Tim R

No, caffeine can't escape me.

See which values resonate with you most. And don't forget, you're never in only one particular stage. Check out the Spiral Dynamics Mega Threads: Purple Red Blue Orange Green Yellow Turquoise Also be aware of the fact that most people tend on average to locate themselves 2 stages higher than they actually are. So if you think you're at Yellow, chances are that you're actually at Orange and overestimating yourself. No stage is better than any other stage. They are all necessary and good just as they are.

oh guess I didn't get that haha @Mason Riggle thank you can only say the same about you yeah "most" is accurate, I still talk about a lot of things I don't really understand. Gotta give that up, just a silly game

yup, it seems to be something. but "it" isn't.

@Mason Riggle There's a lot of nobodies on this forum who say I'm not real? do you exist?

amiriteoramirite?

@Preety_India Any specific ones? or just tea from that region? why do you like it?

Don't you dare to open another solipsism thread…?

@BipolarGrowth Makes a lot of sense, thank you! @NahmThird time watching that video, here wo go! seriously tho I will have to return to that video many times coming, always with new context of understanding That adds to my understanding.. or maybe it took away from "my understanding". Thank you!

Green focuses on people & community and still lacks in holism, it still excludes (and condemns) many perspectives. Turquoise is extremely holistic and doesn't exclude/condemn any world view. Even more than Yellow. SD basically describes the development of degrees of holism. The further up the stages, the more holistic your values become.

not necessarily, the iron may contain very reactive ions which "want" to become Fe2O3 or something. You got me thinking tho. In a sense, everything is sort of..sluggish and doesn't want to change. on the other hand, there is no ego in anything, not even in humans. @Leo Gura I have a question on that: I remember Nahm posting somewhere "the biggest misconception is that ego is a thought". So.. "ego" doesn't exist, not even as a thought, right? it's a total illusion, there's nothing at all to which you could point and say "there is the ego". So even to say that is already saying too much, yes?

"Nothing is the same, everything is changed" She was born in 1869 and lived to be 112. This is crazy... I think we could learn a great deal from old people. Too bad that in western society, we see them mostly as a burden. They truly know about impermanence. I think age gives you some kind of wisdom which you can only get through age and no other technique would work. What do you think?

hmm idk man. I think whenever an organism tries to survive, there's ego. Albeit a very simple one.

What are we talking about exactly? Is the question whether plants perceive? Or is this thread becoming one of those "what is consciousness" discussions? Of course "there's no one home" also applies to plants, like with BipolarGrowth's analogy of the dream mother. There's no one home. Likewise with you, nobody home... Consciousness is, but nobody who is conscious.

@Eternal Unity What do you mean?

Of course plants are conscious. They have some very elaborate systems of perception, like for example graviception or photoception. Also, they are aware of sounds and even music. Plants communicate all kinds of things via chemicals through the air, think of the tobacco plant: there's a species of caterpillar who loves eating the leaves of young tobacco plants, and if he starts chewing on a plant, it will send out a bunch of chemicals that are called "phytohormones" (phyto=plant) to warn the other plants nearby and they receive this signal and as a result will produce chemicals which make the leaves bitter and inedible for the caterpillar. Plants are also aware of different kinds of stress, like when there isn't enough water around or when the sun is burning too hot and they have the most incredible systems of coping with these situations. And god only knows what is going on in the forest underneath the soil where the trees form communication and nutrient exchange networks of enormous sizes with different species of funghi (which aren't plants btw) and other trees. When I started to learn about plant physiology in university I was shocked to discover how sophisticated they actually are... plants aren't dumb or unconscious at all. Only because they don't scream or run away doesn't mean they aren't conscious.

Idk about you guys but he looks pretty happy to me humping the dude's hand. Watch a dog nut in a cup? Check✅ what am I doing with my life...

Inside the mind of a chess Grand Master...crazy

@Flowerfaeiry Preaching to the choir.. We're all sitting in the same boat. You are most definitely not the only one. But imagine what it would be like if you would be a "normie"? What would you want then? Life wouldn't necessarily be easier, you'd just have different problems and struggles. You would worry about mundane things, you'd be stressed out by marginal problems, you wouldn't know why people behave the way the do, you wouldn't see life as a game, etc.. Don't forget to go easy on yourself, people forget to do that all the time. There's no hurry in this game

We love you too❤?

I'm curious about the current situations in different places all over the world. How severe is it? What measures have been taken? What is the general public opinion about your governments way of dealing with the pandemic? How does this influence the national or local politics?

Great movie. I'm watching it right now and Dogen's master just said "just as enlightenment is infinite, practice is also infinite. Enlightenment and practice are inextricably linked." Thought I'd share that with you

Yoo this is crazy, who knew that chimps were so intelligent?

Existence is Love

Who claimed that it will? The cardboard sign of some 19 y/o hippie who demonstrates in front of a butchery? And btw, the video is about eating less meat, not going vegan. My point that the video is misleading is still valid, because instead of recognizing excessive meat consumption as a non-marginal contributor to the crisis, the video pretends that it's not a problem by setting up straw man arguments which it then knocks down by misinterpreting the science and thereby tries to make you feel good about it by subsequently scapegoating other industries as even worse. Which is true, but only because something else is more horrible than what you do, it doesn't mean that you can keep doing your only less horrible thing. Simply not true. In some cases it might be the result of an overly emotional reaction, but definitely not always. There are many reasons for why one could decide to go vegan.