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The only reason you guys dismiss IQ tests it's because you don't score high enough to brag

@caspex I guess you must mean this , at least for android. https://revanced.net/youtube-revanced https://revanced.net/revanced-youtheube-extended ( Disables playing YouTube Shorts when launching YouTube. This will prevent YouTube from automatically playing YouTube Shorts when you launch the app.) Looks like a pain in the ass to install if you dont know what youre doing If it lives up to the hype, thats an amazing resource! Playstore APP is garbage and first thing you get are ads "YouTube ReVanced is a free and open-source modification of the official YouTube app for Android. It offers a number of features that are not available in the official app. YouTube ReVanced is a great alternative to the official YouTube app. It offers a number of features that are not available in the official app, and it is completely free to use. If you are looking for a more ad-free, customizable, and feature-rich YouTube experience, then YouTube ReVanced is the perfect app for you." Always repeats the currently playing video for continuous playback. Spoofs the client to allow playback of restricted content. Hides components related to comments for a cleaner viewing experience. Adds convenient buttons in the player to easily copy video links. Customizes the YouTube launcher icon and name, defaults to ReVanced. Disables playing YouTube Shorts upon app launch. Prevents forced captions from being automatically enabled. Disables video description and comments panel in fullscreen view mode. Disables panels from appearing automatically in fullscreen mode (playlist or live chat). Turns off haptic feedback when zooming on the screen. Includes additional debugging options for troubleshooting. Enables the option to download and save YouTube videos using an external app. Adapts HDR video brightness to match the system's default settings. Hides components specific to YouTube Shorts for a streamlined interface. Removes general ads that appear during video playback. Suppresses the display of album cards beneath artist descriptions. Eliminates the autoplay button from the video player. Removes the breaking news shelf from the homepage tab. Conceals the captions button on the video player interface. Hides the cast button in the video player for casting purposes. Suppresses the crowdfunding box positioned between the player and video description. Hides the email address within the account switcher for privacy. Conceals suggested video cards at the end of fullscreen videos. Removes the filter bar in video feeds for a cleaner look. Eliminates the floating microphone button that appears during search. Conceals info cards in videos to reduce clutter. Hides various general layout components for a simpler interface. Removes the button that loads similar videos beneath the main video player. Offers the option to hide video player's previous and next buttons. Hides the dark background overlay when player controls are visible. Conceals the seekbar that shows video progress. Hides the timestamp display in the video player interface. Provides options to hide action buttons under a video for a cleaner appearance. Removes creator watermarks from videos for unobstructed viewing. Enables minimized and background playback for multitasking. Customizes or hides navigation buttons for personalization. Displays the old video quality interface with advanced quality options. Opens links directly in the browser for seamless external browsing. Adds custom playback speeds and remembers chosen speed settings. Conceals specific items in the player flyout menu. Displays premium branding on the home screen for a distinguished look. Remembers selected video quality using the quality flyout. Removes background from the video player controls for a cleaner appearance. Shows dislike count using the Return YouTube Dislike API. Enables tap-to-seek functionality on the seekbar. Integrates SponsorBlock to skip video segments like sponsored content. Tricks YouTube into thinking you're using an older version of the app, restoring the old UI. Introduces swipe controls for volume and brightness adjustments. Enables tablet mini player layout for better tablet user experience. Applies a custom theme for a unique visual style. Allows YouTube ReVanced to operate without root and under a different package name using Vanced MicroG. Removes ads from the video player for an uninterrupted viewing experience. Replaces the search icon with a wide search bar, hiding the YouTube logo while active.

