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Find something else to do with your time other than dumping your word salad and barely coherent criticisms here.

You've been trolling for weeks, which just invited more trolling, which has decreased moral.

I don't understand 20% of what you write most of the time and don't care enough to try. I stopped reading several posters for that exact reason years ago.

If you can't make it even a little coherent you're just trying to confuse people.


Go talk to yourself in the mirror. He's the only one you care to listen to .

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When in doubt. Deflect. Could you define trolling?

I don't believe I'm trolling. Unless trolling tends to the idea of questioning.

I haven't called you names or done anything more than ask about the information In question.

My questions are fairly simple, just inconvenient to the 'facts'.

Hmm. my flag is in canada? odd

You're a troll. A troll is a contrarian who isn't interested in having a real discussion, but rather just picking holes in other people's discussions in order to aggrandize or inflate themselves.

I would say that fits you to a T.

Episode 10 of season 11 of Kids Baking Championship, just dropped.

I'm about halfway through. Having a slice of banana bread I made yesterday with a cup of coffee.


Working on that crispy back fat Dion is so fond of.. /s

Ray Ray said that about you, not me. I never brought up the pictures you gave everyone access to.

I don't shame. I ASK QUESTIONS.

and occasionally hit the caps key.

There are no pictures of me online. The picture you're talking about was taken 13 years ago at a bridal shower. It was the one picture of me in my Photobucket account in 2012, and when he told me found it, I locked down my account.

There are no pictures I gave everyone access to. Now you're just going for a low blow and mixing in nonsense.


There are no images of me online less than 12 or 13 years old. Is that clear? Good.

That is your final post. I might change my mind in a month or so.

Have a good rest of your Winter.

Cheers.

Please talk to those around you IRL about your "gifts".

That is the major flag with me.

Cheers...can u remove me from the friends list?

There is this one episode of My Little Pony where Twilight Sparkle learns that her friend Pinkie Pie has the ability to sense certain things before they happen.

The whole episode is basically Twilight trying to disprove that Pinkie's Pinkie sense isn't real, or if it is real, is nothing supernatural.

At the end, she just gives up and accepts that it's real.

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While applying my makeup just now, my ear/head was doing that thing it does just before an earthquake or just after a Sun flare.

I believed enough in my own ability to make a call.

This was a pretty decent video on the topic. Even mentions prophetic dreams that come true which I was surprised was included.

For those of us where that has been a regular occurrence since childhood, nice to hear.


My advice going forward..don't berate or demean people who use their intuition successfully. It can cause a mental/spiritual/psychic handicap or cause the person to disregard their own inner-voice and replace with someone else's opinion.


This is not a prediction..it is making a note and then waiting to see the feedback. This time the feedback was accurate to what I thought it meant.

Testing, testing, testing, failing and succeeding is part of figuring out how this works.

Feb 4 2023



I believe in coincidences. I believe that correlation does NOT infer causation.

I believed enough in my own ability to make a call.

This is an interesting question. Having worked with schizophrenia-diagnosed patients in a mental health center, and having read philosophy books about positive ways of looking at schizophrenia, I considered it before.

“Schizophrenic” voices are inner voices in the sense that they are only being experienced subjectively, that is, in one person’s experience, whereas the person standing next to them cannot hear the voices.

However, that is a quality of all our thoughts. We can hear them; others cannot hear them.

At this point, it would be helpful to consider this: there seems to be some confusion in our mental health programs and institutions about the point of view that “if I am hearing voices then I might have schizophrenia.” Or a less strong claim: “if I am hearing voices that I do not identify as mine, then I might have schizophrenia.”

And yet, in our culture, we are hearing more and more references in popular song lyrics to the ‘voices in our heads.’ For example there’s a song by Bruno Mars called “Voices in my head.”

So there seems to be a growing awareness that we all have ‘voices in our heads.’

Then the question comes up: if we all have inner voices, do we all have schizophrenia?

If we are hearing our inner voices without identifying with them—that is, without saying “that’s me talking” or “these are my voices”—then other people might say we have schizophrenia. But that’s not necessarily true. A lady named Eleanor Longden gave a Ted talk about her experience being diagnosed with schizophrenia, which was a negative experience, for her. Later, she found relief when she was able to relate to her voices as aspects of her self, specifically her unresolved emotions.

“The most hostile and aggressive voices,” says Eleanor, “actually represented the parts of me that had been hurt the most profoundly. And as such, it was these voices that needed to be shown the most compassion and care.”

All of this ties into a theory I would put to you—a theory about schizophrenia. I say “theory” because it’s not confirmed by science but only makes sense in terms of the information presented here.

When someone meditates—when, for example, a monk/nun meditates—he/she hears all their inner voices, but there is no problem; there is no distress. What is characteristic of people diagnosed with schizophrenia, in the popular portrayal of them (the stereotype), is that they are in distress. They are having a distressing experience in relationship to the inner voices.

