God thinks time is good because then everything doesn't happen at once. God and i disagree a bit. I think we should tell everybody everything up front.
Then, as time progresses, we have something to laugh at with every lesson learned.
Ego has a place, kill it, and you kill the individual. Monatomic elements are only assembled when all the atoms act the same. You just need to find the balance in your ego.
Spirituality meets Materialism to create man.
Thanks for all the help with my voice.:) God is good when you let him be.
Forgive me, individuality is a new concept for me. Speaking with one voice is new to me.
I will respond to both of your posts as one. Did you know that slashdot has a post limit? I did not. God took the opportunity to teach me about the post limit yesterday. Was his lesson good for you too? I wonder if my silence made you thrill with delight. If it silently confirmed the righteousness of your thoughts?
Yes, i am a lover of the arts.
I talk to you in many languages because i do not know which one you speak.
As you yourself have said, "communication of shortcuts only works if people know what the hell you are talking about."
Does it matter from which angle we gaze at truth?
Your feelings towards god are dictated by your definition of god.
I am exactly like Jesus. We are both humans. As humans, we are both gods. I haven't reach the same pinnacle he has though:)
Am i afraid of your criticism? The cleaner your mirror gets, the more you are just shouting at yourself:)
Should ego always be overcome? The Left should not overcome the Right. Both must live in harmony. Why are you not a dilettante in the true sense of the word?
I'm not yet perfect, in fact, i
have a hard time envisioning perfection. Yet, i have gained so much from the
tiny journey i have yet completed. I have found a pot of gold, and am just
pointing out the location to everyone. The pot of gold appears when the rainbow glows.
True, i don't give a rat's ass whether you get it or not, and yet, it is still
true that it is the most important thing to me that you do 'get it'. This is
my controlled folly.
I don't sell anything. I know that makes me unpopular. I think it's kind of
stupid to charge for something, or withhold information from another human
that pertains to being Human.
Am i defending? Or am i attempting to engage in dialogue with you to produce
understanding? I respond to everybody. God has a lesson for every person who responds to me, who am i to not help out with god's plan?
I called you a karma automaton because you are. We all are:) Push button
A -> Response A;Button B->Response B; sometimes on a full moon Button
A->Response B.
It doesn't mean we all have the same awareness. We have become divided in
different directions so there is no suprise that our divisions are different.
Like a fractal set, we can exhibit similarities.
What is 'designed to be understood'? What is the difference between rote
memorization and knowing? What comes first the structure or the underlying
movement?
What are 'my own words'? Does it matter what direction you point at truth
from? Does god want you to have my understanding, or your own understanding?
It's all well and good to stay in center and think that's going to help people, but it doesn't. People who face away from center, cannot see the center.
Who said 'You can't share if you are too afraid to be honest'?
You need to learn your boundaries.
God does not wish you to be the bitch of the greater good.
Sometimes, we willingly submit ourselves. We think that 'it's ok, i can deal with it, it'll benefit this other person, i can suffer so that they may have an experience. I will withhold from myself so that others can grow and learn.
The real world doesn't work that way. For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.
Putting yourself off balance will never teach others the lesson of balance.
Do you not see? If you walk into a situation and are thrust a script to read from someone, it doesn't mean you have to engage in their play.
When you develop a backbone, a solid stance for yourself, god will give you better scripts to read from.
Love is everywhere. Everywhere. Love can sustain you through your suffering, but god does not require you to suffer to have love. If you are running for the finish line, god does not expect you to carry everyone with
Sorry, i would never offer any specific advice without seeing and talking to
you, or at least having a hi def 360 video of you:). The whole neck/jaw area
is so complex that there are way to many possibilities.
What i do suggest is to look at it from different angles. I know the
reductionism of science leads us to believe that things have independence,
but that is simply not the case with humans. We are whole, so we should be
treated as whole.
I've noticed that things will re-occur if you leave out an important aspect.
For example, i talked to this girl who was having her leg sawn off and
re-attached for the second time. The muscles in her legs were contracted in
such a way that it cause her leg to rotate. The doctor's answer was to just
keep cutting the leg off and compensating for the rotation so that it 'looked
right'. They didn't get rid of the reason why the muscle was causing the
rotation.
