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Can you read Aramaic? Then anyone who cannot yet read even one language, including Aramaic, Sanskrit, or Chinese, lacks linguistic consciousness. Then since most humans cannot read at least one language. then most humans lack the technology, and so cannot read any language. Rather, the...

There's a first time for everything. Google search for sophistry The posters who are posting on threads seems to have shrunk to a very small and select clique, who seem to mostly agree with each other, almost as if the people who might express alternative opinions have felt so unwelcome that...

Scientifica evidence or evidence written by scientists? Judging by your previous thread that led you to start this thread, I'd say it's about the products of modern science and thus not any scientific process. How can you possibly understand science if you don't think about it? India has a...

If it did, then the opening post would go something like this: "All my friends want to get married. They all think being married is great. But I know plenty of people who are married, and ever since they got married, their lives went completely downhill. Do you think our culture mythologizes...

I'm unsure what you meant here: Are you: 1) Agreeing with my post, and expounding on how difficult OCD is for sufferers? 2) Disagreeing with my post, and giving an explanation of OCD as a means of suggesting disagreement? 3) Not commenting on my post, and simply giving your own experiences as...

Humans have fur. It's just very tiny, so small, that you wouldn't notice it without a magnifying glass. It's vestigial. Amphibians are small vertebrates that need water, or a moist environment, to survive. Humans need to shower regularly. I don't think most men care, so long as they're dating...

I was just having fun, making ironic observations. Nice to know I'm on point, though. Kudos for pointing that out to me. It seems that the general online view is that there's about 400 million guns in the USA. Number of registered weapons in the United States in 2021, by state Texas has the...

Fort Salem - Great story about if witches were real, and were in America since 1776, and the witches agreed to fight America's wars in return for witches not being persecuted. Witch society is matriarchal. So the women are the powerful ones. Consequently, the women witches have to go to war...

Watched a lot of the episodes. I agree that it's slipping philosophical & ethical concepts into kids' minds. However, I thought that the way it presented those concepts and applied them, was very interesting and thought-provoking. I particularly like how the ethics professor can't make his mind...

Same as the USA and every other country, yo. Yes. But the question is about gun laws, not poorer policing. Judging by what happens on TV when one of the characters gives a gun to a murderous madman who points it at their foes, the madman will turn around and point it at the person who gave him...

Humans forget stuff. Computers don't. However, so much of what we think, we are not absolutely certain about, that if humans evolved with a perfect memory like computers, it would be filled with very few things, and we could do very few things. However, with the ability to tolerate...

You mean, internet and smartphones? There were times in the past, when the disseminators of new information were seen as having too many followers that might threaten the existing social order. They were brought to heel, or were ousted from society. We haven't brought the internet to heel...

Individualism used to mean that you did SOME things different to most people. One person read comics. Another person would go train-spotting. Another person was an avid camper. Another person was obsessed with politics. Nowadays, individualism means doing something different to white, cis...

Are you criticising yourself? It sounds like you are negging, giving yourself a back-handed compliment. It sounds like you're having the typical panics most teenagers have about getting into university. I doubt so, because the Asians took a beating from the West in the 1800s, and a beating...

GAD, depression, relationship avoidance. Somewhat. I don't feel as bad. A messed-up childhood, and being given the impression that men are dangerous and we need to avoid relationships and doing things, unless we're sure that we won't harm any women or children or pollute anything or invent...

You mean when people are having a private conversation on Zoom? The big difference is that you don't get to spend all day together, as you'll probably only get a slot for an hour, and that you can't physically touch each other. They're about fans. If someone is a fan of political debates, they...

Not exactly a suprise for a Hollywood actor, or for someone who is as willing to push the boundaries of modern cinema as Johnny Depp. Well, when they are handed money, drink and drugs like free candy, what did you expect? Money has not made Depp's divorce a happy and pleasant affair. Money has...

It is. She wants out. She doesn't want to be single. You're available and ready to be by her side. The solution is usually to replace him with you. Bingo. I recall watching many films where the hero is saying that it's suicide to take on the bad guys, but it's the only time he feels alive. I...

Had to look this up. https://gamequitters.com/parasocial-relationships/ People who think like that, used to be called "obsessive fans" or "stalkers". Many people like that, attack soap stars that play evil characters. The fans don't differentiate between the person and the character. It goes...

Yes. Humans do things that have consequences they often didn't think about. But as any older INTP can tell you, not doing things also has lots of consequences. Grey squirrels that move into an area, out-dominate red squirrels that are native to the region. But when it's non-humans vs...

It's grown or fished, the same as things that humans eat. No. But where exactly do you think most pets come from? Do you think that pet-shop owners buy a puppy from a big game hunter? They are grown to become pets, just like cows are raised for meat. If there were no pets, most of those...

There's a certain amount of food in nature. When there's more food, wild animals eat more, breed more and have more children. So they fill up the capacity. When an animal is taken from the wild and domesticated to be raised as a pet, then the food the animal would have eaten, is now free, and...

Long before Jung came up with typology, Freud & Jung also used cognitive techniques like psychoanalysis, affective techniques like expressing emotions, and sensing techniques like cocaine to change one's sensory state. However, he found that some patients responded amazingly to Freudian...

Yes. But then your therapists are in the same situation as Freud and Jung were in Europe before WW2, i.e. mostly private mental health therapists. I would like to see cognitive functions used for therapy. But if you want to use them, you need to make sure that you know what you're doing, i.e...

