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A video from The Rational National: Great development and also nice to hear about his own experience with psychedelics

Right wingers seem to be on the rise everywhere in Europe. It's a Stage Blue reaction against globalization, immigration, LGBTQ+ rights, etc.

Nice to see some Stage Blue at the end with the priest lol

Want a perfect example?

Lol... Yeah let's pray Trump loses and his ego cracks

I am sorry to hear this. I wish you the best of luck and hope you will be able to find healing.

Lots of disagreement here and it will probably be worse in the real world. I can already see the right-wing and Trump use this to deny police brutality and racism exist. And I'm afraid riots might return if the officer gets acquitted. What I see: a broken criminal from a poor black community being difficult to handle + a ridiculous chokehold Some obvious solutions come from understanding where these problems come from. Which I guess are poor economic and social conditions and then for the police a lack of good training. For example: reparations for poor black communities would be a good idea as well as better training of police officers and re-directing funds to social workers where reasonable. Also let's remember racism is real regardless of what happened to Floyd and even non-criminal black people struggle because some police officers are actually racist. And peaceful protests do help in raising awareness. I just hope it leads to the right policies that will actually change things. I guess nothing really changed except now we got the perspective of how difficult it can be for the police as well.

Introducing Thierry Baudet: the new surging far-right politician in the Netherlands. Other Dutch people here probably know him (and probably hate him ). I wasn't sure whether to place him at Red or Blue. He is very narcissistic and he believes Western Civilization will die if too many white people get replaced by immigrants.

Negan from The Walking Dead (don't worry there won't be any blood in this clip)

I didn't really know where on the forum to place it so I placed it here because I did want to share this. Appearantly there exist people who do not have an internal monologue. I find it almost impossible to imagine but it seems to be real. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zj5rdUCa2xo

Good point. Same goes for mathematical thinking and there are probably many other examples. @Erick Yeah the internal monologue is just a fraction of mind. There is so much more to it.

But is that the only difference? I partly agree because in the example of the shower thoughts it's indeed an internal thought process about his self in the past. But not every thought that I don't have to say out loud but happens internally is about my self. It's possible to think deeply or creatively about some problem you're trying to solve or question you're trying to answer without any reference to self. Although I am still interested in how different she experiences the illusion of self if at all because this illusion is so strongly connected to our internal monologue or "the voice" in our heads.

Yeah I'm curious about them though. I also have been thinking about this more today and about how people can't imagine they can write in journals without an internal monologue. But then I realized people don't know where their own internal monologue comes from either. Our thoughts arise from nothing.

Men's refractory period is not the same for everyone. I could only do it 3 times in a row but more like 10-15 times in a day (if I wanted to)

Maybe breathwork or yoga will work better for you? Sounds like maybe that "undercurrent of resistance" is emotional baggage to work through.

PragerU always makes my body tighten and cringe like hell

Just came across this video. It's terrifying to think that Trump likely will not accept losing

Really sudden... Such a loss

I remember watching that. Yeah it'll be worse than you can imagine. I also remember Leo talking about how boredom is such a challenge during retreats. Might be great to at least give it a try though, just to experience how difficult it is

Trump is on a negative spiral and the polls are becoming more and more in favor of Biden. Yes he's leading and his lead is growing. I also think Biden will do well in taking moderate republicans away from Trump and this election cycle might help move people from Blue to Orange, which is great. One good function Trump served: Disgusting people up the Spiral. My dad has actually moved left because he started to see the same qualities he despised in Trump in Dutch right-wing nationalist politicians.

Over 2 years old but pretty funny