Recent content by Niclmaki

Hah, I like that bonsai analogy. My dad is also similarly intellectual and does the same thing. However, he gets annoyed when learning about new fundamental things and adopting new principles. He describes it as basically rebuilding a worldview from the ground up again. Maybe not exactly that...

I tried to open this very thread first on my first visit today. It yelled at me and told me I had to check out this thread first anyways. I’m just trying to appease the robot.

Omar Khayyám THE GOAL by Leonard Cohen For Whom the Bell Tolls by John Donne No man is an island, Entire of itself. Each is a piece of the continent, A part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less. As well as if a promontory were. As well as if a manor of...

I’d say about a 66% hitrate with non-geographical statistics there. But then again, I’m a bit more of an ENTP than INTP these days. They’re similar enough though that I don’t think the distinction is that important. Was never interested in drugs or drinking. Never learned to play an...

Yeah, pretty much. My whole family was/is pretty worldly. If it doesn’t generate income, or has no monetary value - it is a waste of time. Now that they’re a bit older though I think they’ve started being less materialistic, but still pretty deeply rooted.

I’ve always felt that it was a some sort of violation of an individuals rights to tell them what to do. I don’t tell anyone what to do, not even kids. I will ask, and suggest things, but no orders. (That was my career for a while; looking after kids) For me, I almost always did what I was told...

First part is very similar. I know the answer to things without knowing how, or even putting any conscious effort into ‘figuring’. Even works with math and chess moves. It’s like I’m simply handed a fully cooked meal on a silver platter. I may partially try to ‘retrace’ how such an answer...

Philosophy is dangerous to whom? And how? Dangerous because it causes unhappiness? Dangerous because it can or will cause personal psychological instability / cultural? Dangerous because it is a motivator of change in the general populace? I followed some of the discussion here, but it got so...

Hah, you just reminded me of a couple exercises I did in my adolescence. I called one ‘thinking backwards’ - I’d suddenly interrupt my thoughts and try my best to trace backwards how I arrived at what I was thinking. I’m not too sure what the point was, but I think it was because this ‘self...

This is going to be a bit of a semi-story / semi-question post. Doing some meditating on the process of thinking itself, I’ve noticed that I have several ways of reckoning and figuring. That is… analyzing, synthesizing and ordering my thoughts and ideas. It’s hard to not use super abstract...

Semantics itself is, yes. But General Semantics is a bit more like epistemology + language and communication. Here’s an intro video if you want more of an answer.

Do you mean something like General Semantics?

I must say, I feel like the complete opposite problem. I describe myself as an 80% kind of guy, because that’s about how far I’ll take a project. The only way I get something “done” is if I envision / reason the completion at like 120% of what’s required. Sometimes it is not so easy though...

Wat. What kind of reasoning is this? Surely just trolling.

Hah, this thread amuses me. (I only skimmed) I somewhat forgot ya’ll existed until I got an email telling me ‘what I missed while I was gone’. I was active for about a year after I joined (in 2012), but then went on a hiatus for several years. I am sorta back now. I doubt any of youse missed...