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Glad that we agree on this. It's hard to say. In my current view of things, that extent varies between people, so it's not the same for everyone. You might be more genetically inherently predisposed for awakening while others not at all. So, genetics are first order. And second order would be environment. Then practice and everything else (including education, perspective, limiting beliefs, etc.). I think that there's a range of importance to consider here as well. Some people's genes might have a major effect on them, and others not so much, while others (most people I would say) somewhat fairly. So there's some flexibility in there, and not everything is 100% determined. At least not everything is determined on the second order level, but only on the first order level. We might say that there's a general genes flexibility factor that differs from one person to another, which might or might not have the same value (levels of importance) when it comes to specific skills or functions. Like maybe your genes are flexible in regards to spiritual work, but not to sports. Or maybe they're flexible in all areas. Also, there's an obvious difference between being born normal vs. handicapped vs. superhuman. Someone born with legs is different from someone born without any. And they're both different from someone born with legs that are made for running. Like you said, it is a huge and complex topic, and I have actually written a better and more detailed reply but lost it to error 403 on posting.

Not really. Dude, just stop! What do you even know about genetics? Do you understand how inheritance works? Do you know that there are two types of genes? Do you know that just because my grandmother's eyes were blue does not mean that my eyes should necessarily be blue? For more info: https://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/health/conditionsandtreatments/genes-and-genetics

The hand exercise is not meant to convince you logically. It's meant to open up your mind to the possibility of something beyond logic. Your hand is imaginary means that your hand is not a material thing. But don't make this imagination pointer into another materialistic concept. Personally, I would not recommend using that pointer (imagination), though. Because it's not accurate. Hence, you're here posing this objection. Instead, I would use Zen pointers to help you deconstruct your mind. Then after that, you're free to construct whatever you want.

Maybe not here, and maybe not in the sense that genetics don't exist. But I am certain that I saw him more than once undermining the role of genetics in spiritual work.

Wait, are you saying empty your cup first? Or are you trying to quote Jordan Peterson?

@Consilience How can you doubt genetics but believe in reincarnation?

Masculine = Mask of lying. Nice!

His ego spiraled out of control. That's what happened to him.

Kinda got me confused there. Is it clarity or nonsense? Anyway, I wish I could do way with fapping, but I can't. Apparently, my dick is bigger than my brain lol.

Said my dick after ejaculation, each and every time.

Woke up at 2 am. No electricity. Waited till around 5. Watched the sunrise. Saw God. Then I decided to go on a morning walk. Walked for about 3 hours all throughout the city. Meditated and listened to music. Then at the park near home, I played football with two youths for about 30 minutes, and I got exhausted. Whatever the fuck happened to my stamina?! I mean I'm not the best football player, but today my level was cringy and clumsy at best. I haven't been playing for ages, nor have I even been doing any regular sports either other than walking. Still, it was a draw in the end. I enjoyed it so much. It reminded me of the meaning of life. No man should ever spend a day in his life without doing sports. Men have to sweat. Sport is healthy. And I thought my health was perfect before. Turns our there are higher levels of health even. Dammit, God! And God dammit! My health is already great but it's nowhere close to where it can and should be. I'm living in toxic conditions that limit my ability to becoming the best human ever, physically and mentally. I can't wait to end this nonsense and live up to my fullest potential. Soon everything will be perfect. Start your timer. You'll see.

Life is never static, but it can appear so if certain conditions are met. There's no recipe for living life properly. You gotta come up with one for yourself and keep sharpening it all the time. Though, there are recipes for living life improperly. To live properly, you have to be at least informed, hyper aware, and intelligent. Lack in any of these traits will fuck you up if those conditions I talked about earlier aren't met.

I am crazy, irrational, biased, and stupid. But I wear the masks of logic, rationality, science, and intelligence.

I am not a disagreeable person. It's just that after a certain level of insight it becomes really hard to agree with perspectives that lack enough nuance, which is like 96.69% of perspectives. It's because there's an insight gap between me and others. I do understand them, but they can't even really understand what I say, let alone understand me. This happens both in real life and online. People don't understand much of what I say unless I break it down and really bring it down to their level. And I don't even talk much abstraction. Really, most of what I say is very down-to-earth. It's just that people are too deaf to hear and too blind to see. And on top of that, many of them are entitled, especially the younger they are, so they expect everything to be delivered to them ready for consumption, those lazy entitled narcissistic hippies. I just can't help but love them

Joseph thinks there's value in personality models. ???

