Carl-Richard

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?

Ok, so other than deterrence and economics, what does the death penalty reliably achieve? I have a suspicion that people who are pro-death penalty are trying in a roundabout way to justify their feelings of retribution ("well, they deserve it"), because I'm trying to find another example where we can justifiably kill somebody for economical reasons, and the first argument that pops up is "but who deserves to die?" I don't think anyone deserves to die.

I'll leave this here:

The Cartesian-Newtonian worldview reduces the world down to atoms and physical laws, and it splits the mind/soul away from the physical and makes it secondary and unimportant. When the scientists became the new priestly class, this became the prevailing metaphysics in the mind of the modern man, and so even the atheists who pretend to only reject the claims of theism, uses their unconscious metaphysical assumptions as arguments against theism.

It just feels wrong. We need to distinguish between killing to neutralize an immediate threat and the death penalty. You can kill in self-defense if somebody is posing an immediate threat to your life. The police can kill you if you're an immediate threat to somebody else's life. A country will kill foreign soldiers who pose an immediate threat to their country. But if you're in jail, you're no longer an immediate threat to anyone. So what message does the state send to its citizens with the death penalty? "We will kill you not because we have to, but because we can".

@Raptorsin7 I've had some thought about your recent posts. If you want to stay on the forum, you have to stop signal boosting Nick Fuentes' ideological viewpoints. It's fine to talk about Nick Fuentes or criticize his views, but to endorse his views like this is against what this forum stands for: https://www.actualized.org/forum/guidelines/ The amount of uncritical posting of Fuentes content and the favorable reviews you're writing about him is creating a space for radicalization towards these extreme ideologies, and it will inevitably cause harm in the real world.

You should be thinking about whatever your mind wants to think about. You can't stop thinking. Your only job in the meditation session is to practice the technique you've chosen. Preferably quiet, secluded and hidden from view. You should be sitting upright on a decently firm surface, but you should also be comfortable and relaxed.