Carl-Richard

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

I bypassed my impulse to criticize the destruction of the words

I know how to hit notes, but I don't have the balls to sing.

Haha. I have the Bergen dialect by the Westernmost coast. It's one of the most hated dialects I personally think the Stavanger dialect is the worst one. One of my teachers in middle school had it and I would imitate it all the time

Well, you never know with these spiritual people and their group meditation sessions, energy checks and trauma dumps. All it takes is a slightly charismatic person who thinks highly of themselves and deals arrogantly with pushback, and a couple of submissive followers who encourage their convictions, then add a couple of drug-fueled spiritual experiences in the mix, and boom — you have a doomsday cult that believes negative entities are out to destroy the world. I've seen it happen with my own eyes and I'm seeing it happen again That is not really a hypothetical. Sometimes the bots are right. No, I think that is what you think.

Whaat?! Even very South from very North?

But do you notice the change as they move along?

It's a shame you view it like that. I view it as authentic expression and willingness to learn. Quick and snarky replies, that is what really fuels endless debates.

It does inadvertently sow discord. Having an isolated cell like that unavoidably creates gossip and an "othering" of the larger whole, and like @something_else mentioned, the internal dynamics of such a cell (e.g. high social cohesion and information flow) makes that more likely to happen.

The more time I spent in "The Journal", the precursor to the Discord, the more I felt that the forum was going downhill. I don't think that was about the people I was talking to as much as the tendency towards a shorter format and more casual topics. The most enjoyable thing about this forum for me is spending a long time formulating my thoughts as best as I can. If I want to be social, I go talk to actual people.

Ain't that what they say about repressed aspects of oneself: it remains the same age as when it was repressed? ?

Pure flow.

@Someone here Gz dude

So I would say there is a difference between mapping out an ontology that makes sense (or being skeptical of such attempts) and directly grasping whatever the ontology is describing. The mapping part or the skepticism part is a human thing, and it's something we can't stop ourselves from doing, but it doesn't change the fact that we're somehow doing the mapping. That "doing", whichever way you choose to map it, eventually traces back to formlessness, and it's unavoidable. The amount of layers you have to trace back is of course contingent on our human inclinations, but the final layer isn't. How can you directly grasp the final layer? Again, by stripping all the human layers from yourself, removing the body, the mind, thoughts, perceptions, time and space. That process is necessary because the human and its activities (i.e. what this is) is distracting itself with the world of forms.

Skepticism aside, which ontology makes the most sense to you? In other words, if you had to bet on one using whatever criteria you'd like, which one would you pick?