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@Yeah Yeah An impassioned and affective speech, thank you for sharing this. I'd like to believe that life was always like this for humans, it's just our optics have grown, standing on the shoulders of giants as they say. So there's no romancing the past, it was brutal. Now might be the best we've ever been able to afford. Because reality in the past would look far closer to that we see in nature, whereby stick and carrot rule utterly. Just a little something to take the edge off

My understanding was that Jesus was a Jew and Christianity literally co-opted Judaism into some type of protestant movement. So, not only was Christianity not recognizing their mirroring/potential bastardization of the faith but they also had to thoroughly reject and genocide the new heretics. I think it's fine to hate on Christians because it generally does not actually imply to kill Christians. It just means keep them out of the government and let them practice in peace without massive political power. But contrarily with Jews the social context denotes this religious exclusion as literally genocidal. And I think there's a good reason for that.. But I don't really know, this is my undereducated opinion

I think it requires quite a few stars to align to be a commercially successful musician pragmatically, and spiritually aligned it would be even more challenging. That being said, that's my own limitations. You might be quite naturally gifted/fitting into a niche, so shoot your shot. But don't get too hung up on success, the music industry right now is almost entirely pre-production. That means dudes having a good time playing a nice ditty in intimate/personal settings (bars, events, clubs etc) are getting cut out I'd say progressively since the 80s lol. Covid certainly didn't help. It's hard for musicians to make money without extreme generational talent or uniqueness. Studying, creating, performing, listening to music I'd say are all inherently spiritual. If you cut out all the noise it's a pathway to energetic and personal expression which is great to be able to draw out. I'm not sure I agree that it's easier for small artists to succeed nowadays, but at least it's never been easier to produce and platform your music, no label signage required. So the cost to entry is pretty low! But to go all in? I've failed in that regard, I work a normal job and play for fun. You really have to want it to go full musician.

While you are asleep your mind drifts apart and you awake to put together the pieces. But it was just a dream? Back in the day, people would interrupt their dreams to spend time contemplating the oracular nature of their minds. They would view these unconscious experiences as true-sight. Under the influence of psychedelics you bridge the gap between dream and wakefulness, as in, the wakefulness becomes as absurd as the dream. But whilst under no influence your perception was by default absurd, not grounded in anything real. We need to anchor to real. Psychedelics allow you to expand the domain of real. But it isn't real, it's more hallucination! The hallucination of your incarnate experience is the only thing you will ever be and it is no less real than that one time at band camp. Perhaps this recursion will allow a smoother mode of transience upon the mind's life.

@Princess Arabia I was providing unsolicited feedback to you and I'll refrain from doing so again, I apologize for being presumptuous and personal. It triggered me to see something I generally in general agreed with be countered so heavily so I was hoping to clarify because that's a huge blindspot on my end. I appreciate the feedback though and I'll change my tone when it comes to reacting to the behavior of forum members in general.

@Princess Arabia He said the brain was designed that way, he didnt say it had to he used that way. I imagine it's difficult to pursue mastery in life partially because of staleness. When you walk around an area for the first time you might be extremely aware. As you path by daily you may be thinking about other things with your eyes to the sky. Have you ever noticed that? Newness implies interest? You keep framing your questions as arguments that are designed to poke holes in someone. Of course there are exceptions but the exceptions you're using are strawman. You could have framed your position better and not claim someone else hasn't used sufficient enough merit/logic to grant their reason. If the reasons you used I agreed with I wouldnt complain but it just feels like if I say yes you say no type of reaction. As for addiction, that's a good question. But we're implying addiction actually gets better or stays the same. The results of addiction get worse over time but they are repeated because of habit. Habit is not something to equivocate with interest or passion or quality. We are "addicted" to setting alarms, eating, sleeping, taking our meds, going to pee or whatever. We can do these things with or without interest but they are recurring because we are habitual by nature, not aware.

We're specifically humans and not robots so of course we'd be obsessed with making ourselves, fake it till you make it. If we knew how we were made we would essentially become robotic - understood and replicable. All of medicine prioritizes human intervention over other forms of life. What's the easy way out of finding a great social partner? An hyper advanced AI one that teaches you with no ego and makes you into a "fake person". It would be like getting a click remote that allows you to manipulate time with no social consequence. People who want this will develop it and those who are fine without it will still use it because it will improve them. You don't think people wouldn't pay the price of a diamond ring for a humanoid? It's the most universally lucrative form of a machine I reckon. If it existed it would be able to create any other machine. It would solve medicine and it would bolster our sociability. communication and skillset. Monkey see, monkey do!

