Carl-Richard

I'm saying society was poorer 100 years ago as a whole. Regardless, if you're serious about spiritual practice, you should generally avoid entertaining thoughts that externalize responsibility ("x, y and z is not my fault, it's society's fault"). If it's a part of your life and you can't change it, it's not making your life harder. It is life.

Poverty is a constant distraction.

An amoeba or an ant is intelligent, but they don't have an intellect.

Compared to 100 years ago, not at all. You were distracted by survival all the time: poverty, disease, famine, war, etc.

At one point, you need to let go of that. You can't spend most of your day being bummed out about it, because then it will never happen. And stop blaming modern society. Your opportunity to become highly conscious is 100x greater than 100 years ago.

What?

There is New Age in the sense of embracing a form of spirituality which is stripped from tradition, and then there is New Age in the sense of thinking that spirituality is everything we need. When I use "New Age" in a derogatory way, I'm referring to the latter. No one.

@gettoefl What?

"Most people that society deems as intelligent are actually not very intelligent". Those people are called intellectuals.

Oh my god we need to burn New Agers on the fire.

Intellect is not intelligence.

I think it's lovely that someone who started purely from a philosophical approach is able to discover mysticism like this.

Weird synchronicity, talking about executioners and then stumbling across this video:

I have heard positive things about it.

Some insight about music history: Meshuggah took the rhythmically and technically precise guitar picking techniques of 80s thrash metal (distorted palm muting), distilled them to their essence, and perfected them over the course of a decade, from the 90s to the 00s. And of course, it wouldn't be possible without Tomas Haake's inhuman drumming.

@Tyler Robinson Of course

Love that!

I think we're partially demonstrating the point by showing that Yellow can have internal disagreements (if that is a reasonable assumption)

Nooooo ? @thisintegrated ?

I think the main job of the criminal justice system is to create a safe society, and I don't think killing a few naked prisoners is going to have a dramatic effect on improving the safety of society. I sense the lust for retribution.

Should we kill kids with ADHD? Jking

I don't think the worst killers are actually that much worse in terms of behavior than the average violent prisoner, and again, you're not really removing that many people through executions.

https://medium.com/@batchellerlauren/the-emotional-impact-on-executioners-9c448c4e02ec

Executioner is not exactly an unproblematic occupation either. Very few people get the death penalty, and you're still stuck with a large population of assholes in prison.

Looks like the deterrent effect is actually not that good. https://www.aclu.org/other/death-penalty-questions-and-answers So we're stuck with economics. Should we kill severely disabled people?