Basman

Anything beyond just reaching tier 2 is desert in my opinion. Too much jerking off to obscure eastern religious figures.

Its not too late to change your life. You'll just have less energy and more responsibilities as you get older.

One thing you have to consider when it comes to meaning is that meaning is fundamentally a projection of the human mind. The way our minds conceptualize and perceive meaning is inherently human centric and driven by our needs and desires, which betrays meaning as arbitrary in the absolute sense. The distinction between objects and tools for example. Such distinction don't exist in nature outside of a human perspective. There is no difference between a hammer and a rock from a non-human perspective. This logic extends to the meaning we assign to our work and ourselves, We value certain kinds of work because they help our community in a certain kind of way and fulfill us personally. It is a highly human way to see reality, in terms of meaning. Meaning is essentially an arbitrary distinction regardless of how meaningful something is to us. Assuming its true that we as humans create meaning and project it unto the world, consider that it doesn't really matter if things are meaningless in the grand scheme of things because we are the only ones that care about such. The "grand" doesn't have an agenda like that. If everything is meaningless in the grand scheme of things you will still feel certain things are meaningful to you personally. Something you'd pay to do for its own sake. Like petting kittens, raising children, helping others, be a teacher, make art, being a good lover, ending the day feeling like you've been an asset, etc. Absolute meaninglessness is a good thing because it enables the freedom to live according to your values. It would suck if the classical biblical god existed and demanded that we live according to his values and his alone. You have the freedom to pursue your values, which is what you want. You are probably just not sure what they are exactly.

Its obviously harder to assess something you are part of. But learning about less developed places and pointing out their backwardness makes you appreciate living in a developed country more. I'm so glad I live where I do.

Most of these issues are things that simply need time to be resolved as opposed to direct political action since women as a political and labor class is fairly young. You are not going to see change over night but the change that has happened till now is fairly rapid. Many of these questions are moot problems with that perspective (They should be taken serious though, of course). There are differences between the sexes which aren't going to change in my opinion. Most women don't desire leadership roles for one, I think. The gold standard shouldn't be equity but freedom of opportunity. Men and women have different talents and proclivities which will express itself in society differently. The medical example is funny because the opposite is true of therapy. Sexual discrimination and harassment is apparently quiet prevalent recently at Blizzard, Ubisoft and the likes. A girl killed herself over rampant sexual harassment at Blizzard. A pregnant employee had her bottled breast-milk routinely stolen at the office. Its no accident that after all the lawsuits and exposing of these companies that they work really hard to project a "progressive" image. The economical problem with working women is that being pregnant and working are fundamentally incompatible because you can't do both at the same time without either suffering. Its why historically women weren't the main breadwinners. Regulation of the labor market, workers leave, etc. will help compensate but it won't fundamentally solve the problem. It might be unsolvable I think.

I assumed you where Muslim because your defensive of it. My bad. Criticizing a religion is not bigotry. OP is not being discriminatory or irrational by asking questions. Of course religion can evolve but that is not the case of the majority of it in human history. Its really just begging the question. Religion on a societal scale is almost always Stage Blue in action, which is the problem in terms of women's rights.

Those women are not solid SD Stage Blue. It is still correct to say SD Stage Blue religion is oppressive of women. Your not giving the OP the benefit of the doubt because your are defensive of your religion and getting hung up on the Islam angle. Also, share pictures or your lying.

Different religious groups have varying degrees of feminine repression, but it is correct to say that generally women in SD Stage Blue communities have to "cover up". You'll never see a devote Muslim woman in a sling bikini. That is not a gross oversimplification.

Women are generally oppressed until at least SD stage Orange. In my understanding, under SD Stage Blue sexuality is repressed under strict guidelines and women are made to conceal their feminine features as a way to preserve marriage and purity culture (sexually attractive women create lust in men and undermine monogamy as defined by their religion). Generally, its seen as more problematic when a woman is sexually deviant than a man as well because it creates uncertainty who's the child's father (and is culturally shameful in context).

Developing the kind of career oriented LP that Actualized pedals is difficult and not preferable to many people I think. Its often risky and challenging on a personal level. I don't think most people have that ambition in them to go "all out". Most don't even know its a possibility. There are many people who make their kids their life purpose, which is arguably a lower quality purpose but purpose none the less. I think most people are driven most by their community rather than their direct passions, so if being a plumber is meaningful to their community than being plumber might be enough in terms of meaning. I believe that community is the sticking point here, which is something we should somehow promote in the future. There is a lot of value provided to society through community and family that doesn't translate into direct profit.

"They insist to refer to themselves as a jewish state because then they know that if anybody wants to oppose, (...) what they are doing to the Palestinian people (...) then you are anti-semantic". Interesting take from an Orthodox Jew, claiming that Zionism is not Judaism because of a specific passage from the Torah forbidding Jews from returning to Israel and a bunch of other theological differences. He appears however to oppose Zionism simply because of religious scripture in a SD Stage Blue kind of way, in which case if the Torah was written/interpreted differently in his sect then he might as well have supported Zionism. It either way highlights the way Zionism uses religion to justify their ultranationalism. You can see this as well with the forced sterilization of Ethiopian Jewish women. Zionism is only loyal to their religion in a way that suits their racist views among other cute things like genocide.

