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  2. All films are slowly coming to an end. Unless they're genuinely revolutionary, overtime they will more and more be phased out. The working class were hypnotised by the entertainment industry for generations. Now more and more of their fat assess will be at home, and will theoretically have more cognitive bandwidth to spare not only in the intake of ideas, but interpersonally. Films presented emotional aesthetics that could never be replicated in game aesthetics. This picture is now starting to change, and it very much seems like all the positives from every entertainment tech is via emergent behaviour converging on virtual reality. Virtual reality is also going to combine the meeting ground between people that films used to solve and the social distancing epidemic that has resulted from the tech gen, through interactive virtual environments, strictly social and game interactive. We already knew this decades ago, however this picture neatly describes the cultural transition we will go through that AI is going to add outgrowths to that we never fully anticipated. The grunge music of yesterday that solved teenage authoritarian exhaution, followed by gaming chatrooms that came a decade or so later, will be replaced by offline but re-routed local discussion servers in co-created AI VR environments between friends and online explorative environments that co-create amongst the demographics through both avenues. If one always wanted a girlfriend that enjoyed video games, chances are that this demographic is going to increase exponentially in the next few years. The yelling parents of yesterday at their kids for "playing too much video games and not spending time with the family", is now going to become a co-authored meeting ground with and without parents across many varied interpersonal dynamics and demograph niches.
  3. What do you mean, no? That's precisely the key to human evolutionary success: creating a mental model of the individual and the group that evolves over time. So, you do things like build a wall, worrying that in the future a group of bloodthirsty killers might come and impale your entire family. This worries you, and you build the wall; otherwise, you wouldn't
  4. Janet Mills was polling worse than Platner

  5. Boundaries

    Joseph Maynor replied to Jirh's topic in Dating, Sexuality, Relationships, Family

