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  2. 🤣 oh shit!! 🤣
  3. "Who" believes? 😂 Fucking bullshit.

  4. What is some music you like?

    Joshe replied to itsadistraction's topic in Off-Topic: Pop-Culture, Entertainment, Fun

    This is the shit my soul most resonates with. Something about cello just takes me away. As soon as I hear it, I'm captured.

  5. How important is university and/or college?

    Joseph Maynor replied to enchanted's topic in Personal Development -- [Main]

    I lost some friends when I started going to college and ultimately University. They saw it as an attempt by me to do something wrong.
  6. I believe that's a foul ball
  7. I wanna put baseball bat in your ass, and at that moment I want you to ask this question, happening to who? 😂
  8. İt is a word. Same as when you have to take a shit run to bathroom. Fucking non duality bullshit. Still a form, identification.
  9. dang it, i overwrote everything, fk it, doesnt matter, lol im not tryina remember it all again

  10. Authenticity (psychology): Underrated, Overrated?

    integration journey replied to Natasha Tori Maru's topic in Dating, Sexuality, Relationships, Family

    It’s great to be living in authenti-city! it’s a great city indeed ☺️
  11. This is an excellent question.

  12. What is some music you like?

    Joshe replied to itsadistraction's topic in Off-Topic: Pop-Culture, Entertainment, Fun

    One of the things I like most about music is how it takes me back to a time in my life where I was blind to many things. Making me remember the coal I've shoveled. For example, I used to listen to this when I was a teenager. And when I hear it today, it's just as good, if not better. So when I love this jam today, it's for reasons you can't tell from the song itself. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
  13. What is "who"
  14. @Joseph Maynor Oh btw, i thought of something you might find interesting. It might tickle your fancy, tho i wanna save it for tomorrow, after one of my appts... because its gettin a bit late noow to start throwing out all these ideas all of a sudden. Better to think of, tomorrow, a fresh day.
  15. Same as who is asking the question above
  16. ^Try to crack that egg.
  17. Heyy thank you! 🫶🏻 I will def be uploading soon It is counter-intuitive, for sure. I'm working on the same thing too, not an easy cake 100% yes 👽
  18. One argument for the abstract is however, that it can live within an absolute sensual reality, and sortve push the envelope, without it having to fold, without requiring structural resurrection , or reinsertion into a story... In a storytime story or (like right now, an online story) suddenly im not even on topic anyway, because *cough cough* im not on topic, and even if i was, it still may not be received or considered AS a story (like, ppl just may not care, unfortunately, but theres a larger chance of them tuning in / and not tuning out) Thats the argument against story, and obviously, to go toooo far in the other direction, no one really can understand it, even if they tried, cause now it would be hyper personalized language with no allegiance to anything in that initial stanza or grouping, like it can fly the coup at any moment, and leave the reader on a cliff hanger thats unpredictable (im talking, in the MOST extreme spectrums of an abstract writing of course, which i would not be doing) A story however, in the very least, can save itself from sudden termination of that initial stanza, Like it can be saved from its own psychedelic adventure.... Thats sortve the pros and cons.

  19. What is some music you like?

    Joshe replied to itsadistraction's topic in Off-Topic: Pop-Culture, Entertainment, Fun

    lol. Classic.
  20. This is the million dollar question.
  21. Yes! It's a useful distinction when one is learning to individuate themselves from the collective conformity of lower stages of development. But ultimately, authenticity as a concept also needs to be deconstructed.
  22. Right but the whole economy is based on business so it seems like a pretty pivotal thing to get right. It's actually the precise reason a lot of corporate people are gonna lost their jobs in the next 5 years, because they are so far removed from the feedback loop of the real economy. So many people in middle management appear like they are doing stuff but are actually either useless or harmful to the businesses that employ them. This thread in the off topic section is a great example for the gaming industry but this corporate gloating effect is present in all industries. I see universities taking on a new form like 20 years from now they'll probably be free and be more like a community and research hub rather than a mandatory step in most people's lives. Whenever I talk to college student and they tell me about how busy they are with assignments or like midterms I feel like a voluntary slave is complaining to me about their life. If they worked that hard on their own business they would be financially independent by the time they graduated! Business has way less hand holding and is more stressful, it's not for everyone but I think every university student should try starting one in their gap year before they pay a lot of money to take classes.
  23. Speculation seems to be that things are heading for a mistrial.
  24. Authenticity. I find it ill-defined. The word is tossed about flippantly. EVERYWHERE. It is spoken about on these forums frequently. What is Authenticity (in the romantic sense, and interpersonally)? Do you think it is overrated/underrated? Only appropriate at certain times or phases of connection? I find it paradoxical. Authenticity requires enough self-awareness to distinguish your genuine values from the forces acting on you (incentive structures). I think it is about congruence. Congruence between what is actually going on inside you, how you live, make choices and relate to the world. So for me it's being able to accurately know what I experience, owning it completely and acting in accordance with it as the situation deeps appropriate. I feel like it needs these clauses because it gets muddled up with just "expressing" without censure. Authenticity IS NOT just expressing the contents of your mind. "I say what I feel", "I refuse to change for anyone", "I do what feels natural", "I am brutally honest" or "I don't care what anyone thinks, this is who I am" - all of these are not it in my definition. Philosophy wise I don't think to be authentic we require a true fixed self. Values change. We change. What is authentic will change. Existentially I see it creeping toward "am I taking ownership of the fact I am choosing?" My closest definition: Authenticity is the constant, background practice of shrinking the space between what I experience and what I understand myself to currently value. What I claim to be, and how I actually behave... while remaining willing to amend my understanding of me. Would love everyone's thoughts around this loaded topic as it applies to dating, courtship, romance, relationships, attraction etc.
  25. @LordFall Would be interested to hear your thoughts on this. If anyone else wants to add in more perspectives too, would be grateful

  26. What is some music you like?

    Joseph Maynor replied to itsadistraction's topic in Off-Topic: Pop-Culture, Entertainment, Fun

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