Natasha Tori Maru

I would just counter that and reneg my original statement - there would just be being and that is all. Solipsism, others, you, me, mine, inside, outside. All mind concepts which can never be direct.

Yet it is conceptualized. Otherwise there would be no recognition that "other" is not. You would simply reside in oneness, infinity, union. Other isn't known to you. So it cannot be denied.

@Raze "I don't know" , is a good answer 🫶

How would you answer the question yourself though?

This doesn't appear to me to be building a case for slavery It reads as an explanatory outline of why slavery and other forms of oppression arose historically. Maybe the closest thing to a claim may be: But how do you know this was a necessary process to move through to progress human development? The problem is that the necessity claim is counterfactual. To really establish this claim, you would need to show that no alternative path to similar levels of development was possible.

Just an appreciation thread. They don't MAKE this sorta quality shit anymore. Fucking love this into. The last 1:10 onwards is one single take with perfect execution. This scene below was with Ripley inspired the shit out of me as a young girl. I grew up looking up to her as a female character:

Work Is Not Happiness I am in two minds regarding this post. On the one hand - I recognise humans naturally value something more when they invest in something. When we move toward things we value highly, this can bring pleasure. And happiness - somewhat. But somewhere along the line, my investment in 'tasks' - be they work or not - seemed to have dissolved. I lost my aversion to life tasks. I lost my desire. I experience preference for certain things - yes, absolutely. I feel more keenly and genuinely. I can identify my emotions, thoughts and feelings with crystal clear vision. I do not resist the moment - that is to say - there is no where I would rather be at any point in time and space. Eating a hot meal after a winter bike-ride. Having a hot shower. Even picking up dogshit. Cleaning my toilet. Getting sick and stuck in bed. Injuring myself. My preference is not to experience these last few phenomenologie/s. But I don't resist. I am content with whatever comes my way - good or bad. I accept. So I am happy at work, even right now (procrastinating on the forums a bit ). But it is not work that is causing the happiness, or contentment. It just is. I bring it (happiness) to the work, instead of the work bringing it to me. Maybe this is what you point to? I don't feel it is quite clear to me - yet.

I get extreme aversion toward him. I dislike his mass surveillance shit via Palantir Enterprises. He heavily advocates for monopolies and favours a sort of 'technocratic elite' and I feel like his stupid theological antichrist lectures are hypocritical attempts to disavow his own vast power. Also his political shit is sketch as fuck financially backing various far right candidates to try to remake liberal democracy. His whole libertarian worldview is sociopathic and dogmatic. Gross 🤢 🤮

What if one is an experiencer?

@Inliytened1 I feel you. We talking barely eating, leaving my bed. Shell of a human. Like someone surgically removed my soul. Life spun by on black and white. Every second was an eternity. Sleep was my only respite. My first massive episode of depression was triggered when I was truly broken hearted for the first time. It lasted 18months. I lost my job. The most horrifying part was the cognitive decline during that period. I was unable to focus at all. Scattered. I had to even take a leave of absence from uni in 3rd year because my grades took a nosedive.

This is precisely why I'll always risk it for the biscuit I don't hesitate to go all in. Go with the flow. See where loves takes me. As deep as it will. I know that any heartbreak or pain I might go through - I trust I am able to heal from it.

Bloody hell this therapy speak, armchair diagnosis culture needs to die.

I read 'The Subtle Art of not Giving a Fuck' a while back. I felt the emphasis on internal and external values in how we define ourselves ( self esteem ) to be a very relevant. It is a trap I see many fall into continually. I think it has stood the test of time because it was reasonably colloquial in rhetoric and the overall theme is still one humanity is stuck with.

I can see that, perhaps because you have something to prove, I am not being heard. This isn't going anywhere - thanks for your time.

I hear the message you are communicating - but often the expression (rhetoric) is filtered through some sort of (what appears to me, at least) frustration. You could be projecting out a "golden shadow" onto others - You see how you have thrived and grown in resilience, you have overcome obstacles and grown. You project your own capabilities onto others. Bear in mind, this explanation is just a possibility. When others fall short or resist, there can be a lot of frustration because you foresee the beneficial outcome. "Why can't they see what I see?" Other people have hard limits. Some people just do not have the resilience that we do. They do not see resources to be leveraged where we do. They are not as capable. They have intellectual limitations and sometimes undisclosed pathologies. They are at different life stages. And very importantly - we never truly know their total circumstances - their context. I often ask myself "why am I qualified to give this person advice?". "What am I getting out of this, by giving advice unsolicited, or attempting to know what is best for this person?" - there is a lot of arrogance here. A lot of hubris. I have personally been through this. And hey - it may not be the case with you. But once I begun to try to explore more, and dropped my own narrative of wanting to prove something, I got through to people effortlessly. We cannot truly listen to someone else when we have something to prove. Overcoming this tendency in myself helped more in business than any other domain, funnily enough. I am still learning. I still get triggered into stern, absolute statements (this can be very antithetical to transmitting messages). Overall it might be helpful to ask yourself, prior to responding "what if...?" regarding the persons claim or premise. It can help you account for what they may be facing, coupled with us eventually steering the other to where we think they may benefit. More often than not it also means our rhetoric is much more compassionate and expresses tolerance when we speak our truth. Overall I exercise caution with advice.