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[antiqueanimals]

Pointer

A Natural History of British and Foreign Quadrupeds. Written by James H. Fennell. 1843.

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[orrrganicgoosegoose]

“Whatever it is, it is here, it is now and it is you.“

-Swami Sarvapriyananda

[beesfairlyland]

The "I" Does Not Belong to You

Before you ask, "Who am I?" remember to Realise that you are not the I. The I that perceives is not you. In other words what you must do from now on, is when you refer to I, you're not talking about yourself. Can you remember that? Whenever you use the word "I" you want to catch yourself and say, "I is not me. Me is, Who am I?" Me is the question, "From what source does the I come?" But the I has absolutely nothing to do with you. If it has nothing to do with you, this means that you do not have to struggle to give it up. If the I really Belonged to you, you would have a fight on your hands. For you would be looking for all the ways to remove the I. But when you remember that the I does not belong to you, there's nothing to fight. You simply realise you are not I. Then, "Who am I?" If you practice this in the way I've just outlined, when you say, "Who am I?" You will have a completely new revelation. You do not say "Who am I?" until the very end. Until you come to realisation that the I is not me. Therefore, everything that's attached to the I is not me. My problems, my house, my family, my birth, all attached to the I. And since the I does not exist, nothing exits. If nothing exists, then who am I?

-silence of the heart (Robert adams)

[aibouart]

And the holidays ones I did a while ago, also! (They're F2U Cursors!)

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As always, you can see the full listing that's also being updated w new ones not shown here (when i do more) along w the .gif and .ani files: https://toyhou.se/22802456.assorted-pokemon-cursors

They are F2U for personal use or coding. Please see the link for full rules + a how to make your own tab~

[dogpapersnippets]

Litter siblings linebred on Wodan Elisabethøhe (german pointers) published 1945

[mysticsiddhi]

I hope you are well, I have a question that I am very curious about, have you ever experienced an existential crisis on this journey, because I do? Does it bother you that we live in such a random universe? If I am God and my eternal consciousness, why don't I remember the time before birth? Why don't I know what happens after death? Knowing these may be possible with future change. Thanks to the change, I was able to go so deep into consciousness that I was able to recognize Neville who said we are gods, but if I had never started this journey and continued to live like an ordinary person, these questions would have been answered. always remains secret. What if I had never known this journey, how would I know that I was God? can i know? If I'm God, why don't I know everything? And the biggest thing for me will probably be this question: What if I never learned this? What could happen? There is such a possibility. These are just some of the things that bother me. Maybe there are other things that bother you existentially. How did you overcome these or do you know the answers to these questions?

Oh, my first ask! Happiness!

Existential crisis is a part of the natural human condition. I find as I understand the human condition, I understand there is little to no crisis of this nature. The person is a tool of exploration, it is naturally curious, it will always question things, like a child. It's you/awareness who must look at it with understanding and love, like a good parent would.

The universe, of course, is not random. Acausal, yes, but never random. It is only apparent and appears random to 'you' due to our limited understanding and perception of the underlying order.

Memory before birth and knowledge after death are experiential matters. The person cannot know these things intellectually, and as long as you bind yourself to this awareness "I am a person, I live this one life," it will not be essential for you to know.

That calling itself 'You' is only a part of divine consciousness. While you are essentially divine, you bind yourself to that awareness I just mentioned, "I am a person, living in a world." The concept of divinty is not about omniscience in the human sense, as it is actually beyond all definitions completely. The actual problem with 'omniscience' is that /as humans/, we follow our finite minds and perspectives, and our understanding is always evolving. The pursuit of knowledge for the human is a journey, never a destination.

I feel the person's greatest blessing and curse, is the drive and ability to consume and know things. If you want to remember this 'time before birth' it will find millions of scenarios to reason to you. Same with 'what happens after death. We are already 'omniscience', idolizing a peak of ourselves that we like to put out of our reach by knowing ourselves to be a person.

So if you never knew this journey, you would simply follow the directive, "I am a person, living in a world," that alone is a great honor. They would not be secret as they never were. I will tell you now, that absolutely nothing came before birth or after death, none but your own imagination. It's just that they are imaginary, but the person may not be satisfied with that!

The fact that you have discovered these teachings is the grace of the divine (Ishvara) and the result of your own karma. For the 'how,' which you will soon stop asking of yourself if you don't want to overconsume anymore:

For your fears of the unknown, learn to leave the memories and expectations of your thoughts alone, come to the present moment, be established in the knowledge of the eternal self.

If you want to 'educate' the person, then you must 'show' them, what they are and what you are not. I did this through self-inquiry and neti-neti. For simplicity; "If I am not this person having this crisis, who am I?" pause and study that pause of silence. That is the answer, and it reveals itself to you in time.

The ultimate knowledge I can give you, then, is to unlearn all the things your think you are, and have humility and acceptance of the mystery of existence. Let it show you directly.

[m0tiv8me]

I could use some suggestions on how to congratulate or compliment women on here on their personal health and fitness journeys.

Hopefully get some pointers from my female followers. I struggle with giving out a compliment for fear it may be taken the wrong way. I guy telling a girl “you look great” is so often taken in a sexualized context and puts peoples guard up. And rightfully so because there is plenty of unwarranted and uninvited sexualization of women on social media.

But it’s not always the intent and certainly not mine. It’s simply a compliment, meant to instill confidence and congratulate someone on their hard work. If I tell another guy he’s looking great or wow great work that’s all I mean by it and typically that’s how it is taken. Men’s complimenting women or vice versa isn’t always sexually motivated.

So what’s a good way to compliment a woman’s hard work without coming across as some sort of advance or sending the wrong message? 🤔

[nyxcreate]

pointer

I don’t speak on non dualism much, I have really been taking the time to ponder on pointers myself. So if my wording seems off please feel free to correct me on it! I don’t want to confuse people more than they already are.

