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       How do I recover my Original Nobility?
       By: guest60 Date: August 21, 2021, 8:34 pm
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       I know that I had it once. I can vaguely remember that state of
       mind, but what was once a way I lived and felt, has become a
       (faint?) memory. I knew that I was losing something important as
       I was growing up, and that the other children around me were
       losing it too. I tried to protect it. However, nobody seems to
       remember but me. When I ask people if they remember what it was
       like to be a child, not to recall their childhood memories, but
       to remember what it was like to be a child, they don't seem to
       remember it in the way that I do.
       Is it even possible to recover it? Or does it die along with
       innocence? Why does it leave us?
       #Post#: 8212--------------------------------------------------
       Re: How do I recover my Original Nobility?
       By: 90sRetroFan Date: August 22, 2021, 12:15 am
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       "nobody seems to remember but me."
       Some of us here remember.
       "Why does it leave us?"
       We let it leave us in order to ease the stress of being
       surrounded by evil but lacking the power to destroy it. Just
       like our nerves desensitize over time if regularly subjected to
       pain.
       "Or does it die along with innocence?"
       No. Innocence is when we were unaware of evil and thus presumed
       the world is as we imagined it to be. Innocence disappears when
       we encounter evil, but this is when we face the choice of either
       losing Original Nobility (by accepting the evil) or retaining it
       (by refusing to accept the evil). Retaining Original Nobility
       would be easy if we had power, since why would we accept an evil
       when we can readily destroy it? What makes retaining Original
       Nobility hard is having no power. This is why societies in which
       children have no power are societies designed to crush Original
       Nobility.
       "Is it even possible to recover it?"
       It seems that different people can recover it to different
       degrees. The further back into your childhood you can remember
       to, the more of it should be recoverable.
       "How do I recover my Original Nobility?"
       Have you ever had dreams in which you return to a time in the
       past in such a way that for the duration of the dream you do not
       remember what has happened since that time? For example, if I
       dream about being back in 2019, for as long as the dream lasts I
       would not know anything about COVID. But for your objective we
       would need to go back not just a few years but probably decades.
       #Post#: 8215--------------------------------------------------
       Re: How do I recover my Original Nobility?
       By: guest60 Date: August 22, 2021, 10:06 am
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       "...when we encounter evil, but this is when we face the choice
       of either losing Original Nobility (by accepting the evil) or
       retaining it (by refusing to accept the evil). "
       When I was a child, maybe 3 or 4, I tried to run away from home
       after facing some kind of injustice (physical violence?) from my
       parents. I was seized and I think it was all downhill from
       there, but I actually made the choice to refuse the evil, and
       was probably manipulated in some manner to "choose" to stay from
       that point on. I kept growing up trying not to forget, and when
       I finally had the power to leave, I had already lost the very
       thing I waited so long to protect. Why does it have to play out
       like this?
       "Have you ever had dreams in which you return to a time in the
       past in such a way that for the duration of the dream you do not
       remember what has happened since that time?"
       I've had dreams where I am at a former job or place, or rarely
       in school again, and in those it's like I return to being a
       teenager. But, so what? Would you have to sit down and trace a
       thread of memories back to your earliest moments?
       Is there any relation to this pursuit of recovering Original
       Nobility and spiritual practice, after all? Take Zen Buddhism.
       Is a Satori  experience, in fact, a re-acquaintance with one's
       ON? Or are they two different things?
       Anyone reading this, please join the discussion and give your
       thoughts, or experiences. It seems nothing is more important
       than keeping what little we, as adults, have left, and
       recovering some of it, if possible.
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       Re: How do I recover my Original Nobility?
       By: bondburger Date: August 22, 2021, 11:07 am
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       long-time lurker with conflicted feelings here, but since you
       asked ;)
       90sRetroFan might be on to something when he said:
       >It seems that different people can recover it to different
       degrees. The further back into your childhood you can remember
       to, the more of it should be recoverable.
       I seem to remember further back than other people I speak to,
       who of course do not share my feelings about the world. I am
       confident that I still have memory of my 3rd birthday - and even
       the night before. I also remember the feelings of innocence very
       clearly (such as being horrified by the idea of scary films and
       tapes with 18+ stickers on). I know that we're not really
       supposed to hold memories back that far but they feel very very
       real to me.
