Carl-Richard

That would just be more doing. Being is cultivated, like a flower.

Stoners who say "it's not a drug, it's a plant" or "it's not physically addictive" or "it's medicine" or "it cures cancer" or "it's not as bad as tobacco smoke". All of them are shallow and virtually always fallacious arguments that serve to protect the stoner identity.

Go into the thing you dislike and see it for what it is. That is love. Bad taste, jarring sounds, confused people, pain in its rawest form: all of it is lovely in its own way. Don't feel bad for having preferences. That is still love.

I can play the chorus riff but that's it

Back at ya Any concrete points you have on that? (btw I fixed some clumsy formulation in my previous comment).

Social construction is essentially about what society tells you. There are different levels of social construction. For example, all words and symbols, all concepts, are socially constructed. That includes words like biology, genes, genitalia, chromosomes etc.. You got all of those from society. Another form of social construction is more about how you relate to a certain concept. For example, society tells you that a person of a certain gender expresses themselves a certain way (looks, expressions, dress etc.). This causes confusion because society also tells you that gender is based on sex. But notice how that is also something that society tells you, hence it's a social construct. Gender expression can sometimes be in conflict with society's perceived relationship between gender and sex (after all, sex does not actually equal gender).

What happens when you stop thinking?

I had a thought today: "How confused was Plato?", then I read the comments here and realized that we haven't gotten very far afterall

Unfortunately no

@Evil Raccoon It was truly a phenomena. Frank Zappa made a song about it in 1981: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinsel_Town_Rebellion

Mental olympic swimmer, apparently

Again, you can get far in the world by being stiff as a stick.

Without invoking any cognitive developmental terminology, I would say what he lacks is a flexible mind. You can get relatively far in the world by being stiff as a stick, but I believe intelligence is a measurement of something else.

"Intelligent" is a loaded term

And at the same time he's like "Hollywood keeps politicizing their movies with left-wing propaganda! This has to stop! "

That's right. YOU draw it

The dosage where you're not tripping

Mind not sufficient for this question.

Anxiety has different components depending on your definition. It has a mind component and a body component, and they normally tend to interact with oneanother. You might think of something and then feel something in the body, or you might feel something in the body and interpret that as something the mind associates with a certain feeling, effectively creating a self-fulfilling profecy, a feedback loop of sorts. When you see through the workings of the mind, obviously the relationship you have to the mind component will change drastically, in the sense that it will not pester you with repetitive cycles of stories, fears, do's and don'ts. Still, the nature of the body component is more or less the same, but it can be recontexualized based on the accompaniment of thoughts or lack thereof. By that, I mean that the increase in heart rate, rush of energy, and tingling sensations doesn't necessarily have to be associated with something scary or negative.

I have this weird intuition about how to frame it: that you're either born with enlightenment as a baseline, or you're not. Then as you grow up, you'll either run into things that obscure or unveil it. That is why some people awaken in an instant and why some people never awaken. Growing up always involves a certain degree of entanglement, so if you have a baseline of enlightenment, it will try to express itself through different avenues, like a deep longing for being or truth, through things like music, art, knowledge seeking. Any glimpses that will occur naturally, or through the experience of these different things at their peek, will invoke a feeling of a deep nostalgia, because it's where you come from: it's your baseline. The reason I see this connection is because the more I enter awareness, the more these things (music, art, knowledge) open up to me, and the more they make sense to me. It makes me see directly how the artist, musician or wise man is interacting with it. So, if these things are present, it's all up to the process of untangling (which can either be very problematic or just a knot away).

Last week, Kurt Willy Oddekalv, one of Norway's leading environmentalists, fell through the ice while trying to rescue his daughter's dog and died 63 years old. Back in the 90s, he was a regional leader of our largest environmental organization, The Norwegian Society for the Conservation of Nature (Naturvernforbundet), but he left due to conflict with the leadership and established his own organization, Green Warriors of Norway (Norges Miljøvernforbund). My dad has worked with him for almost 20 years and was interviewed in the local newspapers to talk about his life. I used to work in the restaurant below the headquarters of Green Warriors. I also worked with him alone one summer helping to renovate one of his rental houses (he suffered two strokes in 2016 which caused him to have reduced mobility and only being able to work 60%). He was known for having a strong personality, clear vision, fierce determination, controversial methods, and a deep love for nature. https://www.newsinenglish.no/2021/01/14/thin-ice-killed-an-environmental-activist/ (English) https://www.vg.no/nyheter/innenriks/i/kR8oBv/minnes-oddekalv-oppvekst-som-innflytter-og-minstemann-skapte-miljoekrigeren (Norwegian newspaper tribute) https://www.bt.no/nyheter/lokalt/i/Ln6Rdx/kurt-oddekalvs-liv-i-bilder (Local newspaper tribute)

This is it.

There is this book I'm reading, that when describing the way that the pre-socratic philosophers were thinking, stresses how different it was from "our" current way of thinking, using words like "concrete", "simplistic", "childlike", "direct" etc.. This reminds me of Piaget's "concrete operational cognition", which is analogous to Blue, but not quite Orange (that would be "formal operational"). In this stage, logical operations are possible, but hypothetical and abstract thinking is limited. It gives the impression that the ability to think rationally wasn't simply an untapped resource in the human that was ready to be expressed given the correct circumstances (social and economic security -> increased freetime). It was rather a result of a complex, incremental, and transactional process of individual geniuses impacting culture and culture impacting other individual geniuses, and over time establishing a theoretical base that allowed others to be better inclined to evolve in that direction. A stage of cognitive development that virtually all children in modern societies will reach by age 11 is only possible because the culture is fully established in formal operational cognition. The first Greek philosophers, who were fully grown adults 2500 years ago, had to pull themselves up by their bootstraps while pushing the edge of the culture to barely even touch that. They didn't have the luxury of piggybacking on thousands of years of development. Imagine how incredibly inconvenient and slow your progress would be if you had no previously established theoretical frameworks to work with. On top of that, imagine yourself as essentially an 11 year old trying to figure out how the pieces are supposed to fit. Imagine the genius it takes to make any progress under those conditions. This truly demonstrates the influence that time has on culture and culture has on individuals. In this sense, regarding the fear that most people are will never be able to reach Tier 2 cognition, I believe the future looks way more promising than we could ever imagine.