Form is Emptiness and Emptiness is Form", then realisation should come with a diploma, you know, to cover the 'form' side of the equation...

..I dont know man, sounds hard...

well as I like to say, if your going to talk the talk, then you also have to look the walk! And what adds to looking the walk, more than a diploma hanging on your wall? {other than beads, robes, shaved hair, funny hats and stuff} Obviously the answer is two diplomas!!! why not get a double diploma, or a degree, or your Masters, and a PHD?!? infact, get them in several different but related fields to increase your 'zone of authority' and to make sure interlopers and upstarts cant get away with questioning you. If you wanted a diploma rather than a degree or higher, because you don't want to waste that much time, well why even bother with a diploma? Here in Aus, and maybe elsewhere you can do a 'certificate' course over like 6 evenings! That still gives you authority over the unwashed masses. if they dare to speak up at one of your talks, you can just point to your certificate on the wall and say nothing! People will listen to how you answered without using words, and they will know you are wise! Trust me, its a win win situation!