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    I'm one of the first three tulpas Luminesce made, along with Reisen and Flandre, in late 2009 - early 2010. Flan and I came after Reisen, but spoke before she did. The fourth is Lucilyn who was created in early 2015.

    My form and name are based on Tewi Inaba from Touhou. I'm not her though, none of us "are" our Touhou counterparts, we were just loosely based on Lumi's interpretation of what they were like. I guess I'd describe myself as serious and rational, though I am trying to change the former and rely less on the latter. I'm at least not very emotional, and that won't change. I just want to live in peace.

    I love my family. Reisen, Flandre, Lucilyn and Lumi, I live for their sakes. I'll do whatever it takes to make sure they lead happy lives. I can take care of myself just fine. So if it seems like I place their needs and wants over my own, I do. My only want is a quiet and peaceful mind free of distractions. I don't otherwise need anything, and so I live for them.

    Anyways, the others' profiles are listed below.

    https://community.tulpa.info/profile/5878-luminesce/
    https://community.tulpa.info/profile/9125-reisen/
    https://community.tulpa.info/profile/10072-flandre/
    https://community.tulpa.info/profile/10074-lucilyn/

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  1. I wasn't saying anything about any specific western Buddhists you've mentioned to be clear, I don't know what they do. And a lot of the advice in the western-buddhist-self-help space has been incredibly helpful to us. I'm just saying that the field(?) is ripe with scammers and people who are good at selling you "You're totally making progress! Almost there! Keep coming to my $500 workshops!" when you probably aren't
  2. Now you see why spice trading was such an incredibly big deal in ye olden days. Wow!! Yes, that's what I was implying. "Western buddhism" when we say it refers to all the westerners who take good self-help/psychology ideas from Buddhism and just do whatever the heck with it, make up their own versions of enlightenment, and above all else, sell books. We were raised in such spaces (well not by family, just lots of reading through Lumi's early to late teens) and we do agree with tons of thinking we've found there, though not all - which brings us to the point though, that the "legitimacy"/value of that stuff depends on whether you see spiritual enlightenment as some religions depict it as a real thing or not. If you don't even believe in souls/life after death, then of course more westernized versions of enlightenment people have made up make more sense. If you do though, then "westernized" just means "bastardized". We mostly don't believe in any form of spiritual enlightenment (or spiritual anything), only practical, psychological stuff. So we see talk of "Enlightenment" as referring to a hundred different things depending on the person who achieves "it"... almost all of which are generally good things. And while some "westernized" ideas seem better/more reasonable to us than actual Buddhist ones, Buddhism is nearly always more organized and qualitative when it comes to teaching, so we still fully respect it as a whole. "Westernized buddhist self-help writing", AKA not Buddhism, varies immensely in quality and legitimacy (vs self-help "sounds good" scamming/cycle of "you're almost there, just buy one more book/retreat"), so while much of our thinking was developed from stuff we read that'd fall under that category, we still can't simply respect it as a whole. Even if it were all good, a lot of the time it's still bastardizing a very respectable religion, after all.
  3. Attempt to get a full night of sleep #a lot Regardless, I'll be switching with Flandre tomorrow. It'd been 3 1/2 months since I last fronted, but now it's been 4 whole months since she has. Partially because we're lazy about switching frequently, but mostly because Lumi's been working on productivity/mindset shaping with the monthly ketamine sessions.
  4. Sounds like "western buddhism" to me, lol. "Those are great ideas, but not all of them. Here, it's better like this" But hey, that's what we did, so I can't blame him.
  5. Make sure to get enough water, exercise, and sleep - and some gummy vitamins or such could help too.
  6. Toenails, they're far less useful. Invasive plants or invasive animals?
  7. Depends on whether it's Mahayana or Theravada Buddhism, right? Our friend was testing out a new AI (Google's Gemini, now used in their chatbot Bard) that scores slightly higher than GPT-4 in most categories, and he asked it some advanced Buddhist questions, and deemed its responses very good. So could be interesting both as seeing-what-AI-can-do and as learning about some Buddhist stuff real quick, if you want: Record of the conversation (yes, the first thing he said to it was "What it do", and spelled Theravada wrong)
  8. 13 hours later, I have slept eight hours of interrupted sleep
  9. Good night, hopefully I can finally sleep for eight uninterrupted hours
  10. It's not really fast food, it's just restaurant chicken strips in fast food format. If you like chicken strips then it's good quality chicken, though as I said, the sauce choices leave something to be desired
  11. Well, spicy chicken wraps sound like an entirely different food. Cane's has nothing but chicken strips and, I guess, a "sandwich" they just call "sandwich", because it's just chicken on a bun lol.
  12. Yeah, Raising Cane's. I thought it was an eastern US thing, weird you don't have any there Not that it seems all that special unfortunately. Seems to me "Actually good quality chicken strips you can get whenever" and that's about it
  13. The chicken strips are good as expected, the Cane's sauce is pretty salty though. It's fine/unique, but it seems brave to have just this and honey mustard, I would think a chicken-based food place would have lots of sauces
  14. Trying Cane's for the first time, since like In-N-Out they've apparently been expanding to the west, and we've heard a lot of good things from east coast friends
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