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Bertram Boortz

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26 days

Each part is either in service of the whole or contributing to its demise.

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Bertram Boortz

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29 days

What I liked most about the clip Mike shows is how these journalists jump through every hoop in front of their noses without questioning and without realizing the frame that has been set up for them. They seem eager to make their teachers proud and to show their peers how quick

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Take this 45 mins of your life now to watch this segment from last week's stream for my X subscribers and you will never have to wonder that question ever again.

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@lowkeyloud_ Essentially, you're sacrificing everything worth living for to draw closer to the very power that oppresses you. Now, combine this with the idea that the addictive process is behind all your repetitive failures...

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1 year

@aDissentient Taken yesterday in Switzerland.

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Bertram Boortz

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8 months

@BernardoKastrup Why such a strong reaction towards someone I presume you don't really know? What has he done to convince you that he will be the next Führer? How can you be sure that you're not mistaken about this? I'm asking because you seem very certain, which appears out of character.

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Bertram Boortz

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6 months

@GraceREThomas @Hillywigs There is no end to feeling uncomfortable.

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Bertram Boortz

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8 months

@BernardoKastrup I get that his persona does not look good, but I'm having trouble seeing him as responsible for the end of the West. The decline had been ongoing before him, and Biden didn't stop it, did he? Also, I wasn't trying to give you bullshit.

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Bertram Boortz

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8 months

@tylerblack32 Did he berate his patients?

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Bertram Boortz

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1 month

@lowkeyloud_ When you turn away from the meaning that life has to offer in exchange for what you think you want, you inevitably end up in a bottomless pit, longing for nothing more than to get out of it.

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Bertram Boortz

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8 months

@vervaeke_john discusses the progression from substance ontology to nominalism, which led to dualism and laid the groundwork for the Enlightenment and the advent of the meaning crisis that significantly impacts us today. /n

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Bertram Boortz

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9 months

@JonathanShedler Everything? Can you point to three examples?

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Bertram Boortz

@BertramBoortz

1 year

The shortest way to hell is turning a blind eye.

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Bertram Boortz

@BertramBoortz

21 days

@burkov @heySoumyo But they are good enough for a virtual friend or lover?

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Bertram Boortz

@BertramBoortz

1 year

@RWMaloneMD Do you mean like this?

The Fourth Phase of Water: Dr. Gerald Pollack at TEDxGuelphU

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Bertram Boortz

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9 months

@JonathanShedler Thank you for your response; I am interested and will take a look.

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Bertram Boortz

@BertramBoortz

9 months

@anabology In Psychotherapy, it's missing the forest for the trees. The plurality of individual symptoms comes down to a single mistake: you wanting what you cannot have. You'll need to accept your limitation in order to bare the gifts of it. This is most of therapy.

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Bertram Boortz

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2 months

@PageauMatthieu Just like you'd do in therapy. When confronted with ambivalence, look for the bad option and praise it. The patient will quickly realize what they really want.

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Bertram Boortz

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1 year

@JudgyEmoji I'm having a real experience because the medical establishment treats me as if I would know my experience to be so. Did I get that right?

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Bertram Boortz

@BertramBoortz

5 months

A relaxed and joyful state will help you envision a bright future when facing uncertainty, while a depressed and protective state will darken your prospects. Uncertainty will manifest as chaos that seems out to get you.

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Bertram Boortz

@BertramBoortz

2 months

@BernardoKastrup It's amazing to watch. Bernardo sees what he wants to see, not what is right in front of his face. If you can't see the pernicious game this wicked media is playing at this point, God help your country and the world.

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Bertram Boortz

@BertramBoortz

11 months

Ovid recounts the tale of Narcissus and Echo. We are familiar with Narcissus, but Echo remains a mysterious figure. Let's explore further. /n

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Bertram Boortz

@BertramBoortz

8 months

How to be confused about your identity? 1. Focus on being unique. 2. Tell yourself to just be yourself. 3. Try to perfect yourself. 4. Create yourself. 5. Get rid of any undue influences. 6. Put one aspect of yourself at the forefront. 7. Believe in your willpower only.

