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It seems like education might be the confounding variable.

Sounds like GTA.

By the way guys, you aren’t killing anything. If anything you are creating an ego that wants an ego death. Very sneaky. There is nothing wrong with the ego. It’s a necessary fiction in order to play the game called survival. You cannot have Christmas without Santa and likewise cannot have reality without self.

The opposite. It’s inventing one in the first place.

Is it possible for Santa Clause to die if Santa Clause is nothing but a figment of your imagination?

I like it! Time is like gravity. You cannot see it, but it exists. It is a quality of consciousness.

Singing is also a great meditation. Contemplation is one of the deepest forms I know of.

there is no such thing as an ego death because the ego never existed in the first place.

Hey fellas. Your arguments about God are taking time away from arguing about time.

I would say that movement is dependent on time. Time is as real as gravity. You cannot see gravity, but you can witness the effects of it. Likewise, if you drop a pen, it could not fall without time. If there is no time, reality would be frozen and there would be nothing to think about. You couldn’t even read this message or respond to it without time. Change is occurring in the now, but change is bound by time. There is a before and an after. Our mind constructs this, but it is as real as dropping a pen. There is a before the pen is in my hand and an after it is on the ground, before you read this post and an after, before you learn something and after. How would you explain this evident truth thst there is a before and after? If there is no time, then how do you explain change. It is hard to conceive of change existing without a before and after.

Play the guitar. Music is my favorite meditation.

I’m 27 years old and I haven’t had sex in 27 years. You are okay mate. Sex is a drug.

I saw Leo's blog post on Philosophical Counseling, and something about it doesn't seem quite right. The title Philosophical Counselor seems to misrepresent the field of counseling. A master's or PHD in philosophy does not mean that you are now qualified to counsel clients through mental health struggles. There is already Existential Therapist or Existential Counselor, which is a specific form of mental health counseling that helps people deal with existential issues such as death anxiety, meaninglessness, career concerns, etc. My issue is that this field of philosophical "counseling" should really be called philosophical "coaching" or "consultant." I currently am an Existential Therapist, and it is a great life purpose. A typical PHD or Masters program in Philosophy is not going to prepare you for the mental health struggles of people as compared to a Masters or PHD in counseling. There is a difference between a mental health counselor and life coach. Likewise, there is a difference between Philosophical coaching and Existential Therapist. I would suggest pursuing Existential Therapist as a life purpose as opposed Philosophical Coaching because there are more opportunities and more of a demand for mental health counselors. As an Existential Therapist, you can practice a wide variety of therapy modalities such as EMDR, SFBT, CBT, etc. This is what I do. Just food for thought.

Damn. That’s counterintuitive. I was mistaken.

Would be nice, but as Leo stated, hardly anyone is interested in dogma-free thinking. And ChatGPT has replaced that job pretty much. It is kind of paradoxical to hire a philosophical consultant to teach you how to think because really this can be done on your own. Thinking is not something you can outsource because if you did, then you wouldn’t be engaging in independent high quality thought.

If that is the case, then this life purpose would be almost obsolete.

i guess this is the hard problem of science in a nutshell. And the hard problem of life.

I guess where do you draw the line? If you are working with people as a philosophical “counselor” you are gonna run into people with trauma, depression, grief, anxiety, etc. that require someone with more training, which is where an existential therapist comes into play. As a philosophical “counselor” you’re not gonna be able to help Hamlet with reconciling his thoughts on suicide because it would be unethical to practice outside of one’s training. My point is that this field seems nice on paper, but when put into practice, you are going to have a lot of people come to you that, unless you are damn good at philosophical “counseling”, they would do better with just seeing a good existential therapist. But I could be wrong. I don’t know where you draw the lines between when to refer a client to therapy if you are a life coach.

I personally like ChatGPT 4 better than Claude. Gpt gives more thorough answers and will call you out on crap. Claude blows smoke up the ass. ChatGPT can analyze website links whereas Claude cannot.

I felt trolled after watching Infinity of Gods episode. How can there be infinite sovereign minds?

With question 6, I am curious as to how true knowing of reality is possible. It seems like he advocates for contemplation as a path to enlightenment. I am not sure what his stances are on meditation and psychedelics. But he seems to suggest that skepticism and contemplation are methods and that when there is no need for further contemplation or doubt, you have Truth.

The real test is if you can have these discussions with him and see if he is willing to listen. Explore what’s holding you back. All relationships have conflict. But it is about how you both go about working through it. If he didn’t have the status he has, would you still love him? At the end of the day, it is about how a man makes you feel, not just what he can give you.

Thanks! I assume that if they did come fresh, I could use an air dryer on them or put them in the oven? I plan on talking to my friend this coming Wednesday.

Yeah. I have no idea. I am going to see what I am going to get. Maybe I can ask my friend to order me some dry mushrooms in advance. I assume you can tell they are fresh by how moist or dry they are?

@halfknots Thanks so much for your detailed practical response! Do I need a desiccant or could I just air dry the mushroom and put it in the concealed jar in my closet? What do you find to be your favorite way of drying mushrooms?