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by seigando 6y ago
Yeah, but those professors weren't claiming to be shining examples of ethics or practices that were supposed to lead to ethical behavior. Anyways, basically your point is that meditation is like drugs in that it gets you high and helps
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by seigando 6y ago
yeah dude, you are going way out on a limb there. But wait...you've done a whole lot of dissociative practices? So basically you're totally dissociated from reality? (to put things in your own words) So again...why would I care? e
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by seigando 6y ago
I think it's really weird how you still act like you have any qualification in this arena.
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by seigando 6y ago
I can believe that you might believe that, but you’ve also demonstrated a lack of reality based belief, so excuse me if I don’t care what you think.
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by seigando 6y ago
I didn’t say nobody would find them offensive.
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by seigando 6y ago
I actually haven’t insulted your intelligence.
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by seigando 6y ago
Yeah it seemed weird to me that those got flagged but also in line with a lot of what I read here. If you have something authoritative to say about meditation, I may read it, but I don’t think you’re off to a good start so far. I’ve been ge
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by seigando 6y ago
Or with just a little self understanding and nuance, they could use the groups in the ways that help them, and still maintain healthy boundaries for self-care.
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by seigando 6y ago
Or with just a little self understanding and nuance, they could use the groups in the ways that help them, and still maintain healthy boundaries for self-care.
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by seigando 6y ago
What do you mean?
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by seigando 6y ago
Very insightful comment, though I might point out that bad memories on their own don't inherently cause significant issues, it's in the the how/if one reacts to them.
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by seigando 6y ago
Probably depends on how one defines positive effect.
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by seigando 6y ago
It's pretty significant how many people are willing to hurt themselves due to 'social pressure'.
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by seigando 6y ago
Really? Didn't seem to be much there to misinterpret. edit: also, instead of clarifying what you meant, you doubled down on your claims. That doesn't speak to me of misinterpretation on my part.
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by seigando 6y ago
I'm not assuming. You've demonstrated your knowledge on the subject.
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by seigando 6y ago
Thanks. It's nice to see there are people who've had similar misgivings around that whole culture.
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by seigando 6y ago
...so you're qualified to make that sort of statement? Got any publications to back it up for example? Concentrating on something for a cumulative 10 hours and 45 minutes is actually not uncommon in the slightest. Does everyone who foc
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by seigando 6y ago
That’s... not what this kind of meditation is about. Nor is that necessarily what happened. Shockingly ignorant and dismissive of you.
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by seigando 6y ago
Ah ok I guess the tone didn’t get through to me, though it does still sound like Alexander is making a similar claim about ultimate reality and mental health.
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by seigando 6y ago
Lovecraft didn’t actually have any special insight into ultimate reality. He was at least a little bit crazy. Not really a good reference for any of this.
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by seigando 6y ago
Also of note in this article is that the hospital drugged her until she appeared cheerful....and then released her. I think this article actually says more about the state of mental health care in this country than problems with meditation.
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by seigando 6y ago
I have significant experience with meditation, and I tend to agree with Lieberman in this article. Trying to pin Megan's condition on meditation alone is sort of like blaming your mother for lifting up the carpet to find that's wh
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by seigando 6y ago
Yes it became immensely clear this week regarding issues with unsufficiently regulated clearinghouses. Mr. Levine goes into this about halfway through the article.
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by seigando 6y ago
The rules were written, and have been interpreted with certain perceptions of 'who is deserving'. To claim that they weren't is at best ignorant.
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by seigando 6y ago
Oh dear, those poor hedge funds.
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US Ice officers 'used torture to make Africans sign own deportation orders'(theguardian.com)
6 points by seigando 6y ago|0 comments
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Majority of child sex abuse images reported by US tech firms come from Facebook(news.sky.com)
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Pentagon funnels $7.4B in surplus military gear to police(taskandpurpose.com)
59 points by seigando 6y ago|76 comments
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Facebook removes hundreds of fake profiles tied to pro-Trump group(theguardian.com)
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by seigando 6y ago
Submission Statement: I imagine this is going to get flagged for politics, but when I saw the article I thought about how surely there's something that could be done to mitigate this damage: e.g. a centralized online resource with the

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