Joseph Maynor

Interesting. Well, we're talking about two things combined. One, did the person understand you. Two, are they interested in meeting you half way. 1. is cognitive, 2. is emotional and relational.

Value truth first and then come talk to me. Anyone can hide behind truth.

I spent years on his forum as a caveat. I'm curious why you think he is the crux of the turning point.

Have you noticed that someone may not even want to listen? You may be giving what you think is a great and constructive insight on a situation or relation and someone may not listen, or even if they do, they never register or agree with you about it. And the issue comes up over and over again. You're made to feel silly for even bringing it up. This is what you have to notice. Understand it structurally and systemically so it doesn't become too personal.

Okay. On that note, enjoy.

Why are you so concerned with what other people are doing? I suppose I could turn this question around on myself too. That is fair. But it's interesting. Why are we so concerned with what other people are doing is probably the better question.

Selfishness is one of those words that needs context. In humans it occurs in degrees. If we're saying selfishness in general is wrong, then one has to ask if that is an impossible standard to expect. I've never met a completely unselfish person. We all need to survive. We all eat something to survive. We all take over property including the environment to survive. Are other animals selfish or only humans? What does a completely unselfish human even look like? Are some of us trying to low key virtue signal by saying we want to be completely unselfish? But that's kinda selfish, no? You want to selfishly look or be seen a certain way to others (a saintly way).

Never used Markdown but I know what it is. I only have 3 sites that I'm currently coding so I'm doing them all from scratch only using HTML, CSS, and a little bit of JavaScript. They have different functions. One is a personal site, one is for my life purpose, and one is for philosophy. I might need to learn more as time goes on. I don't really have the bandwidth to learn a bunch of tech just for the sake of doing that. I feel bad for people who are in tech because that stuff changes so fast and all of it requires a bunch of time to learn.

I agree, this is why I focus the most on HTML, CSS, and JavaScript because they are the core web technologies and slowest to change. I like the idea of a CSS Framework, but it never satisfies me, and those technologies are changing too so now you gotta keep up with that framework, which is a lot of work to master. I'd rather spend my time working on Vue.js if anything extra.

I like this video, but it's more of a once a week thing to eat.

What is it about being attached to beliefs that causes so much suffering and a desire to surrender your beliefs?

I think this is a good example of great conversation and it shows you don't have to be funny or even flirty to be attractive. I'm sure the fact that Fabi is one of the best chess players in the world helps, but I like how he almost has the inverse of "game" mentality. This is not a romantic conversation, but it's amazing to me how mature it is without trying to be. There's authenticity and humility, but without trying hard to appear that way. You can be a nice guy without that being a bad thing.

These are all great things. I tend to contract and then relax with spirituality. Right now I'm in relaxed state. The last 90 days I was in a contracted state. Neither one is better or worse than the other just different for me. The contracted state is when I'm focused on "doing the work", the relaxed state is when my mind is almost entirely blank where I can sit for hours doing absolutely nothing. It's like tide comes in, tide goes out.

AI is almost kind of an assistant. It's not a substitute for your mind. We're collaborating with AI now.

I had a long discussion of this on the other forum. What I concluded is that account of direct experience is an assumed philosophy. In other words, when we reduce experience to "direct experience", we're leaving something out. It's very sneaky because we assume that we can think of inputs to our consciousnesses like sound, smell, taste, touch, sight, thought, emotion, and those form the "atoms of direct experience." Without offending anyone, I don't buy that theory of direct experience, I think it's a reductionism. It's useful, but often the conclusions drawn from it I think leave something out. Morality is not just about feeling, it's a perception or a knowing: an experience, but not a direct experience in that reductionism sense. When we say morality is just or just is a feeling or emotion (not saying anyone here is saying this), that attempt to get at the phenomenological essence chops off part of it. This is why philosophers like Hume developed the is-ought dichotomy thus relegating morality to something different from what is. You're not going to find an ought in an is or from an is. I disagree with that! But you can see how that Empiricist account of direct experience tends to exclude morality from what is. Therefore, Hume had a boo! hooray! account of morality. No booing or hooraying (and thus morality in general) has anything to do with what is for Hume in his Empiricist account of direct experience.

I will, thanks. I was getting into Materialize for a while but then I started kinda liking CSS due to the control. I'm not a huge fan of Bootstrap. Tailwind seems like a pain but at least it has more flexibility. I'm always wondering if it's just better to learn CSS as annoying as it is. I like Vue, but I don't have a need for it quite yet.

I feel like art is basically a form of Creation but Creation goes well beyond art. Art is what is agreed to be creation. This is a good video to get started on this investigation:

Interesting interpretation. That's not what I intended to convey is different. What I was intending to say is more like going into the cave metaphor. You deliberately get away from spiritual language for at least 30 days. It's that simple! The longer the better even.

But who determines ignorance?

Ralston seems like a really socially fun guy to be around. It's interesting to me that most people seem to want a one-sized-fits-all procedure or answer from him.

True. But one can also be deceived by following a teacher. It's a weird balance between being influenced by another and being brave with your own insights.