A recent quote from Leo in the most recent discussion about Ralston's views on psychedelics. The claim here is that high consciousness and human functionality are somehow antithetical to each other. It is an absurd thing to claim, and I'm not exactly sure why nobody is calling out this nonsense, and kind of shocked that Leo is still broadcasting this idea. So without more introductions or any further ado, let's dig right into it. Here are my thoughts: Let's assume that it is true that the more conscious you get the less functional you become as a human being. Well, that means that this alleged "high consciousness/God state" does not include human functionality, which is at the very least extremely suspicious to me. Next, and on the same note, let's say it is true and we don't really have a say in the matter and we don't understand why it has to be this way because we are stupid humans with limited minds and ultimately because we are "not awake". So to me it sounds like this alleged "high consciousness/God state" comes at a price, so that means it needs resources, like brains and ATP and all that. Basically, what that means is that there are physical brains that control the states and functionalities of consciousness. And these physical brains are the ground for consciousness. There is no consciousness without a brain. Next, and on the same note again, let's say that we are stupid humans again and we don't understand how we are fooling ourselves into believing in brains when in fact all that there is is consciousness. If that was truly the case, then why would God have this limitation? Why couldn't God be completely functional as a human while at the same time be God-realized? Limitation is inherent to form, and God is allegedly infinite formlessness, so why would finite form control infinite formlessness? How could it? I thought God the formless creates all forms with all the limitations, not the other way around. To me, this only means that it is actually the other way around, and that God lives inside the physical brain. Let's say that we have 100 ATP particles in total (random number) that the brain is using to function and produce (1) consciousness and (2) human functionality. If that is true, then these two functionalities (1) are inherently merely physical brain functions (2) they share the same limited resources (3) therefore are limited/finite functionalities (4) therefore consciousness cannot be infinite, but rather a contemporary symptom of a physical brain. Consciousness can't be truly infinite if it requires energy or anything else. It could only be truly infinite if it was self-sufficient, which it doesn't seem to be the case at all. In fact, there are more evidence that it is not self-sufficient than evidence that it is. Now, more to debunking the myth directly. In my experience, the more conscious I become the more functional I become as a human, so my experience so far actually seems to contradict and defy the claim that "I cannot maintain human function at the highest levels". It actually doesn't make any logical sense why high consciousness would contradict human functionality. Like seriously, why would it? This question becomes especially prominent when you hear claims of Absolute Love, Freedom, Intelligence, and all that. Like anyone can basically intuit that these things would only contribute and amount to more functionality, not less. You don't need to think so hard or be sophisticated. It doesn't take much wisdom or experience to see that actually less consciousness = less functionality. You are least functional when you are asleep, and someone is least functional when they are in a coma. That's low consciousness, not high at all. Even a child can attest to this. I'm sure I left out some thoughts and that I haven't said everything that I wanted to say. I don't know how anyone could mentally masturbate their way out of what I said here, to me it seems pretty solid and concrete at least for now. But I am open to updating my thoughts if there are more convincing ones out there. Thanks for reading, and I hope that you will find this at least somewhat beneficial.

According to MBTI freaks, the alleged cognitive functions are more important than the surface level alleged types. It's a funny model, gotta admit.

My personality type is GOD. Period.

I'm praying that someday y'all get out of this toxic rabbit hole of an ideology called MBTI.

So basically, parents have more control over their children's zodiac sign than their MBTI. Nice to know.

So to recap, the main differences between zodiac signs and the MBTI system are: There are 12 zodiac signs vs. 16 personality types. You're born with your zodiac sign, but you develop your personality type before 5 y/o and then you're stuck with it for the rest of your life.

Flaking is a passive-aggressive behavior, especially the longer you've known the person. You don't want these kinds of people in your life, so you should be rather happy. It's literally their loss and your gain, cuz you stay true to your word while they don't. You follow a moral principle while they don't. If you lend someone $20 and never see them again, it's totally worth it.