I've gradually come to settle on the idea that some form of panpsychism is the best fit for the phenomenon of consciousness. It opens up the possibility that consciousness is a field phenomenon or a latent potential existing in all of what we would traditionally consider to be inanimate matter.
Except for certain figures like Philip Goff and Donald Hoffman etc. you don't see many scientists willing to wrestle with the concept of consciousness. (I have my problems with some of these guys' assumptions too, eg. I don't think the term 'simulation theory' is useful and I'm not convinced there is a 'hard problem' of consciousness at all.) But mainstream science is scared of examining it and has no idea how to. A thorough examination of consciousness might reveal that the phenomenon of consciousness differs even across the human race, including the revelation that people may operate at different levels of consciousness, thereby introducing the concept of people who are more human and less human according to the intuitive understanding that consciousness itself is what makes humans special. Very problematic.
Most scientists also don't want to think or talk about the possibility, even theoretical, of greater-than-human consciousness, even though if consciousness proceeds from a discoverable principle, and that principle depends purely on the arrangement of physical matter, then it should be axiomatic that matter can be arranged to optimise for consciousness. Hilariously, materialists accidentally end up in a very anthropocentric view of the universe when they instead take as axiomatic that we already represent that optimisation, and that possibilities for consciousness don't extend very far below or above the current human experience. I've also heard of technological singularity ideas getting angrily dismissed as 'creationism by the back door' by some scientists, because they anticipate the extrapolations and don't want to acknowledge any line of thinking that would challenge their atheist cred.
Whether or not extramission represents the best way to understand the way a consciousness entity comes together and starts to experience things, I don't know. It does however call to mind other spiritual ideas of how consciousness is constituted, such as the Buddhist simile of the chariot, if we hypothesise that our interactions with everything around us, including things we merely look at, are constituent parts of our consciousness in the same way that synaptic activity is, on a different level and scale. A conversation with another person could be considered a building block in a dual consciousness, where the information is bottlenecked through one extremely noisy, low bandwidth synapse.
The video also features a nasheed, a traditional Islamic form of music that is also used by Islamists. However, it is unclear whether the music is heard by those filming or whether it is coming from the attacker's vehicle.
Unintentionally darkly hilarious.
I guess I'm curious too, from the sounds of it. However I checked it out just now and got red flags immediately. You can 'preview' their selection which just means you get to see the docu trailers, I guess. At random I clicked the Wild West docu trailer, then within seconds a black woman was telling me just how diverse I never realised the Wild West was and black cowboys were telling me how they've been erased from history.
Personally I'll stick with schizos recording into their walmart microphones on Odysee.
The archer quest was where I first started smelling the stench. The conversations you have with the old archery sensei guy are textbook feminist crap. First of all, the woman is his best student ever, sorry Jin. But that's to be expected, all the female warriors in the game are incredible - apart from that one sidequest samurai lady who shows up (to train male rebels) then gets in trouble (because she's too brave and righteous and fights too many evil men at once).
But then the rest of the conversations through every part of that archer quest consists of Jin talking shit at the sensei. 'What did you do to make her this mad?' 'What are you hiding?' 'Gonna kill your own student huh...' All while there is immediate evidence of her being a willing mongol collaborator and enthusiastic killer of japanese peasants, all the story can think of is how to turn this around on the male authority figure. Right after her cruellest murder trap, when you chase her down the first time, Jin doesn't immediately kill her as he would with any man, instead he just gives her a chance to say 'sensei is hiding the truth from you!' then escape.
I never finished that sidequest but I read the summary of how it concludes just now and laughed. Just as predictable as Ghost of Yotei.
The writers have no idea how to ever ascribe any wrongdoing to women, except by occasionally floating the question that they're being too violent (which is another feminist fantasy), but every time in those cases the reason for it is that men made a cruel world so it's women's responsibility to fix it, by discarding dumb male principles and killing all the bad men from the shadows.
