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@zurew Welp, it's settled then: Jews don't even have a higher IQ in the first place ? The disproportionate verbal intelligence is interesting though. Makes me think about... the literacy obligation ?

@lxlichael I don't get it.

@Tyler Robinson Ask Leo if he has marked periods where he has problems with sleeping.

That could go either way, but you would have to substantiate it with specific empirical data (research about the brain specifically). It's not necessarily the case that you can generalize from differences in skeletal muscle to differences in brain functioning. The brain is an extremely complex organ, and there are reasons to believe that the hardware itself has become less important over time as we became cultural creatures around 30-50k years ago (when we had barely started moving out of Africa). For example, one weird thing is that the hardware that made this leap possible were in place many thousands of years in advance, and it's a mystery why the leap happened when it did. Another is that there are studies claiming a reduction in brain size during the last Ice Age, a possible explanation being, well – culture: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fevo.2021.742639/full Whether or not these studies are valid, you would still be hard-pressed to make any strong statements about racial differences in brains without any specific empirical data yourself.

Anybody care to catch me up to speed? Who's winning?

There is no way Leo is bipolar. He has a consistent mood across all his videos. He is coherent in all of them. If he had bipolar, you would notice periods of marked change in behavior.

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I feel like most people's criteria for being Tier 2 is just being a little wonky.

It's so obvious: it's boofing tryptamines.

What does this mean?

@lxlichael I understood none of that.

Right??

It's ooonly talk. (btw, the way the lyrics were written may satisfy your Ti )

OMG YES you reminded me to post this song in another thread, and now I can post it here as well :

Counter-counter message (I swear I have to stop doing high-intensity cardio because it makes me mentally unstable ): I think it's better to maybe use a wider definition of sensemaking, e.g. "all attempts towards knowledge, understanding and being"; firstly, because it just makes more sense, and secondly, it better illustrates how I'm not a pure anti-realist. Despite this wide definition, I still think the primacy of consciousness is unavoidable: consciousness is still 'the case' independent of anything else. But again, things like souls, brains and physics, depend on us who are making sense of it.

Great

@Twinstar That's great, and I think you'll agree that this was a natural development that unfolded within you. It wasn't somebody from the outside who told you "mental illness and death are illusions", and suddenly amidst the deepest depths of despair, you understood everything you needed to do. The process of coming to spirituality is complex, and it's not generally not the case that you can simply tell someone about it and they're ready to listen. And not all people are circling rock bottom and in need of a complete psychological overhaul either. For most people, all they need is some tangible structure that pulls them out of the downwards spiral, be it constructive daily habits, physical exercise or a life purpose.

Having a life purpose is essentially like having a work schedule or setting an alarm clock in the morning. It creates some structure in your life. If you care about mental hygiene and not being plagued by existential despair, figuring out a life purpose can be very helpful. Especially if you have aspirations and strive for excellence, the life purpose is basically a mission statement. If all you care about is keeping your head above water, sure, you don't have to do much of anything really.

When did things change?

My experience is that it's much less reductionistic than that, but I guess the culture has shifted a bit as I think you're a bit older than me.

Try to say that to a depressed suicidal person. What the hell is this condescension?

What is your idea of self-actualization?

True. You choose your life purpose, just like you choose what to eat, how to exercise, or how to earn money. But you can't just choose any life purpose. You have to choose one that fits you.

I ordered one from MyHeritage (the best one for those with European ancestry if you mainly care about finding out your ancestry), and I got 97.3% Scandinavian, 1.8% Finnish, and 0.9% Greek/South-Italian. I'm Norwegian by the way ? What is really funny is that I predicted basically all of those three (I predicted Finnish from my father's side and South-European from my mother's side). My mom comes from West in the country and my father is from the East. The West of Norway has been a highly trafficked place for sea trade since the Viking Age, and there are many stories of Portuguese ships capsizing and the survivors washing up at the coast and settling among the native population. My father has always said that my great-grandfather looked like Nikola Tesla (a Greek inventor), and if my estimations are correct, he could've been up to 7.2% Greek (if we assume that he had an ancestor who was 100% greek and that this person and their descendants only had children with 100% Scandinavian people). Given these assumptions, this person could've lived as close as 7-8 generations ago in the 1700s-1800s. However, my mom told me that her grandmother on her dad's side (not the same side as Nikola Tesla lookalike) had brown eyes and a darker complexion than average, so for all I know, the Greek genes might be all from her ? The reason I predicted my dad's side to have Finnish genes is because my grandmother on that side had particularly distinct hooded eyes, which is more prevalent in the Finnish population due to more East-Asian influence (e.g. the Sámi people). The East of Norway is also next to Sweden, which is next to Finland, and we know that Finnish people have settled in those parts of Norway. Besides, my cousin from my dad's side also took the same DNA test, and he got 2.5% Finnish ancestry (and no South-European ancestry), which makes sense. I ordered the DNA test mostly because people in school always thought I was Spanish (lol), and my skin tans really easily (and Norway is very white). Anyways, curious to hear if any of you guys have taken a DNA test and why you chose to take it. Did you have any unexpected results, or did you predict everything like I did? ?