Leo Gura

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  1. Hey, ya'll, I need your help! I want to create a comprehensive list of video examples of prototypical stage Green thinking. This is not meant to humiliate or demonize stage Green. It's meant to be an educational tool for people learning about Spiral Dynamics. So towards that end, scour Youtube and find all the videos you can which exhibit stage Green thinking. Try to find videos which are short and sweet. The more diversity we can display here, the better. Try to find examples from various cultures: Europe, Middle East, Asia, Indonesia, Japan, Russia, Africa, South America, etc. We will create a mega-thread like this for every stage in the Spiral, from Red to Turquoise. But here, let's just focus on Green. Each week I will start a new mega-thread topic for the next stage. Do not start a political debate in this thread! It is not our goal here to defend our personal political positions or to judge any stage, but simply to compile examples. Thanks for your help! I'm excited to see what kind of juicy stuff you dig up. Try to be selective with your choices. This can turn into a really cool list. Stage Green Values: Love, heart, soul, empathy, intimacy, kindness Compassion, mercy, leniency Humanism, liberalism, social progress Equality: gender, race, economic Everyone is equal Egalitarianism/Democracy Anti-materialist, anti-consumerist, anti-greed Social conscience Supporting humanitarian causes Activism & protests Live-and-let-live attitude Diversity, multiculturalism Cosmopolitanism Flattening hierarchies Cultural relativism Relationships, bonding Pacifism, peace Finding common ground Harmony Human well-being Interpersonal skills Warm interaction, hugs Pleasing everyone Sensitivity Femininity Teamwork Dialoguing Sharing ideas and feelings Mind-altering drugs Exploring altered states of consciousness Spirituality Spiritual but not religious Communal spirituality Environment, ecology Back to nature Sustainability Recycling Human-centered, heart-centered communities Protect the vulnerable, help the downtrodden Redistribution of resources, level playing field Inclusiveness, everyone gets an opportunity Don’t exclude anyone Tolerance Openmindedness Free love, intimate sex Sex education Cooperation vs competition Animals, children, the disabled, minorities Creativity, beauty, art Gurus Bringing people of the world together Socialism Crying, expressing vulnerable emotions Intuition over logic Right brained Health food & exercise Stage Green Examples: Burning Man, hippies, New Age, Green party, Greenpeace, vegans, vegetarians, liberals, progressives, Democrats, Bernie Sanders, Obama, TYT, Bill Maher, The Daily Show, Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Sam Seder’s Majority Report, John Oliver, Democracy Now, “liberal news media”, Vox, VICE, New York Times, MSNBC hosts, CNN hosts, Keith Olbermann, Michael Moore, Al Gore, Donny Deutsch, Noam Chomsky, Sean Penn, Al Franken, social workers, community organizers, spiritual meet up groups, university culture, SJWs, political correctness, LGBTQ rights, gender pronouns, protecting minorities, post-modernism, feminism, “Neo-Marxists”, abortion rights, planned parenthood, pacifism, ACLU, #MeToo, Antifa, support groups, tree huggers, bleeding hearts, Care Bears, animal rights, anti-war protests, Occupy Wall Street, charities, non-profits, NGOs, organic farming, organic food, recycling, global warming, music festivals, flower child, 60’s counter-culture, Haight Ashbury, Woodstock, the Beatniks, The Beatles, John Lennon, Bob Marley, Willie Nelson, marijuana legalization, psychedelics, Timothy Leary, Terence McKenna, Ram Dass, psychotherapy, progressive school teachers, liberal supreme court judges, 9th circuit court of appeals, socialists, redistribution of wealth, drum circles, neo-shamans, communes, Doctors Without Borders, universal healthcare, sensitivity training, non-denominational churches, health food stores, Wholefoods, Wholefoods rabbit meat, Western yoga, Reiki, Western Buddhism, massage therapy, chiropractors, naturopaths, meditation as a fad, TM, crystals, yoni eggs, juice cleanses, detox, green smoothies, colonics, spas, scented candles, burning incense, aromatherapy, tie-dye shirts, Kombucha, probiotics, soy, gluten-free, farmer’s markets, non-GMO, Fair Trade, Che Guevara, Oprah, Nelson Mandela, Pope Francis, anti-vaxers, Hollywood politics, save the whales, Esalen institute, humanistic psychology, transpersonal psychology, co-ops, Montessori schools, Scandinavia, the Scandinavian prison system, California, San Francisco, Oregon, Austin, Mass, Sedona AZ, NY, Seattle, Hawaii, Canada, Northern Europe, Germany, Netherlands, Switzerland, Iceland, denuclearization, equal pay, free college for all, basic universal income, amnesty, affirmative action, gun control, assault weapons ban, pro-Union, pro-EPA, cutting defense spending, open borders, higher