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https://www.verywellmind.com/how-to-change-negative-thinking-3024843 Identify Your Negative Thoughts As you observe your thoughts, work on identifying and labeling cognitive distortions and negativity. For example, if you tend to view yourself as a complete success or failure in every...

I forget that we're an international forum sometimes. The satire is kind of hard to understand if you don't have a good understanding of American civic history.

https://www.theonion.com/most-terrifying-ways-the-deep-state-is-trying-to-destro-1851287374

They used to burn people at the stake for practicing necromancy.

Well, if it survives, or that you make a successful religion out of it ;)

I think the phrase "being conscious" and "consciousness" are different things though. Consciousness, is more about the experience of reality. You still experience reality when you sleep, in that your consciousness rests.

I think 'souls' is a pretty loaded term. From a shared secular standpoint 'consciousness' probably is a better term to encompass the meaning that you're aiming for. The question could be phrased like "does the consciousness exist? and what is the justification of its existence, or its...

If you ever get to take classes on ecological conservation or enviornmental studies, you'll learn that disrupting the ecosystem in a major way harms not only that region, but can have effects on surrounding systems as well. Land reclamation projects are costly, and not only are they costly, if...

Oh it's inspired by Johnanath Haidt. A bit misleading but that's okay. It's a bit of a western-centric test but that's okay.

This is actually the subject of my study. Korea has it the worst right now, so there's a sense of urgency for those who think about the problem. The unique dynamic that South Korea faces is North Korea though. If we do not raise our birthrate, our defense minimum posture becomes suspect. North...

Intelligence isn't having answers to things, it's being able to give back and forth. If you don't know, you don't know and that's perfectly fine. No one dies knowing everything in life. What's better, having one single good friend or all the knowledge in the world, but you live on a deserted...

What do you think death is? Even if there is an afterlife, what good does intelligence have there?

It doesn't mean much to be very intelligent because in the end, you die. :doh:

Right, the US helped Japan get back on its feet and was made into an economic bulwalk against the Soviets. I wonder if you know about the Plaza Accords, this is the piece of legislative treaty that stifled Japan's economic rise and sent them into the Lost Decade. This was all orcestrated by the...

Right, I think from the perspective from Europe, they would see America as their cultural lesser, because of the difference in the depth of history. From Japan however, Japan sees America as a benevolent conquerer. America, (FDR and MacArthur), never punished Emperor Hirohito for allowing his...

I grew up watching Godzilla shows in Japan. I'm honestly kind of dismissive of people outside Japan liking Godzilla- people within Japan don't necessarily like it either, as in, it's a a part of popular culture now, and is seem more as a classic than something that is praised for. From a...

That would be just called bowel movement and you being too hypersensitive to your physiological changes.

I think consciousness for a squid and the one for human is largely impossible to cross-undertand. Cognition limitations are much more higher for humans. We have Hegel, what do squids have, being fictional in Moby Dick? xd Anyway yeah Descartes was the first person with authority after the...

Okay cool. Yeah a lot of philosophy are footnotes to other philosophers and whether those inquiries hold up to the original statement or idea the philosopher in question was making. I think some of those questions are interesting too though, because those who question usually come from a...

I'm pursuing something in high ed. What did you learn from doing a degree in philosophy? I'm sure as you were with professors who had personal opinions on philosophers themselves, you've developed something for yourself as well.

What Wittgenstein meant by that was that understanding sometimes cannot be grasped through text but only through the process of understanding itself. He believed that a lot of philosophical errors were made in the past because we kept trying to explain in text a certain understanding about...

Ah yup yup, you're right.

I don't think we have this issue on intpf, but I've seen plenty of alternative accounts being caught red handed in trying to steer the conversation on messaging boards. Do you think this is immoral or stupid? What goes on in the mind of these people? Should they have the right to do make alts...

I don't remember your old ID. Have you gotten your degree in philosophy? I remember you saying that you were doing a major in some philosophical field.

A lot of songs you hear in middle school or high school hits different once you become an adult. I think we're of different generations, but I always liked listening to a band called Blink 182 growing up. Had no idea of the lyrics, or the general theme of the songs in general. Once I was out of...

