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Unrealistic ending though. If that was a real person and not just a character, based on his whole previous behavior, he wouldn't be honest. He's way too full of shit and dishonest to himself. Makes Dr. Bacon a tiny bit of a Mary Sue there.

In rare cases someone's love can overcome these things, but you have to explore whether you can afford the luxury, whether you have what it takes. I myself am beginning to give up on those people. I very much look at what intentions people are having in order to judge whether my efforts are wasted or not. One of the most common examples would be in Youtube comments when someone indicates that they are having a discussion with the aim of winning. Since I discuss with the aim of mutual enlightenment and search for truth, I then realize it's pointless to act within verbal warfare and leave the zealot alone. Also, sometimes compassion needs to be teamed with tough love.

I do. I had arguments with my mother that looked like an attempted exorcism (which in a way they were), with her just unwilling to get rid of her poisonous arrogance and control issues. These days she has learned to hide it, to wear a mask, but I can still see the symptoms of it working underneath. And plenty of people, especially those who have no habit of spiritual self-reflection and such, ("commoners" I tend to say not without a hint of bitterness) cannot change, because they don't want to, because they have no strong enough incentive. (My mother even admitted she's been kind of a stubborn and spoiled, arrogant child, but many decades later it's still with her and she doesn't seem to realize it.) They have made everything more difficult for others because they allow themselves the convenience of not making an effort, while telling themselves a bullshit story that makes them feel good and righteous about themselves. I tried long enough, but eventually I arrived at a "screw them" attitude. They're ugly and I don't have the energy or motivation for saint-like self-sacrifice for convenient fools. Convenience causes unspeakable misery in the world. I've done way more than my civic duty and been punished for it. Now I come first. How I hate lawful neutrals.

Who knows the background for this saying? I am quite appalled. I interpreted it in the same sense as "To the pure, all things are pure", but when I did a WWW search, pretty much all I found was institutional-religious texts about menstruating women and temples.

My ears are blurred. It's more comfortable.

Pinkie Pie ... STILL image?! Dude.

Please understand... I love her too much to do that. But if you didn't pay attention to my writings and instead just watched her for a while, it would be just as beneficial to the world. Here's a meditation video in case you want more after that:

I can help, no problem. Just say the word.

Yeah, maybe my face reminded her of some early abuse trauma or something. Who knows. There's probably really no way to get closer to an insight than through direct inquiry, and it's not worth it just for curiosity's sake.

is a frost resistant tree. As the white Taiga, you will know that. Had enough pun, hun? ^^

Yes, apparently there's much confucian in people's minds. ^^

Could be one possible scenario. If a beam of light is about to pierce a dark soul. That which shies away is always fear.

Joke's on you. It was during a brony convention, and the speaker, during the main event (as opposed to talks afterwards), specifically only invited people on the stage who were wearing some kind of costume.

If you're in for a slightly longer read than this, check out a blog article I aready wrote about it: https://dowlphinblog.wordpress.com/2014/12/26/a-study-in-reality-denial/ But I wanted to add something I remember from years ago - a political TV debate - that I still remember because it was one of those losing-faith-in-humanity experiences. Candidate A talked in an easy-to-follow way, simple short sentences, logical, well-explained, putting the facts right out there. Very good speaker. Candidate B responded with a total mess of rhetorical blabla - it contained no informational value, it was painful to listen to. Made it quite clear that candidate B didn't have the intelligence to discuss on the same level. Afterwards many people stated that they didn't understand a word of what candidate A said, but they totally understood candidate B. (As I explained in the linked blog article, I think they were consciously bullshitting themselves. They had a personal preference for candidate B and had to twist their perception of reality in order to make themselves feel good and right.) Candidate B eventually became Federal Chancellor of Germany and created a long track record of corruption and arrogance and insulting the common people.

Yep. The Putin/Gazprom buddy, and, of course, friend of the banks. And long before that he's been a crook. Probably also faked his vita. There's a guy, Hans-Joachim Selenz, who wrote a lot about Wild West in the executive levels of business and his own accounts of corruption in the board of directors. Schröder is just like the many others who make it to the top these days. Rotten to the core. Right now I remember there was an article on the net about Ackermann from Deutsche Bank and Schröder suggesting a bailout plan in the case of a financial crisis, involving a "bad bank", and that was the year 2003 or so! Total déjà vu to find something that old while the same shit was going on AGAIN.

