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What is so baffling about God cosplaying as a brilliant fool?

That is one path. Well, that's what happened to me at least. Is he hinting at you? If so, are you writing them down, if not, why not?

Used to have pretty bad tinnitus for about 3 years, I thought it was just the result of years of working in loud environments like night clubs and factories and that I'd have to just accept living with it. One day I got some inflammation in my right ear and went to a doctor to get it checked out, she looked into my ears and noticed they were full of ear wax, which was the result of always wearing ear plugs and going to deep with the Q-tip when cleaning my ears, which pushes earwax in. She gave me some oil to put in my ears to loosen it up and told me to come back in 3 days, so she could flush my ears out with water. It was a pain free procedure that took 1 minute. Fixed my tinnitus almost completely, now I only experience very light tinnitus after I've had an extra physically stressful day or something, but it's barely noticeable.

Just finished reading it, what an amazing piece of technology. It's a breath of fresh air to see it's not programmed to assume everyone is a moron who could interpret anything it says in dangerous and harmful ways. What really impressed me though is how well it understood what you were saying and how sharp and relevant its responses were, as well as its eloquent use of vocabulary without sounding overly academic. What shocked me was how it was able to understand social ques / humor better than most humans. Besides that. the conversation itself was a pleasure to read even though I didn't get any big political / psychological insights from it since I my meta-perspective on what was discussed was almost all something I've already arrived to, but reading it discussed in such a sharp and eloquent way with basically no fluff or filler definitely helped solidify my meta-understanding. Thank you for all your highly underrated contributions, Leo

Can you dig up some examples contextually similar to this? Meaning ones where Kastrup insinuates that the person he's talking to has a worldview based on grotesque theoretical fantasies, time stamped too please, it's your claim so the burden rests on your shoulders.

Be that as it may, to not expect it to be perceived as provocation is "just silly" Edit: You can go as much into semantics you want, but if you simply read the first post I made, you'll see that all I'm talking about here is the social aspect of this debate. Kastrup was a fool for not expecting Tim to see that as a provocation, and an even bigger fool in how he reacted.

Sure, it's quite a stretch, but it can, just like Chernobyl could be described as "an oopsie"... However in reality it's much more fitting to use it when things like very ugly/disgusting just doesn't cut it, for example necrophilia/gore porn, hell, it's even the name of a horror movie where a sadistic doctor kidnaps a couple on a date and methodically tortures them to death with no explanation to them whatsoever, but I guess you could also use the word "mean" to describe his actions...

@Carl-Richard What do you think "grotesque" means? As in, what context would you use it in, and what is it synonymous with in your mind?

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I agree, however in my mind there is still the possibility that Bernardo is just so severely autistic that he doesn't even have an implicit understanding of what an insinuation is and that he is simply unaware that he just made a very mocking and demeaning insinuation, however I'd put my chips on him just being a passive aggressive asshole with a very fragile ego.

Be that as it may, how Bernardo behaved is equivalent to a kindergartner going up to another kindergartner and hitting him with a stick, and when he gets pushed away and falls on his butt, he starts throwing a temper tantrum crying injustice

I can't but wonder how socially inept one has to be to not expect a negative reaction from the person one just insinuated who's worldview is founded in "grotesque theoretical fantasies" Whether Bernardo is right or not about Tim's worldview being grounded in grotesque theoretical fantasies, the fact that he threw a temper tantrum after Tim responded with "that was silly" really highlights Bernardo's social ineptitude.

@jdc7733 Believe what you like, but politics isn't going anywhere anytime soon, certainly not in our lifetime. You can choose to accept it, ignore it, or just go join one of those anarchist communities. But whining about it isn't going to do anyone any good, least of all you.

A wild shoe collector has appeared

I've listened to a lot of lofi mixes but this one truly stands out to me and a lot of other people too as you'll see if you read the comments. It really helped me through the darkest depression of my life but I still love it now that I am out of it, I hope someone here will appreciate it as much as I have

"Santa was imagined to make children behave, Satan (or Iblis in Islam) was imagined to make adults behave" - Someone on the internet No idea if there's truth to it, just thought it was funny

@integral NUJABES! My second most listened to lofi for sure

@Hardkill Start thinking of the mindset you have as a cologne, people can smell it even if you can't since you wear it every day, and that mindset you're wearing smells like vomit, and then you go out smelling like vomit and and get rejected 100's of times in a row, and you interpret that as "women are just SO picky" and then hear other men saying the exact same shit online and thus you conclude, women are just so picky these days! It's impossible for men!

That's a very strong statement, care to elaborate on the main points that led you to this conclusion?

I guess you know best

Can confirm I am awake on average 16 hours a day

Before posting this, did you take a moment to consider if your focus on shortcomings of others may be causing a blindspot on your own?

Oh yeah I've had those quite a few times haha One time I actually felt love for one, after waking up I spent at least an hour in bed just basking in the bitter-sweet afterglow of being grateful to experience such a powerful beautiful feeling while at the same time feeling sad I was no longer with her

That sounds really awesome! I freaking love dreams, they can get so interesting and mind-fucky. I especially love the ones where consciousness takes on a different shape, it's tricky to explain but here's one example of that which I just had recently: I was having some regular action-type dream, in some cyber-obstacle course with ice witches, bears and what-not, and I fell down and died, at which point the dream seemingly instantaneously transitioned into me being in a pure, white void, with no sense of ever having been anyone, I had no body and no memories, I was just this mind with a vague sense of self, and I sensed other souls just like me present. This pure white void was like a completely empty canvas, on which you could imagine literally anything you could onto and it would open a portal into that dream for you to experience, or you could pick one of the realities imagined by any of the other souls which were popping into existence at a fast rate, I went with the latter option and started going through several different imagined dreams, where I would get a "birds-eye-view" preview of before deciding if I want to go in and experience it fully, thus temporarily losing connection with the white void. I don't remember how many dreams I got a preview of, all I know it was quite a lot, at least a dozen. It started with very basic dreams, almost like children book stories for 3-5 year olds, then 5-8, 8-12, etc until I was in a meta-dream that was getting progressively more complex all the while self-narrating, going more and more meta, until I lost the plot so to speak, and I bailed out, back into the white void. This time some soul got the idea to imagine a nightmare dream that would spread and infest into the minds of other souls, I felt that all dreams were of the same value, so there was no real good or bad, but I had no interest in experiencing nightmare dreams at that point, so I started to imagine one that had a password that only souls that aren't interested in nightmarish dreams at the moment could think of, and suddenly I was in the familiar "3-d" dream, with a body, in a room, with some nice, cute girl that I cuddled with until I woke up I left out most of the details since the structure takes quite long enough to type hehe