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Bertram Boortz

@BertramBoortz

4 months

Women want to feel weak but often don't realize it or know how to do so without endangering themselves.

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Bertram Boortz

@BertramBoortz

1 year

@BrianRoemmele Help

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Bertram Boortz

@BertramBoortz

10 months

Men and women understand power differently. Where men turn to violence, women look for opportunity. It's straight force versus redirection. Or, to be even more crude: it's breaking bones versus bending their will.

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Bertram Boortz

@BertramBoortz

1 year

@JudgyEmoji Women will have to help all of us understand the limits of compassion.

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Bertram Boortz

@BertramBoortz

7 months

@EricRWeinstein Weirdly structural, as in a collapsed building? I see broken beams, fallen walls, and shattered glass. And in front of the mess, a friendly elderly gentleman smiling and gesturing for us to move on, 'Nothing to see here, folks. We're working on it.'

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Bertram Boortz

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10 months

Following this distinction, it becomes obvious that men, unrestricted by other men, may fall into sadism, and women, unbound by other women, into masochism. These men take pleasure in inflicting pain on others, and these women in inflicting pain on themselves.

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Bertram Boortz

@BertramBoortz

11 months

@JeremyJeff95480 @Mahler18601911 @LoveInner @chicagosymphony @lambruscov @talitacdias Will do.

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Bertram Boortz

@BertramBoortz

11 months

There is fear, and then there is fucking terror. It's when you lose the ground beneath you, free falling, utterly untethered. In that darkness, even your own face becomes unrecognizable.

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Bertram Boortz

@BertramBoortz

5 months

@FromKulak Very accurate indeed, but did you not read the last sentence? It seems to contradict your take.

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Bertram Boortz

@BertramBoortz

3 months

Note to self and those who haven't noticed: Everything the media presents to you demands scrutiny; the more weight and reach any story has, the more doubts need to be attached to it.

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Bertram Boortz

@BertramBoortz

1 year

She is 24 years old and got drunk on Friday night. By early Saturday morning, she found herself in the seat next to a truck driver, wanting to get home but without the faintest idea of where she was. The driver tried to drop her off, but she resisted. When the police arrived,

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Bertram Boortz

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7 months

Behind whichever part of you that you hold in the highest regard, you'll discover your true potential.

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Bertram Boortz

@BertramBoortz

4 months

Life gets easier to the degree you realize that every body has a point.

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Bertram Boortz

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1 year

The less you're bound by material constraints, the more you'll become a slave to ideology.

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Bertram Boortz

@BertramBoortz

10 months

@jordanbpeterson How does self-love differ from narcissism?

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Bertram Boortz

@BertramBoortz

1 year

But what are these forces? They manifest as: light/darkness order/chaos ego/selflessness control/surrender focusing/broadening masculinity/femininity wanting/receiving courage/humility resistance/flow strength/wound more of the same/renewal consumption/transformation ...

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Bertram Boortz

@BertramBoortz

11 months

Imagine you find yourself trapped in the mud. How do you escape? Most people would accept a helping hand, allowing themselves to be pulled out of the mud, while others may choose to drag down those who try to assist them. Taking down others is the highest priority for some.

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Bertram Boortz

@BertramBoortz

10 months

In many ways, we are strangers to ourselves. How we treat strangers reflects how we treat the strangest aspects of ourselves.

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Bertram Boortz

@BertramBoortz

10 months

In March of this year, I ordered a new ID card. It finally arrived in December, nine months later. I had completely forgotten about it. This is Germany; things are really going downhill.

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Bertram Boortz

@BertramBoortz

1 year

We have an idea about a healthy body, but what about a healthy mind? A healthy mind achieves balance between two opposing forces, deeply rooted in meaningful narratives. It's about expressing the right proportion within the overarching good story. Becoming one through many.

