Rafael Thundercat

Member
  • Content count

    4,061
  • Joined

  • Last visited

About Rafael Thundercat

Personal Information

  • Location
    Portugal
  • Gender
    Male

Recent Profile Visitors

6,904 profile views
  1. About the old post Michael Oakeshott's Conservatism https://www.actualized.org/insights/michael-oakeshotts-conservatism Sometimes I think this lond theory events points towards the things Oakeshoot was trying to say:
  2. @Recursoinominado good analysis. I see somehow like this too. We brasilians are up for a big ride next years if this asswhole wins.
  3. The Truth About Pickup October 4, 2026 Nearly every guy who I met in pickup was immoral. Moral men do not enter pickup. I was the only moral one there, which made me feel like a white swan amongst ravenous ducks. The more narcissistic and psychopathic one is, the more one is attracted to pickup. The more moral one is, the more one is disgusted by pickup. Pickup is the art of manipulating women to maximize sex. Pickup is an ego trip and a power trip. The point is not to get a girlfriend or wife, the point is to remain immature as long as possible and to use as many women for sex and as many men for money as possible. That’s what the pickup industry is, from someone who’s seen it all from the inside and from behind-the-scenes but never fully partook because I respect truth. Nobody in pickup respects truth and they don’t respect women either. If you tell them this, they will deny it, because they are all liars. Nothing corrupts the mind quite like chasing sex for years and decades. You are slowly boiling yourself alive like a frog with your lies and manipulations. Anima Possession in Men – Modern Man's Quest https://share.google/udoMjkQNg0hHriCnK
  4. I like this video very much. I am in Brasil now and Brasilian Society and Politics is full of crazy contraticions. Now we are near the elections and some batshit corruptions going on So, if there is a place where politicians are clueless this place is Brasil. The Election will show now if even after all the scandals of Bolsonaro Family,Vorcaro Master Bank, and many other shit, the people will still vote against their own interests. They call here in Brasil, "Poor Rigth Wingers", maybe similar to the MAGA people. Here are people who benefited from public services as "Bolsa Family" Health Benefits and much more. I dont know yet the amount of strategy Flávio Bolsonaro and his alliances (Trump included) are doing to he be able to win the fisrt term. People here are saying that if he won the first, the chances for a Turn over in the second will be difficult. I know there a few brasilians here so I dont hope to much engagement in this thread. But I appreciate any sharing since some of you may have acess to comentaries about this that are not coming to my algoritm.
  5. I havd many friends always into Astrology Talks and Tarot reading. Even my mother is into Tarot and Radiestesia and using penduluns to ask the universe stuff. Is like watching kids talking for me and I dont even have desire to take them put of their daydreaming.
  6. Actualized Quotes #758 https://www.actualized.org/insights/actualized-quotes-758 This quote inspired me to watch again the Deconstruction of Rationality again. A Rationalist if deep down motivated by Fear. Fear of Insanity. At leat this is one think that I felt in some Ayahuasca experiences because depending of how strong the brew is it can take your mind in the brick of losing grip with Reality in a Rational sense. .... Also I am now in the point where is questioned what consist of an Apple, when apple becomes you when you eat it. Well, I know I should contemplate that by myself but I asked Claude for it just to see the word choices it will give since it cant think out of what is scientific consesus: I will bold the words I think are interesting and beg question. " Mouth and stomach: structure breaks down. Chewing ruptures the apple's cell walls, and saliva starts mixing. The stomach adds acid and churning, and the apple becomes a slurry (chyme). There's almost no protein or fat to digest, so the stomach's job is mostly mechanical. Small intestine: the apple's identity ends here. 😂 The apple's sugars (fructose, glucose, sucrose) are split into single molecules and carried through the gut wall by specific transporters. At that point it's no longer "apple sugar", just generic fructose and glucose, identical to what would come from any other food. Vitamin C, potassium, and some polyphenols are absorbed the same way. Liver: reassignment. Everything absorbed goes through the portal vein to the liver, which converts most fructose into glucose, stores some as glycogen, and turns any excess into fat. Cells: the apple becomes you. Glucose enters your cells and is broken down in the mitochondria. Its carbon leaves mostly as CO₂ through your breath, and its hydrogen ends up as water. The energy released is captured in ATP, which powers your muscles, neurons, and everything else. Some of the carbon is instead used as raw material: ribose for your DNA and RNA, carbon backbones for amino acids, and fat or glycogen stores. Those atoms physically become part of your body. Colon: the part you can't digest. Pectin and fiber pass intact to the colon, where gut bacteria ferment them into short-chain fatty acids like butyrate. These feed your colon lining and influence inflammation and immunity. The bacteria also transform the polyphenols into compounds you absorb. What's left leaves as stool. So the apple doesn't get "absorbed" as an apple. It's disassembled down to generic molecules, and then you decide which become fuel (exhaled or excreted) and which become structure. The atoms are interchangeable; what's you is the pattern they get arranged into. On your dosha: apple is mixed for Pitta-Vata. Its sweet, astringent, cooling quality soothes Pitta, but raw, it's light and drying, which can aggravate Vata. Cooked or stewed with cinnamon or cardamom suits both much better. What drew you to this question: the biology, or the philosophical edge of where "apple" ends and "me" begins?" It gave some info about my Dosha because I trained it to give me that whenever I talk about foods.
  7. Homework here: Sit in a Dark Room and imagine how is to be this Israely woman: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DdRaoWONriY/?stkn=MW96d3BoaTI0emhyaw== And do all without moralizing like the commenter do. I confess I think I cant do it. Maybe Putin is easier
