Carl-Richard

Haha it's fucken huge now. But it's going off tomorrow or before 17th of May (Constitution Day in Norway). It's getting more and more ratty as we go. Shaman mode can be on a rotation. I figure everything is doable anyways, building a shelter in the jungle has always seemed like a breeze to me (but who knows, I have only assisted in building a shed, a greenhouse, a wooden enclosure for trash cans, a concrete wall and the grounding for a patio and other minor stuff before lol). I also built kind of a hut before when I was little (a horizontal tree was used as the main ceiling beam), not really much of a shelter that though (maybe for one tiny human). Actually, true survivors do group meditations and shamanic rituals together 😆

Lol. I asked about the cowshit part because I recently walked across a field that was newly fertilized and my clothes smelled like shit afterwards and I couldn't concentrate (I got distracted or whatever). Even when walking on the road next to the field, the smell was just as bad if not worse at times. I think you could've caught the same amount of shit smell from just that. Farmers can just fling shit everywhere and it's totally acceptable 💩 Imagine going to a job interview smelling like shit because you walked next to a field. They should put up signs like "⚠️ Shit ⚠️".

School (or rather "education") is a rule, it's mandated by law; all but 11 countries in the entire world have it. And if you want people to follow the law, you need them to understand the law at a basic level and perhaps be able to read and write, and mandatory schooling is supposed to ensure that. You could say "but I don't want schooling to be a rule", but then I would say you underestimate the impact of 200-300 years of mandatory schooling in the West and how it has created the well-functioning society you see around you. School can be improved, but you would probably still want something similar to the current system if you want people to follow laws. Interesting fun fact: Norway was the first country in the world to get mandatory education laws in 1739, beating Sweden by over 100 years lol. As opposed to what? Consuming YouTube videos? Obedience was not a problem when you said society needs rules.

When I got to zoology and botany in biology in uni (I took a year of biology back in the day), I was plagued by the fact that we had to learn about some classes of animals and not others, and there was seemingly no good reason why. And we had to memorize like 20-30 species of birds and plants. Yep. But evolutionary biology on the other hand, that was my jam. Everything made sense, everything had a reason why you were learning it. But this is maybe more about "coherence" than "application" ("does it make logical sense?", "does one concept connect to the next?"). Perhaps more Ti than Te.

Emperor with this song is something like progressive black metal. The chord progressions are like straight out of jazz fusion and the song structure and dynamics is brilliant. Dimmu Borgir almost sounds like pop music in comparison (I still love them though).

Mr. Air man, I have a question: what happens when you fart inside your room? And what does walking past a newly fertilized (they threw cowshit and piss on it) field do to you?

Then I think we might be watering down the concept as you've said. Is teaching your kids to not break the law abuse? Sadhguru did not put his child in school before 12 years old, specifically to avoid indoctrinating her (he even told people not to teach her anything vaguely school-related when interacting with her). But he made her travel with him all across the country. She did not have a say in that. And of course that affected her beliefs a certain way than if she had "decided" not to travel with him. At some point, treating school or church as a concrete thing or place you can choose to go to or not is a bit simpleminded and reductionistic. The very environment you are born into is technically a place you can choose whether to be in or not, and it affects your beliefs just the same. The only strong difference is that school and church has an organized and strong agenda behind it, people having an intention to teach something to somebody. But this intention exists in micro-versions as Sadhguru was aware of in daily interactions with people, and even without any intention to teach or even the active intention to prevent teaching from happening, you are passively being molded by your surroundings, happenings and events in a just as significant if not a more significant way. Bringing up a child has an element of coercion if you want them to live successfully inside a state (a place with a government) or simply a community with behavioral expectations. They have to conform to either laws or norms or both, or else they will be punished. And of course if all of this is abuse, then what is letting them "choose" to be independent of these things, letting them go live in the jungle alone (let's assume a kid, a very young kid, just keeps wandering into the jungle any time you let them out of sight)? Maybe laws and norms can protect children from neglect, as you've alluded to, a form of abuse. So can abuse maybe depend on other things than coercion, influences of beliefs, and teaching, and perhaps social responsibility, expectations, duty? Can coercion be a social expectation, a duty, and can it even be morally good?

