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Now we are getting somewhere. And speaking of emotions, and enslaving men.... and good ol '93

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Why would you assume I did that? Do you only post pictures of things you have personally created? Or do you not post pictures at all? Or are you are being sarcastic in some strange way? So many questions... The carving depicts Horus and Set. Take a look at the central column and see if it makes sense to you. Beyond this, I have no further comment.

Here's another one...

There, there.. dont be scared. Everything will be ok.

Yeh, its probably a good idea to be careful with all those emotions...

oh theyre on my head in countless ecosystems billions, billions served

eat whatever the FUCK you wanna eat

Maybe they had one of these machines invented by the Greeks:

The wide variance of personal interpretations is usually the main problem with having in-depth conversations in general and especially when it comes to a technical context regarding methods, practices, analysis and so forth. Typically it seems the idea of "egotism" is used to denote a narcissistic impulse towards obsessive self-reflection - and therefore by extension many people's use of the word "ego" refers to that very same self-reflection as it is objectified in such a process... rather than referring to the classical psychoanalytic view which coined the terms in the first place. And in that respect we must remember that Jung himself took the term from his teacher, Freud, who originated the term as part of a tripartite describing the psyche, which consisted of "id" (or instinctual mind) and "superego" (or ethical mind) as well as the "ego" (or mediator between them). The process of self-absorption which continually circles around the self-image created by an obsession with self-reflection is indeed often the central hub of the mind of many many people, but this is not necessarily an ideal situation, or even an effective one across many different contexts. In fact it often turns out to be quite deleterious and harmful in a number of ways, both in the short and long term. And I would add that this has nothing to do with the idea of "individuation" as proposed by Jung. Thats why I prefer to actually spell things out to a certain degree (in most cases), instead of using terminology which is open to a wide variance of personal interpretation. In simple matters, simple terms will suffice. But speaking in-depth seems to require an effort to make those depths as accessible as possible to give any kind of actual communication a chance of taking place. However, it would certainly be ineffective to personally define a word in a way which is very much divergent from the consensus reference, and then use such a term in a conversation while expecting other people to forego their own interpretation based on the consensus and automatically relate to your personal interpretation instead, without actually explaining what it is in the first place. So I think its good that you took some time to explain your own thoughts on it and give some background on your reasoning regarding this issue.

Thats right. No one knows. No big deal. Right?

The ego loves to hate itself just as much as it loves to love itself, while at the very same time it also hates to love itself just as much as it hates to hate itself. Its all quite fascinating, really.

All that you touch And all that you see All that you taste All you feel And all that you love And all that you hate All you distrust All you save And all that you give And all that you deal And all that you buy, Beg, borrow or steal And all you create And all you destroy And all that you do And all that you say And all that you eat And everyone you meet And all that you slight And everyone you fight And all that is now And all that is gone And all that's to come And everything under the sun is in tune But the sun is eclipsed by the moon. (There is no dark side of the moon, really. Matter of fact, it's all dark.)

"It`s a big act. The goddamned thing`s a fucking act, man. Even what I said right then is a fucking act. Everything is an act. It`s all an act. The only thing that`s not an act, the only thing that makes reality, is death. And then they hang it on a cross and kneel down and pray to it. That`s the only reality they understand. If you kill eight or 10 people and you throw blood all over and you say, ``Now you see what I`m saying?`` they say, ``Oh, oh.. we see what you`re saying.` And they still don`t see what you`re saying." - Charles Manson

The days of classical Upaya are long gone. 1000 years ago, people lived much, much differently than we do in our modern civilization. The context of "skillful means" is really only "skillful" when it is actually effective. Sexual abuse may or may not lead to awakening in the same way getting hit by a car may or may not lead to awakening. A shocking event is just that and life already provides plenty of dangerous situations on its own without the help of manufactured scenarios. Actual accomplishment of Upaya requires many more levels of activity, and many more moving parts than a shocking event on its own. But to be clear as possible, it certainly doesnt require sexual abuse - or sex at all. It can be accomplished through all kinds of things, including sexual intercourse - but there is a certain element of proper alignment to the whole endeavor which most likely wont require a transgression of personal boundaries to that degree. And even if it does require that level of transgression, it is still possible to accomplish such things without being abusive. So yes, all these bullshit buddhists and bullshit gurus with their bullshit ideas about "crazy wisdom" need to fuck right off and stop fooling themselves. Its rather impossible to do a disservice to a practice such as Upaya, but it does cast a bad light on buddhism in a way that probably wont be helping people in the long run - which is ostensibly the point of buddhist compassion. Its also fairly debatable whether or not a mode of being such as the Avadhuta is conducive to teaching or institutional groups in the first place...

