Carl-Richard

For people who use TikTok in here, what do you usually use it for?

I'm a capitalist — reality is infinite value. I'm also an anarchist — reality cannot be encapsulated by a finite set of rules. I'm also a libertarian — I'm free to re-define words whichever way I see fit, without thinking about the social consequences. This is how I feel when I read discussions about solipsism.

You're giving a reductionistic read of what writing is and what thinking is. Writing is a type of thinking. It's not as simple as copying and pasting the contents of your mind over to text form. It's a recursive process of thinking something, writing something, re-reading it, evaluating what needs to be written based on the last phrase and the text as a whole, etc. Writing, when done properly, allows for a deeper form of thinking, one of structure, focus and refinement. Thinking is never just one thing. It's always embedded in a context. When you're talking with somebody, you're vocalizing thoughts and getting a response, and you build thoughts on top of that. When you're watching a movie, or going for a walk, you're responding to the input from that environment and building thoughts on top of that. Writing is a special type of context that is very conducive to organizing your thoughts and formulating in-depth thoughts in a longer format.

How exactly would you do that? Can you train your legs to walk faster than a car?

Not writing things down is like not using a phone. It's a mind-extending tool, and it can be used quite effectively to organize everything from general life problems to emotions and intellectual ideas. The mind is not transparent to itself. You have a conscious mind and a subconscious mind, and the conscious mind has a very limited capacity. Also, the very act of thinking itself is limited, nevermind useless thinking, but even so, most thoughts are in fact useless. It's usually a repetition of the same thing for the 100th time, or wishing something was different, or some fear or frustration. Many problems can be solved and many hours of emotional labor can be avoided by simply writing it down and commiting to a decision on how to move forward, no matter how small that decision might be. Your memory will not be as good, but it's like how our legs aren't as strong as if we didn't use a car. You will still choose to drive if the situation is appropriate. In general, using mind-extending tools in a smart way when there is no reasonable scenario where you will not have access to such tools, can only be smart.

For all of you guys coping, listen to your common sense. None of this is ok behavior. This is embarrassing.

Because reality is a certain way. Imagine that reality is like a river. The water flows downstream. Why can you not paddle upstream just as easily as downstream? Because that is the nature of the river.

@Leo Gura You gotta straighten yourself out, man. People look up to you and copy your behavior.

I remember watching this in primary school in class. Everybody was like "he is crazy", while I was like "if it's like he says and it's the only thing that truly fulfills him, then why not?" ☺️

Ok, then it was a moment of clairvoyance. Some people have that from time to time.

So you saw a guy from 200 ft away, you saw the guy again and you weren't sure but you guessed it was him and you were correct. That's called using your intuition

Plants and smaller animals aren't thought to have a big capacity to suffer unlike a pig or a cow who have big brains and complex emotions. A pig has the intelligence of a 3 year old child and experiences a similar range of sensations and emotions. You have to eat something, so you would try to eat that which minimizes the amount of suffering, which is why you choose to eat less complex forms of life if that is your concern.

What was the miracle though?

Eggs contain things that are required for producing and maintaining testosterone levels. It's not like they're a magic pill.

I compulsively look up the definitions of words all the time. It's just a thing I do.

Sounds a bit autistic to me

Whether paradoxes can or cannot exist, if you're using logic to justify either case, you're limiting reality to logic, which means your answer might not be true.

What makes you think that? What happens when you talk to a girl?

If you don't bother to look up the words, you're not very autistic. Add 5 points ?

This is the most insane Meshuggah song I've ever heard. It's quite literally insane.

See what more you want out of life.

Based, but many feminists are also based

The world won't suddenly go vegan. It would be a slow and gradual transition. A similar example would be when we went from using horses to cars. The population of horses was decimated, but not over night. Of course, this was a particularly big technological revolution, and the transition was rather fast, so it lead to an increase of horses being sent to slaughterhouses, but many were simply sold and repurposed and died due to more natural causes. Regardless, fewer horses were bred as the horse industry downscaled, and that would happen with the meat industry as well.

If I'm a genius and I'm thinking thoughts that nobody else is thinking, am I delusional? That is essentially what a classic hallucination is: seeing something that nobody else is seeing. As long as you're not mistaken about the nature of the thing, e.g. you're the only one who can see it and you're aware of this, it's not delusional. As for it being "real" or not, in this case, it's not real to other people, but so are many things. Of course, most people define "real" in a naive way, i.e. what most people in their tribe think is real ("consensus reality"), which at least for modern people tends to have materialistic connotations and tends to exclude hallucinations. So they will of course disagree that entities are real, unless many people start seeing them.

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