       I've always been reminded of my Original Nobility by my parents,
       they like recalling the time when I was 4 and confronted another
       child much older than me for picking on someone else I didn't
       know - and how I was still furious about it for the whole day
       afterwards. That helps even though I don't remember those events
       well enough myself.
       I don't want to get too specific with the examples I remember,
       but there were quite a few incidents I remember where I'd argue
       with teachers in school for things I'd see as unfair. I remember
       those cases well.
       I'm sorry if this all sounds really self-congratulating from me
       - that is not the intention. I feel lucky to have had the right
       conditions to remember these feelings, which is the main reason
       I am conflicted about this forum (which really isn't so
       forgiving to those who don't feel this way). That's not meant to
       condemn this forum - I certainly wasn't very forgiving when I
       was little either!
       One last thing is probably spending time with children - whether
       that's as a job or whatever. I'd been living with young children
       throughout my time living with parents - so I never forgot about
       tantrums or how it feels to throw a tantrum. There is no
       reasoning toddlers out of tantrums - they won't accept evil and
       nor should we.
       #Post#: 8227--------------------------------------------------
       Re: How do I recover my Original Nobility?
       By: guest55 Date: August 22, 2021, 5:41 pm
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       I never stopped throwing "tantrums".  :) I also remember every
       time I was bullied or witnessed someone else get bullied. I used
       to fantasize often how I would catch up with those bullies again
       later in life and make them pay for what they did to others.
       When I was really young I used to fantasize about sneaking into
       my parents room while they were sleeping and smacking my
       step-father in the head with a frying pan as hard as I could for
       all the abuse I received from him. I regret not doing it.
       What's been odd for myself as of late is my growing nostalgia
       for certain smells. I think my favorite smell in this world is
       old, damp, concrete. The type you would find in a cellar or the
       basement of an old building. I cannot get enough of it! I also
       really like the smell of old stone and the dust that comes off
       of it. I used to explore old castle ruins a lot when I was
       younger and living in England and Germany. I'm thinking that
       perhaps this is where that nostalgia for those types of smells
       is coming from. Strange that it's coming back around this late
       in my life....
       #Post#: 8241--------------------------------------------------
       Re: How do I recover my Original Nobility?
       By: 90sRetroFan Date: August 23, 2021, 12:12 am
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       @DMAME
       "I kept growing up trying not to forget, and when I finally had
       the power to leave, I had already lost the very thing I waited
       so long to protect. Why does it have to play out like this?"
       I wouldn't say you have lost it completely. If you have, you
       would be talking about how you now realize it was a mistake to
       run away, and even thank your parents for stopping you. Instead,
       you at least still think highly of your attempt to run away
       (even though it was unsuccessful). All you seem to have lost,
       based on what you have written, is a clear memory of what caused
       you to run away and how you were manipulated to stay. Is this
       memory what you are trying to get back? If so, you can try using
       the method I outlined in my previous post.
       "I've had dreams where I am at a former job or place, or rarely
       in school again, and in those it's like I return to being a
       teenager. But, so what? Would you have to sit down and trace a
       thread of memories back to your earliest moments?"
       Yes. For example, if you want to remember what caused you to run
       away, you will need to go back to when you were 3 or 4 in the
       way I described.
       I personally find that if I spend the day experiencing something
       new, complicated or otherwise mentally demanding, I will usually
       dream of stuff related to what I did during the day. On the
       other hand, if I spend my day doing simple and familiar things
       only, it is much more likely that I can then dream back into the
       past. You can try to see if this is true for you also.
       This is another reason why Western civilization is the most
       inferior civilization in history: it forces us to have many more
       new experiences than any other civilization would have done. If
       Western civilization had never existed, we could spend our whole
       lives surrounded by roughly the same infrastructure and using
       roughly the same knowledge. As it is, new machines are
       constantly invented and integrated into infrastructure, which we
       have to learn to get used to over and over again just to get
       through the day, in the process of which our minds are actually
       being dragged further and further from the past.
