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> your brain will rot from being so narrowly focused on this one thing It depends on a person. Many people work on the same ideas for dozens of years. The "try everything" approach…

> patient-hopping my dentists here in the US always did Wow, is it a regular thing?

Yes, altruism balances egocentrism.

Nope, Tumblr is already up.

Spanish countries do it for years with "@" or "x" like "estimad@s" for "estimados" and "estimadas" at once. And Latin America is not very politically correct, it's just respectful …

Alan Watts is awesome, I highly recommend "Out of your mind" lectures.

Or we can be mindful and do not follow our ancient "animal" behavioral patterns.

Understood, sorry if I sounded rude then. I've encountered many stereotypes on this topic from non-Russian russophiles in the last politically-intensive years - that's why I respon…

All people are talking to broadcast their views. In this case I just opposed to these statements because I thought he had some utopian views of life there: > It's about when other …

What a thought through objection! Here's a perfect example of the "responsible" Russian culture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=438sGy9IE58 This video is not fake - I've experienc…

Duh, sorry, but the culture and history of Russia (and neighboring slavic countries) is an example of how to run away from all sorts of responsibilities. Probably it sounds good in…

You should read about the amount of slave labour and deaths by purges that was required for these "astonishing" results. Also "space travelling" means nothing when more than half o…

Also technical people are usually very arrogant in human sciences. Just because psychology or art are not defined in formulas that doesn't mean they're easy. Quite opposite: they'r…

> Drinking 3+ glasses of milk daily Huh? There's some correlation with prostate cancer[1] but that's it. [1] http://www.pcrm.org/health/health-topics/milk-consumption-an...

Yes, because it have become an institution and transformed into rules of society in many countries. Many people are using it as a cargo cult without studying its philosophy and man…

I'm very intrigued to hear about your Golden Age philosophies or at least some Silver Age ones. Because the core ideas of Buddhism are the only ones that can be applied directly to…

> If you believe you have to meditate to not go to flaming eternal hell, that's religion. Buddhist "hell" is purely logical, there're no concepts in vanilla Buddhism that are not l…

> All religions are silly ridiculous relics. Let's stop talking about them. Why generalize? How about the core parts of Buddhism that are literally a checklist on how to calm your …

It's strange that after a couple decades of meditation you call obviously helpful things "stupid". Please be mindful, everybody has their own ways.

2 years on subscription (though I meditate without Headspace more). There're many techniques and ideas in different Headspace courses that were quite useful for me and I added them…

I use Apple BT keyboard for almost 4 years now. I've always loved slim keyboards and it's the best slim keyboard you can find. Also small arrows is a great idea: you can navigate t…

I think you meant this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpAMbpQ8J7g

It's important to not describe meditation in terms of "thinking less" because then novices try to reject or block their thoughts and strain their minds. Better phrasing is somethin…

All games are Skinner boxes. F2P are just more obvious ones.

I'm not passionate about programming at all. It's just the best way to make money from home. But I keep my skill growing anyway because I'd like to produce better software products…