Carl-Richard

Bro the internet exists. Go crazy with it.

Insanity is when you fail to meet certain cultural expectations of functionality.

@Aquarius Idk. I don't want to simply add more fuel to the hate fire that seems to be going on here, but the fact that I could predict exactly how you would answer my question brings up a lot of red flags in my honest opinion. I remember Jordan Peterson talking about this as being one of the signs of ideological possession. I don't want you to necessarily take that as evidence that I'm right, but it's something worth taking into consideration. Nobody is immune to these things.

@Rilles omg I'm getting the parody wibes again hahahaha

@tenta Tbh you can only argue with conservatives so much before it gets repetitive.

Did you struggle with letting go of your life?

@darktropeek When you're green and want to enter yellow, it's not so much that you want to "go up" some more, but instead to "look down"; really investigate the steps you've taken to reach where you are, see if anything is left behind. It's called integration for this reason

@Freakyboo I think the idea is that you build up some sort of momentum across different incarnations, and you would then expect to see evidence of this momentum manifesting itself early in childhood, which is a time where you can rule out cultural impressions as a potential cause. However, the notion of people being born with a certain inclination towards nonduality isn't necessarily indicative of the existence of past lives, but rather the idea that it's instead just not contigent on cultural conditions.

@Kensho Haha he is so orange it almost feels like a parody to me. @Roy LMAO when he plugs his shit 2 times in 10 seconds at around 30:00 straight after being told how greedy he is.

It's a meme machine.

Thoughts appear as they are from nothing. Very not helpful, but true.

A question doesn't deserve an answer.

Do you fear losing contact with the "Inner Being"?

Isn't this exactly what you do when you try to understand something?

All the Jan Esmann interviews haha. That guy has some crazy stories

If you find it interesting, go for it. Just remember that science makes predictions based on models, and models are like maps: they can be useful for going certain places, but the map is not the terrain. Once you learn to see the limitations of science, it'll steer you towards the absolute.

@Evil Raccoon Behold the father of Death Metal, Chuck Shuldiner: Man, he seems like such an evil person!

@The observer I think the yellow approach lies in recognizing how survival and expansion aren't necessarily mutually exclusive but at the same time different concepts indeed.

@Inliytened1 I love twisting it around so it says "I am, therefore I think" hahaha

@The observer Does an ant think about how it's taking care of its survival needs? What is the desire to expand but a survival strategy? I don't see this definition of survival as cynical one: I see it as a very inclusive one, infact quite the opposite of what you've been projecting here

@The observer Survival is about perpetuating a particular pattern. It's not merely about having food in your belly or a roof over your head. Survival is happening on all levels of the pyramid.

On a more trivial note, it's actually possible to have a bit of admiration for believing in flat earth if you're a strict follower of the principle of radical empiricism: if you've not seen it with your own eyes, it's not true. But of course that's only an admiration of somebody being logical consistent rather than actually being wise

@Meta-Man I tried to convey that fact aswell somewhere in there (I don't know if I did so successfully though) : Hallais

I would recommend using the word "useful" instead of "true" when talking about relative truths. Some frameworks are more "useful" than others for achieving a certain goal, but the measurement of progress and the choice of goal is subjective. In other words, if you can identify somebody's goals and ideas of what constitutes progress, you could say that they're going about it the wrong way if you think there is a better way to achieve that goal. For instance, the climate scientist and the climate change denier both have a common goal (atleast implictly): to survive on this planet. Denying climate change based on a few internet searches is arguably not a better strategy to achieve that goal than having a worldwide team of scientists actively working on it. However, convincing somebody that way is not so easy, because they may believe that denying climate change IS the measurement of progress.

@Verdesbird ?