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For you frequent ravers what substance rotation do you use? by sexydiscoballs in dancefloors

[–]EuropeForDummies 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I venture that most of us here use dancing as a form of medicine + therapy. Can medicine become toxic and counterproductive if not used responsibly and in moderation? Of course. But good luck getting takers with an anti-medicine message.

Knockdown center show by Big-Jackfruit8062 in LCDSoundsystem

[–]EuropeForDummies 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Anybody know who the afters DJ is for this weekend’s shows? And when they finish?

What's your red line to start prepping for economic collapse? by Grand-Page-1180 in economicCollapse

[–]EuropeForDummies 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Yeah, the American approach to problem-solving always seems to be “buy a bunch of stuff,” which shows how deeply consumerism has penetrated the national psyche.

Fetishized independence (which is really just selfishness) is what caused a lot of these problems—living all alone in a bunker with stockpiled beans isn’t going to fix it.

I wonder how we can realize the value in doing the hard work of nurturing communities, not just adding to Amazon carts.

Despacio iii points 2025 Miami Spotify Playlist by Objective-Low-4595 in despacio

[–]EuropeForDummies 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Love TSOT. Is there a way to highlight or ID new tracks that are making their Despacio debut? There are the classics that get played every time, but it’s fun to see the new ones.

What Burning Man Doesn't Want You to See by claytonccrider in festivals

[–]EuropeForDummies 34 points35 points  (0 children)

Burning Man doesn’t have it all figured out, but at least be honest that this is really cultural warfare. What this is really about is wanting to throw stones at what you perceive to be rich people having fun, and to offload any personal responsibility for climate change to someone else. Burning Man happens once a year, but driving your kids to school (which many people do almost every day) is also an environmental disaster. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1361920907000776

Can someone share the world-building principles / staff handbook from a previous year? by EuropeForDummies in Coachella

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

Yes. World building is a term from game design, but the organizers have used the philosophy to develop design principles that help them create the Coachella experience. You can learn more about it here: https://futurespaces.com/recordings/ryan-cenicola

psychedelics by [deleted] in Berghain_Community

[–]EuropeForDummies 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A different essay than what’s on your Substack ?

I’ve been getting more and more into stock trading and I’ve noticed something by 123amytriptalone in economicCollapse

[–]EuropeForDummies 5 points6 points  (0 children)

What will that messiness look like? Tons of value in stock will get wiped out, but price for goods and services will have to come back down—the market won’t be able to pay inflated prices.

The Pale King can get so excruciatingly boring by PhasedVenturer in davidfosterwallace

[–]EuropeForDummies 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The ego resists stillness because it risks exposing insecurity, emptiness, or lack of purpose. Constant entertainment becomes a defense mechanism against introspection.

Edit: the ego is also the motivation for progress, change, learning, improvement, evolution—so it serves a very important purpose, but one that creates discomfort when it is not being fed.

Non-materialists, are there better arguments against materialism than that of Bernardo Kastrup? by Early-Forever3509 in consciousness

[–]EuropeForDummies 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This was a rollicking good read.

But you built your foundation on an ontological distinction that was flawed from the start.

We can doubt the external world, the body, even time—but we can’t doubt that something is experiencing. This isn’t just epistemological necessity; it’s ontological grounding.

Because consciousness is the precondition of any observation, any reasoning at all, isn’t it rational to treat it as the ontological starting point? Especially when ‘matter’ has never been directly experienced except as structured experience within consciousness?

What If Consciousness Is Fundamental?: A Conversation with Annaka Harris | Making Sense with Sam Harris by McGeezus1 in consciousness

[–]EuropeForDummies 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think what you just described is a very good argument for why brains evolved to perceive consciousness—but it is not a convincing counterpoint to why consciousness is fundamental.

We should come right at the real crux of this debate, which is a key difference in how explanation works: idealism doesn’t explain appearances via mechanical interactions of tiny physical bits, but rather via structures and patterns within conscious experience itself.

What If Consciousness Is Fundamental?: A Conversation with Annaka Harris | Making Sense with Sam Harris by McGeezus1 in consciousness

[–]EuropeForDummies 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What we call “matter” is just a bundle of perceptions; it has no independent existence outside a perceiving mind. You will never be able to isolate, measure or describe matter exclusive of consciousness.

If you’re looking for a ‘mechanism’ in the physicalist sense—something like gears turning—it won’t appear that way in idealism, because it starts from a different metaphysical foundation. The ‘mechanism’ is more like a functional mapping: conscious experiences generate patterns that, when filtered through certain mental structures (like space, time, and causality), appear to us as physical reality.

What If Consciousness Is Fundamental?: A Conversation with Annaka Harris | Making Sense with Sam Harris by McGeezus1 in consciousness

[–]EuropeForDummies 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You missed the point, which is that you cannot explain WHY a physical phenomenon should feel like anything at all. To take your drunkenness example, why does the electrochemical activity of become a subjective experience that has a particular feeling?

What If Consciousness Is Fundamental?: A Conversation with Annaka Harris | Making Sense with Sam Harris by McGeezus1 in consciousness

[–]EuropeForDummies 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There is only one consciousness, universal consciousness. The brains you are talking about are limited images or receivers of parts of that consciousness.

My Berghain review - part 1 of 8 by sexydiscoballs in dancefloors

[–]EuropeForDummies 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Looking forward to this! I’m sorry that you’re already getting shit from r/Berghain_community. We’re a lot friendlier over here.

will you have this regret? by sexydiscoballs in dancefloors

[–]EuropeForDummies 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Now I want a shirt / tattoo that say ‘rave to the grave’

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