The final sidequest in the DLC is like this too. Big Bertha's men turn against her for bending her own rules to spare her daughter, rules she previously used as justification have men executed, presumably. Complex situation and a legit grievance, possibly, yet Jin unquestioningly sides with fattie to help slaughter her own men and save her junkie daughter. I said fuck it and just tried to run out of the location boundary at that point.
They fast forwarded 300 years from GoT. That puts Yasuke in the picture. Don't be surprised to see him as an envoy from Edo or as a wandering ronin, as a gesture of woke solidarity with Ubisoft.
Yep. I was looking forward to trying it for ages, but in the end like you I'm glad I only torrented it.
esp in the expansion
That's the leader of the good guys. People reading might not know that the leader of the bad guys in that DLC is another hoglike BBW. Or that the 2 of them are a mere fraction of the full cast of badass lady warriors you run into in the game, practically all of them ugly. At the same time, every faceless bandit grunt and mongol soldier you kill in GoT is male.
Anyone who's played GoT and has not noticed the deep, deep feminist influence needs their ideological radar recalibrated. It is nauseating throughout the game, to the point I stopped playing in the final third. I would argue that it's not just a feminism-influenced game but a feminist game, full stop, in the same sense that Disco Elysium is a communist game. It's not just surface level propaganda issues like implausibly competent women chars who are all ugly. GoT has that propagandistic influence but it isn't just that - it's more like a feminist outlook crystallised into a story. I guess it's the difference between naked propaganda and a real, enjoyable product (which it is) that happens to be made by ideological opponents, ones who are technically competent and who try to write about a variety of topics in a fair fashion, but they can't help writing absolutely everything through their ideological lens.
Hell, the only reason you play as the titular 'Ghost' - and you have no choice in that - is because the character is following the influence of women. The 'ghost' nickname is thought up and spread around the populace by your badass lady bandit sidekick, while your MC stands there unhappy about being called it, at first, but too cucked to protest much. There are male samurai in the story (not many) who criticise Jin's methods, and those conversations weirdly come off like a pussywhipped husband getting talked to by friends who don't want to criticise his bitch wife too much.
Not to get into too much spoiler detail, but the later themes are all about how honour is dumb while poison (historically the woman's weapon) is great. Unprincipled pragmatism and sneakery is the only real way to get what you want in the world. It's No Bad Tactics, Only Bad targets: The Game, while every male connection is treacherous, naive, unreliable or cruel. It pays lip service to every exotic, cosmetic aspect of Japan - pretty nature and temples, cuddly foxes, cool samurai armour - and spares no lip service at all for the value of honour.
Ghost of Yotei looking like it does was 1000% predictabo. The devs have not cucked to anything, they were always true believers.
People have dismantled the hypocrisy of the 'seek safe spaces' and 'build communities' part, which feminists always undermine, but the 'pursue therapy' bit is also hypocritical in a more roundabout way. All therapy is, at its mediocre best, is an expensive friend whom you hire by the hour. It's someone making you feel listened to, making your struggles feel significant, giving an alternative perspective on your situation, offering common sense advice and forcing you to confront harsh realities - if you're lucky (if you're unlucky they'll gender-affirm your cock straight into a blender). Even if it succeeds in being all these things, it's a more hollow experience than having a sage conversation with a good friend simply because it isn't that. Access to strong friendship makes therapy redundant.
In turn, feminist progressive ideology attempts to undermine and poison all male friendship. It weakens the platonic bonds that men have forged among one another since the beginning of time, by faggifying everything, 'gay-coding' normal heterosexual behaviour and stigmatising the bants, physicality and competitiveness men use to deepen friendships (something we most often did in the male spaces now infiltrated by females and faggots) and it also contaminates the more thoughtful ways men look out for eachother and cheer eachother up, when they act as if it's a victory for feminism whenever a man does something sensitive, even though we always have.
So we don't need to pursue therapy either. Fuck all those pill-shilling ideological psyops, we need to pursue natural male friendship and camaraderie.
