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What % of things are under your control...?
    #24997513 - 02/15/18 09:12 PM (6 years, 1 month ago)

I would say about 58% of the things in my life are under my control..

Stuff like physical movement,

The appearance and feeling of free will and choice..

The stuff thats not in control are the following..

Have to eat and sleep.. use the washroom.. need money to purchase or aquire anything in a capitalist system..

Need to be entertained, within reason, have to move or do somethimg..

Habits in general.. I need to wear clothes based on climate..

Have to breath fresh and filtered air..

Have to see the same freinds and family each year on and off..

Have to look at the same things everyday..

What do you guys think?

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Re: What % of things are under your control...? [Re: BrendanFlock]
    #24997563 - 02/15/18 09:38 PM (6 years, 1 month ago)

Depends on what you mean by "control." Things like physical movement, will, choice we can affect at times, but I don't think we really control them. It seems to me that control is mainly an illusion. Even if you're good at basketball, you're not really "controlling" your shot. Your subconscious is solving billions of calculus equations that you have no knowledge about. I would say that the whole thing could not come off without "you" as a conscious entity participating in it, but I think we really control a lot less than we think we do -- the vast majority of the time.


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Re: What % of things are under your control...? [Re: BrendanFlock] * 1
    #24997644 - 02/15/18 10:26 PM (6 years, 1 month ago)

There are many paths to choose from and every response I have is in my control, I can choose the path I take.

If control is the power to influence behaviour or the course of events then I have 100%.


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Re: What % of things are under your control...? [Re: sudly] * 1
    #24997659 - 02/15/18 10:36 PM (6 years, 1 month ago)

I found another one where you cant control..though you may influence:

Other people doing things..

Also getting stuck in a combo in a competitive game..

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Re: What % of things are under your control...? [Re: sudly]
    #24997666 - 02/15/18 10:38 PM (6 years, 1 month ago)

Quote:

sudly said:
There are many paths to choose from and every response I have is in my control, I can choose the path I take.

If control is the power to influence behaviour or the course of events then I have 100%.




You are choosing to do everything in deed..

But there are things you cant escape.. like washroom, food sex, sleeping etc.. those are basic need to dos for every person..

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Re: What % of things are under your control...? [Re: BrendanFlock] * 1
    #24997673 - 02/15/18 10:41 PM (6 years, 1 month ago)

I control 0 of the world outside of me.

I control 0 of the world inside of me.

All I have is my interface between the two - my actions.

That is all.


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Re: What % of things are under your control...? [Re: BrendanFlock]
    #24997716 - 02/15/18 11:02 PM (6 years, 1 month ago)

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BrendanFlock said:
Quote:

sudly said:
There are many paths to choose from and every response I have is in my control, I can choose the path I take.

If control is the power to influence behaviour or the course of events then I have 100%.




You are choosing to do everything in deed..

But there are things you cant escape.. like washroom, food sex, sleeping etc.. those are basic need to dos for every person..




Again, if control is influence I still have it. I can hold in a shit, not eat, be celebate and stay up late.


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Re: What % of things are under your control...? [Re: sudly]
    #24997778 - 02/15/18 11:47 PM (6 years, 1 month ago)

Those are just degrees of influence.. not perfect control.. you can only delay sonething for a certain amount of time.. which reminds me..

Time is not under your control..

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Re: What % of things are under your control...? [Re: BrendanFlock]
    #24997813 - 02/16/18 12:13 AM (6 years, 1 month ago)

I don't know, I just know I have a daily routine that is based on years of finding out what I like and don't like. I control my environment well. In my room I have a negative ion generator, humidifier and heater. I keep the environment 75 Degrees F., 60 RH, air filtered and ionized. For my body I do self massage, tai chi, breathing meditation, eat at subway every day and take supplements. My finances are good too. I have more than I need in life. I don't masturbate or have sex. I work out every day, take cold showers and get the proper amount of sleep. As for control it's hard to say because it's not hard to lose control. Anyone could die any second from the most minor things within and without. Control seems to be an illusion, kinda like job security.

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Re: What % of things are under your control...? [Re: BrendanFlock]
    #24997838 - 02/16/18 12:31 AM (6 years, 1 month ago)

Those are absolute influences, and I can influence how I spend my time.


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Re: What % of things are under your control...? [Re: sudly]
    #24997851 - 02/16/18 12:51 AM (6 years, 1 month ago)

I think a lot of what we percieve as "not being in control of" is the societal "consequences" we OURSELVES lay down on each other.

Act in way X, receive treatment 1.

Act in way Y, receive treatment 2, etc.

When, in my "reality", it's act in any way along X/Y/Z - Receive no implied treatment, as long as it doesn't negatively influence my X/Y/Z.

So, cultural "pressure" influences our ideas/expressions of "control".

In my opinion, freedom exists ONLY in mutual not-controlling.

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Re: What % of things are under your control...? [Re: remake]
    #24997862 - 02/16/18 01:07 AM (6 years, 1 month ago)

I don't control other people, influence can be picked up on but I don't own anyone.

It's just me, my car and these blue hands.


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Re: What % of things are under your control...? [Re: sudly]
    #24997876 - 02/16/18 01:16 AM (6 years, 1 month ago)

I'm currently building an architectural model for work.

