Carl-Richard

What stops this from being true? But also, what is the evidence?

"And some people believe [...] that for example idealism is in line with that. But actually, it's the other way around: that materialism is more in line with that than non-duality".

Enlightenment is like you're dying, moment by moment, while your body is still alive.

Locked for low quality.

The problem is when you don't know that you're doing it. "Existence is colors, shapes, sounds", claiming this statement to be absolute, while claiming that all other statements are not, is to not know that you're projecting concepts onto reality.

Many People Who Are Solipsists Don't Even Know They Are Projecting Concepts Onto Reality

There are things about a person or family that you would never be able to predict in a million years. You know the person who died? She met with Fidel Castro, Daniel Ortega and flew in his private plane. She danced with Bruce Springsteen on stage. I went to the same high school at the same time as two artists who are now both world famous (both have top songs on Spotify with more than 1 billion listens). One of them took the same music classes as me, just one year above me.

Happenstance. Take the Stoltenberg family: father and mother were famous politicians, son ex-prime minister and ex-NATO general secretary, one daughter ex-head of the Norwegian Institute of Public Health and current head of Norwegian Research Centre AS (NORCE), the other daughter worked in television and stuggled with a heroin addiction and died of a drug overdose (according to her sister, not the official story).

Social anxiety disappears if you're focused on a task, or more generally a mission.

I built the basic infrastructure for a website that provides an online service with ChatGPT-5 Thinking in a day with no web design knowledge.

You're too identified with the objects of awareness that awareness without objects seems like nothing to you. Only in awareness with objects, there is time. Only in awareness with objects, there is space. If you spend all of your life trapped in space and time, then that will be all you think is real.

A public toilet while you're scoring a date, or the toilet at work while you're holding a meeting.

@Elliott I just watched the news and it said while Sweden has twice the unemployment, Norway has 10.7% of people of working age on disability while Sweden only has 3.7%. So all in all, the total amount of working age people in the workforce is actually 80% in Norway, 81.9% in Sweden (Eurostat, 2024). In 2007, Sweden had 10% on disability, but they tightened the criteria for it over the years.

I'll blow 5-MeO-DMT up inside your anus when you take a shit in a public toilet, how about that?

Fuuuuck yoo. I want to yell like an angry old man and raise my fist the next time I see a stoner.

What's the story?

I feel like I have a weird mental block against voting MDG, because my father has always voted for them (am I just copying my father?), people call it an unhinged party that wants to throw our oil in the toilet, and I don't particularly care much about personal environmental action unless it's activism or something that aims at large scale change.

I took the "Valgomat" (election quiz) made by our state TV channel and I got the Green Party (MDG) both for the general quiz and the more personalized quiz. I've also reviewed their party program and it's in line with my principled stances (when somebody uses the phrase "a society in ecological balance", I get Schmachtenberger vibes). Also, they're for EU membership and more international powerlines (I think more global is generally good, just as a principle). They're aiming to collab with the left-wing and they're one of the more left-wing of those parties. So the wealth tax will stay. I think with the wealth tax, you can of course try to review all the arguments that exist like we're doing here right now, but as a heuristic, if something smells fishy (removing tax from the richest), it probably is. Outside public subsidies, the right-wing parties are also of course funded primarily by rich millionaires (the left are funded mostly by worker unions). Coincidentally, if MDG reaches 4% of votes (it's a small party), it gets a large amount of seats in the parliament, and it's said to be what could dictate a left-wing victory, so some people who want to continue seeing Støre as prime minister (the Labour Party) think it's smart to tactically vote for MDG. But it will be a huge coalition government with Labour Party, Socialist Left Party, Red Party (commies), Centre Party and MDG.

Low compared to a cross-sectional slice of another country. The unemployment rate rose steadily from 3.2% in 2022, one year into Støre's period, to 4.6% in july 2025. He increased the wealth tax during that period, multiple times, especially for higher brackets. Again, you can always tell a story. I don't settle with just one story, I want many.

It was apparently clarified so well that any pushback was not needed.

Some ChatGPT-5 Thinking magic: It's not unexpected that burning one plant will be similarly as bad for you as burning another plant. But even if it was "good" for you (anticarcinogenic), hallucinogens in public spaces is the issue.

That was the basis for the two examples of the "you can always tell a story" in my original post (remember I mentioned wealth tax and contrasted it with employment fees; that contrast pointed to Sweden). What I'm essentially asking for is a holistic review of both poles — no wealth tax vs wealth tax — preferably a big "in principle" or highly abstract systemic argument, but simply a lot of facts will do too. So we're moving in that direction here, but we're still on a very "small story basis". But then again, we have the scientific issue of comparing apples to oranges (Sweden to Norway), but if that difference can be quantified or specified somehow, that would also help.

You don't want their jobs because they want more money than comrade Støre allows them is what I'm hearing (I love Støre btw 🙂). Sweden has 2x the employment fees 😆

I didn't say they smoke more, as if that matters anyway. Smoke is smoke. Burnt vegetable is burnt vegetable. Feel free to dig up the cancer rates from weed smoke.