taxes, lenient penalties, abolish death penalty, drug rehab centers, homeopathy, astrology, hypnosis, the Bill Gates Foundation, Dr. Albert Schweitzer, MLK, JFK, RFK, life coaching, children’s rights advocates, protecting endangered species, mentoring programs, helping the elderly, cleaning up the environment, back to Earth movement, cotton clothing, minimalism, Peace Corps, plot of Avatar, civil rights, human rights, watchdog groups, Prius, Tesla, Smart car, electric scooters, commuting on bicycles, solar power, wind power, renewable energy, corporate culture at Google & Apple, warning stickers, safety codes, talk therapy, grown men crying, Utopian communes, Mind Valley, Into The Wild: Chris McCandless, the UN, cultural appropriation, activists, local co-ops, mental health professionals, teachers, the Ultra Spiritual guy, Tantric sex, ayahausca retreats, conscientious objectors, yin-yang & peace tattoos, Osho’s ashram, Russell Brand
  2. Degrees matter little to companies. Getting more degrees will not solve your problem. What you need is a good portfolio of work and demonstrate the kind of results you can deliver to employers.
  3. Risk of pregnancy is very real. Best solution is to get vasectomy. You can store some sperm on ice in a bank just in case.
  4. Chronic fatigue can have 100 possible causes. You will have to do a lot research and experimentation to troubleshoot them one by one. There's so one obvious solution or cause.
  5. Sex can be done in higher consciousness ways. But few people are doing that. Most relationships are unconscious and dysfunctional.
  6. What I said is nothing like denying our ability to destroy ourselves. You made a weird leap there.
  7. It's not about Hitler. Hitler was a product of his culture. And the culture that created him no longer exists in the developed West.
  8. Culture has permanently developed a lot since the 1930's, so that level of oppression and bigotry is no longer possible because people are no longer that racist or hateful.
  9. I'm not gonna examine every possible edge-case. You figure out for yourself whether something is conscious behavior or not.
  10. Locked for low quality. Don't pollute this forum with junk.
  11. Many serious PUAs are horndogs with overactive sex drives. They are like drug addicts for pussy, and they need new pussy constantly. It's like being a pussy vampire. Similar to how Jeffery Epstein was a sex vampire. Or they are addicted to the excitement of it. Which is why they are incapable of committing to one girl.
  12. Todd Howard has turned Bethesda into McDonalds for gamers. Bethesda is dead to me.
  13. If you're gonna make mega threads could you at least spell and capitalize the title properly?
  14. No. It's not the same at all. Serious love and relationship takes commitment and effort. That's very different from chasing after sexual excitement. Pickup involves effort too, but it's not the same. Being a gangster also takes effort. That doesn't make the activity very conscious.
  15. I said *could*, not would.
  16. The dispute was not about whether he was right-wing but whether he was conservative.
  17. In this thread I'm not telling you how you should live your life, whether you should pursue sex or not. I only explained the connection between sex and low consciousness. You do whatever you want. You decide for yourself how ethical you wish to be.
  18. You guys are not yet aware of how much manipulation you do. It takes many years to understand it.
  19. If you're having sex with dozens and hundreds of girls, you're def hurting some of them in that process. Most PUAs are so selfish and unconscious that they don't even know when they hurt girls. I'm not saying hurting is mandatory. I'm just saying it tends to come with the pursuit of sex. Sex is a very corrupting force. Does that mean it is gauranteed to corrupt you? No.
  20. I have undertaken Leo's Geography Challenge, and I encourage ya'll to join me. Post your updates and share your favorite documentaries here.
  21. The manipulation of people to maximize sexual opportunity is low consciousness. Just in general, sex and everything revolving around sex is low consciousness. The reason that is, is because the only reason you care about sex at all is because it is mechanically coded in your animal nature. And as you pursue that sex you lose consciousness to attain it. You lie. You manipulate. You cheat. You hurt others. All for a few minutes of pleasure and excitement. Have sex if you wish. Just notice what you're doing to get it. But also, if you repress, deny, or neglect your sex drive, that could be even worse.
  22. Human survival has always been more about social skill than physical size. Which is why women are most attracted to leadership, status, charisma, and social intelligence. Women aren't stupid. They like exactly what helps their children survive. Women don't need your muscles, they need your leadership and social connections.