Joseph Maynor

Expertise does hinge on the matter being discussed though, notice that. You might think the matter being discussed is x when it is actually y. This is where you can get caught off guard. I'm not an expert in many things.

I'm not sure I agree with you that when one awakens deeply they stop seeing evil. Again, this is the moral question. I guess the assumption is that only egos can see right and wrong, there are no egos, thus there is no right and wrong. QED. This seems a little too cute to me.

I'm not saying you're wrong. But it seems to fit a pattern too. Psychology is not entirely BS.

I wouldn't want to say anyone is cursed. However, if something traumatic happened to someone, it's reasonable to ask how that affected their worldview.

Then you have to ask what kind of coping mechanisms result from trauma even if it's not immediately seen as severe. I'm not trying to place myself outside of this to be fair to my experience too. You might try to minimize or ignore the severity of your trauma for example. You might try to recontextualize reality to cope after severe trauma.

I feel like when we experience trauma, that can affect how we interpret reality. All of us have this to some degree.

This one makes me wonder a little. I don't want to emphasize something uncomfortable either.

I don't see it this way necessarily. I never felt like morality is moot. And even after all these years of doing this work, I still don't feel this way. Morality has to do with social relation.

Was this an if or did this actually happen. I think it's cool that you did 5meo while looking at yourself in a mirror.

I'm just saying learning how to talk to real people and practicing that is key. For this we need to get off our technology.

What's missing today is people today are so interested in their technological reality they don't even know how to talk to a real person anymore. It's a problem.

Look in the mirror and find out.

Doesn't what is beautiful hinge on some kind of finite picture of values or perspective? Otherwise, it would seem that Beauty would be immune to judgment, but nobody ever takes this position consistently too. Beauty (and aesthetics more generally) is puzzling for this reason. Good conversation.

How do you know this?

Yes. It is not wrong to not want to be around abusive people, I agree. I feel like I can tolerate unpleasant people to a degree though. I don't want to be too judgmental in that way.

Touché lol.

I might believe you, it depends on what you say.

Who gets to decide what ugliness in myself is? I'll take one for the team here lol.

Respectfully, I'm confused about the focus of there being so much ugliness in reality. I get it that there is, but I'm unsure about the conclusions drawn about it. I get that other people differ in taste. I don't focus on ugliness obsessively when it comes to living my life. Maybe I'm wrong.

I love this quote from the video "there is no spirituality without understanding." This is a key insight.

We are so attached to technology now that we don't socialize as much face to face as much anymore.

For me what happens is I have an intention to create well up after being influenced by other creators. I wouldn't call it a response to ugliness per se (although that could be too) -- but a desire, inspiration, motivation to create something.