enchanted

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  1. Yes There so many hijabs in the middle East, there are so many circumcisors too. Doesn't mean you can't get rid of them. What other countries have done is create incentives to give up existing guns, and ban sales of new guns. This creates a shortage and it makes it all the more difficult for those fringe crazy people to get them. If it's illegal to have a gun parents would probably hide them better (similar to how weed was hidden better when it was illegal). Then their screen addicted, emotionally neglected, disenfranchised, disillusioned teenage son might not be able to grab it so easily.
  2. The Mongul empire collapsed soon after Genghis Khan died. This has happened many times in history. I wonder if Xi Jinping is one of those figures and he is carrying the whole country right now.
  3. Book is called Man of Zero? But yes great book
  4. @Someone here@Yimpa @cetus @thierry 🤯 great answers very insightful thank you @Joseph Maynorin what way?
  5. Have you ever wanted to physically fight or harm someone? What is actually happening in those moments? I think it comes down to two main factors: 1 A Failure of Communication: One party lacks the communication or persuasion skills needed to sway the other person to their point of view. 2 Incompatible Realities: Two people possess fundamentally unresolvable, conflicting views or needs. In both instances, language has reached its absolute limit. When words fail, physical violence is utilized as a substitute. This breakdown is precisely where the archaic concept of the "duel" originates. a method to settle disputes when peaceful dialogue is no longer possible.
  6. Ah to change or not to change that is the question. If you still have energy for changing then film yourself and rewatch the videos looking for body language, voice, and what words you choose. Maybe show a coach or some other expert or anyone willing to give you feedback. If you are tired of self development just find someone who will accept you the way you are and don't let them go, and treat them right and spoil them. They might not be your dream partner but you can't always get what you want and romance isn't everything in life. Trust me there is plenty of fish in the sea. Even the most low IQ and unattractive people find love so you can too.
  7. this guy is a voice coach but has very solid career, and public speaking advice. I've been using his advice for years with great results. Another good one
  8. Oh interesting, I never thought of that.
  9. I think then solutions to fights are getting better with language and persuasion skills and also realizing that not all conflicts can be resolved with words. And violence is the second option that many people unfortunately resort to.
  10. Listen to this. This guy went to Kings, Cambridge, and Harvard. Wrote over 40 books and became a psychiatrist in his 50s. Besides that he is incredibly wise, articlute, poetic, and a genius too. Hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
  11. Nice. Ya the best approach is the one that works. I've heard almost every metaphysical lesson out there, done shrooms with great benefit. Yet after all that I feel like I needed to hear what Alain De Botton has to say. Using as many methods as possible is also a good approach. I shared only one. Thanks for sharing more.
  12. Heck ya brother glad you see the value. He has instilled the idea in me that communication is just as important as technical knowledge.
  13. First step is understand the risks. 5 Meo can be the single greatest and most profound 15 minutes you will ever have. BUT it comes with great risks and almost guaranteed costs. Get your material life figured out very well before you do psychedelics as they almost guarantee to reduce your ability to do so after the fact. Leo has said similar. From person experience I do not think it's worth the risk and the costs even though the experience itself was quite profound.
  14. Maybe you are right or maybe this is something an immature fool would say? Who knows! I'm not claiming to be wise or mature. I wonder what your 50 year old self would want to say to your current self.
  15. He's 27 but does it really matter? Some of the founding fathers were in their early 20s and wrote more beautiful and profound things than most people of any age.
  16. O'Conner brings up two good points here. 1 we feel emotional about our logical conclusions 2 actions don't have truth value, since propositions are actions, can they have truth value?
  17. Seems like his critique about IFS is that it's an inherently disintegrating and fragmenting theory. Fair enough argument. Perhaps at higher stages integration is more appropriate. Developed people can hold more than one theory in their head at one time. Both IFS and a more integrated theory (like SD) can be true at the same time because some people can benefit from integration while other may benefit from deconstruction.
  18. It an obvious commentary of the delusions of the patriarchy. Here we have two men, completely severed from the organic world. One sycophant worships a fragile, masculine deity that willfully ignores the womb of Mother Nature. The other acts as a literal agent of the state, aggressively disseminating colonial language and violent, written decrees while entirely erasing the intuitive, non-verbal communication of matriarchal ancestral tribes. Their arrogance is so profoundly unchecked that they believe the raw thermodynamics of the universe will bow to their privilege. But the punchline, of course, is the subtextual erasure of their existence by a literal bolt of lightning. Nature, the ultimate matriarch, instantly incinerates them, providing a shocking reminder that the future is female. Seriously though I don't get the quote either.
  19. So true. Alain De Botton recommends we ask ourselves this question: What would our 50 year old selves want to tell us today?
  20. For anyone trying to lose weight (like me) - realize that you are over-eating to make yourself feel better. But only temporarily. It's literally as intelligent as being a drug addict. Excersizing and eating healthy will make you feel SO MUCH BETTER AND FOR LONGER than over eating.
  21. Heck yeah. That is truly something to celebrate
  22. The multiperspectival life is where it's at