Practicing loving-kindness meditation and trying to find an interest in the lives of others. When you feel a genuine interest in learning about the lives of the people you meet and are not worrying about your own self-image, people are less scary and easier to talk to.

I used to be afraid of people thinking less of me for asking stupid questions, but now I don’t care so much about what they think about me. I come from a mindset of compassion rather than fear. It turns out that people generally prefer dumb but interested over insecurity.

Mathematicians are shitty communicators who like feeling special because they can understand their obscure language.

I’m a programmer and in this field there have been tons of books published, conference talks, and heated internet arguments about how to make your code as readable as possible: formatting, function length, naming of variables and functions, keeping number of cross references low, how to document intent, etc. Mathematicians do none of that - it’s all single-character names (preferably from the Greek alphabet to complicate it further) and they rarely communicate intent before throwing formulas at you. You can easily tell when a mathematician has written code because it’s typically hot garbage in terms of readability.

I think what you need is Britt Hartley and her book No Nonsense Spirituality. She understands the common elements of different religions that are important to us psychologically, and explains how to bring them into your life without the need for faith in a particular deity.

If they are in a game and there is music when you’re in the temple then yes it’s part of the soundtrack for that game.

Your original title didn’t say anything about games though. The Tower of London dungeons don’t come with a soundtrack.

No I’m not confused about that. I have seen the problems you talk about. That’s why I felt the need to qualify modern with “well engineered”.

Did you forgot to specify that you’re asking about a game? Dungeons and temples don’t usually come with a soundtrack.

But there is so much free porn on the internet already

I have a house. But it’s old and decaying. I want a well-engineered, modern house with great interior design and lots of space. I want to be able to put the couch in the center of the room instead of putting it up against a wall.

Or more generally, anything that has a beginning has an end

“There’s more than one way to skin a cat.”

1. You have a cat.
2. You wish to remove its skin.
3. You realize there’s more than just one method to accomplish this unusual task.
4. You state this proudly as a metaphor for problem-solving flexibility.

They’re basically “republicans light”: still bad but at least not literal nazis

Her dog.

But… you don’t need a clone to do that. Just find anyone who wants to live with you and work 50%.

Isn’t it weird how I can fap without a second thought, but the idea of having my clone give me a hand job disgusts me

Lojban. IIRC it’s inspired by the Saphir-Worf hypothesis that states that the capacity for human thought is shaped by the language you speak (side note: this is also explored in my favorite movie Arrival).

As someone who is probably on the spectrum I am incredibly frustrated by imprecise language and misunderstanding between people, and how people always seem to be reading between the lines instead of paying attention to what you are literally saying.

Lojban is designed almost like set-theoretic mathematical expressions, leaving minimal room for ambiguity and misunderstanding. It trains your brain to think about exactly what you are saying. It’s like a utopian language for me.

Ironically after it gained only a couple of hundred speakers it started to develop slang expressions and ambiguity. People even wrote poetry and jokes that proliferate and exploit ambiguity or subtext. I guess it’s human nature to shun precision in communication.

Those are self-help books from the year 100 AD. Are you asking how to write a text like that?

It sounds like you may be misunderstanding what meditation is. Meditation is to observe what is happening in your body and mind. There isn’t really a “topic” other than what comes up in your mind. But you aren’t supposed to linger on your thoughts, only notice their arrival and passing.

You can choose to focus your attention on specific things such as your breathing, sounds, the feeling of a location of your self, etc. Is that what you mean by topic?

The ST had the Spectre GCR so it could clearly do everything a Mac could and more, plus it was cheaper.

I think the point of these hopeless internet arguments mainly becomes to convince the third parties who read it.

I don’t think I’m in the right climate for it. I need heavy boots to counter the cold and snow, and I can’t be bothered to change shoes every time I get in and out of the car.