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I found Tolle was nervous and was stumbling. It's a bit weird that he gets into politics for a guy who is living in the now. He may try to create a brand like Sadhguru who has an opinion on everything.

I want to be at that level too

@Yog https://www.pnas.org/content/113/44/12408

@Yog clean and mean https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/donald-trump-us-elections-mexicans-germophobia-a7237971.html https://edition.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/03/02/berezow.germs/index.html Lately I heard children who grew up in a cleaner environment have a healthier body. The explanation was that the immunsystem was too much active so there were not enough ressources there for other areas of the body.

Yes I can understand that. I Germany there were many people I know who loved the brasilian people in Germany. They went to brasilian churches and parties. In Germany it's the other way. People "go to the basement to laugh" is how a saying goes. When I laugh I can normally can't thing strait and make many errors. Laughing comes with a price I guess. Same here in the Philippines.

Global Emotions: Which countries are the most happy, sad or angry?

There are interesting sociological perspectives: https://www.quora.com/Why-are-Brazilians-so-stereotypically-happy-friendly

Though there are worst thing in life than getting couple millions of dollars from your father.

It's not logic because you say so. I would say it seems to you it's logic. It looks to me that you are emotionally invested and biased. It's obvious we disagree. Take it easy life is an illusion anyway.

It's part of my filtering process. People who can deal with tabu subjects against their interests get a special trust from me. Trust is important to build something of value. I get to discuss the subject and like ajasatja said try to reduce my sloppiness a bit. If you are emotionally invested in a subject it's mostly ego I guess. That means we have always this bias. That is why I want to actively look at the opposite perspective of what I have and try to find people who try that too. It's the hegelian dialectic process I guess.

I should believe you because you said so? That reminds me of flat earthers. They have also some "prove". Do you take them serious?

Life is sloppiness and messyness. You have to work with what you have. I think people know statistics the way they know math. If it works in their practical life it's ok. Btw. do you believe in these numbers? What do they mean to you? Did you see the video about it from Vaush and what is your take on it? Vaush studied sociology and seems confident with statistics.

@ajasatya Well what you are saying is nothing new in principle. You can make it even more tricky and say science is just historical patterns. There is no "law". We think that a pattern will be a certain way in the future but our "prove" is only the past. Anyway the thing is we have to make actions, judgments, theories with missing variables. So we must do rely on intuition, automated procceses, in our habits and so on. These numbers are not that much sloppier than the statistics that are used from the left imho.

@Forestluv I need more pictures like this:

It's why the buddhist say that living is suffering: We and the kids don't want to work because it's not fun. If we do it mostly we become sad. If we go for fun our life turns to a mess. Yes gamification seems to be a shortcut. I kept my eye on it. There are good apps that get better. At the same time real games get much more fun so the distraction gets bigger.

I agree I guess 70% of people are conformists. They go along with any ideology that is the flavour of the day. That is why Germany and Japan could switch so fast. Most people and kids don't care about the system they care how to practically run with it. You see it in Latin America where they switch between fascism and socialism regularly like now in Brazil.

I guess you are not familiar how to use the terms in a way that is more common.

What's your point? Statistics are complicated? Don't trust statisticians? I would argue that these numbers are important in the perspective of the average person. These numbers has been tried to be kept secret because it's too dangerous. So in the culture war these numbers became more known as the right wing spred it aggressively. This created a shock to the people who didn't know these numbers.

Most people didn't know these numbers. When confronted with them people get shocked. That is why Vaush became popular. He tried to discuss tabu subjects.

Blacks in Israel: https://washingtondailyreport.com/years-denying-israel-finally/

Depends how you define radical. There are research where muslims in the world answer some questions. From that you might find answers. Needs little bit time with google.

Relax

Wouldn't you be more "fearful" that something bad happens to your kid?