With our jaws, it's exceedingly complex. Of course, there will always be a
physical manifestation, but that is more like a symptom. There are cars from
the 30's that are rusted heaps of metal, and there are others that are as
shiny as the day they were made. Their outside appearance is a 'symptom' of
the upkeep of the car, the environments it was exposed to, and how it was
used.
We talk with our jaws (some of us at least, proper sanskrit requires no jaw
movement ), we eat with them. Most importantly it's what we don't do with
them, or prevent them from doing, that usually has a bad effect.
What happens to a person that is constantly 'holding their tongue'?
One of the weirdest causes i've seen is 'fear of looking dumb'.
A lot of us tend to think that if your mouth is hanging open that you look
dumb, so if our mouth hangs open we 'intentionally' close our jaw.
Now the cosmic joke part about this is really funny. You see, this usually
happens to really smart people. People with glasses, people who have earned
those glasses! See, when your head is balanced, no problem, your lips are
closed and there is a small space between your teeth, your jaw floats in
tensegritic bliss. Now, displace the weight of the head forward and the jaw
drops and the lips part. Then to compensate for looking 'slack jawed' and
dumb, one either forcibly closes the lips and/or the jaw. The resulting
tension reduces the space inbetween the joint and erosion/inflammation slowly
starts to take place.
It's important to realize that it's usually something we've been doing for
years, just slightly off. The body adapts accordingly to the degree of
imbalance. Bone density loss in space happens as soon as you remove all
interaction with gravity, small changes take longer to show up.
The cure could be as simple as not keeping your mouth shut. Lots of people
exist in an environment that just isn't good, and something should be said
about it. But for whatever reasons, we forcibly contain our selves. We
create constant tension within ourselves, whether it's because we don't want
to hurt our wives feelings, or the boss will fire me, or what will people
think of my crazy ideas:)
Then we go to the doctor and ask, 'You got anything for this crazy tension and
teeth grinding, doc, you got to help me, it's killing me'.
So, take a look at the ways that you use or don't use your jaw. After all,
it's your jaw, it's a product of you. How have you been maintaining it?
What trauma has it suffered? What actions/thought cycles are you having
before/after symptom manifestation?
I think we rely on doctor's too much, when scientific introspection usually
provides us with the answer. Just remember, the question and the answer are
inseparable. The cure for your jaw lies in Your jaw. Note, medical science
tends to group things by their physical manifestation. As such, it tends to
only report 'causes' that are physical, because when you group by physical
you shouldn't be suprised that only the physical causes match up between
patients.
Haha, burning a pathway isn't the same as unblocking.:) Just like drinking enough will make you temporarily into a yoga asana genius.
Chiropractic is good for sudden onset imbalances where the underlying tissues haven't had time to cement it into place. Though i haven't tried them, rolfing/alexandria technique/mtrr therapy, work on the tissues that keep the imbalance in place and help with teaching proper movement.
Just some extra info since i don't know what you're after specifically:)
When did i say i eliminated my ego? The tonal must be swept clean to make room for the nagual.
I cannot be god all the time, to interact with divided humans we must become individuals. Ego's are the product of your lifetime interaction between the environment, your body, and your brain. They exist as long as you exist as an individual entity. However, you can pare away the uselessness.
Should i avoid tomatoes because the first time i ate one i threw up?
Why do you see what i am doing as bragging? It just is. I might be wrong, but that sounds like immature childish reactionary behaviour on your part, i.e., person states something, i can't do it or see how it's done, so the person must be lording it over me.
That's ok, it always happens. Hell, they treated jesus the same way, and all he was saying was, peace and love man, treat everybody like yourself. The majority of people who couldn't understand that were saying, he's blasphemous, he thinks he's special, he's this, he's that.
Why do you criticize instead of trying to shed light?
Actually, the asana of contemplating your navel does make you wise. Why, it's the reason we have the saying 'contemplating your navel'. A lot of people don't see the sense in contemplating our origins in such a distinct manner, they prefer science, which contemplates our origins in a more round about manner.
