u/Southern_Yesterday57

I have sentinelone running on a work computer, and one night, when trying to transfer a ton of files onto a network drive using robocopy, I got the message “This device has been isolated due to suspicious activity! (Or malware, can’t remember)”

There no malware, so I’m guessing S1 freaked out and thought it was an attack of some sort, and isolated me as well as cut off all network access. Ethernet and WiFi don’t work.

I called up our S1 vendor, but they couldn’t help because the PC is showing offline on their end (can’t communicate with it) and also, it shows no quarantine on their end.

So they gave me a bunch of commands to run with the agent passphrase.

I tried to unquarantine it, disable services, reload services, disable them in the registry, and even uninstall the agent but nothing worked. I did this in safe mode too but still no dice. The one thing I was able to do in safe mode was rename the folder to .old, but that didn’t disable services upon regular boot.

My vendor has escalated this to an S1 engineer, but he advised himself that we just run the commands that I’ve already previously run. I can’t even grab the logs manually to give to them because it won’t let me.

I am not interested in becoming a Buddhist, or in reincarnation etc, however, I have read that Buddhism has excellent psychology teachings, and can be great for anxiety, depression, fear, overthinking, rumination, etc and overall just great for peace.

As someone who is interested in learning these things only, where can I find a tailored guide?

We rely on scriptures to teach us how to please god and reach heaven.

This is (in most cases) bad, because it does a few things:

- Divides us into separate religions, based on scriptures (Christian, Muslim, etc)

- Makes us worship a book, not god.

- Takes away from genuine connection with god, and purpose given by god. When you go completely by the book, you stop feeling god. Instead of saying “I can feel it in my heart that god wants me to do this” it becomes “the book wants me to do this, so what I feel in my heart doesn’t matter”

- Makes you fear god. IE, “if I don’t do what the book says, I will be punished” whereas without a book, you learn to love, appreciate, and follow god because you respect him and want to do right by him because you love him, not because you fear punishment. You should feel unconditional love, patience, and support from god, not worry if you screw up.

- Trains you to be in-genuine, meaning, if the scripture tells you that you must help others, and you will more likely reach heaven if you help others, you are performing acts of kindness but they are not genuine. It’s better to want to help others, because god has helped you, and you are so appreciative and full of life now that you simply have the will to pass it on to others and help them. You don’t think it makes you more likely to go to heaven, you trust god and know he will take care of your soul either way, but you help others anyway because you want to.

There are many atheists who have a moral compass, without believing in god. This moral compass is within the vast majority of us, and can be tapped into. You do not need scripture to figure out right from wrong, and to learn to do the right thing for yourself and others.

I believe it is far more beneficial to have spiritual leaders whom guide people towards personal growth, as well as a personal connection with god

With general push towards morality, no scripture, and a generic name for the higher power (god) there is the potential for one religion

I designed a daily ritualization routine using different methods like poses and chants to increase confidence and pro-social dominance.

I find it promising, but don’t have a psyche background, so if someone well-versed could take a look before I begin it, I would really appreciate it!

If anyone is interested in helping, I can send it. I don’t really want it to be public.

I have created a daily ritualization framework designed to increase pro-social dominance/confidence, as well as build agentic empowerment and identification.

It includes several poses that I have chosen, as well as "chants" in which you repeat while holding these poses.

My hope, is that repeating these several times per day will have benefit, but I would like someone with an actual psychology or psychiatry background to review and let me know their opinion.

Please let me know if you can help, and I would like to DM you the framework document/guide that I've made for myself.

For background, I grew up in a Christian household and never knew anything about Norse Paganism or paid any mind to it.

Growing up, I was sort of “agnostic” if you will. I always could feel in my bones that there was some sort of higher power(s), but never really was invested in religion, or the bible etc. It didn’t feel right to me to follow a set of specific rules. I kinda just felt like god wanted me to be a good person.

But, I never had any connection or relationship with him, or knew who he was.

