Danioover9000

@Preety_India That explains a whole lot. I had a suspicious feeling about that guy. I intuitively didn't like how he presented himself in conversations with his other twitch clients. It felt deeply manipulative, in a nice way, like white collar crime.

@John Paul Well said, although I still think that success in dating and relationships depends on other developmental factors, more similarities versus differences in terms of values, cognitive development, moral framework, states of being, mental and emotional states, personality and enough general and specific life experiences between the two inside and outside dating and relationships. Even some genetic factors as well.

@Preety_India buffer states mostly play a role in terms of both prevention of, and slowing down of invasion forces, mostly by land and sometimes by sea and air based on the strategic geographical locations. If you wanted to invade by sea, but I already have established control and defensive fortifications along a beach, then trying to establish a beach head would be more difficult. A more simpler example would be, if you and I were about to fight, but I had 2 men with me to aid me against you, and you didn't have allies, then you would expend far more energy to try and get to me, and worse, if I survived and still have energy, I still have one guy left, and you don't have to act as a buffer, then I can counter more severely versus if you have had allies or strategies defensive positions to retreat to defend. The whole point of an invasion is to gather more territory and resources geographically, along with expansion and other reasons. There's no such thing as a nuclear invasion, as there would be no pount in occupation of a country bombarded by nuclear strikes, not to mention nuclear radiation makes it far more difficult to re inhabit. So nuclear invasion isn't a thing. There were no buffer states that are land based in the Pacific war, but there were other logistical buffers like the Pacific islands that were militarized zones the Japanese then controlled that acted as buffers. The Pacific ocean and vast distance between the USA and Japan also acted as a buffer because if there were no fleet carriers, then refueling air planes and carrying out land invasions from sea were much more difficult. The USA had to first get control of the islands before invasion of mainland Japan and even then the thought of invading traditionally into mainland Japan was very difficult as the Japanese soldiers, and all of them, were willing to fight to the death, at which point the death toll for either side would be massive, and it would have likely strained both countries in terms of economy. Fighting a protracted war would be unfavourable more for the USA than for Japan. That is, until tbe discovery of nuclear power, and successful design of a bomb then nobody knew enough about, but enough to know that such a power would and should be demoralizing against a country. And it took 2 nuclear strikes against Japan, 2, before their emperor decided to concede to surrendering to the USA.

Regardless of his take on Solipsism, can we all once again appreciate his level of channelling ability?

So, instead of the problem of creative blocks, you have the opposite direction, of creative greed? Like there's too many to choose from? I used to suffer from either end of this spectrum, sometimes I had to take a break because the creative block was pretty big and tied to sometimes over focusing. Most cases I cam shift my state from being in a lazy stage to being in a creative state with some visualizations and or meditation, but when I really felt tired sometimes rest is even better. On the other end, I can have so many passions and I wants of creativity that I want to do several types of art together, fit it all somehow into a movie. That in practice is too big and ambitious for even me. How I handled that end was to approach it like an MMORPG, figure out what I am, what role I like to become and be in, what actions I like, and figure out how to level up almost consistently, in a nice pace of balance, like don't rush into an area of too high level monsters, and at the same time don't stay in the same dungeon grinding too long. You'll need to find the middle ground that can still swing at either end, but not too much, nor does it stay perfectly in the middle resisting pulls of the world here and there.

INTP.

Reading his writings is always been like solving beautiful riddles. @Nahmwill be missed.

Non fiction: Tao of Jeet Kune Do. Mental Dominance. How to Win Friends and Influence People. Fiction: Stephen king books. Lord of the rings, to help with handling large discriptions of places. Manga: Berserk. Vagabond. Vinland Saga. Philosophical and spiritual themes.

I also have donated and shown my support, but I think you need to check one of those links, it's a bit spammy.

@PurpleTree It depends on the situation, and depends on who or what groups is doing the aggression. I'd stay open minded and flexible, and do whatever in whatever situation that's unfolding.

@Antor8188 Most of the times cold approaches can vary, and sometimes worse depending on your if you have enough to pass the trait checks. I had a few nasty encounters when my trait check rolled low, didn't have enough INT/PER/AWA, and all it took was a joke uncalibrated. Golden rule, must always grind for EXP, and farm those trait points.

@Shambhu A slightly better analogy, would be to say that Consciousness is a balloon that holds soap water and foams inside of it, of various sizes of minds ranging between an ants, to reptiles, birds, humans, to as far as a hyper alien intelligence mind.

