Carl-Richard

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  1. This is a strong double bind. Does he actually not want you to listen to him? Is it just a way to make you continue listening? Also, if you actually do listen, are you taking his advice or not?
  2. I wasn't thinking clearly when I made that topic.
  3. Paint your room pink then.
  4. Red is my favorite color too.
  5. There are always exceptions to broad-sweeping statements about complex things like society. I already told you this: There is more to a country than GDP.
  6. Experiences of self-transcendence in narrative form, corrupted by ego, distributed geographically through imperial conquest. The first world religion, Hinduism, was a culmination of several lineages of pagan nature religions from the Upper-Paleolithic to the Early Neolithic that existed ~15000 years ago. It retained the traits of polytheism with animal and feminine gods. In a growing world of cities and empires influenced by patriarchal power structures, we got organized religion, the epitome of which were the Abrahamic religions, with emphasis on monotheism, law and order: strict behavioral restrictions under the rule of the one patriarchal Father.
  7. Truuue! This is generally the case, but you also have the odd visionaries who have a foot in both worlds. Here is a discussion between two highly metaphysically literate scientists about the limitations of the mainstream paradigm of not just science but the way we live our lives (the nihilistic pop-science view of life):
  8. And that's not the end of the story. The reason these people are popular in the first place is because they're reflecting the worldview of the majority. They didn't really change anything. They just entered a preprepared niche
  9. You can still survive in such conditions. It's just not as comfortable. Privilege is mostly about comfort and convenience.
  10. Most hilarious ENTP moment : 3:22 - 3:38
  11. Survival is at some level inherently violent.
  12. If people keep posting about stereotypes and other ethnocentric garbage, this will be locked.
  13. If it's possible to imagine The Statue of Liberty being toppled by a true to life dictator, it's possible to imagine them being assassinated by a leftist incel as well
  14. Become one and transcend it.
  15. I would think that a true dictator of a 1st world country would get assassinated pretty quickly.
  16. Meditation is the gradual unwinding of cyclical cognitive and emotional patterns (attachments), which over time leads to a change in state. Psychedelics induce a radical state change similar to a meditative state, but it's not an organic state (i.e. it's dependent of non-essential external regulators), which is why it's often more transient in nature. That doesn't mean you can't gain any lasting effects from taking psychedelics, but psychedelics don't force you to engage in the same type of structured observation of arising and passing of thought/sensation as meditation.
  17. Tier 2 musician (not metal ):
  18. Isn't that simply reality existing as itself?