Carl-Richard

If the argument is that it's not a genocide because the immense starvation, displacement and death is "not intentional", there are a few problems with that. "Our intention was to deliver 3000 calories of food per day per person to Gaza, but Hamas steals 80% of it". Ok, if you fail to give them food, you recognize that you fail to give them food and why it's happening, but you continue the war, is that not intentional? It's like if they used trucks where they knew that 80% of the trucks would break down before the border, but they continue the war and blame the truck manufacturers, wouldn't you say they are now intentionally starving the people? You have to be very critical of the frame-setting where blame is shifted towards the opponents. Because as long as you're actively taking action in a direction, no matter the blame of others and no matter how seemingly justified you make it appear by referencing Oct 7th, there is always blame there from your side.

It's your tone man.

My impression is that high quality YouTube channels, that got something to offer and don't do things only for views, very rarely care about other YouTube channels. On the top of my head: Veritasium, Vsauce, Essentia Foundation, Alex O'Connor, HealthyGamerGG, CrashCourse, Kurzgesagt — in a nutshell. The moment you start caring about other YouTube channels, you likely start caring about YouTube channels that care about other YouTube channels, and you enter the space of vacuous, dead, parasitic content.

@PurpleTree I guess you could call hostile profanity directed against a group of people racism, and profanity against a group of people is of course especially antagonistic. Regardless, the problem is the profanity.

@PurpleTree Had they made the point without profanity, they would have said "white people oppressed Jews for 2000 years and then white people have the nerve to tell Arab people not to oppress Jews, is that not a bit ironic?" The "is that not ironic" part here carries the condemnation ("you fuckers"), without the profanity. True racism here would be "white people are simply more violent and oppressive as a people, it's in their nature", not simply describing historical happenstance.

"Whites oppressed blacks in history". Is that racist?

They're making a historical point about a people oppressing another people, not denigrating a people for an immutable characteristic. It's the profanity that makes it seem racist.

@Twentyfirst Watch yo profanity.

The experience isn't a concept. The thought about it is.

"I'm completely alone" is a thought. It's an egoic projection trying to make sense of the experience (or triggering the experience like a pointer). It's one possible projection out of many, but you usually don't get many at the same time because you can only project so much at a time, and you tend to get fixated on one at a time because of their seeming profoundness in describing the experience.

To be clear, this has definitely not been established in the science. See my point about ecological validity. If you want a brilliant study, study bodybuilding competitions, interview all the participants about their workout regime and see whether "science-based lifting" correlates with competition placement (it doesn't just have to be those who place #1 where you will blame genetics; you can use linear regression for all placements). It happens for many reasons (balance between skill level and difficulty level, actions giving immediate feedback, believing you can succeed, etc.), and it overlaps with concepts like mindfulness and focused attention, all of which show individual variation. I touched on flow in my bachelor thesis 😆 Again, tapping into flow is in a sense synonymous with performing at your best. And it just happens that the way your body performs at its best is dictated by indeed your body, so you have to listen to the body to tap into that. Some people are better at listening to their body than others, even among atlethes.

There is no "solipsistic awakening". It's the ego reacting (in this case with fear) to non-dual awakening, projecting (in this case clutching onto) its preconceived notions like other minds and bodies, and because of resistance, what would be bliss turns into terror and despair. Non-dual awakenings are inherently blissful, but you can also have energetic discharges and processes (kundalini) which are supremely blissful. But there too, if there is resistance, bliss turns to agony and terror.

@Natasha Tori Maru One time, me and my buddies were smoking (not cigarettes) on the top of a mountain (not big), then we decided to drive down to McDonalds to eat. The guy who drove the car (who I'm pretty sure was the one who suggested it or was at least very hyped for it), after stopping in the parking lot at McDonalds, said he was too scared to go in and order food. It was late in the evening, dark outside, and not really many people inside. And we had been at McDonalds in the same state many times before. I had to literally give a pep talk and go through a whole ass therapy session before we finally went in. The mind is peculiar thing.

I felt like posting a response to a YouTube comment under Mike Israetel's new video responding to Sam Sulek's critiques of "science-based" lifting: Ecological validity is a MAJOR problem for behavioral science (and yes, exercise science is a behavioral science). To use scientific studies that lack ecological validity to decisively declare what is "optimal" and "the best option", is a metaphysical commitment, not a scientific one. The science doesn't say that; it doesn't prescribe what is best for you working out as yourself in your gym, in your gym session, in your flow state. It's the Church of Science-Based Lifting that says that.

"95% intensity" is a cue for sprinting, which is all about removing the "I have to move like this" (what your mind tells you to do) to pulling back and feeling what the body wants to do on its own. All kinds of embodied sports or martial arts, at the highest levels, are essentially teaching you to access the natural flow of your body. Because accessing that flow is how your perform the best. And you can see when it happens. The best feats of the human body have a certain aura to them, and it's what the natural flow looks like:

You just have to be willing to let go into the fear and trust yourself infinitely. If there is resistance to that, ask yourself why. Then it's up to you how to proceed. You don't have to be ready if you don't feel ready. You can keep exploring being a human if that is what you want. Stay true to what you want.

India has literally the #1 cheapest weed in the entire world lol

You just can't keep yourself from stealing more of my thoughts? 🙈 I'm not even joking.

Bernardo Kastrup became suicidal after acquiring severe tinnitus. He still has the tinnitus but is no longer suicidal.

But making conceptual statements and making inferences about the boundaries and the limitations and the ontological status of those sensations, of course, are. "The isness that can't be seen as an object" is a profound description which is the point I'm getting at. The moment you start talking about objects that can be seen, then what are we talking about? Objects that can be seen. The isness in its most fundamental sense stands impartial to the objects that can be seen.

Do you realize that investigating your experience in any way that can be spoken about is a conceptual exercise, just like investigating what might be outside or separate from or not immediately apparent in your experience is a conceptual exercise? For example, investigating a sensation and then saying "here it is, here is its shape, here is its texture, here is where it extends, here is where it seems to end" is at the same level of conceptual density as saying "what this current sensation seems to be might be a part of a larger class of many sensations or a larger space of sensation that doesn't end here".

You can perfect the technique to maximize flow. That is essentially the goal of perfecting your technique in sprinting.

Do we recognize that "being that which knows everything" is very different from saying "what is currently known is all that exists"?

Then you also have people who just know how to dance: