Do you honestly think that you're the only person in the world who communicates like you do? Your first post was not "just a question". It was an attempt to 'judge as worthy' or 'discredit'. There's a part in the dark recesses of your mind that thinks it knows better.

Until you correct the disagreeable part of your character, this "conversation" will continue to be nothing but circular, boring, and uninspired.

You're defining the terms of the conversation as if you have some control over things, which you don't.

Me? I don't care about what you think is happening here. There are plenty of people in the world who know how to insert themselves into a conversation that started before they entered the metaphorical room who don't require constant social correction. I'd rather deal with them than the chip on your shoulder.

In case it has not fully sunk in yet, I'm not going to give you what you're demanding from me. While I'm sure you're likeable in some places of the world, I don't find you particularly pleasant after the way you barged in here. Pretentious and entitled don't win points.

Then try asking genuinely. While this is a public forum, you are not the person I was interacting with. I owe you nothing.

So... if you want something from me, approach me with the same tone & manners you would like for me to use with you.

Does writing a comment like this make tiu feel smart? Do you enjoy being immediately combative and disagreeable?

Don't ask questions that you don't really want answers to. And, since you're looking for some kind of fight, look elsewhere.

Not really. I was being polite.

I'm not taking life advice from a kid online. I don't need it.

If you are so certain of your knowledge base, then it's nowhere near so comprehensive as you think. By and large, isolation is the onky way to figure out who you are. Everything else is just prattle.

Same! I've never felt so consistently calm and stable. There is only one person from my "old life" who knows where I live and how to contact me. I never knew I'd enjoy this level of anonymity and pure lack of availability to the world.

Is this from personal experience or professional expertise? Or are you just talking out of your ass?

Some of us actually do need a full disconnect in order to properly calibrate ourselves and reenter reality.

Your 'advice' is crap.

Though they all act quite differently from each other, they tend to carry the same ability(?) to raise the user up out of their pain so that they can see the wounding(?) while not being overwhelmed by it. From this perspective, it's so much easier to see the pain for what it is, feel it, and then stitch the torn pieces back together.

Everything after that is integrating the sessions onto regular(?) reality and paying attention to how things feel different from before. It's pretty remarkable just how much progress a can be made in such a short time.

*(?) = questionable word choice.

Something from Jacob Collier. Any one his tracks is a compendium of sound. Dude compresses multiple genres into one song. It'll give the aliens a good abbreviation.

I can't shake the feeling you're being contrary for sake of being so. There's no need for this interaction to have gone this particular direction.

I was agreeing with you and emphasizing the point.

That's even more disappointing, isn't it?

But like... couldn't they have used the bribes as a chance to get the opportunity to show how fit they actually are? Nooo... instead, they squander such an opportunity by continually putting their worst foot forward. Such a wasted opportunity.

The "safe guards" in place don't really exist to protect retail investors.

This will come across as hyperbole, but it's not. What you see going on in the world right now, the chaos, the blatant display of corruption in politics and business... that's nothing compared to the irredeemable cesspool that is the US financial system. It won't be much longer before that's laid bare for all to see.

The amount of blatant fraud, counterfeiting, and theft is staggering.

To add to the above, FTX offered "tokenized" stocks, meaning that a token was the same as a share of the company offered. I came as no surprise when it was discovered that none of the underlying securities had actually been purchased. He was just taking money and doing what he wanted with it.

This is part of a greater scam going on where all kinds of regulatory hoops are completed skirted in order to maintain a system that is more fraudulent than your worst nightmares have imagined.

Being better than other people requires actually being better. Acting superior and holier than thou doesn't quite cut it.

There's just no excuse for poor manners.