Is putting your kids in school abuse? School surely affects their beliefs, and they usually don't have much of a choice whether to go or not.

Enlightenment is perfect, unconditional flow.

That's a lethal amount of darts 💘🥴

Them being born is then a form of abuse, taking them to school is a form of abuse, letting them watch TV, YouTube, the news, joining a youth political party. Nobody has any idea what they are doing when they are born and are just exposed to things outside their control. That's life.

Of course, the less philosophically informed you are, the more prone you are to falling for "AI is conscious because it speaks to me" and other bullshit like that. Being a "scientist" in this case only strengthens the self-deception (biology is generally not a very philosophically informed field, although this is changing at the cutting edge with e.g. Michael Levin). Mike Israetel is another example.

You'll become a mosquito or earthworm in the next life if you try to cheat.

Stardew Valley seems like a simplified version of RuneScape. I've played (OldSchool) RuneScape for more hours than some of you have been alive (jking). I haven't logged in for months, even though I started a project aiming to improve my hybridding PvP skills, specifically learning to use brews instead of solid food. The goal is to be better off at the next Deadman Mode game mode (and also just be better at hybridding in general; it's a very fun hobby).

Do you have a life purpose?

If your actions do not at some point lead you to a place where you do what you want to do, you have failed as an organism. Passion is the immediate feedback that you're doing is what you want to do. If you don't at least aim at passion, irrespective of the privilege you have to access it right now, you're ultimately working against yourself.

I'm at Dual-8-Back The levels after 4-5 tend to have lesser of a difference between them compared to levels 2-3. That is, once you're at Dual 4-Back, it shouldn't take much to jump up more levels (you might in fact be able to jump multiple at once). I think I spent the least time on level 6 of all the levels.

Maximizing meaning and purpose. It hyper-charges your brain with dopamine, it increases your IQ by several 10-points; and not willy-nilly like taking a drug — holy, sacred, crystalline dopamine which is embodied and aligned with a goal and purpose, which harmonizes with and uncovers the faultlines of true/higher reality. Then you also have brain training techniques like N-Back training and image streaming (can only vouch for the former, haven't tried the latter). N-Back is good for extending short-term memory length and capacity and generally increasing working memory capacity, image streaming is purportedly very good for training imaginative ability, semantic connectivity and verbal fluency. I worry if I try image streaming I might actually go insane. I don't think practicing random off-the-cuff associative thinking would be good for me (I think I already have more than enough but who knows), but working memory yes.

I've held half a skull with a brain in there, does that count? 🥥

Like I said, I've never done it before 😀 I'm unsure if it will at any point crack like an egg because of the thickness (ChatGPT it).

Bonesaw. I've only sliced brains but not opened skulls before.

Semen has more protein than cow milk. I won't add a joke to this 🥴 I presume we're talking about liquid cockroaches here and not milking cockroaches from their presumably non-existent non-mammalian udders? EDIT: I was wrong. Regardless, I think a liquid cow could be just as nutritious pound-for-pound as a liquid cockroach.

Me listening to brutal blackened technical slam death metal: "yes" Me discovering trace amounts of heavy metal in my fish dish: "get tha heell outta here"

Only generalizing, or generalizing a lot, can cause some issues. An antidote could be listing different alternatives and then synthesizing them. For example, with sex addiction, you can list many things: trauma, personal predisposition, personal beliefs, culture, neurological issues, cognitive styles, attention, awareness, executive control, values, life orientation, suppression, transmutation, habit. And sex addiction might not even be the right concept here. The OP seems to be struggling with some obsessive-compulsive thoughts around sex. It can often come from a desire to control or do things properly, which can come from many things, perhaps a belief, perhaps trauma, or personal experiences that cause lack of control and expressing it through control over sex can be a byproduct. Or perhaps a general cognitive style of control. And maybe you can challenge that need for control with acceptance, either by accepting the controlling behavior or relinquishing the need to control at all. What are you aiming at with the control after all? Feeling at ease with yourself? Or is the goal more important than that, is it bigger than yourself (maybe it isn't in this case)?