Joseph Maynor

That is a great scene. I love that movie.

I like stage green and I live in a stage green city. But oftentimes, stage green is a narrative that is learned through education, especially college and university. The abstract, universal academic ethic is often more intellectually ambitious and more abstract -- than a more action-oriented stage blue person would ever espouse to be beholden to.

But if there were never a swordsman, you would never draw a gun.

I would say yes and no man.

People who can't identify nerds might be nerds, not to be mean haha.

I want to be careful with how I inquire with you. I want to be diplomatic. One thing I find odd is your obsession with body. That is unusual to me, so can you help me understand this concern?

Yes. You wouldn't be free otherwise. I see you are integrating more freedom. But you are doing it in a backhanded way still IMO.

Aesthetics is central to all of experience at a very high level, not just with respect to the past.

Alien consciousness just means me right?

"Fight for truth" is not always completely understood. We just assume there's the truth. We don't appreciate "power" in relationship (or relation) to what truth passes (gets big) and what stays silent (stays small), and how that matters and so on. Contemplate this one.

I wouldn't typecast conservatives with such an extreme counterexample, but I see where you are going.

I call this the "wonk factor" when I interact with people more and more.

We all suffer. Suffering a breakup is one of the worst forms of suffering. Especially if you love the person deeply.

But localized empathy is still empathy. Like calling a family member to check up on them.

The Odyssey

So how does this help you avoid pain?

Yes. But notice too how stage green can be seen as unempathetic especially with a more stage blue person. Stage green looks like empathy in theory sometimes, which is -- holding a principle that is not actually honored in practice. Stage blue is more concerned with simple acts of empathy without all the intellectual stuff added on.

I feel like empathy is expressed differently with stages blue, orange, and green. It changes shape. It is not one thing that increases as you move up the spiral. It is expressed in each stage differently. We tend to think empathy is one thing, which is already a bias. Conservatives can be very empathetic in ways that I really appreciate.

Sometimes the forum is too intellectual for me too lol.

It is good. Saw it today.

The assumption that there is always one right answer for a problem, and that this always has to align with truth. Sometimes you find that gap where you realize in this context trying to make it more truthful will actually make it more false.

These ones from the list are pretty insightful: Attachment to an ability that is not actually an ability — identifies with a pervading capacity he does not possess. Attachment to a wrong idea of permanence — takes what he has reached to be permanent. Attachment to an awareness that is not actually awareness — mistakes a residue for pure awareness. Attachment to birth that is not actually birth — mistakes an arising for genuine origination. Attachment to a refuge that is not actually a refuge — takes a resting place for the destination. Attachment to an unattainable craving — fixes on something that cannot be had and calls the fixation attainment. Attachment to truth that is not actually truth — takes a partial truth for the whole. Fixed-nature hearers — settles permanently at a real but lesser attainment. Fixed-nature pratyekas — settles at solitary realization and goes no further.

I prefer seeing through rather than letting go of one's mental structures, because reality contains the mental structures.