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Every May 9th, Russia celebrates the end of World War 2 with a massive parade in the Red Square. Please read for context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victory_Day_(9_May) While there were no tanks this year, there was an interesting guest invited to this year's parade. Skip to 33:00 of the video below.
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I mean the known laws of physics is just the known laws of physics. If something appears to break those, that doesn't give much of a sign that it broke "the" laws of physics. And if the laws of physics is just reality and not some conceptual model or constraint we have defined, then I would say it was in line with the laws of physics. Everything would be in line with the laws of physics. But this is a categorical issue, not about probabilities. You would have to define more what you mean about the laws of physics if I were to start going into probabilities.
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Most discussions of personal values treat them as preferences: things you care about, goals you pursue, metrics you track. I want to propose something more unsettling. Your values don't just shape what you pursue. They determine what you can see about yourself. Most people operate through an implicit objective function; a set of dimensions along which they evaluate their own life. Am I successful? Am I happy? Am I in control? These aren't neutral questions. They're observation filters. Whatever is true about you but absent from your value architecture registers as noise, not signal. It doesn't exist, as far as your ego is concerned, until it becomes loud enough to be undeniable. This is the self-variety gap: the distance between the full dimensionality of your actual state and the dimensionality of the lens through which you observe it. The larger the gap, the more of yourself is invisible to you. And invisibility, over time, produces crises that feel sudden but were always already present, just below the threshold of what your values allowed you to perceive. The contemplative traditions have been pointing at this for a long time, in their own language. The dissolution of a fixed self-concept isn't just liberation from suffering, it's an expansion of observational dimensionality. When you stop collapsing yourself into a narrow narrative, more of what's actually happening can be registered. I've developed this into a more formal framework; drawing on control theory, Ashby's Law, and research from psychology and contemplative neuroscience, but the essential movement is simple: what you optimize for is what you can see, and what you can't see will eventually govern you. I'm curious how this resonates here. Leo talks often about the limits of conceptual frameworks and the necessity of direct experience. This is, in some ways, a formal account of why those limits exist structurally, not just philosophically. What dimensions of yourself became visible only when you loosened your grip on a particular value or identity?
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The vast majority of people that have this world view are hyper detail oriented, where they're epistemology is just what statistical scientists told them. I want to see how a statistical worldview functions in at least 5 different epistemic derivations.
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Girls love my autistic friend. They say that he is cute, funny and lovable. They want to date him, make sex with him and all that...
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BS. I have an autistic friend. He is beyond funny because he can turn his awkwardness into something funny.
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A macroscopic object suddenly spawns in your room out of thin air. For instance a chair or 10 million dollars or anything else. or maybe a better example that would be more applicable would be something like : there being 0 gravity (but just exclusively inside your room) for a duration of 10 minutes. But the difficulty to come up with an example that can tease out the relevant epistemic differences between the listed hypotheses is sort of part of the problem I want to highlight. It seems to be the case, that even in the context of a random event that violates the laws of physics - even in that context - we still have almost 0 epistemic tools at our disposal how to figure out which of the listed hypotheses is more likely to be true (especially if we cant assume anything specific about the desires or nature of the powerful agent).
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Common... no one thought this generation was good.. OOOOK 😂
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What the Human animal looks like.
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I actually have a hard time imagining an example of something breaking the known laws of physics in a way that relates to the listed hypotheses. Can you give me a concrete example?
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Pretty much useless in the domain of consciousness work. What matters is what the actual experiential interaction between the limited aspect of consciousness and its perceived subjective effect on consciousness.
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Sure. Science is always useful, but always impeded by misinterpretations of it, which is what spawns materialism.
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No1Here2c replied to TruthFreedom's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Great Job I love this! Keep working towards Inner knowing! Become as the figure you have sketched -
Anger is as a direct result of ego. Anger would not arise without a self to defend. In complete selflessness what would there ever be to be upset about?
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@Joseph Maynor When do you perceive anger to arrive from sources outside the ego?
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@Lyubovagree with much of this. I'll add: Men are often socialised out of emotional connection, both with each other and with themselves. Stoicism, being strong, carrying burdens, being dependable for others; these are masculine ideals most men are exposed to from a young age. As children, boys and girls both experience the full gamut of emotion. Both seek comfort, reassurance, connection, and emotional attunement from parents and family. Culturally, women are generally encouraged to maintain and deepen emotional connection as they grow older, while many men are steered away from this. It can be discouraged in the face of the masculine ideals external to us. A lot of men learn that vulnerability risks shame, rejection, weakness, or social isolation. Emotional expression is then filtered, minimised, hidden. Over time, many are left without the kind of support networks that women are more often encouraged to build and maintain. I don’t think men necessarily have - more - emotional needs than women. I think many men simply have fewer socially acceptable outlets for those needs to be met. When in emotional pain, many men are carrying it with less support, less practice expressing it, and fewer people checking in on them. This circles right back to the male loneliness epidemic. And much of the toxic red pill idealogy recognises men's emotional needs - but fails to present a good solution.
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This is my main point overall, the grace people give him is actually insane. A lot of people in the uk talk about how could Jimmy Saville get away with what he did, this is how, people enabling it and not wanting to see what could be true. Another thing that struck me is MJ does definitely lie about things, he maybe deluded and not consciously do it I dont know. Hes claimed hes only ever had 1 nose job to help him breathe, I mean we dont have to do much research to refute that. He also claims hos kids are biologically his, despite the fact they are basically white and when you look at nieces and nephews who had a white parent, they are undeniably mixed with brown skin. Yet his fans comments about his kids are things like 'hes got Michael's smile' or 'she looks like her grandma'. Its like a massive psychosis. But what it tells you is even on these things MJ would lie and his fans would go along with it, the delusion extending to the potential abuse isn't that much of a stretch.
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Robert talks about his new book here - but this conversation was a good outline of his general view. It might help clear up some of the negativity around 48 laws of power. It supplies good context. I actually enjoyed this one from Huberman. I am, in general, not a fan. His new book sounds like it speaks to spiritual endeavours.
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Breakingthewall replied to Breakingthewall's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Probably this is the other side of the absolute, the purest, the unlimited without quality. For me it's always with quality, like the unlimited means all the qualities merged, the fact of being is affirmative, it's like brilliant, expansion, glory of being. But probably this could have a part of projection -
Breakingthewall replied to Breakingthewall's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
I believe it's not necessary to break down physically; it's enough to do it mentally. To truly live as if death or catastrophe (for example, a serious illness) could happen in a minute. Which is absolutely true. I didn't, I read some about Ramakrishna time ago and I didn't get it a lot but now thinking about it seems that he's the mystic that really understood the creative power, the positive affirmation that being implies, and the absolute beauty of the form. About Kali, destruction has something like erotic, but I'm the sense of totally giving yourself, like from destruction the new emerges, the pure being in a clean form forged in the pain and fight. Kali steps Shiva because from the absolute, the dance of form always arises, creation without limit, absolutely wild, without control, unfathomable depth from the unlimited vitality of the unlimited abyss manifest itself. Kali is the absolute mystery taking forms, dancing with itself staring you with the face of a demon that hides a god. -
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Breakingthewall replied to Loveeee's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
To break the shell of the ego, you need, let's say, a special configuration: a tendency toward openness, a desire for surrender, for dissolution, for being one with reality. Even so, it's difficult because the desire to be an individual is always strong. It's very difficult to stop being an individual and become the limitless because you are an individual who wants to be an individual. -
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Great Work.
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