Carl-Richard

Can you read my thoughts?

Self-efficacy in a general sense is about the extent to which you believe you have control over your life. Removing voting is one way of undermining that belief, and it has consequences for your psychological health.

Self-efficacy is fundamental to living a healthy life.

No, that is called dogmatism. Most philosophers that are worth listening to embody a certain level of epistemological pragmatism, i.e. they see their philosophies as just philosophy, not as reality. The only way you'll get this impression is if you listen to popularizers of science like Neil deGrasse Tyson or Richard Dawkins. A materialist or physicalist isn't necessarily a dogmatist either. Non-dual mysticism is a very simple and reductionistic philosophy, and it doesn't take you very far in terms of describing or explaining the contents of reality. Sure, you have to posit certain irreducible assumptions to go beyond it, but it's worth it when you see all the good it can do. Western philosophy is not empty, and it has relevance to the human experience.

Nothing is total bullshit, and everything is different.

Is weed mainstream yet?

Makes sense as usual. I would emphasize the necessity of strictly commiting to the structure of the schedule so that the meditation is not driven by compulsion or uncertainty (or is distracting you during your daily activities), but is instead outsourced to a structure outside the craving and clinging self. You want to avoid making meditation a part of that which meditation is supposed to address.

Critical Theory and its offshots, especially Critical Psychology. The concepts of construct and context awareness I got from Cook-Greuter's Ego developmental model, as well as from reading about systemic communication theory (Bateson) and community psychology (Bronfenbrenner, Sameroff, etc.). I also wrote a short university thesis on the role of systems thinking in community psychology, and I incorporated those concepts there. There were a few books involved, but the only English one was "Community Psychology: In Pursuit of Liberation and Well-Being".

Golf ball to the face and you're dead.

Literal NPCs.

Last Zappa thing I'm posting, I swear . Steve Vai won a grammy for this live performance of Zappa's "Sofa", played at his tribute concert just after his death:

I agree. The intention might be love, but there is still a delusional element regarding the nature of such a relationship. However, that is different from a psychopath who has no consideration for other people, and those are the people who are responsible for most of the child molesting cases. Many pedophiles are non-offending because they actually care about other people.

Yeah I'm not going to argue that hebephilic relationships are not problematic within a 1st world frame, and that we probably should classify it as a mental disorder. However, you somewhat bailed on my original argument where I was saying that you should expect pedophiles to treat people they're sexually attracted to with love, not as an outlet for the desire to dominate (because after all, a pedophilia diagnosis is separate from an ASPD diagnosis). However, again, that is not to say that such a relationship will be good for the child.

I didn't catch that even after watching it 3-4 times lol. I still understood perfectly what he was saying though Idk man, the way he applied the concept of nested tuplets was just beyond genius, both cognitively and musically.

Let's be accurate: definitions of hebephilia tend to partially overlap with the DSM-5 diagnostic criteria for pedophilia. When you say "hebephilia is considered a mental disease", it can be interpreted as "hebephilia is a psychiatric diagnosis in the DSM-5", which would be wrong.

You keep alluding to authorities on the subject without specifying what those authorities are actually saying. I'm not saying you're wrong. It's just cringe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebephilia

Zappa said it the best 6:57

@AtheisticNonduality Hmm... are you fine with saying he is smarter than average? What about very smart? What about genius? If you're fine with those categories, you could easily map them onto a metric system like IQ and say that "average" is around 100 IQ, "smarter than average" is around 120, "very smart" is around 140, and "genius" is 160+. I mean, you MBTI guys prefer using your own logical analysis over statistical tests anyway ;D Btw, my statistics knowledge is going to increase over these two next semesters. Be prepared for a less pseudo-intellectual version of the FiTe monster >:)

172 to be exact. It's probably just an estimate by some nobody. It makes sense though if you watch his interviews, or the PMRC senate hearing (regarding the issue of whether certain types of offensive rock lyrics should warrant a parental advisory sticker on the album):

Well, Zappa started out playing drums, wrote orchestral pieces when he was 14, and had an IQ of 170

I think "greatest band" is not equal to "best band". The latter has too many elitist connotations, things like technical ability, music theory, etc. I think "greatest band" includes various "best" things, but also various other more shallow things, like fame, image or catchiness. It also is more receptive to the hard-to-quantify aspects of music, like "soul" or "chemistry", which can also apply to the band as a whole, not just say a guitarist's playing style. I think Led Zeppelin and Tool are both great examples of those things. If I were to take the elitist route, I would say Frank Zappa without a doubt. His musical ability and creativity was unmatched. He wrote and performed all styles of music: jazz, hard rock, fusion, prog rock, pop, punk, blues, R&B, doo-wop, rap, orchestral music, avant-garde. He also released more albums than anyone before him, improvised all his guitar solos, utilized polyrhythms and nested tuplets (dafuq?), treated his band as if he were an orchestral conductor, basically invented the idea of a concept album (or the rock opera).

Nah, I worship the keyboard 7:27 If you're trying to make an objective list of "the greatest bands on earth", you should at least try to stretch beyond your limited knowledge, at least tastes.

Ah yes, the groupie blues He probably has like 10 songs fully dedicated to groupies, and they're all hilarious The solos in this song at 4:07, along with the solos from The Mammy Anthem and I'm The Slime from the same album, are definitely my favorites: It's all live as well, and everything sounds so good. He probably had the tightest rock band in the world from the mid 70s to the early 80s. So nostalgic too. I remember listening to this in the car when I was around 7 years old, just floating away into a different universe.

Really?