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  2. I agree, but if there were a video of Jesus abusing children, many religious people probably still wouldn’t see anything wrong with it. On the other hand, if there were actual footage of Michael doing something like that, even some of his most devoted fans would stop worshipping him.
  3. Michael is really not very good at defending himself, even though he thinks he is doing a good job. I’m going to watch the video. Thanks.
  4. how is everything identical if everything is not you?
  5. They both love and hate them. They really want to feel dominant in the moment when they ride their motorcycles, and they don’t want any man to feel superior to them.

  6. Conformity Examples Mega-Thread

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

    Mr.Beast style YouTube thumbnails, with overly-expressive emotions. Most youtubers are aping Mr.Beast.
  7. @Majed I find it weird that you find it weird. Novel things can be weird, but you get used them, and it stops being weird. Women on motorcycles is neither here nor there, they are neither lesser or more of anything for doing it. Maybe they don't like traffic or just like the wind in their hair or have a death wish 🤷‍♀️
  8. @Hojo (cant get this tag off) @Monster Energy i think its quite telling in that video how he puts the blame on the kid, hes like 'the kids want to stay with me, what could i do?'. Any normal adult would know that there has to be boundaries, imagine on a school trip, a 10 year old kid said to their teacher 'i want to sleep in the bed with you' and the school teacher was like 'what could I do, they wanted to do it'. That would not fly anywhere. Separately I found this video really interesting from his ex-publicist who doesnt seem to have anything to gain financially from telling his story -

  9. The statistical worldview

    LastThursday replied to Carl-Richard's topic in Personal Development -- [Main]

    It would be interesting to come up with a model of non-standard thinking. I'd say the default mode for most folks is social thinking: who did or said what to whom and why, how one person relates to another, what you feel about things. Here's a random bullet list pulled out of nowhere of different types of thinking: Social - you keep a ledger of interactions between things (people), you apply a value function (feelings) to those interactions Relational - you accept that nothing happens in isolation, everything affects everything else with varying strengths Systems - everything works like a machine with distinct interacting parts, the whole is greater than the sum of the parts Construct aware - you realise that every type of thing is an artificially constructed entity made of other things Causal - you know that if A and B happen, there are different scenarios for their synchronicity: A caused B, A and B were caused by C etc. Statistical - see @Carl-Richard Ambiguous - you accept that it is not possible to know the detail of causes for A and B and therefore have to conclude that A and B are equally likely even if contradictory. You know that knowledge and information are always lacking. Big picture - you zoom out or bring more of the world into the scenario in order to explain things, i.e. there a nearly always outside influences, outside of your knowledge. Meta - you constantly try and see problems from different angles, and through different paradigms, or by thinking laterally. Abstract - you use ideas not rooted in every day things to explain things: mathematics, language, symbols, geometry, numbers. I also wonder if there can be a distinct progression in different styles of thinking.
  10. How can you be self-aware and not be a little in love with yourself?
  11. Bullseye. Reasoning with music fans is like reasoning with religious fanatics.
  12. Behave yourself.
  13. Today

  14. Leo's Blog Discussion Mega-Thread

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

    They are really consistent but that doesn't mean they aren't a dream. Life is an insanely consistent dream.

  15. Leo's Blog Discussion Mega-Thread

    UpperMaster replied to Leo Gura's topic in Personal Development -- [Main]

    Maybe your memories are not consistent but you get the feeling that they are. idk how to explain that well, but when I am dreaming, the present moment of the dream makes total sense in the context of the whole dream. After I wake up I realize how the dream was barely consistent, but I didn't know that while dreaming.
  16. https://youtube.com/watch?v=K9Mk2Aqk9Mw Fox and Cat Standoff Alternative title: When bae tried to steal the last pizza slice

  17. The statistical worldview

    zurew replied to Carl-Richard's topic in Personal Development -- [Main]

    I like this approach, and I mostly live by this - but when it comes to applying it to meta frames and different meta-philosophy frames , it can get so complicated so fast that almost no one practice it at that level (or they might, but given that they are nowhere near informed about other alternative views and frames, their probability assignment will be meaningless and it will only represent a very small fraction of things that they know about). This is not a criticism of this approach though, because the problem I proposed is not even related to this, it is related to our cognitive limitations. Like it would be very cool if we would be able to do something like this - " Okay, currently here is 10000 different possible positions that can be taken on metaphyiscs , here is a 100 different theories in phil of language, here is 10000 different views on epistemology , here is 10000 different views on ethics - I understand each and every one of these theories in depth and let me now create a 100 million different configurations (worldviews) using these views and then let me think through all the possible problems under each and every one of these configurations and then let me come up with a synthesis that has the least amount of problems with it and let me also assign a probability to each and every one of these views "
  18. I won't try, but I will try through a story: I one time went with some from uni to a bar, and I was with one girl, and then we met some other people (guys) and they were like "your eyes are so amazing, oh my god!" (and they were right to be fair; I even said kinda lowkey "I'm mean it's not wrong..." which was kinda not the best move to be fair but anyway). I've later imagined in that moment that after they left (which was quickly), I could be like "don't you think it's sometimes better that not everything has to be spelled out?" and she would ask "yeah, what do you mean?". And then I would just look her straight into the eyes like a horny predator (and kiss her???).
  19. Yes, so true. Nothing can exist without a mirror to reflect upon itself. So the question is what’s being reflected in the mirror? On looking I see only nothing. I am the looked upon. The mirror trick is the real and true self recognition where there’s only a sense of “ you” which is a mental psychological construct of the brain mind mechanism based on memory, perception and emotion, not a fixed thing. Life is a seamless uninterrupted flowing process, always in constant flux and change, not a fixed entity. Nothing is ever seen, only known , in this immediate knowing that cannot be known. Including this….
  20. Many people think this video gives off a very strange feeling about their relationship.
  21. @JoshB appreciate you sharing your experience today. Thank you.
  22. Precisely you see through the illusion of the moon being the source of the light. The idea of the moon / ego dies I added more examples because the end of selfhood is merely just a facet of realizing the sun
  23. The ego is a concept known to exist and what is known to exist can never be unknown to exist. The ego exists as a concept in the immediate knowing of it. A concept is known, never observed because whatever concept is being looked upon is simply an empty mirror reflection of this imageless empty looking. Non existing concepts are still concepts known in this conception.
  24. He’s defended because a lot of people associate his music with good times and friends. A lot of them grew up with MJ music or had a parent that did so they associate it with summer time, parties and social stuff from their youth. To accept that this music was made by a child predator and deeply disturbed individual is too difficult for many people. I think just looking at all the evidence and how we treat these crimes now, it goes without say thing that MJ was a child predator and a severe threat to children and society.
  25. @JoshB the full moon shines light through the night sky; but it is our job to know it is an illusion. The moon doesn't shine as a true light source, it merely reflects the light from the sun 🌛
  26. You are in this path for years and still talking about logic, good or bad. When everything becomes identical, infinite, finite, everything, anything good or bad dissolves. Stop shooting videos and surrender. What you talk to others you are way far to apply for yourself. What a fucking bullshit.
  27. Its metaphorical Deconstruct the illusion The ego dies when you realize it was never there to begin with Language is limiting here And yes I agree with you You "destroy" "it" with awareness
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