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The amount of intelligence that goes into creating a flat-earther should floor you. To create a living creature that is able to engage in self-deception requires immense complexity. There is no contradiction there. Self-deception is also a key feature of survival. Your mind is constructed to take shortcuts and make assumptions about its environment, because information processing is a costly activity. Your mind only experiences what it needs in order to survive. Survival is not a truth-seeking activity. It's the game of maintaining a bias.

It's useful to view each proceeding stage as a synthesis of the previous stages (dialecticism; thesis -><- antithesis => synthesis). In other words, the clash between Red (thesis) and Blue (antithesis) resolves to Orange (synthesis). The synthesis is not merely the operation of adding each trait of the previous stages together, but there is an act of "emergence": parts coming together to make up a whole where the sum of the parts are not reducible to each part. It's just like how hydrogen and oxygen join to make up water; where each part has different chemical properties in isolation, but when they exist as a part of the whole, they produce some completely new properties. When you recognize this perspective, you'll see that each stage has its own ethical dimension (ways of determining what is good). It's not that Blue is ethical and Red is not. It's just that Blue ethics is very different from Red ethics (and Orange and Green ethics etc.). The lower stages all have their own ethics, but of course they're more limited than the higher stages (smaller circle of concern). The mistake I'm pointing to is to view a concept like ethics as if it has a objective basis and that one stage has a stronger coherence with this basis than another. No -- rather, ethics is completely relative one's own survival values and hence one's own stage of development. This means that to evaluate the ethical conduct of Orange by comparing it to say Blue ethics becomes a bit problematic. There are many ways that Orange will act that it will justify through ethical argumentation that goes completely against Blue ethics. One obvious example is gay marriage: Blue thinks that to stray from well-established, traditional, tried-and-tested survival techniques is unethical, while Orange -- who invented ideas like individual rights and reason -- thinks anything which unreasonably contradicts one's right to individual expression is unethical. Likewise, Red ethics is very different and tends to be based on things like strength, loyality, and pride. This doesn't mean that Orange or Blue or Red cannot agree on some issues; it's only that you have to use different arguments to persuade them.

Tier 2 people today are thinking in complex ways relative to surrounding culture, but that doesn't mean society cannot become Tier 2. Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle were all very complex thinkers relative to their culture, but today their teachings are taught in children's classrooms. When society turns Tier 2 (whatever that means), you should expect most people to be Tier 2 as adults. @DocWatts Didn't mean to steal your points -- I made similar points recently

Rock musicians/bands/styles that reflect MBTI types (at least aesthetically). I picked the examples based on how I experience the music, but it might be slightly biased as I'm also familiar with the musicians in question and their "official" MBTI type (taken from personality database). ENTP ("too many intellectual ideas"): Jethro Tull Gentle Giant Frank Zappa What is so great about this style of music is that it's unpredictable and at times unconventional. This combination means that the unconventional parts tend to get quickly saved by some contrasting section before it gets too weird, which is a testament to the fast-paced and apologetic nature of the ENTP cognitive style. ISFP ("feels"): David Gilmour (Pink Floyd solo guitarist, songwriter) Known for his beautiful bends and silky smooth voice. Very embodied guitar player and singer. The perfect encapsulation of classic, soulful playing. INTJ ("deliberate and elaborate design"): Roger Waters (Pink Floyd bassist and songwriter mastermind). Arguably the most ambitious concept album in history. Steven Wilson (solo artist and Porcupine Tree frontman). SW just has a god-given ability to create immersive soundscapes and intricate, deliberate compositions with an eye for the tiniest of details. Great songwriter and audio engineer. Fun fact: David Gilmour is a huge SW fan. Tool A song constructed around the Fibonacci sequence (compositionally and lyrically). Do I need to say more? INTP ("abstract, well-polished, and quirky ideas"): King Crimson This song is built around the clever use of dual guitars and odd meters. You'll know exactly what I mean when you hear it. An absolutely groundbreaking technical innovation for the prog scene. For instance, Tool is heavily inspired by this aspect of KC. INFJ ("soul-touching"): Opeth This song in particular is the perfect representation of melancholy. It seemlessly paints the picture of a lonely, rainy day. The INFJ telling you exactly what you need to hear. Fun fact: SW is best buddies with frontman Mikael Akerfeldt. They've released one collaboration album, and SW has worked as producer/mixer for Opeth. Akerfeldt has contributed with guitar riffs to some Porcupine Tree songs and has also been featured as a solo player on a song. Cynic Fun fact: this song features a soundbite of Alan Watts. ENFP ("too many interesting ideas"): Yes Yes has a similar vibe to the ENTP songs, but it's less "computationally dense" (as Frank Zappa would've put it) and a bit more emotionally well-rounded. INFP ("authenticity"): Camel An emotional exploration of creativity and self-expression. The solo guitar is similar to the ISFP embodied soulfulness, but here it's less jammy and more integrated into the larger composition.

