Joseph Maynor

He seems to have a real issue with playing down immoral acts. The cutting someone off in traffic example is fine. But what about more egregious immoral examples. He makes it seem like the only reason morality exists is because of your mindset and attachment to a you. Sometimes people are doing bad things to others on purpose that bother and hurt them. If you don't think about it, it goes away, i.e., morality is a social illusion seems a little naive to me. Also an exception to his social reality example. There's also the issue with talking to yourself. Even if there is nobody around, we still talk to ourself. Not sure if that is social, but it's not how we conventionally think of social. He seems to be making an argument that language is inherently social and therefore corrupted or untrue. Notice his answer regarding fear or being afraid -- "It's always we don't need to do this". That's a very bold statement. He seems to think we create our minds or can create our minds entirely. He seems to think we have total free will and choice and can fix our own unreasonable thinking by contemplating untrue things we're presupposing. And the untrue, he associates with the social which I find odd. He wants to turn off the social oddly. He's in many ways very much like Jean-Paul Sartre: Q: What kind of world do you want? A: We get the life we deserve. The assumption is: All of us have 100% responsibility and ability to create our own life.

I think this is kinda probably true on some level. But only life can reveal this to you. This is why I encourage people to be social. The social corrects for a lot of things that you might not see alone.

This is a great example of this from my perspective. I love these videos from a humor perspective alone.

Isn't this just an exchange of one matrix for another one? Sneaky how this works.

I agree that it is important to realize not everyone deals with trauma the same way, but you might not see how you're dealing with trauma like another person might be able to. In other words, you may say I'm fine when another person can see that you're coping in some way. Just something to consider. We like to deny that we're unhealthy or overemphasize how much we have healed.

This is a good video that shows how to be playful in conversation IMO. Nice balance between information and humor.

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.