Honestly, this whole debate feels way too negative for me. A forum is just a medium. People communicate through all sorts of different channels—like texting or calling, for instance. And none of those digital tools are meant to be some cheap substitute for reality; they’re supposed to be an addition to it. In that sense, using a phone lets us stay connected with people who aren't right next to us... And we aren't freaks just because we spend time on our phones...
But I guess we’re suddenly freaks just because we hang out on a forum... To me, that kind of mindset is just classic small-town mentality. It's like we're one of those groups that views the internet as a playground for weirdos, while other more advanced countries are actually using the web to build massive wealth... So, while everyone else is busy making money, we're just sitting here judging each other... I mean, if you apply that same logic to business, it makes total sense... What kind of weirdo decides to build a search engine from scratch anyway? Doesn't he have enough going on at home? What, does he not have a girlfriend? Is he just looking for drinking buddies? lol...
Angela Morris said:This is not an isolated occurrence. Ever since I began studying psychology as a young girl around age twelve or thirteen, consuming books in an attempt to improve myself... I find myself once again losing the will to live. Besides, life lacks inherent meaning...
You'll actually start getting better the moment you learn how to love yourself...
I don't know, it feels like you're stuck in that condescending "old lady" loop where you feel like you have to micromanage absolutely everything... but at the same time, you're just clearly frustrated because you *have* to watch over everything.. it's like this endless cycle...
you can't change people that difficult... honestly, you just finish college, get out of there, and then you finally do things your own way.
Nature and getting fit (specifically cycling or some kind of cardio stuff).. but you seriously have to go as often as possible..
after maybe a month, you’ll feel like a whole new person... I know, I've tested this on myself, being a total insomniac...
if you want to get out into nature, maybe join a local hiking club... those guys usually head out somewhere every single weekend, and honestly, it sucks showing up alone, but they totally get it because they remember how awkward it felt when they first started out too...
Samuel Miller21 said:I wouldn't go so far as to say that human nature is inherently free. Just look at how many ways we tend to torment ourselves, even when there isn't some external "whip" driving us. We all carry internal mechanisms designed to restrict our own freedom; human nature is actually quite far from being truly liberated. Freedom is one extreme, and total subjugation is the other. Humans always exist somewhere in the middle. We are constantly seeking a balance—when we lack freedom, we dream of it, but when we are free, we often find ourselves searching for something to bind us to, or some way to submit.
you're talking about enslaving freedom, but that’s not what freedom actually is...
In my opinion, true freedom is when everything I do is done without any conditioning, guilt, or social morality weighing me down...
Look, I'm not saying morality doesn't exist, but it has to be this deeply personal, internal thing, not some rule imposed by society.
Chris Sanchez11 said:Freedom comes with responsibility, and responsibility inevitably brings fear. The fear of failing and taking the blame, or the fear of making choices that shape your own life and everyone else's—choices that lead to more guilt if they turn out to be wrong.
Being the opposition to a dictator is just human nature. We're wired to be free and curious, pushing back against rules forced upon us. It's evolution; it's how humans grow by asking questions, exploring, and digging deeper. And that usually leaves you with more questions than answers. A dictator is the one who labels that freedom as "evil" just because it sounds bad and makes people feel guilty. And once you control someone through guilt, you control them. 😉
And that’s when we start acting like a cat chasing its own tail.😉
No, but seriously, why carry all that guilt when something doesn't work out? I mean, aren't some things just completely out of our hands? Sometimes there's such a tiny margin between winning and losing. It's fine to be disappointed when you fail, but... why does it have to turn into this heavy sense of guilt?
So why on earth is the devil such a massive enemy to us? Maybe it’s because he’s the one actually providing freedom—you know, doing all the things that are strictly forbidden... Look, I don't want to turn this into some religious debate or whatever... but was the devil essentially just the opposition party standing up to the dictator?
In politics, it’s all about having someone you can actually bribe. You just buy them off with stuff... material things, whatever...
But honestly? It’s way smarter to install someone who already has some dirt on them from their past. You don't even have to pay them, or make concessions, or waste money keeping them happy... you just wave that old scandal in their face... (I guess that's why there are so many shady characters in Washington)...
But here in the States, it works differently.. The whole mechanism has evolved into something much more twisted... We have this built-in sense of guilt that acts like a massive red flag. You don't need to buy people, and you don't even need to blackmail them with their own mistakes (which they're allowed to make, anyway)... you just have to hit that psychological reset button, and suddenly everyone feels so guilty that we just give up on everything we actually wanted...
So... I’m sitting here having coffee with this girl from the forum, just talking through life stuff, and this one "theory" kind of popped into my head.
