Peter-Andre

@universe Resistance bands. Good idea! I didn't think of that. They won't take up much space. I think I might just have to try a little bit of both and see what works best. Maybe I'll work out at home for a few months, and then try the gym and compare the two afterwards.

I think it's important to distinguish anarchism from anarcho-capitalism here. Anarchism is a far-left ideology that seeks to abolish all unjust hierarchies and abolish the state, but not laws or any system of governance. Anarcho-capitalism is much closer to the ideology that Leo described in his video. In fact, a lot of anarchists despise the term anarcho-capitalism because they believe that capitalism is inherently oppressive and hierarchical and is incompatible with anarchism. I personally don't identify as an anarchist, and to be honest, I don't see exactly how one would actually go about abolishing the state and still maintain an organized society, but nonetheless, I feel that it's an ideology that often gets misrepresented and conflated with the idea of no laws or regulations in discussions like these. Many of Leo's critiques are also relevant to anarchism, but I still think it's important to make that distinction.

I already have a good pair of running shoes and was actually thinking of pairing that up with other exercises either at home or at the gym. The idea was to use the running to improve my cardio while doing other exercises to build strength.

I live in a city now, and I could definitely do with some more space where I live, but I have tried various exercises at home, and I seem to have just enough space for things like jumping jacks and walking lounges, although not enough for exercise equipment.

@Potato People King Thanks a lot for the tips! I agree that by going to the gym will make it more of a commitment and will help me take each workout session more seriously. That seems like one of the biggest benefits of going to the gym for me. I didn't really think that much about the fact that I'd be working out with other people there, and I can definitely see the learning benefits from that because of the feedback I could get from other gym-goers. So, I'm a bit curious about this one. Would you say that working out regularly has given you a higher baseline level of energy in your everyday life when we also factor in the fact that you get tired after your workout sessions? I don't really like the idea of using all my energy on working out and not have any energy left over for other things. Ideally, I'd want to increase the amount of energy I have for everyday things. Maybe I misunderstood you a bit. Could you please clarify this for me?

I think the conductor Terence Fletcher from the movie Whiplash is a mix of red and blue. Not sure if he's more blue than red though. Any thoughts?

I would say that Stefan Molyneux is not just your run-of-the-mill conservative. He has said a lot of racist stuff publicly in the past and I think it's completely justified to call him a white supremacist, or at the very least a racist and an ethno-stater. Here is a list of some pretty bad things he has said before: https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/stefan-molyneux It's not really a wonder he eventually got banned off Youtube, although I don't know if there was a specific video he got banned for.

@crab12 Do you have some examples of how progressives are ignorant? Edit: Sorry, I misread your comment, so do you have some examples of how progressives are intolerant?

Seems like there has been a big wave of these kinds of bans all over the internet recently. Not only on Reddit, but also on Facebook, Twitter, Twitch, Youtube, and probably others that I haven't heard about yet. I'm quite happy with this. It really does seem like a big step from orange to green.

@Epikur Alright, when I read your post, it just came across as negative sarcasm. Maybe I just got the wrong impression.

Seems like you're maybe just getting caught up with one little news headline while losing sight of the bigger picture. You seem to be conflating this one particular decision with the entire "woke left". My guess is that you don't have a particularly nuanced view of the left and just group it all together. You also seem to be pretty eager to pick what you perceive as problematic elements of the left to build up your entire picture of the left.

@Consept Oh, sorry. I think I just misread the title or something. I thought it said "Orange v Green Debate".

Jesse Lee Peterson strikes me as more blue than orange, but I'm not that familiar with him, so I could be wrong.

Has this ever been tried out anywhere else at any other time in history? How did that go? I'm really curious about where this will lead.

@Roy I'd just like to point out that Denmark is a capitalist country, not a socialist one. It might have elements of socialism here and there, but is no doubt still a capitalist country. Although it seems like we might have different notions of what the terms socialism and capitalism mean, so maybe that's why we disagree. I use them in the more traditional sense where socialism is a system based on social ownership of the means of production, as opposed to capitalism, which is based on private ownership of the means of production (which is what they have in Denmark).

Can we please not spread misinformation in this thread? Vaccines do work and not taking them is not only dangerous to the person not taking the vaccine, but also to any other unvaccinated people that person interacts with.

So it's now official. There will be no president Sanders and it's now a race between Biden and Trump. What are your thoughts about this? What will the short and long term consequences be? Was Bernie a once in a generation candidate or is it likely that we will see similar candidates gaining popularity in the US during the next election cycle and over the next few years? How will this affect the likelihood of policies such as universal healthcare getting enacted in the US in the relatively near future?

+1

That would be great! I've been thinking about the same thing.

@Leonora That depends a bit on what you mean by meditative state. Usually I definitely feel different after and/or during a meditation session, more concentrated, less distracted, more in touch with the present and my thinking calms down a lot, and from there I find that I'm more likely to enter the kind of state I described here earlier. The degree this happens to varies from session to session. Some days I don't feel that different after meditating, but other days it can be quite the profound experience.

