Joel3102

Gender is a construction, but it’s a pretty useful construction because most people are attached to a gender role. Because it’s a construction, we can shift the definition of a “woman” to include trans women, because it serves a useful purpose. Saying because gender is a construction therefore anything goes in sports is silly

Exactly, confusing relative and absolute. At the ultimate level life and death is a construct, but I’d still prefer to not blow my brains out and than do so.

Just cause something is a construction, doesn’t mean it can’t have use. The construction of gender has shown it’s limits in trans people, and broadening that construction is a good thing. But it doesn’t mean that there’s no use whatsoever for any social constructions

Yeah of course they’re constructions, but some constructions serve a pragmatic purpose. Should we just ignore the construction completely in sports and just kill sport for biological females entirely? Pretty sure you’ve agreed with the Rogan position on trans women in sports in the past.

Yeah but that’s not how we’ve decided to seperate groups for sports. Everyone knows that it’s not really fair, of course genetics is the most important factor for being elite. But we’ve decided to seperate for sex for good reason, to allow a seperate class for biological females to be competitive. If we want to start creating different classes for height etc, that’s a seperate conversation.

Nothing he said was as close to as bad as what Vaush said at 1:11 here. He may have gone overboard specifically on the hyper online trans community that live on Twitter all day, but in general he’s pro trans and has debated many conservatives on it

We don’t know why he was banned, twitch literally don’t give a reason. When did he say that? I’m pretty sure he didn’t say that

Drinking is definitely fun as fuck, it’s extremely hard to have as good a time sober. Some people don’t really acknowledge this. The trouble is you feel awful the whole next day

I’m pretty sure “brain damage” from heavy metals is reversible. Andy Cutler himself says that essentially once you remove the toxins, the brain will regenerate itself naturally

I just finished it and was wondering if someone here had posted about it. A PERFECT example of corporate devilry. I think @Leo Gura would appreciate it.

Why are people still removing Russian agency from this situation and act is if this is the fault of NATO expansion. Given his pre invasion speech, it’s pretty damn obvious he was going to invade eventually no matter what, he didn’t want Ukraine in NATO because that would make it untenable to invade. Even Kyle Kulisnki reckons only 10% chance they wouldn’t have invaded if NATO didn’t expand.

Yeah it never *actually* occurs but when I imagine my death, there will be another imaginary appearance of some kind afterwards

Just calling him a psychopath is lazy, but I also think this obsession with relativism and refusing to call a spade a spade regarding what the other side is doing can be silly. It seems as if Putin specifically is a problematic leader who is more hardline than previous leaders. Literally everyone downplaying Russia prior to the invasion was saying it wouldn't happen, which should tell you something.

It’s not just about NATO expansion though, that’s the thing. His speech before the invasion clearly showed that he doesn’t respect Ukraine as a sovereign country, and basically thinks it shouldn’t exist. That isn’t a NATO grievance. I think if NATO didn’t expand he would have invaded Ukraine even earlier. All you Putin defenders were saying he wouldn’t invade two weeks ago.

This is a great example of healthy blue. President getting amongst the trenches, declining offers for evacuation and defending his country.

I don’t think I buy the idea that NATO expansion provoked this. He clearly doesn’t believe Ukraine is a real country as per his speech. If NATO hadn’t expanded he probably would have invaded earlier. Threatening to invade if you join a pact that is used specifically in case of an invasion, kinda proves its point

If it's gonna be how it's all America and NATO's fault, I can go to RT for that

What’s wrong with no self teachings? It’s traditionally the most important aspect of enlightenment. Obviously when they teach no self, they mean no human, personal “self”, not no ultimate Self. You can’t get to realising you’re God without realising your identification with your personal self is bullshit. It’s extremely liberating to live free from identifying with the small s self

You need DMSA for lead. It does remove it from the brain, but indirectly I believe. It can’t cross the blood brain barrier, and ALA can’t chelate lead which does cross the BBB. However lead moves more freeely than mercury between the body and brain, so if you remove lead from the body it won’t “refill” the brain.

Every single time the insights are 100% infallible, no argument to it, final....until they get superseded and contradicted down the track.

@Leo Guraone question I have is when you say you’re now awake, does that mean at all times you now have access to the knowledge that you’re god? Like is it obvious all the time in your direct experience, or are you intellectually relying upon your memory of many peak experiences?

I’ve tried to watching gay porn open mindedly just to triple check out of curiousity that I’m not repressing any gay feelings, and I still find it gross no matter what I think that’s perfectly straight. We watch guys in porn all the time in the context of another girl

It’s kind of silly to PM on someone else’s forum without the assumption someone else is reading it. Move offline if you want a highly sensitive convo

There’s something about having a real girl to grab onto that’s so much better. However I can see how porn is better than sex if you’re in a relationship for a line time because you’ve become numb to that person. But not for a new person you’re attracted to

You’re the one that thinks porn is better than real sex ? I’ve never heard someone say that