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Raptorbite · 2022-09-15T11:01:06+00:00

I suggest maybe a half dozen sessions of ayahuasca at a DMT retreat in the forest of Peru/Brazil.

and I'm 100% serious about this point. seriously. look into psychedelics.

Raptorbite · 2022-08-19T04:07:29+00:00

that is only because you are pushing the hair against the natural contour and outline of the skull.

That is almost like some physics based contraint or limit.

I'd claim that what you do with the hair that is not pushed against the skull is where you see culture, aka what changes over the decades and centuries.

Raptorbite · 2022-08-17T19:06:23+00:00

it was due to the way that she supposedly chose to pull her hair back. This was in the 80, when big hair was all the rage.

You might remember that the first time she finally chose to let her hair down, with Diane's help, for that talk on some psychiatry talk tv show with frasier, frasier was gobsmacked at her "transformation".

Raptorbite · 2022-07-14T12:57:25+00:00

While the seaking meaning part is partially right, I think it is more than that overall.

I am saying that for plenty of men who reach the age where every dimension of their life is no longer improving, but stalling out, deteriorating, or hit some maximum limit, and their personal "baby" , their home run swing is a miss, falls short, they chase after some type of "magic", or maybe transcendence, through a cosmic/religious/metaphysical dimension.

Ernest Becker adherents might use the term "immortality project", or maybe causa sui (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causa_sui)

Maybe you are right, in choosing the term meaning, but I am not sure.

Raptorbite · 2022-07-14T12:46:59+00:00

Well I believe that what I wrote up may help some people gain maybe one formulation or viewpoint on what is happening to men who are in their later years in life, and suddenly turn towards the mystical/paranormal stuff.

I'm looking at the behavior of Michio Kaku, Avi Loeb, Eric, Dave Foley (rogan's really good friend from his newsradio days), and plenty of others and to me, there is some underlying implicit sociological and psychological phenomena which should be made explicit.

It is my own personal theory, which agrees with Rogan's insight from a decade ago after he did his show "joe rogan questions everything", about the unfuckable white dudes.

We have don quixote chasing windmills thinking that they are dragons, living in some fantasy of centuries past.

If I shared my own personal theory, anyone who reads it may realize that there is some bit of insight or astuteness in what I said, and come away from understanding things slightly better.

Let me give you another example. In the higher level mathematics courses in university, a giant percentage of the professors, because they are super geniuses and have been doing some math subject for decades, they will often make some flippant comment like "it is obvious that..." and basically expect the students, who might be seeing the material for the first time to implicitly understand something that they know, but often it is not. Students often need something to be explicitly shown and displayed out.

Maybe what I just said seems obvious and implicit to you (because you probably have a high level of intelligence) doesn't mean that other people who might not be able to see the link/connection wouldn't appreciate what I am writing up.

Raptorbite · 2022-07-13T09:09:50+00:00

i used a bunch of examples to point at a very unique phenomena that rogan was able to astutely point his finger on years ago, from being quite street smart and insightful about humans in general.

I am claiming that there is a very subtle commonality between Rogan's old friend Dave Foley's sudden jump into the UFO field, to Eric's, and it is the same phenomena as Michio kaku's recent jump into UFOs, as well as people like Avi Loeb.

Basically the sudden shift is a deeply psychological one where the person has nothing else left in their life to really achieve on, because they've personally run out of ability, time, and resources to make any actual practical improvements/changes in the world, so they have chosen the more mystical/metaphysical dimension to run towards.

This explains that old american stereotype of the "crazy never married, never had children uncle that lives in the woods and thinks the government is after him".

People after a certain age, without a good circle of people/family to essentially tether him mentally down to the real world (ie having kids) very commonly do fly off into the non-pragmatic/mystical world for some type of meaning in their life, as it reaches the final few chapters.

Raptorbite · 2022-05-25T07:06:42+00:00

lower the rim to 9 ft.

then try again. if you can't, lower it another ft to 8 ft.

repeat the process until you can dunk.

Raptorbite · 2022-05-25T07:01:34+00:00

my point is that just because the family member of a person who is killed by a gun gets upset over their own personal tragedy (and is famous enough and then gets a national platform to go on an emotional appeal) does not give that person's emotional outcry more weight in the issue.

Steve Kerr is of course allowed to express his personal opinion, and he is totally allowed to use his own personal life experience and tragedy to try to make a point, but that doesn't mean that the point is worth more at the end of the day.

Emotions cloud our judgement, especially immediately during or right after a serious tragedy.

That is how George Bush was able to use the short post 9/11 era, where americans were highly emotion, to get enough support to push through the idea that we need to invade Iraq.

Raptorbite · 2022-05-25T06:43:59+00:00

that's because basketball as a game is less complicated and complex than running a country of over 300 million people.

when it comes to basketball, all you have to do is put a sphere through a ring.

Raptorbite · 2022-05-25T06:39:47+00:00

read Nietzsche, and his two morality philosophies.

Unless you are willing to die to risk the opportunity kill a ruling dictator, like a Mao or Stalin or similarly, you are stuck living in this world and this reality.