Eventually, when I was 25-26 I started struggling with some really extreme anxiety, OCD, low self esteem, and agonizing back pain. The pain was so bad, that I would become dizzy and almost pass out multiple times throughout the day. I would struggle through work, just to make it home and lay on a heating or ice pack all night long, begging for some type of relief. Then I would go to sleep and start it all over again the next day.

The pain was ruining my life. I couldn’t think straight or enjoy any sort of activity whatsoever because I constantly felt like my spine was going to break. I went to multiple specialists, got a few different MRI’s, went to physical therapist after physical therapist, and chiropractors, and nobody knew what the problem was or what to do.

This went on for another few months and the pain was getting worse. I was afraid that eventually something in my back was going to snap, and on top of that I missed my life. I missed being able to wake up pain free and enjoy and love my life. I missed being able to enjoy activities and think straight and have a social life.

So, one time on the way home I decided to pray. I said “I don’t know who you are, or what religion you’re associated with, but I need you. I have fought and fought and fought, but I just can’t do it on my own. I need you, please help me”

After that, I heard crackling thunder and felt hands on my shoulders. It was extremely calming and made my body relax, and sent such warmth all throughout me.

And immediately after that, not only did I feel the utmost, undeniable presence of a god, but I was being given answers. Somehow, he was able to communicate with me and give me the answer that my back pain was being caused by my extreme anxiety and OCD. In short, he told me that if I wanted my back pain to go away, I needed to chill out and relax.

And it didn’t make sense at first, but I followed what he said to do and did my best to just let go and stop worrying and obsessing. And I wasn’t successful a lot. But every day that I was successful, was a day that I did not have screaming back pain.

Over the next few months, he stayed close to me and was always in my presence. I felt that he loved me very greatly and was not judging me. I worked hard to stave off my anxiety and be a calmer person, and as I made progress, I had less and less back pain. Along the way, I asked him who he was and he told me he is the thunder god, and that he would guide me. I knew that it was Thor.

A year from him coming into my life, my back pain was completely gone and my anxiety at the lowest it had been in years. But I was still confused, and I still came from a Christian family, so I kind of just went on to live my life after that.

But he was still there for another year after that. I still felt his presence and his love, and I still felt him pushing me in the right direction. He wanted me to self improve, and wanted to build me up into a strong and confident person. So I kept following his guidance.

Today, I am a much calmer, self-confident, grounded, and strong person than I was before he came into my life, and I still feel his presence with me. I still feel his love and I am extremely grateful for him. Whatever problems I run into in life, or any doubts I have, are softened by the fact that I know he has my back and is watching over me.

And now, I want to devote myself to him. I’ve decided to fully accept him, wear his hammer, and consider myself a pagan. I want to act with morality, and honor, and make him proud. I know that I will keep screwing up, as humans do, but I want to keep improving my character, and building myself up so that I may help others in the way that he has helped me.

The most impactful part of this entire thing, has been his love. Before him, I had never felt such a degree of unconditional love. I fucked up a lot over the course of this all. I made some really embarrassing, shitty mistakes. But I never felt him judging me when I did. I only felt him caring about me and I think single handedly, that had been the thing I’ve needed most. Just for somebody to truly care and truly love me and show me that I’m worthy of loving myself.

I love you Thor, thank you for being there and everything you’ve done for me. I know I’ve screwed up many times and acted out of selfishness, but I want to always learn from it and change myself for the better and make you proud. I will always follow you throughout the highs and lows of my life.

I made a post recently asking for advice on finding a tasteful Mjolnir. Some people suggested Etsy sellers to me, whereas others suggested I can have one made from a blacksmith.

I’ve found a blacksmith in my area that looks really good. I am thinking of having it made from iron, however, I am new to Paganism, so I don’t really have any idea what other details I would implement into this.

I want it to be very special, and symbolize my devotion to Thor. If anyone has any suggestions on anything I should have engraved into it (runes etc) as I’m a newcomer and really don’t know much, or at least if you could point me in the right direction to read myself and learn, I would greatly appreciate it