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Nah, certain people here are dogmatic when it comes to those things in particular. Like getting mad over meditating in a chair.

Liberal ideology and Hinduism/buddhism are the two things people on this forum really get up in arms over. The amount of cope when Dalai Lama tried to french kiss a child in public.

It seems like this issue just boil down to people perceiving an abundance of choice, therefor being less willing to commit, compromise and work towards long-term goals. The issue is that you only really get a handful of long-term relationships throughout your life at best and odds and it's not guaranteed to get better if you break up. Like, my mother is in her 50s and if she fucks up this relationship then that's it. She won't find a better man and she'll most likely die alone. A feel like a lot of our social issues essentially boils down to a lack of a strong blue core. A lack of discipline and duty to one another.

There's nothing magical about sitting cross-legged. Enjoy your tradition.

Sitting cross-legged for long periods of time just cuts off circulation it makes your back slouch. Sitting cross-legged in meditation and yoga is just tradition based on a time when sitting cross-legged was the norm. Average people couldn't afford chairs in ancient India or whatever. In my experience, the most important factor is being alert and if you slouch too much or are too comfortable you tend to fall asleep. I think the best position is a squat pose while sitting on a low to the ground cushion or stool, such that you get that three points of contact with the ground while maintaining alertness as your not afforded to fall asleep.

It's quiet the Alex Jones kind of conspiracy. Like, "sure buddy", but he was actually broadly right on this one.

Women can easily end up sleeping with a bunch of men even when they are trying to date seriously just because a lot of relationships don't pan out.

Concord has to be the biggest failure in diversity in marketing. This shit costs 400 million and was canned within a month of released. Leo's point about these expensive diverse products feeling like scams is so on point. Just look at these characters. They lame as hell. Who wants to fuck gay lesbian marshmallow supreme? Two things are true; sex sells and bad diversity bankrupts.

Yup. Though you do learn a lot of valuable rigor and general philosophical knowledge, studying academic philosophy is more like learning to be a scholar in philosophical history than original thinking and contemplation. A lot of these are response pieces, or responses to responses. A lot of energy is spent on the technical minutia of the definition of words. Not necessarily bad in it's own right, but it quickly becomes kind of a circle jerk. The arcaneness of academic philosophy obscured insight. The average person cannot derive much value from these texts, let alone muster the will to read them.

HealthygamerGG. My favorite Indian.

Japanese are so conformist it makes me doubt they have any thoughts at all. If confucius was a monopoly man they would all be entrepreneurs and shit.

There's nothing more dreadful than reading academic philosphy. They made the pursuit of truth and knowledge an exercise in deciphering gibberish. It's such a self-congratulatory field.

L4D2 is another example of diversity done well. You don't really notice it unless you really got the woke detection glasses on. They are all fun characters in their own right.

The overlap between people who watch gore and having a mental illness is pretty high, you have to admit. That shit is not far off from being self-harm. Those sights will never leave you.

That shit just disturbing. I do not see the value in watching trauma. You don't need to watch people get beheaded to grow as a person. It's a little concerning how common it seemingly is for users to be into that stuff. What does that say?

There's an ocean of difference between playing an instrument and gaming as a hobby in terms of attractiveness. Certain hobbies makes you less attractive if nothing else. If you thing about it, the hobbies that women find attractive almost always bring some kind of value to them while unattractive hobbies do the inverse. It's a very self-biased perspective. "It's cringe to be into things that aren't useful to me specifically."

I have painted for miniatures for over a decade, but relatively recently started to build gunpla. The difference in cost and hobby gear needed is like entering a non-abusive relationship for the first time.

How do you end up with that as a hobby? Because it's medical or because it's gore?

No, they just hate children

It takes time to get into the weeds of stuff, especially on a podcast format where half the time is spent on tangents, jokes and one's personal twitter drama. You just got to shoot more poddies with the same people to really let a complex topic unfold. You'll get there eventually if the retention is there.

Despite only making about 13% of a zoo population, zebras commit the majority of attacks on guests and staff.

@UnbornTao You can be very stubborn on certain topics. Just an observation.

He dresses like an oil spill.

Trump's tariff scheme recently got shut down by congress. Imagine if such checks on power didn't exists and Trump was politically unshackled? Politicians being corrupt is one thing, but being a tyrant is another. Russia is a country where the leader's whims dictates the entire country's fate. For someone like Putin, policy that is bad for the economy doesn't matter because he's "writing history" in a mythical sense. He's not accountable to the state and starts pointless wars. That's unchecked power. Politicians tend to act more in alignment with national interests, and by extension humanity, when what's best for the country aligns with what is best for their careers. We need better incentives for politicians to be good politicians. Politicians are arguably underpaid relative to the amount of responsibility they carry and how much they are hated, though that's unpopular to say, let alone act on.

I think your specifically thinking of technocratic centrism. Regulations on power is absolutely necessary for a healthy society, or you get regimes like that of Russia who's main priority is regime security as opposed to national interest. Regulations on power is in my opinion the de facto selling point of democracy.