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There is a method practiced by people in neville goddard sub and many loa forum called revision. Where they revise things happened in the past according to how they want it be played out. Gives them more power.
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I don't have an addiction to Instagram, but I do have a general addiction to the internet, so I can relate to the frustration. Usually, there is an underlying reason for that. For me, it's stress. Every time something stressful happens in my reality (death, war, tragedy, uncertainty, stress at work etc.), I feel the need to escape reality because I am so overwhelmed with anxiety. When I address the anxiety and consciously work on regulating it with the tools I have, I am well. But there are times when I am so overwhelmed by anxiety because reality is so painful that I forget to be conscious of it, and all I want is to forget reality. I guess it's a "better" addiction than heroin or fentanyl. Not that I normalize this.
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@Cred Thanks for your response. Clarified a lot, really. Can you elaborate on your alienation vs. dissonance model? It made sense to me. I think you clarified your use case quite clearly. I would like to ask—what are your expectations on this model? You do recognize the difficulty? I am extremely open minded and rarely shut down ideas as I may have tried to in this thread. That being said, I did not do that because I do not see the potential. I did it because that level of ‘productive extraction’ from criminals, pedos, etc. is extremely controversial and difficult to manage. What you suggest would be an extremely high level intelligent society I do not see happening anytime soon. So, I will retract my ‘warning’ from ‘dangerous’ or ‘concerning’ to ‘quite ambitious?’ Too ambitious? Help me understand. Thanks.
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Words Have they been interpreted correctly? Who knows? And from who's interpretation do we accept them to be true? It seems my understanding of interpretation is itself a winding thread of misinterpretation from which I have no ability to properly discern. My knowledge of Interpretation— this most fundamental feature of life, is itself wound up in the cognitive meat grinder which is herein possessed.
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The problem with words: Any fool can read them, but only the wise can understand them.
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Jodistrict replied to Husseinisdoingfine's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
According to one game theory analysis, Trump is going to eventually put ground troops in Iran. It seems plausible. Trump is reckless and desperate and Israeli will eventually trick him into it. Iran can’t be defeated by airpower. When this happens, everything changes. The troop numbers will quickly escalate and there will be a draft. This time next year, many on this forum could be fighting and dying in Iran. This generation is going to get an opportunity to see what the Vietnam war was all about and why it changed society forever. I also believe the reason Trump threatened to make Canada a 51st state was to give Canada heads-up that this time they won’t be allowed to accept draft dodgers. -
An apt title. Though first I must understand the hand from which it is written. As to why it writes what it does? I do not know. Why these words appear here? I do not understand. And so it is here that we shall embark... On the quest for understanding.
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Has nothing to do with the accuracy of my memories. This is irrelevant trivia.
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https://www.actualized.org/insights/owen-cook-is-a-gensis Owen is not perfect but at least he gave Leo a path.
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1. You're describing having a moral perspective on pedophilia, not merely being sexually attracted to children. Most pedophilies don't act it out because they know it's not morally or socially acceptable. 2. You're describing being in a relationship with a child, not merely being attracted to them sexually. This is like saying you're gay if you want to marry men but not sleep with them on a one night stand. In other words, most pedophiles are not amoral sociopaths, and most pedophiles are not in a relationship with a child (i.e. child molesters). You had bad luck running into this forum with all the (ex-) Mr. Girl fans. We know pedophilia inside and out 🙂 (but we're not pedophiles 🙂 ... but it's a spectrum anyway 🙂). You would actually benefit from watching Mr. Girl's discussions with Destiny from back in the day where they discuss psychology, relationships, mental illnesses, etc. I think it would get you to question your DSM-5-heavy framework. Mr. Girl is actually a genius (or that was at least my impression 5 or so years ago, and granted he has a mountainous "self", which is subtle but still massive when you spot it).
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Elliott replied to Husseinisdoingfine's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
I think the u.s. may be trying to exit. Perhaps Europe has mediated with Iran, that the u.s. will leave and they'll open the Strait. I can't imagine Iran will agree to ceasefire with Israel though. -
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This is the whole reason statue of limitation exists. Memories eventually become unreliable unless they're kept alive. The Mandela Effect comes to mind. Was there a show called "Sex In The City" or "Sex and The City"? Is it "Oscar Meyer" or "Oscar Mayer"? Is it "Sketchers" or "Skechers" shoes? Did the Monopoly Man have a monocle? Is there a hyphen in KitKat? Did Forrest Gump say "Life is like a box of chocolates"? Did Curious George have a tail? How did Mickey Mouse hold up his pants? Did Sinbad play a genie in the movie "Shazaam"? lol Answers: https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/entertainment/g28438966/mandela-effect-examples/ Aside from making shit up, we also create memories by imagining things, and then in the future we sometimes mistake what we imagined for an actual experience. For example, when I was a kid I heard stories about traumatic situations that I was too young to remember, and so I created really vivid pictures/clips in my head about what took place, and for most of my life I thought those imaginings actually occurred. We're all susceptible to these things.
