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I've found this tribal warfare video from West Papua from the sixties. It's interesting to see how people fought in sthe stone age basically and how serious it is. It is so serious that only few get wounded.

For those people outside the us who cannot watch the video of the salt traders of borana on the blog. This is also an interesting one. This reminds me of when I was a child in the 90ies my mother married a man from the slums in Ghana and we went there for a visit and wedding celebration. We also had an audiance with the king from his clan and we got his approval after giving him some gifts. We were living one week in a hotel in a richer neighborhood with walled houses around and security and another in the slums with his family corrugated iron huts without a toilet and electricity.

I would recommend this one: https://waage-shop.com/50g-0001g-FC50-Calibration-weights I has two weights to calibrate it and you can adjust it to be completely even levelled. But before you use it please first read the psychonaut wikipedia article on dosage measurement to not risk your live.

@xeontorIf I may ask, do you have a schientific background in one of the hard sciences?

99.9% of people wouldn't think that through and so far ahead, especially in such a young age. That's one of the reasons he reacted that way. Back to the Freaks of Nature thread with you 😋

If it's the big city in the Main area than there is a lot of good opportunity to do pick up and also in the major cities with universities around it. Berlin is has also great opportunities.

@Leo Gura I think one of the differences between Portugual and Portland is that Portugual is a very small country with a its own language and therefore it is not as easy for the homeless across europe to come there as it is in the US. Those people could also get deported back to their countries of origine if they break the law. There is also a cultural problem. The people in the US are often more like "everybody is on his own" and as scholar has said there are no structures in place to deal with the sickness and trauma of the drug addicts as in most European countries. For people from Europe that is obvious. In Portugual if addicts get caught they lose their drugs and have to visit a rehab strict program and get supported by a wide net. This net is also very well interwoven across society. Take for example health insurance, which covers basic services. The people can go to a doctor or rehab clinic or call an ambulance and it is paid by their insurance which prevents in many cases that people fall that low. Also in most European countries the people expact that the goverment protects and help those people, even though over the last years we got so much libertarian shit (a lot from the US) via social media. On the other hand I have to say that the bigger the country the harder it is to scale it up and accumulate the resources. We should also consider that those rehab programs do not always work, and most often not, if one is already really really deep down the heroin hole. Like Portland in countries are also cities which serve as hubs where it is easier to access certain drug leading to people to flock to. The city where I live in has huge air port and is known for as one of the biggest transshipment points for cocain (crack) in europe making it relative cheaper so that addicts across a big chunk of the country come to and live on the streets, overwhelming the system. But here are also other factors at play like the city has one of the biggest legal red light districts in europe which attracts scatchy and broken people and unlawful behaviour. What's remarkable is that we have two sites here where consuming is tolerated and drug addicts can get clean syringes and needles and have the possibility to consume their drugs there safely and spent some time leading to a reduction of the risk of overdoses and death reducing the number of drug deaths from 150 to 35. In my opinion we shouldn't legalize hard drugs and lsd because people are too foolish to handle them properly. I think we here and some of my friends live in a bubble of relative responsibility and maturity (sometimes not even that) but most people aren't like that and subtracting from their health by using them improperly. I also know plenty people using weed avoiding adressing their problems so that they slowly fester.

@Leo Gura I've come so far to think that it depends on how you want to construct it. For example you could decide that you make it dependent on features like having breasts, a soft face, female curves or lots of facial hair, broad shoulders and big of muscles. One also could asign a totally new category or just decide that you're either male or female. It'd be hard to refer to your dna for a decision because our normal categories are not nuanced enough. I've noticed that by thinking about it these constructs easily break apart and the boundaries in between start to blurr. However we could say that there are certain traits that make you musculine or feminine which help to create the concept of male and female. You could also make up your own label, although the relativity of it makes it harder to have people agreeing on it, especially because of each world view and survival agenda. If this wasn't the point, could you give a hint at what lies deeper?

@Leo GuraI have a question about your blog post about buddhism. The last few buddhist posts of acomplished meditators who don't realize that they imagine their experiences and attainments are theravada buddhists who have a underlying materialistic assumption and are just interested in the ending of suffering. I was deeply into theravada buddhism and like how grounded the people are but I noticed that they are constructing a materalistic lens through description of dependent origination and their analytical process in general and often don't know that they are doing so and they are often unable to change the lens to see things through another school pov. What I also noticed is that thinking is highly discouraged as distraction and because there is a chain where one should believe what more accomplished persons have to say. Another thing is the disagreement what and who enlightened, especially in other forms of spirituality. But what about tibetan mahayana buddhism? My knowledge of their sect isn't too deep however they talk about the Self and have a closer relationship to the indian culture. I also know that they have a more idialistic hybrid stance. How would you evalue them?

There is another great video from this channel. https://youtu.be/ig_qpNfXHIU?si=vpI4YRGBfD5ZwwW- @Nilsithank you for the channels recommendation. It's really on point🙏

It is strange but I had the symptoms how you describe it and for me it was a beautiful experience of coming into contact to the present moment. Maybe it helps to see that you are constructing the negative perspective and interpretation. Maybe you can resolve this issue. However, if that is too scary and you're too unstable ignore this post. When I became conscious of these facts stated by you I felt like the mind and God is the ultimate trickster trying to fool me into different perspectives and interpretations and so I developed a playful attitude. I wish you to get well soon and the very best! 😊

There are limits of how much radiation a crew of a space ship is allowed to be exposed to in outer space in the span of their careers. One flight to mars and back would expose a crew of so much radiation that they couldn't do another trip to gain more experience let alone stay there a long time without major brake throughs in radiation shielding. There is also the problem of no gravity during the long trips and the low gravity on mars. There are solutions theoretically but actually ingeneering them would be a huge waste of resources and time as is the whole idea to begin with.

@Leo Gura I think people here lack knowledge of the history of christianity and don't consider how it misleads the bulk of people and some of them really don't seem to think or are too biased to think clearly. I don't think there is an easy fix for that but growth for those who want to. I t's obvious that everybody is pissed off as soon as ones favorite fantasies or world view are threatened and one has to be thouroughly. I appreciate you engaging with people and trying to help them even though it's similiar structural problems. Know that there are onlookers not necessarily engaged in the thread learning deeply from those conversations and understand a lot of what what you mean and how all these aspects of the teaching play into each other. I'm still a beginner but slowly t bears some fruits.

@Hojo I've found this wikipedia article about the book "Too Much and Never Enough" which explains a lot of Donald Trump's behavior and the sick family dynamics he grew up in. Since some people here still seem to be uninformed I share this resource. https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Too_Much_and_Never_Enough

Thank you for your clarification.