Carl-Richard

Addiction is not fun. It's hollow.

The inability to get bored does not make you a boring person

I would take that any day over some pretentious no-ego-stroking.

Meh. They are quantitatively relevant.

Lel obviously he is talking about relative truth, beauty, love But like I've said, the level of immersion that a musician achieves through music is the closest he can get to Absolute Love, so for him, music IS the best So here is what he's really saying: Relative wisdom is not relative truth. Relative truth is not relative beauty. Relative beauty is not relative love. Relative love is not Absolute Love. Absolute Love is the best.

"Emotion" doesn't capture the magnitude of the experience. The feeling I get from music is identical to the feeling I get from awakening. It's Love. The immersion in the present moment is completely perfect; subject and object duality collapses. I understand it might not be like this for anyone, but for me it's undeniably so. People are different, but I believe every person must have atleast one thing in their life that resonates with them on this level. If not, I don't see how one can live life. The is-ness of sound is so profound, any description fails to capture it. Sound doesn't "create feeling". Sound IS, and it's completely amazing! You are the sound The depth and richness of sound is completely ineffeable.

For me, asking what value musicians provide is like asking what value food, water and shelter provides

If you have to ask that question, I feel very sorry for you

How does that work specifically?

My definition of 1st world country is essentially synonymous with social equality. If life is shit for a large percentage of your citizens, then it's not such a great nation after all.

Because reality increases exponentially in complexity as it evolves

@cle103 Best video about nutrition and health ever. Love the systems approach.

God why

Narcissists have to live too you know

Trying to explain what intuition is to a highly intuitive person is most likely unnecessary because they'll just intuit it

MBTI defines intuition through its two cognitive functions Ni and Ne (introverted and extroverted intuition). If we focus on introverted intuitives only, INTJ and INFJ are Ni users while INTP and INFP are Ne users. I suggest reading up on them because I will most likely butcher the explanation, but I'll try to give an analogy: Ne is like a monkey jumping from tree to tree while Ni is like a bird landing on one of the tallest branches. Here is a picture I just found randomly: Take from that whatever you're able to I guess (I honestly know very little about this ).

What do they say — the most simple is often the most profound? Hey I'm just a humble INFP

Seems like these type of studies use "academically gifted" as a measurement and not intellectual giftedness, my bad. It's understandable as it's much easier to gather data that way. I can't actually find the specific study that the graph is linked to, but there is a similar graph that was based on academic giftedness.

So Green I turned into a broccoli smoothie-sipping Hulk.

Intuitives make up only 26.9% of the population, introverted intuitives 11.3%. If intellectual giftedness is associated with the need for understanding and truth, then I guess this is one explanation

No, not enough power! Twice a day does the trick - you'll have that lazer vision in no time :

We were talking about France. I don't consider the US a first world country

You think a first world country in 2021 will purposely starve their children of essential nutrients?

@Hen Zuhe So no way to know?