Hugh Jackman's character had this problem with the drunk body double in The Prestige.
First article I've read since the pandemic which approaches the problems with the medical profession with appropriate respect and proposes real solutions.
Cringe: Getting mad at your enemy taunting your dead.
Based: Welcoming it as an invitation to start a scoreboard.
This McBeth thing is one of the most repulsive specimens I've ever seen. It's a waste of time to even describe why, he maxes out every category.
"Nobody is coming to save you" isn't even necessarily a blackpill. If more men truly swallowed the implications of it, they might discard the concept of the benevolent paternal state and do what little they can to protect their families and their communities and their own self, themselves. Not everyone can easily gather the resources or resolve to become a full doom-prepper (certainly not me), but that one key perspective shift could be enough to make people go a little further to make Solzhenitsyn's hypothetical come closer to reality:
What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family?
Yes it's a bleak scenario where not everyone survives, but it ensures that something good could.
Is there any evidence of 'fans getting pissed off' with Chen over this or is it a synthetic news narrative pushed entirely by the US govt, in order to put influencers in fear of legal reprisal for following the wrong script? All this convoluted intrigue about RT money cloaks the fact that the 2 Russians indicted are 'at large' because they're in Russia, so this is entirely for show. They will never face any kind of trial unless maybe they're dumb enough to start jetsetting through WEF-run countries.
where it gets shady with youtubers
And what you've said mostly applies generically to all youtubers, though MrBeast's scandal to my understanding is about a geek covering for his tranny groomer friend, so I don't see how it compares.
In recent memory Disney ran practically all the biggest names in the space, including Pewdiepie up until 2017 when they dropped him for 'anti-semitism'. There's still loads of nebulous 'Creators Studios' running people like this. We can quibble over whether or not every big money interest is an actor for a foreign state, but we also know that that propaganda doesn't require that level of directness in the era of globohomo. The biggest propaganda push nowadays is essentially stateless or else comes from what our own governments would consider as allied nations. When are we going to hear about anyone punished for working with Britain's 77th Brigade, GCHQ and JTRIG? Never.
It's safest to assume ANY well-known influencer is compromised to some degree. Example, the internet starts clucking about MatPat quitting... Never heard of the guy so I look him up. Oh right, turns out this is a guy who personally 'interviewed' Antony Fauci as a vaccine propaganda advert on his GAMING channel in 2021. Do people think he did that for free? Seems people weren't thinking about it at all, because I was the only one criticising this connection anywhere I looked, except the comments of the original video. People are so used to being propagandised to their faces and thinking it's fine, that they're now conditioned to salivating at 'discovering' the propaganda their masters tell them has gone on behind their backs.
Nobody's pointed to anything specific Chen has said that she wouldn't have said without the influence of RT money, yet I can very definitely point to things my country's media have said which they would never have said without the influence of the US government. I absolutely refuse to pretend to give a fuck about any of this theatre and that's coming from someone who's relatively hardline anti-Russia compared to most, at a guess.
"I think Chen might be an agent..."
"IDK, I don't think Chen is an agent!"
Yeah but why are we supposed to care though? I don't watch ecelebs, but what exactly is so bad about someone getting money from a foreign state TV broadcaster - which was interchangeable with any other scummy state broadcaster on the globe up until the gay slavic proxy war happened and now it's verboten - to say apparently sensible things that anyone could realise on their own anyway. If there are people out there who genuinely need Lauren Chen to help them reach obvious conclusions, and if Lauren Chen genuinely needs foreign money and scripts to put those perspectives out, then that money is practically charity. I don't give a fuck.
The larger picture is that this is just a flex for western governments to start threatening influencers with the law if they don't parrot CurrentThing. There are so many unfriendly foreign parties investing in everything that it's trivial to start retroactively painting anybody you want to as an agent. When will it apply to Tencent money? I'm certain it won't apply to anyone getting money from Israel any time soon, anyway.