Then we can ask: what’s the difference between these two—the monk and the schizophrenia patient? The difference is where our identity rests. In the monk/meditator’s experience, there is a kind of stability in their identity, in their sense of “I,” from which they can relate to the inner voices. The inner voices may be unruly and chaotic, but, by contrast, there is a stability of identity that the meditator has found. We could say that stability of identity comes from being the watcher/witness of the inner voices. This is why the meditator can sit so calmly and quietly while all the voices talk.

By contrast, the one diagnosed with schizophrenia seems to not have this ‘stability of identity.’ Rather than having a foundation, something sturdy, from which they can relate to their inner voices, this person seems to be pulled in and out of the dialog of the inner voices; that is, they are distressed or disturbed by what the voices are saying, and having reactions to what the voices are saying. They do not necessarily feel identified with the voices—they do not feel “I am the one talking”—but they don’t necessarily ‘know who they are’ in a way that allows them to detach and watch the voices pass by.

Perhaps you see where this is going…. The schizophrenia-patient, the one in distress in relationship to their inner voices, is simply at a stage where they haven’t begun to relate to their inner voices from that stable identity of the watcher or witness of thoughts/voices. It’s “stable” because the watching/witnessing is an unchanging aspect of our experience; it’s always there. (By contrast, voices are always coming and going, appearing and disappearing.)

Also, going off of what Eleanor says in her talk, it seems to be that many people with schizophrenia have experienced trauma and pain in their life, to the point where they separate their identity from the inner voices (pain catalyzes a fragmentation of consciousness), but haven’t necessarily found that stable identity from which to relate to them, yet. This leads to the situation of being in distress. This is another factor.

In summary, people who have schizophrenia aren’t any different from everyone else—because everyone has voices—but they may have had more trauma, which led to dis-identifying from their inner voices, in a distressing way.

If someone has schizophrenia and they are in distress, they can probably find peace by changing their relationship with their inner voices, by being more of the calm watcher/witness. This seems to be what worked for Eleanor, too.

Personally, I have my own theories about this too.
You know that quote, "the mystic swims in the waters the schizophrenic drowns in"?

I think those born with certain sensitivities, that never find a means for handling them in a healthy way, psychologically or emotionally, manifest a pathologized form of a spiritual gift.

Society doesn't reward or help those who have natural sensitivities. Back in the hunter gatherer times, such people might be trained as shamans or seers, or have some sort of role or function in said society. Probably they would have had teachers, instruction, encouragement, boundaries for using that gift.

Today, it is almost impossible to find those who understand. I imagine a child who is more sensitive than their peers, met with skepticism from parents and friends and other adults. Then, typically when a mental illness manifests, there is a history of quite a bit of abuse. the gift becomes not only repressed and abandoned, but pathologized. spirit helpers become demons, the demons of both self and others...

seer, you've always done a particularly good job of maintaining balance, but you've seen several times I'd imagine, what happens to someone who loses their sense of balance completely.

It's a difficult world to be a part of sometimes.

I wish this world still felt a use for its shaman and seers, and perhaps we could have more that shined rather than went throughout life tortured by abilities they could not understand

That’s why I like it here. Not only the cover of benefit of the doubt but those who recognized their own abilities and challenges therein, would recognize it in me, and not feel so alone.

It’s the loneliness that is crushing but I’ve learned to enjoy and thrive in solitude. I enjoy talking to people as well but I don’t like being around a lot of people for very long.

I extend respect because I know everyone is fighting their own silent battles and I actively avoid adding to peoples woes.

I think that is where the role of clown comes in and comic relief delivered with perfect timing, can make everything feel a little brighter, but it is often the tragic part of the clown that makes them funny.

Dark humor is learned.


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I had a really weird interaction with someone, a little under a year ago I think.
They asked me,
"When is horror funny?"
and I said, "When you're on the inside" - as in, when you're in on the joke.

Someone also said this to me recently, which I was fairly impressed with,
"religion is for people who don't want to go to hell. spirituality is for people who have already been there"

One of the reasons I've harped on schizophrenia a bit today is I woke up to a conversation between my mom and my uncle about one of my cousins.

I don't know her terribly well, but supposedly she is having some manner of episode and they were discussing having her institutionalized in some way shape or form.

Supposedly she is certain she is being recorded, ect ect...

My extended family are basically strangers to me, and I hear about them mostly during crises like these


I wonder sometimes if I have been discussed this way between them




Do you ever talk to that cousin?

Sounds like a difficult situation all around.

Maybe she is. Are her webcams covered?


I haven't talked to her much at all since she was married and then later divorced. She did talk to my parents some months back and mentioned she doesn't hear from me.

It's a complaint I hear from many.

It doesn't help to complain about it, that I know for sure.

I extend respect because I know everyone is fighting their own silent battles and I actively avoid adding to peoples woes.

I think that is where the role of clown comes in and comic relief delivered with perfect timing, can make everything feel a little brighter, but it is often the tragic part of the clown that makes them funny.

Dark humor is learned.

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