Posts by ironrider11

Lawrence Bailey77 said:IF I were doing that—which I am certainly not—then there would be no harm done because, as you put it, they "aren't capable of seeing" anything. 🙂 In other words, how exactly am I supposed to provoke someone who lacks the capacity for awareness in the first place..?

I’m actually gesturing toward general ignorance... social mass apathy... the herd mentality... 🙂 .. or perhaps those individuals who are either too bored with their own lives or simply lack the backbone to look in the mirror, so instead they project everything onto others and criticize, while failing to see themselves .. acting as if they aren't even part of this earthly existence.

p.s. I suppose anything can be interpreted as a provocation .. especially if one has the inclination to see it that way.🧐

ban Anthony Perez28 😢 .. thanks for the permission to exist 😍 lol, honestly, I wasn't even aware we knew each other quite this well ..

.. I hadn't realized until this moment that I had been cured, let alone that I was ever ill.. or that this forum was my physician .. ?!

.. well, since I'm already here, I might as well join the stage production and play the role I never asked for and certainly didn't seek out, though I suppose when "cruel life" forces a part upon you (not including those people who are just bored and toy with others' problems, whether real or imagined, just to make their own lives more interesting) .. one should probably play it as convincingly as possible, shouldn't they? .. and then what .. you wait for the critical reaction .. and then .. well, that's just the role, lol, it's not the meaning of life.

what do you think, Altec .. am I being ungrateful .. to this "forum" which supposedly cured me 😉 and this is how I repay it .. I'm just terrible .. and apparently, we all know each other so intimately .. as if we grew up together on the same street, lol.😵

A little dose of reality wouldn't hurt. Good luck.👍

All that "minor logic" you're clinging to... it just kills the whole thing. You take an argument built on pure reason and let one tiny little flaw ruin the entire structure... it's pathetic...
When it comes to maintaining the status quo... you just don't even let them suspect a thing. You definitely shouldn't be breathing a single word against it... 😬
Let's talk about cutting, maiming, and dragging... Nonexistent...... heads up... who's actually losing it?
If the goal is to fix things... fine. But what's the point of asking that half-baked question afterward? What about all the unintended fallout...
Every action has a reaction, right? That whole cause-and-effect thing... People always talk about "saying hop then jumping" or all those old proverbs about consequences... It's basically just physics applied to life...
Is the whole point of all this constant outrage just to play the victim... like, "oh woe is me, how am I supposed to survive this"...?

urbanraven69 said:I’m kind of with silverhawk9 on this one... I honestly don't get why people feel the need to do that, you know? Like, what are they actually hoping to achieve by asking those kinds of questions? I mean, I get that if someone is really confident in themselves, maybe they see me as being a bit different, or just... not their cup of tea. But still—why even ask?
It’s not like I go up to someone with blue eyes and go, "Hey, why are your eyes blue?" You’re just born that way, I guess. That's just how it is. 😛
I was just born the way I am—and yeah, maybe over time things have become even more pronounced, and maybe everything has drifted a little bit in the wrong direction... but I just don't understand why people act so shocked by someone's actual personality.
To be totally honest, it actually hurts. It just reminds me of my own flaws, and it feels like throwing salt in a wound... it just sends me into an even deeper funk, where I lose all motivation to even try and change... because then I start thinking it’s impossible, and that I’ll just always be stuck like this.

Maybe try "imagining" it for a second. There are people out there who just don't have that heightened "emotional sensitivity." For folks living in a world of constant small talk and catering to others as the default norm... they might not get enough stimulation to even justify needing—let alone practicing—that kind of communication. They see the "world" through a lens of constant observation, calculation, and assessment... from that "consciousness"... they test the validity of their own logic by constantly probing everything around them. They're ego-centric; everyone is. They aren't going to break away from social constructs just because those constructs don't fit their internal map. Instead, they'll use tools to dismantle those structures for their own ends. It's totally natural and human behavior. When they spot a shy person, for example, their goal when approaching them might not be to provoke discomfort or trigger a reaction... Maybe they just see them as a "fleeting puzzle," an obsessive-compulsive gamble with themselves. Whether they're shy is already decided based on posture and vibes before they even speak... How shy they are, or how they'll react to a specific question?... Maybe they just want to see if their perception was right; they don't care about the level of stimulus or the person's actual state—where their "spiral" leads or what happens next... That person, their impact, their mental state... maybe it's all completely irrelevant to them?

