Carl-Richard

Yes, he is a superb monologist, where you don't get to challenge his framing, where you don't get to speak back and respond. He is a terrible conversationalist. Look at all his interviews, the memes in the comment sections are all about it. It's not that his style of framing things is purely without substance. It's that he sucks at inviting people into his frame. Because you have to be able to partially concede your frame to others to do that. Peterson only does that when forced down in a chokehold like with the Alex O'Connor clip or the Piers Morgan clip above, and with great resistance and tiptoing around. Peterson is brilliant to listen to when you extend divine levels of charity and openness, not so much when you question him on anything he says, which also makes him a great cult leader.

I like how your entire post is you making assertions and expressing feelings without concrete facts or argumentation. This is what Jordan Peterson's problem is: when asked by Alex O'Connor (paraphrasing) "but don't you think people will misunderstand you and think you mean Jesus literally arose from the dead", he answered "I don't care". He cares more about his expression of his ideas, not whether they land or not. There are pros and cons to that, but it's at this point an undeniable character flaw. Had he been able to empathically adjust his framing to the particular person he is talking to, he would not spend so much time and energy calling atheists religious, not accepting people calling him a Christian, regularly asking "what do you mean by belief?" not as a genuine question but as a defensive preamble to unpack his own views, telling fifty stories instead of putting it in brief terms; generally fumbling with communicating what he means all the time.

Or a lot of free time.

His radical transparency but also explicit transgressiveness (both which maybe not so coincidentally draw a lot of attention to himself) reminds me weirdly of Mr. Girl. That's what being insightful and self-aware and cognitively developed but also high on your own farts gets you.

@mysticalninja Again, Ray Kurzweil of pharmacology.

And this one is a classic:

No elaboration needed:

Trust me, Mike will take anything for 2 years and then go on a podcast to share horror stories of the side effects and how he still keeps taking it because "childhood demons". Look at his recent plastic surgery adventures.

Excuse my righteous anger, but do you think cancer is a joke that you can use for people to treat you nice and give you attention? If you think you have cancer, the last thing you should do is be an idiot about it. You have more room for that with other things. Go get checked.

I think I've found a solution which seems quite obvious. It seems like the iron from the multivitamin and especially zinc together could be the main problem. I first tested taking my zinc later in the day, but I did not like that at all (as that interferes with vitamin D functioning). It was so bad I decided to bail and take it maybe 1-2 hours after taking all the other stuff, and before that, my stomach was pretty fine, but then the zinc really made shit go sideways. But today, I tried taking the multivitamin first thing in the morning on an empty stomach with some water and let it digest for maybe 30 minutes. The contents of the multivitamin (which again lacks vitamin A, D and K) are mostly water soluble and should be absorbed the best that way, and also iron is best absorbed on an empty stomach as well. So absorbing the multivitamin before eating breakfast and then taking the fat soluble stuff (vitamin D, K1, K2, fish oil with vitamin A, D and E) and also magnesium and calcium and zinc, seems to work. I have also ordered zinc bisglycinate to see if that helps. I'll also maybe look into alternative forms of magnesium and calcium to see if I can decrease competition further.

Imagine thinking you have all this complexity but it's only for you.

Yes, it was lacking.

I'll try to get ChatGPT to ask me some questions at the end of every answer it gives me 👍

I can tell. Not a lot of substance there.

That's just more solipsism delusion of conflating relative and absolute domains. You can improve the self even if you transcend the self. There is no contradiction there, only if you think in black and white NPC terms.

Love doesn't care about form.

The alien is your fear. If you let the alien be you, that's your Love awakening.

"If you have cancer you are going to die anyway" sounds like you mean cancer is a death sentence, which it's not. Please try to write more clearly and with better grammar: https://www.actualized.org/forum/guidelines/

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"I can't go to the doctor because I'm afraid". There's one. And are you listening to yourself? "I can't go because I might have cancer". If you actually have cancer, you will have to go to the doctor anyway. There's a thing about males not going to the doctor for things like penile cancer because they're afraid of what will happen to their junk, and then when they do go, it's too late. But if you're simply afraid of the fact that you might have cancer, that's not even a good reason (not that the former is either). (This was me challenging the premises and fixing the "y"). Not going to the doctor seems to be a male thing. I recently went for an x-ray for my toe cuz a 20kg weight fell on it and I couldn't walk on it for days. It wasn't actually broken, and when the doctor (my age 🤤) checked it, I didn't even feel much pain (I was like "wut"). But if it was broken, I could've gained a lot of valueable information about what to do. My mom is a general practitioner She is actually kinda spiritual, which I only learned from talking to her. Did you have friends at any point in your life, and when did you last meet with them?

How often do you say "I can't do x because y"? I can't do x because y" is a pattern you can identify in your life and try to fix the y's or challenge the premises. Often when you fix one y (e.g. cutting down smoking), many x'es free up. If you start by identifying a few smaller y's, maybe one every week, you can start to get the ball rolling. And if you identify the big y's or you identify the general impulse to self-sabotage, many of your problems will evaporate. Sometimes the x'es and y's go in a circle, and then you're stuck, but then you might also notice how they're a manifestation of the general tendency to self-sabotage. Sometimes the "hardest" thing is the simplest and in fact easier thing in the long run. If you avoid doing the hard things, they will eventually pile up and start eating you in the ass and you will have to do them later. Zero friends ever? Are there not any people you know (even your mom) that you could ever possibly hang with?

He's a big fan of Ray Kurzweil, and he's like the Ray Kurzweil of pharmacology.

I go to the gym to channel inner gorilla energy and pack on deltoids and chest and the rest and to download natty opioids and dope-amine/serotoneen and be on top of my game cognitive-physiologically (that's a word right now).

He has mentioned it before somewhere: more muscle means better glucose control, lesser risk of injury and fatigue. Being fat creates high blood pressure, diabetes type 2, elevated bad cholesterol, wear and tear on joints.

Sometimes I feel like being this guy though: