Carl-Richard

The problem of defining anything comes from the act of defining it. Definitions divide reality into separate parts. Life can only be defined relative to non-life. Why can't everything be alive? Well, science doesn't care about that, because it isn't practical. Even if it was the truth, you can't bottle it up and sell it on the market, or use it to make better technology (or atleast that is how it stands today).

THE GLOBALISTS ARE COMING FOR YOUR BABIES! Jk. Red on global warming: 1. What does that have to do with me man? I'm just here keeping it real, trying to live my life, and that's just how it is. If you mess with me, I mess with you. Global warming? Pfft, I don't see no warming, infact it was snowing yesterday. Explain that to me. 2. Listen to me: if I say it's getting warmer, it's getting warmer. If I say it's getting colder, well damn it's going to be a new ice age up in here. I'm the fucking boss, you hear me? I run this motherfucking show, bitch. Do you understand? If you think you can intimidate me with some hocus-pocus talk-talk smartass bullshit, then why don't you try saying it some more? Hmm?! Thought so.

Orange on Post-modernism and "Gender is a social construct": The problem with post-modernism is that it has internal self-contradictions. If you say that there is no such thing as truth, how can that statement be true? It just ends up betraying all forms of logic and rationality, which makes it totally useless. Also, gender is not a social construct. It's a biological fact. If you're born with XX cromosomes, you're a woman, and if you're XY, you're a man. It doesn't matter what you think you are. Biology is biology. Truth is truth. 2+2=4. Q.E.D. These postmodernist SJWs are not living in the real world. They want to replace the real scientific definitions of words with fake ones based on emotional reasoning. If you change the definitions of words, then nothing means anything anymore. I can just say I'm a toaster and then everybody will have to agree with me because "muh feelings". Beliefs and feelings over facts and truth. It's religious thinking and low IQ behaviour. Reason, science and secularity is the reason why western civilization has the highest standards of living in the entire world. Postmodernism and SJWs will lead to the destruction of the western world as we know it. It's a cancer and it must be stopped. We must ban all anti-science SJW propaganda from the universities to protect the values of the Enlightenment. Self-refuting arguments should not be allowed to get free roam over our intellectual institutions.

I think this guy is a great example of Ni (apparently he is INFJ): "I decided I just... I didn't wanna die thinking about what could've been." 14:57 Very calm, insightful, focused. Absolute creative genius (basically single-handedly pioneered the genre of progressive extreme metal).

Atleast it belongs to the right thread in a sense...

Not surprised if this gets a ban lmao

I'm just saying you're pulling a lot of information out of a 30 second segment (and no, I'm not comparing her to Leo). I could interpret her introduction in two ways: either she tried to be excessively provocative and it didn't land properly, or she is actually driven by hate. I prefer the former (but either one could be true, or both at the same time), because presumeably, this is an academic talk, which means there is usually some substance behind the claims presented. The definition of racism can be approached from several different perspectives, and "white people are always racist" may be a valid conclusion from one of those perspectives.

The entire talk is probably about clarifying exactly what she means by racism. All good talks have provocative introductions. Besides, what does "the system is racist" mean if you don't know what "racism" means? Does it look like she is speaking to a room full of Stage Blue people? The things Leo are saying in his videos will make a Stage Blue person have an aneurysm. Leo's content is not meant for these people, and same with her talk.

But do you actually know what she means by "being racist"?

By the way, I tend to have moments of synchronicity atleast a couple of times every single day. I'm often listening to podcasts where people are speaking all the time, and sometimes I will be reading a word or doing something in another tab at the exact same time as the word is being said. It also happens with music lyrics when listening to music.

Be specific, mr. Enlightened centrist.

A year ago, I was listening to an album called "Traced in Air" by Cynic (prog rock/metal/jazz). I loved everything about it except some awful audio mixing and some annoying death metal growls that were just plastered on top without much consideration (it was a cliche in the genre). I had this thought "ah what if they could just release a remixed version without the death metal vocals - it would be perfect!", and I'm not kidding: the day after I had that thought, they released a new album, and believe it or not, it was a remixed version of "Traced in Air" where they had fixed the audio and removed the annoying vocals. It was LITERALLY a gift from the gods. Putting on that album for the first time was a surreal experience. That is no doubt one of the weirdest things that has ever happened to me.

Exactly.

Spirituality is not in the business of surpressing your personal desires or killing the ego. It's about elevating the expression of yourself to such heights that you transcend it all. Embrace life to its fullest and spiral out, my friend

Hmm that's a good one.

Valerian can knock you the fuck out if you try hard enough

I'm literally creating everything.

My point is you can have post-rational views in one domain (regarding the nature of God) and still fall into the trap of criticizing Green from below. You can't be a master in all areas. I mean, Ramaji and Ananda Devi voted for Trump...

On another note, would it be correct to say that meditation strengthens sensor functions in a way? I used to be immersed in wild ideas 24/7 but nowadays I can barely think a thought even if my life depended on it. My internal world is off most of the time, but I like to believe that the content of my thoughts have remained basically the same (probably mostly Ne). At the same time, being more aware of my surroundings does have an effect on the content aswell.

@mmKay Or you can look at it from the perspective of being a Stage Purple construct. The name is given to you by the tribe as a way of establishing your relationship to the tribe. Only other people can call your name. Language is a social construct, which means that your name (tribal identity) can only ever arise inside a tribe in the first place. Having a name is therefore as much a collective function as an individual function. You don't need a name if you're alone.

Are all the videos here talking about awakening experiences and psychedelic trips actually just irrelevant then? All his Jungian talk, his book Maps of Meaning that integrates the shared values of all the different religious traditions (east and west) with western psychology and neuroscience, does all of that not have a slight tinge of holism in it? His idea of God isn't merely pre-rational/traditionalist Christianity. He is more a religious pluralist with an affinity for Christianity (he is more like Rupert Sheldrake in that sense). There is a reason why rationalists get so uneasy when he starts talking about God and why they don't know if they should place him in the William Lane Craig theologian box or the Deepak Chopra woo-woo box. He is post-rational in that respect (and obviously lacking in other areas).

I'm still just not ok with MBTI in general. Nothing really makes sense to me.

What do you mean by that?

JP has had awakening experiences.

No problem. By the way, even if you're adequately rested, meditating at the right time of the day is also crucial. If you meditate straight after a big meal, you'll be consistently more sleepy and unfocused. Let your stomach be atleast half-empty. You'll usually have one point during the day where you mind and body is at peak perfomance (for me it's around 2 hrs after my first or second meal), and even though you might be busy during that time, you should try meditating atleast once to see the difference.