I had a strange (possible) realization lately, but first I'd like to ask how many of you have what I have - a frequent feeling of some kind of energy flowing around the third eye and/or forehead or somewhere there, a bit as if your blood was magnetically moved around. A former 'Kunlun Nei Gung buddy' told me that's common and not to be focused on. In any way, what I thought is: While according to a Ba Zi analysis, me being prosperous wood, probably dry due to much fire, I should seek out water and not put so much fire into my head, fire in my head is what developed my mind so well, and people with an overabundance of their day master element are supposed to be giving anyway. So I am now considering that I have given that overabundance of wood as fuel for a sustainable bright fire in my head. That magnetic feeling in my head has been there - on and off - ever since I received a red phoenix transmission from Max, the phenomenon itself quite marvelous/special in my dull life, sitting there in plain sight and accompanying me through many years, not fading - kind of like Max said, you continue your training where you left off. Over the years I've come to resent the idea of creating balance in all your skillsets, especially when you cannot afford that luxury. Success often comes from focusing on your strengths. This might be unwise only when you cannot rely on other people. Sadly that might be the case with me, but I am hesitant to build on that, because lack of support from others around me also means I don't have the energy to become an allround master. I am considering to continue a focused practice of red phoenix (especially since certain symbology might point me towards that) and amplify that strength of the mind. As above so below, so by trying to balance these things out, I might only be tying my feet in the dull middle, when instead I should build up an extreme in order to create a breakthrough, an opening that then can balance things out. Playing with extremes fits my true self very much anyway.

For me, it often occurs when I relax, like breathing a sigh, but also at other times I can't really define. It's active right now. Between and above the eyebrows it sometimes is even as much as a slight sensation of cool air (which became very distinct during an ayahuasca ceremony, all the way through my head). It usually wavers and fluctuates, moves across different regions in my head, mostly superficial - third eye, unicorn point, top of the head. In the relatively little Red Phoenix practice I did, I could never manage to perceivable direct the energy through the middle of the brain. I only felt activity near the surface of the skull. Again, I am compelled to appreciate it greatly, because of so many things over the years that came and then vaporised instead of building up, despite all my efforts, this sensation is something out of the ordinary, and I was a careless (non-)practictioner and it still stuck with me all that time, not fading one bit. For me personally, that's pretty cool. In that way, that mere symptom is more of an encouraging and spirit-strengthening influence than many supposed friends. I have great respect for things that are persistent, and Max did it with a mere touch. (Although getting to that point was a tale of woe.) Now I have to see whether it's different than last time where when I tried to focus more on Red Phoenix practice, tiredness ensued. (I have motivational problems more than ever.)