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Thanks for calling me normie lol. Looking back I think my particular case was a little more extreme than the average normie that stumbles upon relativism When I first realized the true nature of meaning, value, and purpose, it felt as if the very foundation of my reality had collapsed. Meditation already had begun this process, but your video on understanding these concepts burst my bubble in an aggressive and blunt way. Something which was definitely not the right time for or something that I was looking for at that moment, but I already was aware that curiosity kills the cat when I went down that rabbithole. It was as if knocking over the first domino led to the rapid, uncontrollable, unstoppable collapse of my entire conceptual framework of reality. Once I realized that certain things were mere social, cultural, linguistic or human constructs, it didn’t take long for me to question EVERYTHING ELSE in my life or that I was capable of thinking of, leaving me with a profound sense of absolute groundlessness, and a freedom SO VAST that it was ABSOLUTELY TERRYFING. One of the most insidious aspects of this relativism was how my ego hijacked it for self-serving purposes. When nothing holds inherent meaning, the ego can rationalize any behavior, no matter how destructive or self-defeating. I found myself trapped in this mindset, using relativism to justify my fears, addictions, and self-destructive habits. Even though I knew, on some level, that judgments, rejection, and failure "shouldn't matter," I remained paralyzed by these fears. The ego thrived on the infinite double standards relativism allowed, twisting logic to maintain its grip. I would rationalize that personal development was pointless, meaningless, and biased, making no sense to pursue. Growing up, I was deeply absorbed in video games. 10+ years of WoW. 5 years of LoL , besides of dozens of other videogames. The stories, quests, currencies, characters, competition, victories, defeats within those games were incredibly real to me, not just pixels on a screen. They provided real sense of progress, purpose and achievement. Realizing that these experiences were mere constructions was painful. It shattered the illusion I had built around them and took away a lot of enjoyment and escapism. Some realizations like that my parents gave me my name, and that it could have been anything else, as of today seems so obvious and a surface level insight, but it's actually not obvious. I bet more than 3/4 of the human population is not aware of that and truly belives their name is real and belongs to them. I realized that things don't have names, that we create them with arbitrary sounds and symbols and concepts, and that different things are called different ways in different languages, and we just use this system for comunication. It's not truth. I realized that morality, ethics, manners , good or bad are relative, that the law is groundless and relative ( and why it exists ) , that possessions aren't real but social and mental constructs, that countries don't exist, money is a construct, that time is subjective and age doesn't really exist. These realizations only worsened my sense of confusion and disorientation at the time. I was 21 years old and had just started living on my own for the first time, fresh out of school. The world of meanings that had defined my life—exams, grades and worrying about what my classmates thought of me—crumbled away. Academia and the sense of safety it provided revealed themselves to be nothing more than a game and an illusion. The importance I had placed on these things disintegrated, leaving me feeling utterly groundless and foolish, like I had wasted all that time. As this process unfolded, I came to a realization that no matter what happens, everything is "absolutely okay." This insight led me to stop inhibiting my impulses, which inevitably pulled me toward distractions, addictions, and comfort. Days turned into weeks, and weeks into months as time flew by, and I found myself increasingly detached from any sense of purpose or direction. I stopped judging and moralizing my actions, instead choosing to simply observe whatever I was doing and go with it. This approach dissolved much of the internal resistance I once felt and allowed me to sink deeper into the present moment, for better or worse, which ended up just leading me to seek out comfort and pleasure while avoiding discomfort and pain. For weeks, I would lie in bed, utterly unmotivated and aimless. The female attention and aprooval I once craved stopped being meaningful. I convinced myself that day and night didn’t truly exist, so there was no reason to wake up at any specific time. I saw no point in maintaining basic hygiene or even wearing clothes the "right" way. I would go to the supermarket unshowered, wearing dirty clothes, messy hair and shirts backwards and inside out , rationalizing that there was no right or wrong way to dress. When I had a part time job at a restaurant, I remember letting some customers walk away without paying because in my mind it didn't matter. My sense of self-importance crumbled as well. I realized I was no more significant than a fly or a cockroach, and this realization left me feeling profoundly insignificant and purposeless. Even ending my own life literally didn't make sense, something I never considered seriously. This extreme relativism led me to a state of profound laziness but also access to unconditional happiness. I found that I could lie in bed for months, feeling ecstatic, almost like what I imagine being high on heroin is like, without needing to do anything to achieve this happiness. This was an absolute ambition killer. The sense of meaninglessness was so deeply embedded in my mind that any attempt to take action felt like a distraction, causing emotional resistance. It was as if taking any step away from doing nothing would shatter the fragile peace I had found in this state of inaction. I didn't know who or what I was anymore. I realized that identity, what you yourself identify as, is absolutely groundless and are just meaningless or self-constructed labels. The one thing that didn't crumble was my sexuality. I considered that if absolute relativity is true then everyone is in actuality pansexuaI. But in practice I was just not attracted to men. Period. I didn't need identify as a man , adult or human for the validity truthfulness of my feelings of attraction and preference to whatever I perceived as an attractive female. This shift also marked a clear and sharp transition from analytical thinking to a primarily intuitive approach to life. Intuition gradually became my core mode of operation, guiding my decisions and shaping my reality. I began to connect with and respect my emotions in a way I hadn’t before. Emotions became central to my experience, driving my choices and dictating how I engaged with the world. At that time, this intuitive, emotion-driven way of living was deeply ingrained in me, and emotions, feelings, and intuition were the only ground I could rely on. The descent into relativism also isolated me from others, as I saw them as characters in a game - NPCs, unaware of the constructed nature of their realities. It was a lonely existence, like living in a "Truman Show" where everyone else was oblivious to the truth. Every person I encountered was locked into their own paradigm of understanding the world, unconscious of the constructed nature of their reality. No one would understand me. I couldn't relate to anyone and actually people would judge me and reject me for thinking or talking in these ways. People said I was depressed, when actually I felt more sane than them but confused. This descent into nihilism and relativism eventually pushed me toward "mysticism". As I understood the nature of meaning, language, and concepts, I also deeply understood I didn’t know what anything was anymore; I faced deep not-knowing. I intuitively began practicing "neti neti" meditation and "actuality meditation," which led to temporary heightened states of consciousness and experiences of non-symbolic awareness. These practices helped me trascend the conceptual limits of the mind and connect with a reality beyond words, thoughts and even perception, leading to things like seeing the ox' tail with what I think is a samaddhi experience ( this entire " perception bubble" is made out of the" same stuff" , even "me", the observer, is made out of the same " stuff ") , the insight that thoughts literally APPEAR INTO EXISTENCE from pure nothingness in the most direct way possible, and later some accidental astral projection. I also realized that non-duallity is so non dual it entails duallity, which just mindf*cked me again, and that I was engaging in spiritual bypasing. Eventually, though the pass of time, the school of hard knocks, awareness , trial and error and tremendous amounts of confusion and needless suffering, , I began to see that while all things might be meaningless, there is a universal law of cause and effect. Both cause and effect are meaningless in themselves, but they have real consequences nevertheless, and I personally have real preferences toward certain consequences over others. To deny that would be self-deception. It's obvious but it did not make sense for so long. For instance, I would rather be free than in jail. This is a child-mind level insight I had to re-learn. I realized that being bummed out by meaninglesness is a mental fallacy. Meaninglesness is meaninglessness, not negative. These realizations helped me begin to rebuild my life by recognizing that life itself operates with a deeper intelligence that transcends these constructs, with inherent logic and rules that we discover through trial and error and direct experience. I realized that relativism doesn’t hold up in the practical world; it’s only a limitation of the mind, logic, conceptual frameworks, and language. Being locked in this experience and perspective of being · an alive human being · comes with specific biases and preferences. Something obvious but aparently, not so obvious. This going full cirlcle understanding allowed me to see the limits of Relativism and Nihilism : They overlook nature's nature. hence my signature

