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It's only unhealthy if it's dangerous for you personally, but you are probably gonna be fine. Just drink lots of fluids. It's probably a good thing to donate blood once in a while. Some places might even pay you for it depending where you live, not to mention it's really useful for hospitals and could save someone's life. In fact thanks for reminding me I should probably donate more often, I'm O negative which is quite rare.

The whole solipsism thing seems to be like a caving to an arrogance about direct experience. Yes I'll concede that the world behind my head or in the other room doesn't "appear" to exist from my POV, until I go experience it myself. But plenty of other people whom I'm 99% sure (but not 100%) are "experiencing" just like me, die all the time and the world still "exists" after their experiencing ends. So when I die as well I can be 99% sure (but not 100%) that the world will still exist for "others". You see I when I say I'm 99% sure I'm being deliberate about not being 100% sure, because don't want to assume it's absolutely the case if I can't possibly know it (because I'll be dead). Yet the solipsism view and assumption that whatever isn't direct experience 100% doesn't exist seems like a spiritual egoic arrogance, because it's centered on a finite "me" experience. I trust my direct experience more than I trust anything else, but I'm reserved about putting all my stock in it when I still have all these other reasons not to. When I did Salvia I was still experiencing it through "my" own consciousness, but my traditional boundaries of having an ego with a body and mind dissolved and I floated around the world becoming different objects. So is that still direct experience or not if the foundation it usually sits on is swept from under it? The "world" still existed even as I became completely detached from my traditional existence as a human, so to say it won't exist after I'm gone or that I don't see it just seems like an assumption based in ego. I'll stop here my head hurts lol.

Of course it's true, because the ego deals in currency, whatever it happens to be. If you want to be happier try to transcend that game and stop caring so much about currency.

Yea of course there is the selfishness element, it permeates everything. We all may be doing subconscious things "for" other people, but it's ultimately because we want something else in exchange for ourselves. A man may exercise to feel strong and boost his self-esteem, and convince himself of that. But he's also doing it because he wants the hottest piece of pussy he can get so he can have a wife, and eventually nice kids. All things that are great for himself and his survival. I'm using course language here to express the brutality of this here. It's funny you bring up crocodiles in some inhospitable jungle, because although our day to day lives aren't like that - What we have now is just pretty superficial layers of survival built on top of that. Guess what happens if you miss more than 2 meals? People become those crocodiles.

I know you're just being facetious, but yes. They are being taught from an early age how to operate within the culture. It's not like they reach a certain age and it's like "k fun is over time for the real world". It's of coursed being ramped up very slowly and subconsciously. Why do you think people in the West always say "oh we have no culture", it's because they are utterly BLIND to the matrix of culture that they are in and have always been in. When you finally break through it's like you're a fish being taken out of water.

They do it because it's a cultural norm and expectation, and they don't want to be left out and seem like an outcast. They MUST do it if they want to survive and compete with other women within the culture and attract a high quality mate, so yes they do it "for" men in a sense. Of course lots of women will tell you they do it because they want to feel good and boost their self-esteem and don't really care about being attractive "for" a man, and I'm sure some of them do genuinely do that. I'm also sure most of them are bullshitting when they say that and are quite unaware of their own subconscious motives. Consider that it's extremely rare in Western culture to see women and girls without make-up . The ones that are opting not to dress up become aware that they are losing out on the mating game and will be confronted about their choice. Another interesting thing is goth/emo girls who protest the classic "womanly" look, but instead of opting for no make-up they are just hypocrites and just create their own style of make-up . They want their cake and to eat it too, so to say. Don't think this is just special to them though. Men, women, and other genders do things all the time "for" other people and unknowningly mask it as personal choice within the frame of their own minds. It's par for the course when you're living and operating within a culture. The work comes from trying to spot all your own behaviors and things you do that aren't really your choice but you're convinced they are.

It's all just happening man, I didn't even choose write this sentence if I'm honest about my direct experience. It just happened. That's all there seems to be, is happening.