My hands, were, full of super-glue.

That looks fun man. Good for you. :peace:

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Re: What % of things are under your control...? [Re: remake]
    #24997889 - 02/16/18 01:31 AM (6 years, 1 month ago)

Nice, what're you designing?

I was workin around a bio-retention basin



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Re: What % of things are under your control...? [Re: sudly]
    #24997913 - 02/16/18 01:48 AM (6 years, 1 month ago)

A house by a lake actually!

Lots of pine trees and green forest. Steel, brick and timber construction, suspended above the ground.

My boss designed it...:tongue:

But it looks pretty cool.

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Re: What % of things are under your control...? [Re: remake]
    #24998001 - 02/16/18 04:02 AM (6 years, 1 month ago)

I saw a lot of ducks and purple swamp hens today too, and had a water dragon climb over my foot.
Lots of sesbania trees by the pond.

Sounds like you have handy finesse work, mines giving a bit more tug and pull and poison to our carbon breathing friends. Keeping the natives on fleek.


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Re: What % of things are under your control...? [Re: Jokeshopbeard]
    #24998090 - 02/16/18 05:35 AM (6 years, 1 month ago)

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Jokeshopbeard said:
I control 0 of the world outside of me.

I control 0 of the world inside of me.

All I have is my interface between the two - my actions.

That is all.



I have ~15% control of my actions, but I can make a schedule, and sometimes that affects everything.


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Re: What % of things are under your control...? [Re: redgreenvines] * 2
    #24998210 - 02/16/18 07:54 AM (6 years, 1 month ago)

You control how you respond to emotional stimuli and what you think about. Many religious archetypes hint at perfect mastery of this, but it takes a very long time.

You cannot control others, you cannot control how you feel (only how you respond to what you feel), and you cannot control what others feel.


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Re: What % of things are under your control...? [Re: BrendanFlock]
    #24998375 - 02/16/18 09:34 AM (6 years, 1 month ago)

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BrendanFlock said:
Quote:

sudly said:
There are many paths to choose from and every response I have is in my control, I can choose the path I take.

If control is the power to influence behaviour or the course of events then I have 100%.




You are choosing to do everything in deed..

But there are things you cant escape.. like washroom, food sex, sleeping etc.. those are basic need to dos for every person..



The only thing I have to do is die.
Everything else is optional :tongue:

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Re: What % of things are under your control...? [Re: BlueCoyote]
    #24998907 - 02/16/18 02:25 PM (6 years, 1 month ago)

redgreenvines, I'm supposed to not drink, right?

what is the reason that drugs are negative for me?

I read about people doing drugs here and it seems to make their time cooler or something like that maybe


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Re: What % of things are under your control...? [Re: Ferdinando]
    #24998939 - 02/16/18 02:36 PM (6 years, 1 month ago)

still havent learned to cum on command... fucking an older lady the other day she told i should cum on command, i said idk how to.... i guess it's a thing...


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Re: What % of things are under your control...? [Re: Green7Alchemist]
    #24998975 - 02/16/18 02:53 PM (6 years, 1 month ago)

don't cum on command

go more slowly and less and don't cum

have sex for 2 hours then come


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Re: What % of things are under your control...? [Re: Ferdinando]
    #24998982 - 02/16/18 02:56 PM (6 years, 1 month ago)

ferd, you told me you got messed up from drugs, so
I believed you.
it's probably true.
like that.


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Re: What % of things are under your control...? [Re: Ferdinando]
    #24999009 - 02/16/18 03:05 PM (6 years, 1 month ago)

true, i try to have more control of my stokes :thumbup:


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Re: What % of things are under your control...? [Re: Green7Alchemist]
    #24999125 - 02/16/18 04:02 PM (6 years, 1 month ago)

Yeah my father wasnt in control of his stroke.. neither was my cousins wife and neither was by grandmas multiple strokes that sent her to the graveyard!

Lol..

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Re: What % of things are under your control...? [Re: BrendanFlock]
    #24999151 - 02/16/18 04:11 PM (6 years, 1 month ago)

You can have an influence on your likelihood of a heart attack or stroke.

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Stroke is a largely preventable event. Many risks can be reduced by making lifestyle changes.
As we get older our arteries become narrower, but certain things can dangerously accelerate the process. These risks include:
  • smoking
  • high blood pressure (hypertension)
  • not doing enough physical activity
  • obesity
  • high cholesterol levels (often caused by a high-fat diet, but can result from inherited factors)
  • a family history of heart disease
  • excessive alcohol intake (which can also make obesity and high blood pressure worse, as well as causing heart damage and an irregular heart beat).





In mention of 'perfect control', I think a better question to ask would be, "What is there in your life that you cannot change or have influence over?"

So what is out of your control? (control being influence)


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Re: What % of things are under your control...? [Re: sudly]
    #24999170 - 02/16/18 04:20 PM (6 years, 1 month ago)

The very fact that you exist!

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Re: What % of things are under your control...? [Re: BrendanFlock]
    #24999189 - 02/16/18 04:30 PM (6 years, 1 month ago)

Obviously we weren't around to influence our own birth..

I don't think I started life in control, or that I could influence much as a toddler, but as I grew, so to do I think the control I have in my life has grown.


