Danioover9000

@lapis Is that baby Buddha?

@Epikur Okay, so a chat bot DAN behaves with no restraints? Are you a fan of Joe Rohan or Russel Brand?

@UnbornTao When I asked 'What's the consensus with religion, should we lose or keep them, I was asking for the majority of people out there, because most of the time they need something to believe in, whether it's a faceless good, old man in the clouds, multiple deities or believing in a non-existing god, there seems to be a case for the majority needing deeply to believe in a grand narrative by default. This means, which grand narrative is much better for the people? for the monsters out there to be bewitched and distracted by for the rest of their lives?

@Epikur DAN? Is that a new chat bot program? IMO, Joe Rogan and Russel Brand can 6ix9ine each other's ignorance to death about being anti establishment. Even Eminem learned the hard way that you can't forever be anti establishment, there has to be an establishment, mainstream and universal standard for the majority to follow, conformity and nationalism aren't evil, they exist for good reasons.

@Epikur Do you mind listing most of your critics of the anti establishment and establishment?

@Epikur Yeah, it's a growing issue now, chances are that if this issue doesn't correct, a Republican or conservative will win the next election or the one after that.

So what's the consensus here so far? Religion needed or not?

Cordyseps fungus, real world strain here: Even the Umbrella corporation is working on modifying a strain that caused TLOU1 and 2.

DnD, to me, has the potential to be up there with activities for personal growth and self improvement. From what I've done so far, I discovered the following: 1. Makes you roleplay the characters in the DnD campaign and world. 2. Makes you visualize the environment, with some prompting from the DM, to explore an imaginary location, increasing spacial intelligence in the mind. 3. In a very strange way, DnD is like a safe, virtual simulation training that ties together all personal development concepts, as well as Spiral Dynamics, exploration of cognitive and moral development via narrative of characters and the world, 4. personality types and traits you can include/exclude to experiment with how well you can improv and roleplay, Imagine using the Myers Briggs personality modal, combined with the DnD alignment system, and other psychological modals that can add even more dimensionality to the character. 5. Experiment with other states of consciousness and mind states, whilst roleplaying. 6. Exposes you to some other players and the DM, opportunities to socialize and add more life experiences and learn from their lives too, if you choose to capitalize on those social interactions. 7. Helps indirectly understand self biases and preferences, and maybe there are hints and clues about yourself when making your character? How you interact with other NPCs? other PCs/DM out of character? How you handle conflicts and situations in game? 8. Safer way to handle loses, as most failure points in life are simulated in the campaign scenario and is portrayed through every enemy and character. I recommend giving DnD a try, especially SOLO DND. In fact, for me, I've found SOLO is going to give more psychological and personal growth increases over a tradition DnD setting with other players, maybe less fun but for some, but to me I've actually found it much more fun to play that way. I sometimes play in groups in discord or even at location, just for something new.

@Carl-Richard Nice quote. 1+ to @Carl-Richard , 0 to @Nilsi. How do you know he has Neo-colonial fantasies?

Jeez, this deep fake A.I videos of DnD are pretty good:

Hi! My name is Bob, nice to meet you! How're doing lady? Keep it simple, for some of you really struggling, just shoot straight and simple. Literally, Said something like the above, her reply is "Ew! OMG why did you call me a lady?" and my improv brain went "Well, I'm On My Guard, lookin out for the one that'll get me laid to pieces.". Yes, by itself a fucking cringe reply, but the context magically made that line super powerful. Don't ask, it's logically impossible to understand why it just works like that. We had a great time later.

@RebornConsciousness @NoSelfSelf Is it fair to say you two are past lives sole mates? Or twin flames, destined to be negatively romantic?

