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Sophia Jones61 said:edit: still waiting on an answer to my last question 😉

Which ones? 🤔

Sophia Jones61 said:So, did you make it to that consultation session with Helga? 😈

What do you think? 😁 🙄 😛

@ hollowpilot9, I just wanted to say thanks again for the clarifications and that last post—it was actually directed at me, too. Everything you wrote about this topic is really helpful stuff to keep in mind.

boldsailor2 said:It’s like I’m finally getting some results. But this mantra keeps bubbling up to the surface, and honestly, it feels like a sort of static interference preventing me from diving even deeper. I think it's because I don't quite grasp how it works on a different frequency... I really want to build upon the state I've already reached, but I feel like I'm missing the core mantra. I’d love to sit down and have a real heart-to-heart about this with a Yogi Berra...

Well, the Dalai Lama actually recommended breath-focused So-Ham meditation, which is pretty much the standard traditional way to go... 🤔

Hmm, you're onto something there... though I'm not exactly heading to a Vipassana retreat just to lose my mind and have you blaming me for it. 😬

Sophia Jones61 said:That’s exactly why you’re feeling those specific effects—it's because you're focusing so heavily on your breath.
If you shifted that focus toward your heart, the experience would feel totally different—much deeper on an emotional level.
Focusing on the forehead, on the other hand, tends to bring more mental clarity and all that good stuff.

Meditating on the Unknown while keeping the mantra centered in your heart is a great practice, especially if you're trying to work through karma. I've even heard some groups suggest that beginners shouldn't jump straight into certain advanced techniques (since traditionally, you meditate on the Unknown through one of those two specific centers).

But honestly, none of that really matters when you realize:

harer nama harer nama
harer namaiva kevalam
kalau nasty eva nasty eva
nasty eva gatir anyatha

☕

Joseph Ortiz26 said:Can someone help me make sense of something? During meditation, I sometimes get this weird sensation where my body proportions seem to shift. It’s like I’m becoming incredibly tall and elongated, or suddenly everything around me feels unnaturally far away—sometimes even feeling like my head is miles from my feet. Has anyone else experienced this?

What kind of meditation technique are you practicing?

Can anyone help me out here? Does anyone know if there's a better BIOS available than the one I'm currently running? I'm trying to push my overclocking further, but I've hit a wall because I can't adjust the voltage. Here's what I'm working with:
Intel Pentium 4 (northwood) 2.8 GHz@3.4 GHz FSB 162 MHz
ECS 848P-A (BIOS already updated)
1*512 MB Kingmax SuperRam 400MHz @404MHz
1*1024 MB -II-
Radeon 9600 Pro GPU 430 MHz Mem 450 MHz 256 VRam

Intel EE is top-tier, but if you're dead set on going with AMD, just make sure you have solid cooling. It'll run like clockwork:

Jamie Johnson6 said:Sorry to hijack the thread, but I’ve got a quick question:

How can I make my hair a bit softer? Honestly, mine is super coarse, thick, stubborn, and just refuses to cooperate. Does anyone have any recommendations (shampoo, a specific mask, mousse, anything...)?

Thanx

You should buy Schwarzkopf (Pantene) Liquid Death silk—that shampoo is incredible... I have the exact same hair type and this stuff is... 😍
I've got a whole stash of it... I'm actually low-key terrified they might stop making it... 😬
Give it a shot... and let me know how it goes...

hollowpilot9 hollowpilot9 said:Escher quote:
As far as I can tell, there isn't any actual proof that an objective reality even exists beyond what our senses tell us. Honestly, I don't see why we should just take the external world at face value simply because that's all we can perceive.
With my prints, I try to show that we actually live in a beautiful, orderly world—not the chaotic, lawless mess people like to claim we do. I can’t help but poke a little fun at all those unshakable certainties we hold onto. Honestly, there’s something incredibly fun about blurring the lines between two and three dimensions, messing with planes and space, or just playing games with gravity.
Are you absolutely certain that what you think is the floor isn't actually the ceiling? Like, are you 100% sure when you’re climbing those stairs that you’re actually heading up?
Look, you can't have light without shadow. If you’re going to accept God, then you have to make room for the Devil on the other side of the coin to keep things even. It's all about balance. Honestly, that duality is exactly what keeps me going.