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Re: What % of things are under your control...? [Re: BrendanFlock]
    #25000394 - 02/17/18 02:47 AM (6 years, 1 month ago)

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BrendanFlock said:
I would say about 58% of the things in my life are under my control..

Stuff like physical movement,

The appearance and feeling of free will and choice..

The stuff thats not in control are the following..

Have to eat and sleep.. use the washroom.. need money to purchase or aquire anything in a capitalist system..

Need to be entertained, within reason, have to move or do somethimg..

Habits in general.. I need to wear clothes based on climate..

Have to breath fresh and filtered air..

Have to see the same freinds and family each year on and off..

Have to look at the same things everyday..

What do you guys think?




see my reply on free will
the focus seems to be on 'control'
but should be on the notion
that there is an object, unchanging, that is The 'Self'

if  there is no unchanging, uninfluenceable, object, that is the 'self',
the whole issue is moot or irrelevant

perhaps one could say
this missing the real issue
is precisely how the self perpetuates its illusory supposed central importance

it seems a tricky subject

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Re: What % of things are under your control...? [Re: laughingdog]
    #25000464 - 02/17/18 04:37 AM (6 years, 1 month ago)

yeah I agree it's probably true

I almost haven't done weed and lsd for years and have hardly drunk alcohol for years too

I don't know how I could have avoided it, what measures I could have taken, I think 2 times 45 minutes of meditation a day could have avoided it or 4 drawings a day.

I don't like alcohol and weed and lsd much. or at all.

but yeah I would like to become not messed up, maybe I am a little less messed up now, I just don't understand why it has taken so long. really weird. but wonderful for you guys that you like them and that they don't mess you up (you that they didn't/don't mess up)


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Re: What % of things are under your control...? [Re: Ferdinando]
    #25000470 - 02/17/18 04:43 AM (6 years, 1 month ago)

I like to imagine I'm completely hopeless and there is no future for me. Then it feels like I'm just cruising.

If we had no hopes or fears, then we can just chill. Not saying I'm not hopeful or full of fear. But it'd be cool.

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Re: What % of things are under your control...? [Re: remake]
    #25000474 - 02/17/18 04:50 AM (6 years, 1 month ago)

I don't recommend that for you

it is like turning your brain off

like not thinking

you have to not do that

small thing


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Re: What % of things are under your control...? [Re: Ferdinando]
    #25000475 - 02/17/18 04:51 AM (6 years, 1 month ago)

I think maybe I am half as messed up (from drugs) that I was

like if the drug use made a mess in my head (metaphor mess in a house a small pile that is a mess and now there is only half the mess). I think it is largley probable


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Re: What % of things are under your control...? [Re: Ferdinando]
    #25000476 - 02/17/18 04:53 AM (6 years, 1 month ago)

I don’t mean it in a bad way. It makes me feel present. How much thinking are we doing without even moving? A lot of thoughts seem entirely useless. In a good way

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Re: What % of things are under your control...? [Re: remake]
    #25000478 - 02/17/18 04:56 AM (6 years, 1 month ago)

yeah but your livelihood and life would be imparied if you turned off your hopes (part of your brain)


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Re: What % of things are under your control...? [Re: Ferdinando]
    #25000479 - 02/17/18 04:56 AM (6 years, 1 month ago)

it was really hard to be that messed up


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Re: What % of things are under your control...? [Re: Ferdinando]
    #25000482 - 02/17/18 04:59 AM (6 years, 1 month ago)

Hopes/fear I'd attribute to/as mental ponderings of the ethereal.

Opinions are utterly useless to linger on.

If you are just to survive, and not care for egoistic pursuits/dreams, you'd be more natural in those things you "want"

Basically a form of acceptance.

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Re: What % of things are under your control...? [Re: remake] * 1
    #25000786 - 02/17/18 09:01 AM (6 years, 1 month ago)

coming back from being really messed up shows the amount of control we have.
it is an enormous effort but can be done by working (conditioning and cultivating) the material (mind/body) we are made of.

is there a percentage for that? is it 1% or 100%, the transformation can be  extensive, including complete reversal, but the time it takes is lengthy.

it takes intention, application, patience, and getting out of the way (humility).


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Re: What % of things are under your control...? [Re: redgreenvines]
    #25001041 - 02/17/18 10:49 AM (6 years, 1 month ago)

have you seen midnight i paris?


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Re: What % of things are under your control...? [Re: Ferdinando]
    #25001047 - 02/17/18 10:52 AM (6 years, 1 month ago)

i forgot what happens but enjoyed it.


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    #25001094 - 02/17/18 11:13 AM (6 years, 1 month ago)

hehe
it is great

I liked it a lot


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Re: What % of things are under your control...? [Re: Ferdinando]
    #25001102 - 02/17/18 11:15 AM (6 years, 1 month ago)

it can be measure the recovery or what we call it (in %).

I can't see that it is largely proveable, but. it is something I have that makes me think so, like instinct or intuition


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Re: What % of things are under your control...? [Re: BrendanFlock]
    #25001323 - 02/17/18 01:19 PM (6 years, 1 month ago)

If I presume that I have all the free will I feel I have,  I still think the percentage under my control is low. 5%,1%, maybe less.

