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  1. Posted · Edited by Carl-Richard

    4 hours ago, Bazooka Jesus said:

    My mother used to play the classical metal concert flute; I got that old thing lying around somewhere here in my flat, but can't play a single damn note on it. (When I look at those:ph34r: entwined valves, I am like "uuuuuuummmm, wut? Which way am I supposed to hold this thing again?" LOL)

    Oh yeah, I'm pretty sure that is what my mom plays. I think I got to try to play it once and it made zero sense to me how it worked (maybe because I was like 7 years old 😆).

    My dad plays the violin and my parents tried to make me play it when I was 5 years old, but I didn't like it. Then my dad spotted me playing air guitar with this random wooden sword when I was 11, and he seized the opportunity and asked "should we buy you an electric guitar?". He is not a guy to simply buy stuff, so I was genuinely surprised and of course very happy. I think he was waiting for that moment all his life xD; the spark of inspiration, intrinsic motivation. I think he implicitly (maybe explicitly, I can't remember) taught me about the concept of intrinsic motivation, and it's one of the deepest concepts I've learned that is still with me to this day. I think I can thank him for most of my wacky spiritual genes (although my mother has also become overtly more spiritual over time).

     

    4 hours ago, Bazooka Jesus said:

    I play an alto recorder instead (also my mother's)... mostly for meditation purposes, or when I am sitting in the park, or when I'm chilling on the porch of a lonely hut somewhere in the Himalayas smoking hash. You know, snake charmer stoner hippie style. :D

    Ah, so you are the frontman of Jethro Tull after all. I was going to ask you that ^_^ Sitting on a park bench (I'll spare you the rest xD).

     

    4 hours ago, Bazooka Jesus said:

    My mother used to play the classical metal concert flute; I got that old thing lying around somewhere here in my flat, but can't play a single damn note on it. (When I look at those entwined valves, I am like "uuuuuuummmm, wut? Which way am I supposed to hold this thing again?" LOL)

    I play an alto recorder instead (also my mother's)... mostly for meditation purposes, or when I am sitting in the park, or when I'm chilling on the porch of a lonely hut somewhere in the Himalayas smoking hash. You know, snake charmer stoner hippie style. :D

    Holy crap, you must have some serious whistling skills. Daaaaayum!!

    Hehe I might be exaggerating a little bit about how smooth I can pull it off, but I do like to whistle a lot, so much so I had to tone it down because I was pissing off my roommates while cooking :ph34r:

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    4 hours ago, Ulax said:

    If you learn shinzen young's see hear feel meditation method, you can meditate whilst watching anything. So even something low consciousness you are watching can become high consciousness

    That can turn into a massive neurosis though, so beware. I'm speaking from personal experience. The thought "am I being conscious enough?" is the least conscious thing you can introduce into every aspect of your life.

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    4 hours ago, Bazooka Jesus said:

    Occasionally, just for fun. And mostly flute, 'cause it's the only instrument that comfortably fits into my backpack. ;)

    Flute 😃 I like Jethro Tull. And that's about as far as my flute interest goes. Or maybe Camel or early King Crimson. My mom plays some kind of flute instrument that I forgot the name of.

     

    I can actually whistle the flute run in that one 🤓

     

    4 hours ago, Bazooka Jesus said:

    What instruments do you play?

    Guitar, sometimes drums. Whistling.

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    57 minutes ago, Bazooka Jesus said:

    Fun fact... my first paid job as a musician after moving to Berlin was playing guitar on this track right here:

    And no, that guy in the picture holding the guitar is not me. xD

    Haha that's cool 😃 You still play music?  I've only been "hired" to play in three family-related birthday parties (I was not paid in cash, only in honor, or laughs 😥).

  6. Posted · Edited by Carl-Richard

    On 23.4.2024 at 0:58 AM, Princess Arabia said:

    Go ask a baby what does the word "means" mean. Good luck. Ask an adult they will tell you what they learnt what "means" mean. It's learnt. Doesn't mean anything. Go ask a tiger, ask a giraffe, ask a man who cannot read or write. It only has meaning to someone who has made an interpretation of the word. An interpretation is not actual. 

    That's not a problem. Meaning is often like that. You're looking for a special kind of meaning, an absolute meaning.

  7. Posted · Edited by Carl-Richard

    @Agrande

    I see. I'm happy that it ended well for you.

    It's not clear how SSRIs work to alleviate depression, but one hypothesis is that it causes neurogenesis in the hippocampus. The hippocampus can get damaged by excess cortisol (which is a factor in depression), and the hippocampus is involved in inhibiting the HPA axis, which effectively decreases the production of cortisol. It could be that taking SSRIs for a year restored some of your damaged hippocampus and thus dampened the chronic stress response associated with your depression.

  12. Posted · Edited by Carl-Richard

    3 hours ago, zurew said:

    Speaking of convergence - this is random and not related to this thread, but Im going through again some of the meaning crisis videos and convergence and multi-aptness or elegance (when a theory transfers to many different domains) came up and Im wondering if you know any good literature that talks about either how to create theories that are trustworthy and elegant at the same time or literature that specifically focuses on either trustworthiness or elegance.

    Other than literature on systems theory (e.g. F. Capra,  G. Bateson), I don't, I'm sorry. Systems theory is essentially a hyper-generalized version of what were talking about. Other than that, most of these things I've gleaned from people like Vervaeke, Peterson, Kastrup, Wilber.