    Yes. These are the right questions to ask. This is the push back I expected.
  6. Damn, why I seem to keep having these commonalities with some of you "enlightened" people (quotation mark because its not always clear from my pov where someones at) but I have a obvious sense of self (albeit incredibly void at times, and subtle) every single second of every day all my life, pretty much. Yes. Not for once, ever, have I had that obvious non dual opening, at least what it seems from my experience. Just putting that out there, might expand on it some day somewhere. But yea, adding to the point I just made, I have thought also like you say there, if I remember correctly, it rings a bell in me, altough not so explicitly as the zooming thing I mentioned. The thing about thoughts tho, yes I experience that very clearly and have naturally reflected on it.
  7. Solipsism never denies the existence of an external world it’s completely contingent upon its existence.
  8. Nicely put. 0 with a plot twist ♾️
  9. Sentenced to eternal beauty.
  10. Nonduality isn't saying that there isn't apparent separation between physical objects like, humans, trees, and rocks. It's referring to the internal self illusions which seem to suffer psychologically. That which seems to suffer when it's called an ass hole or that which seems to suffer when it believes it's not good enough. There are not 2 of these, there's not even 1
  11. 👍 Entanglement.
  12. Haven’t seen that one before. Thanks for posting, it made perfect non-sense. Loved not-watching this.
  13. Today
  14. Well said.
  15. Yeah, the past projects itself into the future. "I experienced this, and so I will experience it again later". "I have a meeting scheduled for 6pm tomorrow, so I will experience a meeting tomorrow". The present thought "connects" the timeline together, so that you may perceive it and think about it. You can logically go through this as well. Without the present moment, you can't conceive of a future or a past. Time is a concept that depends on the existence of the present. Without the present, there is no perceivable timeline at all.
  16. The smell of death is not so sweet. And yet it’s the sweet spot.
  17. The future never happens. Looking, I can only reflect on what’s already happened creating the illusion of a past that I pull back into the ever present of existence.
  18. The coke example is a repetition of the same strawman argument that I responded to by saying permission is not promotion. You are equating the two again, even though they are completely different and their effects are completely different. No one is advocating that you should commit suicide. In fact, you are told to avoid it at all costs. But if you've exhausted all of your options, then suicide might be a possible solution. That's very different from marketing coke. You cannot compare the two. The permission is specified with rules and conditions, while marketing plays on your basic desires unconditionally. Interesting example. Reminds me of when "13 Reasons Why" first came out. I watched it and thought it was stupid as all the reasons were silly from my pov. Hannah had no real reason to commit suicide. All that's happened to her was high-school scandal and some light bullying. And yet she killed herself and recorded 13 reasons for why she did so. By your logic, Netflix is directly responsible for many suicides. Yet, the law gave Netflix the right to broadcast it even after it was sued for it. If you have a problem with the law, that's another story. Yes, I'm serious. I'll take that as you conceding. Message is not delivery. Someone can be bad at delivering a message. That doesn't make the message false or harmful, just the way it's delivered.
  19. You can hear the audience during the "satsangs" or whatever they're called asking the same questions over and over when the speaker already made it clear. It comes off as desperate, hence "ego".
  20. No method, no experience is necessary, Just love, that is enough. Know that everyone you speak to is Him, And being noble and gentlemanly becomes inevitable. Know that everything you see is Him, And respect becomes inevitable. Know that the past, the future, and the now are Him, And the shattering of the concept of time becomes inevitable. Know that every feeling is Him, And no longer clinging to feelings becomes inevitable. Know that every thought is Him, And there are no longer positive or negative thoughts. Know that any good or bad news yet to come is Him; Nothing that arrives or fails to arrive can affect you anymore. Thus, you are that very emptiness itself; Just loving unconditionally is enough.
  21. An automatic self-sustaining feedback loop. In the shape of a giant cosmic Y (0) U
  22. It's amazing because I came up with the exact same visual analogy, except I never thought about zooming into the middle line. That's creative. The way I saw it, is that it initially seems there are "two halves", but in truth each half is defined by the exact same middle boundary. So there aren't actually two halves independent from each other, they are both created by the same line. When you take the middle line away, both halves vanish, because they are a product of the same line. This is actually exactly how thought (the illusion of multiplicity) works. For example, "up" never exists without "down", and vice versa.
  23. I'm confused. I wonder if you've misinterpreted something I said because what I'm saying is very basic. Why does Coke pay Kim Kardashian 100k to sip on a Coke during her live stream? And why is it that the more influencers you get doing that, the more Cokes get sold? If you're trying to say something like "We can't prove that any one specific individual is drinking Coke because of Kim Kardashian's influence", then yeah, you're right, and I don't need to because that's not my claim. My claim is that the more influencers drink Coke, the more Cokes get sold. This is not up for debate. Now, swap out Cokes for permissive-suicide messaging. The more influencers offering those messages, the more suicides will occur. This is a provable fact in behavioral science literature. It has to do with your specific claim of "No one would even consider suicide unless they're going through unbearable suffering." And I gave you a specific example that makes the falsehood clear. I could provide many more examples. For instance, a man crushed by debt and worried about his family and so he offs himself so they can get the insurance money. Or he offs himself because the thought of being a failure seems unbearable because he doesn't yet know how to deal with the feeling of being a failure. Or how about Hitler, was he in unbearable suffering when he pulled the trigger? How about a 15 year old girl caught up social media and feeling like she's not beautiful and she's isolated and wants the suffering to stop. That's not unbearable, inescapable suffering. It's a hard time that she can make it through, and her environmental influences can either contribute to seeing her through or contribute to her ending it all. Obviously, there are different motives for suicide, but you're right that I'm specifically talking about suffering. But it seems you're collapsing or equivocating "objectively unbearable" and "subjectively unbearable". The majority I've been speaking of feel that it's "subjectively unbearable", as in, they can't imagine a way out. They're suffering from thoughts and feelings, not from truly unbearable, debilitating pain. These are exactly the types of people most susceptible to harm from suicide-permissive messaging and they can, and obviously ARE influenced all the time. Lol, you serious bro? I ain't even touchn' this one. See, this is why I've been confused this whole time. When you look at Leo's response there and call it terrible, as in "the messaging has a negative effect", you're AGREEING with me because you know that it's exactly what I've been calling it: common sense. That's what it is, and you just arrived at it without a study.
  24. Yea and it's logical too. When I was younger I thought of how if you draw a line in the middle of a paper, you could say the line is the boundary between the two halves, but then if you zoom in on the line, its broader so then the middle of it, is the boundary. And you can keep going forever, zooming in more and more, so I thought how it doesn't make sense there could be separation because where would exact boundary be. And that was just on logic level for me as I said.
  25. Platner isn't a DSA. He's a New Deal/pro-labor Democrat with Bill Clinton-like, Obama-like, or Trump-like charisma, but in the way of Teddy Roosevelt or FDR. Btw, dude. It isn't recent college grads disaffected by the 'American dream'. The working class and non-college workers feel betrayed over by the system. In fact, the working class folk and non-college workers are more anti-establishment/populist than college grads and post-grad people are. They, distrust corporations and hate rich people who come off as wealthy elite snobs. They want change with the system. How do you think Obama won in 2008 and in 2012? McCain was an old uninspiring GOP establishment who was tied to the unpopularity of the party in power (Bush and the Republicans) and how terrible the system was. Obama, is a truly one-in-a-generation charismatic candidate who inspired a bold liberal vision for country with Hope and Change. Mitt Romney was another uninspiring establishment GOP candidate tied to the unpopularity of the traditional Republicans and came off as an elitist wealthy financier/corporate oligarch who was for the status quo ante. Trump in 2016 and 2024, despite being born in raised in a super wealthy big business family and has always come off as "self-made billionaire businessman", unlike Romney, Trump was able to present himself as an outsider who's highly anti-establishment, alpha male, charismatic, and strong. People hate the fucking establishment and want bold change more than ever before without any identifying as a Democratic Socialist. Collins is one of the most status quo establishment Republicans with a terrible record of being pro-war while Platner is a patriotic military combat veteran who anti stupid fucking wars. Collins really sounds so out-of-touch, has no real charisma, seems out of element with the working class and rural America. Also, she's showing serious signs of cognitive or neurological decline including memory-related issues and essential tremor. Plus, this is the very first time that she'll be running for re-elaction during a year that's both very anti-Republican and doesn't have Trump or any GOP presidiential nominee on the ballot to help her with GOP voter turnout. Additionally, she has the worst approval rating she's ever had.
  26. Fable 5 --> creative uses: Jul 1st to July 2nd. Be sure to keep your own tabs concerning. https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1ukaogz/100_have_fable_5_do_this_with_your_coding/ https://www.theneuron.ai/explainer-articles/around-the-horn-digest-everything-that-happened-in-ai-today-thursday-july-2-2026/ https://bishrulhaq.com/posts/how-to-prompt-claude-fable-5-efficiently-a-practical-guide https://www.nxcode.io/resources/news/claude-fable-5-coding-agent-governance-2026 https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/198839 # Help make all AI open source.

  27. Boundaries

    Jirh replied to Jirh's topic in Dating, Sexuality, Relationships, Family

    @Joseph Maynor What do you mean? It's confusing to me. Because they could be coming from trauma, or misunderstanding, or pure malevolence, or maybe something else that I am not yet aware of. What would be the right action in each case? Would be delightful to discuss this deeply.
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