Carl-Richard

The MBTI fanatics got banned 😝

Just curious, do you fancy yourself situated in Tier 2 in Spiral Dynamics?

In retrospect, the profanity was not needed, but the rest was. I'll apologize, but I think you should think about how it makes someone feel when you call them not manly for really no reason.

So essentially everything in your life is not wise, and it has nothing to do with gender in particular. Great.

Let me leave a reminder that making mega-threads about listing examples of bad things can be a provoker of epistemic scoundrelness and self-deception, as you create a habit of putting up walls between what you like and identify with (and think is you) vs what you don't like and don't think is you. When the "bad" constantly gets put into what is not you, you can become blind to that in yourself. And there should be a virtue (e.g. temperance, balance) that excessive judgement impacts clear judgement. Maybe a way to combat this is for each example you post, you also post something about yourself. If this mega-thread is indeed a practice meant to benefit you, maybe it could be helpful.

Literally abuser talk. Gaslighting instead of answering a simple question. Stand up for what you think. Answer the question. Be a man.

Instead of calling other people water people, why don't you answer the question which I've been asking for the third time now and which you've been evading with your water boy attitude? This level of forwardness in my response is completely intentional, because you are being incredibly disrespectful to the original poster.

What else is not wise? Please stop evading and answer the question.

Treat them like they're a kid who just explained to you what they learned in science class today about volcanoes.

I might have slightly overstated my case here in the original post. It's not that being Tier 2 or any stage is only about what your life is or what it looks like from the outside. It's that once you learn about Spiral Dynamics and Tier 2, it becomes truly impossible to tell what your stage is, because humans are the mimicking animal. We ape after what we find fascinating and valueable (and the highest SD stage we can conceive of). And we are so extremely good at it that we even fool ourselves. And that is why we need other methods to reliably determine what our development is. Only after a very long time of deeply involved mimicking, you might actually become the thing you are mimicking. But then again, if we take the "official" words of the authors of these models (which you can doubt, but then there are also many more things you should doubt), even this might take decades. Or to be honest, this has as far as I know not been studied at all (i.e. the effect of taking in knowledge and values from higher SD stages). But if this forum is any proof, I don't think it makes very much of a difference 😂 (I'm of course partially joking with you guys 😉😋). So my point in a nutshell is that once you have learned about SD, any claims about your own SD development become so unreliable as to be essentially invalid. If you want to get anything resembling a reliable estimate (and even then it's shady at best, giving that humans are also the bullshitting animal), survey yourself from before you learned about the model.

It's because Sasha's cousin is a leading researcher on Asberger's 😗

Do you know why the feminist lesbian in the movie is called "Alison Burgers"?

And sometimes , always, they fit in a stage or two or three lower than they think.

No, in everything. You seem to think changing one's gender is not permitted. What else is not permitted?

What changes are permitted vs not permitted? It means God allows change.

At what point does changing something about myself become "denying my God-given role" vs just changing something surface-like about myself like my appearance?

There are many things that can make one feel unwell. Especially when reality is split into two largely mutually exclusive scenarios, which sex often is. Acceptance for feeling unwell plays a role, but so does making oneself feel well. If your kid falls off the bike, you don't accept them laying there hurting, you pick them up and make them try again. Riding a bike vs falling down can be a tricky business and treating falling only as "the role God gave you" can be a bit, shall we say, dogmatic and inflexible.

Over time, I've been convinced by the idea that "mental disorder" (as opposed to "disorders") is a more unitary phenonema that can be put on a general spectrum of "well" to "unwell". And when you are pushed to the side of "unwell" (be it by environment, genes, stress, life situations), general symptoms of disease pop up; in the beginning of the spectrum maybe milder symptoms of ADHD, OCD, neuroticism, rumination, while later down the spectrum, symptoms of schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, depression (and the aforementioned beginning symptoms in more extreme forms). In other words, it's not that suddenly at some point in your life, you start manifesting a clear cut phenotype of say "schizophrenic", but usually it's that you experience general disease; anxiety, panic attacks, social maladjustment, maladaptive coping strategies; and some people tend to get very ill and lean more in one direction (e.g. schizophrenic psychotic symptoms) while some more in another direction (e.g. bipolar psychotic symptoms). And often you can experience symptoms somewhere in-between these two (and we even have a "category" for this: "schizoaffective disorder"). You don't necessarily fall into one category (in fact, you virtually never do). At the same time, you do get the sense that some illnesses are more "hardwired" and unitary than others. For example, many people with bipolar disorder type 1 seem to be able to live quite functional lives at times when they are not psychotic, and that when the psychosis starts, it's like they are being taken over by something. But still, the times they do become psychotic, you can very often point to some situation in their life, some challenges and some maladaptive coping strategies that makes them spiral into that state. And it's just an extreme form of general unstability which you can see in many people, maybe even yourself, that when you e.g. become very overwhelmed by things that you need to do, pressure, deadlines, etc., you can enter this elevated and restless state. Bipolar disorder is just this taken to the extreme (and some are more prone to escalate to that extreme than others).

Is there one person or topic in the world you're not cynical about?

Stop eating food right now. Oh, so you're attached to the illusion of being a human? If I put on the wrong color t-shirt, I become mentally unwell.

😂 200 IQ multi-leveled joke

Almost a year ago when I decided on what study I would do for my master's, I thought my results for my study wouldn't be good, and that my advisor would essentially offer me a job and it would be a test of my integrity. Both happened within the last month (although I haven't seen all the results yet ☺️). Am I clairvoyant or just "insightful"?

Evidence against clairvoyance 🤨? More like evidence against omniscience.

Have you applied to Glovo yet?

Terrence Howard = retarded. Q. E. D.