@NightHawkBuzz fundamentally, society doesn't accept LGBTQ by default because it's just a knee jerk reaction of the collective and therefore individual unconscious survival agenda. It's a social survival game of gossiping and demonizing and marginalizing to promote the survival, fitness and evolution of the species. People being judgemental and unwelcoming to LGBTQ is similar to when women consistently reject weak beta males. They are unconsciously but effectively weeding them out of the gene pool. They are punishing bad survival traits. It's akin to momma bird not feeding the weaker unfit chick and letting it die. But instead of withholding nourishment the unconscious technique is to ostrasize and reject them, avoiding proliferation of LGBTQ tendencies in society People also unconsciously are afraid that these ideas will become mainstream, that their children will become gay and their bloodline and genes will vanish from the gene pool because their children won't procreate . Which may actually happen for some people, who knows. So it's just collective survival games, but survival doesn't f"ck around and takes it's job dead serious. These are the main reasons. Most other are backwards - rationalizations, ideology, ego, circular logic, knee jerk reactions, strawmans, scapegoating , one's owns insecurities and projections, etc Funny enough even chatGPT is wrong on the core of this issue because it's too PC, and Claude won't even comment chatGPT says the main reason is culture, religion ( protecting the traditional family) , social constructs. It literally told me that elites use social discrimination as a way of maintaining their control and and avoiding their power being challenged lmao Embracing and not demonizing LGBTQ requieres breaking out of unconscious instinctual survival programming, while being aware of where it can go too far or crate needless confusion Why do most men instinctually get an emotion of repulsion if they were to see two men kissing? Why are men made fun of if they don't have a GF or dont get laid often? For the same reason you feel the emotion of jealousy if you see your woman laughing with another man and for the same reason someones puke gives you emotions of repugnance : unconscious instinctual survival mechanisms When contemplating human problems, the answers are mostly survival or ego

