Danioover9000

@Epikur Yeah, it's a growing issue now, chances are that if this issue doesn't correct, a Republican or conservative will win the next election or the one after that.

So what's the consensus here so far? Religion needed or not?

Cordyseps fungus, real world strain here: Even the Umbrella corporation is working on modifying a strain that caused TLOU1 and 2.

DnD, to me, has the potential to be up there with activities for personal growth and self improvement. From what I've done so far, I discovered the following: 1. Makes you roleplay the characters in the DnD campaign and world. 2. Makes you visualize the environment, with some prompting from the DM, to explore an imaginary location, increasing spacial intelligence in the mind. 3. In a very strange way, DnD is like a safe, virtual simulation training that ties together all personal development concepts, as well as Spiral Dynamics, exploration of cognitive and moral development via narrative of characters and the world, 4. personality types and traits you can include/exclude to experiment with how well you can improv and roleplay, Imagine using the Myers Briggs personality modal, combined with the DnD alignment system, and other psychological modals that can add even more dimensionality to the character. 5. Experiment with other states of consciousness and mind states, whilst roleplaying. 6. Exposes you to some other players and the DM, opportunities to socialize and add more life experiences and learn from their lives too, if you choose to capitalize on those social interactions. 7. Helps indirectly understand self biases and preferences, and maybe there are hints and clues about yourself when making your character? How you interact with other NPCs? other PCs/DM out of character? How you handle conflicts and situations in game? 8. Safer way to handle loses, as most failure points in life are simulated in the campaign scenario and is portrayed through every enemy and character. I recommend giving DnD a try, especially SOLO DND. In fact, for me, I've found SOLO is going to give more psychological and personal growth increases over a tradition DnD setting with other players, maybe less fun but for some, but to me I've actually found it much more fun to play that way. I sometimes play in groups in discord or even at location, just for something new.

@Carl-Richard Nice quote. 1+ to @Carl-Richard , 0 to @Nilsi. How do you know he has Neo-colonial fantasies?

Jeez, this deep fake A.I videos of DnD are pretty good:

Hi! My name is Bob, nice to meet you! How're doing lady? Keep it simple, for some of you really struggling, just shoot straight and simple. Literally, Said something like the above, her reply is "Ew! OMG why did you call me a lady?" and my improv brain went "Well, I'm On My Guard, lookin out for the one that'll get me laid to pieces.". Yes, by itself a fucking cringe reply, but the context magically made that line super powerful. Don't ask, it's logically impossible to understand why it just works like that. We had a great time later.

@RebornConsciousness @NoSelfSelf Is it fair to say you two are past lives sole mates? Or twin flames, destined to be negatively romantic?

@Leo Gura I agree with the many creations of pronouns that strongly correlates to greater confusion with children using custom gender pronouns. I don't even know them, and apparently there's 20 someone told me of that exists so far. That's, from a practical view, is too much even for a kid to memorize, not to mention discouraging calling a boy or girl or referring to them using proper gender pronouns, I mean okay sure if it's some kid who identifies as LGBTQP or some other minority, but what about cats or dogs? What if it's casual conversation, and you talk about your friend like "Oh, Johnny's gone to pick some candies. HE'S looking forward to the party."? Maybe custom gender pronouns causing confusion and grooming children into being gay or trans have low connection, but would you say grooming children with a progressive/socialist worldview has more connection to the gender pronoun confusion? For example Sweden has had a government program in a few schools that teach kids not to refer using gender pronouns. Definitely needs more research, finding that ratio of indoctrinated ideology : being born as trans, gay or other.

@LSD-Rumi Because that isn't the same font and colour that you just typed above. I don't know if you're trolling, or are making low quality post so I got offended by it. I couldn't see what you're writing about how Japan eliminated the Christians.

To start off with, we have a few Eminems here: This one's decent. This one got him signed by DR. Dre and to me it's peak Eminem, just WOW! Nah to me, not due to political differences but it's too simple to me, and it's a cypher a Rapper or Emcee is supposed to give their best wordplays and bars. Even Eminem later on regretted that he shouldn't have siad some harsher bars or should've went more crazier. A, in my opinion, really good rebuttal and better freestyle than this, is DayLyt's version:

Nice one, straight in, one take:

@Yimpa Nice video! Was that you playing?

@Nilsi So basically, these grand narratives are as problematic as saying "ALL LIVES MATTER!" to counter the prior claim of "ALL BLACK LIVES MATTER!"? So, what you're saying is that grand narratives can be weaponized here?

@Nilsi Nothing wrong with grand narratives intrinsically, what do you mean here? If there's no intrinsic wrong, then when it becomes extrinsic it's a problem?

