Basman

The human brain has a negativity bias, because it is advantageous to survival. You want to make it a habit to rewire that tendency to worry and take your situation for granted if you want to feel more happy more often. At the end of the day, you want to think about how the day was different and unique, what where some gains that you made, and what where you proud of yourself for today. You can generate a lot of happiness, make time feel slower and give yourself approval with just your mind.

If you are not in politics, then political burn out is a little nonsensical. Decouple and focus on living your life. Especially if you don't have any influence. That's what the majority does. Depolitization is the norm in first world democracies, for better and for worse. Remember, we live in the most prosperous age in human history. Imagine the kind of sociopolitical environment just your grandparents used to live in. Hardship is the norm throughout history, but relatively we live pretty cushy lives overall. You have the opportunity to do most things that you put your mind to, including impacting politics. That kind of opportunity was much harder earned in the past. Even as things slide back slightly you have so much freedom to live according to your values. Modern society is utopic is many aspects compared to the past.

When shaving my balls, I just foam 'er up in the shower and squat and gently shave. I keep the shower pointed elsewhere. It takes like five minutes top.

I usually shave regularly and keep the bush trimmed short. Shaving the bush is not worth it on a regular basis. It just turns into a red itchy mess and doesn't blend with the abdominal hair unless you shave that too. I've plucked once too. It gives the best and most long lasting results. Usually I need to shave once a week but with plucking I could go 3 weeks to a month without having to do anything. It does take 2-3 hours of concentration to pluck every little hair with tweezers.

I have a growing playlist of memes of nearly 500 videos. Might share some of the good one here. Good some real spicy one's as well.

The kind of construct awareness and epistemic discussions you see on these forums are indeed rare. And users are constantly striving to learn and improve their minds independent from institutions and traditions. It's cutting edge in a sense, though a lot of ideas don't stick, which is only natural. Where else are you going to find those kind of qualities? Academic institutions are extremely conservative in reality, so not there. Where else can you seriously discuss the merits of aliens in an epistemically grounded way? Or some other mindfuck shit?

You can't outsource spirituality to an institution completely. The survival incentives of institutional religions are going to negatively influence your spirituality. Celibacy is valid but should be a personal choice, I believe.

What I like about this forum is that the posts and comments are almost always substantive. People have something to say as opposed to variations of "I agree" and two sentence comments for the entire thread. The weaker aspect is that some users sometimes tend to be some kind of ideological and overly argumentative or just yap way too much.

The forum is a resource. If you make it private for users only then you are depriving the internet of potentially useful information as well as this forum of potential new users. You argument is to essentially to cut all traffic. If your posts are so sensitive, then you shouldn't be posting it on a public forum in the first place, is my first instinct. Certain discussion could perhaps be made users only but you generally should treat this as public space.

It's sobering to see just how political and corrupt the leadership of these Buddhist institutions are just because they end up amassing so much influence and money. I almost can't blame them completely for being chimps in robes, but it those kind of show that you can't rely on institutions completely for spiritual attainment. Being the pope in any religion is ballin. It would be exceptional if they didn't use their position of power and wealth to fuck a bunch of women and live in luxury.

This hurts to watch. How can someone possibly be this American and loud?

Just like with your imagination essentially?

Well, yeah. I know it is simplistic and goofy, which is why I said "kinda good check".

China's government is less in bed with corporations compared to the US. Bad societal development is arguably just a matter of regulation to a certain extent, so when we get developments that are bad for society broadly speaking we have to ask why hasn't the government done anything about it. If the government is corrupt/innept then we have an issue.

It's kind of obvious that the west is more developed broadly. There are more countries like Somalia than there are countries like Sweden. But they all want the fruits of Swedish development like money and stability (except maybe the gay stuff). It's not about putting the West on a pedestal, but about having an accurate view of the world situation. If you are born in a developed nation you are you so extremely lucky. Besides just a general quality of life, you have so much opportunity to change you situation compared to developing country. So much more freedom to align your life with your values. Your more free from being stuck in raw survival mode. A tier 1 bias would be to reject stage orange as a whole.

A kinda good check to see if a country is more developed is to ask yourself if you would rather live in one country over another. For example, Somalians would rather live in Sweden than Somalia.

Developed countries are much more isolated from the harshness of reality because they have handled base survival so effectively, relatively speaking. So people can get away more with immaturity and magical thinking. Mental health is luxury which developed countries can afford to care about which is why you see them better record it (in addition to having more better infrastructure and bureaucracy enabling such). Life is so much harder elsewhere that mental health isn't even considered. You have a lot less options to attain happiness in developing nations. Most people are just scraping by. I think Western nations being largely stage orange suffer from cultural hollowing and broadening inequality which leads to a lot of unhappiness, as humans need community, purpose and to be politically and economically included. This isn't a mistake but a sign that the current stage of development is nearing exhaustion.

There is a growing sentiment that authoritarians have it more together as a state. In China, the nation own the corporations while it is more the other way around in the US.

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Bro just wants a harem.

This is actually not entirely correct. The Ukraine War is about regime security primarily.

@Joshe This girl has likely serious mental health issues. It's atypical.