Whitney Edwards

I don't think he is. He is a hyper rationalist though.

You can snoop on it when they're not around, but it's not a healthy indicator. It means either you don't trust them fully or that they did something awkward to make you auspicious, both situations being equally bad. If you love someone and they trust you too, then there would no need to be suspicious of them in the first place. I'd prefer a situation where we both sit down and say to each other - hey you can look into my stuff anytime you want and I won't mind. You can see it right now if you think I'm being sneaky and hand over my stuff. Just as a "build openness" exercise. This is not easy for partners as often people have a side to themselves that they don't wanna reveal to their partner, for example a gambling addiction. The only way to cultivate trust is to be completely open, transparent and vulnerable and it's beautiful. Don't be sneaky about it. Leads to bad consequences later.

Free speech is like a gun. Handle responsibly.

This thread is funny.

If you were to die tomorrow, what is the one spiritual practice you would do today? I would do loving kindness meditation.

Thank you

Self compassion

Yam is similar to tapioca, taro or yuca, colocasia, it's called different stuff in different places, it tastes similar to sweet potato yet more starchy. These are underground roots

He lives on the carpet.

And we must heal faster with — love

I feel social media today is what Hollywood was to people back in 1920s.

Do you think social media is acutely responsible for creating gender wars by inspiring ideologies of toxic masculinity and femininity?

Funny how I felt the same way in my dreams a few weeks ago.

I think not having a clear purpose stands out as the most common denominator.

Well these kind of people are only good at one thing — crywolf

When you have strong morals, you can be aware of your pitfalls and traps as well as that of others. When you have weak morals, it's easy to trap others and be trapped yourself. In the end, weak morals lead to a lot of unnecessary drama which benefits nobody. The path of weak morals is just an illusion and a delusion.

I know that feeling. I can even share a pack of beer with you on that. You know for some people, love is just a number. Love for them is like changing clothes, a new shirt everyday, today it's black, tomorrow it's red. They tell you one minute they love you, next minute they don't have time for a relationship. Next day they are on a date with someone else and you wonder what happened to their fake promises, all that shit and all that jazz they always promised you. Such is life. You just have to learn to not give your heart to that kind of folks. They will act like they truly love you. In the end you're just a lonewolf. Sorry for the pun. This song matches the theme.

@integral Merci pour la faveur.

That word reminded me of someone. Thanks.

If you can't transcend survival, you can't transcend death. Logically inconsistent axioms. Appreciate life more than ruminating on death. Most people do it for morbid nihilistic cope.

@integral the best way to know if someone loves you is to see if they're emotionally available. A person who truly loves will be.

When you will have true love, nothing will matter, everything else will be false.

True love lies in deep understanding and maturity. True love is a process, not a word, not a sentence, not a display, not an expectation, not a contract, not a symbol. If two people never truly understood each other, they never really loved each other. When you find someone that truly loves you they don't need to say - I love you. You'll know it just in your heart.

Lol

That's a good explanation yet from a pragmatic standpoint, being compassionate to people and being honest and humble is not as easy as it seems to be. In fact in the past, being compassionate to people resulted into huge financial and personal costs to me. I felt like a fool. There's a heaven and earth difference between wanting to be the best person for the world versus actually going about doing it. The field work when it comes to such things might leave you with a sour taste in the mouth. It can be incredibly draining, frustrating to be this "saint" of a person yet not be completely ripped off and damaged by people who take a mile when you give them an inch.