could you straighten out ( pun not intended ) this circular logic?

Personally I haven't studied the formal post-modernism philosophy. What I do know is that when I grasped the true nature of Meaning, Value and Purpose, I fell into a Dark Night of the Soul of pure relativism for a good 2-3 years in my early 20s before trascending it This relativism stuff is no joke. It can seriously destabilize your mind, your life and your identity. I have a lot of empathy for why people have a knee-jerk reaction against it. What if your life is a house of cards that can crumble with a little shaking of your fundations?

LMAO, I swear you might open a literal physical portal to Hell if you do a 7-day solo "Carolina Reaper Hot Pepper" Meditation Retreat, aka the impatient man's vision quest. Straight to Satan's Salvia balcony mini garden. Let us know the trip report

I find it to be a motivational idea to tatoo " Mind over Matter" on your Sire Johnson. Or at least with a sharpie . That's the kind of techniques they teach you at the last semester of Neuro-Linguistic Programming suggestion: move to fun section

a little unexpected one : I've had a fever for the last two days, and surprisingly my mind is clearer than ever. The fact that I'm eating very little and my body is pumping adrenaline, endorphins , the increased metabolic rate to combat the disease is pretty neat. MIND OVER MATTER BOYS

Seriously, if you are set on figuring out the finances in your life once for all, and you are no watching Alex' Hormozis YT, you are seriously missing out. This man is the Owen Cook of sales and marketing minus the ego. He is absolutely on point with the title of this thread. A real philantropist.

https://tiermaker.com/create/ideologies---religious-philosophical-economic-political-827185 A fun little game for you. Modify it at your will. Share your Tier lists.

Coseva has Sodium Magnesium Aluminosilicate as an side ingredient. Idk what may be the long term side effects. Edit : some decent science here https://www.coseva.com/faq/ @integration journey I can't tell. I stopped using ACZ when I learned it contained silver, ( i had only taken about 1 third of the bottle ) but I did feel it working. So I do with PBE ( im on my second bottle atm ) nice, particle size finally explained

If you don't learn the lessons and don't develop or build whatever you have to , that line never ends and it only gets more twisted Most people will never untwist and reach the smooth line