I couldn't find a suitable place to post this, so I guess I'll start this mega-thread. I know most of the submissions will be inaccurate, but that is unavoidable. Post videos of what you think are good examples of MBTI types. Explanations including cognitive functions are appreciated. My favorite one: Noam Chomsky (INFJ) explains why he doesn't like Slavoj Zizek and Michel Foucault (both ENTP), shaming their Ne-Ti tendencies towards obscure theories and using fancy words while asking "what use does it have?", all in 4 blistering minutes: I forgot he was INFJ, not INTJ. Still, even though Te is most commonly associated with the statement of "what use does it have?", Fe is also an extroverted judging function, which can have similar expressions as Te in a lot of cases (especially in how he talks about the importance of being understood over using fancy words — Fe caring about other people). And this is the most ENTP conversation I've ever come across: exploring topics at the speed of light, Ne>Ti (no debate screeching):

Not much of a dive, more like a belly flop.

All why-questions are riddled with assumptions that are grounded in humancentric survival which God is not limited by, so you should not expect a straightforward answer to your question.

When I first discovered meditation, I meditated 3-6 hours a day and couldn't stop thinking about awakening. You either instinctively know that there is something there or you don't. There is no one that can convince you to pursue awakening but yourself.

18:17 This segment includes the work of the organization that I used to work at (RIP Kurt Oddekalv). I've actually been onboard of the boat shown in the documentary with an Orca on it

This is a strawman of spirituality. It's intense, ferocious, active, calm, at peace; all at once. See through the duality of opposites.

Differentiate between relative and Absolute good.

I just started reading this book which gives insight into the differences between collective and individual action and the shared importance of both approaches: https://www.amazon.com/Community-Psychology-Pursuit-Liberation-Well-Being/dp/1137464097 Psychology has a collective component which may be emphasized or understated depending on your values, and treating individual responsibility as an isolated entity may increase the tendency towards victim blaming. Here is a quote talking about the Community Psychology approach to framing problems associated with immigration: JBP is a clinical psychologist, so naturally he is biased towards the individualistic approach, and his conservative ideas about personal responsibility is complementary to that. Here is one more example of how a Community Psychologist approach contrasts with the strictly individual approach (where again, the example is about immigration): So essentially, what JBP has to work on is to become an ally for marginalized groups (any group that experiences lower status and power) and to actively participate in or at least recognize the importance of the collective, structural approach.

Thanks :). It's heavily influenced by the chorus of "Still Day Beneath The Sun" by Opeth. In fact, I think I created it while trying to replicate their original riff from memory, but then it came out a bit differently :P. I will post the other riff I talked about soon (it's more original), but now it's nighttime again ?

It's almost like a virus... ?

Johnny Sins on semen retention - 15 years younger ?

There is no separation.

Stage Orange co-opting Green as a survival strategy.

Then if you get too good at that, people will perceive you as a snake oil salesman, "it's too good to be true" etc. It's never enough ?

These were recorded on my phone from around last year (sorry for bad sound quality and horrible guitar tone). I probably have around 1000 of these kinds of files, so it's hard to choose just a few ? Some conventional music ideas: https://voca.ro/15o5FK9gYViy https://voca.ro/19e6Vfw9iODx https://voca.ro/1hgAdHB1RHCV Wannabe shredding solo over scuffed generic chord progression: https://voca.ro/11DYAHJLi7wM Weird atonal experimental/improvisational shit: https://voca.ro/1m53CjggJaod https://voca.ro/16g5Z70DUB4M There is one more riff that came to mind which I made when I was 17 and that I'm still proud of but that I cannot find atm (and I cba to record it at night), so I'll post it later

In front of that audience, he is right to say no.

Yeah, but imagine having no prison system at all. Be careful with what you light on fire.

The time he did talk about climate change, he mentioned some study that said people become more environmentally conscious as their country becomes richer, and that there is not much you can do other than to wait for that to happen to the third world countries. He also said "you want to get rid of oil? Hah – good luck with that!". I don't remember any other mindblowing insights from that video lol

Let's say Ted was your roommate and he figures out that the apartment will probably deterioate in a couple hundred years and that his incredible genius got him to conclude that it's incredibly unlikely that we'll ever be able to fix the house. His solution is to burn down the house (anarcho-primitivism) and kill his roommates (who disagrees with his ideas) so that he can live in a tent alone. That is how deluded this guy is. Megalomaniacal ideas and anti-social behavior is a really bad mix. If you believe you have all the answers and nobody is listening, at least don't make a plan that includes killing people. That is an obscenely narcissistic evaluation of your own mind and biases.

which is stupid and evil.

You could say that at this stage, the problem is that "the collective" is not collectivist enough, as its members are participating in and perpetuating rivalrous games. The optimistic attitude to that would be that this will change over time.