Carl-Richard

Nobody asked.

That's an assumption. You could probably have a sincere discussion about whether or not bodybuilding is worth somebody's time, but at the end of the day, you're not going to change the main goal of the forum, and you're the one wasting your time. You don't go to the pope in the middle of a sermon and try to debate him about the pitfalls of Catholicism. You seem to conflate high consciousness with passivity and anemia. Higher consciousness leads to a finer level of discernment, a sharpening of the tools, which means that you would be more concerned about details and the quality of content. You don't go into a holy temple blasting heavy metal. If you want to call it closemindedness, sure, but aren't you then being closeminded about the value of discernment?

@Enlightenment

In other words, bodybuilding forums exist with a specific goal in mind: to help people pursue bodybuilding. Cardio training is actually in some cases bad for overall muscle growth. If the pro-cardio person gets shut down, it's not necessarily because cardio is a worthless pursuit in itself, but it's because it's not helpful for building muscle. This forum is about increasing consciousness, and only the leaders of the forum can decide what that really means. Any forum with a goal must itself define what the goal entails and what things are detrimental to that goal and how this applies to the moderation of its content. If you want a "free speech" forum where anything goes, then you should seek out such a place (by the way, it doesn't exist).

I don't understand what you mean by that. Yes. This is a high consciousness forum. If you're providing nothing but low consciousness, then you're anti- high consciousness. If you come to a bodybuilding forum with an anti-bodybuilding attitude, you should expect to be shut down.

Imagine that you are on a bodybuilding forum and all you want to talk about is how bodybuilding is bullshit and a waste of time. If they choose to ban you for that, is it a cult?

Unlucky.

Just stop already.

We still "feel" like we have free will in many different ways, and it grounds our sense of personal responsibility. Even though it's an illusion, it's a useful one, not least on a collective level. If you rid people of any sense of personal responsibility, you would only ever see the chaotic and animalistic sides of humanity. A society that embraces determinism should do so not out of a denial of personal responsibility but rather as an effort to protect the individual. In other words, teach the importance of personal responsibility, but don't hurt or kill the people who don't get the memo.

Don't underestimate anything, not even meditation.

@Hatfort This one makes so much more sense after the WAP debacle hahahahaha (PUA Shapiro): (I'm not going to derail the topic any longer )

Pictures of a transgender Joe Rogan comes to mind. That could actually be a Michael Brooks character loool

Then I consider you unlucky, because those are some of the more interesting discussions on here. There are different ways to express a disagreement, and sometimes it's not even necessary to do so. The types of less mature outbursts that take up the most attention on here are usually about much more than just a matter of disagreement.

@Mikael89 Just rewatched this classic with both Dyson and Sheldrake:

@Mikael89 Freeman Dyson is a cool cat.

You're not "legally forced" to refer to anybody's birth age either, or atleast I don't know what you mean by that. I also want to clarify that I'm not necessarily going all-in, blindly supporting all possible types of transage sentiments. I just don't see how the general sentiment is in conflict with the general sentiment of being transgender. True. However, you can compare this to how some progressives don't want to play the political game and want to go straight to socialism without any intermediary steps. It's something to aim for, but it's not a realistic short-term goal.

You can't really blame Hawking. He was literally stuck in his own mind.

The philosophy book that I'm currently reading brings up the point that scientists tend to get very immersed in the details of their field to the point where they forget the bigger picture. They develop a type of blindness where they get lost in their own assumptions. There is a distinction between "insight" (or focus) and "outsight" (or overview). This is generally very hard to avoid, because there is a cost that comes with investing time and energy into something, and you often end up focusing more on one thing over the other. It's very rare to have excellent detail-driven insight and simultaneously maintain a sober overview. That spot is reserved for the great geniuses of history.

@FlowerNote Just embrace the fact that you are The One.

"In a way", sure, but it's atleast one way to do it in practice. Do you have any practical solutions? This is another conflation of social identity and biological/birth age. People who want to be treated a certain way aren't automatically trying to deny the fact that they were born a certain time ago. Just treat them the way they want to be treated.

You do that by deconstructing it in practice, and that is what transgender and transage is doing. In what way? Even if you're transage, if the doctor needs to know your biological/birth age, then he can just ask you.

Imagine there's no heaven It's easy if you try No hell below us Above us only sky Imagine all the people living for today Imagine there's no countries It isn't hard to do Nothing to kill or die for And no religion too Imagine all the people living life in peace, you You may say I'm a dreamer But I'm not the only one I hope some day you'll join us And the world will be as one Imagine no possessions I wonder if you can No need for greed or hunger A brotherhood of man Imagine all the people sharing all the world, you You may say I'm a dreamer But I'm not the only one I hope some day you'll join us And the world will be as one

There is a socially constructed dynamic around age just like gender. You can say "oh, age is just a physical/biological fact", but then you're ignoring the social repercussions of being a certain age. That is what transage or transgender is really about: changing the social dynamic in order to be treated a certain way. You may say "oh, if you look young, then people will treat you as such", but that is a bit too idealistic and simplistic.

Are you talking out from experience?