Why do you think i feel superior? I am human just like everybody else, i am capable of no less and no more than they. Perhaps you like to place yourself below others?
I'm suprised by how lots of people think there's something wrong with them for not being happy about being a cog in someone else's machine.
Maybe, deep inside, you realize that money isn't sufficient motivation? Would you need a vaction from your life, if your life was fulfilling?
There is going to be a growing apathy from the population as more and more people realize that the current road societies are on are unsustainable, unhealthy, and don't produce happiness. The end of our civilization is coming close enough for many to start seeing/realizing this.
We always seem to make big complicated theories about why civilizations have disappeared in the past. It's really simple, unsustainability and they don't 'work' for the majority of the humans involved.
Some people think, if we can just get out of this oil dependency things might change. Except that all the oil companies are striving to own all the seed and food production in the world. Already we're seeing higher prices for nutrient deficient, pesticide laden food.
Maybe this apathy isn't a bad thing. Maybe it means it's about time people start standing up for what they believe in and help to change the world.
Or would you rather be pacified/drugged into complacency? What's that thing that non-actualized people say all the time? "You can't change the past, done is done, this is the reality we live in."
Eye glasses were never designed to be permanent. Nobody even bothers telling people how to correct their eyesight anymore (unless you pay money!). After all, it's a billion dollar industry across the world!
The West doesn't believe in teaching a man how to fish. The west believes in teaching one small detail of how to fish (threading the line), putting the person with others so they accomplish the goal of fishing, and then paying the person a small fraction of what it cost, and then selling the fish back to them at exorbitant prices. It's the wonderful world of greedy capitalism.
Everything is cyclical, it's called karma. People might start noticing it more if they didn't live under the misconception that time is linear and measured in seconds.
Picture the scene 2000 years ago. Woman with post partum depression is getting a lobotomy, Tom, being her friend, jumps in and says that's insane. Everybody thinks he's wonkers because it's not aligned with what society believes.
I watched the Tom Cruise interview, he was logical and rational. The person interviewing him lacked anything besides a herd mentality and an incapacity for logical thought. When Tom called him 'glib' it's because he was being 'glib'.
I don't see how anybody who can think logically and rationally could say anything bad about Tom in that interview. Unless of course, you pay absolutely no attention to what he's saying, engage in herd mentality, and apply the fallacy of genus.
I don't agree with scientologies implementation of their beliefs, the underlying beliefs aren't necessarily bad. Just like the US supposedly stands for democracy, but their implementation is lacking.
Anyone ever read Mao Tze Tung? Brilliant logical, rational, reasoning. China's implementation leaves a lot to be desired though.
The catholic church is the same, brilliant book the bible, but nobody reads it. Everybody just discusses the catholic church's implementation.
Even here on slashdot, you would expect people to be more intelligent. They constantly attack what the church has said and not what is said in the bible. Two very different things! Such as Jesus saying that everybody can do what he did, and in the future, people will accomplish grander things. The churches take, is, no sorry, you are evil incarnate, jesus was a god, you'll never amount to anything in this life, but struggle hard enough for the church as a good little peasant and you might have a better afterlife and go to heaven. Note, in the bible, heaven comes to earth when you realize the kingdom of god is within you. That wouldn't allow the church to control people though:(
Which is why 'mental' disorders differ from culture to culture, because they are a reaction to that culture, i.e. something is not being provided by that culture. Granted physical diseases are manifestations of the cultures inability to foresee the consequences of culture as well, which is why phsyical diseases have different distributions across cultures as well.
You see so many clogging, inflammation, and gastro-intestinal disorders in the West, because western culture doesn't know how to feed itself properly. Spreading the consumption of western food, devoid of nutrients, fiber, balance, water, good fats, and full of flavour and mouth additives(to trick your body into believing you're eating something healthy) spreads western diseases as well.
I've recently started watching commercials again, and am shocked by the amount of food products that are being sold by mouth feel and taste. The West really is about giving you the pretty outside, regardless of what's on the inside or what is used to make that outside. Well, i guess they have to get rid of all those industrial byproducts somehow right?