Art Of Beating Yourself Up -- Be Very Self Critical But ONLY For What's Within Your Ultimate Control ( Owen Cook legacy video blog ) Since you haven't defined any specific domain or details, I'll throw this perspective in from the PUA community. Transcription : Hey, what's up? It's Owen from Real Social Dynamics. I'm shooting into Las Vegas right now, going to the Real Social Dynamics World Summit, just reflecting on the past year, thinking of all the glory that's happened. It's been an amazing year, and I'm psyched to get back there and show everybody the skills that I've built over the past year. It's going to be fun. But anyway, what I actually wanted to talk to you about today was the topic of judgment and basically not worrying what other people think of you, but worrying significantly of what you think of yourself. I've watched people beat themselves up in the pickup community for years and years. That could be after a single approach, that could be after a whole night, or that could be really even just their progress in general. They'll beat themselves up. Newbies tend to do it when they have this big self-image of how cool they would be if they ever did do an approach. They finally decide to work up the nerve to approach a girl or maybe approach a whole bunch of girls throughout an entire night. It doesn't go the way they expected, and that little gestalt of self-image things in their head that was, I'm like this, and I'm this type of person, I'm this type of person. It doesn't get lived up to. It destroys them. It floors them. They go home with their head spun out. They want to cry. Super pathetic. Then I've also seen it with advanced guys who come to a place like Vegas here. They think they're going to f*ck five girls in a week. They think they're going to f*ck two girls in a night. It doesn't happen. Maybe a guy gets a dry spell of two weeks. The guy's just losing his mind. His entire sense of self is in question. He's beating himself up, down on himself, hard himself. I look at that and I tell you, ridiculous. I never beat myself up based on outcomes. I will only beat myself up based on the processes that I take. All right, so let me give you an example. Take an NBA player. Say Kobe Bryant. Big fan of Kobe Bryant myself. I live in Los Angeles. He'll go out sometimes and have an amazing shooting night. This guy will just catch fire, sink every single shot that he takes, or at least almost all of them, destroy the other team single-handedly, carve them up, and he's a champ. He remembers that he wants to be that guy. But on some nights he goes out, he might only score four points. He might shoot a really low percentage. You ask yourself, why? What's the difference? Why can't a guy who can go tear up another team one night not go out and just shoot the ball in in a basket on another night? What's the issue? Well, it could be a lot of different things. It could be something in his emotions. It could be his personal level of momentum with basketball. It could be a physical thing. It could be his Yin-Yang energy, and he hasn't rest himself enough to have that explosive output It's having trouble getting in the moment. It could be psychological. It's a lot of different things that can go on. Ultimately, you have a strong degree of control, but never a full degree of control over these sorts of things. In the same way with game, one thing that I've always known is that I'm going to have some amazing nights where I make out with half the girls in the club, and they're all chasing me, and I have different girls who are wanting to come home with me or different girls that do come home with me in a given night. I go take home one girl and go back to the club and bring home another one. Then I'm going to have nights where it's just humiliating. The type of nights where if that sh*t was videotaped, probably RSD wouldn't exist anymore because you'd go: That's the guy??? It'd be that bad. There's obviously a range and there's the low-end and the high-end and everything in between. I don't identify myself as being that guy that's always on the high-end. I don't identify myself as the guy who's always on the low end, I realized that I'm the guy that does all of it, and that's fine. Sometimes when I come home from that really bad night, friends of mine will say, Damn, dude, that was brutal. How can you be happy with a night like that? I'm just going home and I'm like, It was fucking fun. That was fucking cool. Like, dude, we got destroyed tonight. And I'm like, nah, I like it actually. I'm proud of myself. I stuck in there. I hammered out to the bitter end. I did all the processes that I know work. I have these great processes that I've talked about in my other videos. I know they work. I know that over a long period of time, it's going to get me the best result possible. So I'm proud of myself. I always go home very, very proud of myself when I do that. And people are shocked sometimes when that happens. Meanwhile, other times, I might go out and mess around some super fine girl or even pull a girl home, and I'll go home feeling a little bit down on myself. And that's because I didn't follow the processes that I know work. So I'm very, very process-focused. I'm not so much outcome-focused. And the reason why that is, because I've seen this over the years teaching Boot camp, where, say it's the For the last half hour of a program, a student might say to me, " What should we focus on for the rest of the night?" And I'll say, Well, what are your goals? He'll say, I want to get a make-out. I say, Dude, you can't control for sure whether or not you get a make-out. You're setting yourself up for a lifetime of highs and lows if you that. What you could control is that you're going to try to kiss every girl. What you could control is that you're going to try to venue change every girl. What you could control is that you'll have a positive attitude towards the entire thing. You'll take a lot of action, make yourself laugh. These are things that you can control, but you cannot ultimately control if you make out with a girl or not because it's a human being. A girl is not a golf ball. A girl is not just this inanimate object