Carl-Richard

Treat them like they're a kid who just explained to you what they learned in science class today about volcanoes.

I might have slightly overstated my case here in the original post. It's not that being Tier 2 or any stage is only about what your life is or what it looks like from the outside. It's that once you learn about Spiral Dynamics and Tier 2, it becomes truly impossible to tell what your stage is, because humans are the mimicking animal. We ape after what we find fascinating and valueable (and the highest SD stage we can conceive of). And we are so extremely good at it that we even fool ourselves. And that is why we need other methods to reliably determine what our development is. Only after a very long time of deeply involved mimicking, you might actually become the thing you are mimicking. But then again, if we take the "official" words of the authors of these models (which you can doubt, but then there are also many more things you should doubt), even this might take decades. Or to be honest, this has as far as I know not been studied at all (i.e. the effect of taking in knowledge and values from higher SD stages). But if this forum is any proof, I don't think it makes very much of a difference 😂 (I'm of course partially joking with you guys 😉😋). So my point in a nutshell is that once you have learned about SD, any claims about your own SD development become so unreliable as to be essentially invalid. If you want to get anything resembling a reliable estimate (and even then it's shady at best, giving that humans are also the bullshitting animal), survey yourself from before you learned about the model.

It's because Sasha's cousin is a leading researcher on Asberger's 😗

Do you know why the feminist lesbian in the movie is called "Alison Burgers"?

And sometimes , always, they fit in a stage or two or three lower than they think.

No, in everything. You seem to think changing one's gender is not permitted. What else is not permitted?

What changes are permitted vs not permitted? It means God allows change.

At what point does changing something about myself become "denying my God-given role" vs just changing something surface-like about myself like my appearance?

There are many things that can make one feel unwell. Especially when reality is split into two largely mutually exclusive scenarios, which sex often is. Acceptance for feeling unwell plays a role, but so does making oneself feel well. If your kid falls off the bike, you don't accept them laying there hurting, you pick them up and make them try again. Riding a bike vs falling down can be a tricky business and treating falling only as "the role God gave you" can be a bit, shall we say, dogmatic and inflexible.

Over time, I've been convinced by the idea that "mental disorder" (as opposed to "disorders") is a more unitary phenomena that can be put on a general spectrum of "well" to "unwell". And when you are pushed to the side of "unwell" (be it by environment, genes, stress, life situations), general symptoms of disease pop up; in the beginning of the spectrum maybe milder symptoms of ADHD, OCD, neuroticism, rumination, while later down the spectrum, symptoms of schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, depression (and the aforementioned beginning symptoms in more extreme forms). In other words, it's not that suddenly at some point in your life, you start manifesting a clear cut phenotype of say "schizophrenic", but usually it's that you experience general disease; anxiety, panic attacks, social maladjustment, maladaptive coping strategies; and some people tend to get very ill and lean more in one direction (e.g. schizophrenic psychotic symptoms) while some more in another direction (e.g. bipolar psychotic symptoms). And often you can experience symptoms somewhere in-between these two (and we even have a "category" for this: "schizoaffective disorder"). You don't necessarily fall into one category (in fact, you virtually never do). At the same time, you do get the sense that some illnesses are more "hardwired" and unitary than others. For example, many people with bipolar disorder type 1 seem to be able to live quite functional lives at times when they are not psychotic, and that when the psychosis starts, it's like they are being taken over by something. But still, the times they do become psychotic, you can very often point to some situation in their life, some challenges and some maladaptive coping strategies that makes them spiral into that state. And it's just an extreme form of general unstability which you can see in many people, maybe even yourself, that when you e.g. become very overwhelmed by things that you need to do, pressure, deadlines, etc., you can enter this elevated and restless state. Bipolar disorder is just this taken to the extreme (and some are more prone to escalate to that extreme than others).

Is there one person or topic in the world you're not cynical about?

Stop eating food right now. Oh, so you're attached to the illusion of being a human? If I put on the wrong color t-shirt, I become mentally unwell.

😂 200 IQ multi-leveled joke

Almost a year ago when I decided on what study I would do for my master's, I thought my results for my study wouldn't be good, and that my advisor would essentially offer me a job and it would be a test of my integrity. Both happened within the last month (although I haven't seen all the results yet ☺️). Am I clairvoyant or just "insightful"?

Evidence against clairvoyance 🤨? More like evidence against omniscience.

Have you applied to Glovo yet?

Terrence Howard = retarded. Q. E. D.

That video was actually hilarious 😆

Intuition is good. The universe teaches you regardless.

I added another example to his idea that philosophers' conclusions are basically a mirror of their personal lives. When you believe in questioning repression and being open about one's emotions as Gabor Maté does, it's not surprising that he will sometimes let his emotions loose a little too much, which he recognized himself at the very end of the video.

And Gabor Maté is a histrionic crybaby who lets down all restraints and lashes out emotionally at people and then apologizes afterwards, expressing the addictive cycles of the breakup-makeup dynamic of abusive relationships. Just like the ideas he is enamored about.

Stop eating junk food and do some exercise.

Kill me in a video game.

You're not Beige. You were Beige as an infant.

That it applies to all people all over the world, that Turquoise has a solid empirical or conceptual basis.