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Sounds like a good strategy. Thanks for the resource. I’ll check it out. My intuition is that you must come face to face with fear until it becomes so familiar and ordinary that it’s not a big deal anymore. Conjure up all the things that arouse fear and focus on them until they lose their power. I feel that I could obliterate all fear with such a practice. I have a deeply ingrained fear response regarding being social that I picked up in childhood. Shit is buried deep and for some reason, seemingly with no rhyme or reason, pops up on me out of nowhere. I can go many months without it showing itself, but it always seems to show back up and I can’t really trace why. I noticed it seems more likely to show up when I’m not engaging my will. Sometimes, it feels like destiny, like a teacher.

Very nice articulation. Thanks for sharing. It’s a breath of fresh air to see someone admit it.

Could be something to that. I grew up close to my sister, who was 2 years older. Grew up with her and mom, so spent most of my adolescence around females.

Laugh a little bro, that was meant to be funny. And it was.

It's more probable than not that Trump is implicated in the Epstein files. The evidence is actually overwhelming. When you add it all up, you'd be a fool to bet against it. I could put together a collage of recordings that would paint the picture very well, and most of that collage would be comprised of recordings straight from the horse's mouth. Once, Trump spotted a 10 year old girl on an escalator and asked her how old she was. Then he blurted out "I'm going to be dating her in X years". Much can be gleaned from a single incident like this and you can think in terms of probabilities as to what's likely going on. When you do this exercise with all the other pieces of evidence (and there are many), it's impossible to not lean towards Trump being a pedo. By pedo, I mean 16 years or younger. I'm not sure if he's a full-blown pedo who likes preteens and younger, but it wouldn't surprise me if he fucked them. I'm pretty confident that he'd fuck 13+.

Comfort with ambiguity (prerequisite) What can and can't be known and what information is useful (scope) Hypothesize with probabilities (methods) Metacognition and cognitive functions (operational mechanisms) Biases (threats) Those just came off the top. Not that they are the top 5. I think you'd need to define a framework.

Have you ever zoomed out to try to get a sense of the scale of the demographic you seem to put a large portion of your life energy into opposing? IMO, it doesn't make sense to be so invested in such a position. Even if they made up 20%, it still wouldn't warrant it. 30%, I could see it, but even then, your response to it is not healthy. Even if the world was what you think it is, it would not be healthy to hate it with such passion. We find what we seek. You have bottled up hate and are using woke to justify its expression.

100%

Yes! People are who they are, and who are we to tell them to be like us or that they should be interested in things we are? Trying to force our way onto them when our way is foreign to them. Wanting them to be like us stems from us not wanting to be alone in the world and wanting to share our inner world with them, but the fact is, we're a rare breed. But it's like you said, this can be accepted and even be seen as beautiful. I like that you said it's a feature, not a bug, because I realized that as well and wrapped it in the phrase "everything is for everything else". Not sure if that makes sense. Everyone can learn from everyone else. All personalities could be seen as necessary for the whole. We need people who are not deeply spiritual. We need deep and shallow thinkers. And yes, if you seek a best friend or girlfriend, you have to find someone who you don't have to tone it down with. I mean, you'll still likely have to tone it down a little, but ideally, not very much. I found a few of these people and it's very nice. I never found it in a girl though, but I didn't look very hard either.

Many women I know complain about not having enough of their man's time. They want more, but there's not anymore time to give. They don't easily accept the reality and as such, create needless suffering for themselves and their man, making him feel like he isn't good enough for them. This is a common issue. Saw it just yesterday.

Yeah. It's like, where's the self-awareness? If you set out on an intellectual journey that leads to your main conclusion being group A is superior or inferior to Group B... your self-awareness should kick in and be like "What is going on here?" Of course they can easily say "I'm just stating facts". But of course, they're taking facts and warping them to serve something else. "Oh, these are just the the things I found in my explorations. Totally objective and neutral, and my conclusion is that group A is superior to B." Subconsciously though, it's like "I want to not feel inferior, so let me chart a course that includes a stop at the island of plausible deniability. And when I accomplish my mission, I will store away the truths I found so that I can return to them the next time I feel inferior.". I"m just speculating and not ascribing this to any one individual.