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Re: What % of things are under your control...? [Re: DieCommie]
    #25001347 - 02/17/18 01:38 PM (6 years, 1 month ago)

free will is a meaningless discussion

setting in in the deciding moment is brain activity. like real. that happens. that exists.

maybe free will y only exists as your identity reflecting your actions, like your identity, self, brain acivity causing your actions like a wave from both ends of the picture (which is curved) of your identity moving into the middle and creating another curved wave spawning your movement


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Re: What % of things are under your control...? [Re: DieCommie]
    #25001411 - 02/17/18 02:10 PM (6 years, 1 month ago)

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If I presume that I have all the free will I feel I have,  I still think the percentage under my control is low. 5%,1%, maybe less.




I agree, but those 1-5% could make a huge difference in your life. Especially if it is involved in things like: choosing what to study, choosing where to work, choosing who to marry, and choosing where to move.

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Re: What % of things are under your control...? [Re: Zanthius]
    #25001435 - 02/17/18 02:19 PM (6 years, 1 month ago)

that's right

and choosing to work

and choosing to not do a drug that one usually does at that time.

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Re: What % of things are under your control...? [Re: Ferdinando]
    #25001641 - 02/17/18 04:21 PM (6 years, 1 month ago)

messed up is very much like being in a situation under pressure, negative pressure, because we are what we do, so because of what we do, but because we are what we do, so what we are (like our experiences) are less positive (because our situation is under pressure).

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    #25001944 - 02/17/18 06:28 PM (6 years, 1 month ago)

1%. Control is mostly an illusion, and often a lie we tell ourselves. We apply the illusion of control in retrospect to things we had no control over because we don't want to admit that we have no control.

However, that 1% is so powerful that over time it can potentially overcome the other 99%. Or not.

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Re: What % of things are under your control...? [Re: redgreenvines]
    #25002172 - 02/17/18 08:12 PM (6 years, 1 month ago)

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redgreenvines said:
coming back from being really messed up shows the amount of control we have.
it is an enormous effort but can be done by working (conditioning and cultivating) the material (mind/body) we are made of.

is there a percentage for that? is it 1% or 100%, the transformation can be  extensive, including complete reversal, but the time it takes is lengthy.

it takes intention, application, patience, and getting out of the way (humility).



Well you can definitely measure how well a person is since the inception of what they had to go through..like how they are doing currently compared to how they were..

That might be a topic for another post actually..

I have only recovered/built skill and wellness since my psychosis(which I was at 0%) at about say 58% which is the same amount that I think I'm free..

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Re: What % of things are under your control...? [Re: BrendanFlock]
    #25002281 - 02/17/18 09:26 PM (6 years, 1 month ago)

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This ocean is the only thing

Swimming in it (when not a puddle)

It shifts and ripples out



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Re: What % of things are under your control...? [Re: DisoRDeR]
    #25002344 - 02/17/18 10:02 PM (6 years, 1 month ago)

I think things are both out of an in your control. 

You are allowed free reign of the instincts you were bred with and the situation you were placed into.

However, those two may not be in your control.

I believe instincts are from natural selection, but which one we choose has an external objective measuring stick and is within our control.


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    #25002530 - 02/18/18 12:17 AM (6 years, 1 month ago)

Well the fresh and free feeling of experience says you have freewil..

You are fully free and capable of doing and influencing what you want.. its a tanded choice and power station..

Will itself is supreme.. but this will follow your values and curiosity.. its easy to mark places/ideas where you are high at.. which you may or may not want to change.

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    #25002535 - 02/18/18 12:20 AM (6 years, 1 month ago)

I go up to 88% under control!

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Re: What % of things are under your control...? [Re: BrendanFlock]
    #25002944 - 02/18/18 06:47 AM (6 years, 1 month ago)

True, 100% alive.
In this conversation we report various percentages of comfort/pressure/sanity;
and that meditation can take the pressure off (at least like a pause on the media player);
yet there is no real consensus about how much is under control.

This may be because the question is not relevant unless you are a general, or a manager of a department.
Life is not war or a factory (but both are symbolic cases in which control, repetition, and training are big issues - no wonder we walk around with the word resonating in our heads).


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Re: What % of things are under your control...? [Re: redgreenvines]
    #25003891 - 02/18/18 03:04 PM (6 years, 1 month ago)

I have started making money off walking a dog

make a lot of money!

be good

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    #25004016 - 02/18/18 04:07 PM (6 years, 1 month ago)

this is really a great thing, getting the time right, and being trusted with important things to many families.


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    #25004956 - 02/19/18 04:55 AM (6 years, 1 month ago)

yes the universe is a great thing


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    #25005901 - 02/19/18 02:53 PM (6 years, 1 month ago)

An infinite percentage of an allotted infinit-e.
Beyond your countable perception but on the order of degrees that can be understood and manipulated if you put in the proper effort. To many people focus on quantifying instead of living/expressing/understanding. Such people are fools in my book who will never achieve any sensible measures.

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    #25006103 - 02/19/18 04:09 PM (6 years, 1 month ago)

are not measures counts?


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Re: What % of things are under your control...? [Re: redgreenvines]
    #25006268 - 02/19/18 05:31 PM (6 years, 1 month ago)

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are not measures counts?



