Natasha Tori Maru

I agree. It is a difficult issue - some of the younger gen learn attraction mechanisms based on a toxic online environment. These "skills" then do not directly translate to face-to-face attraction. They actually tend to retard development.

So, when you have a worldview or frame that acts to discount any falsifiability - the model is self sealing. Exchanges will then repeatedly function to discount the phenomenological information supplied by anyone - the frame is being used to reduce other people to NPC's. If you don't agree - you are "lower", "not conscious enough", "projecting", "need to do shadow work", "not sufficiently intellectually developed". Any objections to the framework are explained away. The model acquires a built-in defence against falsification. This is how you get stuck in paradigms. It also has the rather nasty side effect of reducing the person down to some mechanism and can potentially induce a dehumanizing feeling in others (they are just NPC's the model explains, not real people with individual meaning, experience, values that genuinely differ). What is worse - is when the model (or frame) is then used to pathologise some part of your view in a further attempt to reduce, discount and discard any genuine points being raised against it. "Your argument is mistaken because your psychology is defective."

We should be treating medical circumstances as unknown unless more detailed information is provided - putting forth solutions based on inference rather than asking what is referred to isn't charitable.

I would laugh if the word slop wasn't used. Geriatric would send me 🤣

Very difficult issue though - adapt to a horrid courtship environment and potentially learn maladaptive relational strategies that can translate to poor relationship skills. Previously when apps weren't a thing, there was more opportunity to learn many of these relational skills though socialisation. And real, face to face feedback from others would give you something to reflect against that would encourage the fostering and growth of good, healthy social dynamics. You didn't tend bring along maladaptive habits from a digital environment - because it wasn't as big of a thing. Think gen z stare

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This is about where I sit on this topic. Well said. Dating apps and social media in particular can fuck off. It tend to view it as green flag when someone isn't on them.

Listened while I made dinner - cheers for the share. Get around all the points you raised and overall review ❤️

Same for me, really. I find it confusing. MAKE IT MAKE SENSE Also worth it to note - we are doing two very different things when we say "I don't prefer stories in videogames" to ripping on a videogame by claiming it is childish.

I just dismissed his take there - it was said from ignorance. If Leo doesn't like story in videogames that's cool.

The survival brain! Ambiguity is not appreciated from the lymbric brains perspective. Yes. Huge topic.

@Joshe And for this enquiry - I wasn't able to tame the Ni drive for closure. I wanted an ANSWER god dammit. I feel I'm not done with castigating Authenticity thoroughly, though. But it is a good exercise in driving into the feeling of "wonder" (which is a not-knowing). I find anything that can trigger genuine wonder in me is fuel for good Ni times. Which is why I have a hard on for "not-knowing" but not as a form of knowledge erasure or preliminary space, but genuine wonder. Curiosity and awe. That real "what the fuck?" feeling of encountering something that is clearly bigger than my current knowledge, where I can't immediately compress it into an explanation. That combination of curiosity + awe + epistemic insufficiency is delicious. I think I like wonder as a doorway because it doesn't require an absence of an answer - just a recognition that what I currently have on file is inadequate. Not knowing can be confused with just "empty".

I guess the point of the discussion for me is the dislike of how imprecise and underdetermined the term is, and how it acts to convolute points. People talk of AuThENtiCiTy BrO - and I always want to ask - what the actual fuck do you mean? I feel like without explicitly stating the relation & what we are acting in authenticity TO, it means nothing. If it means nothing and everyone throws it around - it's just a buzzword. Word salad. I kind of want to kill the word now

Did you have some trusted preliminary evidence of efficacy and safety of the drug prior to announcing the retreat? I ask because testing prior to announcement seems the ideal sequence. But if you were operating from a good, trusted source, only to test it yourself and find different results - that would explain the cancellation following testing. You may have had a unique set of variables that revealed the failure of the drug to perform.

This is such a total false dichotomy! I am both! If story isn't your thing, then these legacy games (OOT, Majora) will hit like a wet noodle compared to say, BOTW.