Carl-Richard

You let go yet?

1. If you want, look up all the people who have left either quietly or loudly in the last few years and their reasons for it. The Reddit thread I linked is a microcosm of that. That there are a few who have decided to ride through it or have other reasons for staying doesn't negate those numbers. But even in the worst cults you can imagine, people stay, so what does it tell you really? "Leaving" as a metric for how bad it is just doesn't work very well either way. "They were brainwashed". Ok, then are you brainwashed? 2. I can write a 50 paragraph post on literally nothing and that will be a normal day. Besides, my intellectual investment was honestly in talking about what a cult is and then it's the cult members who get emotional. The most emotional I've got here was because one person doesn't know how to have a discussion without treating it like a one-up-man contest. And that was an issue in other threads as well entirely unrelated to this one.

Solipsism makes sense if you're a spergy narc.

Self-fellating The symbol-depth (not tied to concept) style of communicating is familiar to me as a person with half bipolar genes. The tendency towards clanging is deep within me.

Less trying to speak to a child, more speaking coherently with what I have to say. If there is a word you don't understand, that's one Google search. That doesn't mean I will never explain or elaborate. But not every slightly mighty word every time it's used.

At some point I stopped trying to speak so damn "neutered" and be more free. Schizo would call it being phallic.

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Regardless, it's just bot running down the script. A serious engagement would not make the cognitive hallucination that giving a con means you have to leave.

Would you say others don't even exist inside your own mind, or do they exist inside your own mind?

According to Sadhguru, it was to escape religious persecution. Which if it's not the entire explanation, might be partially true, maybe more than we think. Regardless, y'all think it's some kind of spiritual requirement to sit in a damp ass cave 💀 Cultural conformity.

Show me one concept you cannot learn anywhere else.

There are pros and cons. And I acknowledge the cons. The question "why don't you leave?" is often a rhetorical question saying "it can't be that bad if you don't want to leave", so then I'll answer this is what the cons are so we're clear on what they are and you don't get to act cute with a rhetorical question.

Hmm. https://www.reddit.com/r/nonduality/s/IrgyhN7XTG

When the leader of a movement has a self-admitted autistic fixation and that same level of fixation starts to become the normal, that's probably a sign of an unbalanced society.

The initial question was about having sex more often, not specifically "sex drive". More women = higher seduction rates, plus you can simply build up a habit of having more sex even if you're not feeling it very much, just like some people have a habit of jerking it every night even when they're soft.

Just a little too late for Ozempic, or just fast a little. Imagine choosing death over fasting a little or eating some veggies.

It's worth not taking looksmaxxing seriously just to avoid viewing somebody's face through some autistic scoreboard rather than the holistic feeling of beauty. I pity somebody like Clav who treats human faces like the way a car nerd treats sports cars when they open up the hood to look at the motor. I had a similar response when I learned about the name of species of trees in botany class in university. What I used to simply enjoy as a green nice tree suddenly became a label, a word, and everytime I would look at a tree, instead of being brought to silence at the ambiance and radiance, my mind vomited (in Norwegian) "Ask", "Osp", "Plantanlønn", etc. I was so annoyed, it ruined trees for me for a solid while. And then I wasn't even analyzing them much in detail. It was just one word usually (or "what tree is this?"). And here you have Clav looking like he is reading a blueprint for an architectural project.

And in that case (assuming "produces" is in any way more illustrative than "causes" and doesn't merely function as a synonym which also needs to be explained, which he didn't explain), the sentence before that was completely dead weight.

So many people got their lives literally destroyed by these things. And we're supposed to trust the doctors, the "experts". Nothing saves you from being diligent and cautious and looking at things thoroughly from many angles before deciding on something that might change your life forever, "doing your own research", no matter how hijacked that notion has become. If you blindly trust a machine that treats incredibly serious side effects as business as usual, you can ultimately only blame yourself and your own ignorance. (NOTE, VERY IMPORTANT: I'm not saying you should stop taking psychiatric medication if you're currently on them or that you should reject them if you're in a truly urgent medical situation. But you should sure as hell think twice about starting them if you have the choice and you're not in a truly urgent medical situation. And if you are currently on them, you should consider looking for legitimate medical options for tapering off them safely).

Ask AI what a circular definition is.

I can see a likely core mechanism, and it's usually involved in understanding responses to trauma, but I didn't draw the connections that it could present as a consistent "syndrome" with various strong symptoms (e.g. akathisia, severe anxiety, suicidality). It's likely the overactivation of the HPA axis leading to a shrinking of the hippocampus, and when the hippocampus gets smaller, the HPA axis gets more overactivated, etc. (it's a feedback loop). That it presents as a strong syndrome like this suggests the hippocampus is severely compromised and the recovery taking years would suggest that's the time it takes to regenerate the hippocampus. And even when the symptoms get better like they did with Jordan initially, it's possible to re-trigger the symptoms such that it spirals out of control again given the right conditions, like has seemed to have happened recently (suggesting not a full recovery). Had the issue simply been about regaining receptor sensitivity (like in normal withdrawal), you would see a normalization after weeks, not years (or at least that's the normal process of regaining receptor sensitivity).

Was he supposed to know that benzodiazepine withdrawal can cause literal brain damage? Because if so, very weird that his GP did not inform him on that, just like it's very weird that my mother who is a GP still didn't know about it 10 years later. He did PhD work on alcoholism. Of course he knows how withdrawal effects from depressants work. What is seemingly not widely known is that withdrawal can lead to serious brain damage and so-called "Benzodiazepine-Induced Neurologic Dysfunction".

Jordan Peterson was prescribed a benzodiazepine from his GP and was on them for 3 years until he asked his GP to increase the dosages due to life circumstances, and that is when the paradoxical reactions started and then he went cold turkey (??) and it all went downhill from there.

Yet they can prescribe them.

And just for reference, I asked my mother who is a general practicioner whether she has heard about benzodiazepine cessation causing severe neurological damage that takes years to heal, and she said "that's new to me".