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Xonas Pitfall replied to integral's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
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Natasha Tori Maru replied to integral's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
ROFL that board is giga-chad levels elitism. You don't even need to complete a sentence to get shit on with immediate and surgical precision 🤣 Same with /fa/ -
My father was the one who decided to divorce my mother. She had poor judgment in marrying him and even after the divorce continued caring for him because he is mentally ill. My mother tried to remarry, but her boyfriend sexually assaulted me, so she has been cautious about letting men into her home since then. Women often the ones who initiate divorce is because marriage often benefits men more than women. Many men avoid domestic labor and childcare and lack emotional intelligence, which is exhausting for women. For children, it’s better to grow up without a father than with an abusive or dysfunctional one.
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lostingenosmaze replied to integral's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Just the fact that the music tastes thread is in the Spirituality section and not the Off-Topic one is already putting /mu/'s level of pretentiousness to shame 🥴 -
That's fine. Bluntness and directness are something I actually appreciate in women, especially when backed by wisdom. We as women have so much to say, and we often feel social pressure to be pleasing, harmonious, and to erase our voice in order to perform femininity in a way that is convenient to the system that oppresses us. While it is important to be polite and considerate, this shouldn’t come at the expense of our voices. I am happy when a woman says what’s on her mind, even if I don’t agree with her. However, when women treat men with softness and infinite understanding but don’t apply the same standard to other women, it bothers me. Not that I’m saying you do it, I just notice the conditioning in some women. They can be very blunt and harsh with women, especially younger women, while being very understanding and kind to men, even men who aren’t good and don’t deserve such treatment.
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I think it isn't as extreme as saying the brain totally changes shit when we recall memories, but they gradually shift and change with each recall. I think it is a very slow process. There are actually shitloads of studies and well established findings around memory being a reconstruction that shifts over time. Frederic Bartlett, Elizabeth Loftus did work on how we actively fill gaps with what makes sense, change details to match beliefs, simplify shit and how we can genuinely be convinced of shit that never happened. Satanic Panic stuff. Hermann Ebbinghaus did work on how time degrades accuracy of memory. We can skew the original sensory imprint we have due to internal biases within us. As soon as you alter the language we use around a memory ie smashed vs hit this can change a lot. It is some of the basis around neuro linguistic programming. It is actually a huge foundational point to reaffirm your case that bias is just THAT big in humans. Not arguing against your good memory, more that I have seen the sort of stupid shit people pull with recall. Brainwashing themselves.
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@Carl-RichardNever thought about it like that. Have any idea about the same for other stages?
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Perseverance is the #1 Stage Red virtue (probably hyperbole, but it could be true).
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Right. This is a 'man bad, woman good' narrative that your mother conditioned you with because you didn't have a father. But, here are some hard questions we can't not look at. First of all, why did our 'poor, abused mother' end up in a bad marriage to begin with? Secondly, why did she have a child in this bad marriage? And thirdly, why didn't she remarry? The answer to the first question is - an overall negative outlook towards men would lead to one making needless compromises with the wrong individual. The answer to the second question is the thought-process 'just have a child first, then we don't need a husband', typical feminism. And the third one is a little more understandable, because it is hard to find someone as a single mother. This idea that 'independence is better than doing the hard work to find a good man' comes from feminism. When your father abandons you, he's as good as dead to you. So, the natural question is - which of your 'good people' is responsible for this situation? Did they make some mistakes? Did they have negative beliefs that led to this? Sure, it's wrong to abandon your child, but this doesn't make these mistakes I'm talking about any less serious.
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Makes sense although I am not so sure about tying this in with the current state of society so much. I don't think that it is an artificially perpetuated narrative but rather a natural outcome as we shift from villages to civilizations. Moreover, my focus regarding Faith is not about fixing "Do I deserve to live?" or "What do I have to achieve to be able to prove that I deserve to exist?", it's more so about developing confidence in your own way of doing and thinking things. I had been so full of doubt that I constantly looked for validation about my way of doing things just so I know I am not fucking something up. I looked at people with the confidence to dive head first into any situation and it made me scoff at their stupidity "You have no real plan, you can easily fall into traps, there is no basis for your confidence as to why your actions would work." But it still worked for them. In fact I was the stupid one, making plans but never having enough confidence to see it all the way through. Turns out, it's a feature that confidence doesn't have a true basis to it. It's not stupidity but a deep sense of trust in yourself and in the future. This is where bravery stems from as well. My mistake was to think everything needs to have a logical backing behind it. Dialectic is more like a formalized doubt. Instead of aiming that doubt internally you aim it outwards. So there is a difference but not in the way you say it. It's all still a formalized doubting process though. thesis → antithesis → synthesis This process is about creating tension between views and revising them. The moment you acknowledge an antithesis in the hopes of a synthesis, you already acknowledge that your current worldview is incomplete. If there is room for more integration (which there always is) your worldview is provisional and open to revision. That there is an implicit doubt in your worldview, that something could be wrong. You can't pair epistemic certainty "I am not doubting" with Epistemic Incompleteness "I have not integrated its antithesis yet".
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Elliott replied to Husseinisdoingfine's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
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Accepted - and apologies if my questions were implying that as well. I am really blunt over text. And direct. So my tone gets lost in dialogue on the forum. It is probably also my work in construction - I am used to writing in a really clear way and pressing for direct statements. I never really use capitulating language in text - but I do in verbal dialogue. I recognise this can also come across harsher from a woman because women are expected to be softer.