       Here is a repost from the old forum of me talking about this
       same point:
       [quote]When I was a young child, I assumed that economy and
       infrastructure would remain roughly the same throughout my life,
       in other words that products/services in the future would be no
       different and no more than those in the present, and day-to-day
       activities would be done in much the same technical way when it
       came my turn to do them as when I was as a child observing older
       generations doing them. I of course was mistaken; today already
       there exist many new products/services absent during my
       childhood, and with this a new mode of everyday life that
       requires learning a whole new set of meaningless technical
       skills just to navigate (skills which will very soon become
       obsolete again with the arrival of the next wave of inventions
       that will require the learning of yet another, newer set of
       equally meaningless skills, ad infinitum). But I have also come
       to realize that my childhood assumption (which I am proud of for
       guiding me to this truth) would have been wholly accurate had I
       but been fortunate enough to live in more typical historical
       periods. Most people throughout most of history around the world
       took for granted the considerable aesthetic luxury of living
       from birth to death in an economy and in infrastructure which
       did not change all that much, and hence in a much less
       disorienting, much more regular material lifestyle compared to
       ours. It was Western civilization which denied me - denied all
       of us - this lifestyle. (The most I can do for myself nowadays
       is during my spare time to seek vicarious nostalgic comfort in
       old movies/TV shows that depict the economy and infrastructure
       back in my childhood years.)
       But children in a post-Western future could once again live
       their entire lives as their pure childhood imagination would
       spontaneously expect to live, namely in the much more
       aesthetically tranquil habitat of economic/infrastructural
       repose. OK, there may be the occasional one or two new items
       that get incorporated, but nothing that would change the whole
       rhythm of everyday life within anyone’s lifetime; the habitat in
       which they grow old would not be noticeably different from the
       habitat in which they spent their childhoods. Is this alone not
       worth destroying Western civilization for?[/quote]
       "Is there any relation to this pursuit of recovering Original
       Nobility and spiritual practice, after all? Take Zen Buddhism.
       Is a Satori experience, in fact, a re-acquaintance with one's
       ON? Or are they two different things?"
       If we believe whoever first coined the term was doing this, then
       yes. But we cannot be sure of this. The only thing I can say is
       that the ambient conditions which facilitate either seem to be
       similar (e.g. simple life, uneventful schedule, etc.). In other
       words, Western civilization is adversarial to both.
       [member=56]bondburger[/member]
       "I seem to remember further back than other people I speak to,
       who of course do not share my feelings about the world. I am
       confident that I still have memory of my 3rd birthday"
       The people you speak to do not represent a respectable standard.
       "I know that we're not really supposed to hold memories back
       that far"
       Supposed according to whom? Westerners? In ancient times, it was
       not uncommon for random people (not even necessarily ascetics)
       to remember past lives FFS! This is how much Western
       civilization has degraded spirituality.....
       "I certainly wasn't very forgiving when I was little either!"
       I hope you haven't become more forgiving now?
       [member=55]Mazda[/member]
       "nostalgia for certain smells"
       I quite like the smell of paper in old books/magazines.
       #Post#: 8399--------------------------------------------------
       Re: How do I recover my Original Nobility?
       By: Zea_mays Date: August 27, 2021, 5:28 pm
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       [quote]When I was a child, maybe 3 or 4, I tried to run away
       from home after facing some kind of injustice (physical
       violence?) from my parents. I was seized and I think it was all
       downhill from there, but I actually made the choice to refuse
       the evil, and was probably manipulated in some manner to
       "choose" to stay from that point on. I kept growing up trying
       not to forget, and when I finally had the power to leave, I had
       already lost the very thing I waited so long to protect. Why
       does it have to play out like this?[/quote]
       Have you ever tried writing down all the injustices you faced as
       a child in a notebook? I filled out a dozen pages in a single
       sitting, before I had to stop myself. In the end, I filled about
       2 dozen pages before I had to step away. I'm sure I could fill
       up many more if I resume... I had a very miserable childhood,
       but I was shocked at how quickly the pages filled up, and how
       distinctly all the memories seemed to come back. I distinctly
       remembered the fury and misery I felt in each of those
       situations.
       Also, try remembering any pledges or promises you made to
       yourself as a kid. Before I graduated highschool, I made myself
       swear that I would never forget the psychological torture I
       experienced there. I told myself that the evil I faced truly was
       as bad as I thought it was, and that I was not just an
       "overreacting child". I swore I would never become like my
       parents and all the other adults in the world who LAUGH AT and
       gaslight children when they complain about the misery school and
       parents inflict on them. Almost immediately after I graduated,
       the memories and pain began to fade--I saw how easy it is to
       simply block it out from my memory and forget. I saw how easy it
       was to become a callous adult. But I remember the promise I made
       and the things I told myself in that moment, and I know I can
       trust my past self's judgment about just how serious the evil I
       had to endure was.