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Bertram Boortz

@BertramBoortz

10 months

@JeremyJeff95480 @talitacdias @JudgyEmoji @Julie55985544 I'm taking notes...

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Bertram Boortz

@BertramBoortz

2 months

@ItIsHoeMath That doesn't seem like a solution to me. They are often too stressed to take on responsibility and thus just try to find cover or blend in. In my view, the lack of a genuine feminine narrative, as absurd as it may sound, is the problem. Reinforcing typical masculine traits like

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Bertram Boortz

@BertramBoortz

1 year

Think of boys hitting puberty. They essentially grow larger, become hairier, and develop a stronger odor. While these changes also apply to girls, albeit to a lesser extent, girls actually undergo a process of self-renewal. It's not so much a straightforward growth for girls;

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Bertram Boortz

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1 year

The hero grows. The heroine renews herself.

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Bertram Boortz

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9 months

@jordanbpeterson Like God? I would add: to the wrong one thing or to a thing.

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Bertram Boortz

@BertramBoortz

7 months

Neither ecstasy nor despair leaves room for measure and proportion; they are enemies of virtue.

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Bertram Boortz

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1 year

Obviously, the opposite of exposure is avoidance, but in a non-obvious fashion, it's surrender. You're either trying to control your fate by getting closer to your fears or moving away from them. Alternatively, you're acknowledging the limits of your control.

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Bertram Boortz

@BertramBoortz

9 months

In the context of competition, focusing on so-called privilege can make you feel worse about what you have and what you lack. Conversely, a cooperative mindset helps you ameliorate this, revealing that privilege is simply a difference to work with.

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Bertram Boortz

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10 months

About 90 percent of my patients are not in a romantic relationship, have only a few or no close friends, and usually come from a tragic family life. Perhaps learning to love is all there is to healing.

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Bertram Boortz

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1 year

With our minds it's either self sabotage or transcendence. The more you seek to escape constraints, the more you confine yourself, while by accepting outer limits, you can overcome yourself.

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Bertram Boortz

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5 months

@AnorexiaMyths Stress impairs long-term memory.

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Bertram Boortz

@BertramBoortz

1 year

You can't go deep enough with exposure as long as it's done voluntarily. Most people start and stop with fears. But in a way, all of life is exposure. The more you want to come in contact with the world, the more you'll have to rely on exposure, and the direction in which to

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Bertram Boortz

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Bertram Boortz

@BertramBoortz

10 months

The first step is to acknowledge your pain, and then look at what you did and what happened to you. Be honest and accept that your ability to defend yourself is limited, and that you are, in fact, limited, have been helpless, and will be again. Preferably with someone you trust.

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Bertram Boortz

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9 months

@JeremyJeff95480 @JudgyEmoji @talitacdias Thanks for asking, Jeremy. I'm thinking about acute vs chronic stress response, anticipatory reward, the buildup to the 2024 US election, and about taking care of the inheritance of my father. How about you?

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Bertram Boortz

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6 months

Everything you create is part you and part not from you. The same goes for your feelings, memories, dreams, expectations... Try to remember this when you're struggling with any of these.

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Bertram Boortz

@BertramBoortz

5 months

Once the roof above your head is blown away, you'll grab onto any particular.

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Bertram Boortz

@BertramBoortz

10 months

The more you are convinced of wanting only to do good, the easier you will be captured by evil.

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Bertram Boortz

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8 months

After you have been hurt, you need to trust that the world is good enough for you to be vulnerable again, unless you want to end up in despair.

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Bertram Boortz

@BertramBoortz

10 months

Homer, in his 'Hymn to Demeter', praises the goddess of fertility, tells us how she lost her daughter, and how the Eleusinian Mysteries came about. In doing so, he provides great insight into the divine potential of transformation. Let's delve right in.

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Bertram Boortz

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7 months

I will lose myself. I will end. No threat evokes a bigger response from those without love. But what if the horror of losing yourself is preventing you from finding yourself?

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Bertram Boortz

@BertramBoortz

10 months

There is a strong positive correlation between the inability or unwillingness to ascribe malice to others and the extent of having a guilty conscience.

