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@sholomar Yeah, there seems to be an underbelly of heavy suffering in spiritual communities as people who are in those dorsal vagal states may be driven to seek solutions outside the mainstream. (Speaking from experience) Having spiritual insights, moments of ease and connection that comes from merging with a community can then be easily hikacked by egoic/survival drives and lead to all kinds of traps. I think a distinction needs to be made between having a calm and present nervous system and having states of high consciousness. Breathwork, body work, trauma release, diet, psychedellic experiences, meditation, yoga, sauna, icebaths, psychological and philosophical insight can impact both. It would be a mistake to assume that 'well adjusted' people are advanced spiritually, just because they're chill.

@ivankiss Been there done that, donated $600k to charity when I was 21 and walked across Australia. @Spiritual Warrior Yeah, there is a strong bias towards negativity that seems to be ingrained into the himan psyche. If 99 things are going well for you and 1 thing is going poorly its almost natural to focus in on that one negative thing. Reminds me of an old sadhguru talk I listened to many years ago:

I hope you don't mind me commenting, but a part of me yearns for the Epicurean bro life as well as the Thoreau solitude and minimalism. https://youtu.be/Kg_47J6sy3A?si=ZBgfNN3YUBxWZGFr

Hot parked cars

Randomness is probably just a human mental construction that is projected onto an underlying reality that has nothing to do with randomness. Like that random number 1-10 you chose.

I have the sense that people understand that, however in the context of the flagellum even when you consider the universe being 13 billion years old the odds of something so complex spontaneously developing in a lower life form is still astronomically low. 70ish parts, coming together in the perfect sequence, and if even one of them is missing nothing functions? Nah man. People struggle to understand big numbers. One example is 52! ... the number of times a deck of cards needs to be shuffled to obtain every unique sequence is more than the total number of atoms in the known universe. If each shuffle took a few seconds ... well thats a lot more than 13 billion years. And this is just a deck of 52 cards we're talking about, not 70ish AFTER the friggen bacteria has come into being mind you. Its like saying, damn, how did that guy walk to Gargantua? Everest is a cakewalk by comparison. This is how it was explained to me at least. Im just a layman. Throwing that out as a disclaimer.

It's dark satire to spark contemplation y'all. I'm thinking of developing a substance use problem and adopting the materialist paradigm in one fell swoop. Happiness and misery blended to perfection.

Efficient UIM maxing guide https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dJR3Ry44t1QNpVqQ8GOjXsrzAY_I8Nzu3lsW1gtriL4/edit#heading=h.x6nslywu9gpt This game mode is fun, so much strategy and planning are needed for everything.

A rats perspective

Zezima

Hiq love between us is speech and breath. loving you is a long river running

Sorry to read this. I was reminded of this segment of a podcast I listened to a while back, Jocko talks about the patterns he recognized while going through the grief process multiple times after losing friends in the military. Having some awareness of what's happening to you, and what to expect can make the process a little smoother to get through. Timestamped: In the early stages, distractions are probably the best thing for you. Movies are great for that.

Fairy Tale Endings

Interesting take. Tate's charity is a cherry on a pile of dogshit.

@StarStruck People are attracted to survival value, but it's an incomplete truth. Humans are sometimes willing to die for love, for their children, for their fellow human beings, and even for animals. Would you say this is "nice"? "Self-sacrificing"? It's important to be clear about what you're talking about because in this sense "nice" people are the most powerful people on the planet and casually move mountains while spinning the earth on their fingertips. "Niceness" as a trauma response and a defense mechanism is something different though, and this is indeed a turn-off. In the same way that a bully who puts on a facade of strength and power is a turn-off. The latter is more attractive in terms of survival value, and might even be attractive to another person's trauma, but isn't what you want to be aiming for if you want to maximize your impact and power.

Is it just me, or was everyone sick in 8th grade when the teacher explained that science has a 400 year history of being wrong about everything? It never ceases to amaze me how seriously people take this shit.

Words and actions are as loud as each other

Trauma Ireland

"You will never get the crowd to cry Hosanna until you ride into town on an ass" - Nietzsche

#Optimized gpt3.5 summaries to enhance gpt 4 summaries import openai import json import requests import os import glob import math openai.api_key = "your key here" def BasicGeneration(userPrompt): completion = openai.ChatCompletion.create( model="gpt-3.5-turbo", messages=[ {"role": "user", "content": userPrompt}] ) return completion.choices[0].message.content def read_prompt_from_file(filename): with open(filename, 'r') as f: return f.read() def write_chunk_to_file(filename, chunk): with open(filename, 'w') as f: f.write(chunk) def write_response_to_file(filename, response): with open(filename, 'w') as f: f.write(response + '\n') def chunk_text(text, chunk_size): words = text.split() return [' '.join(words[i:i+chunk_size]) for i in range(0, len(words), chunk_size)] def combine_files(files, output_filename): with open(output_filename, 'w') as outfile: for fname in files: with open(fname) as infile: outfile.write(infile.read()) # Find the first text file in the current directory prompt_files = glob.glob('./*.txt') if not prompt_files: print("No text files found in the current directory.") exit() prompt_filename = prompt_files[0] print(f"Reading from {prompt_filename}") # Base name for individual chunk and response files base_filename = os.path.splitext(prompt_filename)[0] # Read the prompt from the text file text = read_prompt_from_file(prompt_filename) # Default chunk size chunk_size = 600 # If the number of chunks will exceed 22, adjust chunk size words = text.split() estimated_chunks = len(words) / chunk_size if estimated_chunks > 22: chunk_size = math.ceil(len(words) / 22) # Edit this string to your liking. This will be prepended to each chunk. additional_string = "Here's a new chunk: " # Split the text into chunks chunks = chunk_text(text, chunk_size) chunk_files = [] response_files = [] for i, chunk in enumerate(chunks): chunk_filename = f"{base_filename}_chunk_{i}.txt" write_chunk_to_file(chunk_filename, additional_string + chunk) chunk_files.append(chunk_filename) for i, chunk_file in enumerate(chunk_files): chunk = read_prompt_from_file(chunk_file) # read the chunk file response_filename = f"{base_filename}_response_{i}.txt" response = BasicGeneration(chunk) write_response_to_file(response_filename, response) response_files.append(response_filename) # Name of the final output text file final_filename = base_filename + "_final_response.txt" # Combine all the individual response files into one combine_files(response_files, final_filename) print("The responses have been written to the final file.")

Not to mention intimacy, emotional connection, or perhaps children to carry on your ideologies and epistemic brilliance. You know, small perks.

Higher than the highest height