I can't remember which philosopher said it, but the basic idea was that an action isn't inherently ethical without first wanting to do an unethical act. Doing something because you think you should do it without acknowledging the desire to be "evil" isn't being ethical according to this logic.

I've met a couple of really big guys in my life in their early 20s/late teens who where over two meter tall, 100+ kg, and they universally all had this big ego and bashfulness to them and act very assertive and callous. Of course, when you are really big you don't have to care or relate to other people on an eye to eye level because people are afraid of you, which shapes your personality. You are a lot less scared of consequences when your bigger and stronger than most people. Women on the contrary are much more scared of consequences on average. That is just an example of how physicality shapes your psychology.

Can't you find a new group if it bothers you so much?

What makes it uniquely low conscious and is that a bad thing?

Do you think in a similar fashion that nations in for example Europe will eventually merge as one super country in some kind of way? War is pretty much unthinkable between Western-European countries.

Depends on how you define masculine and feminine. The problem is that those words are inherently vague and mean different things to different people. Masculine and feminine are essentially just rhetorical. If you want to point out the differences between men and women as not being a social construct then you simply need to point out biology and how societies have been shaped historically that are a-socially constructed. Men are bigger and stronger, women get pregnant, men and women have different brains, all surviving societies regardless of their cultural similarity or difference have universally been patriarchal, most men and women want to be "men and women" regardless of their culture, etc.

Hormones and physicality do make a huge difference though. Your physicality shapes how you perceive the world. If humans where rat sized our experience of life and how we think would be much different. The difference between men and women comes down to a couple of essential things, men being bigger and stronger and human reproduction being intensive, risky and long compared to other animals and disproportionately carried by women. This makes women largely dependent on men for their survival. The terrifying reality of being a women is being dependent of men who might see you beneath them because your physically weaker, hence why women have been second-class citizen for most of human history. A lot of this dating debate between men and women is that men and women have asymmetrical needs and not understanding each other (and speaking over each other most of the time). A mans needs are different to a woman's needs because women get pregnant and men don't. That is not a social construct. Personally I don't think men will ever fully grasp what it is like to be a woman and vice-versa without first hand experience on a bodily level. Likewise, you are never going to fully grasp what it is like to be a rat. This leftist rhetoric of reducing everything that undermines equity as a social construct and socialization is getting tiresome. You are simply in denial of the natural condition of man. It can be ugly and unideal but it is what it is.

OHH SHID

Because it is about conflict and Stage Green people hate conflict. I see them constantly arguing and debating Hobbes's philosophy because they see it as psychotic and dehumanizing. What they miss is that Hobbes is reacting against the existential problem of violence in my opinion, what he calls the natural condition. The natural condition is problematic because it undermines society, the ability for millions of strangers with no direct trust to cooperate (otherwise you could only trust your closest friends and family, like how animals do). The only solution to violence existentially is to monopolize violence so you can regulate it. Then we can have nice things like an economy instead of having to bludgeon each other to get what we want. Its basic shit and I think a lot of people who react against Hobbes miss that. A common criticism is that Hobbes doesn't differentiate between the quality of a sovereign power (the US VS China for example) but that is in my opinion begging the question. Hobbes is more fundamental than that. He is merely arguing that there is no viable alternative for humanity than to have a sovereign power that monopolizes violence. We can always argue what kind of sovereign power we want but that is a question that build on first solving the problem of the natural condition first. Civilization started with conquering your neighboring tribes through brutal violence, growing bigger and bigger as a group with no consideration for fairness. Notice that social justice assumes that there already is a society to react against. Green people don't appreciate what the natural condition truly entails since Stage Green tends to flourish in a society that is already long been successful and is free from abject poverty, rampant crime and political instability. Hobbes philosophy is purely about survival and they are too spoiled and idealistic to appreciate that. Hobbes is a product of his time as he wrote Leviathan during a civil war, which is a historical context that you have to consider. Hobbes is essentially reacting against stage red/purple and making a case to contain it. Nothing more, nothing less. Fun fact: apparently about 1/4th of all people who died during the Stone Ages died due to homicide. They where killed by another human being. Of course, because hunter-gatherers don't have direct control over their resources while those resources that do exist are scarce. Humans are therefor incentivized to kill and steal from each other under such conditions. It makes logical sense from a survival perspective. That is the natural condition. You can observe the natural condition in motion by studying geopolitics as nation states are not subject to a sovereign power. Every time a country gets invaded, like Russia or Israel invading its neighbors, that only happens because relatively speaking those countries lack the material power to deter violence from a foreign adversary. They haven't successfully monopolized violence within their territory and are therefor subject to the violence of others. In contrast, nobody is going to invade the US. Its monopoly of violence over its territory is absolute as the biggest military in the world. Its not even a question. They are so powerful that they can deter China from invading Taiwan, a tiny island right of the Chinese coast millions of miles away from the US.

Its crazy how European countries are now besties after having been at war with each other for hundreds of years.

Magical thinking about causality being directly shaped by your thoughts in my opinion. Ascribing significance where there is none.

More Norman Finkelstein:

There are plenty of ethnic Japanese across the world to draw from, like in Brazil. Though I suspect that Japanese culture is so homogeneous that even they would be seen as foreign to a certain degree.

They should start doing this in Japan anywhere else with a population decline. Encourage young people to fuck I mean.