Actually an excellent question. They already 'just said no' in 2020 and stole a whole government in arguably the most brazen coup in history. The only things that made it interpretable as anything else were the tiniest shreds of implausible deniability, plus some prototype examples of reality-denial of a kind we came to see a lot more of through the plandemic years. Reality hasn't yet caught up to the fact that America was stolen. The average normalcuck never will catch up, because the gravity of what happened and the fact that it happened with no resistance is too scary and painful to admit (again not dissimilar to the psychological trauma of the plandemic).
So there's a lot of hope and cope building towards this election if people really think the current admin, when asked 'a-are you going to follow the rules and hand the country back now?', are going to answer 'sure ok' like a joyrider parking a stolen car back at its owner's address. The only thing that could really make them do that is fear. But I think quite a lot of them now genuinely fear a second Trump term just as much as they pretended to fear it in 2020, because they've spent 4 years doing everything they can to justify that fear of reprisal, including pulling all the most tyrannical tricks of the average banana republic.
I mean Trump's head came within millimeters of exploding like a watermelon live on CNN not that long ago, and they wanted that to happen. They tried to engineer it. With people willing to go that far, what do people think is actually going to make them concede defeat? Politeness? Fatigue? It's just not going to happen without fear and they don't seem to be feeling enough of it in the right direction.
Sigh... Step aside, white boys, this looks like a job for DEI to solve (scroll down article for photo). Just as long as I don't miss the latest episode of House of the Dragon while at sea, nuh-uh.
His cancer announcement vid was July last year, where he said they caught it early and recently. The vid he's recording in preparation for his death here was 20/12/23. In that time it had spread to his bones and destroyed his hip. That seems very aggressive and fast.
This is her full 2023 journal - supposedly anyway, like tensigh I didn't get a link from the site either - but to the extent that the 'trannifesto' includes her spiral notebook with her writings about the attack, this is still not the full release:
While The Star has not obtained this spiral notebook, which is said to contain writings of her operational plan of attack, a portion was leaked and subsequently published by conservative commentator and comedian Steven Crowder last year.
There is also much much more in the way of her ramblings which were seized by the cops and could detail the course of her tranny radicalisation over the years:
MNPD officers, accompanied by agents from the FBI and the ATF, seized 20 additional journals written by Hale between 2007 and 2022 at the Nashville residence she shared with her parents during a legally authorized search on the afternoon of March 27, 2023, Those journals are said to contain about 1,000 pages.
While I respect these leaks from The Star and whoever's leaking it from the inside, I wish they'd just dump the entire lot and in a sensible form that works.
Justice is a concept that transcends manmade institutions. Natural justice.
When all your institutions are dead or compromised, you can't rely on them for justice, not even - in fact, especially - the ones with 'Justice' capitalised in their title.
platforming requires more precision because Mario has a round hitbox instead of a square one.
Same thing happened in the Crash remasters iirc
Plagiarism by SBI, I've already seen child literacy advocates cosplaying* as the guy on the right, years ago.
*(Tangentially - and with a fuck you for all the disingenuous, groomerfaggot enablers who like to claim this insanity is amplified by the internet and you never see it irl - that same library was actually my childhood library.)
Great, thanks for the links. I'll have a read when I can. On a quick skim, the Greek guy seems a bit overcome by fanboyism, but I don't consider that a reason to discount his whole account.
I'm more than just open to it, I'm actually fixated on questions of consciousness these days. I have a collection of reflections and ramblings in a text file which I feel some sort of moral responsibility to try and turn into a book or something some day, myself, though I have a poor record with following through with that sort of thing and no paper credentials to make it seem authoritative.
This could prompt me to look into the Tao/Dao some more since it seems like it could have a lot of overlap, cheers. Taoism remains in a blind spot for me unlike several other spiritual traditions I've come to take pointers from (much like the Perennialists). Who knows, maybe I'll go find this Chang myself.
What? works on my machine, even on different logged out browsers with nothing in the cache, as well as for the 7 other people who see it.