UnbornTao

It's mainly a preference for having everything in one unified format - useful for loading onto a Kindle or smartphone. Besides, the content is stored locally. To me, the current method feels a bit clunky. I think I downloaded the website with HTTrack a bunch of years ago. Now I just simply have to sort through hundreds of HTML files.

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Now that I think about it, there should be a few threads sharing some high-quality political resources, maybe including the Spiral Dynamics threads. You guys look it up

Actually, even though I'm not really into politics (and it's video content), I can appreciate the work of people like Jon Stewart and John Oliver - they tend to be fairly candid, insightful, and entertaining, I've found. Could be useful.

@Thought Art reminded me:

It's not even personal, it tends to come with the territory. Or rather, it's what people tend to do.

It's either part 5 for me or nothing I'm kidding, I've watched the latest episodes. Have yet to start Rationality II.

You can benefit, yes, but it's about the endeavor as a whole and what it is up to. Anyhow, question what a belief is. I'd apply that label to the whole thing. Hence the use of the word system.

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@Ishanga It's peak comedy. Watch it a second time while reading the comments.

@Wilhelm44 @Natasha Tori Maru I don't see how saying more would help if people fail to see the difference in the first place - it's not mainly about content or character. There's no truth in any belief system, and that's essentially what's being sold here. It might be worth looking more deeply into what "belief" actually is.

Yeah, a couple of weeks of debauchery first before joining the hive. Need to burn some karma. "WE'RE SORRY WE UPSET YOU, CAROL."

Sure, I can always be wrong. No problem with that. At the end of the day, the main assertion being made was that surviving without water or sleep for years is BS - for humans, at least. At the same time, there's also the possibility of discovering the principles behind things. You can't get around those. If an object breaks, its integrity is compromised. That ties into the point about openness needing to be paired with rootedness or groundedness - not just the intellectual stance of "anything could be possible." We can always entertain the notion that Earth might be triangular, for example. You can always come up with ideas that contradict your former ones, but the issue here is that not everything in this context is just an idea. Something deeper or more real can be discovered. Maybe the right word here is something like factual, or parameter, or principle, or rule. Do certain things, and they will produce certain consequences. Etc. The main assertion here isn't that these things point to some absolute reality, or that they're ultimately true. Just that they're objectively ocurring. In the context of this conversation, scientific hearsay, for the most part. Add to that some personal extrapolations - some of them based on limited experience - plus the domain of what we might call valid beliefs.

What's a loving word? As you say, plants don't know Spanish or German. They may still react to the sounds themselves (or other kind of stimulus), but that doesn't make it language or communication. You can poke an amoeba and it will move away to avoid danger - does that imply anything is being "communicated"? Same as above: a sound, by itself, is just a sound. What context makes it such that a particular sound can refer to something other than what it is not that sound? Acting in response to a perceived stimulus doesn't turn that event into "language," even if there's a relationship between the two. Likewise, when an object falls to the floor, you hear the sound and react - but you wouldn't call that language, nor interpret it as communication in any meaningful sense. We don't actually know what language is.

Called it.

I'm too non-conformist to be original. Just a random occurrence.

Tradition is an obvious example, and yet, at the same time, not following tradition - avoiding it - can be even more conformist. How much of your so-called non-conformity is a reaction against what you perceive as conformity?

What? I love her. She's the one who's making some sense. The only one not participating in the gangbang

Run away and don't look back.

I think not! You know, the meme.

Well, first get a profound consciousness yourself. Don't take for granted that you already have it. It's very likely you're fooling yourself without even realizing it. This applies to virtually everyone - and no, you are not the exception.