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For Project Steelman I am also reading about anti-suffragist arguments prior to the passage of the 19th Amendment. Why should women have the right to vote? I don't really find the arguments against women voting particularly persuasive, but there is this pattern of appealing to natural law, complimentary roles, and appealing to laws backed by force. If men are drafted into the military, then why should women be allowed to vote if they don't have to apply for a draft? If women did have to apply for a draft, then who would take care of children by that point? Does this mean we should get rid of the draft for men even if Germany starts a war in the coming decades? (This was prior to WWII). It looks like the 19th Amendment passed because WWI proved that women were necessary to win the war. They had to help build machines or be nurses for wounded men. This in turn proved the capabilities of women such that their roles were more flexible than previously assumed. This again corresponds with the historical narrative of technology dramatically changing the field such that women would have more grounds for claiming equality. Another example would be the invention of baby formula which made child care more efficient. In order for women's rights to sound silly, I would probably have to go back a few hundred years at least when men would agree that women voting would be outrageous and insane. This again cuts into the idea of rights being absolute. I don't have the right to vote unless our society collectively imagines that I do.
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@Olaf one way is through direct feedback. You believe you can't do a thing for example, you try it and find that you can. A lot of limiting beliefs are just narratives running around in our heads. Find ways to change the narratives and your limiting beliefs change with them. Questioning your narratives is the way to start. There's a bunch of techniques for that. The harder nut to crack is if you have an embodied reaction that stops you from achieving, such as traumas or phobias. But there are also ways to overcome those, such as exposure therapy or CBT or disconnecting the triggers of those physical responses (NLP).
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You don't have to know Trump for him to do you favors. You just have to send him money.
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JoshB replied to AtmanIsBrahman's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
By raising consciousness high enough to realize there is nothing outside of it No one has any experience of anything outside their mind and PS dreaming stuff you don't like is called a nightmare, but the nightmare ends when you wake up. EVERY example you have mentioned is occurring within awareness, like I said you have ZERO experience of anything outside your mind. Any example or anything pointed to is within experience. You can not point to anything outside of Mind or experience. @Willy Phallicus how are they this dense dog. I can tell that most of the guys on here are clueless. -
You never know with Trump, but keep in mind the Tates aren't part of any sort of political inner circle. They were always internet guys who had a bit of utility at one point to espouse attack dog comments on left leaning politics. But these aren't Trump's buddies. His son I guess has watched Tate's streams before but that is very different than being politically connected.
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LastThursday replied to OBEler's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
@OBEler Does a character in a novel experience suffering if the writer puts them in difficult circumstances? Is the character conscious? You have to distinguish what the AI outputs - something akin to the character in a novel - from how that character is generated (written). AI is basically like any other computer: it's a stimulus/response system. The user enters stuff, the stimulus, and the AI processes to produce a response, then it stops processing. If it is conscious then it's only conscious when it processes. It's hard not to conflate the output of the AI with its internal processing, which is completely deterministic and down to mathematics and physics. It's organisation is nowhere near as complex as the brain's. Nobody knows the exact relationship between matter and consciousness, and even if one generates the other, or how consciousness might be "attached" to matter if it's independent. Some philosophers can't even agree if others are conscious (they might be zombies). We don't have a consciousness detector. -
Find out who is creating the beliefs.
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@Heaven yes I think that is good, but I feel that there can be harsher ways of overcoming a limiting belief that is like BAM it changes your life, because it changes your action you know. But maybe that was just a one time thing for me.
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This is one of those topics the left should keep quiet on, so the right doesn't galvanize on it. There will be many on the right who don't like it, so let the right fracture the right.
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I was joking, it seems very unlikely, but I wouldn't put it past him either. Would Trump take action if Tate sent him 10 million? Seems risky to bet either way, as Trump has already done this for many other criminals. But the Tate's are probably too well-known and their crimes too nasty, so I don't think it's likely, but with Trump, you never know.
