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thank you, appreciate it

boris is a johnson

I'm working on it

Perhaps scientific doesn't equal mechanistic? And actually I promiscuously used the word "scientific" while I maybe meant "rational" and "based in logic" (speculative since I don't really remember what exactly I meant). Total amateur mistake on my side for which I want to apologise sincerely.

melted self is richard I think

Quality release on aud-art featuring Richard David James and a bunch of WATMMers, download it and listen to it: https://aud-art.bandcamp.com/album/exhibit-a

ima try

Do the speakers that are featured on that app offer actual insight or is it more about the tone of their voice and how it puts you to sleep?

yuge krome cilindre bocks' nuise. never heard it in 5.1 doe that cat ablum is nice 2. i know all albums very well

Thank you, they are made from coloured noise and are spectrally processed to the maximum. Only the most competent producers can achieve that.

Are there any particular people that you can recommend? Good teachers? I listened to that Vietnamese Buddhist monk who is now in France (forgot name, well known guy, Thai something something) for a while, but he is a bit too ASMR for me, also drifts off into religious cheese way too much, but wise guy. Osho is usually interesting (always with a grain of salt, tho). Any more wise meditation experts you can recommend? A lot of self-acclaimed ones are Jordan Peterson type self-help fucktards, wanna avoid these

Let's enjoy the mystery of existence for a moment.

Yeah, this is why I don't get when religious people say that a scientific view on the world takes away its divinity and that rationalisation has led to a disenchantment of the world. The opposite is the case. The strangeness of objective reality (if there is such) is much more magical and divine than religious dogmatism. Who needs dogma and lack of understanding to add magic to the world when the world itself is a fractal?

No, I mean between Rob and Sean, one of them does at least 61.8% of the work

Yeah, I totally mixed that up out of pure ignorance. What I thought was memory was a mere product of my imagination ?. Apparently Celtic runes were replaced by Latin letters through the Romans and the Germanic peoples who invaded Britain later continued using them but with a delay of a couple of hundred years, and mostly used Anglo-Frisian runes until then.

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There are universal mathematical principles of proportionality that transcend culture and conditioning.

Your dedication is fascinating. I think Bitches Brew is a masterpiece and possibly my fav by Miles. Not gonna claim I understand all the intricacies and music theoretical concepts behind it, but it's pleasant to listen to. I wonder if AE listen to much jazz and if it has influenced them.

You don't really need to learn Middle English. It would surprise me if you don't already understand it (apart from the occasional weird word).

I feel that I sleep longer and better when I sleep on the back or belly instead of on my side. Like most people I sit a lot throughout the day, and lying on the back or belly compensates for the muscular-skeletal problems too much sitting can cause and the sleep gets longer and more restful.

Ever tried breathing exercises? They can immediately take away any speediness/nervous feelings/inner unrest, they can also help you wake up (or fall asleep). Just breathe very deeply (like 20 or 30 times) until you feel light-headed and your hands and feet start tingling, then stop breathing for like a minute or as long as you can hold it and try to slow down your heart beat, then inhale deeply once and hold it in for half a minute or so. Repeat if you so desire. After that you are chemically reset, sorta. Helps both with waking up and falling asleep, very healthy, boosts immune system, also stimulates the blood's ability to transport oxygen. Also, you should get all your health tips from IDM forums.

This is called a "Bärendienst" in German, literally meaning a "bear service" or a "bear's service". Probably stems from some folklore or whatever. Luckily, the stupid youth of today still thinks it means what it originally meant.

Democracy as in the government was selected by a vote. Not all citizens need be eligible to vote for it to be considered a democracy. Unless you have a lot of 4 year olds running around voting in Germany, large swathes of your population can’t vote either. So, semantics aside, my point stands. Expand Expand Votes are only one aspect of democracies, though. I think racial segregation and the praxis that political participation opportunities are determined by ancestry/genealogy (not even indirectly but directly) are against core principles of democracy and it's fair to not call such a place a democracy. Iran has elections but isn't a democracy, either. The comparison to 4 year olds voting is a bit weak, but yes, voting age should be reduced. In my state it's 16, but could go down to 14 imo (would mostly help progressive parties) but that's an entirely different topic. Expand Your original argument was based on the ability to vote, which is why I didn't expand further. I think your point of racial segregation is a good one, but that is a matter of human rights, and not democracy per se. The intersection between democracy and human rights is an important nexus, of course, and one that needs to be improved still further. I suppose you will have to define democracy first before we can agree on core principles. From my point of view, a democracy allows for people to change leaders without the need for a revolution (as opposed to a dictatorship). This obviously ties in with the concept of what defines a person, but again, that is an issue of human rights. Yes, I was a bit facetious with my point (and god no, 14 year olds shouldn't be allowed to vote), but again, the original point is that the US is the longest standing example of a democracy (democratic republic to be more accurate) that exists at the moment. Democracy is tied to human rights, otherwise it's not democracy. That doesn't mean that democracies can't violate human rights, but they have to be integral part of every democracy's state of law, and in the case of the US pre 65 the country's laws directly opposed any modern idea of human rights by being the legal framework for a racial caste system. If the US before the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was a democracy, then modern Iran is a democracy, too. Also, causing regime changes where democracies or forming democracies are replaced by dictatorships isn't something particularly democratic. The US actively suppressed democracy in other places of the world, dictatorships are easier to control. But that is another matter. 16 is for local and regional elections here, and I think 14-year-olds should be able to vote in such elections, too. Some of them understand more about politics than some 60-year-olds and their brain is developed enough to think about politics. It also helps politicising them. Sure, they are probably easier to influence and parties would (have to) cater to young people more to get more votes, but that's not a bad thing. Young people have to live the longest with the aftermath of the decisions that are made now. Generally politics are very age-ist because controlled by boomers and giving the new generation some more weight in elections isn't a terrible idea. Not sure about voting age for national elections, though. It should probably be 16, not 14, but I don't know.