Leo Gura

As the propaganda and culture war against stage Green heats up, people get polarized and are forced to take sides. Thus people like Hulse take the side of Blue/Orange vs Green in the culture wars, which can seem like regression (or it may be actual regression as their minds are slowly rotted away by right-wing propaganda). As the center of gravity of American culture shifts to solid Green, many people will dig in their heels and refuse to budge. Even going so far as the pull hard in the opposite direction to the "good old days" they remember.

By definition if you are regressing down one stage, it's unconscious. Regression IS a lapse in consciousness. People are not choosing these things. These "choices" are simply baked into their habitual low-consciousness behaviors.

You have to be careful when framing global worldviews as some sort of evil. The above things you quoted are a basic trend of moving from stage Blue or Orange to Green. You develop a more global perspective. But that isn't even Trump's problem. Trump's problem is far below that of being some neoliberal elite. It's too heartless, narcissistic, and ignorant to be an effective neoliberal globalist type.

Trump wasn't some hippie contentious objector. He was just too selfish to service his country. Shunyamurti was draft dodger. But there is a big difference between saying, "I will not fight an unjust war and protest against it's injustice" vs "I don't want to fight this war because I would rather have sex at nightclubs and make money back home". I can't believe I have to spell this out to you.

Existence itself is formlessness. It is definitely possible to have pure empty existence minus any forms. Nothing (as we use it on this forum) is not a concept, it is a direct consciousness of one's true nature. Whatever awakening you've had, is good. But you also have much deeper to go, so don't stop inquiring.

There is no one there behind all experiences. The only problem is that you think there is someone there. So enlightenment simply entails getting ride of this feels of someone having ever been. No. All experiences are enlightenment once you simply realize there was no one ever behind them. Experience isn't the problem, the only problem is that self-image which keeps feeding itself, telling itself that there is someone to whom the experiences are happening to. Experience does not happen to anyone. You can become conscious of Absolute Truth. This is quite an achievement. But Absolute Truth is not anywhere elsewhere but here and now. Just remove the ego sense and all will be revealed as Absolute Truth. Enlightenment is not merely another experience, it's a meta thing in which you realize the true nature of all experiences.

It would be cool if they set up this nothing conference, sold all these tickets, and then on the day of, there was just nothing. No speakers, no videos, no news updates. Just a total blank.

You can talk to them and get a feel for their worldviews. I've hung out with and listened to a lot of guys in the pickup community. They tend to treat rape as a joke. Some of them are actual rapists. When speaking with such guys, they clearly don't think of rape as anything wrong or harmful. A lot of immature guys tend to think of rape like this: "Well, if I got raped by a hot girl, that would be cool and I would be happy, therefore, rape isn't a big deal. Those feminist/SJW types are just making a big deal out of nothing. Besides, girls are sluts and whores anyway, so what difference does it make?" It's a very self-centered view of sex. Women are simply seen as convenient objects to satisfy one's own sexual needs, and then discarded. The belief is, they are all sluts anyway, so they lose nothing and they aren't really hurt.

Why would they be? The purpose of most AAA game companies is maximizing profits, not creating art.

His draft dodging tells you everything you need to know about the kind of guy Trump is. The suckers are this supporters who believe he gives one shit about them or America.

@Arzack Sorry, but that says nothing. There are hundreds of possible different better states which may or may not be related to enlightenment. If you want to actually have a meaningful discussion, you should explain what it is you exactly became conscious of.

Perhaps a common mark of toxic masculinity ideology is that it interprets the term "toxic masculinity" as meaning: all masculinity is toxic. But to say that some forms of masculinity are toxic does not mean there isn't healthy masculinity.

Describe what you became conscious of and what "enlightenment" means to you. Lots of people here claim many things, but often they are fooling themselves.

If you ever awaken deep enough, you will realize that the opposite pole of your own is just something you imagined in order to identify as your pole. If you identify as masculine, you will realize feminine is something you imagined as "not you". If you identify as feminine, you will realize that masculine is something you imagined as "not you". The Ultimate Truth is you are both, and beyond. Masculine and feminine identification is like a schizoid rift in the Mind of God. God is suffering from multiple personality disorder.

