Carl-Richard

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.

That video was actually hilarious 😆

Intuition is good. The universe teaches you regardless.

I added another example to his idea that philosophers' conclusions are basically a mirror of their personal lives. When you believe in questioning repression and being open about one's emotions as Gabor Maté does, it's not surprising that he will sometimes let his emotions loose a little too much, which he recognized himself at the very end of the video.

And Gabor Maté is a histrionic crybaby who lets down all restraints and lashes out emotionally at people and then apologizes afterwards, expressing the addictive cycles of the breakup-makeup dynamic of abusive relationships. Just like the ideas he is enamored about.

Stop eating junk food and do some exercise.

Kill me in a video game.

You're not Beige. You were Beige as an infant.

That it applies to all people all over the world, that Turquoise has a solid empirical or conceptual basis.

Here is a story: I tend to go to the gym late and generally have to rush to get out on time before the gym closes. One day, I was just about to leave within the last minute of closing but I had to pick up some piece of fruit I had dropped down to the floor underneath, and I quickly asked the staff for permission if I could run down and quickly get something, and they responded kindly with "of course". I felt like I came off like a caring and conscientious person. The next week or so, just before closing again, I was about to start my last set but I noticed I had been looking at a clock on the wall that was running approximately 3 minutes too late, and when I decided to do the set, the time was just seconds past closing. So I finished the set with tremendous effort and gusto, probably so that all the staff could hear me. I ran down the stairs to get my stuff from the locker and ran back up to wish the staff goodbye. Then the girl behind the counter (very young and probably under pressure from her father or boss standing next to her) said "we closed 4 minutes ago 😒". And I was currently in a rather aggressive state of mind and you could probably hear it in my voice and the way I was moving, and I thought I must have come off like this kind of arrogant, blunt, "thinks he is tough" kind of guy while I was like "sorry yes, it became a little late" in a semi-pissed off voice. And I'm still planning to tell the staff that they have to fix that clock because I felt offended by that. So how you come off to other people can be very up to the particular circumstances they meet you in.

Tariffs on all YouTube videos posted on the forum. SD-related videos get 125%.

Until Leo makes the admin position of the forum up for democratic election, I will not consider him Yellow

And I bet you if I had framed this thread as "contemplating the limitations and pitfalls of identifying Tier 2", i.e. Tier 2 larping language, everybody would throw themselves at it and provide lists upon lists of spectacular examples and just a free flow of creativity. But because I have this disagreeable tone, I have not primed the Tier 2 larp, and instead people react with their "inner Tier 1", their true self, feeling that their identity, their "single limited perspective", has been attacked and needs defending (being a bit hyperbolic of course; some of you kept it up despite it; and also of course, I know about the power of emotional cuing, priming, framing, so I don't blame you 🥰).

Yes ok, substitute "great actor".