Just because you are an unrealized automaton doesn't mean everybody is.
Read what Krnsa says to Arjuna in the Bhagavad Gita.
Granted, it might take sometime to understand. I first read it around 7 years old, glimpsed insight into it around 14, understood it around 28, and having been practicing it ever since.
Karma is simple pool ball physics. Ego is a collapse and stagnation in your probability field, causing right or left spin which imparts equal and opposite spin to everything you try and accomplish.
I love these types of responses. Oh sure, maybe you did it, but nobody else can.
I'm constantly dumbfounded by peoples insistence on how useless and helpless they are.
I cure my eyesight, and all i hear is 'oh, i could never do that'.
I restore movement to paralyzed body parts and people say 'maybe it wasn't paralyzed in the first place'.
I correct a woman's breast ptosis stage 3 through postural correction and not surgery, and people say 'my case is different'.
Ego's are designed to come up with excuses to not eradicate themselves.
I can't wait for the big Ah HA! That will come when people realize who they really are, and that they aren't their ego's. I absolutely love the look of puzzlement, wonder, and finally astonishment as i show somebody some proper movement of their body that they could never have conceptualized before because it wasn't contained withing their ego!
This is the west though. I'm sure women would rather pay thousands of dollars to fix their breasts than to spend time changing who they think they are to lift them naturally.
Oh, you might be able to convince them. That would require them to relinquish their ego though. Ego is how we divide things. People don't like giving up their ego. Especially here in the western part of the world. Our economies depend on the seven deadly sins to keep going, so if you drop your ego, what's going to happen?
There's already world wide concern over the fact that people are buying less things that they don't need. Just imagine if everybody stopped indulging their sins and only bought what they needed? The whole empire of Hell would collapse!
You create chemical imbalances all the time in your head. Everything you eat, your environment and how you react to it affects your chemical soup.
Most people don't realize how their personality causes these imbalances.
I think it's important to recognize the differening awareness levels of humans. Some humans have problems with gross motor control, some with fine motor control, some can't direct their thoughts, some can't direct their emotions.
Getting out of depression is doable by humans, it lies within the realm of human possibility. However, it takes training of your awareness.
A person who can control their metabolism and their shivering response will survive out in the cold, like the monks who dry off wet towels with their naked bodies in the winter in the mountains. A regular human succumbs to what his body thinks is appropriate action and shortly dies by using all their metabolic energy for shivering.
Like several others, i can stop my heart beat and my breathing for short periods of time. It doesn't mean i expect everybody to be able to do this, but it is within the realm of the possible. Besides, i had to learn how to achieve samadhi, even though it can happen spontaneously.
So the real question is, how do we teach people to control their inner life? I think spiritualists the world over(note, not codified dogmatic religion, but the living essence) have been trying to do that for millenia. Most people just don't listen or think 'it's not scientifically proven'. Sigh, how i hate that religious mantra spouted by people who have no idea how science works or how to approach anything scientifically.
I'm not trying to be adversarial. I've never met a victim that didn't have a victim posture.
If you're always running away, does it come as a suprise that people chase you?
Does the predator attack the healthy animals or the unhealthy stragglers?
We bring many things upon ourselves that we don't know the consequences of. That's how karma works, we do something stupid and eventually it destroys us somehow, and hopefully we learn. Sin is not something evil, but something that can have a negative effect.
Why are women who lordose to look sexy always suprised when men just want to have sex with them?
Why are women who lordose improperly (straightening the thoracic curve instead of increasing the lumbar curve) suprised when men don't want to sleep with them? (this posture usually leads to a bit of the white around the eye showing, so you get this woman who is trying to be sexy[not succeeding] and looks crazed coming at you).
I've helped people remodel their posture and they never get victimized anymore. The hardest part of the cure is recognizing how much you are complicit in it. Regardless if that is all you've ever learned, that's the past. The present is where we create our future.
It's not easy, but then again, nothing in life worth accomplishing is.