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what is happening in the current moment?

What can you see in your environment, hear, taste, smell and touch? What can you feel? What thoughts and images are popping up in what you call, your mind?

Now that you have identified it….

what if i told you that it’s not actually happening? They are present; yes they are. But it’s not happening.

you might not want to accept it, you might even think “it’s definitely happening.”

and that’s a totally valid feeling. You are not crazy for thinking it is real.

But I want you to also realize,

even this feeling and thought of not wanting to accept that it is all an illusion, is illusionary.

There is no one who is actually thinking this or feeling this. Yes there is this thought present, but it is just that. Thinking is happening on its own but there is no thinker. You are just identifying with these thoughts.

In truth, even your identification with these thoughts is not real. It is present, yes it is. But it is also illusionary. It is not a thought that you have to claim to be yours.

[cerulity]

hmmmm

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then can i

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[yesterdays-xkcd]

Every computer, at the unreachable memory address 0x-1, stores a secret. I found it, and it is that all humans ar—SEGMENTATION FAULT.

Pointers [Explained]

Transcript Under the Cut

[Cueball is playing a video game, with Black Hat standing behind him.] Cueball: Man, I suck at this game. Can you give me a few pointers? Black Hat: 0x3A28213A 0x6339392C, 0x7363682E. Cueball: I hate you.

[autisticrustacean]

How I comprehend pointers (in rust)

the main pointer types are:

&T

&mut T

Box<T>

they each have different properties;

&T can read T, but the compiler (borrow checker) statically analyzes your code to make sure that no writes occur to the pointee while there is a reference to it.

&mut T allows mutability, though only by it, and the compiler makes sure nothing reads from T while there is a mutable reference, and that there is only one mutable reference to T at at time.

Box<T> is fairly different, to own a box to T is to own a T, it automatically drops T when it's dropped, and it always points to the heap.

one of the interesting parts is when you decouple these types from their behavior (I comprehend types as pairings of data and behavior), their all the same, their a usize integer that points to a byte. there is no fundamental difference to what usize*, &T, &mut T, and Box<T> store. the difference is all in compiler checks and behavior, the Drop trait for Box<T> tells the computer to run drop on T, where as the other two just drop themselves.

Wide Pointers

there is another important component to pointers, 'metadata', as best as I can tell a pointer is equivalent to (usize, T::metadata), metadata coming from the (unstable) Pointee trait, and it's what makes a pointer wide or thin. Pointee is defines metadata as a type other than unit (()) for three types, slices ([T]), str, and dyn Trait. slices store the number of elements as usize, str does bytes, and dyn Trait stores another pointer to it's vtable.

for slices and str this allows the program to know how long the array at the end is, so that you can iterate til the end, and for bounds checking, as well as how &[T] can be obtained from [T][{Range}] and know where it's bounds are, the pointer points to the range's lower bound-th element (or the first element if it's not lower bounded), and the upper bound is stored in the metadata as the difference from the first element in the borrow. I don't really want to get into what vtable does here though.

Points to where though?

this is FAR beyond the scope of my knowledge here, so maximum 'grain of salt' here. I envision three spaces a pointer points to, I consider them large chunks of contiguous, but largely ineffable memory.

the Stack where your local variables and execution is

the Heap where larger or unsized data goes

the Binary where you're functions, vtables, and string literals are stored (that's why string literals are &'static str) everything here is unwritable and it holds the actual 'program' part of your program

*as I get to later, wide pointers are a bit more than a usize

[antiqueanimals]

Training at Hawkeye, Robert Abbett. Wildlife in North Carolina. November 1981.

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[jayther]

Presents for Biologists

Subtext: "A lot of these are actually non-venomous, but I can see which species you mistook them for. If you pause the crane for a sec I can give you some ID pointers for next time!"

[beesfairlyland]

I is Consciousness.

When you talk about yourself ....who you refer to? 

When you look at yourself, when you get up in the morning you become the witness of all your actions, you will notice that you revolve around three words: 'I', 'me', and 'mine'. 

What you mean by these words? Lemme guess.... you mean this body and mind. if you didn't you wouldn't be roaming here on tumblr in search of answers. You are not aware of what "I" really means. When we use "I" we refer to this pain body. We say, 

'I feel wonderful.'

'I feel sick.'

'I feel happy.'

I feel this, I feel that. We always revolve around those three words right? 

And this is what keeps us human, keeps us back from realisation. 

Fastest way to realisation is SELF-INQUIRY. Next time you say 'I feel sad.' ask yourself... who's feeling sad? Is this 'I' refers to the pain body or the God? If 'I' is God can God be sad? Can God feel stuck? That's blasphemy.

As you begin to Realise what this 'I' really means, you'll reach a higher state of consciousness. Catch yourself every moment. Inquire. Question. Don't get identified with this ego/mind/body for "I" is Consciousness. 

Inquire for the source of "I". Who am I? Where did I come from? Some of you must be thinking where did "i" come from, as a body. That's not what we mean. You have to find where "I" came from, not where you came from. Once you find where "I" came from you'll Realise that you never existed in the first place. "I"  can ONLY be experienced.

Enjoy the world but do not allow the world to tell you how things are. Afterall it's same as watching a movie. Keep your focus on "I".✨

[aibouart]

I completely forgot to post the Ice Types I did a while back for winter! They're F2U Cursors~

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As always, you can see the full listing that's also being updated w new ones not shown here (when i do more) along w the .gif and .ani files: https://toyhou.se/22802456.assorted-pokemon-cursors

They are F2U for personal use or coding. Please see the link for full rules + a how to make your own tab~

[dogpapersnippets]

Bodo v. d. Radbach (german pointer) published 1945