Then, imagine watching as mass media hide the atrocity of normal police service being turned inside-out with the police essentially serving as accomplices to the murderer, and instead use the tragedy to advocate the restrictions of rights. That is, the press hides the abuses of the state while trying to restrict the ability of normal people to defend themselves against the state.

> The relative sea level trend is 5.95 millimeters/year with a 95% confidence interval of +/- 0.89 mm/yr based on monthly mean sea level data from 1990 to 2021 which is equivalent to a change of 1.95 feet in 100 years.

The press doesn't like to talk about actual measurements, because doing so destroys their scary stories.

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When the fear pattern arises again, realize as quickly as possible that it has come back. Stop it, i.e., do not walk down a road in imagination related to the fears, imagining painful outcomes or whatever. In other words, gently stop the thought and drop it. Relax tension in the body, especially in the head. Smile. And bring up the wholesome feeling, however is appropriate for you. This dampens the fear echo. Each time you do these steps, you are taking energy away from this habit of your brain. Every time you do it correctly, you're taking a step toward not being bothered by this concern.

This technique will work, but please just try it and try to do it diligently, giving it provisional belief. In the meantime, try to do your assignments, watching for your fear to decrease.

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https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/sltrends_station.... 3.36mm/year, flat since the 1950s.

https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/sltrends_station.... 5.37mm/year, very new station, but still looks flat.

https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/sltrends_station.... 4.78mm/year, flat since the 1970s.

https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/sltrends_station.... Further away station, 4.74mm/year, flat since the 1920s.

https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/sltrends_station.... Further away station, 2.61mm/year, flat since the 1930s.

Climate alarmism about rising seas is battered into our heads every single day without fail, but when we go to check the data, what we see is very slow rates of rise, and totally flat charts going back as far as the 1850s. Where is the acceleration? Where is the upward curvature in the charts? Where is all that glacier meltwater going?

Please, stop helping to fan the flames of irrational fear.

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Genuine feelings of justified self esteem do not come from outside oneself. They come from 1) knowing what is good and 2) living according to one's knowledge of what is good. Another way of saying this is, not only do you need to have a somewhat accurate compass to know which way to go, you also need to actually go the way you know you should go. These things together give you the justified approval of your own conscience, to some degree (incomplete approval because you don't have perfect knowledge of what is good, and you don't do it perfectly anyway because you're not a saint)

The woke fail catastrophically at this kind of stuff. They don't have any deliberate self-cultivation practice that helps them understand what is good. Not knowing what is good, they often err in favor of what feels good at the moment. They have (correct, justified) dislike/disapproval of themselves. They project their badness onto others. When others don't make the same mistake of seeing their own badness in everyone else, the woke mistake themselves for specially enlightened for being able to see the world's badness.

In a way, I think I actually do walk around feeling valid. But the feelings of others are not involved in that estimation. I am a very flawed person, a scruffy wild animal raised by other wild animals, a child raised by children who were themselves raised by children, with no adults in sight no matter how far back one looks, but I have found a process for gradually making myself better, and I am dragging myself down that path for my benefit and everyone else's benefit -- so what else would anyone ask of me? My ability to want the best for others and to do what I know is correct even when no one is looking is steadily growing. I have the justified approval of my own conscience telling me I am OK, no matter what others say.

I don't look to others to tell me I am OK. I don't want their praise. I'm the only one who knows enough to judge, anyway. I will either be happy from living up to my own expectations of myself, or put myself in misery by failing to do that. It is up to me alone.

What kind of self-improvement process am I talking about? Stuff like prayer and meditation. It doesn't matter what it's called, as long as you're gradually training your neurons and synapses and whatever other brain stuff to be more kind, compassionate, joyful in the well being of others, equanimous, generous, grateful, etc. There were good reasons to dislike religion, but I think at this point we have to wonder if we didn't throw out the baby with the bathwater when we discarded religion. The woke may serve to remind us that religion, despite its flaws, was providing great benefit.

Here's how I like to practice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCiVBvptZyk https://library.dhammasukha.org/uploads/1/2/8/6/12865490/the...

But I think medication is fundamentally the wrong approach for many common mental health issues like anxiety, sadness, loneliness, etc. If we think of the mind as a kind of garden, or more abstractly as a whirling complex system, we have to think about how to tend and cultivate the system to produce good results. Many people have no intentional system of cultivation, so it seems unsurprising that their mind garden has a lot of weeds and not very many healthy fruits.

My favorite method of mental cultivation is this: https://library.dhammasukha.org/uploads/1/2/8/6/12865490/the...

Or, if you want a short version to get the gist of the practice, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCiVBvptZyk

@dang: I was delayed, but not prevented, from posting this message. Presumably it's hidden from all users who don't turn on showdead. Are you able to provide a brief explanation of how this helps preserve curiosity on HN? If not, would you mind knocking it off? Thanks.

The original standard for email addresses seems to be so bad that it's just being scrapped and ignored. I think I'm OK with this.

If you want to work on yourself, this is the way I advocate: https://library.dhammasukha.org/uploads/1/2/8/6/12865490/the...

Please quit spamming climate fear propaganda/pornography.

Do you see what I mean? If, when I walk down the street, I have a strong feeling of kindness for everyone I see, a feeling that naturally makes me have a big genuine smile, do you think it bothers me if people think I have bad posture, or don't approve of my clothes, or whatever else? Having a daily practice where I make contact with my goodness and do something to help it grow gives me certainty that my direction is good. If other people still think badly of me for some superficial reason, it just seems like they're blind to what's important, and overly concerned with trifles.

I'm a little worried from your description that you might be aversive to some stuff that might be helpful. If a big part of the problem is an unruly mind that would benefit from training, it seems to me that you might have a choice between the easy way and the hard way, where the hard way actually is the easy way, i.e., bite the bullet and pay a bit now, or end up paying a lot more over the course of many years. I can't tell if that's the case... it's just something you have to evaluate.

If you think that's possible, here's the stuff I recommend: https://library.dhammasukha.org/uploads/1/2/8/6/12865490/the...

I've done that method for a few years, and all negative feelings like anger, sadness, anxiety, etc, have been greatly attenuated, whereas positive stuff like kindness, joy, and equanimity have greatly increased. The method simply trains the mind to be untroubled.

One strategy for continuing to get social value out of extremely moderate drinking is: _go fancy_. Learn to make fancy drinks. Care about flavors and ingredients and all that. Drink less. Spend more time enjoying less alcohol.

One thing that concerns me a little about your description of your experience is that it sounds as if you might be self-regulating, and drinking even a little bit causes the regulation system to fail, at which point suffering arises in the form of sadness or anger. This is not a terrible situation, but as you age, the firewall will inevitably degrade, and you may find yourself unable to keep the bad stuff at bay.

But if there's nothing bad behind the firewall, it will be OK when the firewall degrades. You can decrease the amount of stuff in your mind that the world needs to be protected from through something like meditation practice. Here's how I do it: https://library.dhammasukha.org/uploads/1/2/8/6/12865490/the...

Here's my favorite method of self-cultivation: https://library.dhammasukha.org/uploads/1/2/8/6/12865490/the...

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