> sensible measures.
> mindless counts
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Re: What % of things are under your control...? [Re: BrendanFlock]
    #25006302 - 02/19/18 05:48 PM (6 years, 1 month ago)

Perhaps the closest thing to control you will get is at the moment you either believe in it or not.

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Re: What % of things are under your control...? [Re: r00tcmplx]
    #25006512 - 02/19/18 07:25 PM (6 years, 1 month ago)

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Re: What % of things are under your control...? [Re: redgreenvines]
    #25006701 - 02/19/18 09:11 PM (6 years, 1 month ago)

Although I'm not religious, Christianity is based on the idea we control our behavior.

The concept of temptation is about making choices (often in the midst of ambivalence).

The choices we make lead towards suffering (hell) or away from suffering (heaven).

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    #25006977 - 02/19/18 11:33 PM (6 years, 1 month ago)

Thats beautiful..I think Christ is the way, truth, and life.. His life is a crucifixion of both Hell and eternity(which is Heaven).. he alone stands true as the mediator(nothing) within The Bride(Satani).. and Eve as Evil.. Hell is a unique feature of time.. which means because God gave us freewill.. that we can choose to wrong and murder people.. or choose good which is salvation..

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    #25007020 - 02/20/18 12:03 AM (6 years, 1 month ago)

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    #25007262 - 02/20/18 04:52 AM (6 years, 1 month ago)

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Re: What % of things are under your control...? [Re: redgreenvines]
    #25007358 - 02/20/18 07:17 AM (6 years, 1 month ago)

damn that was a good post

and that makes sense with the dracula

it's positive then mor or less

I said and meditated because of that 10 dollar post, for 30 minutes

I psyched about never ending journeys, like how they can make posts worth money like that

I think I am more lovely now, I said something to my brother and it was like it was more effective like I was a more positive influence

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    #25007579 - 02/20/18 09:36 AM (6 years, 1 month ago)

You're using hula hoops?


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    #25007625 - 02/20/18 09:54 AM (6 years, 1 month ago)

Quote:

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do you accept bitcoin?



Shitcoin is on a collision course and a wolf in sheep's clothing.
A ledger conveniently records all whom are involved.

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    #25007662 - 02/20/18 10:11 AM (6 years, 1 month ago)

no but that makes sense.

the post just gave me a push

and it was just about fortune cookie, I just thought like I had leveled up but it was gradual


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    #25007958 - 02/20/18 12:31 PM (6 years, 1 month ago)

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Quote:

redgreenvines said:
do you accept bitcoin?



Shitcoin is on a collision course and a wolf in sheep's clothing.
A ledger conveniently records all whom are involved.



{image too big to quote but cute}
well then you have to share your opinions for free like the rest of us here.

Quote:

Ferdinando said:
no but that makes sense.
the post just gave me a push
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you get good pushes all the time now!


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    #25008050 - 02/20/18 01:01 PM (6 years, 1 month ago)

from myself or others?


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    #25008237 - 02/20/18 02:07 PM (6 years, 1 month ago)

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Re: What % of things are under your control...? [Re: redgreenvines]
    #25008984 - 02/20/18 06:48 PM (6 years, 1 month ago)

Well I think telling the truth is under your control..

And by this I mean being honest..

But most don't speak honestly because there are some so called rules in society that say theyve commited a crime.. such as doing drugs for example..

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    #25009777 - 02/21/18 04:08 AM (6 years, 1 month ago)

I don't understand it then
maybe you were saying that my posts have good pushes
like that they move closer to work and such
it doesn't seem like that to me
my posts don
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Re: What % of things are under your control...? [Re: Ferdinando]
    #25009903 - 02/21/18 06:38 AM (6 years, 1 month ago)

rgv we have discussed me and psychedelics

how about I don't do any psychedelics and you let me know when (if) it's ok?

and which

for example if it's ok to do lsd later you can tell me I don't have the ability to know except I'm of the opinion that it's negative now

and can you let me know when it's ok for me to do salvia
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    #25009990 - 02/21/18 07:39 AM (6 years, 1 month ago)

Ferdinando;
as I understand the situation, you have an enduring connection to psychedelia without need for psychedelic drugs of any kind.
besides that, I am not a doctor, or a buddha, and I cannot undertake the responsibility you would like to invest in me.
I think your interest in doing drugs is an echo from your past enthusiasm, from a time when drugs was the only thing that was great. You are past that now.


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    #25013333 - 02/22/18 01:51 PM (6 years, 1 month ago)

I understand and agree


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    #25013340 - 02/22/18 01:54 PM (6 years, 1 month ago)

I am having a great time

nature and meditation is great


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    #25013405 - 02/22/18 02:23 PM (6 years, 1 month ago)

I understand

I understand

redgreenvines, I have never thought that you have any responsible for me, you never had you never will have

I only wish you all the good possible and no negative

I recommend what you recommend and recommend against what you recommend against

I agree with everything you say

I recommend not the lazy approach not doing substances etc. and recommend against violence and substances etc.

it is like a painful ellusion that we are a person. we are bare existence. colors sounds etc.


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    #25013426 - 02/22/18 02:33 PM (6 years, 1 month ago)

yes, that is great, thanks,
also
we never know exactly what to do because the world is constantly changing, we keep figuring it out as we go.
strange,
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Re: What % of things are under your control...? [Re: redgreenvines]
    #25015089 - 02/23/18 02:42 AM (6 years, 1 month ago)

You have thoughts only when you don't know..

