Carl-Richard

Postmodernism is an important part of context & construct awareness.

It's a definition of God that emphasises "the logos", and he probably thought mathematics was the purest or most fundamental version of it, or the most sacred symbol of God.

Points are the problem

@Preety_India No matter how many points anyone makes about the specifics, it only provides additional confirmation to my understanding that it's a systemic problem, and the solution will remain in accordance with that.

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It's quite obvious that it's environmentally caused, or that the individuals and the environment are entangled. It's the first point of my "thesis" here (1.1), namely that it's generally not a simple problem caused by one individual or one action (linear causality), but rather a complex systemic problem (cyclical causality). On the other hand, my solution, is actually an individual one, but as a result of acknowledging the systemic factors: it's up to the individuals themselves to make the change that they desire every time they click the report button, which is to block or stop reading journals of people they don't like, stop contributing to the mess. The solution is individual responsibility because the moderators are supposed to deal with simple problems with linear causality as defined by the guidelines, something which minimizes ambiguity and bias, and preserves the trust of the moderators. We're not family therapy counselors. All we can really do in this context is provide encouragement, which was the purpose of this thread. Although, maybe in the future, I'll consider enforcing mutual blocking using warning points on a case-by-case basis, which is also commensurate with the systemic problems: avoiding individual solution => perpetuation of collective problem => collective punishment / coerced individual solution. I'll have to contemplate how authoritarian that truly is.

Is their behavior also environmentally caused?

The Piagetian correlate to Stage Blue.

They're not gone forever. Emotions. Let me correct you again. Actually, let me not. HEY

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I'm way too privileged to even comment on that ?

I also bet if we enforced mutual blocking, some of you would probably use multiple accounts to spy on each other. It's true; there is no effective solution. There never was. It's about what's pragmatic, and it does require some work on your part. Blocking (recommended or enforced) is certainly better than whatever half-assed solutions us mods have been coming up with up to this point.

So be it. All other solutions are shit in comparison. Journal locking doesn't ultimately prevent that either, only in your own journal. I've also thought about enforcing mutual blocking with warning points, considering I'm accused of being too passive. What if mods could edit block lists of users? ?

Journal locking is a half-measure. Most of the drama occurs when somebody reads someone elses journal and takes offence to something. There will still be conflict PMs or in other threads. Blocking eliminates all that.

I was probably the Jordan Peterson in my group of friends

He is extremely open-minded, creative and compassionate. He implicitly taught me the importance of internal motivation through the way he raised me, his actions and general approach to life, which is definitely another thing that saved my life. He is a great dad and I owe him a lot.

I have some personal experiences as well (not bipolar, but psychotic symptoms). Some months before my spiritual awakening at 19, I think I was very close to a psychotic break, induced by heavy cannabis use, dysfunctional coping and escalating stress. I was already highly prone to anxiety and neuroticism, and my mind was starting to become increasingly hyper-associative, also thinking thoughts at a rapid rate. My speech pattern became very weird (word choice, tone of voice, mannerisms etc.), and my general sense of reality became slightly altered (aspects of my visuospatial awareness was actually deteriorating). My attention increasingly shifted towards my inner world, and I was losing touch with my surroundings. Luckily, I spent a weekend with my friends at a vacation house, and one of them (who is on the spectrum and is more likely to be honest despite social cost) told me in semi-private "you're talking too much". That suddenly gave me a moment of self-awareness, and it made me shift my attention from my inner world to the social world, and I thought "oh crap, I'm actually being kinda weird!". I think this saved me, because the day after that, my mental state had almost returned to normal, probably because I was more attuned to average mental state of the social group. I think this is one reason why social isolation is a risk factor for mental illness, as it detaches you from the average baseline of the social word. This experience was in fact the breaking point that initiated my journey towards self-development (I watched Leo's video "40 signs you're being neurotic" on the train ride home, and it hit me like a ton of bricks). I think that video, and my friend who told me I was being weird, actually saved my life.

The most important distinction is between type 1 (with mania, psychosis) and type 2 (with hypomania, no psychosis). I've seen my dad in various stages of mania and visited him at the mental hospital once. It's like the mind becomes a superconductor or a superliquid substance. It makes associations between different concepts at an alarming rate, and it's hard to hold a conversation, because they'll either speak way too much or switch topics very rapidly. The strings connecting the topics tend to be hyper-abstract and hard to follow, and they probably contain many layers of meaning that a non-manic person will miss. Sometimes words are associated with each other based on sound quality rather than meaning ("clanging"), kinda like freestyle rap, which in severe cases becomes incomprehensible.

I think I've made myself clear enough when I first made this thread. If you have any issues with the points I made, you're free to comment on them directly.

Yes. I thought about making this thread.

I try to not spend time on absolute nonsense. That is why I made this thread. Now, I can't control what other moderators do, but other moderators have taken a liking to my idea, so maybe you'll see less micromanaging of people's journals.

I didn't know about that rule.

I'll maybe consider my idea above.

All this is for absolutely nothing then

I think I have a new idea: if people refuse to block each other, then you'll be given warning points.