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    11 hours ago, integral said:

    I pointed out clairvoyance because it’s such a fuzzy gray concept, and its explained so poorly that it’s unclear how it fits into anything in a tangible way.

    I have plenty of stories where my insights told me something that happened to be true about the people around me or certain things and I just don’t call it clairvoyance.

    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"?

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    54 minutes ago, Tristan12 said:

    That would be going against my intuition and the guidance I am receiving from the universe, which I'm not going to do. My intuition says I need to enjoy myself as much as possible right now, and so that's what I'll do. This lethargy is not a problem, it helps me to surrender and melt away. There is no need for me to be doing anything right now 

    Intuition is good. The universe teaches you regardless.

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    20 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

    What are you smoking??

    He handled that deluded Zionist masterfully.

    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.

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    On 7.4.2025 at 7:28 PM, Lucasxp64 said:

    It's so funny to see the philosopher's conclusions to be basically a mirror of their personal lives.

    Like, Jordan Peterson is a good example. He is a guy with so much of that pent-up moralistic rage energy. And it translates so well with the ideas he is most enamorated about.

    Gabor Maté is right about him.

     

    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.

     

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    23 minutes ago, Daniel Balan said:

    I recently discovered about stage Beige. I am a complete loner. I go to work, I only talk when necessary with my co workers, like work related stuff. But I never wanted to develop any friendly connection with them. Also I cut out all my friends, for like 2 years now. I only talk to people when there is a problem that needs solving usually work related. But other than that, I even cut all connections with my parents, the only persons I have a warm relationship with is my girlfriend and my grandma who raised me since I was 1 years old. The thing is I realized that I actually don't belong in any group, I have no spiritual beliefs, I don't practice any religion, I follow no traditions. Which made me realize how low on the spiral have I fallen. I think I'm maybe beige! I have only 2 people I want to relate to! I thought I'm in red but I don't wanna deal with people at all. My biggest happiness comes when I'm all alone. I'd be the happiest if I were the only person left on earth. That is how my psyche works. I write all of this in order for you guys who have more in depth knowledge about stage Beige, if I am really beige because I totally disconnected myself from society. I did that voluntarily , I am happy the way I am, I was just curious if I am really in stage Beige!

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

  14. Posted · Edited by Carl-Richard

    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.

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    On 12.4.2025 at 4:01 PM, Leo Gura said:

    He is doing it within an Orange framework, not a Yellow one.

    Musk is after personal power. He has an authortarian leadership style which is not aligned with Yellow systemic thinking.

    You guys keep confusing exploitation of systems with systems thinking. These are not at all the same thing.

    Until Musk gives up his authoritarian leadership style I will not consider him Yellow. And he will never give it up.

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

  17. Posted · Edited by Carl-Richard

    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 🥰).

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    Also, people who are just temperamentally careful, agreeable and not very comfortable with taking firm stances, who always qualify their statements with degrees and ifs, "maybe", "probably", are so extremely good at pulling of the Tier 2 larp. What better identity for someone who prefers to not stand up for anything at all than "there are just different perspectives", "you shouldn't be so critical or fight so hard with other perspectives", "people grow at their own pace, be kind".

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    6 hours ago, zurew said:

    In that case , you are using reductionism basically as just "explanation".

    I take reductionism to be a special position with regards to realness and I also take it as a subset of explanations - where it is an explanation but a specific kind - where the notion of realness is only accounted by fundamental parts (this is where the 'you are just atoms bro' come from) . The idea that" lower levels" can exhaustively explain things that are on the "higher level".

    Basically, I  take it to be the rejection of strong emergence , where higher parts have certain causal powers that cant fully be accounted by their lower parts.

     

    To me its very clear that if there are two people and if one of them believes in strong emergence and the other doesn't, then calling both of them reductionist would be very misleading.

    Yeah, but you get the point: reducing reality down to something smaller or simpler, that's what an explanation is. And I get your point: you can sometimes treat the end of the reduction as what is "most real". However, I don't think that is the only thing we tend to call reductionism. I think reductionists often get criticized merely for just reducing a large number of things down to one or a few things, irrespective of any claims of realness. It's the idea that they're missing the bigger picture, epistemologically, rather than making a specific claim ontologically. The classic example is explaining everything with "capitalism", or reducing a complex problem down to simply "capitalism". There, the critique isn't necessarily that they're claiming that capitalism is more "real" than e.g. atoms, but simply that they are using it to explain essentially everything (or really complex problems), and that this is very simplistic, or reductionistic.

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    2 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

    You are expecting too much.

    These labels are rough ballparks based on what we see of a person. It is not a reading of their soul.

    How do you know someone isn't larping as a progressive but is actually a secret Nazi?

    Easy: you look at the before and after the larp has begun, before learning about SD. Were you talking about roughly the same things, or did you suddenly get fixated on a new set of beliefs? Was there always a principled and embodied stance underlying it, or is it pure identity?

    I remember maybe a couple of weeks before my friends introduced me to weed at 16-17 (and I had no knowledge that it would happen then), I had a conversation about drug criminalization with some other friends, and I was speaking critically about it and claimed that maybe weed is not as harmful as it's portrayed and that punishing people for using it makes little to no sense.

    And then after I was introduced to weed, I felt a sense of pride of having held that position before I was introduced to it and before it became a part of my identity. I had sort of reasoned it out of myself. This is sort of the same dynamic I'm pointing towards: is it really you, or is it something you have to believe now because of your newly adopted identity?

    And yes, as everybody is pointing out, I acknowledge pretty well that learning about the right ideas can facilitate development. But I'm getting more and more wary of the cases where it doesn't.