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Druid (druid@shrine.moe)'s status on Friday, 14-Mar-2025 03:18:02 JST Druid
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@BasedLunatic @phnt @Cyrillic @vic Quiet Part Out Loud Award but unfortunately you are right, the hylic and utilitarian nature of our society is the direct result of the unique values of Judaism, particularly since Talmudic law forms the *basis* of most of our legal system (hence why 90% of it is concerned with possessions.) If you read the Talmud, it is very obvious that the values therein will lead a man to the exact madness Zoroaster warned us about: the thing Native Americans call "wetiko."

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Druid (druid@shrine.moe)'s status on Friday, 14-Mar-2025 03:17:25 JST Druid
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@BasedLunatic @phnt @Cyrillic @vic Yeah, these basic behavioural checks are sadly all most mental health services contact even comes down to for most of the people they're supposed to be helping. 🙄

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Druid (druid@shrine.moe)'s status on Friday, 14-Mar-2025 03:17:24 JST Druid
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@BasedLunatic @Cyrillic @phnt @vic This conversation is making me wonder if there is less of a deliniation between psychology and psychiatry in Norway...

(Since what you're talking about would be done by a psychiatrist here)

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Druid (druid@shrine.moe)'s status on Friday, 14-Mar-2025 03:12:31 JST Druid
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@phnt @BasedLunatic @Cyrillic @vic Don't forget that both psychiatrists AND medical doctors in America get financial kickbacks for prescribing medication! 👍

This is why antipsychotics are so widely overprescribed that they are widely used just to "calm patients" who aren't psychotic at all, e.g. as a sedative on old people's homes. If you give antipsychotics to people who aren't psychotic, they can become psychotic, and regardless of whether or not they needed them, the shit gives you Parkinson's and other horrible diseases (more quickly in older patients too) anyway.

There's a huge scandal over it, the controversy over needless death in retirement homes in the USA due to overprescription of risperidone (an antipsychotic) is a mess.

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Druid (druid@shrine.moe)'s status on Friday, 14-Mar-2025 03:08:14 JST Druid
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@phnt @BasedLunatic @Cyrillic @mischievoustomato Thanks very much for this advice, I think my wife has a multimeter. Stupid question, but I assume you mean to test the contacts on the HDD, and not the obviously fucked SATA controller? 😆

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Druid (druid@shrine.moe)'s status on Friday, 14-Mar-2025 03:07:22 JST Druid
@bajax @BasedLunatic @phnt @Cyrillic That's simply untrue, trying to get a sane person sectioned would be a sisyphean task. Glowers don't do this, they just send a couple of attractive girls to seduce you at a bar, let you fuck them in your hotel room, and then go to the police and claim you raped them. Look at Assange. This is why Linus Torvalds won't be alone in a room with a woman without an escort.

(Besides, this is based on the misconception that psychology is akin to witch-hunting, when in reality it's the consequence of trying to apply scientific methodology to the study of the psyche - the very force that ended witch-hunting.)

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Druid (druid@shrine.moe)'s status on Friday, 14-Mar-2025 03:06:53 JST Druid
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@vic @BasedLunatic @phnt @Cyrillic This is why in private discussion with my friends and family I usually use the term "phenomenology" rather than "mental illness" or even "maladaptation" to discuss neurodivergent thinking patterns - it's just that spheres of intelligence are orientated and developed differently in that person for whatever reason. Harnessed, channeled and awakened, they can actually be useful characteristics: the savant-like ability that some autistic people can channel, the passion and creativity of the manic phases of bipolar people would be another.

It's all about understanding and reconciling, like a Jungian shadow integration. Personally, I made the decision to try and live with my bipolarity without medication, but I've met many who are happier and more functional with lithium (and less commonly, antipsychotic medication.) My wife has ADHD, and after some wondering about whether she should take a similar approach, came to the conclusion (after some experimentation) that ritalin (including as opposed to amphetamines like adderal) was right for her.

I don't see any reason why neurotypical people shouldn't do the same thing, bluntly. If someone works better with nicotine in their system for example, why is that a source of shame, or inautheiticity? (Not that I think you're saying this,I'm navelgazing.)