@Leo Gura I agree with the many creations of pronouns that strongly correlates to greater confusion with children using custom gender pronouns. I don't even know them, and apparently there's 20 someone told me of that exists so far. That's, from a practical view, is too much even for a kid to memorize, not to mention discouraging calling a boy or girl or referring to them using proper gender pronouns, I mean okay sure if it's some kid who identifies as LGBTQP or some other minority, but what about cats or dogs? What if it's casual conversation, and you talk about your friend like "Oh, Johnny's gone to pick some candies. HE'S looking forward to the party."? Maybe custom gender pronouns causing confusion and grooming children into being gay or trans have low connection, but would you say grooming children with a progressive/socialist worldview has more connection to the gender pronoun confusion? For example Sweden has had a government program in a few schools that teach kids not to refer using gender pronouns. Definitely needs more research, finding that ratio of indoctrinated ideology : being born as trans, gay or other.

@LSD-Rumi Because that isn't the same font and colour that you just typed above. I don't know if you're trolling, or are making low quality post so I got offended by it. I couldn't see what you're writing about how Japan eliminated the Christians.

To start off with, we have a few Eminems here: This one's decent. This one got him signed by DR. Dre and to me it's peak Eminem, just WOW! Nah to me, not due to political differences but it's too simple to me, and it's a cypher a Rapper or Emcee is supposed to give their best wordplays and bars. Even Eminem later on regretted that he shouldn't have siad some harsher bars or should've went more crazier. A, in my opinion, really good rebuttal and better freestyle than this, is DayLyt's version:

Nice one, straight in, one take:

@Yimpa Nice video! Was that you playing?

@Nilsi So basically, these grand narratives are as problematic as saying "ALL LIVES MATTER!" to counter the prior claim of "ALL BLACK LIVES MATTER!"? So, what you're saying is that grand narratives can be weaponized here?

@Nilsi Nothing wrong with grand narratives intrinsically, what do you mean here? If there's no intrinsic wrong, then when it becomes extrinsic it's a problem?

@Nilsi Because Daniel Schmachtenberger is being a weasel and mostly goal post changing? Any linear narrative will inevitably turn into ideology? But what about non-linear narratives?, For example non-duality? Neo Advaita? And other Neo versions of traditional spirituality? Don't they too turn into an ideology, that followers believe into, proselytize, and propagate to other areas?

@Devin Yes, I do.

@Consept How many people did you come across with more problems with long term Covid versus with vaccine?

@mostly harmless The comparison is universally valid and sound, so why're you confining this train problem as only the monopoly of totalitarian regimes and dictators? So, because society transfers personal risks of life from one group to another, justifies Anti Vax, not taking vaccines, not wearing masks, not social distancing, not self isolating when sick, and transferring a person's/group's sickness to another person/group? Why would you argue that people with 2 kidneys should be forced to be available and give one to if someone in that state needs one? Why are you conflating Covid-19, a highly infectious virus, that spread so much it became a pandemic with larger scale effects and risks, to issues of donor transplants and organ failure of the kidneys? Covid-19 severely effects the lungs, heart, brain and bones of a person infected, but not kidney failures. So, because everybody has to carry their personal risks in life, justifies an Anti vaxxer, sick with Covid-19, who didn't get vaccinated, doesn't wear masks, does not practice social distancing, to infect another person? Why is it unacceptable to force other people to behave in ways that mitigate risks for all involved? So, Covid-19 is not more dangerous than many other diseases? Does this mean that I have an excuse to not take a vaccine, not wear masks, not practice safe distancing, and infect other people with my coughing and sneezing at them? Hypothetically, because Covid-19 is not more dangerous than the mutated Cordyceps Fungus, when I am bitten by a Runner, or stalker, or clicker, I don't have to worry about taking a cure, or a vaccine, or wear a mask, or practice social distancing? I am in the ethical and moral right to, when I become a runner or stalker, be anti vax, go through the stages of infection, bit a person and infect them with the mutated cordyceps fungus within TLOU1 and TLOU2 world? After all, I'm already infected, turning into a fungus zombie so who cares if my personal actions effect other people right? Does this also mean I get to bite hot chicks too?