Quader

@Princess Arabia I was providing unsolicited feedback to you and I'll refrain from doing so again, I apologize for being presumptuous and personal. It triggered me to see something I generally in general agreed with be countered so heavily so I was hoping to clarify because that's a huge blindspot on my end. I appreciate the feedback though and I'll change my tone when it comes to reacting to the behavior of forum members in general.

@Princess Arabia He said the brain was designed that way, he didnt say it had to he used that way. I imagine it's difficult to pursue mastery in life partially because of staleness. When you walk around an area for the first time you might be extremely aware. As you path by daily you may be thinking about other things with your eyes to the sky. Have you ever noticed that? Newness implies interest? You keep framing your questions as arguments that are designed to poke holes in someone. Of course there are exceptions but the exceptions you're using are strawman. You could have framed your position better and not claim someone else hasn't used sufficient enough merit/logic to grant their reason. If the reasons you used I agreed with I wouldnt complain but it just feels like if I say yes you say no type of reaction. As for addiction, that's a good question. But we're implying addiction actually gets better or stays the same. The results of addiction get worse over time but they are repeated because of habit. Habit is not something to equivocate with interest or passion or quality. We are "addicted" to setting alarms, eating, sleeping, taking our meds, going to pee or whatever. We can do these things with or without interest but they are recurring because we are habitual by nature, not aware.

We're specifically humans and not robots so of course we'd be obsessed with making ourselves, fake it till you make it. If we knew how we were made we would essentially become robotic - understood and replicable. All of medicine prioritizes human intervention over other forms of life. What's the easy way out of finding a great social partner? An hyper advanced AI one that teaches you with no ego and makes you into a "fake person". It would be like getting a click remote that allows you to manipulate time with no social consequence. People who want this will develop it and those who are fine without it will still use it because it will improve them. You don't think people wouldn't pay the price of a diamond ring for a humanoid? It's the most universally lucrative form of a machine I reckon. If it existed it would be able to create any other machine. It would solve medicine and it would bolster our sociability. communication and skillset. Monkey see, monkey do!

The death penalty can play 2 ways: I can afford to delegate resources to provide asylum for the people from criminals by sequestering them or I cant afford it. If you're talking about providing food for a murderer or your mum you're not going to be privy to keep them around. The truth is proponents of the death sentence are unable to take the spider into the jar and they just crush it. It's just a shame and in cases of wrongful conviction it is a tragedy. But a preventable one, one with a human response that isnt as impulsive. The spider in this case is a lion but the priviledge of life can be afforded if the resources are at hand.

@Shodburrito If you have great awareness then being with others doesn't have to be the only program running on the mind. You can be in a great mind space in the presence of others and be yourself while not being dependent on what happens next. I think he was referring to an antidote to people with fearful minds of needing a constant chatter to be calm. Sometimes people being told that being by yourself opens pathways to great experiences can really help people who feel dependent on others to get any valuable experience.

Is this a sort of "if you know, then you know" type situation? i.e. what the worse could mean will not service you if I told you what it could look like, only cause worry/panic? If you could explain in detail what the worst entails you could help friends and families rally together to make sensible decisions before things become limited.

I'm not sure if being an indiscriminate ill willer would vindicate him of racism or invertedly prescribe him to all of the ism's seeing as it's wanton hatred. I understand his viewpoint but to not call out his number would be to completely rationalize someone who is deeply unguided.

@Hojo Okay, if granted Elon has gone full autist and did the salute "ironically", he's completely neglecting his influence and the context of his position. The issue isn't fighting a woke mind virus with ironic inflammatory gestures, it's about the people who most definitely are Nazi supporters and they exist in the world, America, everyone is watching. People could easily assume that Elon was just supporting Nazi beliefs and some people might have been hoping to see that come to fruition. You are downplaying his role and assuming this hyper-meta battle to oust a virtue signaler mind affliction. If what he was trying to do was innocuous it was still extraordinarily irresponsible given the influence he has over everyone that may subscribe to radical beliefs. Even if he's trolling, that's going to cause a lot of fear and panic. It's funny as a solo keyboard twitter troll trying to get banned by the woke snowflakes but when it's a head member of governance it becomes unbearably foolish.

Having that fear grow and crush you may be required to let go but make no mistake that is a dangerous undertaking that when taken lightly can truly maim you. Sometimes people just get crushed and dont make it to the other side. I dont think people know much about fear until they lose all faculties while conscious under psychedelics. It is unimaginable, no amount of torture or shenanigans could result in that experience. Like more real than a dream yet more absurd than any dream. Like a lucid dream. In the future with different policies, protocols and study I'm sure psychedelic risk will be a lot lower. We face discrimination, criminalisation, demonization. Sometimes the mental toll of not being supported by your community (ie all drugs are bad at all times) can be more significant than a negative trip.

