Ankh symbol is also great, and I have used it with slight variation:
Ankh symbol is also great, and I have used it with slight variation:
Also, thanks for those symbols. I am not much familiar with Egyptian language. Middle symbol I like more than the other two.
I will admit that I did use that symbol before a lot. Its also similar symbol in astronomy, for Sun.
However, circle inside a circle logically represents the Sun, or the star made from circle. the first circle represents the star made from circle, the second bigger circle represents star's light spreading beyond the star, probably.
In astronomy, there is circle and dot, but I am sure circle inside a circle is more appropriate, because the dot does not represent star made from circle. It represents star made from dot.
Person who does magic must logically believe his magic conquers all, to believe the opposite would mean to believe his magic is weaker, and power of magic is commanded by belief. Your words and your thoughts create your reality.
As I said, people today raise the most incapable kids. Protecting kids from truth is reason why people at age 18 are mostly just idiots. Keeping someone in bubble of misinformation and censorship is not good. Its not any good for citizens of North Korea, and its probably also not good for kids. I dont see why people think that something which would objectively harm every adult a lot is somehow good for kids.
Ok, AI fixed the magical symbol now.
Good AI!
My view is that kids should be introduced to some concepts in stages as they get older.
At no point in human history did people think that except today, and today, people indeed raise the most incapable kids.
Ok, AI messed up on that last symbol. Bad AI!
A more perfect circle star symbol is this:
What is missing are magical writings to be written on white empty space.
arguably maybe they ought not be part of some adult conversations.
I hold a somewhat different opinion. Kids can either learn from adults or from other kids, and I dont see how latter is any good. Its basically blind leading the blind. People who dont talk to kids much are only making kids dumber.
The more points to a star, the more the center polygon approaches a circle. I like it.
7 pointed star has 7 sides in center polygon.
Actually, to be more precise, star is created out of polygon, by extending lines in polygon to form a star.
You can draw a triangle, and draw point at each side to form a star.
tho the simplest star is star from one line, which forms star with 2 points when point is drawn on each side of line. this star is often seen in compass.
tho simplest polygon is a triangle. the most complex one is circle. Star formed from circle would look like this:
And this is a very holy magical symbol, because it is star formed from circle.
Just to be clear, I am trans age.
My real age is around 30, I look 15, my mental age is around 13, but I act like a baby.
Okay, so my video on tik tok just got removed. In past, I used black pen to draw and had no problems. Now, I decide to use a red marker I bought on temu, and video gets instantly removed.
Now, I dont exactly have great eye sight, but does this look like blood? Because if yes, then I need to order more markers on temu because thats just awesome.
Why not just outlaw religion?
Yeah, see what happened in USSR when they tried to outlaw religion, or Mao's China. Society works based on religion, because religion teaches values which government doesnt.
If you make bullet points they forcibly convert into a numbers list.
I dont know how to turn that off either. It seems that merely typing "1." at start creates a forced list, and the only way to avoid it is this:
A 1.
B 2.
C 5.
the only way to avoid it is by typing something before the number. Empty space before number doesnt work.
The arguments you made in the OP are logically sound on their own
they are based on modified version of Kant's Categorical Imperative - Lex talionis, as well as principle of equal powers of all individuals.
I dont really see any possibility of someone arguing against lex talionis, when we assume principle of equal powers (Where each individual and each group have equal ability to decide). the only way to argue against lex talionis is by assuming one individual has more power than the other when it comes to decision making. But such position isnt logically possible to defend, because to give thyself special powers, you already need special powers to be able to do that. And then we just circle back to the question: Who decides about who gets to decide? - A logical problem where any person can claim these special powers, if special powers can be claimed by anyone. Which again brings back to Principle of equal powers.
As he has argued that God is transgender.
My position in religion is that God is genderless, but also can assume form of any gender.
Social media is the best way to reach people
Yeah, I dont have 3000 followers in real life. Reaching 3000 people in real life would probably be a lot more work.
Though one might reach more people by using as many platforms as possible?
Yes, you reach most people by having most platforms. Same with online sales, selling on multiple platforms improves rate of sales.
However, when it comes to social life and posting content, posting on more than one platform is a lot of bother. Posting on just 2 platforms is double more work. Posting on 3 or 4 platforms becomes like a job which doesnt really pay off, because you also have to respond to comments and follows, and doing all that on 4 platforms means spending hours a day doing just that.
