Carl-Richard

@Kalo The diagnostic criteria of psychotic disorders like bipolar depression type 1 and schizophrenia are qualitatively different from non-dual awakening (the core characteristic of mystical experiences). A person with bipolar and schizophrenia are both capable of having mystical experiences, just like non-bipolar and non-schizophrenic people are capable of it. You can also argue that the prevalence of mystical experiences is higher in people with psychotic disorders, but the symptoms of each disorder are not endemic to the mystical experience. For example, a core feature of bipolar depression is elevated mood (mania) and following periods of depressions. Schizophrenia has a list of negative symptoms (e.g. flattened affect) and positive symptoms (e.g. hearing voices). You're not certain to encounter these symptoms in a mystical experience unless you're in fact psychotic. Another way to look at it is that psychosis is a disorder of the mind (and the body too in a sense). Non-dual awakening goes beyond the body and mind. A psychotic person and a non-psychotic person have different minds – different ways of thinking, speaking and perceiving, but both are capable of stepping outside the mind (the relative) and experience The Absolute. You can interview people on this forum who've experienced non-duality, and you should expect that the vast majority do not qualify for a diagnosis of a psychotic illness.

It all goes back to self-replicating lipid membranes.

Lol I didn't even notice because I just started a new job and my memory literally deletes itself every 2 days

It's privilege. People have become too complacent with their cushy lives.

You don't want covid-19 turning into Ebola-21.

@Husseinisdoingfine That was one weird ass video lol

I had zero side effects except the mandatory soreness around the injection area (gone in 2 days).

And who's to say that each new mutant isn't significantly more harmful than anything else we've seen before (by an order of magnitude)? Sure, if we look at monofyletic (?) mutants (not recombinants), one would expect a more or less linear relationship between the characteristics of related strains, but surely that is also just a question about probability. Are there any well-established facts about the potential phenotypic diversity from one generation to the next (parent to mutant)?

Be more specific. He seems sincere to me, but it's a pretty crazy story ngl. Might be an interesting pitch to a body language expert.

I consider myself an above average intuitive person, and when I personally see something that I feel is easily explained by plain facts, I find that intuition is not really needed. IMO, Intuition is reserved for cases where you make a decision based on relatively little information and where there is really no alternative. When the information is clear, you should know what to do. I also think it's useful to differentiate between the feeling of intuition and the feeling of wanting something to be true. It's very easy to trick yourself about these types of subtle mental phenomena. When in doubt, refer to the facts.

The alien zoologists who logged into this forum are probably having a lot of fun reading this . Consciousness ain't no mistake.

The habitable zone in respect to sunlight is not a dealbreaker. Europa gets a lot of energy from the tidal forces of Jupiter (not a star), and most planets have tons of energy within their core anyway, so you don't even need a star system at all. There are arguments that natural selection produced multicellular life because it conferred a substantial fitness advantage (cell differentiation -> division of labour -> decreased energy cost per cell). "An evolutionary accident" is one of the more pessimistic stances. If we take a more optimistic stance, maybe it's inevitable. We have to balance these probabilities with the fact that humanoid creatures have existed for a blip of evolutionary history (couple of million years). What if we got a billion year headstart? What if only a few planets got that headstart? Neil deGrasse Tyson said that one species could take over the entire galaxy in 10 million years (which is also just a blip). The "what if's" can go in either direction pretty fast.

The transition away from Newtonian mechanics (NM) into General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics (GR and QM) is a lesson in relativity. The descriptions provided by NM are only useful relative to a certain scale of measurement. When you go to the very big or the very small, the models that you are able to use to describe the world changes, and it happens that NM is very anthropocentric (it only works within very human conditions; energy levels, speeds, distances etc.). The nature of things like energy, motion, time, particles, waves; all of that changes depending on your level of analysis. In that sense, QM and GR don't necessarily override NM, because there are cases where NM is sufficient to solve problems (like some basic engineering calculations).

You don't want to contribute to the spread of a highly contagious virus, even if the death rate is 0.0%. The more people get infected, the more it increases the odds of possible mutants with higher death rates. Even worse so, there is a possibility of so-called recombinant viruses which can have truly disastrous consequences. Say we have a hypercontagious virus (covid-19) that infects a cell that has already been infected by a very deadly virus (Ebola). The worst case scenario is a genetic recombination where you get a new virus which is both very contagious and very deadly. This is a real possibility which only increases in probability when you let a virus such as covid-19 run free in the population. We've been really lucky that all this started with a relatively innocuous virus, but that can all change in a heartbeat. Taking a vaccine or wearing a mask could not only save you but all of humanity.

Speaking of the devil, this came out yesterday: #252 - ARE WE ALONE IN THE UNIVERSE? A Conversation with Neil deGrasse Tyson https://samharris.org/podcasts/252-alone-universe/

What is evidence?

Alien denial is an ideology that goes hand-in-hand with the intraparadigmatic attitudes of pop science (cynicism and rigidity). Maybe when Pope-o-science Neil daddy Tyson changes his mind, maybe then we'll see some changes in the collective consciousness of neopositivists ?

I just gave you my citations: Ep. 5-6 of The Basement Office. The co-presenter, Nick Pope, worked for the UK Ministry of Defence for over 20 years.

Trying to guess their intentions is way different than merely acknowledging the possibility of their existence. For all we know, that would be like an ant trying to predict the next US election. We have no idea what level of intelligence we're dealing with.

Military personell found elevated levels of radioactivity inside the landing marks made by the craft. Ep. 5-6 of The Basement Office series on yt.

@Blackhawk How do you explain the Rendlesham UFO encounter?

I'm gonna work as a tester for covid19 this summer (I'll mostly be doing nasopharyngeal swabs, preparing tests and some IT tasks). I'll maybe share my experiences here over time (as far as it's legal to do so)

Exactly. It's a paradox

It's just a descriptive statement: such a teaching self-terminates. There is a reason why it doesn't exist among living beings. It's tautological. Teachings generally exist to dictate the life of human beings. Physical death as a prescription is antithetical to the very concept of teachings.