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Control? I'd call it Will. There's the Divine Will and it encompasses everything. The ego is very constrained and limited, but still - albeit a tiny fraction - of that Will. Is that Will free? Of course it is absolutely free - and thus always chooses absolute Good It doesn't need control, because there's nothing to control but itself. Control is only a concern of the fractioned, fearful ego.

Newsflash: You actually love it. Else it wouldn't be the case. Even that is not completely in your control, because you need other people beyond your control to give you money.

People play way different than bots on chess.com. I had the same thinking once. But as it turns out being good against bots doesn't make you necessarily good against people. Firstly, because it lacks the psychological component and secondly, because bots make way more obvious blunders (as long as they don't play so well you can't win anyway). I only play against people when I play nowadays and it's a completely different play style - even though I'm way too concerned about losing elo, which in itself makes it worthwile to practice playing human opponents.

It can't. There's a lot of evolution necessary to even build a civilization - as we understand it - at all. That's what spiral dynamics is! A model of our collective development. Stage purple is not developed enough to have societal structures of that scale.

Who's to say that a green sour apple on a tree is less evolved than a big red sweet one?

But what are you able to give? And I mean this completely seriously. Take a good, hard, long look at yourself and find out what you can give. Do that and everything else will fall into place - also because it gives you a REASON to heal.

As understandable as it is, killing another human being out of frustration isn’t excusable and shouldn’t be normalized. we truly still live in the dark ages

Of course. Tolerance happens with any drug, it's just a matter of how fast its onset is and how quickly it fades again. I took LSD 3 days in a row on a festival and I had to double my dose each day to have the same effects. Mushrooms are very similar, but that's for macrodoses. Microdoses may be different.

Love is insane.

I'd be really interested in your definition of insanity. We use this word a lot here but it's one of those words where everyone seems to have a different meaning attached to it. You said: So can you even say something about it? I'm not unfamiliar with different kinds and levels of insanity - which always has been extremely scary and fascinating - but I don't know if we really mean the same thing. How would I go about exploring this further?

The Truth has to be insane. How could it be sane? Sanity is a human construction.

Lol. In your view what Einstein did back then wasn't science until someone proved it? Come on.. It has to be falsifiable.

It is. But you won't see it that way in the moment, which is part of the glory.

It's not about killing the ego but building an amazing one. Playing an amazing one.

Nobody is waging a war — except an ego.