Carl-Richard

LOL

We should never discount the value of pioneers

I'm going to make a thread on systems thinking pretty soon. I had some insights after taking some courses on communication theory and community psychology. I was surprised over how much they were based on systems theory. I used to think Destiny was Yellow before too, but now I'm not so sure. I'll give a sneak peak: I've identified three main facets: context awareness > construct awareness > theoretical pluralism (one leads to the next). That's just his shitty childhood of emotional neglect. You don't just grow out of that. Lol no.

There is a tendency to misunderstand karma as something bad. Your decision to get off drugs is also about burning karma. What you should ask yourself is this: what do I really want? Do I really want to do drugs? Find your highest desire and pursue it. If that doesn't work, what is your next highest desire? Is there something you've missed? Go down the list until you have no more desires. Don't start at the bottom of the list.

There is a time and a place for controlled death, but outside of that, we should focus on the death machine that is modern life.

Yes.

Strength as it's defined here is an outdated concept. It implies emotional discalibration. You might get girls, but you might also beat girls if you catch my drift. Vitality and resilience are two useful concepts from psychology that emphasize emotional integration rather than suppression. A vital and resilient man is able to extert power and be sensitive both at the same time, which comes from a healthy emotion regulation system – the ability to express/externalize emotions and use them as a source of power. Incels actually tend to have a suppressive regulative style that internalizes emotional energy to the psyche and creates circular patterns of thought and unresolved sympathic activation (pent up emotions), leading to anxiety, depression etc. This decreases vitality and resilience. The cases where this leads to "strength", the emotions either get completely disconnected or they create highly unstable patterns, leading to antisocial behavior like lack of empathy or increased aggression. You don't want sociopathy and aggression. You want sensitivity and stability.

Growth depends on your goals. For me, formulating my thoughts through writing is a good source of growth. If your goal is enlightenment, go meditate. That used to be my goal, but now I have other priorities (let's say it's postponed.)

He is overwhelmingly an analytical thinker. Systems thinking is a side dish. He primarily needs to deconstruct his Cartesian-Newtonian worldview: reductionism, mechanism, positivism, atomism (causality, determinism, physicalism). He has been dabbling in constructivist thought since his mushrooms trips, so he only needs the right push. Or it might never happen because of a survival blockage he has that fuels his debate ego and bars him from grasping the teachings of psychedelics. I mean his takeaway from psychs was that truth is not worth pursuing if it doesn't make you happy. That's a deep emotional wound right there.

Depends what you mean by growth.

... because Muhammad was born in 570 CE?

The Abrahamic religions got intertwined in a memetic arms race by catering to the survival challenges of the times in between the rise and fall of great empires. Basically, the memes that replicate the most, win. The most truthful memes die, because they're not about survival. The newer religions are typically more survival-based: Islam > Christianity > Judaism. They cater more to laws, power and conquest, because that is what survives in a growing world. Back when the older religions were created, the world was a much smaller place, rivalry was much more local and empires had less power. During the Abrahamic times, rivalry became global.

...until they go home and watch Seinfield

Leo: What they need is 5-MeO up the ass. Now that is how you become a real man

True, and now imagine this being magnified by the environment you live in: people performing shamanistic rituals, summoning spirits, chanting magic spells, going into trance states. Now that's magic

It's still really hard to imagine what true Purple is like. At 3-4 years old, you're a tribal creature embedded within a modern environment. It's a Purple experience of an Orange world. Try to imagine what a Purple experience is like within a Purple environment. Is that even possible? Even if you traveled to a Purple society today and lived there for 10 years, you would still have the same problem, just in reverse: it's an Orange experience of a Purple world. Our perceptual structures are shaped by experience, and with our current perceptual configuration, we cannot truly imagine an authentic Purple experience (maybe through past life memories).

What does society prefer? What do you prefer?

@AdroseAkise Careful with that channel.

Is there a new deadman already? ? I fought in the 1v1s last time and got humiliated first round ?

2:29:19 - 2:32:23 Heinrich Himmler and Bhagavad Gita. Zen and Japanese imperialism. JP and Zizek agree that happiness is not an inherent good, only if it comes as a byproduct of meaning, and that the pathway to meaning is found through feeling, by searching within. But what about the corruption of meaning? Here is an excerpt about the latter, namely Zen Devilry. The lesson is that survival, self-bias and self-deception are very sticky.

Make the mind and body disappear in samadhi.

24:09 - 45:44 Alan Wallace is fucking brilliant. He is like a supercharged Fritjof Capra.