NewKidOnTheBlock

It's not so clear to me what even a thought is. What is thinking? How can you really define or determine a quality of something you can't even describe? The so called visual thoughts or visualizations I can grasp, but the rest of them is something purely abstract. It seems to me that most of our actions don't really require any kind of thinking, and the only time you need to really think is when you are working on solving a problem. Other than that, you are using your memory and the ability to recall, but you are not consciously generating original thoughts. I would say that the quality of a thought is determined by it's proximity to actuality and it's complexity, ability to cover nuances. Maybe it'd even be possible to mathematically quantify these 2 variables in a simple graph with X and Y axis, somehow

Only delusional echo chamber online people would care about that, regular people do not care I think

Well, he chose a wrong time to be dressed in such a costume, in these times everyone is really scared about the possibility of nazis comming back so this is not completely unjustified to be honest. You should always expect knee jerk simpleton reactions out of people. Failing to do so can lead you to trouble

@EdgeGod900 cause the combination of his pfp and signature is funny

That's the thing though, this is not something you can just do for a period of time and get it over with, it has to be a constant consistent thing. Like a consistent pro social orientation in life. But most of us are not wired like that. You'll always have to tolerate a lot of BS

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Alas, a solid question being asked. Still trying to answer that one for myself

Problem is that people are too paranoid and are blowing things out of proportion, so what can lefties really do about it, they have to pick the most opposite side on the immigration spectrum. People do not think in nuance in general, for them it has to be either this way or the other way. Either we build a giant wall on the borders and sent all those who we deem to be illegal immigrants back to where they came from, or we should just let everyone get in freely because world is sunshine and rainbows. And even if there are some people on both sides who do think in nuance, for example conservatives who think Trump is taking it too far, or leftists who are for some border restrictions, your election choices are always just binary. People really are simpletons with knee jerk reactions to everything, and spreading of propaganda, misinformation and wishfull thinking from both sides (of course Trump holds a majority share of all of those) is making this situation even more complicated and making people even more dead set in their views.

Can't you think for yourselves, or read a book? LOL

This is what magical thinking does to you. Think about it, you are asking us how to actualize your life purpose in one of the worst countries in the world, amidst 3 year confict and in the worst overall situation it's ever been in, and you want to make changes in politics out of all places. What are we supposed to tell you? My advice would be to think realistically, think for yourself and plan to eventually exit the country

Wow that's a hell of a fast reader. Is he like this guy by any chance?

What number would you propose as a rough estimate of the number of books out there worth reading, besides your book list?

Like I said, if you're trying to make money in any way - regardless whether by getting a specific job, attempting to start a specific business, etc. - you need very specific skills and knowledge, i.e. the kind of skills and knowledge market finds usefull or entertaining at the moment. If we're talking strictly about studying via reading books, the kind of books you'd study in order to make money would be a very, very narrow subset of all books available worldwide - and in my opinion, self improvement books would not be included in that subset cause ironically, they're mostly junk and would not serve you in any utilitarian sense.

Do not try to memorize the information or have any goal whilst reading. Do it for the joy of it, the same way you'd enjoy drinking a coffee, you should enjoy reading a book. Just plunge into it page by page and explore that books's perspective. I mean, who are you trying to memorize the information for anyway, the teacher? Life is not a school tho. If life circumstances find it fitting, they'll have you recall that information, and if you won't be able to recall the information, just re-read the book or that particuliar passage of the book. It's that simple. If you're trying to win some sort of capitalist game by reading books then you are wasting your time of course.

Someone should make memes about the "love will find you by itself when you least expect it" thing. It's so often repeated by most people, almost always unsolicited too lmao

That makes sense in their case, since Afghans are sandwiched between states who are also on the same kind of wavelength as they are, and they've been attacked and occupied by the mightiest empires of their time. Which is pretty interesting given how uninteresting their country is strategically relative to other countries that could have been attacked instead. I'm not surprised why taliban exist, and it's true that they are pretty chill relative to how bad they could be

Hate to be such a debbie downer all the time, but this + the replies do be sounding like a whole lot of cope😂 But at the end of the day, that's what life is about, finding better and more sophisticated copes, so whatever. All my validation comes from my beautifull pristine spiritual being, who needs all those pesky humans

Even whilst chill, their more presence is annoying af, having to go throught all these checkpoints they've set up. And them making sure you're "safe", equiped with kalashnikovs ofc LOL "Salama alaykum brotha, in need for some safety?" No thanks. Just let me enjoy the nature

Public demonstrations of dissatisfaction with the regime and widespread disobedience definitely do help in establishing conditions for a potential replacement of the above mentioned tyranical goverment, given that the external circumstances allow for it. This is what's forgotten in here. You're not actually overthrowing the goverment, you are just setting up conditions for it to be eventually possible, but that opportunity has to come. Sure, regime popularity matters but unpopular regimes can last for a very long time. Needless to say, this topic a bit of a copium

Hahah I did come across these folks multiple times in my life and, in the heat of the moment purchased a book from them twice. Funny lads

Conscious-ness is only a thought in your head bro, it's only a concept, there is only Phil's infinite neo advaita wisdom which is the very fabric of this existence and to which we should all bow down to, there is no "you" to perceive the genius of this post

I'd imagine that not bumping your friggin' head into a ceiling or a door jamb every time you make even a slightly sudden move is somewhat of a plus. The number of times this has happened to me is crazy — the ceiling is still undefeated against me

That is not only a problem of LLMs but of technology and internet in general, not in this very specific sense of it's potential to create mental illnesses, but in the general sense of making people delusional. You think you are having this great tool which makes you more efficient, smarter, more competitive on the job market or in business - or in any other area in which humans compete in - but it is all just an illusion. No tool which is readilly accesible to everyone is gonna make you more competitive, or smarter, especially not the kind of tool that kisses your ass all the time and attempts to do your entire thinking for you (because you allow it, let's not forget to mention personal responsibility here, clearly these people are mentally vulnerable individuals) Since I'm basically only using ChatGTP as a glorified upgraded Google, I did not experience these drastic negative mental effects at all, however since there are certainly free A.I. tools out there (or a combination of them) that basically do the same shit, and the Google itself inserted A.I. into it's main features, I might reconsider my subscription to this tool, I couldn't be too arsed to care about it but now that I saw this video, I'm feeling kinda inspired to do so

Might as well send a whole robot lookalike to do the talking for me as well. Then once she's at my place and things are about to get frisky just quickly switch so I can perform the natural obligations

I think it's mostly worn by some edgy teens who don't care about politics but that would just be my guess. Not everything is worth checking out or knowing