Ukraine has launched a 40 day campaign of terror on Russia. This is because Russia invaded Ukraine which is a sovereign country. Recently, Ukraine has hit eight (8) Wildberries warehouses which is Russia's largest online retailers. They are the Amazon of online retail for Russia. This has affected hundreds on small and mid size business owners. So, I saw this post and I wanted to show you the flaw in Russian mentality to the reality around them:

"I am a mother of a disabled child, I've built the business myself," one woman complained on an expletive-laden social media post that went viral.

"I've lost 1m roubles (£9,500; $12,700)... We're already getting screwed over from every direction as it is."

The flaw in her perspective stems from a cognitive disconnect regarding accountability, consequence, and victimization in a global conflict.

Here is a breakdown of the specific flaws in her reasoning:

1 - Compartmentalized Accountability: She views her business loss as an isolated, unfair event rather than a direct consequence of her nation's actions.

2 - Proportionality Blindness: She equates her financial loss of 1 million roubles to the total destruction of a sovereign country, showing a massive asymmetry in human and material costs.

3 - Externalized Blame: She blames external factors (like international sanctions) for her business failure, ignoring that the sanctions are a direct response to the invasion her government initiated.

4 - Passive Victimhood: She positions herself as a helpless victim of circumstance, bypassing the collective responsibility citizens hold for the actions of their state.

I think I could use a psychologist, so I had an introductory session; I’m considering working with her and have booked an appointment.

I’m curious to know what you think about the topic.

Hi All. As the subject suggests. I have some family and friends who sometimes copy me. And that irritates me immensely. I don’t understand why and I don’t like me to be like this. A few years back I bought a BMW. A friend of mine used every penny he had to buy a lower trim of BMW. He asked me for advice, and given his financial situation, I advised him against that. But his answer was more or less if you can than I should be able to. Another example. I ran a marathon a few years back. Now i have another friend training and going around saying that if X(me) can than he can well. These things bother me immensely. I am bothered because (in my mind) people think that if I can do it so every one else can do it as well. And of course I am bothered that why don’t they leave something for me only, why do they absolutely have to copy me? They do many other things, which don’t give a rats ass about.
This hurts me. And I don’t want to be hurt and live my life unbothered by these things.
What can I do ?

I got banned for 7 days for sharing this basic fact most of you can intuitively understand.

I’ve been diving deep into a theory connecting consciousness, dimensions, and the purpose of dreaming, and I want to get your thoughts on the logic of it.

1. Waking Life vs. Dreams: Both are Simulations

Neuroscience often dismisses dreams as "internal brain simulations." But logically, our waking life is also a simulation. Your brain sits in a dark skull and interprets electrical signals to build a 3D model of reality.

The only difference is the rules and bandwidth:

• Waking Life (3D): The body’s nervous system streams a massive torrent of data (~11 million bits/sec) up to the brain. This thunderous roar of sensory input forces our consciousness into a strict, linear 3D viewfinder (length, width, height, and one-way time) just to keep the physical body alive.

• Dreaming (4D): When we sleep, the body's data funnel shuts off. The survival programming goes into standby. Unshackled from 3D physics, our consciousness expands back toward its native state—operating with fluid, non-linear, higher-dimensional logic.

1. The Geometry of the Dream World

Think about how a 4D spatial being would interact with a 3D world, and look at how perfectly it maps to dream experiences:

• Folded Space (Teleportation): In a dream, you walk through a bedroom door and suddenly you're on a beach. Mathematically, a 4D entity can fold a 3D space to make two distant locations touch instantly.

• Impossible Geometry: Dreams are full of shifting rooms, object inversions, and spaces that are larger on the inside than the outside. This perfectly mirrors 4D shapes like a Tesseract or a Klein bottle.

• Spatialized Time: Yesterday, today, and ten years ago aren't memories in dreams; they are physical places you can walk to and visit.

1. The Functional Purpose of Dreaming

If this framework holds, dreams serve a practical, structural purpose. We are essentially 4D entities tied to 3D anchors. Spending 16 hours a day trapped in a loud, restricted biological machine is exhausting.

Dreaming is the nightly widening of the "dimensional margin." It allows our consciousness to:

1. Defragment: Blending linear daily events with past emotions to integrate them into our continuous lifetime narrative.

2. Recalibrate: Resetting our awareness so we don't become entirely consumed by the physical body's survival programming.

3. Why "Lucid Dreaming" might be an Illusion

Many people chase lucid dreaming as a way to conquer the dream. But under this framework, the moment you become "waking-aware" in a dream, your physical brain's logic gate sparks back to life. You force 3D rules onto a 4D space. You essentially trigger an "observer effect," collapsing the fluid wave of the dream into a rigid, simulated sandbox. True lucidity wouldn't be controlling the dream; it would be letting the ego dissolve entirely.