Chiropracty(?) and acupuncture are not placebo effects. Chiropractor's attempt to re-align the skeleton. It's the person's internal model of movement(ego) that causes the muscles to pull the skeleton out of alignment that requires them to need another session. In this sense, Chiropracty is like any other western treatment. It treats the symptom and doesn't deal with the cause (the person's idea of who they are and how they move).
Acupuncture helps to unblock currents in the body. Same thing here. People unbalance themselves, their ego prevents them from experiencing certain human possibilities either because those things are bad, evil, undesirable etc...
Use it or lose it.
Westerners prefer to lose it than admit they are human animals. So, an accupuncture session will make them feel good for a while, but they eventually remember who they are(i.e., their ego), and the problems come back.
Slashdot Mirror
Then, as time progresses, we have something to laugh at with every lesson learned.
Ego has a place, kill it, and you kill the individual. Monatomic elements are only assembled when all the atoms act the same. You just need to find the balance in your ego.
Spirituality meets Materialism to create man.
Thanks for all the help with my voice. :) God is good when you let him be.
You must learn about the Right. Words mean nothing without the movement that gives rise to them. Ideas mean nothing without the experience.
You are a human. Accept it and grow into Humanity.
The finish line is clear, it is the beginning. Why are you unwilling to reach the end so you can begin your life here on earth?
Man fell, his spirit rose, now is the time to incarnate.
A man needs two legs to stand on.
Humans are complex tensegritic rubiks cubes. You have to pull them in many directions to straighten them out.
Give it 60 days.
I will respond to both of your posts as one. Did you know that slashdot has a post limit? I did not. God took the opportunity to teach me about the post limit yesterday. Was his lesson good for you too? I wonder if my silence made you thrill with delight. If it silently confirmed the righteousness of your thoughts?
Yes, i am a lover of the arts.
I talk to you in many languages because i do not know which one you speak.
As you yourself have said, "communication of shortcuts only works if people know what the hell you are talking about."
Does it matter from which angle we gaze at truth?
Your feelings towards god are dictated by your definition of god.
I am exactly like Jesus. We are both humans. As humans, we are both gods. I haven't reach the same pinnacle he has though :)
Am i afraid of your criticism? The cleaner your mirror gets, the more you are just shouting at yourself :)
Should ego always be overcome? The Left should not overcome the Right. Both must live in harmony. Why are you not a dilettante in the true sense of the word? I'm not yet perfect, in fact, i have a hard time envisioning perfection. Yet, i have gained so much from the tiny journey i have yet completed. I have found a pot of gold, and am just pointing out the location to everyone. The pot of gold appears when the rainbow glows.
True, i don't give a rat's ass whether you get it or not, and yet, it is still true that it is the most important thing to me that you do 'get it'. This is my controlled folly.
I don't sell anything. I know that makes me unpopular. I think it's kind of stupid to charge for something, or withhold information from another human that pertains to being Human.
Am i defending? Or am i attempting to engage in dialogue with you to produce understanding? I respond to everybody. God has a lesson for every person who responds to me, who am i to not help out with god's plan?
I called you a karma automaton because you are. We all are :) Push button
A -> Response A;Button B->Response B; sometimes on a full moon Button
A->Response B.
It doesn't mean we all have the same awareness. We have become divided in different directions so there is no suprise that our divisions are different. Like a fractal set, we can exhibit similarities.
What is 'designed to be understood'? What is the difference between rote memorization and knowing? What comes first the structure or the underlying movement?
What are 'my own words'? Does it matter what direction you point at truth from? Does god want you to have my understanding, or your own understanding?
It's all well and good to stay in center and think that's going to help people, but it doesn't. People who face away from center, cannot see the center. Who said 'You can't share if you are too afraid to be honest'? You need to learn your boundaries.
God does not wish you to be the bitch of the greater good.
Sometimes, we willingly submit ourselves. We think that 'it's ok, i can deal with it, it'll benefit this other person, i can suffer so that they may have an experience. I will withhold from myself so that others can grow and learn. The real world doesn't work that way. For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.
Putting yourself off balance will never teach others the lesson of balance.
