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Not necessarily, although then still not 100% correct. But it could be that someone appears, and that someone being that one buddy of Trump. (I don't think it was meant that way though.)

I have an alternative suggestion: We throw together and offer $20 million to whoever sends Google to the moon.

You couldn't have been more spot-on with the description of the problem, of actually a very profound and widespread root of suffering. Suffering is resistance to pain. Once you become able to accept the pain of the process, the next important step is to not attach to the concept, or you might perpetuate the pain because you associate healing with it. Basically, experience and accept everything and don't weave a story about it. If your mind does that habitually, don't mind. Let it pass when it is time for it to pass.

I would liken prayer to nei gung, not meditation. The former is a process, the latter is for taking a vacation from a process. Religion is an activity with the aim of enlightenment that wears this as a label. Many other things are such an activity, too, not wearing that label. It's more like people make deliberate decisions in any situation of life that either move them closer to enlightenment or farther away from it. Same with drinking ayahuasca: It will initiate a process that you experience and are free to decide what to do with that experience. This is related to what a shaman once said, that ayahuasca can be the greatest of liars. - If you want to be lied to, then maybe a lot more self-deception is the way you want your path to be.

A mere 20 million, huh? That's a joke as motivator for such an endeavor. But evidence that they got too much money. They should instead invest that money to focus on this planet, not a gray dustball. They could hire some sane people to work on making their business less shitty. It's typical though that crazy people in denial would start focusing more and more outwards and away. If space is eventually colonized, it will be another USA case: Running away from the responsibility of solving the problems here, and thus carrying the same madness out into space and expand it there.

I would pose that (at least based on current situation of old gov deeds vs. new gov claims) Trump is the far right and O/H are the fascists. It's difficult to have fascism with advocates for small-government. At this point I see Trump as an antifascist authoritarian national socialist while I see O/H as fascist corporatocrats. Their fascism is demonstrated in how they use word shells that are the opposite of what they're doing as forces to rally an army of indoctrinated bigots for war against different political ideas and they get people to support whatever crime the almighty concentrated power of the government wants to do. Trump's politics could go in a fascist direction if not kept in check (and sadly the Democraps won't be able to keep it in check because they lost all credibility), but currently I see at least some potential for it to go in a not overly disastrous direction. But only if people abolish the war-lust in their heads, which is especially strong among Democrats and especially nasty since they fanatically entertain the belief of the opposite. I keep being reminded (and wish others would, too) of what Malcolm X expressed in his autobiography: He conveyed that the southerners at least were open about their hatred of him, so he knew where he stood with them. The northerners on the other hand would greet him with a smile and a handshake while thinking of murdering him in his sleep. This polarity is still as active today as it was such a long time ago, which is sad. But the frozen state the USA have been in couldn't be expressed better than in the absurd-outrageous-fanatical repetition of history in the current rampant McCarthyism and Cold War propaganda. I realized quite a while ago that the problem is not lack of communication of facts, not lack of remembering history. The problem is that too many people just don't give a shit about those because they're bellicose bigots (bebis); convenient, lazy, cowardly minds. They are everything they indoctrinate themselves into believing they're fighting against. Another old wisdom much-neglected: Beware, it is easy to become what you fight.

"good president"? That label has become so inappropriate that I could only say who WOULD HAVE BEEN one. Ron Paul. But if the right conditions had existed that allowed him to become president, the world would already be a much better place. Obama was a cowardly servant of the corrupt establishment like so many before him. Every now and then he might do something that looked like a tiny attempt to bring some personal positive missions into his politics, only to quickly follow it up by another outright evil act. If someone is so full of crap, I cannot give them credit for anything. Too many people operate based on a penance complex where they do some powerless gestures in the belief that it would cleanse them of their guilt. I don't get lost in detail so I won't even attempt to qualify Obama vs. Bush, but just say that they are both in the same category. And Hillary Clinton is definitely in the same category as Dick Cheney. Trump is now the nemesis of the deluded indoctrinated corrupt progressives with their superiority complex, and apparently they not just lost an election, but also their mind, so I only see cure through peril here, if at all. If there's one thing that seems absolutely unbreakable, it's the hubris and bigotry of the USA's political dipole. Without humility there is no betterment for the USA, and to that People, humility is perceived like death. It is a country of great fanaticism and projection. It fights the exterior projections of its inner demons that it so willingly serves. https://twitter.com/Dowlphin/status/815984392535416836

This is a specific question that's bugging me because I used to know but forgot, and I thought people here would be likely to know such things. I'm not sure whether it was typical for Japan or China, but I remember that in old times there were two main (widespread) grain crop types, one of them of high quality and then a poor man's grain of remarkably low nutritional value. It could be that the high quality one was millet, but then what was the inferior grain for the very poor social strata? Or did they grow wheat back then? Maybe that was the superior one. (If I read it, I'll probably remember whether that was what I had heard.) I think I learned it in a historical movie or something, and I was actually surprised that rice wasn't always the abundant/dominant crop everywhere.

