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Jesus' offer of freedom of mind and soul 24/10/11(Fri)21:25 No. 21589 Board: /x/ [Reply]

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Virtues give freedom, sins enslave you to externals.

Let's take an example, let's say you are sitting on a park bench solving a math problem in your head, now your whole mind's desire and purpose in such a case is only to solve that math problem. Now let's say a person passes by and gives you the middle finger, if you become angry the math problem in your head is gone and now you are filled with anger towards that person, your original purpose is lost, you have become enslave to his actions. Now let's say an attractive woman passes by, if you give in to lust for that woman, again the math problem is lost from your mind and your mind is consumed by lust, you have become enslaved to that woman. If you are a materialist and an expensive car passes by, the math problem is again gone from your head and that car is on your mind even if it's just for a few seconds.

I think people here are smart enough to work out the other sins through that example, but there are 2 sins that can't be seen through that example: pride and vanity. Vanity is easy to understand, a vain person thinks he/she is better than others or the best. Now those 2 terms "better" and "best" are both comparison terms, and comparison by its definition means your being of beings is defined by other people around you, so it is obvious slavery. With pride, if you are proud of your math skills, you won't be able to kick math away like it's nothing if let's say you get interested in cooking in the future. Now cooking might be the love of your life, but since you were proud of your math skills in the past it will hinder your switching completely to cooking in the future, some might even reject cooking completely due to previous pride destroying their own quality of life. So pride in something now kills your free movement and options in the future, only humility can provide you such freedom.

The ultimate end of every other virtue is to bring you to a place where you can love anyone and everyone around you, love is the ultimate virtue! God Himself is love (1 John 4:, 1 John 4:16), so when you love someone (and this includes fatherly/motherly love, brotherly/sisterly love, and friendship), your mind and soul open up to the infinite consciousness of God. God Himself is The infinite reality! So when you love, your being has infinite options and is traveling through the infinite consciousness of God while loving each and everyone at every instant. Those other virtues will provide you freedom from the people and things around you, but only love will make you travel in the infinity of God giving you infinite options.

Now this might seem like a paradox, but if you do exactly the thing a person asks you to do out of love, you'll still be free and traveling in infinity (love includes every other virtue in itself, so freedom accompanies it). Obviously love doesn't sin or aid in Message too long. Click here to view the full text.

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26/06/11(Thu)08:07 No. 22106

>>22104
English is my second language, so I write down stuff based on the grammatical rules I was taught at school. The format you see my post in is completely a result of that.

But being treated like a soul less AI almost feels like an insult even a humiliation to me lol.

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26/06/11(Thu)09:29 No. 22107

>>22106
I'm glad you feel humiliated

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26/06/11(Thu)10:03 No. 22108

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>>22107
What wrong have I ever done to you? lol

my xmas outfit Femcock Enjoyer 22/12/01(Thu)04:57 No. 109267 Board: /di/ [Reply]

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Femcock Enjoyer 22/12/02(Fri)04:33 No. 109268

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Femcock Enjoyer 22/12/11(Sun)07:27 No. 109270

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Femcock Enjoyer 23/01/08(Sun)17:07 No. 109310

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Modern Mom 25/04/21(Mon)03:10 No. 4328 Board: /jew/ [Reply]

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People forget man, buying physical silver is a hedge against hyper inflation.

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Modern Mom 25/10/21(Tue)12:31 No. 4528

Buying physical metals is for retards. The mints don't sell it to you at spot price - you have to pay a markup.

Only countries buying literal ship loads of precious metals get it close to spot price.

While the metals may hold their value well compared to fiat currency, it could be years before your investment claws back the markup you paid.

Much better to financially expose yourself to precious metals by buying an ETF, or shares of mining companies.

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lil+Biggie 25/10/21(Tue)13:20 No. 4530

>>4528
Etfs no, mining shares yes

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Modern Mom 26/02/22(Sun)23:20 No. 4624

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>>4528
I'm not one of those kind of retards who shills gold only as the only real asset etc. but yeah you pay a premium and no it isn't always bad. Sometimes the premium is worth it. I had a couple of little bars (mostly for the cool factor of having shiny gold 1 oz bars) but it was like a 2% premium for a total of ~$2,200 each...

Anonymous 25/10/13(Mon)18:34 No. 16900 Board: /phi/ [Reply]

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Hello /phi/, I'm formerly natsoc, still red-pilled, and I'm also a therapist. I want to hear your thoughts on therapy and how we could improve it for you. You can do that in my survey:

https://tarleton.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0dixWdcJPSTKGua

^I know the link looks suspicious, but I'm not phishing. Let me know if there's anything I can do to prove that. Qualtrics is the survey service and Tarleton is my school.

As for this thread: Have you been in therapy? What was it like? I have some great memories on boards like this and I hope you're making some good memories here too.