that you can just keep hitting and hitting and hitting. There's tons of different girls. They're human beings, so you can't have ultimate control over anyone except yourself. I generally find that the pleasure for me is in taking action, and the results, I know they're going to come when they come, so I don't get stressed about it. But on the flip side, I do like to beat myself up sometimes. Here's examples. If I go out and I didn't follow my processes, I I need to beat myself up. But also, there's processes within the game itself, in the section itself that I'll follow, but also outside of it. Things like meditation, going to the gym, eating clean, staying on top of my work life, things like that. I know that these are external processes, and if I don't follow them and I did poorly, I need to beat myself up. Beating yourself up is an opportunity to be introspective. It's a protection mechanism and it's completely healthy. The way that most guys beat themselves up because their self-image has been affronted or they haven't got laid three to five times in a week or things like that is ridiculous. It's stupid. Primarily, the best word you could use for it is childish. Very, very unrealistic. But to never beat yourself up is equally bad because when you never, ever beat yourself up, the problem there is that your life can go off the rails. I have a lot of good friends who never, ever beat themselves up. I mean, they never beat themselves up. You want to learn how to not beat yourself up? Ask these guys. When their finances slowly dwindle down or their sex life gets messed up or their life in general gets messed up, they get fat, whatever it is, they never seem to beat themselves up. Why? I don't know. They don't really care. But then what always happens is that in the end, they become little cry babies about it. Often, that's friends of mine coming and crying to me that things didn't go the way they expected because they didn't follow the processes. Meanwhile, me, like Like a religion, like a religion, I fall the f*cking processes. And inevitably, when the evolutionary pressure comes off of me a little bit and I lose a bit of focus, maybe because I'm doing a bit too well, I'll see that that's happening and I'll beat myself up. I will literally even spend a full day, maybe a day and a half, just brow beating myself saying, Dude, look at what you miss here. Look at what you miss there. What are you doing? Is this how you want to live your life? Is this what's going to let you live your dreams? Or is this going to make your life turn to a piece of shit? And I take that time and pause, and I realize that That's a part of life. Beating yourself up is a chance to refocus as a part of life. It's a chance to take your RAS, reticular activation system, and hone in on what you're doing wrong. Stop and really think about all the different things that you would change about your life, and use that negative emotion of beating yourself up as leverage to keep focusing on it. Once that happens, the negative emotions dissipate. They go away. You can see me when I go out and I start approaching, I never judge myself. I'm really good with that. I can start approaching girls, blowing me out. I'm going in half ass or whatever because it's early in the night, I'm half out of it or maybe too logical from a full day at work. It goes really bad and people are like, Really? This is how you start your night? That's tough. I go, No, dude, I'm loving how I'm starting my night. I'm not judging myself. I'm not beating myself up. But again, on the flip side, when I'm not following those processes, I feel that I have violated almost like the laws of the universe. I have violated my reason for being alive, which is the processes that I have developed and I've cultivated, that I believe in, that I love. I haven't I'm all of those, and I say, Look, purpose of life is to take joy in the action. I'm not taking joy in the action. I'm not taking the action I need to be taking. I'm all just wishing I could get the result without enjoying the action itself. I've lost sight of that. I need to come back to center. I need to come back, and I need to take the fact that I Keep myself up as a reminder to get refocused, get back on track, and fucking crush. All right? And that is what I love to do. I love to crush. So basically, what I'd leave you with is, don't judge yourself. It goes really bad and people are like, Really? This is how you start your night? That's tough. I go, No, dude, I'm loving how I'm starting my night. I'm not judging myself. I'm not beating myself up. But again, on the flip side, when I'm not following those processes, I feel that I have violated almost like the laws of the universe. I have violated my reason for being alive, which is the processes that I have developed and I've cultivated, that I believe in, that I love. I haven't I'm all of those, and I say, Look, purpose of life is to take joy in the action. I'm not taking joy in the action. I'm not taking the action I need to be taking. I'm all just wishing I could get the result without enjoying the action itself. I've lost sight of that. I need to come back to center. I need to come back, and I need to take the fact that I Keep myself up as a reminder to get refocused, get back on track, and fucking crush. All right? And that is what I love to do. I love to crush. So basically, what I'd leave you with is, don't judge yourself, Don't beat yourself up. Don't worry about results other than as a general indication of maybe things that you would change. But really follow the processes and enjoy the process and love the process and realize it's going to come when it's going to come. Dude, you're on a sailboat. You just got to turn the rudder, keep yourself moving in the right direction with your processes. You don't need to be this little motor and getting all mad when it doesn't happen. Enjoy life. Life is to be enjoyed. Life is a beautiful thing. Love the action. Enjoy taking the action. The results are going to come. They're going to reward you. Have faith in that. Full faith. Faith in the process. Faith the results will come at the time they're ready to come. You're going to love it.