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Bertram Boortz

@BertramBoortz

3 months

Everybody needs some principles in life, or else chaos ensues. If you don't have any, pick three that resonate with you and keep them in mind for some time. Whenever you find yourself in doubt, consult these principles and see where they lead you.

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Bertram Boortz

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1 year

Feelings are questions. That's why they are so easily ignored, which, in turn, amplifies their intensity until they become insistent. They seek our attention, and our ignorance compels us to run into them more and more forcefully.

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Bertram Boortz

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6 months

When you share a far-out idea of yours with others without providing a bridge, and expecting them to take it on upon reception, you will be regarded as crazy, and rightfully so. But this equally applies to the obvious and its disregard of the anomaly.

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Bertram Boortz

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1 year

@jordanbpeterson A patient of mine, in her early twenties, once told me exactly that. She said, 'How am I not to become the mother of all if I don't have children?' Yes, she is very wise, not just for her age.

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Bertram Boortz

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10 months

There is no way to not end up disorientated about your competence when you fail to accept your limitations. You'll never know what you're capable of if you keep fighting your failures.

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Bertram Boortz

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1 year

Privatising ideas and outsourcing thoughts lead to delusion. Both trends work against you.

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Bertram Boortz

@BertramBoortz

2 months

Whatever captures your attention captures your greatest potential. Without it, the light will slowly dim until none is left; chances are that you won't even notice. Attention without purpose leads to a life without meaning.

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Bertram Boortz

@BertramBoortz

11 months

@lambruscov @JeremyJeff95480 Guys, I'm blushing! The pleasure is all mine. Let's keep up this spirit.

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Bertram Boortz

@BertramBoortz

1 year

For the visual thinkers among us.

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Bertram Boortz

@BertramBoortz

1 year

If you've managed to convince someone that they were born in the wrong body, you've got he or she trapped, and no wonder they are trying to break out of this prison. Soon they'll fight the whole world because what else is the world to them than a body that holds them captive.

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Bertram Boortz

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1 year

@JeremyJeff95480 @JudgyEmoji Interesting. What do you mean?

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Bertram Boortz

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1 year

@EricRWeinstein Like beauty?

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Bertram Boortz

@BertramBoortz

6 months

@PageauMatthieu Yes, we are not allowed to use certain words or even speculate about intentions, because they cannot be determined beyond doubt. These effective and low-cost strategies impair our ability to reason well by limiting exploration and preventing the frame of discussion from shifting.

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Bertram Boortz

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8 months

@jordanbpeterson It's not even about questioning; it's simpler than that. Just stop listening to everyone. You, and only you, are good enough to set the rules...

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Bertram Boortz

@BertramBoortz

10 months

@JudgyEmoji @JeremyJeff95480 @Julie55985544 @talitacdias Good to see you guys are having fun.

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Bertram Boortz

@BertramBoortz

11 months

The beginning of Narcissus' end is deeply intertwined with Echo's end. Their fates are mirror images of each other. Both mistake their infatuation for love. Both identify with beauty in consumption rather than worship. Both waste away after facing Narcissus in solitude.

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Bertram Boortz

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10 months

In her grief and anger at Zeus, Demeter did not return to Olympus but continued wandering on Earth. Eventually, she found solace at the well of the virgins in Eleusis, the city of incense. It didn't take long for the four daughters of Keleos, the local king, to find her. /6

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Bertram Boortz

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1 year

Neither the DSM nor the ICD helps clinicians in their search for an explanation. These diagnostic manuals are explicitly free from etiology; they describe symptoms and criteria, but, besides some overgeneralized hints at a multifactorial process, refrain from pointing out causes.

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Bertram Boortz

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1 year

However, in the commotion, she spills a drop of hot oil on Amor's right shoulder. Now awake, he flies off and speaks to Psyche one last time. He gave her his best and would have made her his wife. Yet, she didn't trust him. /6

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Bertram Boortz

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2 months

Walking around Berlin this summer brings the pleasure of passing by the oh-so-Gen-Z-appealing advertisements for so-called democracy. Essentially, they are telling you to stop worrying and overthinking about whom to vote for.