The universe shows you a sense of humor when you're in the right mood. Which makes sense since we are all that.

Hmm, the names don't ring a bell. If only I could remember what movie I heard it from. I think at least one of the two had a familiar name. But Wikipedia states that Job's Tears is also called Chinese pearl barley, so I wonder whether it was "barley" that was mentioned. Being grown in higher areas where rice doesn't grow well would explain it. Probably was a highland area in the movie. Not sure whether it was the inferior one or the other. I think they mentioned consuming the inferior one in the form of a mash. Characters might have remarked how they're sick of that mash and want the good stuff. P.S.: Why doesn't the master of the house give me a job? (Who is that guy anyway?) I tried self-employment, but there's no demand to be found.

Spiritual awakening is a movement towards a celebration of the miraculous emergence of everything out of nothing. Thought this was too good to limit to a mere tweet. :-) ( https://twitter.com/Dowlphin/status/784374503073804289 ) This was a spontaneous thought while lying on the couch with a full stomach (haha, that's me), based on subtle flackbacks of experiences/feelings I had on ayahuasca. Basically, when the whole truth is revealed to you, how could you do anything else but capitulate, admit non-understanding, and start to just be?

@rene Just because it can't be done doesn't mean it can't happen. ;-)

I wonder how difficult it would be to cure or attain the ability to cure near- or farsightedness, astigmatism and these things, especially in cases where the cause is not or not only psychological, but where the eyeballs are really elongated. I guess the body somehow knows that this is not the way it's meant to be, but maybe the elongation is a natural, intentional adaptation. I read a bit about how the muscles around the eyeballs contract and all the alternative stuff and am currently wearing pinhole glasses, but they don't really improve my natural vision. I only noticed that when I now wear normal glasses, my eyes sometimes water like I've never worn glasses before. Now there must be practicers of Kunlun and similar methods who have handicapped vision. What are your experiences?

I think there's a word for this, but I can't think of it right now. Maybe you can tell me. Sometimes my mood changes, to pleasant or unpleasant, and I experience a different emotional state without any discernible cause, without being able to explain where it's coming from, and then, minutes or an hour later, I unexpectedly experience that which would cause such emotions, what would justify them, without that event being brought about by actions resulting from that emotional state, so basically it seems like my emotions sometimes precede the events that would cause them. It seems totally disconnected from the conscious mind. It's not even like having a hunch that something good or bad is about to happen. It's purely emotional. Any thoughts on that? Is a hunch maybe just this for someone who has learned to interpret it as a sign of things to come? I guess the more mind-focused version of this phenomenon would be called premonition.

Sounds very logically flawed to me, but hey, crazy science. What the mind makes out of things it can't quite explain is sometimes funny, believing it is in control. (E.g. since when is the present person knowing the future the same as the future person?)

@Orion Just not really related to this specific phenomenon. (But yeah, it's a 'common' view that digestion is a major influence on health.)

In my experience this is very much not true, or at least doesn't apply generally. Hell is in no way a taboo among Christian folks. Maybe considered a bit quaint among less devoted people, but the whole sinner theme is about the risk of going to hell. And it might not be the best strategy to get people to be good, and can cause the opposite (i.e. messy), but is seems as necessary as are laws.

Sounds like designed to appear mainstream-defying for the sake of it. At least without actual explanation why this thesis should be valid. Personally I came to a pretty convincing view, which is kinda old and boring to the intellect, but it will have to deal with it. The root of all fears is existential fear. Our egoic mind is a tool designed to protect our physical vessel from dangers. All the strategies it designs have that aim. A healthier force is being channeled when a person does not fuel that program; when existential fears are starved. That can be due to outside influences and/or inner work. When someone looks inside and sees guilt, he is afraid that guilt that demands to be acted on will impair his options for selfish actions, which usually help self-sustenance. Overcoming such guilt is actually a selfish act. But it is also an act of self-love. If that leads closer to a balance, then it is healthy, at least in relation to life circumstances.

There's no need for namecalling.

So a part of your wants to be caught? Sounds like a cry for help to me. ;-D

Failed. :-P xD

Maybe when wolves and a canyon are involved, otherwise that would be summer.

Not a good piece, since they're all just button presses here. It totally doesn't get the reason why they choose ad hominem.

The guide itself has many problems. It is not a guide for winning, but for not losing easily. Also, it is only about what not to say. It doesn't change what you think and do, and might even further cover it up in ulterior motivation. Bascially, that guide, if followed, makes it harder for intelligent people to quickly identify a moron and thus avoid wasting time. It seems to me that Lore Sjöberg was stroking his ego with it to boost his 'logician' self-esteem. So to speak: Why would he help the enemy? As I see it: Because they're not his enemy. With that piece he moved closer to what he resists. He devotes so much more attention to morons that he begins helping them being a more advanced moron. BTW if you like this topic, you should read The Autobiography of Malcolm X. In it, he talks about all this ego crap, which so much matches my personal experience that sometimes it makes me feel like I'm him reincarnated, LOL.

I am looking at Yueya.