So throughout my life there's this thing that's happened to me from time to time. Every now and again I get these brief moments (usually never longer than 15 seconds at a time) where I instantly go from whichever mental state I'm in at the moment to one where I become super-conscious and extremely aware of the fact that I'm alive. It's like I forgot everything about my life up until that point and I experience reality as if for the first time. I become acutely aware of everything happening in that moment, and also of the fact that I even exist, which usually comes as a big surprise. A few brief moments later, I fall out of it and go back to my normal mental state, and then I can't force myself back to it (I've tried many times). Whenever it happens, it makes me feel like I've lived most of my life in a coma and that I'm suddenly waking up from the coma, just to go back to sleep again a few seconds afterwards. It's often a frightening experience, accompanied by a feeling of deep terror. But at the same time, it can also make me feel a sense of awe and wonder, and usually leaves me wanting to experience more of it. It's a bit like when Neo wakes up from the Matrix, although perhaps a bit less dramatic. The first time it happened, I was about 6-8 years old. I remember the moment quite clearly. It was recess at our school and while I was outside, a couple of my classmates called for me to come over. I turned over towards them and started walking. And then it happened. I become so aware right in that moment, that I couldn't concentrate on the simple task of walking towards my friends. The experience was so overwhelming that I lost my footing for a bit and nearly fell over. I had to suppress it a bit just to bring my focus back and continue walking. I don't remember exactly what happened after that, but I think I just went back to normal and approached my friends and went through the rest of the day like any normal. It's kept happening sporadically from time to time, usually at the frequency of about once or twice a year. I've noticed that this has been happening a bit more often since I started meditating (about 3-4 years ago). Sometimes it happens shortly after I finish meditating. I still haven't established a solid meditation habit (although I'm working on it), so I imagine I could make it happen more and more often if I just managed to meditate consistently every day. That is something I would like to do, because it's always an interesting experience, even if it can be quite scary sometimes. I haven't discussed this with a lot of people, not even most of my close friends and family members, but I've recently decided to start investigating this further, so I figured this was the right forum to get started. I have a number of questions about this that I've never really asked anyone: Is there a name for this phenomenon? If so, is there any literature about it, or any other sources where I can learn more about it? Is this a well known and/or common phenomenon? Is this what one might call a mystical experience? Are there any other ways of making it happen more often in addition to meditation? I would also like to point out that my recollection of these experiences may be slightly inaccurate since these experiences are so rare and only last for a few seconds at a time. It's hard for me to remember these experiences 100% accurately, so I would probably have described it a little bit differently if I'd had such an experience more recently.

@Spaceofawareness Very interesting! It sounds like the state you were in was a bit different from what I've experienced personally, but I do see some similarities. I can particularly relate to this line of yours. I think you put it quite well here: Although in my case, the whole thing usually only lasts for a few seconds, never anything even remotely close to two months. But as briefly as it lasts, the experience always comes with a heightened sense of awareness and I feel like it's something I can get more of if I work for it, so in your words, it's something I have to work to earn more of. I was more grounded in my body as well as the present experience in a very unfiltered way. While you seem to become more detached from yourself, I feel like I become even more myself, and I experience being/existence and perception more fully. I'm usually in a fairly calm state just before it happens, often while doing simple, and maybe also repetitive, tasks. When it happens, I react differently. Sometimes I get absolutely terrified because of how shocking and surreal it is. That's why I mentioned Neo from the Matrix in my original post. Other times, it comes with a sense of awe and wonder. In some cases I get a bit of both, fear and awe. Afterwards, my emotional state returns back to roughly how it was just before, maybe with a sense of curiosity for figuring out what just happened. You also mentioned observing your thoughts in kind of a detached way, but when I enter into the state, I feel like all my thoughts disappear for a moment, and I just get bombarded with input. I usually fall back out of the state again before I get a chance to start thinking thoughts again. In fact, I usually don't even have any particular desire to think anything while in that state. One thing that tends to happen is that all my memories suddenly seem like stories I've just blindly accepted as reality. Instead, I realize just how arbitrary a lot of them are, like most of my life story had just been a big shallow fiction up until then. Again, this is not something I get to experience very often, and it's been a while since my last full experience, so I don't remember everything accurately. I also suspect that my mind has since colored in my memories a bit and altered them. As soon as I get another one of these experiences, I will report on it here. I didn't mention this in my original post, but I sometimes manage to get "halfway there", or perhaps maybe more like 1-10% of the way there, so it can come in different degrees, but every now and again, I get a full-fledged experience that takes me all the way there and at that point, it just shatters my whole reality for a moment. Can you relate to this? Have you ever had the kind of experience that you described, but to a lesser degree?

Ha ha! No relation.

I think Oogway from the Kung Fu Panda films might qualify.

I feel like this guy might be at stage green. It's possible that he might even be at stage yellow in certain respects.