I haven’t yet been able to neutralize those. I do try though, so maybe one day. I don’t have nearly enough exposure to them for good practice. Fear and it’s manifestations are much more subtle and difficult to neutralize, but it could be done with considerable work -I think much more work than the process I described.

Yes. What is the point of the inner world if not to be of use to the outer. They make ideas and theories the point of life. They don’t care if their theories prove to be useless in the world, so long as they make them feel good for being the one who constructs them. They go on adding to them and building new, useless theories. Like a child who hasn’t learned it’s time to drop childish things and step into the real world. Interesting topic.

Project 2025 comes to mind.

Lol, you and me both. I don’t think it would come to that. There’d be too much backlash. I think he can get away with it in DC, but not many other places. Maybe some red states, but I’m not sure. I watched a video earlier that explained a bit:

Yes, it isn’t right at all, but the majority don’t care. People getting fucked over by this administration is nothing new, and it will only happen more and more. Maybe when enough people confront cold reality, it will cause the majority to take things a little more seriously. But yeah, being on the left and for pushing the homeless out is unusual. But his position is logical. I disagree with it, the same as I disagree with spanking children as corrective punishment, but I get how it seems like a good strategy. IMO, strategies like these that do not factor in long term risks are not good. Cruelty will always produce more bad fruit than good.

Yes, for a minute there, I thought you were high and processing sloppily. 😂

We got our wires crossed here bro. What is it you think I was saying? I was saying the education system could be used to screen all humans for all sorts of potential disorders or even attitudes, and work to make them healthier as children, such that those prone to criminality would understand that’s no way to be by the time they reach their teens, and the mentally ill could be screened and worked with in a way that helps heal them and make them better adjusted. Does that make sense? I was talking about using the same system to solve different problems.

You’re assuming to know how I distinguish my list items, but I said absolutely nothing to give you reason to believe I group criminals and the mentally unwell in the same bucket. I was identifying multiple issues and how they might be mitigated or solved. Also, I don’t box myself in with labels such as “liberal”. lol

You high tonight?

These problems could largely be solved with proper development and education. The education system has to be completely refactored. Those prone to criminality, laziness, mental disorders, addiction, etc., should be accounted for and preemptively dealt with via the education system. At least, if we’re to look to society to solve these problems. It would take time to reap the harvest but I can’t think of a better way. Authoritarianism will backfire tremendously, same as it does in the nuclear family.

Just another day. Not enough people care.

Also, resource-intensive. You've got about 16 hours per day. You might work 8, which leaves 8 left. Factor in eating, commute, daily duties, errands, etc, and you're down to 5 or 6, if you're lucky. Now, factor in a minimum of 3 hours per day for the relationship. You now have 2-3 hours left. Have kids? Kiss all your free time goodbye. This does not seem appealing to me at all. Observing married people, many of them wish they could get out, for obvious reasons. Your life isn't really yours anymore once you commit to this lifestyle.

Nice, yes, very interesting stuff! Haha, how did you arrive there?

Agree. They show us our neediness, fragility, turbulence, jealousy, etc. Without women, we would never even know it 😆. Everything is for everything else. I suppose “I” didn’t really change anything. It was more of an adaptation fueled by suffering and high metacognition. I could trace back my suffering to my neediness and it was obvious I needed to remove the neediness to not suffer. The way it seems to work is: Suffering happens -> I contemplate it. If I find that the suffering is caused by something petty, like jealousy, I try my best to penetrate the absurdity of it to see just how absurd I'm being. Every time the feeling arises, I go back to my distillation of the absurdity, and if I'm still bothered, I contemplate some more. Eventually, when the feeling of jealousy arises, since I contemplated it so deeply and made judgements about what jealousy is, I somehow reject it, but I don’t really know how I accomplish that. Actually, I just conversed with ChatGPT and it explained it quite well. The elusive mechanism seems to be "reappraisal". The mechanism works like this: recognition → reappraisal → disengagement Key insight is: Because you’ve already decided in advance what the meaning of that emotion is, the “battle” is over before it starts. This is like having mental antibodies: the recognition itself neutralizes the thing, so it never blooms into the full emotional state that would need active suppression. "You’ve trained an automatic recognition + dismissal sequence for emotions you’ve pre-judged as counterproductive. Because of deep contemplation beforehand, the recognition step instantly triggers a reframing that drains the emotion’s fuel." Not sure if that answers your question.