Carl-Richard

My mom dated a 28 year old professional rower when she was like 45

So no simulation needed? What you're then proposing is that only a part of reality is simulated.

And what is the Motherboard made out of?

Have you ever watched a good movie that wasn't dramatic?

Everything you're saying is completely appropriate from a human perspective. But from an absolute perspective, why shouldn't death and suffering have the right to exist? From that perspective, we're being quite selfish and exclusionary. And that SHOULD sound completely ridiculous, because if it didn't, you wouldn't be human. That is just proof of concept. It's also perfectly possible to talk about these things while at the same time extending as much concern and compassion as you're doing to less fortunate humans.

It isn't fair, but it's still true ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I wrote this in the Spiral Dynamics Practice thread that could be relevant to your question:

"Maths study shows conspiracies 'prone to unravelling'" - https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-35411684

What simulates the simulation?

Of course. Reality is experienced through differences. Nofap is only beneficial if you're already rinsing it twice a day.

Just because reality is mental doesn't mean it doesn't have rules. A dream is purely mental but that also follows certain rules. Even in dreams, you usually can't see through walls because your eyes cannot detect photons from the other side of the wall (that is one model). The wall, your eyes, the photons; all of that is mental (and at the same time conceptual constructs), but these things still unfold in a certain way. That doesn't mean things like ESP or other psychic powers aren't real, but those powers are also bound to certain limitations.

Be careful with conflating relative and absolute truth statements. If you're going to say that brains don't exist, then black mold doesn't exist either.

Could be the batch contained poisonous look-alikes, although I'm not familiar with cubensis.

I would hesitate to derive conclusions based on a single sentence summary. For example, Stage Blue charities also fall under that description. Try reading through the values mentioned in this topic:

Enjoy your new personal thread alone then

@The_Alchemist Not to be a party pooper but by posting every hour, you're devaluing the thread. Save it for something truly special.

I've experienced first-hand the fact that belief literally molds your reality. Also don't overestimate your ability to be a neutral 3rd party regarding any form of belief system. You'll get sucked in more than you're consciously aware of.

Another way to put it is that they're spellbound by compulsive mental patterns which get expressed through every avenue of their life. In their attempts to relinquish their tormented behavior, it only re-emerges through a different form. It's like trying to decapitate a multi-headed hydra, or to catch your own shadow, or to smoothen out the waves on a lake. Sometimes you must just let the beast devour you, leave yourself alone and watch the lake as the weather calms down.

Peterson isn't really a stranger to alternative treatments considering he is on the carnivore diet.

This distinction is a valid one. I would define classical nofap as the act of repressing a certain compulsion. That compulsion can be based on a natural energetic inclination, or it can be fueled by mentally grounded patterns of behavior. Of course these two things naturally arise together in various degrees, but people who fap frequently are familiar with the phenomenom of trying to "force" a fap. That is where I would start to define excessive indulgence, when you fap as a mental compulsion even if you don't feel physically inclined. That is where controlled restriction can be helpful. This way you're not trying to restict your natural sexual energy but instead you're trying to rewire a mental pattern. This form of repression can be very beneficial. The problem however is that over time, it often leads to the opposite problem of excessive repression. Because of the fact that the mental and physical urges arise together, sooner or later you will be going overboard with controlling your mental urges and start repressing natural sexual energy aswell. I believe this is where the majority of the nofap phenomenon is at today: excessive repression. You could say the mental urge only gets inverted into the opposite form without solving the problematic behavioral aspect. In other words, the problem of unhealthy mentally conditioned behavior, instead of being addressed, mutates and starts to inhabit the other side of the spectrum (extreme indulgence vs. extreme repression). To use nofap as a healthy tool is a balancing act of listening to your body and keeping tabs on your mental state.

I can relate. The solution is to just construct some structure and try it out, even if it doesn't feel natural. You can actually do things without having full knowledge about it.

Experience it.

Growth is not a linear process.