I think if suicidal ideation starts creeping in it's time to stay and be with family or close ones so you can recover. A couple of years ago I isolated myself by moving to a far away city, away from friends and relatives, and looking back I think it was a poor decision. My parents live in Japan...

Well, my history with abnormal experiences or abnormal psychology is long, but I did experience a panic attack but realized it as it was happening. It was interesting, with my feeling senses totally becoming claustrophobic and my senses closing in. I do had have much more worse trauma so I...

I know consciously that New Years Day passed but I still feel like its 2023. I'm getting old lol

@Puffy Panic attacks are pretty overwhelming. How are you managing your stress? Hope you find the groundedness you're seeking for.

Questions like these never formulate in thin air. If you have a question that is divorced from tensions in a passion, then would it be fruitful to ask this. Revenge usually entails harm for perceived harm done onto yourself, so depending on who's asking the question here, it depends. From the...

Well, that's why Trump's currently fighting this in the courts. The Justice department made a special council to convict him (I think?), and they're the ones who are bringing this into the court for deliberations. Or maybe perhaps they're prosecutors from the states who are the victims.

Interesting, that's an interpretation of the clause I haven't come across. But let's say Trump was elected, does that mean he cannot *hold* that office?

Yeah but in a democracy if you break the rules, you are not pardoned just because enough people vote for you. That kind of federal crime can be pardoned only by the president. It's crystal clear he broke the law here, what Trump orchestrated is electoral fraud, undermining thousands of voters...

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/12/28/politics/recordings-trump-team-fake-elector-ballots/index.html If the SC doesn't change their minds after this, and if Trump is still on the ballot, WTF America.

Are you currently getting help from the government for unemployment? How are you doing fiancially? I think it's obvious you have a form of paranoia disorder and have bouts of persecutory attacks, akin to a panic attack. I think I've already expressed how profoundly saddened I am when I hear of...

No one said you were a bad person.

AK you are not Jesus. What do you think you're accomplishing by posting nonstop about this things? You are not reading words as if they come from another person, you are reading text, not communication. You think only you exist. This is a falsehood. Every member on this forum, although they...

I respect you as a person but I do not respect your ideas. I do not coddle falsehoods. The mere idea that your idea is you is a faslehood in itself. If my way of engaging with you takes a little bit closer for me to help you understand where you are and live up to your potential as a person, I...

That's a dogmatic statement. If the world worked on the survival of the fittest, truth would not exist. Any resemblence of truth would have died for the sake of survival.

We can talk about love once you've engaged with the subject at hand. Christianity is not about love, it is about your relationship with God. If you believe in love so much, why are you not providing that love to my rebuke first? Practice what you preach, hypocrite. Love comes from mutual...

I'm hardly elitist. I have no assets to speak of except my experience, nor do I have a place reserved for the rich and influencial in society. Christianity isn't the answer to the world's problems. If you believe religion is a societial program, you've severely misunderstood what faith is...

It's not my job to be a student and a caretaker at the same time. If you want to discuss intellectual progress the utmost basic prerequisite would be to read the material at hand before you make any definitive input. Me pointing that out isn't putting anyone down, it's literally basic common...

I don't see anything, just flowery language. Have you read any Nietzsche? I have his Will to Power and his Genealogy. They weren't that insightful nor did they forward anything within society during or after his time. Perhaps it would be fruitful if you actually grappled with the content which...

Nietszche's works is as useful as the story of Batman. Sure, it helped some comic nerds enjoy literature. Then what.

I don't see an argument in this post.

Nietzsche was a poor thinker, he didn't use his rational faculties for the betterment of society but used it for literary prose for his own personal feelings. Existentialists in general did not contribute much to society. They orphaned spiritual orphans and only wrought chaos to societies. See...

It depends on what sense of the 'universe' you're talking about. If you're talking about the physical cosmology of the universe, there's plenty of astrophysists who can tell you about the make up of the stars and the length of time of the universe and how it has expanded, and the make up of...

I mean human in the species term and the humanistic term. Like imagine what a child has to go through within our current pedagogic system. They have to master all these maths and history and the sciences before they reach sexual maturity, and they're bombarded with so much political noise and...

People in my generation cut themselves (on the wrist) for pleasure, so uh, you're okay.

Under what context is Disney not paying taxes? I thought the feud between DeSantis and Disney was over a long time ago.