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Husseinisdoingfine replied to Husseinisdoingfine's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
From a Spiral Dynamics POV, this is an attempt by America to forcefully remove the BLUE government and force it into ORANGE. Iran is not so blue as you’d think. https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/s/qZD19m6mKl -
Felt creative yesterday: Oh look babe the sun is going down, what a beautiful sight. Oh yeah thats beautiful -- oh wait let me get my sun protection, I DO NOT WANT TO GET BURNED BY THE SUN, LET ME PUT ON SOME SUNSCREEN. But Babe ... (goes away as the sun goes down) ... The second coming of Jesus, HAH you really think Jesus genes spread!? Get real.
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My skin looks really good today. The laser seems to have done a good job. But on the forehead it looks better then usual as well..
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Slept perfectly well today. That is not smth I have with other substances. Only the getting out of bed part was akward and sets me up weirdly. Also have a perfect plan of what to do, rearrange my Blocker so friday is open instead of sunday. Also start the general YT block again. I noticed that as soon as a started the night block, I loosened up and allowed myself to watch more during daytime. Also signing up to tutoring. I have some fears about it but its not like I have a Plan B and its a great learning experience. .. I dreamed today that I was teaching my old class again. I was kinda akward .. not confident .. again .. but I took it with some humor "ey, here we are again". Ineresting that I opened up emotionally to that experience again.
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I've just finished reading Yeonmi Park's "In Order to Live". She is North Korean defector, who escaped with her mother. She just described unimaginable things, seeing dead bodies was an everyday normal thing for her growing up, she didn't meant what it was to not feel hungry all the time, she ate grasshoppers and fireflies to survive. She was trafficed and sold multiple times in her teenage years. She escaped North Korea 2 weeks after appendix surgery, where she woke up in the middle of surgery because the anesthetic wasn't proper dose. She saw her mother getting raped in China in front of her, and later she was raped as well. She nearly killed herself multiple times. She was ridiculed and told that she won't achieve anything. And so much more. I can't watch this without tearing up myself. Such a brave girl. Her story made me so grateful for everything I've got, the fact that I have food everyday is really a privilage if I think about it. It's not something to be taken for granted. But I forget that often. I want to remember and appriciate my life and circumstances much more. And not be complaisant. There is so much opportunity around us that we take for granted. I will continue researching North Korea, it's such a great example of the cruelty and deception that humans can do to each other. Great example of when you don't have basic survival handled, you don't care about anything higher. These people were motivated by hunger and safe shelter. To that little girl, freedom meant she could ate food.
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Thanks for that I will have a look and play them it has been so long.
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@HopefulMan Hey man, sorry to hear that. I don't have much experience with serious trauma, but when I did Holotropic Breathwork many pent up emotions came up via crying, laughing, shaking, screaming, etc. I still plan to do more of it weekly, maybe you should try that as well. Also, I've been researching some other ways of trauma release, and I've found Trauma Release Exercises (TRE). It's couple somatic exercises with your body that causes shaking and trauma release, you could also do that, you can find instructions on YouTube.
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The original games are still the best! While Games 5 and 6 get the most criticism, I still find them enjoyable. You just have to take them for what they are—fun action games, not survival horror. Game 7 returns to the series’ roots and is really good, too. I’m just not sure what happened with 8; it strangely didn’t grab me.
