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I found this video, which expands on his thinking. This is more sophisticated. I'm also very fond of "Pure Consciousness" as a term. But still, it feels like unnecessary resistance to the word 'God' to me. Why would 'Pure Consciousness' not suffer from the same problem as using 'God'? 'Pure Consciousness' could just as easily be taken as a static, finite thing. You could argue he is switching up his answer as a teaching device, but that seems like unnecessary confusion to me. Just say clearly what God is and what God isn't.

Never seen that video of Osho before. That is pretty condemning. If someone asked me "what is God?", that is not at all how I would answer it. Even if I was going to critique the traditional, religious notion of God, I would make it clear that's what I was doing. I would say something like "traditionally, God was thought of as X. This was wrong for Y reasons. But actually, God is Z". I would not just say "there is no God, it's all projection".

Yup. I'm only like two chapters in, but already it feels that way. There are some physicalist undertones. I will finish reading and see what I think at that point. He could be holding back.

It's a difficult pill to swallow, but an important one. You need proper expectations when dealing with humans. It helps if you can realize what actually is Unconditional Love.

Good critique of freedom and hedonism. He still doesn't really understand sin though.

Absurd way of framing what goes on here.

@cistanche_enjoyer CBN combined with CBD / melatonin? Or just CBN pure?

That also doesn't matter, because of course dictionaries just go by academic consensus.

That means nothing. Of course textbooks on feminism will present the steelman version.

That's the most charitable interpretation of feminism.

Yes and Tom Rowlands of the Chemical Brothers as well, excellent combo.

Tomora is one of my biggest algorithm wins of the year:

@Olaf She's not that interested or invested at this point. Is this from a cold approach? How did you meet her?

Yes, you can often apply that criticism to feminist spaces. But, do that without bias. You should not feel it's more important to criticize feminists than redpillers. Which is what this conversations often turn into. People defending their ideological camp with "but the other side does it too!!!"

There's something non-arbitrary about human preference for beauty though. We seem to recognize order, completeness, intentionality, intelligence etc. It's not just bias. For instance, if I play a musical tritone, almost everyone will agree that it sounds dissonant and ugly. Whereas a perfect 5th sounds harmonious, complete, beautiful.

@Toranvor I would be really careful here. It sounds like you need some more basic grounding. Maybe getting outside into nature, gentle yoga, that kind of thing. If you still want to try psyches, I would look into a legitimate ketamine or MDMA-assisted therapist. Iboga maybe as well. I would not take psyches alone.

Sounds like it was a total flop. Can't say I'm upset about it.

@Unlimited I remember this. Depends on your risk tolerance. I would definitely at least ask questions about legal risk and see what they say. If they can’t answer reasonable questions about what you’re getting into or accommodate your requests, the I’d consider declining.

That communism video is insane. It got me emotional. Very effective for understanding the worker's POV.

Chimping has always been about min-maxing energy. That's what the AI offers.

The AI writing is so generic. Use AI when you want to say nothing unique or of substance.

I didn't find safeties noticeably superior. Mostly just slow.

Even assuming her story is true, this is a huge leap. You can take anything people say and interpret it as having spiritual significance if you want.

@Ben_P you're probably just not comfortable enough. New encounters can do that.

I'm used to being on people's mind