Carl-Richard

The cognitive functions describe behavior. You don't have to impose the structure vs. content duality on everything.

Basic social interaction is ALL about conformity, hence why I mentioned Stage Purple. Remember, we're trying to give advice on how to learn basic social skills. That is what the OP is interested in here. What you're talking about applies to <1% of the social biomass out there. Outside of those niche cases, if you don't conform to social norms in any shape or form, you'll be cast out, and it doesn't matter a single bit if you're enlightened or not. If you're talking about your own experience here, I severely doubt that you haven't assimilated into your own culture to a certain extent or that you choose not to conform to most social norms. You're taking an intuitive approach that doesn't stand on its own, as it requires a relative degree of conformity (which may be less than average, but is nevertheless still a level conformity). You're actually coming from a conformist perspective and trying to go into the post-conformist realm in order to rid yourself of cultural hangups, and that's fine. What I'm talking about is how to go from the pre-conformist realm and into the conformist realm, because that is what the OP seems to struggle with.

You can't run a car on nothing but air. You need an engine and some gas: engine is structure, gas is content. Confidence is structure, culture is content. You need both. Spirituality is self-help though. That is not the point. The point is that in some social settings, depending on the culture, looking like a horse will be detrimental to your chances of succeeding socially, i.e. it's culturally dependent. Social skills depend in part on cultural markers that are either in or out of your control. Repeated practice can help with the former. It's to a certain degree relative, in the grand scheme of things, cross-culturally, of course. Nevertheless, socialization is 90% a Stage Purple endeavor with undeniable qualities that cannot be missed in order for you to not come of like a jellyfish (childhood socialization etc.), and then additionally, within a culture, there are specific requirements of cultural norms that cannot be simply downloaded from the iEnlightenment memory cloud (higher-order sociocultural dynamics). Sure, most people don't have to think much about these things and can go off into their caves all they want, but don't fool yourself into thinking that Ramana Maharshi could just walk down to the bar and pull some numbers. He would atleast have to switch the loincloth for something else.

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Society is a very general term. Are bums accepted in society? Well, in some ways yes, some ways no. And you're correct: I'm talking about very specfic and nuanced social interactions that self-help is concerned with, because that is what you should aim for as a functional human being. If you just want to get by, sure do your thing, but if you want to excel in something, there are certain requirements that you must take up. That is also extremely relative. What if I have a speech impediment or look like a horse? What if I'm from another country originally or have had a poor upbringing that doesn't match the environment of my peers? You're severely underestimating the amount of social privilege that just makes you able to drop all concerns and just go with the flow.

Believe it or not, language acquisition is a social activity that takes decades to perfect. It's also not just about the ability to speak the language, but knowing the specific cultural fingerprint of a social group is very important in order to be able to assimilate, and that also takes decades if we're counting from day one. That goes far beyond merely the basic developmental psycholinguistics and more into complex/cortical sociocultural dynamics. "Enlightenment" doesn't automatically grant you the do's and don'ts of a particular culture: it only works as a generalized buffer of existing structures. Becoming enlightened and going to the bar doesn't make you any less of an alien than you used to be previously, just a little less anxious and a more eccentric type of alien. Did you not socialize at all?

Are we talking high school level or postgraduate?

This is the contradiction you're looking for. Infinity is unlimited by definition. Something that is unlimited cannot be created by something limited, therefore it must be created by itself. That is not a limitation on infinity. It's just the nature of infinity.

Infinity itself is not constrained. It's infinite. Only a perspective can be constrained. Infinity itself is aperspectival, because it contains and transcends all perspectives. You're asking as if it isn't already creating it differently. It IS doing that right now, infinitely in all possible ways.

You're looking for a limited mechanism that explains reality. There is no mechanism behind reality. Infinity is the mechanism. A limited mechanism cannot create an infinite structure. Absolute Infinity is self-created. It necessarily has to be that way, or else it couldn't be infinite.

There exists an infinite amount of particular perspectives, so of course it has to exist. If it excludes a particular perspective, it's not infinite.

For anything to exist, it must exist in a particular way.

Scan your body for tensions, especially the gut area, and cry it out. Then just sit.

So you're suggesting we should adapt social darwinism and outright anarchism because what - just let the zombies eat everybody's brains? No, you kill the zombies. Just because they're brain-dead doesn't mean they won't infect other people.

You criticize the brain a lot and like to point out things that it's not responsible for (like causing the existence of consciousness). However, what is the brain actually responsible for?

Still, the way he phrashes it has typical red/blue dictator wibes. "I hope I will be remembered" was said as a standalone sentence. Zappa's point that the people who care about being remembered are people like Reagan and Bush applies here.

Nooo please don't

If you only knew how many people have said the exact same thing as you... Do you think your thoughts are original?

I get troll wibes.

It's creativity and imagination.

I'm afraid that train is gone. This is deep childhood developmental stuff.

How do you dance?

That is literally what I came to do here. That is what direct experience is all about. It's all you

3:39:40 Not gonna lie but that was freaking hilarious

But I am only talking to myself