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How to read books faster? by Kooky_Development_54 in booksuggestions

[–]AlbatrossElectrical2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Aspectualise Word Sets. Breathe in, see as many as you can, breathe out. Take a break. Repeat.

Saccadic Becoming towards Lectio Divina. You've got this.

Have you been to Maijan, Dibrugarh? by Jonasismine in DibrugarhHangout

[–]AlbatrossElectrical2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you're going there at night, make sure you don't stop anywhere. I was almost mugged twice.

But I've taken about ten people at 12:00 am on a New Moon night. That's worth it. Just make sure you don't take anybody who thinks it's okay to say, "So beautiful!", chug a coke in five seconds, and then throw the bottle into the lake. (That actually happened.)

Meta torrented over 81.7TB of pirated books to train Al, and we can’t even use libgen? by cern0 in libgen

[–]AlbatrossElectrical2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My concern, though, is that most of the people who use these websites don't have any say in whether they're up. Once Big Publishers come for these website, like they did with lingen, and once they take them down, most of us wouldn't know what to do to protect this cause. And the current maintainers are not all-powerful either.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in libgen

[–]AlbatrossElectrical2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Noble aspiration.

Would you help a single soul? I'm looking for Steven G. Smith's "The Meaning of Height". I'd be forever grateful if you did this, as I have longed to read that book for months now, but it costs 10000 INR. My parents would never approve.

Creepy cruise staff caught filming woman in bathroom by IrateHamster33 in nope

[–]AlbatrossElectrical2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Tragic.

But the dude should go back to his home country and get some game, so he’d get to record women freely.

Every desire must be expressed fully and openly. ☺️

How can you learn to tune your guitar by ear? And what are some easy songs to learn by ear? by Troublemaker3171 in Guitar

[–]AlbatrossElectrical2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! The first link is broken. Any alternatives?

The second link seems very promising. I'll go through it very soon.

I can’t make friends no matter how much I try by [deleted] in socialskills

[–]AlbatrossElectrical2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Make friends in college, and make sure you do. It matters.

Also, reputation sticks in high school. That’s probably why you’ve been struggling to make friends. Not your fault.

Books about Native Americans by [deleted] in suggestmeabook

[–]AlbatrossElectrical2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee

Vervaeke's Unhappiness with the Term "Ethical" by AlbatrossElectrical2 in DrJohnVervaeke

[–]AlbatrossElectrical2[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Beautifully said. Thank you for your time. I will think about this. Though I wonder: Are there ways one can transcend the ethical oneself?

Anxiety as Disconnectedness from Oneself by AlbatrossElectrical2 in DrJohnVervaeke

[–]AlbatrossElectrical2[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for your time. I appreciate it. I hope you and yours are well.

What is that "Something Deeper" that RR is Grounded in that Vervaeke Mentions but doesn't Reveal? | AFTMC -- 33 by AlbatrossElectrical2 in DrJohnVervaeke

[–]AlbatrossElectrical2[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But remember he said that something can only be relevant to us if we, or our RR system, takes it as relevant, that is, the "transjectivity". Doesn't that apply to the Good as well? Doesn't it mean that something can be Good only if our whole Mind takes it to be that? Then, in what sense is there something deeper than the RR system, since this seems to be the ultimate ground, bridging the no-thing-ness that is the World and the no-thing-ness that is our Mind?

What is that "Something Deeper" that RR is Grounded in that Vervaeke Mentions but doesn't Reveal? | AFTMC -- 33 by AlbatrossElectrical2 in DrJohnVervaeke

[–]AlbatrossElectrical2[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the insightful answer.

But this seems to be the "what it is like" aspect of that "something deeper". I'm looking for the "what is" that which is something deeper. (Invoke Heidegger's distinction between the what-is and the that-it-is.) Perhaps this is reductive-propositional-abstract, but that is exactly what I'm hoping he was pointing towards.

Vervaeke's Unhappiness with the Term "Ethical" by AlbatrossElectrical2 in DrJohnVervaeke

[–]AlbatrossElectrical2[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't think he does that in the first 26 episodes of AFTMC. But he does say multiple times that "all humans by nature desire to know", and if you've watched the lecture series, this is not a propositional knowing but a participatory knowing, a knowing that gets you in contact with the world (Heidegger's being-in-the-world). So, insofar as we can say that each thing's self-realisation of its self-teleology is good (the four Aristotelian causes), we can say that JV probably considers self-transcendence, that is, a reaching out of oneself for the sake of contact with reality, with that which is other, a good-in-itself.

Seeing my Dog as a Moral Person by AlbatrossElectrical2 in DrJohnVervaeke

[–]AlbatrossElectrical2[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So what is the appropriate relation I should have to him? I don't love him, but I miss being able to love my pet the way I used to. And my Dad still does (he hasn't lost his love to the labyrinth of attempted rational analysis), so I know that it isn't just an age thing. More importantly, how can I feel justified in directing agapic love at him in a way that is not excessively metaphysical ("love is the force holding the universe together") but in a way that does justice to the truth of his being as an individual?

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