@The Crocodile Are you literally talking about someone who sees the future like Paul Atreides? Didn't even this fantastical character have blind spots? Who is the perfect man you speak of that only speaks the truth. He may be the one of prophecy (Dune reference)

Leo was just joking because bobby said Canada was suffocating to live in, which is a bit of a stretch. We're incredibly privileged in Canada even with the corporate, food and housing squeeze going on. It's nothing as bad as what most of the world goes through daily. I don't know enough about Singh to fully defend him but I will say that many people's criticisms assume that he is in it for the money and personal gain/security. I have heard this so much: "Sellout Singh". My intuition tells me this is a result with not being able to trust and reckon with a person who is concerned and actively fighting for vulnerable Canadians. It's as simple as that, they can't handle someone different running the country because of fear he is some traitor in disguise. This is extraordinarily racist and basic. That's where these narratives are coming from, and I feel sorry for him. The reason I make this claim is solely because I can't find any evidence that indicates Jagmeet has acted greedy, selfish, or said anything in general about personal power. If there was an event where he said something regarding his retirement or anything suspicious I haven't been able to find one. But what I do immediately find is name calling that just seems to be blind hatred. It's used to keep liberals away from NDP by preying on their worst qualities/fears. If you want to roll back the clock on environmental protection, PP is your man. If you want to Axe the Tax and save money on your paycheck while cutting government services, vote PP. If you want to stick it to the libtards and gloat with glee as the woke moralists scramble to rationalize our behavior, vote PP. NDP is the opposite of all that. There is an NDP mayor of Toronto and Hamilton (Ontario). There is genuine support for them, it's not a hopeless vote (unlike the green party, who are unrealistic). Unfortunately the truth is the average Canadian is not quite involved much in politics and will revert to their baseline feelings where is becomes a political boxing match/theatrics as opposed to addressing the function of governance (just like the states!), i.e. "I like the way that guy talks and he's hilarious!!".

@Ero @The Crocodile You're wrestling with an Ox and asking it to tell you how it's being tangoed. I personally ascribe to a no source method of magic, as in, it is given only how it is received. If you subscribe to an outwards notion of validity, of concrete power, you will lose it all because it wasn't yours. I would focus on reducing the impact of your relative state as an imposition of what is and accept graciously what is given in absence of your want. If you desire black magic, you'll get it. But this is weak and vulnerable. If you ascribe to black magic as a conduit for protection, for undoing what is afflicted, you might stand a chance in undoing what you're asking as an ego. It's a be careful what you wish for scenario because if you play in this way you will be played by that way. So don't request anything you wouldn't do unto yourself. If you seek more than that, be warned. The piper will be played/paid.

@NewKidOnTheBlock What grows from the earth without some strange concoction of human "ingenuity*? Almost everything that is raw. The real issue is frozen crap and uber orders from fast food. If you learn to cook with wholesome ingredients (only one, or limited number of primarily pronounceable components per item) can you create something hearty, Most foods at that level are simply unpalatable. But the processed foods lean too much in the other direction with over salting, false-substitution, plastics and general favor for price -to- ingredient quality ratio. Cut out the middle man and buy it whole. No pre-sauced crap. If you study how to cook well you will crave wholesome food and it won't be a chore anymore. Buuuut that requires a lot of effort because it could be a premade meal! Luckily there's enough recipe sites out there that can guide you through what intrigues you the most and you don't have to cook fully experimentally, a lot of ground work has been paved through. Many line cooks have died to deliver you this message.

@NewKidOnTheBlock What do you mean? People who blindly support carnivorism are putting their health at risk the same as any who abstains from blood. Both are equally dysfunctional, we are truly meant to be omnivores. If you deny this, you are cutting yourself off from what you need. No one with prejudice in food based on concepts of it's constituent parts have any idea of what their doing. No one knows how nutrition works. When in Rome, do as the romans do. All other animals don't struggle with this ideological dilemma, they somehow inherently know what to do, what to eat. We are the same, but fragmented.

You're right, it's about returning to form and shedding the excess greed. The natives know all about this, and they would roll in their graves upon learning all their herds are all but gone. If we could utilize our technology without an imposition of "personal gain" we could have earth flourish with life greater than it ever could on its own without us. We can do it. If money == environment diversity than it would be done instantaneously. We just haven't been pushed into a corner hard enough to change our cancerous way.