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> no body with magic abilities would choose to remain poor (unless there's some kind of curse or organization that would prevent them)
I don't know if there's any point trying to talk to you in specific after you said this. You seem obsessed with the material. Have you ever heard of monks taking vows of poverty or rich people giving away their assets because they have a religious insight? I suppose not.
Is this only a thing with money for you, or is abstinence from alcohol and drugs, or celibacy, also things that "no one with magical abilities would choose"? This may come as a shocking revelation to you in that case, but there are people who voluntarily give up these things.
>Why are they poor if they can alter the fabric of reality?
Practicing an ascetic lifestyle requires that you actually live that way. It's not just a word.
Here's an eye opening article for you:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asceticism
>Throughout all of time the shamans and mystics of various groups got special treatment and lived in luxury
I hate to be that guy, but… source?
>your life should be orderly and not full of struggle and inconvenience if you claim you have the ability to alter and affect reality itsel
Says who? Why?
How can you train yourself if you don't constantly increase the strain of the exercise? When you lift weights, to use a comparison, you keep increasing the weights you lift or you stop making progress. If your life doesn't contain any trouble, you aren't practicing, you're just living.
> I'm arguing they won't have the time to ATTAIN any abilities period
What do you mean by this? Are you talking about some hypothetical Chinese slave worker whose life was controlled 24/7 since a kid and as an adult they work 16h daily in the iphone factory?
>he very nature of their existence as a wage slave will make the concept of magic feel "childish" to them, and they'd actually feel embarrassed to even practice at all
>I don't think you get that the world is constantly beating down on peoples minds that they should give up on "childish things" like magic.
Sure, but why are we talking about this? This is part of the practice, being able to keep going despite being opposed and not validated by others. The mindless drones aren't going to practice, and this is irrelevant to whether you can do it or not. So don't compare yourself to them or think that if they can't do it, you shouldn't do it either.
>You are operating on full on slave mindset right now because you can't even conceive of someone using their free time for anything but work.
So what do you do with this "free time" then? If you don't work on yourself, it's pretty much wasted time. To avoid degeneracy like "free time" they have things like different "paths" to follow in zen and taoism etc.
The way of drinking tea. The way of shooting the bow. The way of the sword.
This is replacing the free time when you're just drinking and eating, going to whores and playing games. Because that's what "free time" is about. As long as you have this human body, you have the chance to practice spiritually, and you shouldn't waste a second on "free time" because you don't know how long you still stay on this Earth and have the chance to improve.
>waste 8+hours a day working a dead end job that barely pays
Then don't do that job? Choose one which is spiritually rewarding in terms of progress on your path. Reaching the top of the illuminati ladder shouldn't be a goal for you, and you implied it wasn't, yet you talk about "dead end jobs" as if it mattered what anyone else thinks of it or what hierarchical position you have.
>Being poor definitely isn't a sign of strength
Would you be able to survive if you had no assets? Maybe strength is to be able to live with no assets, free from the materialistic constraints?