Carl-Richard

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  1. Weird way to interpret "make sense", but ok. Empiricism is one approach, but you can also take your own knowledge of history and culture and compare it to the predictions of SD to see how it holds up.
  2. If you never contradict yourself then you're not growing. It might also be that you're just lacking the perspective to handle the apparent contradiction. Maybe it's not a contradiction at all.
  3. Integrate and transcend it.
  4. Reality is complex and non-linear.
  5. Then where does the solution lie: silence the distress with force (but muh free speech) or actually try to fix the problems (systemic issues)?
  6. What would it take for SD to make sense to you?
  7. What would you do if you were angry at someone? "Fuck them". What if you also had a good reason to be angry? In that sense, you can sympathize with "fuck them" as it's an understandable reaction, but in another sense, of course it would be better if it was avoided. The latter is of course utopian. I think the burden is on you to explain why historical events should not be a part of the equation in this specific instance. There is no reason to pretend there is always a level playing field. You have to be able to draw fine distinctions even in the pursuit of equality. It's easy to get lost in abstract ideas here, but is this necessarily how you would act yourself? Would you treat the child who got angry because his ball was stolen the same way as a child who got angry because he simply hates someone for no reason?
  8. You're talking about internet problems, not real life problems. If you want to see white privilege in action, go outside and observe the real world.
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  10. 45 mins to 1 hour is the Goldilock zone. Don't ask before you've tried it.
  11. Then be that.
  12. No. Develop consciousness.
  13. @Loving Radiance She went to my high school (one year above me) and we had the same music teacher
  14. LOL
  15. Gary Weber meditated 20000 hours before he got it. Was he lazy? http://growbalance.se/2016/11/20/ph-d-happiness-10000-hours-meditation-actually-brain/
  16. The separation between doer and doing is seen to be an illusion.

  18. The illusion of race

    Carl-Richard replied to How to be wise's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events

    There a countless examples of this. Are people from Siberia white?
  19. Ideas about love are illusiory. Reality is love.
  20. A lot of Frank Zappa's music is sociopolitical commentary.
  21. I've arrived at the conclusion that I don't like it, but I guess the conclusion I've yet to arrive at is that there is no me to like it (or atleast that is the conclusion I'm refusing to draw ). Whatever I'm doing, I don't recommend it (I'm gonna stop with these self-loathing comments before I get banned or something ).
  22. I pick my models like I pick blueberries: some of them taste great, some of them are kinda spoiled; either way, they're still food. At the end of the day, no model is gonna help me. It's all up to me.
  23. I don't believe it could ever make resistance impossible but just impossibly more painful.
  24. I recently read this from Ramaji's "1000" pdf and I think it describes perfectly what I'm experiencing (or what I'm choosing to experience ... ): https://www.amazon.com/1000-Consciousness-Awakening-Spiritual-Teachers-ebook/dp/B00JK2Y7HG
  25. *panting* yes