Carl-Richard

What is the difference?

Don't.

Homophobia occurs frequently on the conservative side. Homophobia is a certain kind of moron. It's also funny how conservative Jews like Ben Shapiro are homophobes too.

It's tricky when it comes to online spiritual cults, because it's technically very easy to leave, but there is some underlying narrative that coerces you to stay, e.g. "we're now in a spiritual war between good and evil. Some of our members are harboring negative entities and have been plotting to betray us, and they have to be stopped. The fate of the world depends on it." It's a kind of existential terrorism. In this case, all it requires is a charismatic leader who suddenly develops a messiah complex and eschatological visions.

@lostingenosmaze Omg that meme sound

Stop tripping before you hurt yourself.

I might make a thread about what a real online cult looks like, recounting my personal experiences from a couple of years ago. Spoiler: this ain't it.

Legitimately genius point

God is proof.

That's transmission right there

Sadhguru likes to give a lot of context when answering each question, which is a good thing when you're dealing with a novice audience, but also the way he speaks in general is extremely interconnected and holistic. Each sub-point much be understood relative to the larger point, which of course is long-winded and easily mistaken for endless rambling. He always comes around in the end if you let him go long enough, but the common interviewing style is way too impatient for that, so he tends to get cut off too early. People are accustomed to short bullet point answers. Their attention spans don't allow for wisdom.

After studying a bit of psychology, I've noticed a recurring trend in the structure of various models across many sub-disciplines (of course excluding behaviorism), something which I like to call the "cognitive data bank": internally stored information. I believe it's such a common thing because of the intuitive sense (and thus utility) of conceiving of people as carrying information inside their minds, whether conscious or unconscious, for the means of explaining behavior, experiences etc. I believe knowing about the cognitive data bank will make it easier to understand similar aspects of slightly different psychological theories. When learning a new theory, you might start to have the experience of "aha! – that's a cognitive data bank!" Here I will give a couple of examples of what I think are direct representations of (or deeply related to) the concept of the cognitive data bank (obviously starting with the concept of memory): 1 Cognitive science 1.1. Memory 1.1.1 Short-term memory 1.1.2 Long-term memory 1.2 Cognitive schemas (Beck) 2 Psychodynamic theory (Freud etc.) 2.1 The Unconscious https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychodynamics 2.2 Object relations (Klein etc.) https://www.simplypsychology.org/Melanie-Klein.html 3. Attachment theory (Bowlby etc.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attachment_theory 3.1 Internal working model 4. Coping strategies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coping 4.1 Appraisal theory (Lazarus) 4.2 Religious coping (Pargament) The examples under point 4. are less obvious, but hopefully you'll still be able to spot the part of the model where the internally stored information occurs. Anyways, that's it (maybe I'll add more over time). Hope you found it interesting

Resilience.

You can't be sure if your seat belt helped you in a crash, but you have statistics on your side.

Show us your pets

Well, you'll probably notice that I'm pretty stupid then Ok now we're dragging the metaphor a bit far.

This suddenly became very cryptic

Fun fact, the personal experience I talked about devolved into a cult. Not saying it will though. However, I think it's more about maintaining the community and not allowing people to leech in this fashion. It's like setting up a burger stand in the McDonald's parking lot. ?

Np!

Online communities split off and duplicate all the time. I have personally experienced this in the past.

I didn't, but I would. I also like to think that it at least postponed it and made the infection less severe. It's like asking if I regret wearing a seat belt in a car crash because I got both the hassle of putting on the seat belt and crashing the car. Who knows how much that seat belt saved me?

Yes.

No?

To say that these things are Love is essentially to say that these things are reality. Whether you like them or not only tells you where your biases lie, and apparently they're pretty human biases. You just have to take off your human glasses and experience reality as it is without resisting it.