I don't think I've ever seen a Goth over 25 years old. It's like some fad that teens go through as they try to sort out their identity issues.

Not it isn't. If you take a moment to contemplate this, you'll realize that "harm" is a purely relative notion. "Harm" is always defined relative to some ego's needs and desires, which are themselves relative and selfish. Harm is a relative, subjective, biased, egoic notion. YOU think rape is harmful. A rapist certainly doesn't think that. And your view has no higher epistemic position than that of a rapist in the absolute sense. Lots of men genuinely believe that rape is not harmful. And that is true from the POV.

It's simple, really: pursuing women can be turned into a larger healthy self-actualization journey or it can devolve into ideology, toxic masculinity, ego-aggrandizement, and mindless pleasure seeking. Similar to business. Similar to psychedelics. These things can go really well or really sour depending on what intentions you're doing them with. For me, pickup led to the creation of Actualized.org. For other guys it can lead to rapey type of behavior. Pickup very much magnifies your true intentions and character. If you're a scummy guy deep down, then pickup will magnify that. Much like how if you give a evil person a $10 million dollars, he will use it to do evil things. But if you give a good guy $10 million dollars, he will use it to advance mankind in some way.

Nonsense. What the 2016 election clearly showed is that no elites are controlling the winners, since all the elites hated Trump and thought he would never win. Even Trump didn't think he would win! The elites have no idea who will win, which is why they bribe and lobby both sides, and they befriend whichever side holds power. Nobody is in control of the system because everyone is part of the system, including you.

It's quite silly to blame the US police system on Biden. This system is so huge it is outside of any one politician's control. The 90's was a different time. Everyone was into strong policing back then. You cannot retroactively project 2020 standards on 90's politics. Because he's much better than Trump. It's like you're saying, "This guy was friendly to the rapist, so it would be unacceptable to pick him. Instead, let's pick the rapist." If you are truly concerned about the raping of America, Biden is much better than Trump. Fascists will rape the country much worse than Neoliberals ever will, despite what progressives will have you believe. I would make the opposite point. The chances now are better than ever of a new Obama or Clinton -like, but progressive, leader to emerge. I think we'll see exactly that in the next 8 to 16 years. It will happen regardless of whether Trump wins or Biden wins. In both cases people are going to see that neither conservativism nor neoliberalism are working. And they will be eager for something new. Someone like Bernie but with a younger, more charismatic face, and a fighter. The function of Bernie was not to win the Presidency. The function of Bernie was to pave the way for a new, younger, charismatic progressive leader in the next 5 to 20 years. Again, you say this while Trump and Republicans are in power. It's an absurd double-standard. It is not the Democrat's job to convert deplorable, closedminded conservatives who will be voting for Trumpist-like candidates no matter what Dems do.

You might as well vote for Donald Duck. Co-opting the Dem party is the way to go. As AOC and the Justice Dems are doing. Trump too co-opted the Republican party. In both cases, the game consists of shifting the two mainstream parties either more left or more right. That's the whole game. Take responsibility for it. You can't be in politics while avoiding this game. By rejecting the game you automatically lose it. There is never going to be some magical "good" 3rd party which is above the fray. Such a party will never get mainstream appeal. The parties have to be dumbed down and play to the lowest common denominator so long as people are in Tier 1 stages of cognitive development. And a Tier 2 party will never win. At least in our lifetime. Maybe in 100 years this will start to change.

@Raphael But can it run Crysis in 4k?

Lots of Blue in the Conquistadors as well. Early stage Blue people love to go crusading to convert the heathens.

It's flawed if you take it literally as you must be 50/50. It's wise if you understand the larger point he's trying to make. Sadhguru is not saying something as stupid as: for every one day you wear a suit, the next day you must wear a skirt. Stop taking the words of spiritual teachers literally. There is always a deeper, higher meaning behind their words.

@RedLine Do not bring your Trump whitewashing bullshit to this forum. By this logic Hitler was just a strong masculine man. This is justifying fascism plain and simple. Go read about how fascism works and how it is justified by its fans.

Good work! But there's so much more to become conscious of, so keep chipping away at it.