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  2. Communal living is how humans have survived for thousands of years, since before humans where recognizably sapien. It's the norm and it is social atomization that is the exception. Communal living is how humans survive in nature when they don't have a big government taking care of them. And it's clear atomization has certain issues and limitations that are dysfunctional, like increased loneliness, lack of purpose, poorer health and a society that is overall more fragile and dependent on institutional resources. Like when the housing market is in a bad place, it more readily stagnates and loses it's ability to give people dignified lives. In the middle-ages people had to be nearly completely self-sufficient with the exception of military, which was what the role of the king amounted to essentially (in simple terms). Middle-age people knew how to survive. And it absolutely is a matter of culture. Where did the notion that moving out or becoming completely financially self-sufficient are basic milestones of adulthood? Multi-generational homes are common in Italy and that is not a poor country. If there's no baseline appetite for valuing connection over independence, then the idea of multi-generational living becoming normative will never take off in a way that has cultural staying power. For a similar reason, you can't introduce western style feminism and democracy in the middle-east. Values determine what your willing to open your mind to, if at all. Survival ultimately decides what works and atomization is a survival strategy in a globalist economy. If the assumption that atomization is substantially dysfunctional then you'll see people opting into the alternative out of necessity, which is partially already the case right now in my opinion. Indians immigrants are a great example of a successful demographic which is strong in big part to strong family ties. That is a culture with family values (to borrow a historically misused term). Though granted it comes with downsides with pressures to conform. My vision of multi-generational living would minimize toxic conformity, but of course it is only realistically possible to maximally transcend conformity through autonomy. This whole thing is not meant for people who are trying to awaken.
  3. I did not say to skew anything. If falsehood is present it will get revealed naturally. But you need to seriously question what he says, not just hold him up as some flawless figure above you. I have seen many of Ralston's hardcore students and they clearly don't question him enough. They look up to him too much to question him. That is the trap you should watch out for.
  4. I am using a different, local site. I do mainly websites and programming. I've done copywriting and graphics in the past.
  5. @XXXXXX competitive gaming keeps you hyper focused, hyper aware, in flowstate. And you dont think about other stuff. You focus on whats happening at any given moment.
  6. Same way you know you're focusing on a meditation object while meditating. Yes, I try to do it. For example while responding to you I focus on each tap of the letters on my phone screen. If I'm not doing anything then I choose something like the breath. When I go somewhere I focus on the soles of my feet. Besides that I am meditating for two hours a day. While writing my attention got lost in thoughts. Distinguishing that is mindfulness. You can also stop during the day and focus on every little sound, sight, feeling, touch etc. - spatial awareness. But general mindfulness is more important.
  7. @Hojo Are you joking? Sorry idk you so I don't know if you are a troll or not.
  8. That pretty much skews the effort of listening from the start. To be clear, I didn't mean to imply that this is a competition between religions.
  9. @Michal__ Have you tried that? Sounds pretty hard to do that 24/7. What do you mean by "Focus on what you're doing mindfully", if I talk to somebody, how do I know if I did it mindfully or not?

  10. Conformity Examples Mega-Thread

    Husseinisdoingfine replied to Husseinisdoingfine's topic in Personal Development -- [Main]

    Here's an example of anti-conformity.

  11. Journey to €10.000 per month

    Fountainbleu replied to Butters's topic in Self-Actualization Journals

    Keep us posted on Bali 🙌
  12. Thanks for the reminder. What do you do on up work?
  13. Holly fuck I watched this and it was boring as shit. There must be a more exciting way to do it. Thanks for sharing though.
  14. @OdeBro I don't think you understand what it means to be not even a little bit neurodivergent. If you ask the average neurotypical what they do as a hobby they will say: "I don't really have any hobbies. Does meeting friends count as a hobby?". Some of them will say they watch/do sports and listen to music, but that's it.
  15. @UnbornTaoI think our ancestors did some demon worship and now we face the repercussions.
  16. We needed some comedic relief, thanks.
  17. Okay, it's not a belief then. To be clear, you're referring to the one where I laughed, right? I'll admit that was unfortunate and could have been phrased differently.
  18. There is 1 simple rule in life, dont trust old white men. White race is the most chaotic internally.
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  21. Listen well and you will realize he says falsehoods.
  22. True, but generally you need autonomy to not be subject to conformist pressure. Good luck breaking from religion on your parent's money.
  23. Is independence way to avoid conformity? If anything, I believe that living by yourself in America is the conformist take and that living intergenerationally is going against the post war norms of this country.
  24. And just the goddamn fact that they're allowed to be anonymous police. This dude should have been identified immediately he shot a dude on the ground 10 times - and 24 hours and we still don't know who the fuck it was? What the fuck man, that's unthinkable in Europe, to just hide your face and be anonymous. What the mother FUCK.
  25. I still absolutely loathe the fact that 100% of the people who would become an ICE agent are the exact people who wouldn't wear masks because "they couldn't breathe" during COVID. Like, that makes me fucking loathe America in such a unique way. No other country on Earth has such an enraging hypocrisy on the mask issue.
  26. @zazen How can chat gpt possibly know what Isreal does and dosent do? You think they feed their special hidden tactics into the algorithm? Christianity itself is a puppet religion of the jews.
  27. Competitive gaming.
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