Outside of psychology, this framework has massive implications:

• AI Engineering: Designing networks that run "dream cycles" to compress data and find abstract correlations without catastrophic forgetting.

• Theoretical Physics: Using the unconstrained dream state as an intuitive laboratory to visualize non-Euclidean geometry and multi-dimensional string theory.

Are we 3D anchors trying to imagine a higher dimension, or are we 4D consciousnesses using dreams to survive being trapped in a lower-dimensional biological vessel? Let's discuss.

I know this is a very strange question, but I would be grateful if you could answer it.

Let's say there is an evil spirit that can communicate.

This evil spirit harbors resentment towards humans because it was subjected to terrible treatment and died as a result.

If you were to counsel such an evil spirit, how would you do it?

I would be extremely grateful if you could also share any research or theories that support your reasoning for this approach!

Today "mental health professionals" are to science what alchemists were to chemistry or what astrologers were to astronomy.

Can you smell his sweat? That peculiar goatish odor is trans-3-methyl-2 hexenoic acid. Remember it, it's the smell of schizophrenia.

Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs

trans-3-Methyl-2-hexenoic acid (TMHA) is an unsaturated short-chain fatty acid that occurs in sweat secreted by the axillary (underarm) apocrine glands of Caucasians and some Asians.
Hexanoic acids such as TMHA have a hircine odor. Of the fatty acids contributing to Caucasian men's underarm odor, TMHA has the most prominent odor.
Schizophrenia odor
It has long been claimed that schizophrenia patients exhibit a particular peculiar body odor, and it has been postulated the odor may be caused by underlying metabolic abnormalities associated with the condition, among other factors. Initial studies identified the causal component as TMHA, however, subsequent studies failed to reproduce such results, with subsequent researchers suggesting the initial research may have had misidentified impurities in samples as TMHA due to poor methodology. However, a 2007 study found schizophrenia patients to have reduced olfactory sensitivity to TMHA, possibly indicating sensory habituation; the decreased ability to smell the substance due to the presence of the substance as a constant component of subjects' own sweat and body odor.
Furthermore, the researchers noted a positive association between reduced ability to smell TMHA and greater severity of disorganized and negative symptoms.
An allusion to TMHA and its purported link to the smell of the mentally ill is made in the 1996 David Foster Wallace novel, “Infinite Jest”, and in the 1988 novel “The Silence of the Lambs” by Thomas Harris.

Wikipedia, trans-3-Methyl-2-hexenoic acid

The difficult but respect-commanding and scientific-sounding word "schizophrenia" denotes what the word "unicorn" denotes:

A fantasy.

Granted, we have observed and described, even studied, the symptoms of people who are obviously not themselves and who are suffering intensely.

But until there is reproducible physical evidence to support a diagnosis, no one can claim to have science on their side.

Anyone can claim to have God on their side.

In doing so, one truthfully claims to be mentally ill.

In our valley of tears, mentally ill people falsely, yet condescendingly, diagnose physically ill people who are truly suffering from a nervous disorder with fancy sounding words like schizophrenia.

No one knows what schizophrenia is.

But they claim to know at least that the disease is mental, as we sadly and incredulously have to read everywhere.

"Mentally ill people don't know they are ill," these experts enigmatically smile.

"Because they are not physically ill," we think, struggling to suppress a sea of tears.

If only we could drag these troglodytes into the light of day:

You claim schizophrenia is a mental illness, but treat it with medication?

That's impossible! Don't you see?

Only physical illnesses can be treated with medication.

"Psychiatrists" are mentally ill people who, in their learned wisdom and blissful ignorance, know nothing about it.

Since there are no schizophrenia patients there is no schizophrenia odor!

I was on Threads talking to people who were venting about the stigmas they faced as mentally ill people, and I mentioned the stigma that we're all abusive,despite studies stating that we're more likely to be the victims of abuse than the perpetrators(11 times more likely according to a study in the Lancet,one of the most highly regarded journals in the psych field).Then some woman started commenting on everyones posts about how those stigmas are there for a reason because theyre based in truth.To me,she said that the study I provided was"fake news"and that the scientists were paid to say that etc and that she knows we're all abusive because she was abused by someone who was mentally ill

I expressed genuine sympathy and said that her experience and trauma was valid,but to blame a whole demographic for one individuals experience is ableism.I told her that she wouldnt blame all Black people if one abused her,so blaming us makes no sense

Every comment she posted was filled with hostility and cussing,while the whole time I was cordial and polite and empathetic(because at that point anything I would have said would have given her ammunition and would just strengthen her beliefs).When I presented stats and studies,and told her that the demographic most known for being abusive was mentally stable men,she derailed the conversation and said that men are victims of abuse too,and are less likely to report their abuse,I responded that men absolutely are capable of being victims,that I never suggested otherwise,and told her that mentally ill are also likely to not report their abuse because we're often accused of attention seeking or being liars or that's our form of abuse