  13. Posted · Edited by Carl-Richard

    7 hours ago, zurew said:

    Fuck, I got ackhsuallyd xD.

    🤓

     

    7 hours ago, zurew said:

    But you probably don't think that all frames are equally correct, no? (by correct I mean corresponding to reality)

    Fundamentally, I believe the correctness of a frame depends on your goal (pragmatism); frames can be more or less correct (useful) relative to that goal. But it becomes a bit more complicated when you enter meta-theoretic territory. For example, could realism and skepticism be useful for different things?

    Does using a criteria like convergence (how often something pops up in different places) for ranking the "trustworthiness" of something, make you a realist, or are you still a pragmatist if you say it's merely useful to do so? Does showing skepticism towards most knowledge claims make you a skeptic, or are you still a pragmatist if you say it's merely useful to do so? What if these realist and skeptic tendencies co-exist, then what are you? A meta-theorist? (😉) The thread "The Four Epistemic Naiveties/Pitfalls" touches on this:

     

     

  15. Posted · Edited by Carl-Richard

    9 minutes ago, zurew said:

    @Carl-Richard You missed your opportunity to drop "Intrinsic joy is revealed in the marriage of meaning and being."

    Hehe, well, technically, I'm dropping it every time I'm posting 😉 But also, I don't feel the need to just use one frame all the time 😛😆

    Also, it's really synonymous with eudaimonia which was mentioned earlier. It's just a particular concretization of the concept that I like :D

  16. Posted · Edited by Carl-Richard

    7 hours ago, Princess Arabia said:

    Happening to no one. There's no you being happy. It's a feeling that the "I" energy thinks it's his and identifies with in the dream of the separate self. It's just what's arising for Noone. It happens spontaneously and goes as quick as it comes. 

    So that's one frame, a very skeptical frame (containing a lot of negations with little actual affirmative content). It's also a generalizing frame ("energy", "identity" and "dream" are more general than "happiness"). What about a more affirmative and concretizing frame? After all, you're using many words right now that supposedly have a specific meaning, or else I wouldn't be able to understand anything you're saying. Could you define those words for me in a rich and concrete way, i.e. actually describing what they are and not leaning so much on negations and generalizations? Or could you just do that for happiness?

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    24 minutes ago, fopylo said:

    @Carl-Richard

    True. Thanks for pointing it out, I haven't thought about this. Perhaps we are all still trying to grow ourselves🙂

    Then of course, self-improvement does produce significantly improved individuals as well where you notice a significant difference, as you've rightly intuited. However, those individuals are probably relatively rare. Most self-improvement people have either just started their journey and experienced little to medium progress, or merely show interest in it, or even wear it as an egoic garment. And again, all these people were probably a little more neurotic (conflicted) than the average person on the street when they started. So all in all, you probably shouldn't expect a big difference in either direction.

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    On 30.1.2024 at 11:56 PM, Princess Arabia said:

    Yeah, I think that's really what I was trying to say. People really feel unmotivated because they are not aligned with what they are meant to do. I agree with your statement whole-heartedly.

     

     

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    I'm tired of being what you want me to be
    Feeling so faithless, lost under the surface
    Don't know what you're expecting of me
    Put under the pressure of walking in your shoes

    Every step that I take is another mistake to you
    (Caught in the undertow, just caught in the undertow)

    I've become so numb
    I can't feel you there
    Become so tired
    So much more aware
    I'm becoming this
    All I want to do
    Is be more like me
    And be less like you

    Can't you see that you're smothering me
    Holding too tightly, afraid to lose control?
    'Cause everything that you thought I would be
    Has fallen apart right in front of you

    Every step that I take is another mistake to you
    (Caught in the undertow, just caught in the undertow)
    And every second I waste is more than I can take

    I've become so numb
    I can't feel you there
    Become so tired
    So much more aware
    I'm becoming this
    All I want to do
    Is be more like me
    And be less like you

    And I know
    I may end up failing too
    But I know
    You were just like me with someone disappointed in you

    I've become so numb
    I can't feel you there
    Become so tired
    So much more aware
    I'm becoming this
    All I want to do
    Is be more like me
    And be less like you

    I've become so numb
    I can't feel you there
    (I'm tired of being what you want me to be)
    I've become so numb
    I can't feel you there
    (I'm tired of being what you want me to be)

     

    Now I know why I always loved this song <3

  23. Posted · Edited by Carl-Richard

    The safest bet is to not do it, but the next safest is to try very small doses in the beginning. It's usually the larger doses that trigger acute psychosis, but smaller doses can increase the chance of psychosis developing over time.

    Be aware that also meditation can make you respond differently to psychedelics than other people.

  25. Posted · Edited by Carl-Richard

    Hedonism vs. eudaimonia. Don't do more of the same things: do the right things, at the right place, at the right time, in the right way. That is what virtue is, what balance is; flexibility, functionality, health.

    The trick is that eudaimonia requires facing your skeletons head on, tracing every step your mind makes to justify its behavior, and catch it before it escapes into its addictive cycles again. That requires some awareness, deliberation and repeated experience of seeing how the hedonism strategy fails. But until then, it might seem like it's Easier To Run:

    (I'm in love with this song. It's probably not the last time I'll be quoting Linkin Park songs btw).