I feel compelled to write about this because lately it has become very bothersome again. After many experiences, observations and ponderings, it seems obvious that the medical science of mental disorders is way too much in a yes/no diagnosis mindset, when those things should be regarded as a sliding scale of great width. Usually something is diagnosed as a mental illness when it is causing problems, because that is drawing attention. Anything below that certain threshold will go unnoticed. Things like autism could very well be something present in very many people. But even apart from this, what I realized (again) lately is that when you are having a discussion with someone on the internet, you usually have no idea about the things they might even have been diagnosed positive for. You'll probably agree that it's relatively common to have an experience of talking to someone who will automatically always believe they're right, disregard the message contained in your writings and fixate on formalities, is unable to follow abstract thoughts and tends to become arrogant and seems like they just don't want to understand your point. Well, did it ever occur to you that they might act like a douche because they're autistic? I've had my share of experiences with people I know are autistic, and they confirmed many suspicions I had before. So just like sociopathy isn't a yes/no question, but more defines notions in someone's personality, autism seems to be very widespread. And it wouldn't surprise me. It would explain cause and effect, the self-amplifying problem-complex in society of unhealthy imbalance towards the controlling mind. Autists will appear to be operating extremely from their left brain hemisphere, and that's pretty much the antithesis to the stereotypical relaxed weed smoker who is easy to get along with. There is a huge imbalance in society. It is grand scale sickness. Such grand scale that it can make healthy-minded people feel like they are the abnormal ones. (In the truest sense of the word they might actually be abnormal - meaning healthy.) Add to this all the other types of jerkassery of people that are, too, based on the same imbalance in the brain. Especially lately I have experienced people just making shit up contrary to easily perceivable reality just so that they could satisfy their obsessive desire for commanding other people around and enforcing their fascist ideas of total order and tidyness in the world; And simply pointing out the obvious facts is like kryptonite to their bullshit. I might be quite compassionate, but I'm also quite sensitive, and sometimes the extent of all this is really pissing me off and I need some off time. There just seem to be very few places where one can have some relief from it unless there are no people there. I'm trying to resist the wave of sickness, but it exhausts me. I even tried giving in to it (several times), but I got feedback that that's not an option either. The more shit I try to tolerate/deny, the more I embolden it. That's why I get angry/bitter sometimes. It seems like the only sane reaction and like we need much more of that.

If it was just that, it wouldn't be a puzzling situation. As I said, my question didn't have the potential to startle her. It was like any other she got, and she even verbally responded to it in a healthy way. (Misunderstanding the point, but still a normal answer.) She was cheerful as before and after, but it looked like a part of her that she didn't have control over, because not fully conscious maybe, was inhibiting her. It was an at least relatively rare anomaly for both her and me. The only time I can remember having met someone who couldn't look me in the eyes was long ago at a job interview at a university, but I assumed that there it might have been the academic guy's social anxiety, because his whole demenor matched that way more than in said case with the public speaker. Was funny, too, though, having a guy who is doing job interviews who can't look the applicant in the eyes. Universities. LOL.

@ThisLife I'm aware of the things you mention. I'm still curious. No harm in that. I'm not trying to guilt-trip myself or see evils out there or anything like that. I'm on the search for wisdom, and regardless of what caused the peculiar situation, there might be wisdom to be gained. I made some immediate decisions after the event to not let it affect me in a negative emotional way, despite having been kind of a downer. Again: Experiences that strike our attention, that fall out of the norm, seem worth examining.

I feel you. If those people could truly accept and just leave you be, you'd very likely thrive beyond your expectations.

It's also a motivation and not a proof of falsity. The problem is significantly based on that digital mindset and according diagnoses. If 50% of a population was diagnosed with autism, then the idea of medicating all of them would reveal its absurdity and would point people towards finally looking at the root causes. You need an accurate diagnosis before you can scrap the diagnosis itself.

Perceiving a certain reality can be a choice though, that's one of my points. Knowing what is true and deliberately deciding to reject it. I can often spot it when it's like that as opposed to truly unconscious. People willingly dumb themselves down, condition themselves, because they put higher priority on things not truth.

Funnily, I can spot the autism in this, according to my experiences.You say it seems to have little point, but the point is in the eye of the beholder, and I'm pointing out something that might enlighten people's interactions with others. Whether sociopathy is still officially used in clinical context is not that relevant because one of the points I clearly made is that clinical definitions (as you then focus on) are somewhat arbitrary. They don't change the fact that tendencies can be gradual. And sociopathy does have its place apart from psychopathy, because it is a lack of social intelligence and related abilities, and lumping it together with psychopathy is, again, causing a potential problem that I pointed out. It compels people to only acknowledge sociopathy once it crosses a threshold of perceived illness of the psyche. I do think though that if the term "psychopathy" is stripped of its loaded connotations due to said severity threshold and related diagnoses, it could fit into the sociopathy definition, since psychopathy is defined as a problem, and it is society that defines whether something is a problem to it. It's all about social concerns. Definitions and decisions don't create truth. Your commentary was pretty much directing focus away from my point so that you could claim my writings had little point.

As explained in my previous post above Compassion trumps equivalent exchange. (Although naturally one could always see an equivalence in the act - that's what I'm saying. It's undisprovable.)