Carl-Richard

Is this an unavoidable part of the journey? I don't want to do that to them, not with what I've already put them through.

They can be both, but ad hominems are often directly addressing some personal quality which deviates from the content of the discussion. For example, if you said that you think math is often portayed as more useful than it truly is, an ad hominem answer to that could be "you think that because you're stupid". Ad hominem is essentially when you turn an initially impersonal discussion into a personal matter when it isn't warranted or appropriate.

@TheDao Your entire existence on this forum consists of straws as far as I'm concerned ?

Strawman: you can't defeat the person's actual positions so you make a simplified caricature out of them that are easy to defeat. Steelman: the opposite of that.

Actually same ?

What symptoms do you have then? There are many so-called "schizofreniform" conditions and schizophrenia is only one of them. Although it's technically possible to be diagnosed with schizophrenia without specifically hearing voices, in that case it's much more likely that you would be diagnosed with something like schizotypal personality disorder (but I don't know what your doctor told you).

The sympathetic nervous system that is associated with anxiety is also activated during sexual arousal and highly pleasant emotions.

Nobody really knows what is going on in general. People will still speak their mind, always, even if their minds reside inside a peanut-sized skull.

I read in a book about cognitive science that consistent meditation increases things like executive functioning (selective working memory a.k.a mental focus), and the effect is mediated by a reduction in unwanted thoughts (worrying). Anxiety has a worrying component (cognitive) and an arousal component (physiological) which interact with eachother, so meditation can certainly help with anxiety.

My dad has bipolar type I and my mom is a hyper-conscientious neurotic. Makes for an interesting mix ?

Consistency.

Man you're so elitist when it comes to art/music ?

It's like the most compulsive and hyper-corrosive type of cynicism. It's like "fuck you, fuck you, and by the way, fuck you too!" They can't control it

The TikTok format is brain-dead. Each clip would only work as an ad. It's too short to have any substance.

My friends have taken more psychedelics than me and they're Stage Orange drones ?

You can see this parallell in their academic backgrounds as well: biology vs. anthropology. One is more essentialist and the other is more relativist. A biologist would be more inclined to want to ground something in an objective substance (analysis) while an anthropologist will be more inclined to compare and contrast different perspectives (synthesis). That said, both show Tier 2 traits (maybe Jamie a bit more than Bret).

You'll have a tiresome trip.

That is kinda a requirement for criticizing something: read what they're saying in their own words.

@TheDao ... yup. A JP fan, like I thought. My advice still stands: lay off the reactionary sources for a while and read about feminism from scratch. Start with earlier feminism (e.g. Simone de Beauvoir) and move yourself upwards and see where they supposedly went wrong.

When have I ever done that?

You see, when a man cries, he has to be Green. That is the rule

I don't think he mentioned anything about Zen

I don't think it's a coincidence that this video was released now after he created a clips channel and started doing interviews. This video serves as a good entry point for outsiders into Actualized.org as it's about a famous self-help-related figure. It also gives a short intro to SD and how to apply it in practice (and you've certainly heard about that before), so I don't see why the God part should be left out (that's after all the highest teaching provided here). If you already get it, good for you.

Rationalwiki is the encyclopedic equivalent of reaction video YouTube.

We don't actually disagree. I might have worded myself a bit inaccurately. Maybe a better word would be "not ideal". At least other types of sleeping medications tend to lose their effect over time (and in that sense, it's not an effective long-term solution). I've also used melatonin before as recommended by a doctor (my mom lol). I should've emphasized that there is a distinction between a diagnosis (for example a sleeping disorder) and the symptoms used to set the diagnosis (diagnostic criteria). While it's true that insomnia can be listed as a symptom in rhythm disorders, these symptoms disappear when the rhythm stabilizes. Only when the symptoms of insomnia are not exclusively linked to rhythm disturbances, then this can start to fit the diagnosis of "insomnia" as a sleeping disorder (if they appear in the right frequency and severity). Insomnia and rhythm disorders are therefore different diagnoses with similar symptoms. It's just a technical detail, but it's a part of the psychology curriculum here