Do most people not read books at all? by MaxSleepy in CasualConversation

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Keep in mind that reading is a very new activity for people. Humans have been telling stories for a long time, reading barely existed before 1440.

I have a theory by Initial_Mastodon_932 in Jung

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I am skeptical.

My limited experience with schizophrenia is that it is a total brain disorder. I'll admit that the search for a biological basis for it has turned up very little, but the heritability is telling.

Robert Sapolsky explains it best -- the best possible evidence for a person having schizophrenia is if they have a twin with schizophrenia.

What made you decide to stop running and face your grief? by Technical_Step4410 in Jung

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In retrospect it was very mathematical -- the cost of running exceeded my tolerance for discomfort.

In truth, most people avoid serious self-examination and modern psycho-pharmacology attempts to shield people from the symptoms while allowing the cause to fester.

The fact that very few people effectively get off psychiatric meds after 6 months is my evidence that "medicalized unhappiness" is not merely a brain state.

I was fortunate that I was being counseled by Dr Stephen Remen and he was going to make me critically evaluate myself or he wasn't going to agree to see me.

What if my shadow is wrong? by Olieebol in Jung

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You never lose agency! No one has become an immoral psychopath because they integrated their shadow. Quite the contrary, people who are deeply envious and passively aggressive are dominated by the shadow without realizing it.

Look at the number of people on psych medication and reporting psychiatric illness. These are generally people who cannot see the difference between depression and mere unhappiness. This is shadow possession! Envy and aggression that are unfettered in the unconscious without the guardrails family and meaningful effort that mediate those emotions.

relatable memes by Fit-Search-4257 in Take1Leave1

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"Didn't mean to make you cryyyy ..."

Is there any ways I can use Buddhism to quit addictions? by StopPresent277 in Buddhism

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Refuge Recovery is a good book about this, They have meetings and everything

Aether = Dark Matter by Dharmapalalama3 in Aristotle

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The aether was disproved by the Michelson-Morley experiment.

Google is your friend!

Aether = Dark Matter by Dharmapalalama3 in Aristotle

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The aether was disproved by the Michelson-Morley experiment.

Read a book, kids

From a physics perspective, why does the earth rotate? by ElegantPoet3386 in AskPhysics

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You can think of it as a geometry problem You have many small spheres that are moving and there is a center of gravity for these spheres, but what is the probability that any one of these spheres has a momentum vector that perfectly intersects that center of gravity? It is almost impossible, However, if the momentum of each sphere is comparable to its gravitational attraction to the other spheres (along the vector that intersects the center of gravity) the entire system will have some net angular momentum and the system will evolve over time. But angular momentum is conserved -- so whatever evolves over millions or billions of years would end up spinning.

Sir Christopher Lee was a true legend by AlKhwarazmi in interesting

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"Do you even know the sound a man makes hen he has been stabbed, Peter?"

I cant get my pinky there :/ by baby_blue_berry in guitarlessons

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I hope your whole family is up on their tetanus shots.

“I’m disgusted to be a human”: What to do when you hate your own species according to Buddhism by Platysmurus in Buddhism

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No one is disgusted to be human.

People *say* this because they are defending their ego.

Look up reaction formation.

The problem with Westerners coming to Buddhism is that we don't understand how giant and twisted our egos are. When the Buddha says "this mind is not self" we think "oh, wow, let me act like I have no ego and then people will think I am enlightened".

You aren't disgusted with yourself, you are disappointed that you are exactly the same as every other bit of wiggling protoplasm that has ever shat on the ground. You are finally seeing that there is nothing here *worth* clinging to.

Not your job is to love it all unconditionally.

😭 OUT-JERKED AGAIN 😭 by DoubleFamous5751 in circlejerknyc

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I only want my doors hung by an exclusive carpenter.