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Druid (druid@shrine.moe)'s status on Friday, 14-Mar-2025 02:03:02 JST Druid
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@mischievoustomato @BasedLunatic @Cyrillic You're whetting an appetite I haven't sated for a long time.... hag chasing was fun as fuck as a teenager. I'm with you, I prefer to be on top with women older than me - I'm just now old enough that there are a lot less single/desirable women older than me, and I'm married anyway. But FUCK it is SO good to use a 35+ year old woman's libido against her, taunting her about how she has had to go and find younger dick to sate her appetite.

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Druid (druid@shrine.moe)'s status on Thursday, 13-Mar-2025 23:46:25 JST Druid
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@Cyrillic @BasedLunatic You are right that I am largely mathematically illiterate, which is part of why I am at university isn't it :reimu_facepalm: I do know what XOR and OR are though thanks, I just wanted to mock your brainletpost. You are the kind of person who, upon having the Parable of the Burning House explained to him, would simply say "my house isn't on fire."

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Druid (druid@shrine.moe)'s status on Thursday, 13-Mar-2025 23:10:55 JST Druid
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@mischievoustomato @BasedLunatic @Cyrillic Why would you want to do a thing like that?
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Druid (druid@shrine.moe)'s status on Thursday, 13-Mar-2025 22:54:45 JST Druid
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@phnt @BasedLunatic @Cyrillic I'm afraid it's time for me to put on my ackshually hat: I think the pattern of behaviour you're talking about here is particular to *Abrahamic* religion, and that the Abrahamic religious grounding of the West causes most Westerners to conflate Abrahamic practices with overall religiosity. 🤓

To be specific, the point I'm making here is that while Knowledge is Sin in Abrahamic religion (the fruit in the Garden of Eden,) it's the *goal* in Dharmic religion. ("Moksha" can be translated as "Freedom," but also as "Knowledge" - and after all, overcoming "Maya" ("Ignorance") is the chief vector by which Moksha is attained.)

This is why you never see Buddhists, Hindus etc. upset about science or trying to deny its findings. This is also why you never see them killing each other like monkeys over theological differences like Abrahamists do: heterodoxy is shunned as heresy in Abrahamism because it's a fundamentally anti-gnostic family of religions, but embraced in Dharmism because the elementary gnostic understanding that reality is individual is foundational in the family of religions (the Ishvara.) Hinduism for example has over 80 major active sects in the world right now, with seemingly no infighting other than occasional debate. Meanwhile, I invite you to remember that Saint Nicholas 🎅punched out a man at the Council of Nicaea over whether the power of God descends from just the Father, or from the Father and the Son. 🐒(Look at Muslims, they are STILL killing each other over which of Abraham's sons is the good one.

I'm of the conviction that Abrahamic and Dharmic religions are seemingly diametrically opposed (to the level that it appears to be divine providence, making me sympathetic to Zoroaster's bitheistic perspective) - "Gods" and "Antigods" is not too far off, I find the Dharmic distinction between Deva and Asura to be a good way of understanding it. Within this model, the Abrahamic god would be considered nothing more than a mid-range Asura: obsessed with power, shackled to desire, in perpetual fear of the Deva. (This is why Buddhists don't even care enough about Yahweh to single him out for defamation, his methodology poses no threat to even an initiate.)

This is also to say nothing of religions like Daoism which (while totally compatible with Dharmism) are borderline non-Euclidian by comparison, or of indigenous/pagan practices like Shinto that don't technically qualify as religions.

Thank you for reading my blog post.

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Druid (druid@shrine.moe)'s status on Thursday, 13-Mar-2025 22:47:40 JST Druid
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@BasedLunatic @phnt @Cyrillic I don't see why petty deviance has to be demonised, I think it is a really important part of the human condition (Homo Ludens convinced me of that) and would interpret Machiavelli's statements on man's base need for governance with the wry humour he seems to have intended the entirety of The Prince to be read in

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Druid (druid@shrine.moe)'s status on Thursday, 13-Mar-2025 22:44:11 JST Druid
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@phnt @BasedLunatic @Cyrillic I absolutely love this post.