Maybe this "well-meaning person" actually means well, but they're just stuck in their own bubble... acting on their own little version of "empathy" as if it's some universal truth. They only know how to act based on what they think is right.
Take someone with, say, extreme phobias. If another person tries to force them to face that fear head-on to "fix" it, they basically become the enemy. If you aren't using a real psychological approach—like actually thinking through the situation from their perspective before jumping in—you're probably gonna mess things up big time. The odds of backfiring are huge if you don't grasp the scale of that person's fear...
And even with that kind of "theoretical empathy"... by practicing.. proving you were actually right is super subjective anyway...
The same logic applies to pretty much any social interaction out there.
It’s not even that people aren't "good" at heart... it’s more that they don't practice actual "mental empathy." They don't stop to observe or think deeply about the endless ways different people perceive and feel things. They just react based on their own narrow view...
The biggest issue is how people see others—as victims who "just wanted to help," or as impossible cases because they're being stubborn. It turns "offering help" into "rejecting help," which is really just a bruised ego masquerading as good intentions... or an ego that can't wrap its head around why other people act the way they do...

Should we be colonizing other planets?
Honestly, maybe it's better if we stay grounded here.....

Death... what a topic... It’s inevitable, guaranteed, no matter how you slice it. Illness, helplessness, being backed into a corner... those are the things that actually matter, or at least should be feared. Death? That’s just a transition, some questionable continuation of existence in a different frequency or vibration... For those left behind, it serves as a visual, emotional... nudge to make the most of their time, to maximize [factor x] before sickness starts its offensive against them too... and then they become the "example" that triggers someone else's "will to live"... who will eventually find themselves on the chopping block of disease... and fading away into............
The repetition and cycles of energy vibrations within material existence.
Fixating on this fictional "self," while potentially seeing everything living around you as one single, uniform entity; that’s just a multiplier for irrational fear. Fear born from baseless disbelief in.......
The author; she’s likely torn between logic telling her that certain states—no matter what you call them—aren't officially "life" anymore... though it would probably be easier if that lifelessness was just seen as relief from pain....................... and given her sensitive nature and inability to offer genuine empathy without feeling the situation "on her own skin"... I think she's more than capable of sensing those "dry words and cold comments"... tossed out like dust motes against the logical side of the scale. All with the hope, or better yet, the "unconditional" intention that if that logic tips the balance, even if it's fake, it might bring a sliver of "lucid relief." We're all cowards, scared of something sooner or later. The question without an answer is; how justified or necessary it is. If we asked ourselves that more often, maybe things would be better for us all... or at least simpler..

Donna White50 said:It’s actually pretty wild when you look at death and existence through the lens of modern science...
I won't get too bogged down in the weeds of quantum mechanics—since let's be honest, hardly anyone actually gets it—but it seems like our whole reality is basically just built on perception. Like, the life we think we know and feel through our senses? It might just be one big illusion, nothing more. The principle suggests that the state of any system depends entirely on the observer... the observer uses their interaction—their intelligence—to shape the system and give it form.
Basically, the world as we see it doesn't even exist outside of our own heads. Our consciousness is what allows it to "be." Scientists talk about this idea of a universal consciousness (which we could just call Bogey) and we're all just subsets of that massive energy that gives our existence its shape. They describe the universe as a kind of hologram that we project ourselves; it feels solid and real because it's part of our perception—kind of like a rainbow in the sky that looks totally real but is really just light playing tricks on us. One person sees green and red, while someone else might experience colors and shapes in a way that's completely different from ours. In that sense, I'd say our existence is indestructible... when we die, we aren't "gone," we're just changing form or shifting our perception. It doesn't matter if we end up as a pile of atoms or just blood and bone, the essence stays the same... What actually hurts—what feels like a true loss—is nothing more than our thoughts, our memories, and those little illusions we cling to...
I just felt the need to share this perspective on life and being here... Eastern religions talk about reincarnation, shifting energies, the illusion of life, rebirth, and how everything is part of one eternal, indestructible conscious energy... honestly, that spiritual take feels a lot closer to where modern science is heading lately...

