The Arrow Is Already Inside You: Why Are You Asking Who Made It? In a Buddhist parable, a man wounded by a poisoned arrow refused treatment until he learned who fired it—their name, height, the bow's wood, and the feathers attached. While he demanded answers, the poison continued to spread. This story is about how we relate to pain. Someone betrays us, and we spend months asking: “Why did they do it?” We analyze…

Channel
4bidden knowledge
@forbiddenknowlage
On this record: Topic · Growth · Engagement · Reactions · Posts · Telegram's recommendations · Cite this entry
2,108subscribers
+100 since we began measuring on 19 September 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of 1,000–3,162.
Register entry
| Telegram ID | -1001598744509 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @forbiddenknowlage |
| Created | Between 1 August 2021 and 31 January 2023 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 19 September 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 3 November 2026 |
| Measurements held | 11 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 3 November 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/forbiddenknowlage |
Topic
Religion — a classification, not a measurement. An on-box language model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8, prompt version 1) read this channel’s own recent posts on 5 October 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 54% confidence. This is a model’s judgement about what the channel is likely to be about, not a fact this register measured the way a subscriber count or a view count is measured — it can be revised on a later pass, and it carries no weight anywhere else on this page. How this classification works, and the other topics.
Growth
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 3 Nov 2026, 09:46 | 2,108 | +7 |
| 31 Oct 2026, 01:19 | 2,101 | +6 |
| 27 Oct 2026, 16:39 | 2,095 | +9 |
| 24 Oct 2026, 05:47 | 2,086 | +8 |
| 21 Oct 2026, 01:57 | 2,078 | +8 |
| 17 Oct 2026, 21:39 | 2,070 | +2 |
| 15 Oct 2026, 01:35 | 2,068 | +9 |
| 12 Oct 2026, 01:18 | 2,059 | +21 |
| 5 Oct 2026, 03:00 | 2,038 | +16 |
| 26 Sept 2026, 15:19 | 2,022 | +14 |
| 19 Sept 2026, 15:22 | 2,008 | first reading |
Engagement
20 posts held, back to 25 August 2025 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 1 page of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 20 posts for this entry, the most recent from 19 September 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
Reaction mix
154 reactions across 17 posts, in 12 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 33.8% of them.
| Reaction | Count | Share | Share, drawn |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🥰 | 52 | 33.8% | |
| 💯 | 21 | 13.6% | |
| 👏 | 20 | 13.0% | |
| ❤🔥 | 19 | 12.3% | |
| ⚡ | 13 | 8.44% | |
| ☃ | 9 | 5.84% | |
| 👌 | 8 | 5.19% | |
| 💔 | 4 | 2.60% | |
| 🤝 | 3 | 1.95% | |
| 🍓 | 2 | 1.30% | |
| 🎉 | 2 | 1.30% | |
| 😁 | 1 | 0.649% |
No sentiment is inferred, and none should be read in. This table is ordered by count and by nothing else. Emoji do not carry stable meaning across languages or communities — 🙏 is thanks in one channel and mourning in another — so we publish which ones were pressed and how often, and pass no judgement on what an audience meant by them.
Precision. Telegram publishes reaction counts per emoji and short-forms each one — 4.34K, 1.2M — so any single kind at or above 1,000 reaches us at three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. The shares above are ratios of those figures and carry the same error. This is also why the total here can differ slightly from a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page: both are sums of the same rounded parts, taken over samples with different edges.
Coverage. Reactions were read on 17 of the 20 sampled posts in this sample. Summed by Telegram’s own count on each post — not by adding up the per-emoji breakdown above — those same posts carry 154 reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.
Measured over the 20 most recent posts we hold, published 25 August 2025 to 19 September 2026, using the newest reading held for each. Telegram Stars are excluded: they are a payment, not a reaction, and they have their own section.
Recent posts
DON’T BELIEVE YOURSELF AFTER MIDNIGHT 💭 At night, the mind becomes a terrible storyteller. One mistake turns into a ruined life. Someone’s silence feels like rejection. An uncertain future looks like a catastrophe. If you want to make an important decision, send an emotional message, or give up on yourself late at night, wait until morning. Say: “I will return to this thought after I sleep.” Not every thought de…
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"Why does love so often turn into pain?" Because we bring a beggar's bowl into love. We come to another person not to share — but to take. To fill the emptiness and cover the fear of loneliness 🤍 You say "I love you" — but you mean "I need you". You've turned a person into medicine. And people quickly get used to medicine — and start complaining about the dosage. Hence jealousy and demands. That's not love — that'…
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You constantly ask me about love and loneliness. But what you call "loneliness" is simply the pain of having no one to share your ego with. You are bored with yourself, and you look for the other to become your entertainment, your pill for emptiness. And then you call it "love." What an absurd bargain! Two empty people meet and hope that together they will become full. The result is only mutual demands: "Why aren't…
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We live in a culture that demands instant results ⏳ When you plant a seed in the ground, you do not dig it up every hour to check if it is growing. You water it, you give it sunshine, and then you leave it alone. 🪷 Life operates on its own silent schedule. True prayer is not begging the universe for favors; it is the total surrender of your control. Trusting means knowing that the mud is necessary for the lotus to …
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Trying to be someone else is the fastest way to lose yourself 🕊️ From an early age, society teaches you to copy models. You are told how to walk, how to succeed, and who to admire. But an imitation, no matter how perfect, is always dead. Nature never copies. A pine tree does not try to produce roses, and a mountain peak does not envy the valley. Everything exists in its own authentic nature. 🦅 When you stop trying…
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You are so afraid of making mistakes, as if life were an examination to be passed. 🔮 From childhood, you were taught that there is a right path and a wrong path. So you live in constant tension, carefully calculating every step, analyzing every choice. You turned existing into a strategy. 🗺️ But existence does not care about your scores. Life is not a classroom—it is a playground. 🌌 A mistake is not a failure; it i…
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https://youtu.be/HeHT8bEkmL0?si=TZMon0iRRYKcJvJ2
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Why You Must Disappoint People to Be Free https://youtu.be/JE3fB1OHIVI
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Showing the 12 most recent of 20 posts we hold for @forbiddenknowlage. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
Appears in Telegram’s recommendations for other channels
The reverse of the list above, and a different kind of signal. This does not require this channel to have ever been asked about directly — each row below is a channel we DID ask Telegram about, whose Telegram-generated list happened to include this one. A channel can appear here with an empty list above it, because being named by someone else’s query is independent of having been queried itself.
@ashtavakra046 · 47,259
Telegram ranks this channel #31 of 48 here — alongside 47 others — read 19 September 2026
This channel appears in 1 seed channel's Telegram-generated recommendation list in total. Each is Telegram’s list for THAT channel, not this one — see how this is measured.
Cite this entry
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 3 November 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“4bidden knowledge” (@forbiddenknowlage), 2,108 subscribers as measured 3 November 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/forbiddenknowlage.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.