       [quote]What's been odd for myself as of late is my growing
       nostalgia for certain smells.[/quote]
       If I'm not mistaken, scientific studies have shown that smell is
       one of the strongest triggers of memories. The smell of mulch on
       a playground, the smell of plastic or metal of toys we used to
       play with, the smell of your grandparent's perfume, etc. could
       all be useful for triggering memories of how we used to feel,
       even if we don't remember a specific situation.
       Rewatching things you may have been exposed to as a child could
       also work. For example, movies or music videos. Years ago,
       completely by chance, I stumbled across a music video and I got
       the weirdest feeling watching it. I then realized it was burned
       into my memory from childhood, but I had forgotten all about it
       because my parents had essentially forbidden it.
       Sharing my personal experience, I found that experiencing a work
       of art that had many nostalgic parallels with my own life was
       able to hit all the proper notes and unleashed all the emotions
       I had been forced to repress over the years. I never imagined
       that I would ever be able to feel even 1/10th of what I
       eventually recovered.
       I would caution against trying to trigger something like this
       though, unless you are in the position to really let the
       emotions flow over you and take full control. If you are having
       your breakthrough moment, but forcibly numb yourself because you
       value your performance at work or school more than becoming an
       emotional wreck and thoroughly processing your feelings, then
       you may never get a second chance to let your old self break
       through.
       And I doubt Western therapy methods would help with processing
       things, since the Western approach to a mental breakdown seems
       to be numbing the emotions with drugs and suppressing the
       emotions with psychological techniques, so you can become
       "functional" enough to get back to work or school. ...Rather
       than actually fully processing the reasons and meaning of the
       breakdown, however long it may take.
       [quote]I quite like the smell of paper in old
       books/magazines.[/quote]
       Yes! As a kid, I also enjoyed thinking about all the previous
       owners and readers of old books I owned or saw at the library.
       #Post#: 8880--------------------------------------------------
       Re: How do I recover my Original Nobility?
       By: guest62 Date: September 18, 2021, 7:07 pm
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       [quote]Is it even possible to recover it? Or does it die along
       with innocence? Why does it leave us?[/quote]
       I think it's partly due to puberty, at least that may be when
       the majority of us suffer from the loss. I felt many of my noble
       qualities begin to suffer at the onset. Part of me kept yearning
       to fit in, to copy the other students. I started becoming more
       aggressive and less mindful, unhappy with myself and nervous of
       what others thought of me.
       However, I've never lost my sense of justice, nor my
       imagination. My parents despaired because I 'throw tantrums'
       even as an adult, and I'm constantly day dreaming. How much we
       can recover is most likely down to genetics.
       #Post#: 8883--------------------------------------------------
       Re: How do I recover my Original Nobility?
       By: 90sRetroFan Date: September 18, 2021, 10:08 pm
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       "I think it's partly due to puberty, at least that may be when
       the majority of us suffer from the loss."
       For reference:
  HTML http://aryanism.net/blog/hashtali/the-ko-rule/comment-page-1/#comment-151417
       #Post#: 8907--------------------------------------------------
       Re: How do I recover my Original Nobility?
       By: SirGalahad Date: September 20, 2021, 8:11 pm
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       This is a small tangent, but I may as well contribute with an
       anecdote of my own. I'm the only male among my family members
       who isn't circumcised. Fortunately, I lucked out since the
       doctor that my mother trusted to do the procedure wasn't there
       at the time, and she forgot about it. Considering I have fallen
       victim to HBD and white nationalist propaganda in the past, I'm
       convinced that my narrow escape of my own circumcision, as well
       as other seemingly minor but (in actuality) traumatic events
       that most people deal with as a child, are what kept me from
       falling down completely into that abyss, or at the very least,
       to give myself some credit as far as my own will is concerned,
       from being stuck down there for even longer than I already was.
       If I had been forced to undergo the procedure, who knows how
       different I would have turned out. Either way, I'm glad I'm here
       with you all
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