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You are from India and you have "toxic wokeness" at the University? Surprised. Must be some elite one. In Poland we have handfuls of boomers and mostly millenials as faculty workers. Woke culture is nowhere to be found, I would welcome it with open arms.

The Millionaire Fastlane is the top 1 book on business. Just cut-out the social commentary part on why blacks are poor, it's terrible, and focus on the business advice. It's really sad that the author has decided to mix his weak politcal understanding of socio-economical issues with gold, down-to-earth entrepreneurship guidance. I mean, his concept somewhat corelates to Spiral Dynamics stages: Red (Sidewalk), Blue (Slowlane) and Orange (Fastlane), but obviously mixes everything that is neither Orange or Blue as Red, so everything conscious is Sidewalk.

It's a true statistic, but you can't say much more than this. It does increase the odds of a divorce, probably because people who are sexually open enough to have sex before formal relationship are also more ready to take a divorce when a relationship burns out. People who aren't that open will stay in marriage, but that isn't something positive, that doesn't guarantee they are happy, they might be deeply unhappy and just reluctant to divorce each other.

Some libertarians. There obviously are libertarians holding views like "The less state control, the better", because we have seen them on this forum. But that's not all of the liberatarians. Some are libertarians becuase they see that actions have unforseen consequences and err on the side of less regulation and control, because such regulation might cause harm. There are liberatarians with even more sophisticated takes. So I think we should abstain from using this label in such cheeky way on this forum if we want to improve the discourse in this politics sub-forum.

My point is it is a red flag either way. Not be messaging random girls on social media. What value did you put in first for him to be interested in you? Suspicious. Obviously I might be wrong I don't know the guy, but I know guys who do that stuff and what they have done, lying to girls that they are special just to sleep with them, or even thinking they are in love with a girl and leaving her week after engaging because they have found someone better. I might be biased, ask some girls if they have been or know someone who has been in such situation and how it has turned out.

Guys who do stuff like this, messaging random girls and pushing for meetings are not the kind of guys to think about being in a relationship. Like ever. Even if they really handsome and really want it and push for it. No. I have attractive friends like that, I wouldn't want to be any of their past girlfriends or fiances. Red flag.

Yea, Ketamine therapy for depression is way more popular than any psychedelic therapy. One might be surprised to check it out and see it legal and available in one's country. It's pricey though.

@Shawn Philips Are you paraphrasing the plot of the movie Demolition Man?

On top of that who cares about some random guy when there are tens or hundreds dying daily, it's a war zone. And saying all that stuff without evidence. People holding positions that Bucha is fake, but some random bloke missing for a few days is as an assasination by NATO? Where is the logic, where is the sense in all of that? People really need an upgrade in their sensemaking. One of the solutions would be to think, to sit, to steelman arguments you don't agree with and then start to look for holes. Then look at the stuff you agree with and see what holes are there. But that won't work for most people because their thinking is not sophisticated enough to see the validity of other arguments, so not only thinking is needed but also constant upgrading of your thinking, ie. doing self-development, learning skills, reading books, doing something creative. All of these can help to develop the mind a little bit.

Yeah, the electronic vape with this very short inhaling tip they ship them with will be the most efficient. If you add a longer glass tip then the vapor condenses on it.

@Preety_India It means that someone rejects you hard. Blowout = rejection. Girl saying "Get lost you ugly moron." would be an example of a hard blowout.

I don't think that anybody has done it yet, but I think it's possible to create such model that is not a tangled mess. Spiral Dynamics is a super-tangled model, dog-shit if treated as an empirical model, but has a few cool insights if treated as a philosophical one, although those have been refined by philosophers like Ken Wilber, so the only valuable thing left in SD is its marketing and branding. One just need to find solid variables. "Ecology thinking" would be for example a shit variable. Utter shit because everyone, hippie, democrat and a nazi will be interested in ecology as shit hits the fan and we are confronted with results of environmental degradation. But I think it is possible to find solid variables through genuine, hard intelectual work. Such models could be then used to aid in moderation of social media. But as I have said, haven't seen anyone achieve that yet. That's first, then someone has to sell that idea to people in power, because we are still playing the game and probably will be for a long time. We have had this discussion many times on this forum many times in regards to "how can it be there are Enlightened rapists and alcoholics?" I don't think it's needed to be talked about again in this thread and to bloat the concept of playing game with another distinction.

If progress is too leftist of a word for you in this sentence then call it "sophistication of their gameplay" or whatever. That's what I was trying to point out, that not only everyone is at another position in the game, but they are also not equal players, some people are more conscious of the game and play it more effectively. Denying that is not seeing a part of reality that indeed is there.

@A_v_E what you are proposing is freedom to hurt yourself and others. There are responsible adult people who don't like seeing needless suffering and stop ideas that they deem going in that direction. You can make sophisticated conservative arguments that are conscious. Although people with capabilities to make such arguments are rare all over the spectrum and on the right-wing they are super-rare and probably not the people you would think about. Be aware that your whole post is you screaming that you don't understand the term "low consciousness" and not a serious critique of that idea. Yes there is a game being played. Saying someone is a troll or a low consciousness person is not denying the game, it's assesing their progress in the game relative to you.

This is like some global backlash that's happening. Simultaneously in many places in the world in a span of a few years.

She did a lot of Transcendental Meditation (TM) in a rather hardcore manner like 6 hours a day for prolonged periods of time. Source: "Collision with the infinite", Suzanne Segal is her name.

Maybe, but they are quite good at drawing the line between their personal beliefs and knowledge grounded in data. The scientists that actually tackle problems of consciousness and metaphysics in their work are not that heavily skewed towards materialism as the rest. It's the decade 2020, the scientists are not the same as they were 10 years ago. Academia evolves quickly like the rest of society.

That's not an opinion, that's bad science. The professor is clearly not trying to tell his personal opinion but frames that as scientific knowledge. Scientific discourse has different standards than normal discussion. Saying religion is a psychological delusion is a bold claim not supported by evidence.

@Dryas No, it was serious.

You use condom for men and those squares of rubber I forgot how they are called for women during oral sex to avoid STDs. If you are having oral with randoms without condoms then it's like you are only avoiding pregnancy, diseases spread through oral too. Anal is the worst, the highest risk you will catch HIV or hepatitis.

Real no-self awakening. All the usual "pleasurable" stuff is peanuts compared.

Shanmugam was a user here and he got banned.

Leo's a YouTuber, not a digital artist. It would take him 7 extra years to get the skill to create such thumbnails.

@Hardkill Yeah, of course. I don't even think China would want a stronger Russia necessarily, but they have a lot of business to do with them, so they are not going to condemn the war by putting up sanctions.

Obviously not. They are stock images.