swayvil

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811.
by swayvil 3y ago
What do you mean by meditation? I mean it's a funny subject. And so is neurodivergency for that matter. You're comparing one deep mystery with another deep mystery. How about a "maybe" or a "I don't know"?
812.
by swayvil 3y ago
Can you recommend a good meditation forum?
813.
by swayvil 3y ago
Story-end-first means focusing on the stories. The big ideas and such. Dogma and rituals. Philosophy. As opposed to getting something real that you can observe firsthand. A solid method with solid results. It can be a problem because there&
814.
by swayvil 3y ago
I'm sure that you're equipped with at least a minimal imagination. No doubt you can think up a few obvious ones as easily as me.
815.
by swayvil 3y ago
There are plenty of ways to eat that don't require smothering the world's communication like a modern day Sauron.
816.
by swayvil 3y ago
Then add a detail if you think it's important. Be my guest.
817.
by swayvil 3y ago
Tight logos. Nice work. Yes, respect your process first. Clearly. All dreams of growth are insubstantial, comparatively.
818.
by swayvil 3y ago
Well it's a pretty good story surrounding meditation : what mediation can do for you, the philosophies about it, sounds kinda like magic, etc. Which would attract story-lovers. And might lead them to approach it from the story-end firs
819.
by swayvil 3y ago
Not better, saner. By saner I mean they seem to be more organized and grounded. I mean look at Erowid. Here's the method : here's the report. We have some pudding, we have some proof. Straightforward as heck. Whereas the meditatio
820.
by swayvil 3y ago
It's like we're in the Matrix. And the Matrix is a little island in the middle of a big ocean. Tripping, meditating, dreaming and a hundred other methods will get you into the ocean. Show it to you, splash around the shoreline, go
821.
by swayvil 3y ago
Now there's a product. "Universal safety and security". Universal safety and security is pushed almost ubiquitously. Like it's a holy truth. Trumping all other concerns. And anybody who argues for anything else is just s
822.
by swayvil 3y ago
Hey I meditate too. Vipassana. You?
823.
by swayvil 3y ago
Just out of curiosity, what's an example of an invalid method for getting knowledge?
824.
by swayvil 3y ago
Well there are shifts of perspective other than labeling. Just as abstracted and deranging. Those are good to pause too. Buy ya, we are good to pause the entire mess.
825.
by swayvil 3y ago
You could call "craft" understanding and power gained from firsthand experience with a thing. As opposed to experience with ideas about a thing, models and abstractions and stories and such. The former is of course infinitely de
826.
by swayvil 3y ago
Gimme the short version.
827.
by swayvil 3y ago
So you think the article uses the term "spiritual" differently? I confess, did not read. I'm getting kinda alienated from reading. Anything more than a sentence and I drift. But ya. You know what helps you understand the tast
828.
by swayvil 3y ago
Science is one method for getting knowledge. Other methods are "see for yourself" and "get it from an authority". All have their pros and cons. One downside of science is its reliance upon communication. It shares its fa
829.
by swayvil 3y ago
Actually, sleep deprivation, even for one night, is definitely a health issue. And the only reason it's accepted is because it's so common. It's the modern equivalent of drinking out of lead cups. (And of course a sleep-depri
830.
by swayvil 3y ago
Go to the hospital healthy, come out sick. I don't have a medical degree or anything but that's crazy. (Also, the nurse said nobody sleeps here. Not just the people under observation.)
831.
by swayvil 3y ago
Yeah I get the obvious theory. But it's like putting a tourniquet around your neck to stop a nosebleed.
832.
by swayvil 3y ago
My friend spent the night in the hospital recently, for observation. She didn't sleep a wink. With all the beeping and alarms and periodic checks and procedures. Mostly involving her roommate. The next morning she was mentally and phys
833.
by swayvil 3y ago
What if the billionaires behind those parties, who funded those "nazi" or "communist" parties, funded a party and gave it a different name. Would it be ok then?
834.
by swayvil 3y ago
The inventors at Google and Apple and Microsoft also like to trip on the occasional LSD. That might be something else China will have to allow if they want to be a magical radical land of invention.
835.
by swayvil 3y ago
Not only must the work be ideologically correct, the work must also be understandable by ruling ideologues. That is a serious choke point. The ideologue brain is incompatible with big weird scifi ideas. We see that in the west too.
836.
by swayvil 3y ago
I'd like to see what they have in the way of real science fiction. (Yes, I know.) I mean scifi that explores strange ideas. Like Egan, Banks and Hughes. Rather than the usual dramas with added futuristic technology.
837.
by swayvil 3y ago
Re : reshaped brains. I think that's legit. Given the entire panorama of experience, the sights sounds, smells, feelings, thoughts, etc. People are moving into thoughtland and becoming alienated to all else. The office job, the tv, vid
838.
by swayvil 3y ago
To see with my own eyes, think with my own brain and learn from my own experiences? Outrageous! Give me the secondhand wisdom of authoritative strangers every time.
839.
by swayvil 3y ago
I've heard them called "seekers of power" and "climbers" and "lizard people". It's an inherent problem with a society I think. That it gives them something to climb, to get control of. It only makes s
840.
by swayvil 3y ago
Well yes. I'm thinking that if we can decode the brain in this one way then we can probably decode it in other ways too.

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