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Yeah, it's these "different ideas" of contemplative studies that gives it a bad name. There are especially a lot of grifters in the west selling snakeoil "eastern medicine." Ultima…

>it just sounds like it provides a temporary feel good experience. I think you're missing the point of optimizing for subjective experience over objective knowledge. The feel good …

Yes. All my therapists have referred me to meditation and explained to me that Cognitive Behavioral Therapy takes some influence from it. There are tons of articles published in jo…

The west has shifted into believing subjective experience is useless compared to objective knowledge. This is like a BackEnd engineer saying that he doesn't believe the FrontEnd ex…

What are the logistics for this? Does ByteDance clone their repo and make America the owner?

Be kind. Be humorous. Be gentle. “In this world … you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant. Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzO…

Hey man. Graal was an intimate part of my life growing up. I had thousands of hours logged on Valikorlia and a few hundred on other playerworlds. It was a good idea. It's where I f…

I played Graal for 10+ years, mostly on Valikorlia, but I tossed around Era and Maloria too; I started some time between 2002 and 2005. But I didn't realize its main website had be…

> thinking in words and sentences sounds like thoughts being weighed and slowed down This has been my experience as I've learned to stop thinking in words. I realized at one point …

I can do both. Getting rid of the inner voice took a lot of therapy and meditation and I still struggle; I had it for most of my life. The "inner voice" is absolutely a real voice,…

Would a machine solving the trolly problem on whether to hit the wall vs some cyclists ever choose to hit the wall in a way that damages the driver, bounces into the people and dam…

I've no interest in controlling the people around me. I'm interested in controlling myself, which I'm not allowed to do at work due to the need to survive. Your choices are determi…

It's too true and so depressing. People can't stand up to the immense volumes of resources and hundreds (thousands?) of years of research these organizations are founded on. All my…

When you know, you know. I'm sorry you've been through the hell. I hope you're doing better.

>I'm working on convincing myself that not all persuasive communication is bad! By a series of unfortunate events I've been victim to gaslighting from a lot of people in my persona…

>one reason I enjoy limiting how much television I watch Absolutely. I've no delusion that I can combat the manipulation. The best defense is to not absorb the data to begin with.

>I sincerely hope we soon enter a future where everyone has options that best suit them. I'd like that too. I am curious, why do you like going into the office? Does it give you so…

It's been a bit like having access to my computer's terminal for me. I didn't expect the power. I did way more than just turn off the distractions. I fucked some shit up and had to…

Complete manipulative nonsense if they ever use "top of the band" as reason to change their relationship with you imo. A Ferrari doesn't stop being Ferrari just because it's parked…

It is a bit ridiculous to base these things off location when the location would reduce the taxes the company pays for you. I'd like to understand how these market values are calcu…

It leads to me wanting to kill myself more often and needing to invest more time in therapy, commutes, and recovery. And over half the engineers I've spoken with, who drop their fa…

Survival is enough. I think living is more important than working. Working exists so that you don't die. We should do the work necessary that everyone thrives, otherwise our choice…