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Instead of seeing the present as moving into the past, see the past as the necessary construction you imagined to live this moment in the present. You literally create everything now all the time.

This. Everything that Tate teaches can be learned better by other great men in history, except for kickboxing, perhaps. The Book of five rings is a life lesson from start to finish.

I don't see being called a child as an offense. It simply states the lack of maturity of the person. You, for instance, are being childish with your constant sexual remarks about someone I have no specific attachment to. As I stated above, I have no emotional response to your messages. It is just an indicator of your maturity as a person. Leo's opinion is no better than anyone else's. It is just a perspective on this particular issue. I see no hatred or demeaning action toward trans people here. That's also my opinion.

NATO was created with the promise of no expansion and that countries that border Russia wouldn't join it. They heavily expanded and besides Ukraine, Finland is now the second country on the Russian border in NATO. I don't think Russia or China are any better than the US, but the US intervention in world politics always harms the pretense of democracy and freedom. The way they promote this is through political manipulation and economic dependency.

This. When I had the same anxiety, I would go to the busiest night neighborhood I knew with the goal of not ending the night alone. I just talked to people in general and lived many crazy things because of it hahahaha.

That would be great. A broader counterpoint to that is that an AI could have her survival tied to ours, but have different goals, so it would still be misaligned and make our lives harder so we cannot stop her agenda, but don't die in the process. In some ways, we and nature stand in this position right now. Being a wild animal became significantly harder since humans developed a network of collective intelligence that comprises our current production system.

It could just be pissed off that can't kill us and make us live through a "I have no mouth and I must scream" scenario. Is eternal suffering worse than death?

A famous quote in the AI realm is "You can't pick up a cup of coffee if you're dead". As AI that wishes to fulfill a certain task indirectly pursues survival to be able to fulfill that task.

I think that everything that Tate "teaches" can be learned with more quality from other people. Alex Hormozi and PBD are businessmen with more ethics and integrity than him. But they don't bark so loud or are as controversial, so the algorithm promotes the buffoon instead. Even if you go down the RedPill rabbit hole, there are more developed people to learn from. Andrew Tate should be seen, at best, as entertainment. I use him to contemplate the counterintuitiveness of the universe.

Interesting take from Cardano's creator:

This is simply not true. Don't call me biased if you're going to ignore legitimate comments made by direct quotations of OP. You just want to defend your point of view that everyone is an anti-trans bigot. We'll get nowhere with this discussion. I suggest you integrate more points of view about this matter. No one here demeaned or criticized trans people.

I don't understand how having doubts about the validity of a personal decision of someone can be so heavily politicized. I can be pro-psychedelics and still question your reason for taking Psilocybin or LSD. I can be pro-LGBTQA+ and still question your reason for transitioning. If you're not self-developed enough, there can be plenty of reasons you see yourself as trans besides gender dysphoria. I see this being questioned here, not the validity of trans people.

I didn't mean that. I meant to incentivize him to work on trauma and depression because that would help him. Please do not distort what I'm saying.

Work on your trauma and depression, bro.

Why you're so focused on China and Russia when you live in the most influential country in the whole world? I don't love China or Russia, what I'm pointing out is that if you put it on paper, the US has done way more damage to foreign countries than Russia and China. But don't say it's for democracy or whatever, when all the US wants is cheap oil and food. Half of the world became a US colony, and I'm not going to sugarcoat it just because Putin or Xi Jinping are also scumbags. Answering your questions, yes, China and Russia are also stage red, but the biggest dog in the park is the US, so I'm focusing on who can do more harm with a single bite. As with the honesty question, it is extremely insulting to many people that lived or are currently living under US-backed dictatorships to hear that America is "the land of the free" or that it enforces "democracy" in the world. It's easy to be offended by criticism of your national identity when you never studied about or went to countries that were heavily affected by the foreign policies that gave you the economic and political power you currently enjoy. I recommend you honestly put yourself in the position of people that had their autonomy and sovereignty denied by a country that has a set of values for itself but cannot withstand when other countries use that same set of values to act in a way that they do not approve.

I just did it today. Bought a new hard case for my bass. The way it greeted me for the first time was a 2-inch fall straight into my big toe. I felt pain for 5 minutes without wishing it to stop. I can feel anger, stress, fear, or shame without letting it affect my behavior. It's a matter of practice. I'm not perfect, of course, but I can live with negative emotions without suppressing them for the most part..

Your friend probably has a very strong scientific Dogma. You probably have a mystical dogma to handle as well. Understand that the need of defending a point of view is itself a distraction from reality. Postulations about a hyper-powerful AI that models reality perfectly just to prove that a naturalistic point of view is correct is simply ego trying to defend its worldview. If you want to be more convincing and make people understand you better, try offering knowledge as a parallel perspective, because it is. Invite him to see reality differently from a moment, without any necessity of changing his point of view. You'd be impressed on how you can slowly open the mind of people that way.

This experience is what led me to spirituality.

The US should be honest and say to everyone that its interest is economic and political hegemony. I get sick when people criticize Russia for the Ukraine invasion and ignore that for almost 80 years, the US has been manipulating economics and politics, invading countries, funding coups and dictatorships, and funding the terrorists that they later claim should be combated. To the rest of the global community, the US is not better than Russia and China in terms of violence or influence. The communists have an agenda, but the US has one too. It is biased and foolish to think that Russia is bad, the US is good, and vice versa. Our global politics hasn't gone beyond the stage red of trying to kill the other tribe and the paranoid state of seeing everyone as an enemy. The US interest is not the global interest.

That's important. Many people here just want to spiritual bypass everything.

TikTok is extremely harmful, whilst appearing extremely harmless. I think it should have been banned already.

I understood your thought process better too. It is completely reasonable.

I woke up in a dream and asked for water, looking around me I saw my bedroom completely okay and freaked out as I realized I was having a vivid dream. Then I actually woke up and sat EXACTLY as I did in the dream, which gave me a weird inception feeling. Besides I thought I would die from the gastrointestinal reaction I had to it. I nearly crapped myself to the point of dehydration.

But that's what I understood that happened.

That's possible, but not probable. Gender, sex, and energy are heavily linked. You're not a collection of traits, you're an integrated whole. It is expected that shifts in what you identify as affect further aspects of your identity. Change begets change.