@Vynce I think in the long term, the situation will resolve itself, and a compromise would be agreed upon from sides involved in this situation. In the short term, because of people's attachment to their value systems they gained from their culture upbringing, their cognition, moral system, states especially related to fear and insecurity, as well as life experiences so far, this would be a topic that triggers the most, for those here who are from Russia, Ukraine, other neighboring European countries and the USA. I don't think this is the ideal time to be having this discussion without risking warnings and a ban as it's pretty easy to demonize, sometimes in a subtle way.

@mmKay I've seen that video, it was very moving how all the community gave the memorial. Shows how serious and deep the online gaming community is.

@Yarco Just because a person watches all the videos, doesn't mean they have resolved whatever personal development problems they had. They might have watched all the videos, but only did a few exercises.

For example, if you are stuck with a problem that needs solving, and you have a certain way of solving problems, but when you switch to 'drawing' out the problem and potential solutions, you access other ways of thinking about the problem, and better see solutions. Also, when say note taking, another way to better understand the theory you are learning, is drawing some examples of how the theory plays out. Does drawing, then, in some way help one self actualize?

Good listen to, and how Mr. Girl addresses some of the other fans that call in.

@Scholar Fair enough.

@Scholar Well, the main factor in why Leo's communication has this degree of autistic feeling is that his personality typing is INTP. People with this type of personality are highly introverted and logical, and typically have less range of EQ to internalise and externalise, which mainly gives people the impression that such people have some autistism based on their communication. Enhancing cognitive performance and development also has tradeoffs too. When cognitive performance is enhanced, the mind has more tendency to conceptualize mostly linearly and sometimes broadly, which creating this head space activity of energy far higher than that of people with body biases, which is why some geniuses sometimes don't have that emotional connection to other people and why they are sometimes lost in their minds. Relatively speaking, Leo is a business owner, and given what happened recently here in the forum, it is not surprising to see from you how Leo is moralizing here. There can be differences and parallels drawn between the situation that happened between Reckfull and Dr. K, versus what happened here. It's not surprising his moral development allows him to relate more to a business owner and less to someone whose deeply a victim, suffering from likely chronic depression which is state wise different from a typical depression, and has Bipolar disorder, which is harder to emphasize with and understand for someone who doesn't have that cognitive thinking. So, it turns out to be more surprising that you had to point this out, given many of the recent events that happened here.

I don't think @Nahm is banned, but demoted and has left of his accord, likely to not return here anytime soon. When I had a thread locked, or received warning points,I took time off from the forum to do other things, then I came back when I settled down. To me it's likely @Nahm is taking a few or so months off from Actualized.org.

@Nahm Thank you for sharing your perspective on Art.

@Gregory1 I think he got demoted, but not banned, and I think Nahm won't be back for a while.

@SOUL Well said.

@Scholar This was a good share. I liked how both Destiny and Mr. Girl handled themselves here along with Dan's participation that makes this a more enjoyable watch through for me at least. I don't understand why it's a strong vision and has a good business impact on the online streaming community of online gamers. To me, Healthy Gamers, like all businesses, has to depend on problems existing to further the survival of a business. Without online gamers/streamers experiencing negative states of being, unproductive emotional states, cognitive decline like increases in ADHD and depression with over use of internet, and developing attachments to their avatars and online sub cultures. Could you elaborate on that please? I have the strong feeling that part of Mr. Girls critic of Dr. K stems from part attention grabbing, part recognition of a potential misapplication of and deliberate erasure of what is an online chat vs online therapy, and a large part of recognizing that some part of Dr. K or this situation hit close to home with Mr. Girl's past. He did say he came from a lineage of therapists himself and grew up in such a household, so it is partially true that his trigger is coming from this. I wouldn't say he's emotionally immature either, he's more emotionally developed that he is sensitive and empathizes with most people, even the evilest ones. What makes this more difficult is Mr. Girl's communication style, it can sometimes be explicit, but similar to Jordan Peterson, he speaks in lots of abstractions and tries to interconnect different topics that have contextual relevance, but when sometimes pressed, he does come off as slippery in his responses.

@Nahm posts may have been mostly Neo Advaita style communication, but sometimes he does communicate clearly when pressed. I had a thread about my life purpose a couple of months ago in the careers sub forum, and when I addressed all the responses to my OP, which included Nahm's, I replied to him that I was not at his level of spirituality, and I needed some practical advice that's clear to me, which he did conceded and gave a more clearer reply to me and a few pointers to refining myself. However, I understand why he had to get demoted. If this was an employee talking in riddles to an employer who just wanted a straight forward reply, then he had to go. I'll definitely be missing reading any further writings he did in this forum. He'll no doubt be missed though, just like @Forestluv and another mod I don't know about, here a while back. We can now officially say we have lost the original three mods of this forum. FF.