Carl-Richard

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  1. We're dealing with a population of individuals, not just one individual. Less vaccinations -> less immune people -> more people infected -> more virus replications -> more mutations.
  2. Conscientious, ambitious, industrious, high-energy, intelligent, assertive, strategic.
  3. It requires a very specific type of personality ("the billionaire personality") – an internal factor, and/or it requires that your father is also a billionaire – an external factor.
  4. If you're really as threat-sensitive and sober, forward-thinking of an individual as you proport to be, imagine how bad this pandemic could get if a new super-lethal mutant gets spawned. Imagine living in that world while knowing that it could've all been avoided if you weren't so afraid of needles. Talk about a loss of human rights. This isn't speculative fearmongering. This is the reality of viruses, and it's time to wake up.
  5. That's fine, but now you shifted from talking about everybody in here to just yourself. Leo wasn't only talking about you... unless you're feeling that hit by his statement? + deal with any potential neurological damage to your olfactory system etc.
  6. @impulse9 You might want to re-read what you just responded to.
  7. I think you might have read that slightly wrong:
  8. Being a billionaire requires a billionaire. Interpret that how you want
  9. You could've just left it at this:
  10. The Absolute doesn't negate the relative. Don't try it
  11. I used that point to demonstrate that despite your half-measures, you're still putting other people in danger considerably more than if you had taken the vaccine. It's easy to make it all about yourself when you're focused on your own life day to day, but when you collectively add up all these self-centered excuses that people deploy to rationalize doing half-measures, the sum of that is why we still have the virus in the first place. This is what lies behind the impetus for collective measures; that people generally don't care enough to voluntarily expand their circle of concern and see their place in the larger part of the puzzle. My definition of a full-measure is doing the most that you possibly can do, not what is impossible to do, and that is what you're not doing.
  12. That is good, but remember that these are only half-measures at the end of the day. Even people who work at covid19 test stations, people who are professionally trained to follow anti-viral protocols and wear full-body anti-contamination gear, routinely get tested positive for covid19. This is actually a serious problem, because every single employee that has been in close contact with the positive employee has to be put in quarantine, which means that sometimes up to 25% of the total employees at one test station can get put in quarantine all at once, something which causes a significant shortage of workers at each shift.
  13. Seeking is suffering. Suffering is survival. Happiness is the end of suffering. You're always in the social matrix. You can't escape it. 1. "Current humans" and "past humans" are both humans, thus humans still "created" the social matrix. 2. The social matrix is always evolving. It wasn't "invented thousands of years ago". It had always existed – it's endemic to social creatures.
  14. Do you go to the store? Do you use the gas station? "Doing nothing" is exactly how the virus spreads.
  15. Let's get our analogies straight. Not getting a vaccine is in the mildest case analogous to spitting in the coffee machine at work and giving everybody a cold, and in the worse case analogous to poisoning them with ricin.
  16. Possessions, prestige, power and money is all survival. This is why it's hard to break out of the social matrix. People underestimate the extent to which their mind is shaped by their environment. Without the social matrix, you couldn't begin to understand yet read this sentence. All types of human thought is essentially the social matrix trying to make sense of itself. You can't actually think without the social matrix. You have no idea how profound this is: you can't even form the cognitive concept of "self" and "other" without 1. other people to interact with, and 2. language; two of the most basic aspects of the social matrix. Well, you can't actually survive as a human being without depending on the collective in some way or another. Even if you decide to live in some cabin for yourself without electricity or running water, the tools and materials that are used to build the house are a result of thousands of years of collective effort. Any knowledge about natural first aid solutions or how to hunt, forage or eat nutritious food also stems from the collective. Human beings lived in tribes for millions of years. You're a collective creature – that is your nature. You've just lost touch with that because of the incredible material success of the collective. Just like the individual is shaped by his environment, the environment is shaped by the individuals within it. Every biological creature does this, but humans are masters at it, and this is the basis of culture and society. Humans create the social matrix, and therefore the humans are fundamentally the problem. It's just that individual human problems get magnified exponentially when they interact socially and create higher-order emergent phenomena that cannot be reduced to the individual level. Again, we are all imbedded in the social matrix. It's just about how self-aware you can become of that fact. Some aspects of the social matrix are more self-aware than others. The social matrix is a complex system. It's not a black-and-white issue.
  17. If we're dependent on the functioning of the system for us to have freedom, should we be free as individuals to kill that system?
  18. This the way I see it: Cook-Greuter is an ego developmental model, which you can treat as one "line" in Ken Wilber and Don Beck's SDi framework. In other words, there are other aspects to turquoise that are more or less orthogonal to ego development, thus to say that "turquoise is ego-aware" full-stop is a bit inaccurate. For instance, "holistic thinking" is related the cognitive line of development. Just because you're a "holistic thinker" (cognitively turquoise) does not necessarily mean that you're "ego-aware" (egoically turquoise). Likewise, the original SD concept of "vMEME" can be treated as its own developmental line in the SDi. Some lines are more general/inclusive/overarching than others and some are overlapping, but Wilber's observation is that all the lines have to go through the same "developmental altitudes"(order of stages), hence why it all fits into one integrative framework ("Spiral Dynamics Integral").
  19. If God is absolutely infinite, that means God is all those things. If what you're referring to as "people" are only dualistic monotheists, then you're mostly correct. They think God (singular – "mono") is separate from his creation (two parts – "dual"). However, that excludes polytheism (most of Eastern gods), pantheism (e.g. Brahman, or the Spinozian God). These conceptualization of God are anyway beside the point, because what Leo is talking about is the mystical experience of God, and you can only understand it by actually having the experience for yourself. Untill then, you can only take people's word for it, but according to my limited collection of mystical experiences and my intuitions of what lies beyond, the word "God" is the perfect description for whatever this experience is like. God is the unlimited source of creative expression; creating every movement or motion of the apparent physical world, what is alive and what is inert; of mind and spirit, of body and soul; and all of it is done out of infinite Love of all forms – potential and actual – for the whole.
  20. Meditation makes negative emotions less pungent.
  21. You said it yourself: God is infinite spirit, infinite light.