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Dreamcore A Psychological horror game based on Liminal Spaces. Released in 2025 and developed by Montraluz.

Voima A indie sandbox game currently in pre-alpha as of writing this. Developed by Valtsu, a 24 year old Finnish artist.

I felt that Gurren Lagann has a strong spiritual component especially towards the end. It's kind of hard to put into words and I don't want to start spoiling, but it relates to like a supreme fearlessness and self-sacrifice on a spiritual level.

Mushishi is fantastic. It relates more to nature as a mystical force and how humans cope with tragedy and loss.

The UK doesn't have freedom of speech but freedom of expression technically, which is just a more broad definition. The UDHR recognizes that freedom of speech has limitations and need to be restricted. This law aims to curbs online harassment and abuse by regulating social media providers to better safeguard users, which is a good thing on paper in the absence of any kind of regulation. I do agree however that the stipulations around what is considered harmful is too vague currently. In practice it could result in social media platforms over censoring stuff to cover their asses but that is already kind of the case, with people self-censor to avoid getting flagged by saying stuff like "unaliving" instead of died/suicide. The UK still scores higher on freedom of expression than the US according to the Global Expression report (33th VS 88th). https://www.globalexpressionreport.org/

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If money wasn't a concern, what would you do?

What are you wearing on your head?

Women just aren't as interested in having sex for the sake of it to the same degree as men are. It is a logistical bottleneck. Being gay is much more straightforward as you just skip all the song and dance. And gay guys tend to be very crass as a result from what I've seen as you don't need nearly as much restraint. If guys where 100% honest they'd be a menace, prove me wrong.

Big money doesn't need to be exorcised, just tamed. They provide a lot of value to society. Rent-seeking behavior just need to be kept in check.

Leo tortures himself and in return we get a bunch of juicy content for free. The art of the deal!

Another point on doing nothing that I've discovered is that it is highly mood dependent. Sometimes I feel sleepy. Other times I'm full swing with my thoughts. Other times I'm borderline mediating with very little thoughts. Meditation in comparison is much more consistent in my experience, with how you focus on your breath and disengage from your thoughts and hold a sitting pose.

I've lately been experiment with "doing nothing" which is exactly what is sounds like. I start my mornings these days with 30 minutes of doing nothing, where I just sit and do nothing. I don't focus on anything in particular or restrict myself from anything except doing a particular activity. I can think as much or as little as I want and I don't have to sit still as opposed to meditation. So far, I've found doing nothing to be much better at processing emotions primarily as well as letting me contemplate things of interest compared to meditation. I find the emotional processing particularly valuable and something easily gone amiss these days. When doing nothing I feel like I'm dealing with karma that I've carried for years, bit by bit. Meditation on the other hand is much more directly relaxing and leaves me with tingly sensations. From the hundreds of hours of meditation I've done I don't remember ever feeling like I processed anything like I do with doing nothing deliberately however, probably since you consciously disengage from thoughts when meditating. Meditation feels much more like a chore while doing nothing feels more relaxed despite the former being inherently more relaxing but also more strenuous to actually do. Meditation can also feel a bit pointless in my experience. Just my two cents.

You need to balance regulating the home market while not disincentivizing big companies from investing in and building homes too much. Big companies can house thousands affordably if regulated right with none of responsibilities that owning a home comes with for renters.

Might just be one of his four dogs that mauled him (or his wife).

Good to hear. I'm happy that it was helpful ❤️.

Enjoy your Sharia law.

You're all over the place. You criticize governments for using religion for control but argue for people following religious laws over state law. You argue that religions get things wrong so why treat them as infallible? The key issue is whether or not religion actually makes your life better. The issue with state mandated religion is that blind faith cannot adapt to a complex and changing world and that it would be largely oppressive. It wouldn't grow people spiritually. You are of course fine with that when it is your religion but when the Flying Spaghetti Monster becomes state mandated you'd cry for religious tolerance and freedom.

Atheism is rejecting religion and god as being real. Their views tend to mirror religion in how they elevate science and materialism as existentially true. Secularism is the seperation of state and religion. They usually don't subscribe to a religion but many enjoy Christian traditions, like celebrating Christmas. Religion is a political instrument first and foremost. What happened was that state and church where seperated as religion became untenable for a West that became more conscious of what the role of the state was. Religion wants to monopolize the minds of people which is problematic for a society that is globalizing and increasing in diversity of perspective. Subsequent generations lost their faith as the church's influence waned. Another way of putting it is that Europe went from SD Stage Blue to Orange. From a farmer to an industrial/service society. Also, Europeans didn't originally write the Bible. What you are not recognizing is that claiming to be the end point of how to understand and see the world is part of it's structure. It needs to do this to assume authority. Religion is endlessly self-referential. It doesn't matter what is true, only that you believe. Religion isn't necessarilly a top-down affair with a tyrant forcing people to become religious for political reasons. Religion is part of a collective identity and it's enforcement is part of the collective's survival agenda. Muslim's maintain Islam because they are Muslim. This why religion goes hand in hand with culture. It's why different cultures can have different interpretations of the same religion. There are good things that have come from religion. Christianity for instance where the first to push for the emancipation of slavery. The problem with religion is that it wants to monopolize all ideology. Religion always fails to actually accomplish this because reality is too diverse to be monopolized in a simplistic and relative manner. Would you want to live in a society that oppresses you for not believing in god? But only in a very specific and culturally relative way? By what right if religion is not even objectively true? Like not being able to eat pork.

Europe outgrew religion largely though a lot of the principles that define us originate from Christianity, like equality and liberty. The West didn't become atheist but secular. Christianity is still the biggest religion in the world. Muslims stay Muslim because the middle-east is the least developed region on the planet. Their societies would be even more tribalistic and dysfunctional without religion. I can't speak on Buddhism. I'd argue that religion itself as a political tool is inherently oppressive. Being raised religious is mental bondage.

Where I live in North Europe they do more damage than good. The Christian parties tend to represent some of the most regressive politics.

Millenial spotted. Taking the shot.

Religion has value primarily as a form social control for a very low developed population. Making eating pork moral in the context of it being unhygienic is effective when you are dealing with people who can't even read. The cost of religion is that you can't turn spirituality into an ideology and you become close minded and dogmatic. It fills your worldview with contradictions. I'm not opposed to gaining value from a religion, you certainly can I believe without subscribing to the ideology, but becoming religious is a mistake.

I've been around a bunch protestant Christians in a developed country and they are generally pretty chill. Kind of have to when you are the minority and people are constantly making fun of and testing your religion.

When Christians go to heaven god catches them with a glue trap on a stick.