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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...

I would brag, but most of what I create are moreso organically grown than lovingly crafted. Big projects always get only about 50-80% done. My latest big project was a 100x100 pyramid made out of netherbrick. I gave it some lighter red accents with red netherbrick. I had so much extra...

You can have a hopper minecart collect the eggs, put em into a chest, have that chest feed into a dispenser and reshoot them into the pen for more chickens. Eggs have a chance of spawning baby chickens without having to feed any of em. If you put it in a small enough area you can have chickens...

Firstly, thanks for responding to what was essentially just my rambling meditations on the subject lol. Secondly, I just mean it is more like art than science. That is in the sense that while there are some ‘step by step’ guides for how to psychoanalyze someone, but it is not enough. You can’t...

The best you can do to make psychology a “science” is to follow statistical analysis with applied scientific method. But, since the results will never be applicable to any specific individual, its use will be limited. CBT seems to be the best we have done so far. Aside from the physical study of...

lawl - I got that feeling too. I think it’s just a consequence of absorbing a lot of data, but not analyzing and manipulating it. Wait a second... that’s exactly what a script of some ai bot would do! Prove your human-ness! A kind of “rule of thumb” at spotting people that do this is seeing how...

Cool, like a mix of the non-feral ghouls from Fallout, and undead in darksouls. https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Ghoul https://darksouls.fandom.com/wiki/Undead

I think you gotta better define what you mean by “grasp something”. Not to mention it can vary wildly between persons and what the THING is. I can ‘grasp’ most concepts in an afternoon as long as I’m engaged in doing something related to it and not simply having things dictated to me. If it is...

Oh yeah, I should have added, I imagined them being quite the mimics. Either consciously or unconsciously, they are copying the environment and societies around them. “Well these humans come in two varieties, guess I/we will too” “Sometimes they produce more of themselves, we will too!” “They...

There you go, one inspired by your username. :p

The Cognoscenti Sentient clockwork people. Essentially immortal, if their bodies are destroyed, the parts can still move, and likely reassemble, but probably smaller as some parts may have been lost. Little sense of self-preservation is the consequence. Likely to be very reckless. Working any...

Probably when I was 10 or 11. I felt entirely almost just “on rails” before then. I continued that way for about another 8 years before actually asserting my self determination. I suppose those interim years were used to ‘build’ myself, and separating others’ determination on me, and my own...

“...for there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.” - Hamlet, Shakespeare As to the deconstructing of religious morality, I tend to agree. There does not exist an objective morality. We’re all freestylin’ it out here. However, a general convention of morality and values...

That’s exactly how these “personality tests” I did in school worked. The other one was True Colours or something like that. I got all kinds of concerned looks and reminding that I ought not to follow the profession and career that I was heading in because it didn’t match what this test said...

I enjoy it enough to keep watching it. A few non-spoilery complaints though. There’s one episode so far that was 75% a “wtf is this”. Other 25% was solid. It’s also a little bit difficult to care about anyone not in Picard’s immediate circle. There’s a character that would have been better if...

Most of my thoughts are incomplete gibberish that is only partially understood initially. It is enough for me to act on it. (Make a move in chess, type a text, respond to someone I’m conversing with) But if I really want to ruminate, I have to ‘trace’ out the thought in words. This is fairly...

Hmmm interesting. I also have the feeling of not truly belonging to any groups or fitting in. However, I have no problems being social or doing things with friends. I also have a few very close friends. I’m not entirely sure what my issue is. I’ve just gotten around to seeing feelings as a...

Hmmm I never thought about that, but I think you’re onto something. My friends from school that were “onlys” were fairly awkward to be around. It was never so far off that they were ostracized. But you are right, one ought to outgrow those childish ways of relating anyways. There is some...

He just turned 5. He’s an only child who gets a LOT of 1 on 1 adult attention. So, he may have some learning of how to get along with peers. If their intention is for him to learn, I don’t think it should be done through suffering if possible. It was never a problem until now, he’s never had to...

Haha. I am amused at how often this topic pops up. In my dealings with women, they’re actually not much different than men. If you want some super generalized insights, they’d be almost useless for how generalized they are. Different people are different. You’ll have a lot more success in...

I was only bullied once in elementary and once in highschool. I fought back both times and the bullying stopped there. My cousin’s lil one is currently being bullied in elementary school. She told the teachers and they basically said, “oh, we’re not gonna do anything about it”. (Seriously, they...

This is what I’d call “dangerous knowledge”. It is not racist, but society will fight back against it because true racism still exists, and this kind of knowledge is very likely perpetuate it. Most people would draw improper conclusions from such studies and cause more harm. As a judgement call...

@Serac also suck it INTPs. ENTP in my word cloud is slightly bigger.

@Serac it is the tribe I belong to. Well, my mother’s side, my father is Ojibway! As for the hairstyle, no not really, I’d rather not look like a biker gang member. Nor commit to the upkeep of maintaining such a hairdo.

Heh, “Lobes” is just a funny word. I should add that word to my collection of words that I like. Sadly, I don’t think any would be in my word cloud. I am going to share them here though, since I keep the list in a note on my phone. And I doubt I’d get to in any other thread. Words I like...

There’s learned hatred / bigotry (usually from observing older family members - or mentor figures in general). Personal experience and over generalization. Eg. One man was mean to me once, therefore all men are bad. Peer pressure from a group you belong to. You can’t help but start to agree...

WoW Classic and TFT.

It is going to come too late. Path of Exile 2 will gobble up any recurrent players it would have gotten. Path of Exile is everything D3 should have been. It has so much iteration and development already put into it, I have a hard time seeing how D4 can compete. Blizzard made the same mistake...

So, I am currently ill and have a cold. I found myself utter quite an odd sentence so I had to question it and bring it here. I said, “I hate being sick, my sense of smell is nearly totally gone, and that’s my favourite sense.” So that made me wonder; disregarding actual usefulness, how would...

Wasn’t there a thread for this a few months back?

Whatever benefits me the most. In the short term or long term depending on my mood.

It is peacock shaped, obviously.

Yesn’t

Deepn’t.