Carl-Richard

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  1. Construct a society where crime is not an attractive survival strategy for anyone, heal intergenerational trauma and enjoy. It's kinda "duh", but there is literally no other way if you want to fix the root problems.
  2. I would ask him how the heck he managed to get here
  3. The hospital system is not just medical personnel. It's hospital beds, medical equipment, medicines, donor organs, blood etc. They specified in the article "99.7% of adults", not "99.7% of the population". It's more realistically 80% of the population. Ireland is one of the most vaccinated countries all around (78% of population fully vaccinated), so the differences between counties is not that significant. You also posted an article from over a month ago. You can see that Co. Waterford has a comparable incidence rate to the rest of the country as of today: https://covid19ireland-geohive.hub.arcgis.com/ It changes a lot, because less people are dying.
  4. You're imagining that. You can imagine something else. This is not a fruitful conversation, because you're looking for constraints, and I don't have any
  5. Things are happening -> happening is possible. Reality is infinite => infinite possibilities. What is there to explain? Lol You move your body through the temporal dimension. Forward and backwards and all directions. Why? Is a dream not reality? You're constructing arbitrary constraints. We're not.
  6. "Yourself" is an amalgamation of influences. He is being himself.
  7. I already said that my statements are not confined to local constraints. Anything IS possible. Besides, I didn't see you explain the mechanism of travel yet Mechanistic explanations don't change anything.
  8. Don't limit yourself. The previous Norwegian prime minister had dyslexia.
  9. Distance, time and travel are abstractions; relative statements. "Now/here is all there is" are absolute statements. You're unclear about the distinction. You say it's only time that exists as a concept in your head, but it's the same with distance and travel.
  10. Welcome to the forum! Here we put introverts on a pedestal
  11. Intense fear and enlightenment are compatible?
  12. Did I not just tell you that this is a red herring? You're blatantly misleading people at this point. I'm again going to advise you to stay on topic:
  13. @DocWatts That is actually hilarious. I want to watch that show now
  14. The comment is 7 months old. That might be why you can't find it. The comment was originally "Where is your PhD in mysticism?", but I edited after he responded with the first comment. Dave has no idea what construct awareness is. It makes no sense to mention it. You can only probe for it in conversation (which I tried to do). People already get depressed and suicidal without discovering self-help or spirituality. People who pursue self-help or spirituality are more predisposed towards such problems. It would be surprising if we never saw any depressed people on the forum. If you trace MHC back towards its origins, you'll see that it's actually being taught in school as we speak. MHC is an extension of Jean Piaget's model of cognitive development, which is arguably the most famous developmental model in the world. You can read about Piaget in the undergraduate curriculum for developmental psychology. You could probably learn about MHC in some graduate program. Simple: SD tracks worldviews (value systems), and MHC tracks complexity of cognitive operations. It just happens that MHC describes more types of operations than SD describes worldviews. The operations will still roughly correlate with SD, because worldviews are very much based on cognition. Sub-metasystematic is all levels under 12. However, it's not like you only ever operate from one level. People who reside around the sub-metasystematic area will utilize 1-11 all the time. You see the same thing with SD to some extent: you don't suddenly forget all the lessons of Blue when you turn Orange. Alcohol is bad for you even in small amounts (just less bad). It's just the antioxidants that aren't bad for you. Those studies are only excuses to keep drinking wine. If you want antioxidants, eat a fruit. When I say "chemicals in red wine", I mean phytochemicals from the grapes themselves. The word "chemical" has been poisoned by common vernacular. Comparing paradigms happens at cross-paradigmatic cognition (14): connections between frameworks. Science (verifying or falsifying hypotheses) happens at formal operational cognition (10): connections between variables. Grammar correction (evaluating sentences) happens at sentential operational cognition (5): connections between words. Trying to use science (e.g. empirically verifying a statement) to evaluate the comparisons between two paradigms is like trying to use grammar correction to do science. It does not compute.
  15. You mean how mandatory vaccinations eradicated smallpox and then lead to nazism? Yeah I remember reading about that...
  16. Travel is not possible either because there is only HERE. There is no journey to begin with.
  17. Explain the mechanism of travel. At the end of the day, reality is amechanical, infinite imagination. Anything is possible. If anything seems impossible, it's only because of a local, temporary, apparent constraint. If you can imagine travelling back to when the dinosaurs existed, then why can't God imagine it? If reality is nothing but appearances, you can't actually distinguish between "real" time travel and something that simply appears as time travel. Therefore, things like grandfather paradoxes, timeline discontinuity and object identity aren't necessarily a problem (although if they were, they would also just be appearances in consciousness).
  18. Noam Chomsky is actually the first person who comes to mind when I hear the word "articulate". No fluff in choice of words, maximally insightful. He seems to be quite deliberate about this as well. Took me 10 seconds to find this: 2:24 "If we can say things simply so that people can understand them, we should." It's one thing to approach verbal noises like art. It's another to convey thoughts concisely. Then again, language and thought are two sides of the same coin. I'm not gonna lie, I like a good mix
  19. With JP, I feel people often confuse being articulate with being charismatic, emotional, engaging and entertaining. He is articulate, but it's not his main selling point.
  20. So you choose definition rather than feeling. I'm just saying it's possible to choose feeling.
  21. Based on what you said earlier about your body at 10 years old, you seem to be only making statements about form here. You treat "you" as your body (form). What about the formless you? What about the you beyond space and time? Beyond physical objects? Beyond thoughts? The formless you is unchanging. You can become directly aware of this right now. What is the feeling you get when you think about what existed before you were born as a physical body? That feeling is the unchanging, formless you.
  22. This is because "hot" and "cold" are both related to form. Hot as form is hot, and cold as form is cold. Change is related to form, but the changeless is related to the formless. Your analogy does therefore not translate.