Being terrorized is just part of free speech; expressing yourself.... but this stuff—using ["superstring, multiverse, Higgs field... scientific terms to make it 'closer' to psychology than some Eastern religion"]—it’s dangerous. You can take down psychology with a blade that easily... a saber, a katana....
Personally, I'm with most of the posts here.

Life in its "original form"? Just little tiny strings.. all unified in one framework? Or is that too much "esoteric, impractical thinking.."? Seeing the "self" as just the ability to balance memories of who you used to be against what you want to become next? All imaginary? Or seeing the "self" as nothing but [CNS, PNS, VNS, neural connections..] physical matter.. which supposedly has zero connection to consciousness, considering a synapse, an axon, or myelin won't even function [life] without ions.. and ions are energy...........................

Larry Lewis said:The absolute worst part about death—if you can even call it that—is this nagging suspicion that "I" won't exist anymore. This specific version of myself, the one sitting here right now, just... vanishes. Maybe that’s why I ended up turning toward
Christianity in the first place; it was born out of pure, unadulterated fear. We can speculate all we want, dive into endless philosophical rabbit holes, but at the end of the day, we're left with nothing but what's right in front of us—and I desperately hope I’m more than just some biological accident, a mere organism that happened to evolve by sheer chance.

Death is inevitable—there's no escaping that grim reality—and if I'm being honest, I'd just love for it to be easier. To pass away with some sense of peace, feeling as though
this truly is my time to go, and that I've finally made my peace with the inevitable.

Doesn't Christianity basically preach renouncing this "earthly" life [as a test run..] just to secure "eternal bliss in the next one"..? Isn't our current state—this mess of matter, events, and consciousness—deliberately designed... specifically to serve as a testing ground? Testing what, exactly; if the whole setup is just a mold meant to condition whatever is being tested?
Basically, isn't the fear of losing this conditioned structure... running toward an organization that promises a way out... totally unverified? Like buying a diploma to escape the model after the test is over......? It's a bit of a logical paradox. But hey, religions don't really need logic to work....

Melissa Sanchez8 said:You're basically claiming the right—to put it in your terms—to trash others because you aren't ready to step up yourself.

I totally get that things are rough, and I believe you, but I'll never understand how anyone finds the energy to resent others for stuff they don't want to or can't do themselves.
Look, I realize she's a nurse, and like I said, she isn't emotionally invested in this. She probably has a dozen other patients just like your loved one...

People don't like it—or more accurately, they can't handle it—when someone tries to lecture them on what they "should" do during a crisis or some other miserable situation. Especially when it's coming from someone who doesn't even know their name, let alone anything else. The real issue isn't just the people who think their narrow perspective is gospel after reading a few lines of text; it's that they judge immediately... then decide there's only one "right" way to react. A way they almost certainly wouldn't follow if the roles were reversed...
The problem is expecting empathy instead of getting hit by a tidal wave of judgment. And the worst part is what happens next. Instead of learning from that negativity, people who go through the same thing end up repeating the same toxic patterns. They fall into this senseless, growing vicious cycle because they feel like "if they treated me like this, why should I act any better?"...
Honestly, accepting that a nurse chose this profession—to help, comfort, and steady people in need—while remaining "emotionally detached" speaks volumes for itself...

