Posts by Thomas Walker13

Bank of America is the only one ignoring HROK... honestly, I have no idea how much longer they can keep this up, especially since everyone else is already on board with HROK, which you can clearly see right on their website.

electricbadger17 said:Have you checked out Tolle's "A New Earth"? In my opinion, it handles the "self" thing much better than "The Power of Now," even if the concepts all bleed into one another anyway...

I've made it about halfway through *A New Earth*. I'm planning to finish the rest of it soon.

Terry Kim3 said:Honestly, I think you're setting yourself up for trouble if you have thousands of thoughts racing through your head every single day—constantly ruminating, rushing around, getting irritated by everything, and living in this perpetual state of dissatisfaction because of all those destructive thoughts.

When you start thinking less and observing the world—and yourself—more, paying attention to your actions and the thoughts that drift in, you become more self-aware. Your brain actually functions better that way; it isn't cluttered with thousands of useless distractions, so when you actually need to engage for something productive, it performs much more effectively than usual.

The goal is to understand our own actions—to figure out why we did something specific, what triggered us, what the underlying motive was—basically, to investigate ourselves and improve. But you can only achieve that through self-observation; essentially, if your higher self is monitoring your thoughts, you reach a higher state of consciousness.

Thoughts aren't capable of understanding themselves—they just arrive and depart. There needs to be a higher self acting as the controller, stepping in to neutralize the bad ones while letting the good, useful ones stay.

That sounds great on paper, but what about emotions? What happens when an emotional wave hits and wipes out all that logic you just built up, leaving you completely overwhelmed?😍
How do you handle that?

Ethan Johnson said:Anyone here actually self-aware enough to have a sense of their own "Self"? I’d love to hear a few thoughts from you guys. Once you start digging into your "Self," this weird phenomenon happens where the "Self" starts observing "itself." We basically have to step into the shoes of the thinker—but can the thinker actually know who they are? It's kind of like asking if a knife can cut itself, right?

This whole thing actually popped up from that other thread about "being what you are." But here, I really want to figure out if we can even talk about our "Self" in any meaningful way. Are we just a collection of our thoughts—those random ideas floating through our heads? Probably not, since thoughts just drift in and out whenever they feel like it. So, are we our bodies? Nah, because our bodies are constantly shifting, cells are swapping out, and we're all just getting older. So... what the hell is the "Self" actually?

I just finished a book by DeMell regarding this "self" thing... I think... according to him, you could be a pencil instead of a person and still have a "self," but he didn't really define it. It seems like he doesn't have a clue either.
I've read Tolle too... "The Power of Now"... and he tries to explain the "self" through this state of being in the "now," where you stop overthinking, though that eventually turns into a kind of general numbness over time.
From what I gather, you have the option to either contemplate the "self" or simply *be* the "self," which can be useful, but you could also end up losing your mind depending on how you handle it.
Or, you can just stop thinking and simply observe the "self"... like a bystander... or a dog watching its own brain (per Tolle).
I'm not sure how to approach this. It's a massive shift, and you can easily lose your way and mess up your life either way.😁

Kimberly Nguyen said:I honestly wish they’d share this information with the rest of us too. It feels like every single time I turn around, someone is coming up to me claiming that these kinds of loans get approved left and right... so that we can actually know 🙂

Either he's talking nonsense, or someone got through via a connection—like an outside consultant for the bank—and doesn't even realize it. 😁
ps. Volkswagen is running a promotion on mortgages without checking creditworthiness.

And how exactly does one get that back once we die?????

I don't see anything smart about Facebook... I've tried AOL Instant Messenger and plenty of other social tools to stay connected, and they were all fine, but this Facebook thing is just incredibly stupid.

Here’s what those Russian planes look like: http://www.birding.se/foto/vit-stork3.jpg😂

I'm just here for the chaos 😁

Those books are fine while you're actually reading them... but once you close the cover, it all goes in one ear and out the other.😁