Carl-Richard

I'll take authenticity over fakeness every time. Go listen to some ASMR.

Don't let SD discourage you from expressing yourself.

How do you know?

What you can do is practicing letting go. Everytime the thought "this is bad" or "this is not good" or any sort of judgement arises, just remind yourself that this is infact just a thought. This creates some space in your mind. When this awareness is present, you have the choice to just let the thoughts come and go without giving it the same emotional weight. You might still feel emotions around the thought, but this too is subject to the same principles of letting go. By doing this, you're not blocking your ability to ever have these thoughts, but your mind becomes less sticky and more flexible: one thought won't suddenly lead to 10 or 100 thoughts.

You get what you don't want. Fear-based thoughts are repetitive because they feed on attachments ("should"s). To make them disappear, accept the fear. Give up your need to think happy thoughts and they will come to you.

Wanting to escape suffering isn't just one thing. It takes many forms. Essentially it informs all your actions to a certain extent. If you want Truth more than anything else in the world, that is a good source of positive motivation. Escaping suffering can be viewed as negative motivation. In reality, both are intertwined. You might want Truth to escape suffering or you might want Truth despite suffering for it. Depends how you define your terms.

Narcisissm *check*

The recipe is paranoia and narcisissm.

@Keyhole What the fuck man

That's a strawman- I mean a weedman. Apples and oranges. All kids play video games. Get with the times.

I live for the day when this gets its own little spot in the philosophy 101 books that all the college freshmen have to force themselves to read . Imagine the level of mindfuck and frustration from having to read that when most people even struggle with stuff like Karl Popper lol

What an incredibly simplistic way of looking at it. Yeah let's just ignore the fact that all his friends are also playing that game. Young people can't just pick and choose which culture they grow up in. Do you know the type of social isolation that happens when you don't participate in the same activities as your peers?

McCain truly respected Obama more than probably anybody else. There is a reason he wanted him to read his eulogy.

But is that what YOU want? Don't listen to Leo. Find out what you want for yourself. The ego doesn't exist.

They're Hasidic jews.

Purpose is discriminatory, discrete, dividing, guiding. Being is.

I go red everytime I do deadlifts at the gym .

Dare I say he is relatively relativist . He is trying to clothe subjectivity with objectivity, which is syntactically taxing and excessive. Maybe he is using it as a rhetorical device, to maintain good optics, or it's just based on an internal drive to be objective.

Tbh there is nothing you can do to stop people from spending 10 hrs a day at the computer nowadays.

I was actually given a RuneScape membership from my mom for christmas when I was 11, and then when we were about to pay for it, my dad read that it was for kids over 12 years old, so I didn't get it. I was devastated. My closest friend was given a membership years ago, but they didn't care. When I look back at my life, it was actually a defining moment in forming my personality. After that, I would almost never ask my parents for anything, because I was too afraid to get rejected. (I know that this story comes off as relatively privileged compared to most children in the world, but it's nonetheless a story worth sharing). My friends would buy the newest playstation, all the newest games, the newest phones, computers, clothes, shoes etc.. And me? Basically nothing. Of course I would get these things sometimes in birthday or christmas presents, but I never dared to ask for these "cool" things. I dont know if this is related, but I also never asked my teachers for help during math class, even if I struggled with a problem (similar dynamic there). I later found out a way to pay for membership on my own (PaySafe cards), and I stuck to RuneScape as my only game. The fact that I was denied it reinforced both my love for it AND my avoidant behavior, because instead of potentially getting rejected, I could just stick to RuneScape. My friends have always been perplexed over why I virtually haven't played any other games, and I was too, but I think I've found atleast one reason why that is. I also believe this "trauma" was one of the driving forces behind my short descent into drug addiction (which I resolved through spiritual growth). I had these deep hedonistic impulses in me that I had repressed to protect myself, and these started to bubble over once I got introduced to weed. Long story short, I turned into a very problematic kid in my later teenage years, but I came out of it more or less unscathed. I'm not telling this story in order to convince you to do anything a particular way, but rather it's one way to say that parenting is a tightrope walk. You might think that you're creating a perfect human being by denying your child the option to overindugle, but it might backfire on you. Now, games with explicit violence is a touchy subject, so I won't say that my story is comparable to your situation, but I think it can help to provide some general perspective.

You have to distinguish between sensation and experience. Normally, you do require functioning sensory apparatuses to have a particular sensation (sight, smell, touch etc.), but the experience of this sensation is not bound by anything. Infact, the sensory apparatuses along with the sensations they produce only happen "within" experience. If you want to be really careful, it seems like sensory apparatuses do cause sensations in certain situations (that is most of the time), but they don't cause experience. Sensations come and go, but experience always is.

There is something called emotions

The title is misleading btw. It's a disagreement between a moral absolutist (Blue) and a moral relativist (high-Orange). Notice how the absolutist tries to frame the relativist's views as ridiculous.

@Brittany He is early green at best according to my estimation (vegan activism). His disagreement with Sam Harris isn't very surprising either as moral relativism is pretty much a staple in rationalist circles. He is a strong materialist (explains his determinist view on free will). He might go yellow later in his life or if he stumbles across some type of consciousness expansion.