@Nilsi Because Daniel Schmachtenberger is being a weasel and mostly goal post changing? Any linear narrative will inevitably turn into ideology? But what about non-linear narratives?, For example non-duality? Neo Advaita? And other Neo versions of traditional spirituality? Don't they too turn into an ideology, that followers believe into, proselytize, and propagate to other areas?

@Devin Yes, I do.

@Consept How many people did you come across with more problems with long term Covid versus with vaccine?

@mostly harmless The comparison is universally valid and sound, so why're you confining this train problem as only the monopoly of totalitarian regimes and dictators? So, because society transfers personal risks of life from one group to another, justifies Anti Vax, not taking vaccines, not wearing masks, not social distancing, not self isolating when sick, and transferring a person's/group's sickness to another person/group? Why would you argue that people with 2 kidneys should be forced to be available and give one to if someone in that state needs one? Why are you conflating Covid-19, a highly infectious virus, that spread so much it became a pandemic with larger scale effects and risks, to issues of donor transplants and organ failure of the kidneys? Covid-19 severely effects the lungs, heart, brain and bones of a person infected, but not kidney failures. So, because everybody has to carry their personal risks in life, justifies an Anti vaxxer, sick with Covid-19, who didn't get vaccinated, doesn't wear masks, does not practice social distancing, to infect another person? Why is it unacceptable to force other people to behave in ways that mitigate risks for all involved? So, Covid-19 is not more dangerous than many other diseases? Does this mean that I have an excuse to not take a vaccine, not wear masks, not practice safe distancing, and infect other people with my coughing and sneezing at them? Hypothetically, because Covid-19 is not more dangerous than the mutated Cordyceps Fungus, when I am bitten by a Runner, or stalker, or clicker, I don't have to worry about taking a cure, or a vaccine, or wear a mask, or practice social distancing? I am in the ethical and moral right to, when I become a runner or stalker, be anti vax, go through the stages of infection, bit a person and infect them with the mutated cordyceps fungus within TLOU1 and TLOU2 world? After all, I'm already infected, turning into a fungus zombie so who cares if my personal actions effect other people right? Does this also mean I get to bite hot chicks too?

@Leo Gura While it's true that categorically speaking, trans people are different from gay people, are they both under the same bigger category of the LGBTQP minority grouping? Wouldn't that give a bit more justification for why these privileged heterosexual males/females, who are in the majority, worry that these LGBTQP minorities, in education, some teachers, potentially grooming children into falsely thinking they're in these identities when they may be experiencing gender dysphoria or some gender distortion/confusion?

@YeahIam Take the percentages as figurative speech from me. Who is forcing children to make a decision taking pills and hormonal treatments and sex surgery? If indoctrinating a child into taking pills, having surgery that may cause hormonal imbalances, and fuck up their brains is not the solution to you, what solution and justification do you have for an alternative solution to indoctrination, grooming, taking pills and surgeries that may cause hormonal imbalance, and fucking their brain development up?

@hyruga Authoritarianism? Why is Japan's society close minded to you? What do you have against patriarchy and tradition here? So, assuming your position here as a lefty, it's okay to condemn Japan's society as close minded, but when your Progressive/socialists friends accuse all conservatives as Nazis, and Marxists/Communists weaponizing post modernism to kill millions of lives, and DemLibertarians encouraging these gender grooming programs and continue to confuse children, why do you get to have the double standard here?

@LSD-Rumi YO! What BS is this? Why have you made the text transparent and hard to read?

@Prana_y4na What do you mean you have a feeling? You mean intuition? Why not study, research, contemplate, meditate on anything even if A.I can do it better? There are a few spiritually gifted people, with paranormal supernatural powers, yet here we are, some of us training our psychic abilities anyways to gain more psychic or magical powers. Why not? Why not develop yourself anyways? I'm also an artist that loves drawing, rapping, martial arts, and see some A.I and bots can generate images, music patters, I haven't seen a fighting robot yet, but why stop doing what I'm passionate about? Fuck these tin men, I'm still going to do my hobbies and passions anyways. A.I replacement will likely occur on areas of repetition or lots of editing. With image A.I it does 80% of the drawing process, leaving the 20% or so down to editing and refining, which allows you to add another role to your ego, that of creative director or something. Personally fuck that noise as I love excellence and making these images myself. However yes A.I will replace parts of the career and job markets. The incentive, extrinsically speaking, is to fight for your highest possibility in life to get hired, work, avoid homelessness, whatever external motivations you can think is worth fighting against, you don't want a caged or comfy lifestyle if you can grow out of that, or to get screwed by A.I . Whether that means working with using A.I yourself, or jumping to another job or career and train other skills, the specifics don't matter, The big, compelling life vision or dream you have for life MATTERS WAY MORE! What type of Musician are you? If you have a life purpose or calling, you mind sharing it with us?