UnbornTao

You basically kill people and "infected". Making friends is part of the storytelling, not a gameplay option/activity. Also checkout the Uncharted series if you want a similar game as TLOU without so much brutal killing.

@digitalkaine The happiness I'm speaking about is harder to come by. It's more like the bliss of one's nature. Consider Ramana Maharshi: after a powerful enlightenment, he'd blissfully sat for days on end while inspects bit his legs. He was living on a cave and barely ate and slept. That's extreme but it might also clarify where to look for this elusive satisfaction. Become conscious of who and what you are. Maybe bliss and your nature aren't separate. Who knows? Remember that being happy doesn't entail being complacent, lazy, poor, ascetic, self-indulgent, or stuck within circumstances -- it is independent of those. You can be happy and ambitious. Practice being happy even if you don't like your experience, regardless of what it is. This principle forces you to make a shift in your experience from being at the effect vs being in control of your disposition. Contemplate it.

@The Mystical Man No TLOU gifs, only Uncharted. Read the guidelines before posting.

Sounds like BS to me. Not every communication that comes from an enlightened person is or has to be true. In my estimation, he frequently shares a lot of woo-woo beliefs and opinions, which are mostly based on Indian doctrines.

Buddha at the gas pump, perhaps.

@The Mystical Man Just give us a new Jak & Daxter

Boredom, solitude and mindfulness might be useful.

A ton of what passes as communication is actually manipulation, both subtle and gross. One way to go about it is by contemplating the difference between the two: What's communication? What is its purpose? What makes it powerful, effective? How does it differ from manipulation? I think those are great questions to ponder on our own.

Lol, I was reading that segment a few weeks ago

@Ulax thanks, I wanted to ground the consideration a bit more on experience. Intellectually I got it. In any case, I also tried to clarify my previous post.

That's just weird. The rationale behind its validity is basically meant to be believed.

Red cabbage Red bell peppers Dark leafy greens Carrots More (red) onions Garlic Sea vegetables Cucumber Beet Watercress You can't go wrong with vegetables, nutritionally. In terms of taste, you can. Which ones do you like? Adding more herbs and spices won't hurt either. Coriander, oregano, paprika, turmeric, cilantro, parsley! I think coconut oil is controversial. I'd prioritize virgin olive oil instead. Also, dates are an excellent snack especially for sugar cravings. Decent source of fiber, and might increase energy levels.

@mr_engineer To anyone.

Is hunting witches right or wrong? Examples like that show how cultures create the parameters from which to decide whether something's considered right or wrong, based on cultural programming and premises. Questions like that are posed, and are always based on a given culture's presumptions. Come up with closed questions like that one that predispose an answer in favor of the questioner's assumptions. No action in itself can be right or wrong. An action is itself: moving the body a certain way, speaking, thinking. This predisposition or attitude may often be known as moral relativism. I see it more as simple honesty, which by the way doesn't justify unconscious acting, nor does it preclude the reality of intelligent behavior.

An invention has to be adopted on mass for it to become part of our social reality. In this way, a conceptual construct (language, mind, self, etc.) gets eventually overlooked as itself and begins to be considered existentially true.

@mr_engineer watch your attitude and comments. Try to contribute in a thoughtful and constructive way.

Also notice that understanding or adopting a model in no way increases consciousness. So don't confuse familiarity with a model with actual experiential understanding of what's being referred to within the model. Prevalent trap in this work.

Please clarify. Are you perhaps hinting to simply being effective and responsible? Is that what your concern could be boiled down to? How could this consideration be more grounded? Effectiveness as in aligning thought and action with what's actually occurring. In your example, that would require grasping what education actually is. Then, out of that understanding, appropriate response would follow. There would be no need to intellectualize about unproductive roads.

Played the Uncharted trilogy on PS3 and loved it. These are the types of games that I want to play, not Fortnite-type titles.

Nice. I've heard it's also pretty good on the Steam Deck. I might buy one...

Surprised so few have mentioned dates and figs.

Microsoft recently announced that they're already implementing Dall-E 2 to some of their new products.

What? See ya!