Do you not see? If you walk into a situation and are thrust a script to read from someone, it doesn't mean you have to engage in their play. When you develop a backbone, a solid stance for yourself, god will give you better scripts to read from.
Love is everywhere. Everywhere. Love can sustain you through your suffering, but god does not require you to suffer to have love. If you are running for the finish line, god does not expect you to carry everyone with
What i do suggest is to look at it from different angles. I know the reductionism of science leads us to believe that things have independence, but that is simply not the case with humans. We are whole, so we should be treated as whole.
I've noticed that things will re-occur if you leave out an important aspect. For example, i talked to this girl who was having her leg sawn off and re-attached for the second time. The muscles in her legs were contracted in such a way that it cause her leg to rotate. The doctor's answer was to just keep cutting the leg off and compensating for the rotation so that it 'looked right'. They didn't get rid of the reason why the muscle was causing the rotation.
With our jaws, it's exceedingly complex. Of course, there will always be a physical manifestation, but that is more like a symptom. There are cars from the 30's that are rusted heaps of metal, and there are others that are as shiny as the day they were made. Their outside appearance is a 'symptom' of the upkeep of the car, the environments it was exposed to, and how it was used.
We talk with our jaws (some of us at least, proper sanskrit requires no jaw movement ), we eat with them. Most importantly it's what we don't do with them, or prevent them from doing, that usually has a bad effect. What happens to a person that is constantly 'holding their tongue'?
One of the weirdest causes i've seen is 'fear of looking dumb'. A lot of us tend to think that if your mouth is hanging open that you look dumb, so if our mouth hangs open we 'intentionally' close our jaw.
Now the cosmic joke part about this is really funny. You see, this usually happens to really smart people. People with glasses, people who have earned those glasses! See, when your head is balanced, no problem, your lips are closed and there is a small space between your teeth, your jaw floats in tensegritic bliss. Now, displace the weight of the head forward and the jaw drops and the lips part. Then to compensate for looking 'slack jawed' and dumb, one either forcibly closes the lips and/or the jaw. The resulting tension reduces the space inbetween the joint and erosion/inflammation slowly starts to take place.
It's important to realize that it's usually something we've been doing for years, just slightly off. The body adapts accordingly to the degree of imbalance. Bone density loss in space happens as soon as you remove all interaction with gravity, small changes take longer to show up.
The cure could be as simple as not keeping your mouth shut. Lots of people exist in an environment that just isn't good, and something should be said about it. But for whatever reasons, we forcibly contain our selves. We create constant tension within ourselves, whether it's because we don't want to hurt our wives feelings, or the boss will fire me, or what will people think of my crazy ideas :)
Then we go to the doctor and ask, 'You got anything for this crazy tension and teeth grinding, doc, you got to help me, it's killing me'.
So, take a look at the ways that you use or don't use your jaw. After all, it's your jaw, it's a product of you. How have you been maintaining it? What trauma has it suffered? What actions/thought cycles are you having before/after symptom manifestation?
I think we rely on doctor's too much, when scientific introspection usually provides us with the answer. Just remember, the question and the answer are inseparable. The cure for your jaw lies in Your jaw. Note, medical science tends to group things by their physical manifestation. As such, it tends to only report 'causes' that are physical, because when you group by physical you shouldn't be suprised that only the physical causes match up between patients.
The body is extremely
Chiropractic is good for sudden onset imbalances where the underlying tissues haven't had time to cement it into place. Though i haven't tried them, rolfing/alexandria technique/mtrr therapy, work on the tissues that keep the imbalance in place and help with teaching proper movement.
Just some extra info since i don't know what you're after specifically :)
I cannot be god all the time, to interact with divided humans we must become individuals. Ego's are the product of your lifetime interaction between the environment, your body, and your brain. They exist as long as you exist as an individual entity. However, you can pare away the uselessness.
Should i avoid tomatoes because the first time i ate one i threw up?
Why do you see what i am doing as bragging? It just is. I might be wrong, but that sounds like immature childish reactionary behaviour on your part, i.e., person states something, i can't do it or see how it's done, so the person must be lording it over me.