I use tik tok because its easiest platform to gain followers. I have more followers on one tik tok account than on all other platforms combined, almost 3000 followers.
tik tok has an established system where you gain followers easily by following and liking other people, because its easy to notify people that you exist.
I am mainly on tik tok. Easier to make videos than on Youtube. I have Youtube too, but it never really went anywhere other than that one AI video having 80,000 views. And since I cant bother to post on both, I decided to mainly stick to tik tok because tik tok is much better than youtube in many ways, video creation being one of more important things. My only issue with tik tok is insane censorship, where basically every offensive word is censored.
The problem with books is that any puzzle which needs 300 pages to be solved is either useless in life or a scam.
In daily life, you can realistically only work with limited number of rules at a time. You are not going to memorize a 300 page book.
I admit, some books act like puzzles, which could improve reasoning ability, but it's nothing significant.
Having plenty of summaries is much better than having plenty of books. Because summary is the core value of a book which you memorize.
And while trying to solve problems sounds like good for mental ability, it is not good in case of books when you understand that problems are solved by information.
Logical problems are solved by information alone, and you are more likely to solve problems in life by quickly gathering necessary information, than by spending days reading one book which could even be wrong because there is no guarantee book is really any good.
So having summaries from 50 books is a lot better than reading 1 book, and reading 1 book takes even longer than getting 50 summaries of 50 books.
Because, I repeat, logical problems in life are solved by information, not by mere reasoning ability.
For reasoning ability, you have definitions and deduction, and that is about it.
But to solve problems in real life, you really need a brainstorm of information more than any single book.
Ever since AI first appeared, I have been using it consistently to get information about my business, and it has been most useful to me.
Because I can ask AI to explain something specific to me. I cannot ask a book anything.
When you need information very fast, you use AI or AI summary of a book, and you take notes.
Without taking notes, everything is useless. If you read a book, I can almost guarantee you will forget 95% of it after few months.
So what I really do in life is a simple scientific principle of understanding what is important to know, and then writing it down.
If you don't write something down, it is basically just eventually lost knowledge.
I don't practice my reasoning ability by trying to solve imaginary puzzle of a book.
I practice it by establishing a system to work with, and then putting the system in practice.
Because science isn't a goal. It's a system designed to achieve goals.
And goals are achieved, problems are solved, only by gathering lots of information, or logically deducing information.
Book is a very slow gathering of information, and books are also unchecked information, because book can easily be wrong about something. There is basically no guarantee of a book containing anything true.
Scientific studies, and history of things, are more useful than books generally.
It's easier to practice reasoning skills by learning from history and deducing knowledge, than it is by reading books.
Some books are of course scientific, but the core issue remains that book is always too long version of information.
Because 300 pages of anything is:
1. Too long to remember
2. And because of 1, too long to be made into effective system.
System works better when it can be made more simple. The more complicated the system, the more difficult it is to even practice it.
I can remember maybe 100 instructions about how to do a re-sale business.
I cannot remember 300 pages about it, and knowledge in such form anyway needs to be converted to much shorter form one can work with.
Reading books is usually a waste of time, no offense. I stopped reading books years ago. Now, I mainly read AI summary and quotes. I dont need 300 pages of information. I need a core list of information which I can effectively work with, usually something like this:
Here’s a clear, practical summary of How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie—the core ideas that made it a classic 👇
Big idea: You can’t win people over by criticizing them.
Big idea: Make others feel important.
Big idea: You persuade best without arguing.
Big idea: Correct without crushing confidence.
Influence comes from empathy, respect, and making people feel valued—not from force or cleverness.
If you want, I can also:
Just say the word.
Musk owes a hefty chunk of his own personal fortune to the taxes average Americans pay. He just happens to be, notes a just-published Politico analysis, “the single biggest beneficiary of U.S. government contracts.”
Two of Musk’s commercial operations, Tesla and SpaceX, have received billions in American taxpayer support. The federal government, Politico points out, has essentially “outsourced its space program” to SpaceX, and Tesla, a shaky electric vehicle company when Musk bought it, only “took off after receiving $465 million in subsidies from the Obama administration in 2010.”
