Carl-Richard

There is no me.

Do you have your own perceptions, thoughts and feelings? Well, based on the fact that when I pinch my skin, I'll say "ouch" and then feel pain, and when you do the same, you will also say "ouch", it's a safe inference that you experience the same pain as I do. I have other experiences other than pain that also show the same correlations as mentioned above, so it's also a safe inference that you have your own perceptions, thoughts and feelings just like me. However, consciousness is not just inherent to perceptions, thoughts or feelings, but also that which is not those things. This fact is verifiable through direct experience, not just through inference.

"We" are each our own patterns of perceptions, thoughts and feelings, that seem obscured to each other in some way, but which still occur within the same field of infinite consciousness. Each perception, thought or feeling is also infinite onto itself, and you can choose to dive into the infinity of either of those things and unite the infinity of form and formlessness.

Drink tea instead Become a monk.

You gotta do sumthin

Not being upfront with your therapist, let alone on a psychedelic. Wow.

What did you do to not smoke?

I'm on this layer: I'm sorry

Yep.

I won't doubt a person's awakening unless it's painfully obvious.

Just balancing out the cynicism.

@Raptorsin7 Awakening is a very individual process.

Why?

Yes. It's incredible how changing the stimuli-reward dynamic for just one occasion can change your behavior forever. It's literally the case that the feel-good dopamine signal strengthens the neural pathways that lead up to that signal, while the feel-bad anti-dopamine signal makes you want to avoid whatever lead up to that signal. Naltrexone is an opioid receptor antagonist which effectively reduces dopamine signalling.

Your absolute identity is infinite. Your human identity is finite.

Man, every time I hear the word lawyer, I just immediately think Better Call Saul Now I'm imagining a timeline where Destiny replaces Saul Goodman for BB and BCS He has made some plans to do some more speaking events and maybe start a media company. He'll probably get to it. I love that clip

Mr. Girl is threading the needle with his 1-on-1 interview-only policy, where there is maximum control of the frame. You can compare it to a documentary, like the one Louis Theroux did about Nick, but even there, Louis has said he wrestled with the issue of whether to amplify extreme voices.

Mr. Girl got way too emotional, but it was needed. Resisting deplatforming or cancel culture should not be a signal to give up all responsibility. I had an eerie feeling when watching the chicken and waffles video before all of this broke out. Like, "Is this ok?"; "are we literally being buddies with this guy now?". Mr. Girl has a deep understanding of context, framing and influence, and he is able to hold people to account for their roles as media figures. He is a systems thinker in this sense (to use that cliché term). Destiny externalizes his locus of control to the intrinsic vagueness of language and to the idea that certain words have been misused and rendered meaningless, meanwhile Mr. Girl is saying that he is in fact in full control of what words mean. He just needs to define them in the conversation. Then Destiny tries to say that the need to define words makes them useless, but that would mean that almost all words are useless, because literally half of all debates are spent just defining words. Defining words does not remove the usefulness of words, because when you've defined them, you go on to use them. Words have power, and Destiny is conceding that power to Nick's survival agenda of obfuscating his identity.

For somebody who claims to care about truth so much, I'm puzzled that you'll genuinely entertain someone who has explicitly stated that he uses irony and jokes to hide his most radical views, meaning he will deliberately blur the lines between truth and untruth for his own devilish gains. Do you understand why I focus so much on the topic of holding contradictory values?

I'm dying.

@Danioover9000 When I'm talking about holding contradictory values, I'm talking about things like believing in equal opportunities for men and women but also believing that only men are allowed to be polygamous, or holding both anti-racist and white supremacist views, or believing in democracy but supporting fascists.

6. A community, family or friends that supports and encourages your decision, whether it's carrot or stick. My mom gave me an ultimatum (quit or move out), and my online spiritual community was suddenly heavily anti-drugs. I managed to quit despite all my friends smoking regularly.

You need to untangle that statement. Way too many conditions in there.