Carl-Richard

That is how drama youtubers survive. They're not incentivized to properly investigate what they're covering, because the majority of their audience is completely ignorant, and any person who tries to call them out gets drowned in the noise. Survival and ignorance is two sides of the same coin.

We already know everything but somehow we don't

He who does not acknowledge his blindspots is doomed to eternal darkness (could be a quote).

Bro I love that

Ice is actually a rock. I had to go see for myself, so I looked up the definition of a rock, then the definition of a mineral, and then the properties of H2O, and it's correct Really good example of the relativity of language and how accustomed we are to certain everyday words and labels.

He is still working on embodiment. Teachers have varying degrees of embodiment and different types of energy. Jan Esmann is known to have an especially strong shakti that is very contagious: Though you also want to be aware of various self-bias mechanisms and the power of suggestion and expectation.

See what happens if you meditate during the prep and while you're being put under.

You have to be aware of the context it's being said in. Is he talking to teenagers or is he talking to well-functioning adults? Is he contrasting it with something else (x is more ugly than y)? What does he mean by duty and responsibility? What does he mean by "ugly"? Aren't some ugly things necessary? Should I not have the responsibility of not dumping raw sewage in the streets?

I have so many synchronicites everyday that you wouldn't believe.

Why not try to teach a 3 year old algebra?

Hedonism debunked

Truth is too simple for people to understand.

What is the point of living if you're alive?

No matter how many exceptions you got in your hat, memorization is actually a type of problem solving strategy, and you can't solve problems without using your memory either If mind is reducible to problem solving, then let's throw out the entire field of cognitive science, neuroscience and psychology and call it problemology. There is virtually an infinite amount of different conceptual lenses that you can use to investigate the mind that you're disregarding. The system itself doesn't have to be based on language, but every description or representation of a system is based on language, and language is based on symbols. You can't talk about something or represent something without using symbols. However, I'm not going to say that language "is nothing but symbols" (that would again be reductive - I was being somewhat hyperbolic earlier). "Perspective training" is not a straightforward concept. You can't separate perspective from content. Training your perspective also involves accumulating content which can be contrasted with other content. In other words, the muscle of perspective needs food in order to grow. A perspective cannot be expressed before it's manifested in something concrete, and the particular language you learn can be a part of that. You could say that how large your perspective is depends on the way you compare and contrast different content, and as the amount of content increases, the amount of potential connections, combinations, comparisons and contrasts increase exponentially. This is why it's important to balance theory and spiritual practice, because they compliment eachother. Spiritual practice flexes the perspective muscle and theory feeds the muscle.

Egoic desires fill your mind with noise. Psychics need a still mind.

Yes. Step 1: Don't want psychic powers. Step 2: Do spiritual practice. Step 3: Don't want psychic powers.

Interesting how marines always talk an octave below their resting vocal range.

Can you be aware of not being aware?

It's one illustration of how language fails to encapsulate the intelligence of reality.

It's formally defined as "the species problem": https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Species_concept The books and lecturers would vaguely refer to it from time to time. I was most struck by it when we were trying to identify different types of butterfly and moth in pictures. To the untrained eye, some of them would look identical and somehow be a separate species, and some relatively different-looking ones would be the same species and just a different sub-species. Looking at the morphology is only one way to define a species, but it's central to identifying insects, and the defining characteristics are often completely arbitrary.

Saying that pro-life is a moralistic position is a descriptive statement not a normative statement. This is basic metaethics from the 18th century. You don't have to invoke non-duality to arrive at a moral relativist position either.

Where is the pro-abortion argument? Abortion is also survival. It's also self-bias.

@Meta-Man I only took 1 year of biology in college, but from the little amount I did learn, I feel that species is such a dodgy concept (I can't imagine what kind of conceptual breakdowns the professors have to deal with ). It can mean so many different things when you zoom out and look across different taxonomies. so that list tells me very little. I just didn't vibe with zoological systematics in general. There are so many grey areas, weird exceptions and other peculiarities, and passing the course was essentially just about memorizing random details. Evolutionary theory was more my thing, much more intuitive and less random.

4chan doesn't exactly have these guidelines

So a large percentage of us will die off?