You could do that, and would be more efficient and useful doing that, with anyone who doesn't suffer from a problem you suffer from, and anyone who does suffer from a problem that you don't suffer from. Then in order to engage this, we need to know which questions are the right questions. Then...

It would be much easier to see what is going on, if we could see the statistical distribution, i.e. a graph where the x-axis is the number of messages sent each day on average by a man, and y-axis is the number of men with that value of x, i.e. the number of men who send x messages each day on...

It sounds like you are talking about the rule "Do unto others as you would want others to do to you", the belief that each person should treat others in the way they want to be treated, so that if everyone takes that attitude, then everyone would enjoy "the good life". It's a form of sacrifice...

Then if someone's aim is to get a relationship, then waiting 4 months doesn't seem so long. If they're only using it as a hookup, then it may not be as much of a return as a hooker. If you look at it that way, then it's about the number of messages the man has sent. Some men whack out 300...

Don't have a partner. So the questions don't exactly make much sense to me. I know I had a fearful-avoidant style in the past.

Catholics, Jews, Muslims and Indians have all had the same experiences. Most Western countries protect their citizens while not making them feel their freedoms are restricted, by obfuscating those restrictions. Yes. 1) Most people in the West are told repeatedly that no-one cares about them...

In real life, there are certain additional factors: 1) Online, you can message almost anyone in the world, as long as they've signed up to the app. IRL, you can't just ring up strangers from the phone book, even if you've both signed up to the same dating club. They'd think you're a stalker...

Sounds like a poor-quality nightclub. In real life, nightclubs were great for meeting new men. But the more confident men in nightclubs, could rely on their confidence to give them an advantge, which in turn meant they didn't need to try as hard. So they often resulted in either a poor...

I agree that whatver you know of Jung writings that relates to psychology, would probably help you more to understand Jung's work in psychology. But if people have to do 3 years of psych before learning about their type, then everyone who isn't doing 3 years of psych won't learn about their...

Suppose we take 100 people and put them into 4 groups of 25. Then we reorganise the arbitrary x-values so one of the lines (actual ability) is rising. If you reverse the order, so it starts with the top quartile and you go downwards, you get a very different result that makes the point even...

People open up private companies that provide services because they make money from them. When people used to go to nightclubs, most of the money the nightclub owner made was from the alcohol sales. People pay monthly to gyms to ensure they stay attractive, and for somewhere to show off their...

I am interested in the consequences of this. What people would be considered very competent according to Dunning-Kruger, who would be considered incompetent according to this? What people would be considered incompetent according to Dunning-Kruger, who would be considered very competent...

I've written in Java, C#, Assembler and Machine code, and saw where it actually made a big difference. In addition, code written in machine code runs about 10 times as fast as that written in C++, which is several times faster again than that written in Java and Python. I would say that the...

Have you written high-level code? Have you written low-level code? What is the difference between high-level code and low-level code? Who found psychiatric methodology distasteful? Good for you. Shame that most fans of Big Five and most fans of MBTI dichotomies seem to lack your share of...

If everyone was to the same extent, then everyone would be in agreement on keeping the status quo, and to the same extent, and then we'd all be in a system that we like, and no-one would have any problems with keeping the status quo. In short, conversations like this would simply never happen.

I have heard from others, that if you can't explain something to anyone else, then there's no proof that you understand it. So in that case, there's no reason to believe you. But most people would have a hard time understanding the complexities of modern physics. So does that mean that anyone...

Inter-operability requires common standards that are kept consistent, like HTML and browser standards, which keep changing due to Evergreen browsers constantly updating to the latest versions. Facebook is constantly updated to those standards all the time, or Facebook wouldn't work on most...

That's why people who hardly went to church, would still make their children go to Sunday school, so their kids knew at least one culture. It's easier to learn a 2nd language than the first, and the same goes for other things. On quora, I found a few threads where a lot of Chinese and Indians...

Well, I don't know all the reddit forums. But I know there's one for INTPs, that has a lot of INTPs. There are also some redding forums with extreme views, just like many sites on the internet. So it seems pretty similar to the rest of the internet. It only requires re-writing some code. In the...

In real life, if you organise a mass gathering place that you make money out of, that has hundreds of thousands of visitors a day, you'll need to get a licence from the government. If the government thinks that you're causing some kind of mob rule, they'll see that as a way to start a bloody...

Great for you. I can code in multiple languages. I have friends who can fix lots of different types of cars. Not much help to most people, though, not unless someone teaches everyone how to use both and do really well. That was on purpose. Humans are highly adaptive. A human can run through a...

Was like that in the beginning. When you make a venue mob-driven, then the mob dictate the rules. On the contrary, there are many behaviours we see in some environments, that we don't see in others. This is usually because of the way those systems are designed to operate. E.G. when the...

Coded in low-level assembler for Motorola 6502 and Intel Zilog chips. They work differently, and use different addressing modes and different flags. Lots of tasks need to be coded in different ways. Coded in several high-level languages. They all have their quirks. Python is very powerful &...

Your bank manager can still go to war because your bank manager said that a dog is a "four-legged animal", and your clerk said that a dog is a "mammal", even though both are true. Because you make the rules about where you can divide things? Do you own all the scissors in the world? Humans can...

Different coding languages exist, because C works better for some things, while Java works better for other things. Different languages process the same data in different ways, using different-built-in algorithms, which gives each language greater speed, flexibility and reliability in some...