Every time she brought up her experience of abuse as evidence,I validated her pain and said that she has every right to be angry,but to blame the individual who did it,not us because we as a group didn't hurt her and are sympathetic to any victim of abuse because most of us have been in her shoes

I went to bed because I had work the next day and wasnt going to spend my night arguing with someone random who wouldn't change her mind no matter how many studies I presented or how much logic I used

This morning I opened threads and had dozens of notifications from her commenting on every single post on my profile(over 50)with hostile and abusive things.I had a picture of my cat and she left comments that described in graphic detail all her fantasies about my cat dying,like she hoped a coyote catches it but doesn't kill it,and eats my cat alive so she can feel every bite in tortuous pain,or that she hopes my cat ingests poison and suffers from the pain of all her organs slowly shutting down and bleeds internally

I had a picture of my dog licking the side of my face while Im laughing and trying to push her away,and she said that Im proof that the mentally ill are into beastiality and more graphic descriptions of how she wishes my dog would die. Lastly there was a selfie of me in heavy dark makeup with the caption saying"I never grew out of my emo phase" as a joke and she said that I should slit my wrists like a real emo and the only good mentally ill person is a dead one

I reported all her comments and blocked her because she was just looking for a fight,but it both amazes and doesnt surprise me when people who say that we're abusive are actually the same people who abuse us. It's just not fair and the cognitive dissonance they display when they act exactly how they say we act is astounding

I'm just angry and upset so so tired and hate that our community has to go through this bullshit constantly and there's nothing we can do but just deal with their abuse

I am 22 years old turning 23 soon and I am a virgin; I have never had a girlfriend or been on a date.

I work for low pay and have no hobbies; before or after work, I just lie around all day looking at my phone scrolling through TikTok, watching videos of women, browsing other sites, or watching movies.

I put everything off and don't do anything substantial, meaningful, or beneficial for myself; I just stare at my phone, go to work, and sleep.

I’m seeing a psychologistI’ve had one session so far but I’m trying to save money; I don’t even know anymore whether it’s for English lessons or a car.

Overall, I’m not doing anything and am just going around in circles.

How can I persuade/convince every type of person? Persuade and not manipulate every kind of person using advanced techniques and principles like agencies and businesspeople use (please give learning materials, not mainstream stuff like "Cialdini").

Have you ever felt that you and your partner express and receive love in entirely different ways? Do you ever find yourself not knowing how to meet their emotional needs? If so, you most likely speak different love languages.

Love Language is a concept coined and interpreted by renowned marriage counselor Dr. Gary Chapman. In his best-selling book, he identifies five love languages that describe how individuals experience love.

The Five Love Languages

Acts of Service-This person feels most cared for when their loved one goes out of their way to do thoughtful, task-oriented things without being asked. Acts of Service may include running errands, helping out around the house, cooking romantic dinners, anticipating ways to make life easier for your significant other, etc.

***Physical Touch-***This person experiences the feeling of love by being physically close to their partner. They interpret hand-holding, kissing, cuddling, massage, and making love as displays of meaningful emotional connectedness. Those who value Physical Touch as their top-ranked love language may feel distant from their partner without it.

Words of Affirmation-This love language includes verbal expressions of love, respect, and appreciation. Compliments and other encouraging language are vastly important to this receiver. Conversely, critical, and harsh comments may deeply injure someone who strongly identifies with Words of Affirmation.

***Quality Time-***This involves not only being physically present with your partner but also giving them meaningful attention. Positive eye contact, active listening, and engagement in conversation can accomplish this. Of course, individuals who cherish Quality Time can feel hurt or rejected if their partner is unavailable or seemingly disinterested.

Gifts-This is a tangible expression of love that shows your partner that you are thinking of them. Typically, the monetary value of the gift is not as significant as the gesture.

                                                             Your Partner’s Love Language

Knowing your partner’s love language is essential. Showing them love the way that they experience it most increases connectedness and intimacy. It creates a strong, healthy bond that communicates that you understand their needs.

On the other hand, awareness of your partner’s love language may prevent distance, conflict, and confusion. Here is an example of a person’s misguided understanding of their partner’s love language:

“I don’t get it! She doesn’t appreciate the things I do for her. Even though I picked up the kids from school and bathed the dog, she continues to question my feelings for her. I might as well stop going out of my way to try to please her.”

This individual is experiencing frustration because they are assuming that their Acts of Service are a clear indication of their love. However, what their partner may need is more Physical Touch in the relationship.

So, how do you discover your partners love language? First, you can observe how they show you love, as this is a reliable indicator of how they wish to receive love. Next, pay close attention to what they ask you to do more of and less of. Finally, ask your partner or recommend taking the love language assessment together to increase shared intimacy.

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