Quavo:

Uširo says: I’m done. I can't deal with this sub anymore because of you illiterate, self-proclaimed healers, amateur psychoanalysts, and the whole gang. You guys even had the nerve to call my 80-year-old mother on some cheesy late-night TV show just to ask $48 about how her son's health was doing.

As long as there are sheep, wolves wearing whatever skin they want will never go hungry...
It’s just in a wolf's nature to hunt, and in a sheep's nature to stay at the bottom of the food chain...
Everyone plays their part in this ultimate game of existence...

Natural, raw, undeniable, and absolutely vital to our current existence ["GRAPHIC CONTENT! {the truth}"].........
No matter how much it doesn't "fit" into this reality... the moderator of this specific time and space..
Probably the only ultimate truth that exists in, through, beside, and above... everything.
If people actually respected it more, instead of being terrified, avoiding it, or denying it.. maybe things would look a little different..
Or maybe not.. maybe we’d just be a bit more true to our "animalistic" nature [perceptions, consciousness..]..
Self-sufficiency, self-reliance, pure ego.......

Betty Myers6 said:Are people who go down the rabbit hole asking about life after death potential suicide risks? Like, do you guys think someone obsessing over what happens when we die is actually just one step away from SUICIDE?

So, are people asking about how much human waste—plus all the paper, bacteria, antibiotics, whatever—is produced daily, basically just wannabe "eco-warriors"? Or are folks who dig into all this useless, random info just potential "nutcases"...? I mean, having information—or even just thinking you do—about anything at all... that's pretty much normal nowadays... RIGHT..?

Sam Murphy said:It honestly feels like it should be a given that we’re meant to be immortal, because let's face it, the whole concept of aging is just a massive design flaw, and if you listen to what some of the top researchers are saying, the human body isn't actually programmed to fail us like this... I truly believe they've already stumbled upon the key to eternal life, it's just being kept under wraps, hidden away from the rest of us mere mortals.

"there's no unusual".. immortals..
way too much "mdma" [?]..
more/most likely [17:15+]..
H+ 🙂

out on King Tomislav Square...

Cihuacóatl

Maybe there’s no karma, maybe there aren't any deep questions or patterns... maybe it's all just organized chaos?
Maybe there's just this moment where you, as a collection of undefined, vibrating energy, realize everything only at the level of "me"... which isn't anything more than just part of the flow...
As such, this "me"... outside of the self... maybe doesn't even exist. There’s no grand meaning, no living inside some mold of stupid theories, rules, or regulations... it just is... vibrating in a given moment...
But that’s not enough. So then the "real me" prefers to pretend that things actually matter... that it's vital [to have an opinion] on why someone is gay, why someone is a pedophile,
why someone bites their tongue, why someone's vegan, why someone is more or less susceptible to this or that... and finally... most importantly...
where do I fit in... when I don't actually exist... in all of this. Because if I don't define myself within a mold of predetermined conditioning...
then I become everything I don't want to be... I become "that" instead of "me"... then those "others" don't exist... because they are just that too...
And the higher self doesn't want to be in that with them, even though it spends its whole life trying to nestle, fit in, and blend...
into the same thing... paradox... or just organized chaos...

What happens if someone spends a chunk of time doing the exact opposite of every single one of their beliefs, convictions, or efforts......
Can they eventually notice a cause-and-effect pattern? And does that pattern have anything to do with this so-called "karma"...?

If a certain situation actually played out and the host of the topic responded to it—on impulse...
by acting in a way or pattern that was "not themselves"... they'd probably get their answer to the question...
among the others that would arise from shifting the focus pattern [of self-perception... as the starting and ending point...
{"I'm starting to believe life is trying to screw me over"} the vibration of the universe]...