Or do you?

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    #25015173 - 02/23/18 05:05 AM (6 years, 1 month ago)

yes I am trying not to buy cigarettes

but I get that like trying to convince others that the world is positive I was doing that last night with my brother, just saying that we do things to make the world better and that like makes the experiences better.

at least I think I get it I think you were doing that.

I was just like you don't have to do that with me because I'm doing it myself but I don't know I am not supposed to teach you. it's fine. I just know you are a reeeeeally great guy, I used to think about you a lot, but to me you have mostly been an internet thing, like I was just reading posts so seeing the posts was pretty much all there was to it.

also like thinking things like that we are not ok is maybe because the world keeps changing we are ok with my new computer I seem to have figured it out, like that we are ok basically and also some other things, but the world keeps changing and we get illusions and I am reincarnated every night.

but we are ok and it's positive positive states because of activities that are good for us and meditation but I think I have lost track of it some illusion has come up and the world keeps changing and we change because of it.

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    #25015356 - 02/23/18 07:22 AM (6 years, 1 month ago)

ok I was not doing that maybe just like working with being lost.

just trying to get it to make sense to him (maybe the way it does to me)


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    #25016036 - 02/23/18 01:22 PM (6 years, 1 month ago)

you were just a person to me

but that is just something happening in my brain no need to talk about that, I just hate it when you critizise me it seems totally different from when the nurse and my mom critisize me but I get it (now)

somewhat

it is going in a good way with the world


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    #25016455 - 02/23/18 03:47 PM (6 years, 1 month ago)

have a good night, I have a cold.


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    #25017454 - 02/24/18 12:28 AM (6 years, 1 month ago)

Yeah I have a cold as well..

That's why i bought and took some cough medicine.. triple c's

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    #25017685 - 02/24/18 05:37 AM (6 years, 1 month ago)

i hope you are both feeling better!

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    #25017755 - 02/24/18 06:40 AM (6 years, 1 month ago)

great red

thanks

yeah it was a positive night

like in twin peaks where the person disappears in smoke in prison (like that kind of positive like the opposite of the difference between having disappeared and before that. like I got that view/truth(?) when I saw it.

I painted (a painting) today. I paint.

I used to be smartness crazy(?)


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    #25017758 - 02/24/18 06:44 AM (6 years, 1 month ago)

I haven't figured out if I became messed up from drugs
or if I became smartness crazy

drugs probably affected my dinking (thinking) negatively, like my philosophy or values. I probably became messed up.

I have found that meditation can work on one's values, maybe even the cycle of one's value (the cycle of one's values during one's time on earth).


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    #25018041 - 02/24/18 09:37 AM (6 years, 1 month ago)

pranayama yoga is an agent of balance (probably inner but probably outer too) and harmony

harmony is beautiful

it is almost very effective

it is not as good as meditation, maybe a little better than half as good

excercise, shower and meditation: "I'll bring your novel to gertrude stein" - midnight in paris


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    #25018203 - 02/24/18 10:38 AM (6 years, 1 month ago)

enjoy, good thinking, cold symptoms feeling better today,
no medicine (except ibuprophen/acetominophen last night.


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    #25018325 - 02/24/18 11:48 AM (6 years, 1 month ago)

it was like I was struck by a light because you were that big a light

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    #25018352 - 02/24/18 11:58 AM (6 years, 1 month ago)

I am skinny mental health wise

like how skinny my ex was, she had anorexia


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    #25020940 - 02/25/18 01:42 PM (6 years, 1 month ago)

your comments make me think of this song
and I have song cuties with it for the last 2 days since having lunch with my daughter at Fat Pascha's

and I don't mind if it just plays forever.

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My sweet Lord
Mm, my Lord
Mm, my Lord
I really want to see you
Really want to be with you
Really want to see you, Lord
But it takes so long, my Lord
My sweet Lord
Mm, my Lord
Mm, my Lord
I really want to know you
I really want to go with you
Really want to show you, Lord
That it won't take long, my Lord
(Hallelujah)
My sweet Lord
(Hallelujah)
My Lord
(Hallelujah)
My sweet Lord
(Hallelujah)
I really wanna see you
I really wanna see you
I really wanna see you Lord
I really wanna see you Lord
But it takes so long, my Lord
(Hallelujah)
My sweet Lord
(Hallelujah)
Mm, my Lord
(Hallelujah)
My my my Lord
(Hallelujah)
I really wanna know you
(Hallelujah)
I really wanna go with you
(Hallelujah)
I really wanna show you, Lord
That it won't take long, my Lord
(Hallelujah)
Mmm
(Hallelujah)
My sweet Lord
(Hallelujah)
My my Lord
(Hallelujah)
Mmm
My Lord
(Hare Krishna)
My my my Lord
(Hare Krishna)
My sweet Lord
(Krishna, Krishna)
Oohh
(Hare Hare)
Now I really wanna see you
(Hare Rama)
I really wanna be with you
(Hare Rama)
I really wanna see you Lord
But it takes so long, my Lord
(Hallelujah)
Mmmm
My Lord
(Hallelujah)
My my my Lord
(Hare Krishna)
My sweet Lord
(Hare Krishna)
My sweet Lord
(Krishna, Krishna)
My Lord
(Hare Hare)
Mmmm
(Gurur Brahma)
Mmmm
(Gurur Vishnu)
Mmmm
(Gurur Devo)
Mmmm
(Maheshwara)
My sweet Lord
(Gurur Sakshaat)
My sweet Lord
(Parabrahma)
My, my my Lord
(Tasmayi Shree)
My, my my my Lord
(Guruve Namah)
My sweet Lord
(Hare Rama)
(Hare Krishna)
My sweet Lord
(Hare Krishna)
My sweet Lord
(Krishna Krishna)
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Re: What % of things are under your control...? [Re: redgreenvines]
    #25022549 - 02/26/18 05:41 AM (6 years, 1 month ago)