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zazen replied to Husseinisdoingfine's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
Both things can be true - I was just stating a fact that he is revered amongst Shia Muslims which is why even in Pakistan they stormed the US consulate etc - not that I revere him in any grand sense. True as well - but I think its a stretch to say they want to promote violence against Sunni's in the ME even if that was a geopolitical outcome. Iran has a history of trying to be imperially contained by the West going back decades, and with the emergence of Israel in the region that has only complicated matters and required asymmetric proxy warfare as a by product. Iran has good relations with the region and normalized with Saudi etc - they frequently refer to their neighbors as brotherly neighbors including sunni majority Pakistan who they thank for having their back. It's less sectarian and more geopolitical - not denying sectarian tensions exist at a social or street level, but states behave differently because they have a different level of responsibility and standards to operate on. It used to be that even in London for example a sunni guy once told me ''don't buy from that corner shop, he's shia'' utterly retarded. Now days I'm seeing sunni muslims say that despite differences they are against the downfall of Iran because its destablising to the region and because the West will gets its way ie puppet control and exploitation. UN has no teeth and Iran won't go the humanitarian route of laws when they're literally being struck by US/Israel lol as if laws will stop them. In all these years nothing could be done for Gaza with all the global support then nothing will be done for Iran which has much less support. Iran's objectives are clear - maintain internal stability and impose external costs on the US/Israel and it allies who may be able to influence them to pipe down. Hence the strategic hits on ports, radars, bases in the gulf and wider Middle East - blinding US/Israel from early warning, disrupting logistics and stretching the empire. Hence now needing to call in the European countries and UK providing US to operate from its bases - because ME bases have been hit and can't be used properly or at all in some cases. Iran can't win decisively against the US (as its far away) but more importantly doesn't need to. This is asymmetric warfare where they simply need to make US/Israel operations of regime change (or Iran balkanisation and state collapse) extremely costly. It's like a porcupine (Iran) vs a lion (US) - make it painful. Spreading the missiles to multiple locations simultaneously means draining the interceptors stock pile faster than if targetting at single location ie Israel. Iran hasn't even got out the big guns yet: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-28/iranian-missile-attacks-set-to-strain-us-interceptor-stockpiles Like I'v said before and even two months ago - US needs a short campaign of shock and awe and to go in hard to seize the initiative - they clearly didn't do enough - they were hoping it would be as easy as Venezuela or that their initial blitz would rally domestic uprising to take over and regime change themselves. The window is now closing as the optimal time for street protests and storming of institutions would have been when millions were out on the streets - some celebrating Khameini's death and other mourning his death. Like I said in my post above about Trump wanting and looking for a off ramp, the question is will Iran allow for it or continue up the escalation ladder pulling in an already desperate late stage empire into a quagmire - who are now locked into a war of attrition. Iran may want to take this chance to impose costs and strengthen their bargaining position in any future settlement - rather than stop early and have to face a stronger coalition later. That's the same calculus US/Israel had - contain Iran now before having to face a stronger Iran in the future. They are shattering the US's halo of invincibility and straining its own relations with its vassal gulf states who are moaning about the US protecting Israel more than them. I just saw a video of 10 itnerceptors in Israel failing to take down a single Iranian missile which dribbled through to it's target like Messi. The Epstein Regime gambled and are now in FAFO territory. Trump winning and attacking Iran was his claim to fame. His prediction is that Iran wants to lure the US into a ground invasion which they know will be deadly for them and end of the empire. Erik Prince from Blackwater has warned against this - the wider military establishment / Pentagon also warned Trump of engaging Iran which is why the delay and hesitation the past month. Good thing about Jiang is he always says ''this is just my speculation'' but he sounds way too confident in his assumptions. In this scenario for example I wouldn't say its Iran's intention to lure US into invasion - but if it happens they are prepared. Some geopolitical anlysts overweight intent and grand design / control and underweight miscalculation. War is never that neat. @Nivsch Stay safe man -
Lacking a creator is a limit. In the absence of limits, there's always creating and more.
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Hey Judy! Thanks for the answer Funny thing is, I don't feel it was aggressive or a negative experience. I even remember seeking it. I just realized I may have had Stockholm syndrome The problem with those things (from experience I am saying this), is that they are words and cannot feel a speck of emotions out of them. I can talk about the experience all day without feeling nothing bad (except resentment for all the pain it caused me), but nothing else. With psychedelics though I didn't have to force it and I cried a a lot (maybe x10000 times what I've cried in anyone occasion, not exaggerating, I just don't cry, let alone sob) I haven't read the book but I thought of the book "the body keeps the score" and that experience was that, all body When crying I didn't feel emotions, I was just crying without control (super weird, but fascinating experience haha) No, I have not tried DBT and there is no assistance for me to get a therapist. Again, thanks for your time
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I played all the original ones when they came out I always had fun with them I will have to check out the new ones.
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Slay the Spire II is releasing in just a few days, but after twenty hours of playing the first game, I still haven’t beaten it. I came so close—the final boss was down to just one HP. Is it really meant to be this hard, or am I just not very good at it?