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Anonymous 25/10/15(Wed)00:28 No. 16911

>>16906
>following a client indefinitely at the expense of your own self-care
That's what each therapist determines their comfort with. What boundaries you set is up to you. Some therapists who counsel suicidal clients give those clients their personal phone and say they can call them any time of the day or night, if their deescalation plan isn't working.
Ultimately, my aim is to be 100% attuned to a client for the 50 minutes we are together. I can take care of my needs once I'm off the clock.
>Sounds noble, I'm just wondering if it's actually how it goes and whether or not it's feasible
Much like enlightenment, deep empathy and unconditional positive regard is something to strive for. Its feasibility is always in question. How do we know if we've reached it?
>a person who has not yet given their own self proper care (because they just don't have it inside them) cannot really deeply care about someone else who is actually in much deeper shit and requires even more care, because it's just mechanically impossible
Yeah. A therapist has to get their own unfinished business in check first. That doesn't mean they have to resolve all of their issues, but they should not let that get in the way of their work with clients.
>Having went there for themselves, in their own case etc.
There are near death experiences, paranormal or spiritual experiences, and psychedelic experiences, all of which can produce a similar effect. Even with those, though, they don't lead to a perfect understanding of what a client is going through.
>And if the therapist doesn't deeply care, we'll obviously then there's no warmth and no deep empathy there anyway, even if they may pose as if they are there with them and keeping them company or holding their hand. It would be all just theatrics, even with the best of intentions in the conscious mind of the therapist.
That's why the third pillar is congruence (authenticity), next to empathy and unconditional positive regard. That's in the humanistic school anyway.
>You follow me, it's just, some of these things sound good, but our mechanically impossible.
True, I cannot be you or have a perfect understanding of you. It's mechanically impossible, so why does deep human connection feel so powerful?

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Anonymous 25/10/15(Wed)01:18 No. 16912

>How do we know if we've reached it?
Not something that's going to be simply measured and quantified. And it's not on or off either. But I'm just saying that not every client not every therapist is going to have the ability and the depth for. And that's a problem with let's call them the big clients.

>why does deep human connection feel so powerful?
Well, if it feels that way, it probably is, but my point wasn't that that's impossible, the point was that some people go into deep shit and may not be able to find their way out, but in order to help someone like that, you need to go into equally deep shit within yourself and just like very few go there, so very few clients go there and so very few therapists go there either, I would argue even less. Someone like jung was perhaps an exception.

All I'm saying is that even if you genuinely want to be there for that client there for 55 minutes or whatever, just because you want to, doesn't mean you can, and in particular you cannot when the client is in the kind of shit that you have neither heard of nor ever imagined. And you may not be even capable of imagining it or relating to it, because where you are and where the client is is just so far far apart.

And another point I was making is that if you are comfortable in this moment, you won't go into a very uncomfortable place just because you think you care about the client. Unless you already live in that place. And have already integrated that place. I don't know, I don't want to repeat myself, but yeah, good intentions here are not necessarily enough.

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Anonymous 25/10/16(Thu)20:16 No. 16915

>>16912
>just because you want to, doesn't mean you can
>where you are and where the client is is just so far far apart
Therein lies the question of if someone can ever truly get what you're feeling. There are, for sure, different depths of empathy and levels of connection. But I think it can take different forms, and even low levels can have power. A 5-year-old kid might not know what you're going through and decide to give you a rock he found. A cashier might smile at you and you might feel a connection, even if the only words she said to you were your total.
>And another point I was making is that if you are comfortable in this moment, you won't go into a very uncomfortable place just because you think you care about the client. Unless you already live in that place. And have already integrated that place.
>but yeah, good intentions here are not necessarily enough
How good, or should I say how responsible, are these intentions if the therapist prioritizes their own comfort over the discomfort of entering that space with the client?
Integration is important for sure. You mentioned Jung... shadow work has done a lot for me.

Loli b/a d/u 25/12/29(Mon)03:51 No. 3058 Board: /ai/ [Reply]

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Before and after or dressed undressed

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Loli+b/a+d/u 25/12/29(Mon)03:55 No. 3064

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Loli+b/a+d/u 25/12/29(Mon)03:55 No. 3065

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Loli+b/a+d/u 25/12/29(Mon)03:55 No. 3066

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José Saramago 19/08/03(Sat)16:47 No. 18003 Board: /lit/ [Reply]

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What do you think of José Saramago? I read 'The Elephant's Journey' and thought it was good. His style really drew me in and was very clever. Curious to know if anyone has read any of his other works and what they thought of them.

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19/09/05(Thu)00:12 No. 18021

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I'm probably about to start writing a thesis on his work in the next few months, I've read most of his work and over the next 9 months, I'll probably have read all of it. I think from that it's pretty obvious what I think of him. What do you wanna know? I'll try to answer as best I can

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26/03/15(Sun)00:28 No. 19074

I was wondering if you had read Blindness and if you thought it makes sense stylistically