That's ok, it always happens. Hell, they treated jesus the same way, and all he was saying was, peace and love man, treat everybody like yourself. The majority of people who couldn't understand that were saying, he's blasphemous, he thinks he's special, he's this, he's that.
Why do you criticize instead of trying to shed light?
Why do you think i feel superior? I am human just like everybody else, i am capable of no less and no more than they. Perhaps you like to place yourself below others?
Perhaps you need to learn what meta-analysis is.
I'm suprised by how lots of people think there's something wrong with them for not being happy about being a cog in someone else's machine.
Maybe, deep inside, you realize that money isn't sufficient motivation? Would you need a vaction from your life, if your life was fulfilling?
There is going to be a growing apathy from the population as more and more people realize that the current road societies are on are unsustainable, unhealthy, and don't produce happiness. The end of our civilization is coming close enough for many to start seeing/realizing this.
We always seem to make big complicated theories about why civilizations have disappeared in the past. It's really simple, unsustainability and they don't 'work' for the majority of the humans involved.
Some people think, if we can just get out of this oil dependency things might change. Except that all the oil companies are striving to own all the seed and food production in the world. Already we're seeing higher prices for nutrient deficient, pesticide laden food.
Maybe this apathy isn't a bad thing. Maybe it means it's about time people start standing up for what they believe in and help to change the world.
Or would you rather be pacified/drugged into complacency? What's that thing that non-actualized people say all the time? "You can't change the past, done is done, this is the reality we live in."
Eye glasses were never designed to be permanent. Nobody even bothers telling people how to correct their eyesight anymore (unless you pay money!). After all, it's a billion dollar industry across the world!
The West doesn't believe in teaching a man how to fish. The west believes in teaching one small detail of how to fish (threading the line), putting the person with others so they accomplish the goal of fishing, and then paying the person a small fraction of what it cost, and then selling the fish back to them at exorbitant prices. It's the wonderful world of greedy capitalism.
People with real purpose in life, hell, even a reasonable fake purpose in life, don't seem to get as depressed as those with no purpose.
Everything is cyclical, it's called karma. People might start noticing it more if they didn't live under the misconception that time is linear and measured in seconds.
I watched the Tom Cruise interview, he was logical and rational. The person interviewing him lacked anything besides a herd mentality and an incapacity for logical thought. When Tom called him 'glib' it's because he was being 'glib'.
I don't see how anybody who can think logically and rationally could say anything bad about Tom in that interview. Unless of course, you pay absolutely no attention to what he's saying, engage in herd mentality, and apply the fallacy of genus.
I don't agree with scientologies implementation of their beliefs, the underlying beliefs aren't necessarily bad. Just like the US supposedly stands for democracy, but their implementation is lacking.
Anyone ever read Mao Tze Tung? Brilliant logical, rational, reasoning. China's implementation leaves a lot to be desired though.
The catholic church is the same, brilliant book the bible, but nobody reads it. Everybody just discusses the catholic church's implementation.
Even here on slashdot, you would expect people to be more intelligent. They constantly attack what the church has said and not what is said in the bible. Two very different things! Such as Jesus saying that everybody can do what he did, and in the future, people will accomplish grander things. The churches take, is, no sorry, you are evil incarnate, jesus was a god, you'll never amount to anything in this life, but struggle hard enough for the church as a good little peasant and you might have a better afterlife and go to heaven. Note, in the bible, heaven comes to earth when you realize the kingdom of god is within you. That wouldn't allow the church to control people though :(
You're headed towards a fallacy of genus.
You see so many clogging, inflammation, and gastro-intestinal disorders in the West, because western culture doesn't know how to feed itself properly. Spreading the consumption of western food, devoid of nutrients, fiber, balance, water, good fats, and full of flavour and mouth additives(to trick your body into believing you're eating something healthy) spreads western diseases as well.
I've recently started watching commercials again, and am shocked by the amount of food products that are being sold by mouth feel and taste. The West really is about giving you the pretty outside, regardless of what's on the inside or what is used to make that outside. Well, i guess they have to get rid of all those industrial byproducts somehow right?