I guess I wonder... how much are we, as a society—as a civilization (though maybe this only applies to Abrahamic religions)—basically hardwired to act out of guilt? Like, is every sense of freedom we feel actually just us releasing ourselves from that guilt, or maybe forcing it onto someone else?
Let's look at it like this... Religion... From the time we're kids, we're taught that Adam messed up and now we're all somehow responsible for it. So, Bog is great and full of love, sure, but he leaves this seed of self-destruction inside us... we're the ones at fault, and we have to make amends for it.
And then there's upbringing. We're usually raised to be "good," and if we act morally or positively, we get rewarded with attention, approval, a hug, whatever. It's basically conditional behavior. It's not that we're inherently guilty, but we feel guilty if we don't act the way we're supposed to...
How much does guilt hang over our heads in everyday relationships, like some constant Sword of Damocles? We won't treat someone poorly because we have this mental click that it's wrong, and our conscience starts eating us alive. Or that feeling of guilt when we aren't living up to the perfect image we try so hard to project to the world.
I’ve run into these scenarios myself, and honestly, I've even taken advantage of them before.
For example:
1) A while back, I was in this quasi-relationship with a girl. Even though my feelings were stronger and I was being totally selfless—which, let's face it, I always am—she wasn't reciprocating. Eventually, she did something shitty, and I just turned around and walked away. It felt easier for me because, in my mind, she was labeled as "bad" (and it's easy to walk away from someone you've labeled bad), while she was left haunted by this massive sense of guilt because of her own vanity and the fact that I refused to talk to her. Then, months later, I said one single thing to her that lifted that guilt away... and she went right back to her old self. Just like I thought. She didn't learn a damn thing. The pain didn't serve any purpose for growth, and my—unfortunately accurate—hunch that she'd show her true colors played out perfectly.
2) I was talking to a friend who cut ties with her parents because they did something wrong—they were immoral or dishonest for a moment. She felt this huge weight lift off her shoulders and could finally walk away with a clear conscience.
But it makes me wonder: how much of that was really *her*, and how much was her just acting as an object rather than a subject? How much was her ego pulling the strings and giving her permission to leave?
Personally, I think it is...
But anyway, she's just an example of those mental clicks we all carry around. That urge to avoid feeling guilty instead of just acting how we actually want to act.
Because, frankly, we just want to...
Wasn't Crawley right when he said the only Bog a person needs is themselves? I have a feeling that...
Not that I'm saying I'm an egoist... more like, I'm just being who I am. Not doing good just to boost my reputation in someone else's eyes, but just because I want to do good... or bad... or whatever.
I honestly think we're looking at oxygen toxicity here, and (chemisssssstryyyyyyy) it's definitely not good for you... Basically, when there's too much oxygen in your blood, it messes with how hemoglobin binds to things, which ends up shifting your blood pH levels slightly... Besides just being intoxicated by the oxygen, you could get muscle spasms—like in your fingers, hands, or cheeks—and who knows what it does to the diaphragm or the heart...
You can actually reach that kind of oxygen intoxication through hyperventilation, which is what divers do before deep dives, but at least they do it under supervision and actually know what they're doing...
If you're hell-bent on killing yourself, just stick to alcohol... at least it isn't such a massive oxidant...
Hey, just wondering, how much is this water going to run me? And what's the deal with delivery? How are they actually getting it here before summer hits?
Look, I've already got some energized water on hand... just $17 liters worth... It's 100% energized, though, because I charge it myself... with cosmic energy...
The actual name for that (Breuss's) method was 'Total Therapy.' I read his book ages ago, and I remember attaching the blood work and stuff back then—mostly the kind of data you'd see from that era, like the late 20th century.
He also paired that therapy with all these lifestyle tips, things like: - Not eating food that's been reheated. - Staying away from mothballs (I guess they were more common back then?), especially those naphthalene scented candles he mentions. - Avoiding anything grown with pesticides or whatever. - Eating incredibly slowly—like, you have to chew every single bite thirty times—and not being distracted by anything else while you eat. - Specific massages and stuff used to fix things like scoliosis. Basically, Breuss had this theory that every tendon in the body is connected. So, if someone has flat feet, it creates tension in a tendon that travels up to the spine, which could be the root cause or something...
I think there was even more stuff in there somewhere.
Look, I'm no expert, but... If you aren't getting enough protein, angiogenesis just can't happen—you know, the process where your body builds out new blood vessels... Plus, from what I understand, when protein levels drop, the body starts cannibalizing itself. It usually goes after the muscle tissue first... which is probably why those people look so gaunt and wasted away...
With the Breuss protocol, it's mostly about drinking specific teas and juices.
I mean, I honestly think you shouldn't be doing any enemas while you're on the Breuss protocol... it’s supposed to be a completely different kind of diet altogether...
as far as I can tell, the Breuss therapy actually makes sense...