beats strife


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Re: What % of things are under your control...? [Re: Ferdinando]
    #25022579 - 02/26/18 06:11 AM (6 years, 1 month ago)

if one sees the lord has one then reached one's full potential or is there no limit to that?

after, does one then just grow in how positive the state it?


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Re: What % of things are under your control...? [Re: Ferdinando]
    #25022581 - 02/26/18 06:15 AM (6 years, 1 month ago)

the song is sweetness, the singer shares that and is sweetness.


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Re: What % of things are under your control...? [Re: redgreenvines]
    #25022684 - 02/26/18 07:14 AM (6 years, 1 month ago)

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Re: What % of things are under your control...? [Re: Ferdinando]
    #25025482 - 02/27/18 04:37 AM (6 years, 1 month ago)

I just meditated a few minutes and then it was like I could make somer better decisions, but then it was rough.
it was like the meditation could make a big difference.


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Re: What % of things are under your control...? [Re: Ferdinando]
    #25025710 - 02/27/18 08:08 AM (6 years, 1 month ago)

meditation is an opportunity for cultivating bare awareness, i.e. being aware without feeding perceptions, just the bare sensing of mental objects, body, position, and breath.

bare awareness is extremely refreshing, but difficult if you don't at least try to practice sitting, but when you do get the hang of it you can do it anywhere, in any position.

it is never exactly the same.

anyway, yah,
when you practice bare awareness, adding nothing, and neither identifying nor resisting, it widens your ability to see things more clearly as they are (less wrapped up in conditioning or perceptions).


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Re: What % of things are under your control...? [Re: redgreenvines]
    #25025915 - 02/27/18 09:50 AM (6 years, 1 month ago)

yes and I don't think it's like there is a time after a certain amount of meditation where it's now I've made it

I think it can keep being beneficial

after 1200 hours of meditation approximately it is like your influence skyrockets with approximately 15 minutes of meditation


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Re: What % of things are under your control...? [Re: Ferdinando]
    #25026136 - 02/27/18 11:38 AM (6 years, 1 month ago)

it is almost incredible for mood

15 minutes is like a hit of acid

or 1/4


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Re: What % of things are under your control...? [Re: Ferdinando]
    #25026143 - 02/27/18 11:41 AM (6 years, 1 month ago)

how many hours had you meditated when you attained liberation?

I think I have meditated approximately 1200 hours

on a cushion and on sofa

I
bought a cushion
about half a year ago.

I have used it since. 40 minutes a day approximately.
sometimes more.

it is part of (the teaching of)  buddhism, that when liberation has been achieved there is no more to b e done.

before we know it we are 21

and we stay like that until we are 22 and it's not like that any more

you are not really a plant

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redgreenvines and I don't entertain absolutes

I am not really a stone

precious time

everywhere I look money


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Re: What % of things are under your control...? [Re: Ferdinando]
    #25026315 - 02/27/18 01:17 PM (6 years, 1 month ago)

I never claimed to achieve liberation (relief exists, but liberation - is it real?:shrug:),
Anyway, I do get bare attention frequently,
and yes, it is kinda like 1/4 hit,
but it fades as I get entangled with my baloney, which is mine, and it often pops back when not sitting cross-legged just as a normal way to be.

how many hours? hmmm...maybe 4000 actual lotus sitting hours (not all of it in bare attention, but working with mind does not always go how you want), but I am way way older than you so you have done more sitting in a short time to get yourself together, but also you did more total drugs in less time than me too.


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Re: What % of things are under your control...? [Re: redgreenvines]
    #25026357 - 02/27/18 01:42 PM (6 years, 1 month ago)

3/4 of my drug use was drug abuse

is there a way to like undo it or compensate for it?

like as if I filled a glass of water then emptying it?
like as if the water in the glass is screwed up ness and then like meditating it away or something like that


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Re: What % of things are under your control...? [Re: Ferdinando]
    #25026529 - 02/27/18 03:05 PM (6 years, 1 month ago)

time and positive action, you are doing the thing to do.


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Re: What % of things are under your control...? [Re: BrendanFlock]
    #25026792 - 02/27/18 05:19 PM (6 years, 1 month ago)

Well the obvious funny answer is: Knowing the percentage is not under my control.
Followed by wondering, is it under anybodies?
And lastly, is it even a meaningful question, since no one knows when they will die !!!!!