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Bertram Boortz

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1 year

She is a princess with a problem - her beauty is so overwhelming that even Venus (Aphrodite), the goddess of beauty herself, becomes angry and commands her son Amor (Eros), the god of love, to punish Psyche by making her fall in love with a hideous beast. /1

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Bertram Boortz

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8 months

Aristotle endeavored to construct a worldview, and what is a worldview without an ontology? Ontology is the study of being – that which exists ultimately and independently, amidst the constant changes we experience daily. /2

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Bertram Boortz

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1 year

The tower warns Psyche not to be distracted by the people along the way. There will be a lame man behind a lame donkey carrying wood, a drowning man begging for help and lastly, a woman spinning yarn; all of whom she is not to help. /16

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Bertram Boortz

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As night falls, Psyche, still ambivalent, gathers enough courage. With an oil lamp in one hand and a knife in the other, she shines a light on her sleeping lover. Struck by his image, the most handsome and divine, she lets the knife slip, only to fall deeper in love with him. /5

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Bertram Boortz

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7 months

Unheeded pain turns evil.

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Bertram Boortz

@BertramBoortz

1 year

Male aggression has a bad reputation, and it's not hard to understand why, but what if the evaluation of its negative consequences overshadows the positive ones? Who is going to stop a man from stabbing strangers if not another man risking his life in order to save them? There

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Bertram Boortz

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1 year

People are often in search of a way to devote themselves to a greater cause; this desire is so strong that many end up succumbing to false idols. Much of the activism we see today can be understood in this light. So, how does one discern a false idol?

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Bertram Boortz

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7 months

You're not doing yourself any favors by continuing to try to solve your problems in your head.

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Bertram Boortz

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6 months

Wherever your attention goes, it will be fruitful.

Bertram Boortz

@BertramBoortz

6 months

Close your eyes and imagine a lemon. Try to get a little closer. Now, describe what you see: its color, texture, shape. Maybe you can even open the lemon, cut it in half, and look at its insides. Now, look closer, zoom in.

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Bertram Boortz

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1 year

Creatio ex nihilo. Let's assume in the beginning was nothing, such that everything did not differ from anything else. Thus, nothing was different from another. Counterintuitively this is all it needs for the first differentiation as such profound uniformity gives immediate rise

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Bertram Boortz

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1 year

Psyche's journey is also an exploration of feminine beauty. It begins with the superficial – her image in the eyes of others – and quickly leads to sexuality. Her service, ability to praise and listen, flexibility, patience, endurance, intuition, vision, and appreciation for

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Bertram Boortz

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8 months

@BernardoKastrup If I were to believe that he is completely deranged, a nut, and a loose cannon, I would react as emphatically as you do. But how can you talk to people about the danger who believe differently or just don't see it? After all, he served one term already, and the world did not end.

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Bertram Boortz

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1 year

Similar to glasses, that allow us to see through them as they become invisible for us, the one allows us to participate in all that is, while staying indifferent. It relinquishes all its properties, save one, to enable the rest. The true sacrifice will remind us of the one.

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Bertram Boortz

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2 months

@getnormality @EristicRex @tasbasmn @ChaoticInvestor @killthepenguins @krichard1212 @johnsmithyson0 @bootyistruth @shanemelaugh @annihalated @Ad_Infinitum_42 @labk4t I would like to participate.

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Bertram Boortz

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5 months

@Onejwells Great summary, thank you. I don't understand why @jordanbpeterson subsumes both the masculine and feminine within the hero archetype, while he explores them separately in the villains. To me, the hero and the heroine follow fundamentally different paths. He pursues truth, and

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Bertram Boortz

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8 months

Something about the table is more general than the wood it's made from, related to its purpose. But is this general aspect, this universal, a real thing, or is it just an unnecessary fiction we attach to the matter? /5

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