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Vipassana is a very popular technique. https://www.dhamma.org/en-US/locations/directory You need to reserve a spot and after finishing the course you are asked to donate any amount you want. It's fair to pay at least as much as organization of the event has cost, but it's ok if you don't have money.

They won't get integrated. They are asylum seekers, they will get sent back when the war in Syria ends.

You have never been to Sweden, it is clear as daylight. Total bullshit. I will take Sweden's 8 terrorist attacks with 10 people dead over 10 years (!) over the US' mass shootings every day. Sweden is overtaken neither by barbarians nor Islam.

@Nivsch That green future won't happen until you put money into researching it. So the Koch brothers are anything but right because they undermine the efforts. This technology might not be available right now, but you know what? We have put people on the Moon. That technology wasn't there at the time too. I believe we can do it. I believe we can do it during our lifetimes. People are awesome.

@Andrew Rogers Just to be clear, I lol'd at you saying that AOC proposes something ridiculous. I get what are you pointing at and AGREE with you that more power to the people, advanced self-governing and minimal central government would be awesome. But reducing regulation is not how to get there. Otherwise big corporations are gona hijack the power instead of giving it to people. A lot more of evolving is needed before we can shrink the government.

lol Just done that. lol x 2

It's not shocking. It's 100% predictable. RationalWiki is so ideological, it's funny. It always was, I remember when I stumbled upon it when I was like 13 and thought "maan, this website is so wise". Everyone makes mistakes, I guess.

@Andrew Rogers The pattern is an ideology. "The only solution" is a purely ideological stance. In the real world, there is never a single possible solution. Not to say that reducing government seems more like delegating the problem somewhere else than really solving it. Hoping that reducing taxes on all the big oil companies will solve the clean energy problem is at best wishful thinking, at worse deeply deluded. Having control over public infrastructure is a wet dream of corrupted capitalists, this would allow them to grow profits indefinitely (at your cost obviously). As it always was. The current ruling generation dies off, it gets replaced by a newer, a little more conscious one, and so on, and so on. Evolution never sleeps and death is its safety valve. Take notice that almost no-one nowadays thinks that slavery is a good thing (or at least speaks about it), while there have been a lot of pro-slavery people in the past. They didn't change their opinions, they either died or were forced to accept the new reality. As to how to make that process quicker, I have no idea. If I knew I would be happily fulfilling my life purpose doing exactly that.

Million. The government has enormous power to negotiate prices. I don't know how it is in the US, but in my country, the energy grid is public and regulated, so this gives an enormous upper-hand for the rulers. The government can fund it's own research into technology if the one available is not efficient and too pricey. They can forcefully divide the lobbying organization, so they have to compete fairly, etc. I am not a specialist there. It seems like a non-issue currently, too. Compared to the already existing, filthy rich oil and coal lobby, no "green" lobbyist can even start to compete. Many green companies are run by a completely different set of values and wouldn't do it even if they could. Don't assume equality there. Quite the contrary, if you leave the current system in place you can be 100% sure the oil lobby will try to pull the thing you are worried about, increase the price of green energy 2x when the fossil fuels run out. The whole idea of "minimal government is the only solution to the clean energy issue" is pure ideology. "Germany has economical issues after the war. There is only one solution! Eradicate Jews." I am not saying the idea is as bad as what Hitler has done, just pointing out a pattern. What we need is not less government, but a more effective and natural one, less hierarchical, less corrupted, more in the hands of people.

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It's a great forum, but far from being high consciousness. Stage Orange circle-jerk mainly. Zero talks about running a business from a pluralistic or systemic perspective. Meritocracy is their highest conscious principle. Whenever there's a political discussion it gets hijacked by capitalism-loving right-wingers. It gets hard to read sometimes. Philosophically, materialism runs rampant. The threads marked GOLD though are really GOLD. Valuable insights on how to escape rat-race and bootstrap your future as an entrepreneur.

Harri Aalto ones are absolute best, he is someone who have been Enlightened since basicly birth. There are three of those.

I prefer it solo. It's deeper. With others, there's always some functional shred of ego left and you need to worry about their comfort and safety. I have noticed that introverts like it solo and extroverts like it together. Who could have expected that?

I rather have whole faces than single eyes.

@okulele You can always donate MAPS however much you think the book was worth.

Priority number #1

@okulele You should have linked the official pdf instead of a $300 paperback version https://maps.org/images/pdf/books/scr/scr.pdf

Unless... You live in Europe and college is free, you have lower taxes for doing business and health insurance is free during your study, plus you get a chance to get €350 stipend a month if you are in top 10% performers and you can go on an exchange to study in another country and get paid stipend too. Studying avarages to 4-6 hours of study a day and there's still plenty of time to do business or work. I think it's a good deal.

@Enlightenment First, ok from a perspective of typical a pleasure seeker who does it for fun the only difference could less intensity. But will you breakthrough on SSRIs? Much less likely. Second, there are many different antidepressants and people might be saying they are on SSRIs while in reality they are on MAOi or some shit with unknown mechanism of action. And consider the immaturity of the whole situation. Why can't someone wait 2-3 months to taper off from drugs they don't need?

Luxemburg wants to lead recreational legalization in Europe. There is not a single country in Europe yet were weed is legalized, they want to be first. Lately there is some talk about legalizing medicinal marijuana on EU level, too.

Vaping and smoking give a lot of stomach sickness relative to other routes of administration. Your 5-MeO is legit, but you are approaching it all wrong. Get off SSRIs first, then experiment with 5-MeO. Really, it's not worth investing in a vaporizer until you are on antidepressants.

To be clear, I think that practicing over 1 hour consistently is already great. But it's even to nicer to do some periods of 4 hours a day practice when time allows. Or taking a 10 day retreat.

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Sounds very specific to me. You will figure out the details in the process. Do the first steps in the right direction and let it flow.

It's your list, do as you like. You CAN put a value you don't embody high on the list, nothing is stopping you.