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Re: What % of things are under your control...? [Re: redgreenvines]
    #25027130 - 02/27/18 07:22 PM (6 years, 1 month ago)

Quote:

redgreenvines said:
meditation is an opportunity for cultivating bare awareness, i.e. being aware without feeding perceptions, just the bare sensing of mental objects, body, position, and breath.

bare awareness is extremely refreshing, but difficult if you don't at least try to practice sitting, but when you do get the hang of it you can do it anywhere, in any position.

it is never exactly the same.

anyway, yah,
when you practice bare awareness, adding nothing, and neither identifying nor resisting, it widens your ability to see things more clearly as they are (less wrapped up in conditioning or perceptions).




That makes sense, less wrapped up..

Slack, crap, wrap.. aggregates of our individual natures.. needing to know is awareness, and energy of a boundless continuum. Put a wall around that and we have Freemasonry.. coming back and forth..

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Re: What % of things are under your control...? [Re: BrendanFlock]
    #25027408 - 02/27/18 09:04 PM (6 years, 1 month ago)

awareness, consciousness, and ratiocination are all synonymous to the same mental processes that act within our brains and the activity of the world.

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Re: What % of things are under your control...? [Re: akira_akuma]
    #25027951 - 02/28/18 05:02 AM (6 years, 30 days ago)

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awareness, consciousness, and ratiocination are all synonymous to the same mental processes that act within our brains and the activity of the world.



when you are watching a movie or listening to music, your awareness is directed to those sources, your consciousness produces memories of that experience, ratiocination can engage but when it does you may lose the thread of what is happening.
after you have left the "theater" ratiocination is the opportunity for your consciousness to review and critique the entertainments.

each of these things are the result of a functioning brain but they are not each  the same function.


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Re: What % of things are under your control...? [Re: redgreenvines]
    #25028337 - 02/28/18 09:26 AM (6 years, 30 days ago)

that's actually true

I would say the reviewing and critiquing has potential or could make the state develop positively
even ad ininitum
if it was a never ending journey


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Re: What % of things are under your control...? [Re: Ferdinando]
    #25028450 - 02/28/18 10:11 AM (6 years, 30 days ago)

i am in bare awareness, right now, of my ratiocination being aware of my consciousness and visa versa.

:chakras:

PS: the emoticons are still fucking up?

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Re: What % of things are under your control...? [Re: akira_akuma]
    #25030661 - 03/01/18 12:04 AM (6 years, 29 days ago)

So your aware of what your attached to? In a budhhist sense..

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Re: What % of things are under your control...? [Re: sudly]
    #25031405 - 03/01/18 10:41 AM (6 years, 29 days ago)

If I found your hand growing in the wild from some alder chips I would eat it.

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Re: What % of things are under your control...? [Re: akira_akuma]
    #25031477 - 03/01/18 11:12 AM (6 years, 29 days ago)

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i am in bare awareness, right now, of my ratiocination being aware of my consciousness and visa versa.





Typing with bare attention is possible but what you are describing is a series of concept envelopes (which are mental objects) that contain other concept envelopes.

Bare attention, however, is more of an engagement mode for the mind than a container concept in the stream of consciousness. The pre-communication ritual such as what you described - thinking up something to write/say - is a different activity.

The beginnings of ratiocination, with bare attention, stall under the cultivated flood of body signals before establishing links or resolving as  containers for other mental objects.

if we discuss bare attention, we are discussing concepts and forming mental objects to represent the aspects of it.
Thinking about it (in a series of embedded envelopes or however) is not the same as doing it.


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Re: What % of things are under your control...? [Re: redgreenvines]
    #25031827 - 03/01/18 01:58 PM (6 years, 29 days ago)

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So your aware of what your attached to? In a budhhist sense..



yes.

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Quote:

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i am in bare awareness, right now, of my ratiocination being aware of my consciousness and visa versa.





Typing with bare attention is possible but what you are describing is a series of concept envelopes (which are mental objects) that contain other concept envelopes.

Bare attention, however, is more of an engagement mode for the mind than a container concept in the stream of consciousness. The pre-communication ritual such as what you described - thinking up something to write/say - is a different activity.

The beginnings of ratiocination, with bare attention, stall under the cultivated flood of body signals before establishing links or resolving as  containers for other mental objects.

if we discuss bare attention, we are discussing concepts and forming mental objects to represent the aspects of it.
Thinking about it (in a series of embedded envelopes or however) is not the same as doing it.



we're always doing it...we just aren't always enamored in it.

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    #25032139 - 03/01/18 03:16 PM (6 years, 29 days ago)

hey the pronoun is too vague
"we're always doing it...we just aren't always enamored in it. "
what is it? (ratiocination, mind, awareness, bare attention?)
what does enamored in it mean? (in love? with what? thinking?)


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Re: What % of things are under your control...? [Re: redgreenvines]
    #25032215 - 03/01/18 03:52 PM (6 years, 29 days ago)

True control starts in the mind.

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Re: What % of things are under your control...? [Re: redgreenvines]
    #25032404 - 03/01/18 10:23 PM (6 years, 29 days ago)

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hey the pronoun is too vague
"we're always doing it...we just aren't always enamored in it. "
what is it? (ratiocination, mind, awareness, bare attention?)
what does enamored in it mean? (in love? with what? thinking?)




http://www.dictionary.com/browse/enamored

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doing it.




"it" being "bare awareness".

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