All the tax dollars that Musk has collected from the Defense Department, NASA, and the U.S. intelligence community — coupled with the “generous government subsidies and tax credits to the electric-vehicle industry” that have so boosted Musk’s Tesla — have Council on Foreign Relations senior fellow Max Boot fairly fuming.
Taxpayers like himself, Boot notes, are subsidizing the “fire hose of falsehoods” that now appear on X, the former Twitter, the social media app that Musk bought for $44 billion two years ago. Our tax dollars have essentially supersized our world’s single wealthiest individual.
He is a self made billionaire
there are only 5 ways to make money:
Now, 2 and 3 require 1 usually because they require starting capital. the only one who can be self made is 4 and 5, but we all know Musk was neither a wage slave, nor has some extraordinary skill which people pay money for.
What skill does Musk have, which turns 0 into billions? Give me AI response because I am too lazy to right now type in AI app.
I am not a boomer. Im somewhere aged 26-33
Omg you are my age. I always knew we shared more in common than just autism.
So do the democrats
Why place me in false dichotomy? Me hating trump doesnt mean I like democrats. I dont like republicans or democrats. Both parties proved over and over that they are pure evil and dont care at all for average person. Politician doesnt love you. Never did, never will. You are just a means to an end for them.
Abortion is killing of a person.
there is simply no way around that. Even if we assume fetus isnt a person, it is still a future person.
And murder is wrong, not because it kills a person, but because it kills a future person.
So future person argument actually generally works.
If person is something important, then surely future person is important too.
Now, the usual argument I hear is that fetus has no right to body of a woman.
I will admit that body autonomy is probably the only lex talionis system to allow abortion.
However, the scale of destruction by abortion is actually better expressed by body autonomy contradiction. Yes, woman who wants abortion has autonomy, which is in contradiction with autonomy of fetus, but also with autonomy of countless other people in line of reproduction.
Because aborting a fetus doesnt kill just 1 person. It also kills future offspring of that person, and offspring of offspring. One abortion actually has potential to kill thousands of people which would otherwise exist if abortion didnt happen.
So fetus has no right to body of a woman, alright, but does woman have right to body of a fetus?
Because when two autonomies are in contradiction, why would we assume woman is the one who is correct?
Because woman's decision to abort is a direct negation of fetus's autonomy.
If we start from a premise that person has no right no reduce autonomy of others, wouldnt that same premise apply to woman who reduces autonomy of many people completely by abortion?
Because here, we are not dealing with fetus being like rapist, but person which will perish if person doesnt receive needed use of woman's body.
As much as fetus uses woman's body by pregnancy, even more does a woman use fetus's whole future existence by abortion.
Why don't you like Trump?
He hates trans, gays, migrants...
All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me
Jesus was given a good offer, to be honest. I worship Satan for much less than that. But I guess Jesus thought offer wasnt good enough, so he refused.
I've always believed the problem of social interaction for those with autism lies more with the neurotypical side of the relationship.
Well, people have expectations. You either meet expectations or you dont. I do think many people place unrealistically high expectations. Like, some people block me because I failed to respond to their message which they sent at 5 in the morning time where I live. Some people have such high expectations that you need to be their 24/7 slave to meet the expectations. But goal is to at least meet some normal expectations. I usually have more friends than enemies, and this is purely due to trying to meet the average expectations. But understanding what people expect is not easy. I just go by some basic logic of wants, and success rate history. there is no other way for me, because I truly wasnt born with built in radar which detects people's expectations. So I just work like businesses work, listen to surveys and success rates, and some basic reasoning.
Musk has autism too. Just ignore the haters.
Yeah, Musk says to be useful, which is another way of saying "to meet expectations". You cant really please everyone. Its not possible, because different people have contradicting expectations. Same speech will both get you praised and get you doomed, depending on who it is spoken to.
I did try to develop some system of universal words/acts, which please everyone, but its really not possible because there are almost no words or behaviors supported by all. Even donating to charity isnt 100% approved by all.
the only system which can be universal is meeting some but not all expectations of each person.
Guy is so lucky that I must assume God or devil protects him. However, he seems to be testing his luck more and more, and there is a usual saying that even smallest risk of complete defeat, as long as above 0%, eventually happens with enough attempts.
If I was trump, I would thank God for protecting me so far, and just stop pushing my luck, because he was already given more luck than any person in history.