So, there’s this idea that what feels impossible to imagine can actually be visualized if you try hard enough. Just picture us walking on the ceiling, or climbing stairs only to find ourselves descending back where we started. Or think about a tree where the canopy grows downward instead of up. You don't even really need to strain your brain to see it; you just have to stand by a perfectly still, crystal-clear lake. You look down and see the branches stretching toward the bottom, appearing endless even though the water is barely ankle-deep. It reminds me of something a famous poet once said. It all brings me back to that incredible power of symbolism. In those mesmerizing M. C. Escher prints—if I’m reading him right—the secret seems to lie in that central white void, that focal point where the viewer's eye finally syncs up with the artist's vision. At the end of the day, I think that's what makes a piece of art truly captivating: that moment when you recognize something within it that... Yes. So that’s why trying to attach some separate meaning to Escher's written thoughts is such a lost cause—they'll never be anything other than what his drawings already convey. And that thing you mentioned about artistic expression aligning with intellectual realization? Spot on. Honestly, maybe Escher is looking down at us like some being from another galaxy, watching our little certainties crumble. He knows that what we perceive as reality isn't actually what he sees, so he just draws it, trying to show us the truth through his art.

Wouldn't it be nice if we actually lived in a beautiful, orderly world instead of this constant chaos where nothing makes sense? Honestly, just looking at the themes he explores in his prints makes you realize how much we crave some kind of structure:

hollowpilot9 hollowpilot9 said:It’s not just that, either. It’s the sheer fact that M. C. Escher's prints are built on this idea of infinite repetition. You see water much like a perpetual motion machine, drawing its own flow from its very depths. There are processions of twelve priests walking in an eternal loop—one group ascending while another descends. There are strangers descending endless staircases only to find themselves right back where they started. You have three spheres mirroring one another, or a Möbius strip folding into itself so seamlessly that the outside becomes the inside with every turn. He plays with architectural spaces where a mouse's eye view shifts into a bird's-eye perspective, or depictions of an Ouroboros—that serpent-dragon biting its own tail—and even hands sketching one another into existence. All of Escher's visual loops demonstrate a complete, self-sustaining system—autopoiesis—captured in a single, mind-bending perceptual moment.

Thanks so much for laying all of this out. You’ve introduced me to things I honestly hadn't considered before—both M. C. Escher's actual art and the deep philosophy woven right into it. I’m definitely going to be sitting with this for a while, especially your take on that bird print (the one hiddenviper9 posted). To be honest, I didn't even notice those gray areas at first glance. But now, seeing how the white space relies entirely on the black to exist—how they bleed into one another to finally reveal shapes like those birds—is just mind-blowing. I think I'll need to go back and read your explanation a few more times to really wrap my head around it.

Sandra King86 said:You really need to expand on what you mean by that.
Everything's fine.

If you ask me, you’re totally overreacting here...

The whole pop-country craze among Americans has finally peaked, and honestly, it’s already starting to fade out...

PrittPen said:who on earth do you think you are?

Is this some kind of public forum or what? 🙂

Sandra King86 said:I’m just waiting for things to cool down before I drop my absolutely radical plan to finally kill off heavy metal cliches and mainstream pop trash once and for all. It might involve getting some punks involved.
Stay tuned. 😬

Yeah, right... I can just picture it now: walking out of a Taylor Swift concert and seeing three little punks acting like total maniacs...

GOD BLESS AMERICA! WE NEED THAT AMERICAN SPIRIT BACK!

Anyway... my phone rings once... and man, life has been such a mess lately...

punks are idiots 🤣

Mike, did you catch that documentary? I can't recall the title right now... it was about those guys from the bowling alley. It had some pretty intense stats comparing gun violence and homicide rates here in the States versus over in Europe..

OH PLEASE, MAYBE TRY FIXING YOUR OWN BACKYARD BEFORE YOU COME OVER HERE TRYING TO LECTURE US..

Look, if you tried to ban folk music by executive order today, idiots would just start shooting at each other over some random R&B track or whatever else... I mean, what does any of that even have to do with the music?

I’m 17 years old and I’ve noticed these tiny white bumps right at the base of my penis. To be honest, even if it's nothing serious, it's really getting to me and I just want to get rid of them as soon as possible.
I was wondering if there are ways to clear them up, like using a laser or other treatments, and what kind of price range we're looking at for something like that.
I did some digging online and found out they might be called PEARLY PENILE PAPULES.

That movie was pretty intense. I definitely didn't see that ending coming—man, cutting off those legs was brutal.

I’m just saying, this is absolutely mind-blowing. Looking at this drawing above,

Got it. Thanks for the advice!👍

I'm trying to merge two partitions on my drive (my D: and H: drives). I’ve got about 40GB of data sitting on that D: partition, so I definitely wouldn't be thrilled about losing it all. By the way, Keith Bennett38, how on earth are you pulling data off a trashed drive? How is that even possible if the partition merger didn't go right in the first place?