What's with all these new media people and YouTubers always getting in deep water with some shady and illegal shit lol? Like they can't just be happy they scored and made a living with an amazing and flexible job, they just HAVE to get greedy and try to build a social media empire. I remember watching Brian Rose back before he even had 100K subscribers, he was so damn humble. Fame and success can really get to a person.

Not until Facebook, Twitter, etc are heavily regulated and they come up with some laws to keep politics out of media like not letting them fund or purchase lobbyists, or demonetizing political content creators.

Culture decides language, not law. What's that childhood phrase? "Stick and stones may break my bones but words can never break me."

Two things; 1. I don't know very much about the guy and his politics, I've only seen a few interviews. But the amount of people, (and let's be honest it's mostly Liberals) making fun of Dan Crenshaw for having one eye is sickening. For a group that is generally supposed to be tolerant of minorities (which includes disabled people) to throw around something like that as a joke is so low and puts a bad light on them. It's one thing if he had a funny nose or something that wasn't so life changing. Of course this pettiness goes in all directions, there are polarized idiots everywhere who say disgusting things so I'm not just picking on Lefties. It's also disrespectful as hell to a fellow citizen who got the injury serving in the army to protect the very people making fun of him, of course those wars are obviously bullshit and it's a Conservative delusion that we need protection by invading weak countries, but it because he got the injury with the belief he was doing something noble and that matters. It's not like it was an accident renovating his house or whatever. 2. Vaush ain't even close to Yellow, it's not even on the horizon. He is probably only a little more than halfway to Green to be honest. Just because he espouses a bunch of progressive positions it doesn't mean he's actually integrated any of them in his life. Talk is cheap, action and leading by example are what matters ultimately. - He is still hopelessly and completely mired in the confrontation/debate bullshit on YouTube. There is no end in sight for this for the near future. I don't see him radically evolving his content. It's simply too profitable and too ingrained in his identity. - You can tell the intent is there for open mindedness, but it's way overshadowed by how much a blatant ideologue he is. This is obvious any time he has his childish outbursts, gets triggered VERY quickly, and his lubricous demonization of all Conservatives as evil incarnate. - He is a hypocrite and his life choices contradicts the things he advocates for, which matters when we are talking Spiral Dynamics. If he REALLY cared about those things he wouldn't be so conveniently participating and benefitting from the Capitalist system he's in, he would organize and promote new systems, donate more of his money, start a non-profit etc. Also would adopt a meatless diet and so on. - Also he's still just a child with all the memes, name calling, and general immaturity. A part of this is marketing so I get it but yea. It is what it is. I don't need to explain why this isn't the sign of a highly developed individual. I like the guy, but he's got a lot of ground to cover. Especially if he wants to be effective in his progressivism.

You will know, if you feel it inside and don't ignore it, but it just raises the larger question; Why make it hard on yourself like you're so desperate to prove something? If you aren't vibing with someone right away and you feel you have to force things it's a good indicator to just move on. It saves yourself from needless work and saves them time being annoyed. It's not like you're on a desert island trying to restart the human race lol. There are literally tens of millions, HUNDREDS of millions of potential partners out there. It's hilarious. Never get hung up and overinvest in just one, that's stupidity.

This is hysterical. Thanks for sharing cool Iraqi dude

The whole thing just reeks of Stage Orange neuroticism - "But you can't assume 100% of cases are guilty without a few false accusations so why should I vocally support 100% of women?" It's not only about the actual cases that happen, that the job of the courts and legal system to figure out - It's about providing the social atmosphere for people who don't feel safe to be able to come forward with their traumas without being ridiculed into silence again. As men this should be so obvious to us anyways, how many of you have heard locker room talk where some guy openly admits and brags about some borderline rapey shit they got away with?

