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@thenondualtankie That would be great!! - but it might take a few decades until this happens idk. I want a decent living until this happens.

@Yimpa Can you ask it?: "Okay that's interesting but it's not what I meant with my question. I meant that people might take psychedelics as a training to become more creative and intelligent in order to outsmart AI. What do you think of that?"

Beauty, intelligence, love, creativity, goodness might all be facets of reality and we might simply be a subset of that. So it might not be that we have these traits in a grey and stupid reality which we paint in this way but that reality is that fundamentally and it manifests these facets uniquely through us by giving us parts of the whole.

The deepest beauty in the most ugly: The more ugly something is the less you can see relative beauty in it because relative beauty is beauty relative to other ugly things. So when you find the most ugly thing in the world and try to find beauty in it and there is nothing more ugly to compare it to you can only find metaphysical beauty in it because metaphysical beauty is above comparison. So paradoxically the the most ugly things reveal the biggest picture of beauty. I snapped an even better picture which brought me to this thought but I cant find it anymore.

This is "creepy caretaker of the university" in Life is Strange Before the Storm. As I look for my own place in the world I sometimes wonder if the lower class jobs are especially suitable for spiritual people. You have a lot of freedom to think about whatever you want if your job is mainly physical and you are doing it alone and there isnt as much intellectual pressure making you conform to group think. You also see much ugly truths of society unfiltered. On the other hand you can built a special kind of ego from that. I think it's more of a trap but with some truth to it.

We sometimes act in opposite ways to our to our natural self to cover up weaknesses. Obviously but if he knew or could do that then he wouldn't come up with this. It's just an attempt to understand his perspective. I didn't make that clear.

It might be his last desperate fighting spirit before giving up and becoming a simp. edit: An attempt to understand his perspective.

I adopted a similar way of thinking in my teens although not to the same extend. I was so insecure about women especially the hot ones that I needed of way of thinking about them which would allow me to interact with them without loosing my face. So the hotter a women was the more "confident", indifferent, distanced and cold I around them. I probably needed that picture of a hot women to justify my behavior. And I also figured that women like it more than my insecure natural self which would make them cringe. For better or for worse it was a survival strategy.

@Shodburrito Its just sarcasm right?

Is butters the average kids face of a truly developed high consciousness human society, stage yellow and above?

Philosopher in the desert: I randomly stumbled across this picture which had the title „philosopher in the desert". I think it perfectly captures the nature of a philosopher in a humoristic style as someone who gets lost in wondering while simultaneously keeping his survival instincts at zero as you could easily slap 'dat ass. Which is why philosopher are so rare, you get easily caught up in survival and the ones who dont easily get exploited so they are hard-forced by the current as well.

"Moral truths" are made up Borderlands 2 is a world all of its own. People don't have traditional morals there, everyone is a "psychopath". Thats the paradigm there: the best people are the ones who are the most brutal and manipulative. Although the Borderlands 2 paradigm isnt suited for our society of course, its just a fantasy world, it's interesting that it is very easy how fast our (or at least my) mind(s) adapts to the new paradigm as it shows that moral truths aren't objective and rather something we adopt trough our environment.

Ken Wilber: "No One is intelligent enough to always be wrong." AI Arts artlessness without human steering. "Hold my beer!"

@Jordan Great will look into it.

I just watched this video with Healthy Gamer GG and what he had to say about meditation blew my mind. I thought I roughly new what it was about but his expertise and the clear way he articulated his wisdom showed me that there is probably still a lot to learn from meditation and so a lot more to get out of. I am missing comforting meditations so much actually. So my question, do you know where to find these professional meditation teacher which can show you one of the 112 meditation techniques which is tailored for you? 51:47 to 1:01:10

I hate that guy. 😂 Not sure how that's possible but I do. I am already a very calm person, so maybe that's that that it is antithetical to how love works with opposite attract each other and stuff.

True.

So this is a big obstacle for me right now. I job as a substitute teacher and probably my biggest weakness is that I am too nice. I am gullible when students mention a concern, I have problems putting students in their place, I have problems punishing wrong behavior (today I wanted to subtract a note from a student who cheated instead of giving him a bad note). At an existential level somehow I connected niceness with survival I am pretty sure. And I feel like I am in the process of unwrapping it but it feels scary as hell. I am just scared that in this process I am going to flood away the loving part as well. Like when you do a colonic irrigation you dont just flood away the bad bacteria but also the good. In general if some of you went through the same I would be very thankful for responses.

@Michael569 thanks that was a lot of good stuff. Unfortunately I only have each class 1 hour a week, there is no way a deeper connection can be formed. And as it is it's too loud to teach. I have tons of good ideas but I cant really teach them. It's really bad. I feel like a looser. I started with no experience so it's not all my fault. I never acted authoritarian in my whole life probably. But much has to do with my insecurities as well. As it is I probably need to ask for support. The second option that you mentioned sounds dreamy. Something too look up to.

Not enough lol

A meditation teacher isnt the same as a guru in my understanding (although they can be both) because a meditation teacher is simply one who has lots of knowledge and experience with how different minds function and therefore which meditation techniques are suitable for different people. Not very different from lets say an optician who studied the functionality of different eyes and therefore can make competent suggestions which glasses are suitable for the patient (for people with foresight or short-sightedness for example) - the field of a meditation teacher is just a bit more complex and mental of course.

But wouldn't you get a higher baseline state yourself if you did the practice? Even if you know fully well that this is far away from the highest states of consciousness. Thats what I dont understand.

Hate is limited Love. Stupidity is limited Intelligence. The first perspective is from a survival point of view, the second of a non survival (unbiased) point of view.

Not sure if I understand exactly what you said. It is the goal to get stuck in them. Or do you mean that you shouldn't get stuck in them in the sense that you shouldn't see them as the end goal? But when you say it still has value for everyday human existence, why do you not want to do it, you still have an everyday human existence for the most part I would guess. Or is it too much of a struggle for you to take it seriously because you have seen magnitudes above that? So is human spirituality the best that human can practically do or can it be reinvented? So you think they actually locked in the fantasy and not the higher state of consciousness? Well there are false promises everywhere. Magic weight loss, magic money making, etc. why would spiritual gurus be different especially when there are no objective ways to tell if they are right or not. So that makes sense I haven't seen that clearly.