chatGPT on post modernism and music Music, though expressed differently across cultures, is anchored in universal principles like the mathematical relationship between frequencies that form the basis of the circle of fifths. For instance, the interval of a perfect fifth, such as from C to G, is rooted in a 3:2 frequency ratio. This isn’t arbitrary; it’s a fundamental aspect of how sound waves interact, making certain combinations of notes sound harmonious across cultures. Postmodernism, which challenges absolute truths and emphasizes the relativity of cultural constructs, rightly points out that much of what we consider “standard” in music—like Western scales and notation—are social constructs. For example, the Western major scale (Do-Re-Mi) is just one way to organize pitch; other cultures use entirely different scales, such as the pentatonic scale common in East Asian music. However, postmodernism can go too far by implying that all musical interpretations are equally valid, ignoring the objective aspects of music. For instance, the perception of consonance (how "pleasant" a combination of notes sounds) isn’t purely subjective. Studies show that even infants, regardless of cultural background, tend to prefer consonant intervals over dissonant ones, indicating a universal cognitive basis. Moreover, while postmodernism often deconstructs established musical norms, it sometimes fails to offer viable alternatives. For example, rejecting traditional tonality without understanding the structures that make it effective can lead to music that lacks coherence or emotional impact. In the 20th century, some avant-garde composers pushed against tonal conventions, resulting in atonal music. While this expanded the boundaries of musical expression, it also risked alienating listeners who found the lack of familiar structure disorienting. Postmodernism in music argues that any sound can be considered music, expanding beyond traditional definitions. In summary, while postmodernism provides crucial critiques, it should recognize the objective, universal elements in music, like the mathematical foundations of harmony and the shared human experience of sound. These elements are essential in understanding why certain musical structures resonate across different cultures and why music remains a powerful, unifying force globally. A hilarious mental picture is a post-modernist listening to construction noise to relax after a long day of work in deconstruction ( The joke is they argue that everything's music. Deconstruction pun was initially not intended)

