El Zapato

well, self = thought = speech...Not everyone 'lives' life through the lens of their own needs = selfishness

you've answered your own question...don't feel bad...sex is ok, but many times not worth the hassle (especially with a wife that you don't like but have a child with)...

Here's the thing: psychopaths have a natural deficit in most areas that make humans normal, including the fear response, it does make sense.

I saw this presentation on youtube yesterday and I don't want to fill up space with youtube postings, but sometimes things are so clearly lined out that they become must watches:

yup.

wow, that's great.

Not kindly...courtesy of those who wish this was 1824.

In my opinion, the postmodernism debate is a method that some 'thinkers' use to bash progressiveness. I see it as stupid, shortsighted, and merely a reason to complain about the state of humanity while deflecting self-responsibility, not the converse that is ostensibly the raison d'etre. If society frets about 'oh, my god' how evil that relativism is, then a little relative study is in order. At least we don't throw Christians to the lions in these postmodern days.

Well we have all been stoned. At least I presume, I guess some have always been straight arrows. No pot, no booze, no women, ... no nuttin'

God is so white, he be transparent...

Well parsed, but I hope you're wrong. I prefer PM emerge as something else...like 'PE'

yeah, I agree wholeheartedly...

My daughter started college with a scholarship offer from Savannah College of Art & Design, she wanted to wait for her first two years were over before she took advantage of the scholarship. She became somewhat disheartened about the way things were moving for her so she switched to a junior college that offered certifications in emergency health services. In about two years now she is full-blown Paramedic Captain and still has time to devote earning an undergraduate degree in health sciences at the University of Texas. And the money she makes is very good. Equivalent to an IT degree. As I encouraged her a few years ago. Don't be afraid to make a change!

Managing is a higher-level position though. Are you going through the normal channels? Such as common and not so common online jobsites

Perhaps, But I agree, indigenous art should be by default valuable. Art is taste, though.

I see it as a matter of interpretation. Other persons morality perhaps, personal morality never. Let us call it, a contradiction in terms. Unless psychopathic, then morality is not evil merely irrelevant.

hmm, normies don't have such issues. Only those with an intrinsic nature are conducive to experience of that kind. By definition 'normies' are not in that group. Some are gifted in the process but I'm not sure one can skip steps unless truly beyond the beyond. Someone on the forum cited Ken Wilber, he seems to have fallen prey to his ego as so many do. Despite that, he is among the more insightful philosophers I have read in the last few years.

you blasphemer, he is clearly asexual...

Age...I just had a random thought...New Age. Nyuk! Nyuk! Nyuk!

So true, it was strangely moving. As Jung would have said, Experience with the shadow self, is in fact the only way to enlightenment.

Postmodernism is just another societal transition. If one gets fixated on it they lose perspective. It is a product of too many spiritually clueless people on social media. People that are beneath the level of attention that they get. Jordan Peterson is the worst advocate of all things meaninful.

I do, but you make a good point. Our relationships most assuredly represent reflections of ourselves. It took me 50 years to finally understand my brother and vice-versa.

The system went down while typing a thoughtful reply, so, to reiterate it has been viewed as a choice to be physical to enhance spiritual consciousness. The bible metaphorically suggests in the eyes of God all sins are equal. It makes sense from the perspective our physical lives are only reasonable facsimiles of reality. Nothing more than a restricted playing field.

I think Jesus was quoted as saying that all sins were equal in God's eyes. It makes sense if one considers our experiences as only facsimiles of reality. Lessons to be learned for progression to a higher consciousness.