Carl-Richard

There is this thing about Norway that two people who live in different parts of the country will often have big problems understanding each other. This video only shows the coastal dialects. The midland ones are even wackier, trust me The guy is doing a great job according to my ears, and I definitely know more dialects than the average Norwegian . For you non-Norwegians, even if it sounds like gibberish, does it sound different in different places? Does it even sound like the same language?

Or wisdom and an understanding of human psychology and group dynamics. The damage was done and things have stabilized since then. This is an ongoing thing. It's also not an isolated cell.

When it comes to dangerous things, and when you're given evidence of an increased likelihood of it happening, it's wise to be cautious. Anyways, like I said, what is already going on (splintering of the community) is bad enough.

What makes a group of people more likely to do something stupid, based on previous evidence and knowledge about human psychology?

@Strannik Ok, so I guess your point is just that there may be things we can't know that are also extremely fundamental to reality. It sort of lends itself to the idea that the birth of the self-aware rational mind, however many thousands of years ago that was, was in a sense a step up from what existed before ("pure being"), but also, merely asking the question, or merely assuming that there can be something you don't know, is kinda self-serving to this very capacity. Anyways, blablabla

When I think about it, there was really nothing in terms of ideological inclinations that was stopping Rali's discord from turning into the next Heaven's Gate cult. That gives me chills. "The end is near due to a non-physical spiritual influence on reality": what stops you from saying "we need to leave this plane"?

@Strannik So, back to the idea that you can posit something outside formlessness which also doesn't have anything to do with our current experience of forms: As for say materialism positing multiple ontological layers (physical vs. mental), the impulse to do so is to explain the regularities of form, e.g why I can't read your thoughts. I also think was the main appeal of Kant's "thing in itself". And again, there you see is the innate pragmatism of philosophy. But to posit a thing which doesn't have anything to do with the forms we're experiencing and which is inaccessible to the current formlessness, a sort of formlessness 2.0, I don't think makes much sense. Even if you're claiming that there exists parallell universes, you don't need two formlessnesses for that. You just need a particular configuration of form. It's sufficient for making me unable to experience your thoughts, so it should be sufficient for hiding another whole universe away from me. When you peel back into formlessness, you won't see the parallell universes, because those are forms. You're just seeing what the universes are arising within.

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But then what people like Bernardo Kastrup or his Advaita friends or me would say is that all of philosophy is pragmatic, all of it is contingent mind stuff. So when we engage in that realm, things like parsimony are paramount. The ontology itself is not absolute truth, but what the ontology is actually pointing to and occuring within, is absolute truth. The absoluteness is just a description of phenomenologically coming into contact with it, not the conceptual account of it.

If you care about the things that analytic philosophy cares about, it's harder to go with things like idealism, but people like Bernardo Kastrup are challenging that notion. For most laymen though, simplicity is the most appealing, and if they get exposed to the mystical experience which is able to create a contrast with the cultural conditioning of physicalism/materialism, they will opt for idealism without skipping a heartbeat.

Gz! 5 years since I quit drugs.

Meh. The teacher was female. One of my college lecturers is also basically a replica of her, but I also think she is a narcissist, so I might be conflating issues here ?

@Strannik I've been thinking, and I guess you could postulate an ontological category that is distinct to the most fundamental aspect of whatever "this" is, but I don't know if it makes much sense, or if it matters at all.

@Someone here Np

That's a sick ass forest. Looks exactly like the one I've tripped in.

This is what growth feels like

Well yeah. I did do a year of biology in university :> I feel that people think it's more fancy than it really is. It's just one particular phenomena that influences how genes are expressed. Doing just about anything (working out, learning a new skill, stress, eating food) changes how your genes are expressed.

@Tyler Robinson It stole my post ?

Discord and spirituality mixed together leads to cults. It has actually happened in this community before. Even if only 10% of that level of severity ever happens again, it would be really bad. I'm not saying it necessarily will happen. Regardless, what is already going on is bad enough.

Doesn't compare to the dialect from Setesdal or Gudbrandsdalen. It's actually unintelligble ??

One essay on complex traumas and one research paper on self-reported religiosity of Norwegian psychology students. It's basically all done. 28 hours until due date. I thought my essay on systems thinking last year would be my magnum opus, but I might be wrong

@Tyler Robinson I have one of those. This was a decade ago before I had it.

I think my phone was broken and I didn't get to recover the files.

I'll make a full instrumental song before I ever decide to start singing I'm planning to do that this Christmas. I have like 12 years of guitar ideas on a hard drive from like 3 different phones. Even so, I've probably lost 50% of all my recordings (I remember feeling particular sad about it one time).

I picked up jogging again for a very short period, but then I stopped because I'm very sensitive to the elevated cortisol levels the following days. It actually makes me emotionally unstable