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Arthogaan replied to enchanted's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
This might be one of the best debates i ever saw when it comes to actually engaging with arguments, good faith and generally having fun. And I respect Destiny for being flexible enough to change his starting ground and generally very cool to see that he is not really a materialist and even acknowledges the possibility of very different logic systems. -
Okay let's answer to the objection: "The map is not the territory, therefore there can not be a theory of everything". (MINT) What this means specifically is "the word is not the existence it points to". An example of someone who falls into this trap is someone who reads a description of god experience and then mistakes that description for god without seeking it out in contemplation. The Existence Space It seems that there is a space of all possible "ways" to exist. This space seems to be some weird mathematical object that I'm trying to describe. My theory is, that this space has already been described with language, with each word pointing to some spot in this space. Chopping up this space is arbitrary, and it is a trap to believe that any "chopping" is absolute. However, if you want to learn through distinctions, you will need to chop in some way since you can't differentiate between different existences without the respective concepts, so without concepts, existence is just one big blob. The moment you realize that a word is a pointer and the point of the word is not that you stop at the word but to follow where it leads you, you have made a big step towards becoming immune to the MINT fallacy. Now we're getting technical So what would it mean to have a theory of everything? This is what I mean when I say TOE: A TOE is a theory that gives a method on how to reach every point in this existence space. If this existence space is a vector space, what this means technically is, that a TOE would have to provide a basis of that space, ideally an orthogonal one. It was never the claim that my TOE would substitute existing itself and this is also not necessary. It is a tool to map existence so you can increase awareness on how you exist in the here and now. What is Mathematics? You might say: "The moment you said something about a mathematical object you've lost me. Math is just mental masturbation. It's not empirical". Here is where it gets really interesting. According to my theory, empiricism is a system that assumes, the fragment of Interaction can't be omitted. This is a trap, since it is only one fragment of existence. Mathematics and therefore rationalism do not fall into this trap, which is why they are superior. When you say "mathematics is just a castle that has no basis in direct existence" (I'm trying to avoid the word experience since it assumes Interaction) I say this is sentence is exactly false. I agree that it can be a trap to be so in awe of the beauty of such a castle that you never ask what it actually relates to in reality. So my approach to Mathematics is to primarily investigate the foundations of such castles instead. What exactly does it mean that an axiom is "obviously true"? What makes a good axiom? Hear me out. My take is that the reason why an axiom seems obviously true to you is because you and the axiom are both fragments, and you recognize each other. So when your spirit sees a good axiom it says to itself: "If this is false, then I don't exist". If this isn't beautiful, I don't know what is. I believe that all axioms in mathematics can be derived from the existence of some set of fragments, of which my 8 are a subset. Further, I claim that it can be proven, that these fragments need to exist, since if they don't, reality would collapse. There is the sketch of the proof at the beginning of the tread. I believe that all good assumptions in every other field can also be validated with the fragments. Because of the fragment of Wholeness, every fragment is relevant at every level of granularity of reality. So it seems, the mathematical description of the Whole lies in the fractal. SCIENCE IS SO BACK
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Breakingthewall replied to Husseinisdoingfine's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
Why would do it? To laugh while petting cats? In other hand, it seems very convenient for the Iranians to show the evilness of the demons. A school of little girls. Sure. Well, not sure, just 99% sure -
Actualized Quotes #411 What to do when you see ugliness in yourself but don't manage to change? The hardest for me is to stop looking down on humanity for being so stupid and underdeveloped. That doesn't make me intelligent or good to think like this, yet my mind is too stubborn to stop thinking these thoughts. I've been trying for a long time, but what I feel is so deep that I've had little success.
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LordFall replied to Husseinisdoingfine's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
What makes you not believe it like what's your epistemic process around that? You don't believe the americans/israelis could be so careless/ruthless as to bomb a school for their military objectives? This is not 100% proof but I'm sure you can research it further instead of objecting without reasoning. That's the problems when the Americans fight their war it's the innocent foreign people that pay the price not them. This is a good video that explains that the war against Iran was predicted in terms of US foreign policy under Trump for years since his close alliance with AIPAC and Saudi Arabia. Prof Jiang is legit I'm gonna have to watch a few more of his videos to try and understand what might happen going forward and what is at play for the next few years. -
Wow, thanks y'all for the encouragement I appreciate it a lot
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Breakingthewall replied to Husseinisdoingfine's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
Who believes that nonsense about the girls? The Iranians say that to smear the Israelis, and the newspapers repeat it like parrots because that's what people want to hear. -
The idea that you can identify bad post-modernism by how ugly it is is hilarious and so true. The most unappealing thing to me about woke shit and what tends to repel from their media and philosophy is how unaesthetic and ugly it almost always is. LGBT, trans people and the adjacent always tend to be kind of uggo in my experience (and very stuck in their head sort of). The group think and vitriol of hyper identity politics is ugly. They generally don't value beauty, which is a big mistake. Beauty is a reward in of itself. If you don't value beauty in some kind of way I can't take you seriously.
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The first time I did bufo -5meo dmt was a completely rupture into infinty and love, God - the third time funny enough my ego resisted the experience and I got humbled by how much surrender it takes.
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I found his content amazing. He has supported me greatly in getting into investments and how my partner and I talk about money and our goals,
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ted73104 replied to Husseinisdoingfine's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
Obviously this is all a shitshow as the nuclear deal would have been much better for everyone, except for China maybe. However if Trump can pull off the Iranian regime change like he did in Venezuela, that would be one hell of a job. Just wondering to what extent would Iran retaliate and what the further consequences would be.
