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Everything posted by Carl-Richard
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No society has ever been close to Green before the 20th century, and this is the historical context that mr. 1377 is lacking. He is not talking about Green. If anything, he is talking about the regression from Blue down to Red. The medieval period was a long tug of war between Blue and Red, and its synthesis was Orange. When did Green suddenly equal "thinkers"? If anything, Green is the first stage that really cares about the worker class. It's not that a model being old necessarily makes it wrong. It's just that when it comes to societal system theories, and especially those that are based on the observation of history, of course the older theories are severely inferior, because of a glaring, macroscopic hole in their data set. Heck, professors tend to feel uneasy just when they're citing decade year old studies.
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Lol no get out. Women were covered up to keep male impulsivity in check (which is a classic band-aid solution that doesn't address the root issue). Islam just took it to its logical conclusion. The Abrahamic religions served as a hasty reaction (rather than a thoughtful response) to the excesses of Red. Purple has no problems with naked ladies.
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Carl-Richard replied to RMQualtrough's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
I feel immediately when I speak the truth, drunk or not. It makes everything flow. -
Carl-Richard replied to RMQualtrough's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
You could say it breaks barriers in a destructive fashion -
Carl-Richard replied to Leo Gura's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
Yeah, why don't people just kill themselves? Sincerely, what the fuck? -
LMAO why are you still citing this medieval dude from 1377?
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This is why Green is not Tier 2, because it engages in survival guilt-tripping and gatekeeping. "Your survival conditions are too light and disqualifies you from making statements about harder conditions". This is a mistake. It forgets that it's exactly those lighter conditions that makes it possible to come to such conclusions in the first place. That is a feature not a bug. This also doesn't negate or understate the horror that is Taliban, but rather the implication is that it's only the fact that the Taliban is so horrible that keeps you from seeing the larger picture. Keeping it from a distance makes you see it more clearly, because survival corrupts your mind.
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When I say "fill up the hospitals", I mean it's literally full. Also, you should expect more vaccinated people to be hospitalized as more people get vaccinated. That is just how statistics work. Nobody is saying that. They get less sick both in frequency and in severity than non-vaccinated by a factor of 10. That is incredible effectiveness and important to keep in mind if you want a functional health care system.
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Carl-Richard replied to Someone here's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
I think the term you're looking for is monopoly of force. -
True, which is why you would want to vaccinate the entire population so that we have enough hospital beds for people who need it.
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Bronfenbrenner's ecological model (1979).
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What is the connection there? Or did you mean two separate videos?
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Carl-Richard replied to unborn_chicken's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
Unless you believe that the soul is somehow damaged during an abortion (given a belief in reincarnation) or that it causes a lot of suffering, I think the final legitimate concern from an utilitarian, non-essentialist and non-reincarnation standpoint is that the fetus is somehow "robbed of life". In my opinion, this comes from an irrational impulse of anthropomorphization (although granted, the fetus is technically a human), in the sense that the fetus in its current state doesn't have a "life" yet in terms of immediate impact on and manifestation in the world (a sense of self, personality, interpersonal relationships, a carbon footprint etc.). On the other hand, there is reason why you hesitate pulling the plug on somebody on a life support. It isn't primarily due to the fear that you think they will suffer a painful death, but it's rather because you recognize that they're a fully "realized" being with a life. They have acquired attachments, experiences, identities, and they're emotionally invested in a story, and that is what is actually keeping you from wanting to end your own life. -
What if you as a healthy person got in an accident and you couldn't get a hospital bed because some unvaccinated person had to be put on a ventilator?
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Imagine where you were before your conception. You've always been there. It never stopped existing. "But complete nothingness, darkness, void surely doesn't exist, does it?" YES IT DOES!!
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Carl-Richard replied to Animo's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
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Carl-Richard replied to charlie cho's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Hint hint: (he wants you to answer his question) -
So what you fear is essentially your survival going south by you losing contact with consensus reality, ie. becoming "delusional" or "going insane". The funny thing is that the only way that you'll ever go insane and lose contact with consensus reality in the first place is by being attached to your survival. And you don't need drugs to get there. Trauma will do just fine (imo, it's the main factor at play). What unresolved trauma does is it challenges your survival in such a way that you start constructing your own internal substitute-reality in order to escape those challenges, and psychedelics can certainly exacerbate those kinds of underlying issues, no doubt. When your survival is threatened, it starts seeking out solutions to protect itself, and when the threat is unconscious to ourselves and leads to enough chronic dysfunction and stress, one solution can involve changing the subjective experience of that survival by altering the very reality through which you experience it, because your "reality interface" is what you use to assess your survival (if it's going well or if it's going bad), and you always try to maximize your survival, which includes your assessment of it. This leads to thing like cognitive biases and having an internalizing or externalizing attribution style, e.g. "that went well because of me", or "that didn't go well because of somebody else", and you'll actually believe that this is actually what happened (and in that way, your reality skews in favor of some assessment you made about it). I've written a bit on this in an earlier post which I think could help to elaborate on what I mean: So the solution for madness is to inoculate yourself from stressors by resolving trauma, analyzing your mental proclivities and creating a holistically healthy lifestyle. Then it's up to you to decide if you should avoid psychedelics or not, but remember that it's actually possible to hold both worlds in each hand: consensus reality in one and The Absolute in the other:
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Carl-Richard replied to charlie cho's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
On a more serious note, I used to be completely inflexible in dealing with people different than me, but I sort of grew out of it. Of course I wouldn't be the same person today without meditation, but I think age is an important component as well. -
Carl-Richard replied to charlie cho's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Be a better ENTJ then. Innovate a way or be malleable enough to accept that ? -
The drugged state of mind is less tainted by survival. What you experience right now and call reality is only that which allows you to survive. If you saw something else, that would threaten your survival. It's a protective veil. The only thing you shouldn't trust psychedelics to do is to accomodate your survival drives and keep the veil in place.
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Carl-Richard replied to DieFree's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
The people who are consistently surrounded by Tier 2 people are usually doing some work in the world that requires working with such people. The bottleneck is then to fully incorporate Tier 2 into your life purpose, put your money where your mouth is and get out into the world. -
Carl-Richard replied to DieFree's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events
The distribution is basically identical to the rest of the population in open communities like that, meaning very few people actually at Tier 2. A community that is saturated with Tier 2 has a lot of bottlenecks associated with it. -
When you say "Women's rights didn't work in Afghanistan", I would expect that you could atleast clarify in what way it didn't work, because I have no idea what you're talking about right now.
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Yeah duh. But how or why didn't it work? Are you talking about the Taliban? You're being incredibly vague.
