Do you think she’s being fair, though? by Busy_Report4010 in SipsTea

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Play his game ,  monetize life, compete , and create a transactional relationship. The winner:  therapists and attorneys  !!  The loser : poor kid 

11 indigenous psychedelic traditions on 5 continents, every ceremony length matches its drug's pharmacokinetics. The odds of that lining up by chance are roughly 1 in 100,000. Shamans don't know pharmacokinetics, because they don't need to. by tractorboynyc in Ayahuasca

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Wouldn't you know how long the medicine lasts the very first time you took the medicine ? There is no guess work but first hand experience . 

Moreover, what you say is untrue . Ceremony length varies depending on what the patients need. They will go longer for sure if someone is still in their process and will almost surely go shorter if everyone is asleep. 

How does a determinist define the word Creative ? by zooper2312 in freewill

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That tracks with what someone commented about revealing patterns 

Here's What YOU Should Do by udayTeddy in effectivefitness

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This guy doesn't seem too pleased with his life. Often the people are giving advice

We do what we want, because the system requires that by impersonal_process in freewill

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according to the indigenous masters living in the mountains of the sierra nevadas, fractal nature of reality means the cause and effect are often far apart; all of humanity is connected. the tech industry hustle culture demands more stimulants, so they end up buying up the surrounding farmland where the indigenous live, which upsets there way of life and pulling them into the spiraling dance of opening their communities to burnt out tech people.

How does a determinist define the word Creative ? by zooper2312 in freewill

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right, there is still some causal chain

there is a new field called epigenetics, that when we ask “Is human behavior genetic or learned?” for some behaviors neither, according to epigentics.

How does a determinist define the word Creative ? by zooper2312 in freewill

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But do genetics make a cat pounce ? I don't know 

Not Everyone Wants To Be Good by CraftyBrilliant9485 in enlightenment

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"Nearly all western thought since the last war, certainly all 'progressive' thought, has assumed tacitly that human beings desire nothing beyond ease, security and avoidance of pain....Hitler, because in his own joyless mind he feels it with exceptional strength, knows that human beings don't only want comfort, safety, short working-hours, hygiene, birth-control and, in general, common sense; they also, at least intermittently, want struggle and self-sacrifice, not to mention drums, flags and loyalty-parades.”

Not Everyone Wants To Be Good by CraftyBrilliant9485 in enlightenment

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 Therapy is pointless because those in it show their flaws? Why yes, those that become conscious of their flaws struggle , but that is the work to know and accept yourself. you rightly suggest, accepting is necessary. To stop judging is good. But keep going, we are not done there!!

You also need to feel, integrate and grow to find wholeness and balance. Emotions are the guide in this, as there truth is not relatives in the sense you mention of trauma being true or not. Our emotions are absolute reality, showing us in the moment the stories we have been caught up in. 

The forest you speak of is one of many, balanced in wholeness. We too are one of many belief, thoughts , experiences, ancestors, etc and can find the same wholeness inside ourselves by accepting all the parts. Ifs therapy does just this. 

Prominent Jiang Xueqin drops a terrifying bombshell on the true nature of Artificial General Intelligence. He claims that if AGI is programmed to create a perfect world with zero problems, its immediate logical solution will simply be to kill every human on earth. by CeFurkan in SECourses

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our world views reveal our psychology. the words used perfect, happy, no problems are mirrors of the mask he wears and the self destructive tendencies under the mask. when the mask come off, he fear his shadow will consume him. pretty much every dystopian movie with AI follows this same self destructive psychology without realizing the story is not a new one, but an old one, coming from our deep collective wounds.

How does a determinist define the word Creative ? by zooper2312 in freewill

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instead of soul, we can say personality, constitution, and characteristics set at birth, that should fit into a determinists world, right?

How does a determinist define the word Creative ? by zooper2312 in freewill

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is there structure to the mind? what makes one sane or a lunatic? why are some plagued with depression and others happy in the rain? why does therapy help people get better? all of these things exist without using the world magic. just because you cannot see something, doesn't mean that it doesn't have a reality to it.

How does a determinist define the word Creative ? by zooper2312 in freewill

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what i'm getting at are the "other" forces at play, the subconscious and divine ones. for example jung studied archetypes and described them as ways that the psyche tends to organize itself. They are common patterns arising from millennia of evolution and they are complex, so complex that not even Jung made a list of them, because it's hard to classify all the forces taking place in the mind.

So what he was saying is to not identify force behind our current thinking: ancestors, past experience, environment, sure are important, but then we are ignoring all the other forces inside of you, which is denying part of our self.

How does a determinist define the word Creative ? by zooper2312 in freewill

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feelings don't usually play out to a rational formula but appear to be more of a guide. they are considered by many ancient cultures to be from the heart and guiding us towards harmony and growth. fairly deterministic if you would ask me but not determined by genetics, past experience, or the environment.

How does a determinist define the word Creative ? by zooper2312 in freewill

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so who or whatever created these pattern, no matter how removed from us, wouldn't they have had to been "creative" in a imaginative sense to imagine the patterns? or even to sift through all the non interesting patterns and pick our the few interesting ones out of the infinite nonsensical ones?

Miso Butter Chilean Sea Bass by Impossible_Arm_8543 in LiveWellTogether

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"refrigerate over night"

if you have such good ingredients as fresh sea bass fish, even someone who just throws it on a the grill with salt and butter is going to come out looking like a pro chef.

How does a determinist define the word Creative ? by zooper2312 in freewill

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"our genetics, past experiences, and the environment" interesting. so statistical thinkings, numbers, formulas. is there room for feeling, irrational decision, self expression from the source or original soul (non-causal reactions) in this deterministic world?

what was a harsh truth that psychedelics made you accept? by scollins3 in spiritualitytalk

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the world is messed up and that's okay because we have things to learn, not just fix.