Just because you are an unrealized automaton doesn't mean everybody is.
Read what Krnsa says to Arjuna in the Bhagavad Gita.
Granted, it might take sometime to understand. I first read it around 7 years old, glimpsed insight into it around 14, understood it around 28, and having been practicing it ever since.
Karma is simple pool ball physics. Ego is a collapse and stagnation in your probability field, causing right or left spin which imparts equal and opposite spin to everything you try and accomplish.
I'm constantly dumbfounded by peoples insistence on how useless and helpless they are.
I cure my eyesight, and all i hear is 'oh, i could never do that'. I restore movement to paralyzed body parts and people say 'maybe it wasn't paralyzed in the first place'. I correct a woman's breast ptosis stage 3 through postural correction and not surgery, and people say 'my case is different'.
Ego's are designed to come up with excuses to not eradicate themselves.
I can't wait for the big Ah HA! That will come when people realize who they really are, and that they aren't their ego's. I absolutely love the look of puzzlement, wonder, and finally astonishment as i show somebody some proper movement of their body that they could never have conceptualized before because it wasn't contained withing their ego!
This is the west though. I'm sure women would rather pay thousands of dollars to fix their breasts than to spend time changing who they think they are to lift them naturally.
There's already world wide concern over the fact that people are buying less things that they don't need. Just imagine if everybody stopped indulging their sins and only bought what they needed? The whole empire of Hell would collapse!
Most people don't realize how their personality causes these imbalances.
I think it's important to recognize the differening awareness levels of humans. Some humans have problems with gross motor control, some with fine motor control, some can't direct their thoughts, some can't direct their emotions.
Getting out of depression is doable by humans, it lies within the realm of human possibility. However, it takes training of your awareness.
A person who can control their metabolism and their shivering response will survive out in the cold, like the monks who dry off wet towels with their naked bodies in the winter in the mountains. A regular human succumbs to what his body thinks is appropriate action and shortly dies by using all their metabolic energy for shivering.
Like several others, i can stop my heart beat and my breathing for short periods of time. It doesn't mean i expect everybody to be able to do this, but it is within the realm of the possible. Besides, i had to learn how to achieve samadhi, even though it can happen spontaneously.
So the real question is, how do we teach people to control their inner life? I think spiritualists the world over(note, not codified dogmatic religion, but the living essence) have been trying to do that for millenia. Most people just don't listen or think 'it's not scientifically proven'. Sigh, how i hate that religious mantra spouted by people who have no idea how science works or how to approach anything scientifically.
I think the world will be a better place when everybody has enough awareness not to react like an animal to tickling.
I'm not trying to be adversarial. I've never met a victim that didn't have a victim posture.
If you're always running away, does it come as a suprise that people chase you?
Does the predator attack the healthy animals or the unhealthy stragglers?
We bring many things upon ourselves that we don't know the consequences of. That's how karma works, we do something stupid and eventually it destroys us somehow, and hopefully we learn. Sin is not something evil, but something that can have a negative effect.
Why are women who lordose to look sexy always suprised when men just want to have sex with them?
Why are women who lordose improperly (straightening the thoracic curve instead of increasing the lumbar curve) suprised when men don't want to sleep with them? (this posture usually leads to a bit of the white around the eye showing, so you get this woman who is trying to be sexy[not succeeding] and looks crazed coming at you).
I've helped people remodel their posture and they never get victimized anymore. The hardest part of the cure is recognizing how much you are complicit in it. Regardless if that is all you've ever learned, that's the past. The present is where we create our future.
It's not easy, but then again, nothing in life worth accomplishing is.
Acupuncture helps to unblock currents in the body. Same thing here. People unbalance themselves, their ego prevents them from experiencing certain human possibilities either because those things are bad, evil, undesirable etc...
Use it or lose it.
Westerners prefer to lose it than admit they are human animals. So, an accupuncture session will make them feel good for a while, but they eventually remember who they are(i.e., their ego), and the problems come back.
People don't play the game here Richard. How controlled is your folly?
I'm sorry, but we only accept pseudologic on slashdot.
generalize much?