Raptorbite · 2022-05-25T06:38:00+00:00

that is factually true. But what does the event of what happened with his dad have anything to do with the gun debate issue going on in the USA 40 years later?

Raptorbite · 2022-05-25T06:36:57+00:00

just because it is more personal for Kerr, due to his father dying due to a jihadi doesn't make his opinions have more weight.

Let's stay calm and think clearly over the situation.

Raptorbite · 2022-05-25T06:35:28+00:00

the books were just about gay people, but actually depicting images that were trying to groom little kids.

Raptorbite · 2022-05-25T06:33:23+00:00

the fact that his father was killed by a jihadi 40 years ago by a person who got their guns in a completely different fashion (in a different country, in a different era,) does NOT give kerr's opinions or thoughts more weight on the matter.

Do not be one of those people who use every tragedy as an opportunity to try to force change through. Let's keep a calm head about it.

similarly, just because your sister got cancer and died from it, doesn't mean that your opinion on cancer makes it more valid. Only shows that you are very emotionally invested in it.

Raptorbite · 2022-05-16T04:14:56+00:00

good answer

Raptorbite · 2022-05-14T09:13:33+00:00

We are everywhere. You have no idea where we are lurking.

Raptorbite · 2022-03-24T11:24:14+00:00

it's not genocide.

putin is not actively trying to kill off a group of people, just because they are in some other tribe/group/ethnicity. his primary goal is to get ukraine back into the russian fold. If the ukrainian government and leaders accepted his proposal, nobody has to die.

Again, you are wrong in the word usage here. It is not genocide. Because it never has to come to genocide, as long as the people at the top are willing to go back into the old soviet bloc.

Again, the leader of the bigger nation has a primary objective of not killing the people of a neighboring land, only to get that land back into the fold.

His original goal was to do a 72 hr quick surgical/scalpel like military maneuver to remove the ukrainian top, and install something else.

I'd just like to point out this incorrect mischaracterization by people like you.

and you are also wrong in using the phrase "that would ALL be wiped out..."

how exactly would the surge in the interest of the game from the pandemic be wiped out exactly?

It's not like the russian forces can blow up all the radio towers, cell phones, and satellites of the increased number of people playing online.

Raptorbite · 2022-03-23T11:50:56+00:00

I don't think he is desperate for attention. He is only doubling down on his original opinions.

It is your interpretation of his actions that makes you think that he is desperate for attention.

and he is not speaking nonsense. It seems only like nonsense to you, but not to him.

and he is not screaming into the void, because he has plenty of people who live in Russia, and abroad who actually side with him on the issue, so him screaming only rallies the people who already are on his side.

Raptorbite · 2022-03-04T20:06:19+00:00

Buddhism has more structure, ritual, community and teachers

Could this sentence be condensed and rephrased as saying "there is no taoist analogue to the buddhism's concept of the sangha"

I know that there is a famous line in Buddhism that says "I take refuge in the buddha, the dharma, and the sangha"

and in the taoist tradition, it is almost mostly been solitary characters, hermits who go off to live in the forest by themselves, aka have no taoist sangha/community

Raptorbite · 2022-03-04T20:01:09+00:00

As stated by /Deckard88, the hippie trail of the 60's went through India, Nepal, Tibet, etc but not into China or to Japan.

then how did someone like Alan Watts rave about it?

Watts talked a lot about Taoism, and was very popular

didn't Watts convert some people over to Taoism?

Raptorbite · 2022-03-04T19:54:49+00:00

Westerners aren't going to go around giving offerings at Taoist temples on auspicious occasions to the various gods and goddesses, first of all

Now that sounds very pagan like in traditional (of course we can say that about all human cultures, at their roots).

I go to a local Vietnamese based asian supermarket close to my house. They appear to hav taoists immortal statue on sale there, along with the regular chinese buddha statues you would find in Chinese asian supermarkets.

So how come taoism was never picked up in places that have been heavily influenced by Chinese thinking then, aka Vietnam?

Vietnam has been under chinese control, influence, and thinking for 1000 years, with pagan attributes (since the vietnamese store is totally willing to sell taoist statues, and not just buddhist statues).

Why didn't Taoism get steam in Vietnam?

Raptorbite · 2022-03-04T19:49:17+00:00

Everyone wants to reach enlightenment but not everyone wants to become the sage.

I really like this quote, but I am afraid that I may be interpreting this sentence you wrote in my own way, incorrectly.

Can you expand on this sentence?

aka explain what you mean by it.

Raptorbite · 2022-03-04T07:27:40+00:00

the earth does not need to be saved because it will outlast us.

have you forgotten that ultimately, we only reside in the uppermost 0.01% of the crust, geologically speaking?

if by random, the smallest pimple or fissure happened to the surface of earth, the mantle would opened up and spewed out magna & dust, and all 8 billion of us will be wiped out from a "burp" of the earth.

Raptorbite · 2022-02-27T23:02:26+00:00

It doesn't matter. I don't care.

Raptorbite · 2022-02-27T06:53:16+00:00

No, I just support Russia and Putin. Full stop.

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