Natasha Tori Maru

You are certainly living up to your name! Great wonder seeking - can't wait until you pop in with some insights after this trajectory change 😁

Very much so. I always look at these sorts of charged discussions in retrospect to juice out what I can do better. How it went wrong. How we can present ourselves and our arguments in a more neutral way. Offense generally appears to be produced by content, framing, timing, and the listener’s identity and context.

In the spirit of good discussion - here is my thesis What about the cost of living and providing for a family, and how this may factor in to birth rates? How do you think modernity (dare I say, capitalism), with it's atomisation of our living (possible to order in almost all we need, smaller families, more appliances, less reliance on anyone else, isolation) affects our psychologies, mental health and cost to maintain such an existence? The degradation of community as a result of atomisation means we rely on others less. No trade. No communal assistance. Smaller families to assist. Third spaces disintegrating. This is forfeit - and our cash and money now replace what community provided. We use our resources to supplant what we used to get from neighbors, friends, strong bonds with larger families. Ever since the wars, when society put women to work, a new labour force was discovered. Capitalism has benefited greatly from this; when the wars ended, women remained working as a new labour force. Women benefited from this. It was a natural progression; we gained economic independence, career opportunities, greater freedom and protection from dependance on a spouse. But there are many systemic unintended consequences to the above. The dual income trap arose; Housing markets and living standards adjusted upward around this new reality. Households that live on one income are priced out. I would argue it is this modern 'atomisation' that is, also, artificially causing a divide between men and women, which is acting as a red herring for the real problem: runaway capitalism. Men and women face different tensions as a result. Men historically derived meaning from provision, protection, family leadership, skilled labour, community status etc. This role has changed with modernity. Women face a different set of issues; expectation to build a career, maintain financial independence, raise children, maintain relationships, manage the house etc. Everyone works harder, we all feel less secure. This doesn't mean women working is the problem, but more that institutions probably haven't adapted that well to a world where all adults participate in the labour market. Social media rhetoric likes to cement itself right in the middle and leverage this pressure by creating men vs women dialogues. It's a red herring for the real problem. Depression, hopelessness, stress, meaninglessness result from the above. The future looks bleak - it's no wonder birth rates are falling in first wor;d countries Poorer counties simply do not suffer from this laceration from community and atomisation. They retain community. Family. Bonds between each other. Positively affecting mental health and happiness. They have yet to face the new systemic problems we do, as first world countries.

I do shit (shit#1) - then shit (shit#2) occurs afterwards. Shit#1 and Shit#2 appear to be associated. But in reality, all I can say is one shit is happening then another. I am making a connection between the two shits - via inference - up in my head? I got to this based on determinism / free will and reviewing this thread: Confused with free will I don't think I can say anything else other than "I observe some pattern of shit, some regularities of said shit, and some sequences of shit" Correct me if I am wrong - but I am making this connection up?

It's delicious

More drama here than I have between all the women in my life. And men aren't as emotional as woman? HA!

Do we expect poo?

https://youtu.be/qmsbP13xu6k?si=hWxdbg8-m3eL09xm

@Elliott 🙏🏻

Let's go back to some insane mind parasite reductive beats 😁😁😁

@Eskilon how intriguing about the sleep! My need for sleep has shrunk as I have traversed the path further and further. But it was gradual. Sometimes large insightful breakthroughs released so much energy in my body I COULDNT sleep for a time properly, too

Like a decoupling of attachment to desires and aversions that you now view as no longer serving you? Suddenly, the effects are made clear?

Fuck I know, I saw this too. I'm seeing it tonight RIP my hopes and dreams. The shredded tatters of the last of my passions.... 🤣

Good sir. I will 🙏🏻

It's a nice little lubricated hole for marketing, products and sales to be sold to you... Exactly the same way it's worked, tried and true, for women and cosmetic/anti-aging serum industries. Same model, rebranded. Some insecurities shoved down your throat. A while new generation of consumers bodies prepped for the pitch. Widening the market. Only this time, there is no stopping. No balance. "Max" Gotta watch that sales and marketing cock coming at you 😎

@AtmanIsBrahman is beauty objective and never subjective?

@Jirh when I feel like I am close to some certainty it all unravels again just as rapidly as I weave it together 🤯😜

This is my first introduction to this rule 😜 Does it allow for "chunking" - IE these 7 items can be bundles of stuff? I've been using this chunking thing to recall more info for work as a practice for a couple of months to great effect (sidetrack I know)

I normally roll with "you are entitled to your opinion, but that doesn't mean it's free from critique"

@AION do you have any resources to link, if it is too much to write?

https://github.com/nzaki-dev/dialog

That's fine, you can have your opinion. Same for all

Expressions of gratitude are my favourite Unfortunately, there are some nasty forum players who dislike this: there have been accusations of ganging up, glazing, and needlessly interrupting the flow of threads just because they didn't like a poster expressing agreement (even via an emoji, checkmate etc) It is sad to see. Humans love to feel emotions. Drama or contentious threads happen to engage them - good or bad. It's such a shame that many are so numbed by life that even bad feelings (self generated) through heated drama and controversial topics, are better than feeling nothing at all... When people disagree you get more engagement even without emotions. The best insights don't have much activity as sometimes others just don't have anything to add. Which can point toward a true, well rounded post. Does not mean accolades are not warranted! In the spirit of the thread: good post 😃

I feel stuck reconciling time, how it works. As a dimension of reality. One thing happens. Then another. Totally seperate. But I can use my intellect and pattern recognition to infer causation. Progression through time. Time can't exist - but it does? Or I make it up to create and make sense of reality. Time itself feels created by conscious awareness through a series of memories. But the universe itself does not appear to be "becoming" moment to moment. Nothing is bloody happening haha

Can you elaborate on this? Do you view causation occuring in your direct experience of concrete reality?