The ability to judge things instantly is incredibly important. I think the kind of observations you are talking about here arise naturally, but we are conditioned to ignore them, partially as a consequence of the addiction to "Pure Reason" that Kant warned us about. Pure reason is extremely useful in a range of circumstances, but the fact of the matter is that you HAVE to eventually just take a fucking punt. Material science is the best example of this: Gravity can never be more than a theory, and yet it's a fact of life that only an idiot would deny (which is why "gravity is a social construct" was the basis of the Sokal hoax lol.)

I have lost count of the amount of times that my skin has been saved by precisely the kind of analysis that you're talking about here. I'd be single (I'd NEVER have been able to navitgate the immigration system, so no wife,) probably in prison, and almost certainly on a *very* tight mental health leash.

The thing that I find baffling is that it is often the same kind of people who will deny the validity of this kind of analysis who will then employ it liberally (and usually ineptly) on first contact. "Psychology is bullshit BUT my senses tell me that you are a troon."

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Druid (druid@shrine.moe)'s status on Thursday, 13-Mar-2025 22:21:34 JST Druid
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@phnt It's not just fedi though, is it? The reality is that this is actually one of the most positive places on the internet. Ten minutes browsing Twitter gives you fucking brain damage by comparison, at least on fedi about 30% of what I see is wholesome autist hyperfixation, and even instances like poast (which initially appear orientated around negativity) have a jovial atmosphere and are home to some highly creative, positive and seemingly healthy people (Colleen springs to mind instantly)

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Druid (druid@shrine.moe)'s status on Thursday, 13-Mar-2025 22:20:30 JST Druid
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@mischievoustomato @BasedLunatic @phnt @Cyrillic Good question. I think this would have been around 2011, so it MIGHT be on the HDD of my old PC since iirc I bought it in 2010. Unless it was while I was in America (around that time) in which case that lappy is lost.

Between this and my desire to unearth old Minecraft worlds, I think it might finally be time to slot the old HDD into my new case and try to overcome my paranoia that it somehow caused the death of my old motherboard's SATA controller. I don't know enough about computers to know the probability of such a thing. :<

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Druid (druid@shrine.moe)'s status on Thursday, 13-Mar-2025 21:39:26 JST Druid
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@Cyrillic @BasedLunatic So the entire field is predicated on a lie, but you're nitpicking its notation? Seems a bit desperate, I think you want to fuck your mother.

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Druid (druid@shrine.moe)'s status on Thursday, 13-Mar-2025 21:37:31 JST Druid
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@phnt @BasedLunatic @Cyrillic Yes, this is exactly what first got me into it. Someone on 4chan dumped a CIA psyops manual from the Cold War that included all kinds of primers on things like how to fake dull facial expressions to make it appear as though you aren't listening, what stupid quesitons to ask to appear as though you don't have the intelligence to understand what you're being asked, etc. Naturally, also a LOT of information on how to interpret the expressions, body language, habits, rituals etc. of others.

The thread was 50% people seething about the idea that this was possible/in practice and wanting to dismiss it (this was before 4chan was paranoid about psyops) and 50% people deciding that it was too useful to pass by. I was in the latter camp, nothing more. It's the same thing that happens with anything that poses this kind of FOMO skill threat ("what if others do this and I don't",) just iike we're seeing with AGI/le singularity.

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Druid (druid@shrine.moe)'s status on Thursday, 13-Mar-2025 21:32:08 JST Druid
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Druid (druid@shrine.moe)'s status on Thursday, 13-Mar-2025 21:31:38 JST Druid

Fedi could use more Boomer Facebook tier positivity honestly. Fuck yeah. I should post some of the endless, ENDLESS things my mother sends me from there.

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Druid (druid@shrine.moe)'s status on Thursday, 13-Mar-2025 21:18:00 JST Druid
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@BasedLunatic The idea that the psyche can be studied and understood frightens some people because they don't like the idea of someone else having a greater understanding of their psyche than they have of their own. The idea makes them so uncomfortable that they want to dismiss it as impossible, up to and including denying that the psyche even exists.

In reality, it is actually that there is an analytical clarity that we can *only* attain when analysing another person, hence why psychologists do not attempt to minister to themselves. Barbers cutting their own hair and all that.

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