Carl-Richard

Uhm no. When did he say that?

The slippery slope argument would be more valid if there was no incentive to maintain a relatively high degree of free speech. It's a social media platform, a place where you come to speak your mind. If they become too strict, people wouldn't want to use it anymore. The restrictions have to be highly selective. The amount of people who are affected by this ban is negligible.

The tests are kinda meh. Just read about the cognitive functions and see if it resonnates with you. I keep landing on INFP and INTP on the tests.

Not really a "resource", but this video is sooo INTP:

That picture makes me think about how it's technically possible to fight excessive Blue (fascism, anti-LGBTQ) from below, namely from Red. I mean, did the ancient romans have anything against homosexuality? Though it has to be said that organizing under a shared identity and fighting for group rights is afterall a collectivist endevour, and the question then becomes: is it possible from purple/red? Maybe the preconception of LGBTQ rights belonging to or being centered around Green is an eurocentric one haha. EDIT: Certainly, the concept of "individual rights" is a post-blue/orange concept... what was I thinking? Then to modify that question again: is it possible to organize a coordinated fight against oppressive Blue forces from purple/red based on group identity without expecting/knowing about group rights? Maybe group identity is a foreign concept aswell, because it assumes the ability to show concern for other people than your own immediate tribe (an "extended tribe"), and purple/red may only recognize their own immediate tribe as being important.

@DocWatts 1:22:00 "I'm living and dying consciously, simultaneously." That is powerful.

There is a point to be made that there is a fine line between overindulgence and surpression; both in excess are negative. In my own experience, trying nofap for a while is beneficial if you're suspecting that you're fapping too often and that it leads to negative symptoms (apathy, brain fog, low energy). It made me reset my habits and now I fap less frequently than I used to, and my body and mind is more functional. I believe that the habit only becomes a problem if it's excessively triggered by mental urges rather than physical urges. The problem with going too far in the other direction is that it surpresses natural energies in your body and it makes you more inclined to surpress other types of emotions, which can make you feel disembodied, numb, uptight and uneasy. The cliche of finding a balance is crucial. Your body is always trying to find a balance and therefore you need to learn to listen to your body. Your body tells you what it wants and what it needs. Fapping is not a problem if it happens naturally as a bodily phenomena. It only becomes a problem if it happens because of a mental attachment.

@Husseinisdoingfine God help the poor nofap enthusiast who stumbles across this forum section

Here, I can put it in a way that doesn't include scary colors: there are many different styles of conversation, different ways of formulating and responding to arguments, and this conversation is following a certain pattern with respect to that fact . It's not so much about the content as it's about the structure of the lines of reasoning and ways of expression.

That is a redundant sentence. You are experiencing a sentence that I produced. Even that is redundant, because I am you and you are me. Experience is experiencing a sentence. That too is redundant, because experiencing IS experience. Experience is. But then again, that is only a description of experience, not experience itself.

You are not a body. You are not a brain. These objects arise within experience. Are you experiencing a brain while reading this sentence? No. You're experiencing a sentence. There; you just experienced something without a brain.

You can observe the brain stopping, but you cannot observe experience stopping. Experience is constant. You cannot experience not having an experience.

So we don't need a communist revolution, but a hippie revolution. Hmm... where is Tim Leary?

You can't have any brains without experience. In order to know when the brain stops functioning, you need experience.

34:14 - 45:36 This documentary is an internet gem.

I have no idea what is going on tbh.

@Member It's hypnotic

That guy would for sure be a lefty if he grew up in the right neighbourhood.

@Preety_India Yes, there is a distinction there, and I would call that distinction a higher vs. lower perspective on what counts as injustice: one is more inclusive and empathetic than the other. The psychiatric lens I'm still not fully onboard with.

When their principles are under attack, they perceive themselves as victims. See how that works? What are we defining "support" to be in this case? In terms of votes in 2016, around half the country?

@Bernardo Carleial What does our green boy Vaush have to say about this?

It's not impossible to use that description on how some people are being recruited to Antifa aswell. I mean, they do want to spread fear in the hearts of facists when they turn up to a protest with provocative displays and/or violent intent. This is not me defending the proud boys though (just to be clear). Then you have some of the people from the proud boys' perspective who believe that their beliefs and values are under attack, and that they are genuinely concerned about protecting them. In both scenarios, you have people who are convinced that they're fighting for a noble cause, only the values are different. The definition of injustice is relative. Empathy requires a higher level of development, and a lack of empathy is therefore not necessarily indicative of psychological issues (only low development). You seem to be saying that being in favor of fascism is in some way indicative of psychological issues, however I would instead say it is indicative of a lower stage of development. To make a point on that though, I think it's more right to say that the moment when psychological issues step into the picture, then in the case of fascism, it becomes a more visible problem than with higher levels of thought, and therefore that factor of the equation can be perceived as more problematic. Regardless, I just don't feel like terms like "personality disorder" or "psychologically disorder" is necessary to describe the bulk of these movements. Both movements experience the influence of those forces on the fringes, although I would concede that it does skew more towards the conservative side, just not very significantly.

...or it's just a particular expression of a normal stage of development. It's the same reason why some people join Antifa: for community and purpose, but again, just at another stage of development where the toxic aspects are less obvious.

People in the intro look like they just escaped from Elliott Hulse's basement

@electroBeam