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"Love" from some "kind of woman"? 😵

Maybe you just have an androgynous look, so regardless of how reliable the test was, it was really just checking which gender you actually are.
Like... if you're packing heat... then you’ll react dominantly, give it right back, and keep that aggressive rhythm going...
But if you're rocking a little something else down there... you'll probably just recoil in confusion, totally lost...
Or maybe her mouth/tongue... tasted or smelled like someone's favorite fast food... so you were just hungry, pathetic, and plain old con-fused...
Or maybe it was some karmic thing meant to trigger your next big question or phobia...
specifically regarding "women who bite tongues"...

Larry Lewis said:What, you trying to play philosopher while high or something?

Honestly, maybe I would... hasn't been a while... but that's not even the point.
I might just go off the rails a little; whatever... maybe... just a bit...
Can't blame me if I do.

It's gonna rain and be freezing out there....
Too cold to do anything outside..
Or maybe not..

Ugh... is it just me, or does this look like some junkie's stash? Like, someone just lined up all those antipsychotics and antidepressants in the bathroom stall...
I mean, a drug is a drug, right? Not trying to be judgmental or anything; it just popped into my head...

..there was a massive 92 percent jump, and back in 2013 alone
over 53 million prescriptions were written for this kind of med..

money, money, money
has to be "funny"
in the rich man's world
money, money, money
always sunny
in the rich man's world

related article: even the penguins are on antidepressants

Kevin Nguyen3 said:You are conflating actual warfare with a military draft!!!
The two aren't even remotely the same thing.

And honestly, it's right there in that specific misunderstanding where the whole logic of fleeing a military career just falls apart.

The "draft"—or maybe just being a mindless drone during peacetime... it's basically a tool for one specific scenario.
Maintaining peace, right? Being XYZ thousand miles from home, "serving my duty" to some global agenda,
under a system I don't get at all, in a culture that feels totally alien to me........
acting as a peace offering. While decked out in full combat gear.
And obviously; just so we're clear, it's not about the money.
That's just some small change for the time I spend being patriotic and selfless......

Good luck to Khajit with his [among other things] military career/service.
Based on what was said; seems like he's got everything lined up to be a top-tier candidate for it.

Kevin Nguyen3 said:No, you're approaching it from the wrong angle.
While a military academy can certainly provide assistance, that doesn't automatically mean its focus is misplaced.
I know plenty of kids who feel it's in their blood to follow in their parents' footsteps or... perhaps to prove themselves by fulfilling their parents' unreached ambitions—my own son is serving in the U.S. Army, and there is no greater sense of pride.
Perhaps, when viewed through the prism of reality, that is simply how it works.
The core issue is whether the kid actually loves it and wants to pursue it, whatever that may be. That provides excellent motivation, and it could serve as a lasting way out of the psychiatric cycle. I truly hope so.

But, I do agree with you that psychology and its various tools might succeed in altering the landscape of our environment—our society—but from what I can see, given the constant financial crises, one has to wonder if it’s even possible.
That is why books exist for when people have free time; they can help to a certain extent, and one would get used to reading, which will surely be beneficial both today and tomorrow.

If paradox is the new logic, then yeah... then it doesn't matter what it is...
The root of the mental illness... both parents [examples, indicators, teachers...] suffered traumas caused by war events.
A "career" that puts him right back in the middle of it... or a "job" where his mere involvement—directly or indirectly—inflicts trauma on someone else;
which eventually means inflicting those same traumas on himself... the exact ones he once tried to run from;
to escape, to stop them [their derivatives]........?
But the parents will be proud.
Proud because their son followed the same path that broke them in the first place. It shows them all the horrors of his own existence.
A permanent exit from the psychiatric system through a "profession" designed to teach, drill, and shove an individual...
straight into combat zones? Into the absolute darkest depths of human existence?
Proud parents who survived that vortex of madness, so they want the exact same thing for their kid?
🤷

What’s with all this intense obsession over West Point?
Isn't the thread title basically saying both parents have PTSD?
Can we at least try to draw some kind of conclusion from that...
The National Alliance on Mental Illness; that could actually be a decent attempt at fixing society.
If only psychologists didn't view altruism through such a skewed lens.