Carl-Richard

I don't disagree that an asshole can be deep in many different ways (no pun intended). What I'm pointing out is that you seem to be using being an asshole as an explanation for his deepness.

Ego mainly determines how truth is presented to other people. Truth itself is beyond ego. And isn't it just a weird proposition in general? Why should truth require being asshole?

So somebody is being an asshole, and your explanation is "they must be onto something deep"? What about the explanation that they're simply a bit of an asshole?

If somebody believes that it's easy for people to stop being stupid, and that all it takes is a little push and their behavior could easily change, and that it's not like the momentum of the entire universe is behind it, they would probably get mad at stupid people pretty easily. The more complex you know life to be, the less surprised you'll be when you see somebody acting up. You can't predict it down to each single individual, but you can make attempts to protect general groups. You don't walk into a kindergarten to advertise your OnlyFans

20 years, that's a big confidence interval there fella.

My mom was loving all my life, but it still took 20 years before I turned my life around.

Ok, I think we're getting a little lost here. My point is trivial: the task of predicting exactly when an individual is ready to learn, or just generally predicting their exact behavior, is virtually impossible. Yes, you can make general cases like granting survival needs, healing trauma, personality traits, etc., but still, when somebody is the way they are, 99.9% that is the universe at work, not them, not you, not anyone or anything in particular. So when you truly understand this, it's hard to spend a lot of time getting mad at stupidity, or evil, or injustice.

I think I've solved it for now. My thesis is going to be a weird Frankenstein monster of combining the principles of Grounded Theory and quantitative analysis.

Should I just shower my friends and family with spiritual quotes and expect it to work? No. You have to be ready to receive these things. How do you make somebody ready?

How do you actually make someone become less ignorant and self-centered?

I find stupidity really funny. It's like the universe telling you a joke. I think it has been this way ever since I realized that in an absolute sense, people are not in control. Control or personal agency is a very locally defined psychological construct. I still believe in the utility of believing in personal agency and being responsible for your actions, but I also know that there was a time where I practically believed the complete opposite, and I was acting very stupidly because of it, but I actually can't tell you exactly what caused me to change. So the reason I generally don't get mad at stupidity is because I don't actually know the solution for it; not for myself, and certainly not for other people. Sure, you can give the right advice, but how do you make somebody understand, or let alone listen? That is the real problem. Life is a very individual and complex process, and nobody fully knows how it works.

What if you keep cutting yourself more and more every time, with the pain getting more intense every time, until you die?

Multiple thoughts, perceptions and sensations can appear in the same consciousness, which is what people are.

Does me choosing to cut myself twice a week lead to the same level of pain as me not choosing to do that?

You think that is what happened? It's probably some ToS stuff.

Hitler is bad relative to a set of values that I hold. That is why I don't support neo-nazi parties. It's true that my values are not absolute, but they are my values that I hold as a human being, and as long as I exist as a human, I will act in accordance with those values. It's just like eating food. From the absolute perspective, there is no reason why I should eat food, but I'm still going to eat food. Do you eat food?

In other words, virtue.

Tl;dr pls :>

Does a neo-nazi party have just as many advantages and disadvantages as the democratic or republican party?

So is politics.

Decisiveness, taking things one step at a time, self-forgiveness.

There is a thing called adaptation, which makes you adapt to your circumstances, but there is also a thing called dynamism and growth, which allows you to change your circumstances, but which requires challenge. Living on the balance between adaptation and challenge is what growth is, and that is where most pleasure is found. When you have adaptation but no challenge, you have degeneration and a downward spiral of of more and more pain. Look at drug addicts, sick people, or dying people. Are they experiencing more or less pain? Are they growing or degenerating, active or inactive, responsive or inert, living or dying?

I couldn't see shit.

Meshuggah is in a league of their own though. They basically revolutionized modern metal all on their own. And they're jazz fusion inspired. And aliens.

If they're not time travelling AIs from the future, they're at least aliens from outer space. Just listen to Fredrik Thordendal's soloing style in this song. It's like alien morse code or something: Omg the "blue jeans and bloody tears" was so funny. It's like a fever dream.