My need to judge others is no different than your own need to judge others. Its also no more or less relevant to anything else other than the person in question who is making those judgements. Perhaps you consider yourself above the need to judge others, but that would just be yet another lie you tell yourself to help you continue sleeping so soundly. But yes, I find you lacking. This is true. However, people who simply stumble through their life in a state of self-imposed hypnosis cannot help it. So you really cant be blamed for lacking. And its not necessarily something that is always a permanent situation, although it usually tends to be for the vast majority of people. So its a bit more nuanced than you might think, lol

Yeah the Dune series is incredible. Its insightful to an almost freakish degree in terms of extrapolating things into their own world. Great stuff. IIRC Herbert said he researched about 140 books before beginning to write it.. which is pretty crazy.

I already explained why - If you are happy with eating a peice of candy while dreaming its a plate of fresh vegetables, its sad to me because you wont actually be improving your health. Eventually your health will degrade because candy has no nutritional value - and because you were happy and satisfied with the dreams of being healthy instead of actually being healthy. At some point you may even convince yourself that the illnesses you have imposed on yourself through a steady diet of candy alone is the same thing as being healthy. Thats sad to me. Its a waste of potential and a perversion of the most sacred impulse there is, IMHO. If you cant understand that, I dont know what else to say. Moreover, this is not really applicable to people who have no interest in self-development or working on themselves. They are so asleep as to be entirely inconsequential at a personal level - so I dont really have any kind of personal interest in what they do. Their happiness is meaningless to me. Its not sad to me, its not happy to me - its of no concern at all - because I dont care about what they are doing beyond its overall impact as another factor in the world itself. However when it comes to people who have made a conscious choice to approach a conscious lifestyle - thats when I do care about what they are doing. But yeh - go ahead and have fun. Live it up while you can. Again, this is all just my opinion. You are free to do whatever you want - just like everyone else.

Sorry but I see this as an entirely ridiculous view and laughable to an extreme degree - but of course, this is just my opinion. Suffice to say that numerous alternative philosophies, religions, traditions, practices, etc. etc. etc. had come to America since the late 1800s, and I would say these are things that provided far, far, far more in the way of introducing people to other things besides christianity in an actually productive way. Frankly I doubt more than a handful of people took "star wars" seriously enough to regard "the force" as something that was truly "real" - considering star wars is just fuzzy little puppets and laser guns and shit like that. During the 60s and 70s, Castaneda himself introduced an entire generation to "alternate realities" based on "energy" and all that - and again, those ideas were directly used in star wars in a much more watered down and impotent way.. Castaneda was a really big deal back in that time. So were a lot of other metaphysical groups and cults and all kinds of things like that. Kids today dont know shit about it - but they do know star wars because fuzzy little puppets are always appealing to children. Yeh there are some obsessive fanboys (see: fanatics) out there that want Jedis to be real and so they play dress-up with lightsabers... but thats a pretty small minority - and an incredibly silly one to boot. In many ways its quite sad - because they are so happy and satisfied with just substituting complete bullshit for an actual practice of self-development. If it leads to something real, then great - but Jedis arent real. You cant be a Jedi. You can only pretend to be one. They are just fictional characters from a pulp movie designed for the lowest common denominator. But your life is not fictional, so it deserves something real.

Right, and thats the whole point of Joseph Campbell's work as well. And so the fact that Lucas took his character ideas directly from him ties into the fact he was deliberately trying to be as derivative as possible and make a modern Hero Myth for the Space Age or whatever. He was going for that "meta-story" in an intentional way. Its pretty much the same thing Tarantino does, except he goes for the underground, hipster angle - whereas Lucas was going for the mainstream universally appealing pop culture phenomena type thing. Honestly it did become an iconic phenomena - so he succeeded in that and there is something to be said for it. But ultimately it was a hollow shell of an artwork - and the resulting legacy was exclusively used to sell toys to little kids... not to tell a "good story" or to "impart wisdom" or "pass down knowledge" or whatever. Who knows if it started out that way or not, but apparently Hollywood got what it wanted out of him and then turned him out - and now its all said and done anyways. Storytelling, myths and so forth are indeed a part of humanity that stretches back before prehistory - and in fact, history itself is built upon its foundation. And yes there are universal patterns that continually repeat throughout the eras in many different forms and varieties. So, it certainly has a purpose beyond just selling toys or pokemons or whatever - but not in the case of "Star Wars" and all that kind of shit. It could have been, but it wasnt in that case. And it has been done before in other cases. And its still being done today in other cases. So yeh - fuck star wars.