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> your brain will rot from being so narrowly focused on this one thing

It depends on a person. Many people work on the same ideas for dozens of years. The "try everything" approach to work is relatively new.

> patient-hopping my dentists here in the US always did

Wow, is it a regular thing?

Yes, altruism balances egocentrism.

Nope, Tumblr is already up.

Spanish countries do it for years with "@" or "x" like "estimad@s" for "estimados" and "estimadas" at once. And Latin America is not very politically correct, it's just respectful for all genders.

Alan Watts is awesome, I highly recommend "Out of your mind" lectures.

Or we can be mindful and do not follow our ancient "animal" behavioral patterns.

Understood, sorry if I sounded rude then.

I've encountered many stereotypes on this topic from non-Russian russophiles in the last politically-intensive years - that's why I responded hotheadedly.

All people are talking to broadcast their views.

In this case I just opposed to these statements because I thought he had some utopian views of life there:

> It's about when other people become dependent on you.

> I think this is the way that it has long been thought of in cultures outside of the post-Enlightenment West. This was my strong opinion after reading Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, (Russia isn't western like the rest of Europe)

Nothing in Russian culture is "long been thought" about responsibility. You could say it about Japanese or Korean cultures probably - people kill themselves there because of failed responsibilities.

What a thought through objection!

Here's a perfect example of the "responsible" Russian culture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=438sGy9IE58

This video is not fake - I've experienced this kind of alienation (and even hostility) for over 20 years.

Duh, sorry, but the culture and history of Russia (and neighboring slavic countries) is an example of how to run away from all sorts of responsibilities.

Probably it sounds good in our classic books but in reality the only "other people become dependent on you" case is nepotism like in Middle Eastern or Central Asian cultures.

But at least people from these cultures care about their elders and far relatives. Russians do not.

You should read about the amount of slave labour and deaths by purges that was required for these "astonishing" results.

Also "space travelling" means nothing when more than half of your citizens don't have access to toilet paper and use newspapers for wiping until 90s. (Sorry, no sources on this but I'm Russian born in 80s.)

Also technical people are usually very arrogant in human sciences.

Just because psychology or art are not defined in formulas that doesn't mean they're easy. Quite opposite: they're so diverse that it's impossible to formalize them into strict laws.

> Drinking 3+ glasses of milk daily

Huh? There's some correlation with prostate cancer[1] but that's it.

[1] http://www.pcrm.org/health/health-topics/milk-consumption-an...

Yes, because it have become an institution and transformed into rules of society in many countries. Many people are using it as a cargo cult without studying its philosophy and many monks are behaving in non-mindful ways.

The teaching and the religion around it are like science and public knowledge about it. Of course many people know some laws of physics but not everyone is capable of building a rocket.

I'm very intrigued to hear about your Golden Age philosophies or at least some Silver Age ones.

Because the core ideas of Buddhism are the only ones that can be applied directly to your behavioural patterns. They are practical, they are purely logic. I don't know what's the "supernatural claptrap" you're talking about, probably you picked the wrong school to study it and got distracted.

In my opinion other philosophies (especially European schools) are mostly a wordplay without an applied part.

> If you believe you have to meditate to not go to flaming eternal hell, that's religion.

Buddhist "hell" is purely logical, there're no concepts in vanilla Buddhism that are not logical. You're not getting to hell for "not meditating".

The hell is not eternal and you will go out of it eventually when you'll get better understanding of the universe. You're going to hell not because some god or Buddha say so but because the universe works that way: angry and violent mindstreams flow into worse states until they realize they should stop behave like they do.

For people who're opposite to the idea of any other worlds but their own, there's a view that "hell" is just a state of unbalanced mind and not some kind of dimension for your afterlife.

> All religions are silly ridiculous relics. Let's stop talking about them.

Why generalize? How about the core parts of Buddhism that are literally a checklist on how to calm your mind. And the same methods are used by modern psychotherapy as "cognitive behavioural therapy" and "mindfulness".

It's strange that after a couple decades of meditation you call obviously helpful things "stupid".

Please be mindful, everybody has their own ways.

2 years on subscription (though I meditate without Headspace more). There're many techniques and ideas in different Headspace courses that were quite useful for me and I added them into my meditation practice.

I use Apple BT keyboard for almost 4 years now. I've always loved slim keyboards and it's the best slim keyboard you can find.

Also small arrows is a great idea: you can navigate through code without moving your hand to the right.

I think you meant this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpAMbpQ8J7g

It's important to not describe meditation in terms of "thinking less" because then novices try to reject or block their thoughts and strain their minds.

Better phrasing is something like "not following after arising thoughts".

All games are Skinner boxes. F2P are just more obvious ones.

I'm not passionate about programming at all. It's just the best way to make money from home.

But I keep my skill growing anyway because I'd like to produce better software products. Development is a mess already, it will be better to prevent further complications.

> Nope. It does mean that you lose the right to complain though.

Yeah, let's isolate rich persons even more instead of helping them to find their way together with us.

That's for sure will lead to a better world where rich can connect with others and share their fortunes for a common good.

/s

This kind of attitude is the exact source of his suffering.

You'll have a real hard time with Slavic languages. ;)

Trying to add all the things you missed meanwhile.

I'm not drinking for over 6 years just because I can't see pleasure in alcohol intoxication.

All these comments like "you're not respecting social norms" feel kind of offensive. And now this sword straw man.

Sorry, but not drinking simply makes me not drunk. I'm never "more honest" and "less guarded" when I'm drunk (that's why I don't like it - I fight the drunk state of mind every time).

> I've also heard people say that humans are not the cause of climate change. Just because people say something doesn't mean it's true.

This is a straw man argument, you're comparing regular science with philosophy.

> Nirvana is not a natural state

> It is an artificial state that humans have invented

> we have to make Nirvana. We have to design it and build it and maintain it

Sorry, but you have incorrect understanding of this concept in terms of both Buddhism and Hinduism. Please update your information on this topic.