Perhaps you are putting too much pressure on yourself to "make it" which can affect your mood and enjoyment of the actual process of music. So when results don't pan out to whatever expectations you laid out you get "depressed". But is the process not supposed to be fun and euphoric like you said? Consider changed your relationship to music as not something that has to "work out" by having X followers or results, but back to that enjoyment and euphoria of giving back music to the world, regardless of the conditions. You are 26, so what? Music is not a sport where if you were an athlete your time WOULD be running out. However luckily for you music is transcendental, so there are no rules or guidelines I think you need to contemplate and rediscover that fact if you are to change your relationship to it. Do you work fulltime or go to school and make music as a hobby? With such a creative endeavor like music it should be relegated to free time where you have the space to be creative and get to enjoy it, rather than something you "need" to do because you're on a timetable.

Look I know it's tough because we as guys are hyper neurotic about being right and logical for every fucking case, but it's better for us as a society to generally believe women and victims until the justice system can do the best that is can to solve things. There is nothing fun or enjoyable for the woman to go through the process about being violated either, you think they are doing it for shits and giggles? There is massive systemic discrimination against victims who are female and/or minorities and we've only started to see real change in the past few decades. If someone is truly innocent they have nothing to worry about. Will some innocent people get falsely accused and have their lives damaged? Yes! Too bad. Some collateral damage is the cost of societal progress. You have to realize women have had the shit end of the stick for thousands of years, now things are finally starting to swing the other way. You can either have the courage to acknowledge this and help move everything forward best we can, or you can hold us all back by being a resistant twat and clinging onto logical perfection. How do you think we are going to root out the deep sexism that exists in our society that makes women feel unsafe and vulnerable? It's by giving them the space to express themselves and call it out where they see it, even if they are wrong sometimes.

I'm not going to add anything to this thread because it's obvious what it's going to turn into. But can we just take a second to appreciate the phrase "Woka-Cola". That's the funniest shit I've read in weeks

The whole NoFap thing can be great for people who need it, obviously discipline is necessary if you're so out of control it's damaging you. But people get way too neurotic about this thing. Your sexual desire and needs are a physiological aspect that must be fulfilled just like you need food and water, so either you do this in a healthy way or an unhealthy way (I recommend healthy). Neglecting it completely and trying to get "rid" of it won't work and can cause a lot of ugly things to potentially rear their head. Why do you think priests end up molesting little kids? Precisely because they are desperately trying so hard to suppress something so necessary and basic that the physiological spring they've coiled up explodes in an extremely toxic way. What you need to do is discover a healthy way to express and fulfill your sexuality, experiment and discover what works for you personally. Listen to your intuition if something feels healthy or not. Despite what you may hear masturbating can be a great tool as one doesn't always have access to sex 24/7. The question is whether or not you're going to use that tool healthily, or unhealthily.

Meh whatever, don't let this stuff bother you. I probably would have ate this video up and thought all this was a cult too if I was 18 again. Some people just aren't open minded enough or they aren't at the right point in their lives for it. When someone is ready, they are ready. Or maybe never will be! Oh well that's the brutal impersonal universe we occupy. Just be grateful it helped you in the ways it did and pay it forward. But please stoop to their level and turn it into a pissing match of Actualized.Org vs Materialism that needs to be defended like an ideology. That undermines the whole purpose of this larger self/world improvement work. Let people think what they want to think. Everything is exactly perfect just the way it is.

That sounds fun, enjoy the fuck out of it dude!

Yes you could easily and unluckily be born with a brain tumor or disease that presses on the wrong part of the brain to cause "evil" behavior.

Good video with a short history on the Suez Canal, and it's importance to the global economy and geopolitics. Highly relevant right now obviously with all the memes going around. Johnny Harris' youtube channel in general I highly recommend, he is probably the best journalist to come from Vice and because he is now solo is no longer beholden to their hilarious bias.

haha yep I feel you! idk maybe I've never been a numbers person, and the weed didn't help even though I wasn't THAT hardcore of a smoker compared to many friends I knew at the time. The problem is I'm literally daydreaming and contemplating deep stuff every day pretty much ALL the time. In my own head analyzing, and going meta, that when people start talking to me about trivial shit or numbers I need to remember, I just literally don't care. Even when I'm working and it's supposed to be "important".