Whitney Edwards

Sometimes you have to be a savior. @integral you have been accidentally mentioned mod, oops, sorry.

Just think about it objectively. You find something wrong in almost 7 years of association. Make a spreadsheet. It doesn't take much to put two and two together. If you allow something to grow and grow with it, only then you will see challenges of growth. Sure there are mishaps and mis-judgements and backfirings. But being too paranoid about anything has never helped. Try using context in a broader sense and ditch emotions for a while. Try not using trajectories too much. Instead allow organic growth. There are bad things and then there are things that are simply wrongly situated into a complex maze of delicate intricacies that are meant for beauty. Try not to ditch this beauty of complexity. Maybe this labyrinth will outdo pragmatic expectations. Roll the dice and take chances as much as you can.

We do see this a lot. It's a fault of our species. Too much value on survival than morals. Yet, morals cannot exist without survival. A vicious loop. A middle ground is too find both quality and quantity. Where we want maximization of values. This requires a lot of assimilation and permutations and combinations. You'll need years of such permutations and combinations.

They're radically different. Dems understand people issues better. Whereas Republicans focus way too much on money and public appeal.

@Danioover9000 it's best to lock the thread, it's not productive. @Danioover9000 I thought you were mod.

Bliss beyond intoxication.

Infusion.

Neurological processes are quite complex. It might be possible to harden the mind to a level that it's simply impenetrable and unimpacted by any significant shift in reality. The mind is not necessarily as soft as we would like to assume. Reality cannot be bent to our desires. But the same can also be applied to the mind as well. It's just food for thought.

Can reality morph their mind?

Leo should seriously lock this thread. It's unbearably dogmatic.

I've never found Peterson to be integrous, mature, or intelligent. None. Neither empathic. Dumbfounding. Be careful eating the dogma of Peterson, he is too cavalier about it.

@DrugsBunny I worry about you.

@DrugsBunny there is no point in arguing with strangers online. They're indirectly destroying your health very badly and you won't realize it until it's too late. They won't change who they are. Their own shallow opinions will make them miserable in the end. Kind of poetic justice. Better that way.

Tucker won't accept it.

Maybe you need a break.

It's an internet world babe!

@M A J I do you live somewhere in the US in a city?

Or maybe this is a karmic place. You get what you put in.

@Jwayne it could suffer some cultural biases here and there but mostly universally collateral.

I never looked at it that way. I always found it deeply meaningful.

There is. Indeed. Biological evolution can be random genetic mutation. Intellectual evolution is not random but curated through different experiences and much suffering and learning. It needs a growth mindset. That's why stage orange acts as a nexus. Through stage orange you slowly realize that materialism is not healthy overall and the need for spiritual expansion begins to grow and proceeds through green to turquoise. One has to reach the pinnacle of productivity to then branch into something more meaningful and beyond and this happens only with maxxing out at human materialistic bullshit. Spiral dynamics is the most excellent model to study the evolution of consciousness in humans.

Spiral dynamics is about intellectual evolution and not biological evolution. Here you're comparing apples and oranges.

I don't think it's honorable to do that to your girlfriend especially if she is not okay with it. If you are enjoying the experience, that should be more than enough. You're being immature here.

Lying is only possible within the context of a relationship, not at the beginning. Once the bond is getting stronger, the lying habit dies down. Transparency in any meaningful relationship is the thumb rule.