The death penalty can play 2 ways: I can afford to delegate resources to provide asylum for the people from criminals by sequestering them or I cant afford it. If you're talking about providing food for a murderer or your mum you're not going to be privy to keep them around. The truth is proponents of the death sentence are unable to take the spider into the jar and they just crush it. It's just a shame and in cases of wrongful conviction it is a tragedy. But a preventable one, one with a human response that isnt as impulsive. The spider in this case is a lion but the priviledge of life can be afforded if the resources are at hand.

@Shodburrito If you have great awareness then being with others doesn't have to be the only program running on the mind. You can be in a great mind space in the presence of others and be yourself while not being dependent on what happens next. I think he was referring to an antidote to people with fearful minds of needing a constant chatter to be calm. Sometimes people being told that being by yourself opens pathways to great experiences can really help people who feel dependent on others to get any valuable experience.

Is this a sort of "if you know, then you know" type situation? i.e. what the worse could mean will not service you if I told you what it could look like, only cause worry/panic? If you could explain in detail what the worst entails you could help friends and families rally together to make sensible decisions before things become limited.

I'm not sure if being an indiscriminate ill willer would vindicate him of racism or invertedly prescribe him to all of the ism's seeing as it's wanton hatred. I understand his viewpoint but to not call out his number would be to completely rationalize someone who is deeply unguided.

@Hojo Okay, if granted Elon has gone full autist and did the salute "ironically", he's completely neglecting his influence and the context of his position. The issue isn't fighting a woke mind virus with ironic inflammatory gestures, it's about the people who most definitely are Nazi supporters and they exist in the world, America, everyone is watching. People could easily assume that Elon was just supporting Nazi beliefs and some people might have been hoping to see that come to fruition. You are downplaying his role and assuming this hyper-meta battle to oust a virtue signaler mind affliction. If what he was trying to do was innocuous it was still extraordinarily irresponsible given the influence he has over everyone that may subscribe to radical beliefs. Even if he's trolling, that's going to cause a lot of fear and panic. It's funny as a solo keyboard twitter troll trying to get banned by the woke snowflakes but when it's a head member of governance it becomes unbearably foolish.

Having that fear grow and crush you may be required to let go but make no mistake that is a dangerous undertaking that when taken lightly can truly maim you. Sometimes people just get crushed and dont make it to the other side. I dont think people know much about fear until they lose all faculties while conscious under psychedelics. It is unimaginable, no amount of torture or shenanigans could result in that experience. Like more real than a dream yet more absurd than any dream. Like a lucid dream. In the future with different policies, protocols and study I'm sure psychedelic risk will be a lot lower. We face discrimination, criminalisation, demonization. Sometimes the mental toll of not being supported by your community (ie all drugs are bad at all times) can be more significant than a negative trip.

@The Crocodile Are you literally talking about someone who sees the future like Paul Atreides? Didn't even this fantastical character have blind spots? Who is the perfect man you speak of that only speaks the truth. He may be the one of prophecy (Dune reference)

Leo was just joking because bobby said Canada was suffocating to live in, which is a bit of a stretch. We're incredibly privileged in Canada even with the corporate, food and housing squeeze going on. It's nothing as bad as what most of the world goes through daily. I don't know enough about Singh to fully defend him but I will say that many people's criticisms assume that he is in it for the money and personal gain/security. I have heard this so much: "Sellout Singh". My intuition tells me this is a result with not being able to trust and reckon with a person who is concerned and actively fighting for vulnerable Canadians. It's as simple as that, they can't handle someone different running the country because of fear he is some traitor in disguise. This is extraordinarily racist and basic. That's where these narratives are coming from, and I feel sorry for him. The reason I make this claim is solely because I can't find any evidence that indicates Jagmeet has acted greedy, selfish, or said anything in general about personal power. If there was an event where he said something regarding his retirement or anything suspicious I haven't been able to find one. But what I do immediately find is name calling that just seems to be blind hatred. It's used to keep liberals away from NDP by preying on their worst qualities/fears. If you want to roll back the clock on environmental protection, PP is your man. If you want to Axe the Tax and save money on your paycheck while cutting government services, vote PP. If you want to stick it to the libtards and gloat with glee as the woke moralists scramble to rationalize our behavior, vote PP. NDP is the opposite of all that. There is an NDP mayor of Toronto and Hamilton (Ontario). There is genuine support for them, it's not a hopeless vote (unlike the green party, who are unrealistic). Unfortunately the truth is the average Canadian is not quite involved much in politics and will revert to their baseline feelings where is becomes a political boxing match/theatrics as opposed to addressing the function of governance (just like the states!), i.e. "I like the way that guy talks and he's hilarious!!".