Order a warm cup of milk and refuse to wipe your mustache as you stare down her soul

I'm not familiar with this but rather than trying to resist and inhibit the emotions as they come up as practice, it would be practicing giving yourself eargasms through your entire body and maybe up your spine. Careful though, you could in theory mess yourself up if you're a genetic freak and accidentally wake up your Kundalini or something like that. I get strong emotions of awe, beauty, appreciation and gratitude when I hear beautiful human voices, specially a male/female harmony. I have a list of around 200 Acapella music videos that make me feel these chills One of my best memories in life is listening to"emotions" by Mariah Carey as munching on a bunch of sweet-ass mangoes after a long day of work. It made me appreciate life a lot in that moment. You can also put on some good headphones, 40 hz bi neural beats and hum the tone. That sh*t makes me zone in like crazy. It's like om chanting on steroids and sounds super trippy and alien.

Just say that you don't drink alcohol or that you dont feel like having alcohol atm. No big deal, hold your frame. if it's a dealbreaker for her, find yourself someone else edit: what's with the bullying guys?

the best way to deal with addiction is not to get addicted in the first place

⤴️ Pretty good simple take. I'm currently on 6 months of vanlife and I have say it ties nicely with many concepts we talk about here. Sharing this to start a discussion. It's as cheap as it gets. The only cheaper way to live is to house hack ( live in a flat with multiple rooms, rent them out and have their added individual rent cover your rent for the entire apartment. It is a possibility but I dont think I'd trade in my freedom and capacity for solitude for that. People can be a blessing and / or a curse. It has the potential to get you off the rat race by giving you more time and freedom, by lowering living expenses , to build yourself up. The breathing room you need to escape Wage Slavery. The time you need to build the infrastructure of your life. The fire under your ass to motivate you. Maybe it's what you need to love life again. What is financial freedom? Earning more than you spend. To archive it you can either earn more or spend less. If you are neck deep in expenses being passionate about how you make your income my seem like a pipedream. Start somewhere attainable. It may be exactly what you need at this moment if you don't have family to take care of and are young and energetic. Or even if you are old, poor, crusty and disabled . It may help you to pay off debt. It may help you to narrow down what is important for you, both materialally and mentally. it may help you escape a toxic environment, move out of your parents place or a dysfunctional relationship. It is a good way to massively expose yourself to new experiences. It is a good way to practice lifestyle minimalism. It is a good way to meet more people as you wear your house on your back like a turtle. It may get you laid. The hippy community loves camper vans. It may be just the kick in the ass you need to start living life already. The new phase or chapter of your life. This lifestyle will bitchslap maturity into your character. You will become more decisive. You will develop people skills, mechanical skills, electrical skills, wood work skills, money management. You will sharpen your intuition. It will increase your empathy for poor and homeless people. You may want to give a try just for a week , a month or so more. No need to marry the lifestyle. Now I want to say this isn't scalable for the entirety of society at large , but it is a realistic way FOR YOU to get more out of life with minimal time and effort - With love, from the back of my windowless white van 😉 Note: Ofc there are countless drawbacks as well. Feel free to bring up any of these. Let us know your thoughts.

Natural evolution takes thousands or even millions of years Advances in genetic engineering, biotech, and AI will accelerate changes in human evolution. Artificial evolution IS the next step of natural evolution. This right now is the moment in history. It won't be thousands or millions of years. At most it will take a few centuries. Who knows, we may experience this within the next few generations. What if mankind will be able to manufacture freaks of nature? Neil Harbisson was born with complete color blindness (achromatopsia). Now he "hears" colors through an electronic eye implanted in his head. (an Eyeborg) That's basically Technology induced Synesthesia. Apparently his brain adapted the mechanism and he even dreams in colors. He can even hear ultraviolet and infrared. The correlation between colors and sounds is based on the actual frequencies of light waves: Low frequency colors (like red) are translated to low frequency sounds. High frequency colors (like violet) are translated to high frequency sounds. It would be fascinating if that method of choosing the colors was to fit with this holistic scienctific relation between music and colors This is just a teaser of possible mergings of technology with our biology The video gets exponentially cooler. He "hears" people's faces. The fascinating thing is not the technology but the brain's adaptation to it. What technology would you like to have be part of you? What if these could be swapped out and not have to be permanent ? VR eye balls ? ultrasonic hearing ? recording your memory? AI database for the brain? what if you could manually turn on different emotions? what if you could amplify / reduce different sensations like pain, pleasure, touch, taste, smell...?

@Leo Gura make a YT community post asking that. Is Post-Modernism even an adequate label? what should it rather be called?