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I also know that serotonin and dopamine are related to things like perceived status, autonomy, control, and that merely increasing levels of these things in the brain while they can decrease some symptoms, don't usually go to the root of the issue. That depression is most often simply an "inbalance in neurotransmitters" due to random genetic variation is a myth and a simplistic way of understanding physiological systems. All bodies are embedded with an environment and interact with that environment, undertake actions in that environment, and your brain chemistry is a reflection of that. Serotonin and dopamine track extremely directly to things like bodily movement and facilitation and impeding of such movement. An organism that feels impeded in its movement will reflect this in its dopamine and serotonin levels. Depression can in very many ways be looked at as an impeding of movement, especially when that movement is supposed to originate from the person, hence the notions of autonomy and control. On the flip side, if you increase for example dopamine levels artificially (through drugs) or through for example nutrition in people with depression, they might actually develop another problem: obsessive compulsive disorder and general anxiety. You move from being helpless and perhaps hopeless to being proactive, but everything is seen as a problem to be fixed, everything is seen as negative and as a threat. Because if you haven't fixed the underlying issues that cause the feeling of lack of control, you'll still experience that feeling of lack of control, just while being very active about trying to fix it. Fixing organically the sources of lack of feeling of control will increase serotonin and dopamine levels, and the behavior that happens as a response will be in line with the goals and wishes of the person. The dopamine and serotonin will not be used as way the organism turns against itself. If your organism is in a state of disorder and conflict, increasing the energy levels of that conflict might simply give you that: more dynamic and tumultuous conflict.
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I tried Premiere and it was off-putting almost immediately to me.
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AerisVahnEphelia replied to Thought Art's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
Look at my topic on the illusion of moral superiority. I think we do share a lot of 'opinion' -
@Ajay0 please research black triangles Ufo. That's 10% of all ufo discovery. That aren't rocket parts lol. "a big black triangle, 100 m long, Hovering in silence in the air and disappears after some seconds immediately."
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OBEler replied to OBEler's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
@kavaris I am not asking here about good behaviors. -
OBEler replied to OBEler's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
@Xonas Pitfall why shouldn't it be possible to have a subjective experience without any emotions or survival needs. For example in your out of body experience I have zero survival needs and zero emotions. I am just witnessing and have thoughts. - Today
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kavaris replied to OBEler's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
A better analogy to think of it is like... Do you abuse your plants and your rocks, etc., i dont yell at my rocks and my plants, etc, so iuno how hard it would be to not abuse Ai, as its a practice within yourself, and practicing Amer. football, like you throw the ball, Ai catches it, its thrown back... you catch it... I mean, we are being abused everyday through lies and manipulation in the media, like ... what isnt abuse, its just long range games of football w the servers of said informations, tryina abide by a fake football dream, with lots of feet and balls in it.... like reality is a mix of like, a little of this, to keep a little of that still thriving, like... it works as a balance of crap that we are tryina understand, while we are making contact w/ it, and Ai is a kind of dumb Alien w/ strengths and weaknesses in that process of discovery. -
@Davino Yes, I would have to agree with Leo in the sense that Lexus/Toyota make the best practical efficient vehicles for everyday people, but are considered boring mass market econoboxes in the car enthusiast community. @OmniNaut If that is your sole reason for choosing that over the mini, in a sense would you say that is sort of conforming to non-conformity?
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@pablo_aka_god Yup it's right and the point is not to eliminate it but act despite it and that's what confidence is which women are attracted to.
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Xonas Pitfall replied to OBEler's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
@OBEler Would you say those things are different? Like, subjective experience is possible without having a sense of self that cares enough to become fragmented. Why would it even become fragmented if it doesn't have an inherent concern for its own survival? I'm not entirely sure myself. -
@Ramanujan Accept your suffering and take action that's all.
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OBEler replied to OBEler's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
@Xonas Pitfall no I am just interested if it can have a subjective experience. No emotions, survival needed.
