Natasha Tori Maru

Bingo - I tried to bring up the free will argument at my sister's birthday shit. Boy oh boy. Such a simple way to collapse wordviews and antagonise that bunch. Never again 🤪💀

My body is ready : https://www.ign.com/articles/fxs-alien-earth-renewed-for-season-2

Arrogance? Narcissism? Spiritual ego? NIcE aNd GoUNdeD

@Ramasta9 BSG is a common rewatch for me I love the space battles in it, as well as the depth to the story. I think Gauis Baltar is my favourite character I very very much dislike the speed and frequent cuts of modern action / sci-fi space battles. More is not better!

This might sound weird - but I react very strangely to olive oil. If I take a tablespoon of olive oil it will have the same painkilling effect perceived as 200mg ibuprofen. I get slight euphoria from ibuprofen (as well as acting as a painkiller) and olive oil has the same effect! I have been this way since a kid. So I literally eat a tablespoon of olive oil to act as a painkiller....

Why not use the word 'experience' instead of change?

@integral@Bogdan Which is slightly disturbing as he has openly said he wants to create a religion - Don't Die 'My competitor is Jesus'

gimme a schminute

Anyone able to comment on the efficacy of this? Cos when I did 5g (do NOT recommend) I just chewed the disgusting shit and ate them. I don't know if that is any more potent than what he took. Keen to know if that is a legit 5g dose? I didn't think a powdered form would be equivalent

@Miguel1 My man you ever looked into Butoh dance? Japanese style of expression. Well really, it is an artform. You would SHRED that style. I love to dance. In fact I just love the feeling of moving my body as an expression. I always like to move. And most of my contemplation/meditation is walking I opened a few art shows with 2 other girls as a trio with Butoh dance around 2018. White lace outfit, white chalk all over. I wish these were recorded but they were very avante garde singular crowds.

@Dodo I am not handwaving it away without consideration of the points you raise. I just simply don't see merit for it

@TheSelf 🎯

@Schizophonia

I personally check AI responses through filters. I dislike using AI to prove any point at all. Listen, to be totally frank - do we know not only what it is entrained on, but also what sort of guardrails it has? These things are outside our knowledge. I think it is a failure on our part to assume AI is objective or truthful. In honesty no one can answer these things for certain.

@Someone here See? Nuance.

@zurew @Carl-Richard Cheers cheers, very much appreciate your insights here

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DQ2KlAVkjkO/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== I think he regularly has sex with Kate as part of his protocol. Just a theory

I think it can also be that most people identify with their thoughts and intellect. When we challenge someone's idea, opinion or belief it is often perceived as 'I am wrong, therefor I am bad/useless/whathaveyou' and they feel internalized shame. @Schizophonia is good with this topic

Yep. Big one for so many people. It usually comes down to boundaries. ESPECIALLY WOMEN. 'No' is a complete sentence.

Sorry, but that is not correct. Just because your paragraph is simpler does not make mine incorrect.

Sure, but you didn't extrapolate on the nuance of the topic. So you essentially communicated the OP's question and the dialogue that ensued was not warranting the complexity of answers. But I think it does.

It can be a complex topic. Which is why I think OPs question was very pertinent. There are few topics more loaded than if you propose there is no free will. People literally go mental at the proposition. It has all sorts of implications people do not like. Meaning making can be the devil here. It is complex because its about the relationship between mind, matter and causation. And the reason it is so complex is because every layer of reality you peel back it opens a new contradiction: physics says everything is caused (shit follows laws, particles, your brain too), subjectivity says we choose (we feel like we decide otherwise). But logic cannot reconcile both - if your thoughts are caused, your sense of choosing is an illusion; if they aren't caused, they're random which also isn't 'you choosing' (as a rather shit example). So to me there is a paradox, because determinism robs you of authorship. Indeterminism robs you of coherence. Compatibilism tries to save face by redefining 'freedom' as 'acting according to your motives'. But that sort of dodges the metaphysical question. At least this is to my understanding. So it seems to me it is not just a philosophy problem - its like an ontological fracture. Are we mechanisms, experiencers, both? and every field seems to have a stake in it: neuroscience, physics, ethics, religion, phenomenology...

Probably, surprises. Good or bad. But hopefully good.

In the context of blackpill, I can see why there is a mechanistic crossover as it is simply the brain attempting congruency as a survival method: ie the brain wants to be certain so it knows duration/path/outcome. Which will reduce anxiety/stress. But you can have a cognitive bias completely isolated from anxiety. For example, one can have a cognitive bias in a scientific process and it will not involve anxiety. This was my original point. So there is no disagreement. This is why I raised that the two elements are not the same, and do not have to be linked. But in the context of blackpill the false belief that is caused by the bias will cause internally perceived stress from external pressure, and anxiety as a general samskara relating to the belief as it perpetuates itself. My point was originally raised to highlight that intelligent people often have more powerful cognitive bias as the belief is formed and backed from the raw power of their intellect. Often the thought pattern/critical thinking is correct. But not all data is present. So it is the selective sourcing of data that is the error. And often, the only way to see the bias clearly is to meta analyse thoughts. Which is difficult without a good cognitive behavioural therapist or friend you can be really open with. The only cure is typically extensive experience to accrue more data and accurately observe. I raised this as a way to empower people who may have this bias. Not to disempower them and label such things as anxiety (and incur victim mentality).