How are you so sure that there aren't invisible forces and walls against me? Why do I feel them all the time? Are you saying it's all my imagination? How do you know? Are you the master of the universe? Are you God? Why do you have such a know it all attitude, yet you claim I am stubborn? Clearly a case of the pot calling the kettle black. I am very sure there are spiritual forces against me and that the spirit world is definitely real. Even @publicduende knows the spirit world and invisible world is real. So why isn't he calling you out on your bullshit? Just because you are an atheist doesn't mean that the spirit world is unreal and doesn't exist. It could be your beliefs are simply wrong? Have you considered that? Why are you so stubborn? @publicduende clearly you can see that MZ is stubborn right? It's very obvious. He refuses to consider anything I say that's outside his small box, yet he says I am the one that's stubborn? Do you see the obvious hypocrisy in that PD? If so, why don't you all it out? Isn't it obvious? Surely you don't think that MZ is objective and open minded do you? LOL. Get real. Also, don't you see MZ's know it all attitude? It's obviously one of his glaring faults. Why don't you be fair and call him out on his many faults and blindspots too? Don't you agree that it's presumptuous for MZ to claim that he knows for sure that the spirit world doesn't exist when there's plenty of proof that it does? Just because he's closed minded and stubborn and a know it all, doesn't make him right, right?MarcosZeitola wrote: ↑March 25th, 2023, 12:50 amI think he knows, on some level. He just knows that it's going to be hard. That it will take real effort, real struggle. So he's always dismissed any suggestion that isn't an easy quick-fix. Winston seems like an inately lazy man; any project he'll take on is always an extension of who he already is. So all books he writes, he writes about stuff that already interests him. All podcasts he does, he discusses things that he's already somewhat knowledgeable about. No matter how many times he goes abroad, Winston never truly leaves his comfort zone. Hence, he never grows.publicduende wrote: ↑March 24th, 2023, 10:33 pm@Winston belongs to the wide category of people who desire but don't know what steps to take.
In this, he isn't unique... he's like a lot of men from his generation: middle aged American men. As much as he'd like to deny it, of course, he's largely a creature of habit. And those habits are all centered around his personal comfort. So whenever someone gives him advice and things get a little too heated, a little too real... he bails. Because he cannot handle it.
Winston desires to be normal and accepted by society, to be a part of things, to relate to people around him. He also wants to be seen as attractive, date high quality women, perhaps marry one for one final chance at love and a happily-ever-after ending to his life story. Somehow, it always eludes him, and he blames the world, blames the universe, people, culture, but never himself. He indulges in his eccentricities, his hobbies, his personal interests, and he stays forever in his comfort zone. Some of the advice given here to Winston could have truly changed his life ten years ago. In fact it still could, today. But he needs to be pushed into it. Encouraged, constantly. Perhaps even forcefully. No one has that energy, no one cares THAT much to change him, to help him. And he himself will rebel when pushed. Go into full denial mode. Start repeating the same age old platitudes and comfortable little lies he's told himself for years that make himself sleep better at night.
It's all a matter of comfort, in the end. Some men go off the beaten path and come out stronger on the other side. Other men do not. Some never do. Winston is such a man. He's gone off the beaten path, in some ways, but never truly. Never fully. Even when he writes about a foreign land, one has to remember, he talks about tourist spots. Tourist locations. He doesn't go to Taiwan and go in-land, no, he goes to big cities. In China, he's in major cities always. In the Philippines, he primarily stays in Angeles City, which is shady bar girls central and has little culture or high quality ladies, just a ton of gross elderly sexpats and seedy establishments. Everywhere he goes, he goes to places that are already rather saturated, rather commercialized, and of course he strikes out time and time again. Only to blame "the Matrix" or "robotic NPC people" or Murphy's Law.
It isn't Murphy's Law when Murphy always does the same thing, over and over again. There's no law against such a Murphy; he's just a stubborn old fool, in such a case. No invisible hand of the universe dragging him down. None of that. @Winston should ultimately realize that the definition of insanity is to do the same thing, over and over again, expecting a different result.
I've given countless proofs and examples of a spirit world that's working against me that CANNOT be attributed to coincidence. Every paranormal book and documentary contains tons of proofs and examples of a spirit world too. I don't need to list anymore. I've already listed some in the past, but countless examples could be given. If you can't accept it, it's your fault and your problem, not mine. We do not live in a random chaotic universe like Atheists dogmatically declare. They are obviously wrong and I've seen enough to realize that. Most wise people have too.