Carl-Richard

There are no healthy Tier 1 value systems. There are specific "healthy" examples where Tier 2 grabs inspiration, but as self-contained value systems, they're incomplete. Tier 1 is not self-aware: it excludes, judges, fears, otherizes etc. It does not understand its own values, how they relate to other values, or how to differentiate between healthy or toxic expressions of these values.

They flee in the hopes that somebody else will deal with it. What if you have nowhere to flee? What if your people is getting ethnically cleansed? Some types of violence are worse than others, and some violence can only be addressed with violence. Pacifism pushes the problem under the rug and outsources it to someone who is not holier than thou and actually honest about their survival drives.

You kinda caught a half-finished comment. If you care about survival, there are many cases where you will resort to physical violence and war. If you don't think so, you're just blinded by your own privilege. It's easy to be a pacifist while living in a Western democracy.

Pacifists still participate in all kinds of violence, i.e. buying unethical products, eating meat, eating plants, polluting the environment etc. Survival is a game of compromise. Absolutist ideologies don't hold up in a complex world.

Ah. They remind me of some 500$ ones I've seen before

@Jakuchu How much did those earbuds cost you?

Singapore is at 83.4% of population fully vaccinated. The 95% statistic you're referring to is dealing with a certain age limit. Learn to represent statistics accurately.

Take the extreme examples of 1. Orange and 2. Green: 1. Hyper-libertarian autism: "I'm an isolated individual, nobody can tell me what to do, all people are rational, the poor are lazy." 2. Perma-fried hippie New Ager: "Let's come together. We don't need money, work or aspirations, just peace and love and fluffy worldviews... and fuck the rich." It's the case that all the Tier 1 stages are reacting to the other Tier 1 stages in an exclusionary manner, not just the extreme versions of it. Integrating all the stages means discovering the optimal balance that cultivates resilience and vitality on both an individual and collective level. There are no clear cut methods to facilitate this process. It's a process of growth.

You can thank the new variants for that.

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