  8. These guys marked their ethicity or whatever they are for ages to come. And thats why they cant stop. They know the world (or parts of the world) will hate them for long time. And the truth is.. they reproduce. So, the history will not end to soon.
  9. India Rape situation. https://www.instagram.com/p/DeCJoAeggEm/?stkn=MWd4NGVxOGJlZ20zdw== And https://www.instagram.com/p/Dd_6f7olkr1/?img_index=7&stkn=d3V5Y25uc2Fkc3Ew
  10. To contemplate how Human Rigths are invented is deep. But is simple. Try to claim human rigths for a Aligator running towards you.
  11. Warning: extreme graphic content. https://archivegenocide.com Better not watch before going to bed. I saw just a bit and is enough.
  12. There is a website opensource with all possible videos of the terror in Gaza. Is like an Archive to keep the records of the Genocide. Now lets if there will be a Numbreg Trial of this one. https://www.instagram.com/reel/DeANd2-IOGl/?stkn=M2puZmpqdm92ejVj
  13. Mystics and Sufi Masters.pdf https://share.google/MZTS610U1cQSev4Qb
  14. Right now, rape culture is being exposed. Your body holds an accurate awareness of the violence and the blame placed on women who report sexual assault, but your mind probably rarely lets you acknowledge it until, of course, something exposes it the way this case is doing now. If you can't stop reading about Cornell, it's because this case has made rape culture impossible to deny. Every woman lives with her body under threat, and most of the time we manage by pretending otherwise, pushing that knowledge far enough away to get on with our lives. We have to, or else a lot of us would be paralysed in a trauma response all day long. Right now, many of us can't push it away. The phrase rape culture came out of American feminist organising in the 1970s. In 1993 the editors of Transforming a Rape Culture defined it as "a complex of beliefs that encourages male sexual aggression and supports violence against women." Since the psychologist Martha Burt began measuring them in 1980, researchers have called those beliefs rape myths. Most of us grew up hearing them as common sense, such as the idea that a woman who drank too much was asking for it, or that a woman who didn't fight back must have wanted it. Every one of those beliefs places the blame for rape on what a woman did with her body, so rape culture teaches women to manage their bodies as if their safety depended on it. It also leaves us less safe, because men who share these beliefs face fewer consequences, and women who are assaulted start doubting themselves before anyone else has the chance. Girls learn these rules years before they have words for them, and by adulthood the rules have become part of how a woman moves, which is how rape culture comes to live in the body. Rape culture is mostly made of assumptions that people would never say out loud, which is part of why women find it so hard to name. But in a case like this one, those assumptions appear in text messages and legal filings, and they read as bluntly as women have always suspected. Rape culture puts forward the belief that her body doesn't belong to her and that her no is meaningless in comparison to his desires. Women have always known this belief was there, even when nobody said it, and we have organised our lives around it. We watch our drinks, and we share our location with a friend before a first date. The sociologist Fiona Vera-Gray calls this safety work, the effort, much of it habitual, that women put into never becoming the woman who can no longer say no. Because we've done it since we were girls, most of us file it under being sensible. Then a story like this one puts that threat into plain language, with names and a screenshot of the group chat. After years of bracing, you finally have the thing in front of you, written down. That's usually when the anger comes, often with a need to keep reading that you can't quite explain to anyone. Many of us feel it because it has happened to us. The CDC's latest national survey found that 45.1 per cent of American women have experienced contact sexual violence in their lifetimes, and 21 per cent have experienced completed or attempted rape. For a lot of the women reading about Cornell, this goes beyond a somatic reckoning with rape culture. It brings back their own experiences of violence and violation, experiences that never received justice either. By @AileyJolie
  15. Some points brougth up by Toi Smith, @toimarie on IG Patriarchy lacks an ethos of love and care. It does not socialize men to tend, be transparent, anticipate, be accountable, repair, or show deep regard for women as full subjects rather than resources. Women struggle to receive these things from men every day inside monogamous relationships. So I remain underwhelmed by the idea that expanding a man's access to more women is, in itself, particularly liberatory. Patriarchy has never had much of a problem with men having access to multiple women. Of course, what makes ethical non-monogamy different is that everyone is consenting, and that matters. But consent isn't enough for me because it doesn't undo our socialization inside patriarchy. It doesn't erase what men have been taught to expect from women, what women have been taught to accommodate from men, or the relationships to power, care, and entitlement that we carry with us. We can change the agreement and change the structure. We can make the whole thing consensual, but that doesn't necessarily change the people entering it. And I'm far more interested in whether men have interrogated the patriarchal man they bring into relationships than I am in how radical the relationship structure appears to be. I was going to say that most men haven't done the work required to be in responsible, caring relationships with multiple women. But actually I think it begins further upstream than that. Most men haven't developed a sufficient analysis of their own formation inside patriarchy, particularly in the intimate and relational realm, to even recognize what the work is, let alone begin doing it. And we know this because so many men struggle to develop the transparency, accountability, tending, reciprocity and standard of care required to be in relationship with just one woman.