Sincerity

November 15th, 2025 TL;DR: Brief insights about how believability and rationality work. An energy is only acted upon if it's bought into, and the most believed energy will always be the most convincing and rational sounding.

Team Fortress 2 cont. I remember the good ol' days of TF2. Before the update that ruined this game 8 years ago. And before Valve's complete negligence regarding the bot problem for many years. I love TF2. I don't play it anymore, but I still appreciate it deeply. In summary: * * * * * * * * * Some of the TF2 videos I watched then:

Team Fortress 2 My favourite video game of all time. Simple as that.

Here are some of my thoughts on rationality. I started thinking about it because I was contemplating what beliefs and believability in general are, especially in the context of understanding one's energetic reality. Some definitions of rationality from the internet to get a sense: Rationality and reason are based on believability in particular energies and views. 1. Insights on energy When a person acts, the energy that motivated the enacted behaviour was an energy that was "bought into" - in other words, believed. This is always the case. An energy CANNOT be acted upon if it isn't believed. YOU cannot act on an energy if you don't believe it (on an energetic level). Belief is an incredibly deep thing. Basically, what you energetically believe is what you are. If you buy into/believe fear, for example, fear is the energy that is often expressed and propelled in your reality, and you are "a fearful person". This is the case for any and all energies - fear, resistance, guilt, shame, insecurity, love, excitement, desire for authentic expression, desire for truth, desire for unity with God, etc. And the energy that is most believed will seem the most rational. The energy/motivation that is most believed is one's most compelling reason for particular action. But rationality and mind chatter and argumentation are second-order in comparison to immediate internal believability in a particular energy. The "internal argumentation" and the "process of making a choice" is energetically the process of the arising of the energy that is already most believed. The thoughts/arguments are the "voices" of energies, but the arguments themselves are not what is convincing - rather, what one is already convinced by and seeing as rational are the energies behind the thoughts. 2. Insights on knowledge and intellectual beliefs A view feels reasonable if it adheres to the already existing knowledge base. If it doesn't, it is usually rejected and considered "irrational". Paths of thought and arguments are considered rational only if they belong to the prevailing paradigm. Therefore, rationality can be seen as a "force" of keeping the existing understanding as it is. It's mind choosing/rationalizing what it already knows, and rejecting the unknown. And the dominant paradigm is one that is "bought into" - so again, all rationality is based in belief (of what one already "knows").

* * * * * * * * * * I've felt tired often in the last days. For like a week, or week and a half. It's been difficult to do things. To do house chores. To sit and work. To get off my ass. To be patient with people close to me. I went to the office today. That was quite fun. I find myself annoyed by my gf and parents. I need time alone. Or something, I don't know.

I changed the title to: A Case for Superfascism (Metaphysical Traditionalism). It's still pushing it, but I think it's a middle ground. I hope I'm not being too fascist.

I understood that. But the title is still provocative clickbait, in your own words. So please change it. You even inserted a swastika, for God's sake. Again, don't give this forum a bad name.

See the icon in the upper right. You can open a temporary chat which won't be saved in memory. I often use it for irrelevant stuff which I don't want chatGPT to remember. Lately I pretty much use it always.

Be honest. You wanted to elicit emotional reactions with that title. Do you need to resort to spicy clickbait to get attention on your writing and you? Your current title gives this forum a bad name. Please change it. Here are some ideas for titles generated by chatGPT, which still reflect the content quite well I think. Revisiting Premodern Political Philosophy in a Modern Age Beyond Left and Right: A Case for Metaphysical Traditionalism Why Modern Politics Misses the Transcendent From Modernity to Tradition: A Philosophical Reorientation Understanding Julius Evola’s Traditionalist Political Vision A Defense of Premodern Political Metaphysics Recovering the Sacred Foundations of Political Order Why Modern Ideologies Are Incomplete: A Traditionalist Perspective What Traditionalism Offers That Modernity Cannot A Philosophical Argument for Premodern Hierarchy Why Contemporary Politics Lacks Depth: A Traditionalist Critique Restoring Cosmic Order in Political Thought The Misunderstood Vision Behind Evola’s Political Thought Hey @Carl-Richard, I just realized you can't paste chatGPT links when you use the temporary chat. This fucking sucks.

Poor OP got his thread derailed by AI discussion. Dodo said he'll keep it human, so let's go a bit easy on him. We're all navigating this new world-with-now-AI-in-it together. That's a good insight to have, especially when internalized. When the "consequences" of this realization hit for you regarding your personal biases and specific things/people you hate (eg. certain world leaders), it's profound.

@Dodo Thanks for being open here. It's great of you. 🙏

@Dodo You make some good points. We'll definitely be more strict with that, especially if we see users are overusing AI to churn out responses. I myself often check some threads with AI detectors. Some posts look like they're AI, but they actually aren't. If someone starts making fully AI-generated threads, we are certainly turning our attention to that and giving them a notice. I'm not sure how others feel about this, but I don't read AI responses at all and I don't find them valuable. Of course, in theory the output "stands for itself". But you know, these outputs still reek of AI. I find them shallow, even when there is some "depth" in the content. It's noticeable. We just don't want the forum to become AI responses having conversations with each other. What's the use of that? This is a "human-only" forum. 😇 Or whatever you find yourself to be (or not be), hehe.

@Dodo Dude, speak for yourself and not with AI. If you have an honest opinion, share it. Don't be lazy. AI is not doing thinking for you. We don't want this forum to be AI's talking with one another. So please stop. You're overusing it in your responses.

My forum profile pics Ahh, what's better than an image which I find myself in? It's greatly important to me to surround myself with resonating things of all sorts that are pleasant to my eye. I'm just that type of person. Having beauty around me lights me up, and I seek resonating beauty like a moth seeks the light. This was a profile pic I had for a while on my previous account. I love a blue sky, and I love tulips. Having a tulip on my desk makes me happy. This one I've had on this account for the longest time. I feel there's such a simplicity in it. I still smile and feel warm looking at it. I'm not sure when I had this one. Anyway, in that period I could feel like a ghost sometimes. Also, blue is my 100% favourite color. I surround myself with blue often, I wear it, my heart melts when I look at a clear blue sky. I know it's the "color of my soul". Pure authenticity for me. I love this one, such beautiful color. It was a painting called "Tears of Joy and Sadness". I enjoy a great mix of colors, and I resonated with that title. And that's my current one. I like melting pictures, it reminds me of the dreamlike quality of reality. Thinking about it, I feel peace and warmness inside. 😌

I had a session with a psychologist today. It went well. FIrst one in 2 years. As part of my private medical coverage, I have 3 free sessions with a psychologist each year. I remembered it this week and decided to use up the sessions - not like there isn't stuff to talk about. I found a guy that really resonated with me and I really appreciated his perspective today. I'm deeply grateful. I asked him for help on relationship issues. But then we went further into some deeper and more unconscious issues of mine, which I brought up myself of course. I'm really happy to continue working on these issues with the guy soon - we have another session in 2 weeks. Excited about that. Also, I went to the cinema today and watched Loveable (2024). It was really great. I cried plenty - that was the goal, actually. I needed that. I'm probably gonna take my gf to see this movie tomorrow again. She’s eager for that, and I know it'll resonate with her too. We had a really big fight yesterday, now "resolved". Quite hurtful. Both of us have our conditionings which are difficult to overcome. But in the end we'll pull through, I hope. Though if eventually not, that will be alright as well. It's been almost 2 years. This relationship has changed me a lot. It's good to have a partner that is also serious about working through her own issues. I appreciate the relationship deeply.