Leo Gura

@Myagooshki You miss the point. The point has nothing to do with veganism.

Of course he has a point. And Hitler was a vegan.

In the midst of all this Trump nonsense it is easy to forget that there are good Dems fighting the good fight every day. We must be careful not to get mired in cynicism.

That's right, independent thinking is no guarantee of proper sense-making or truth. It's just the bare minimum to even stand a chance. Independent thinking easily turns into corruption or distortion. 1) In your case you can clearly see through a bit of self-reflection that your worldview is strongly colored by hurtful traumatic events. This kind of emotionality creates bias and distorts sense-making. So a simple answer to your question is to not ever make an worldview based on hurt, bitterness, or suffering, since such a worldview will be distorted and dysfunctional. Basically, don't construct worldviews based on negative emotional states. So in this case, proper independent thinking should have led you to see that your worldview was constructed from a place of trauma, which is not a sound way for constructing a worldview. Imagine if I constructed the entire Actualized.org worldview based on my mother abusing me as a child. Would that be an accurate worldview? Clearly not. I would first need to heal that trauma before I could construct a proper worldview. 2) There cannot be any formula for avoiding self-deception. The only solution is live consciousness and active intelligence. This intelligence must be active at all times and self-reflecting. It cannot be a one-and-done thing. You must keep being intelligent as long as you live. 3) Practically, in your case, therapy would be a good way to gain more clarity over your worldview. Psychedelics as well of course. 4) If you have deep Awakenings or realization of Infinity/Love/God, then you will realize that self/other is an imaginary duality which must collapse. From this understanding you can know that your bitterness and hatred of mankind cannot be truthful, because mankind is just an aspect of God/Infinity/Love/Self. The truth is that the same people who killed your dog are metaphysically identical to your dog and yourself, since there is no difference between self and other at the highest level of reality. So in order to heal yourself from this tragedy would require connecting with that disowned, shadow aspect of yourself. The thing you hate the most -- the people who killed your dog -- is the thing that you will ultimately need to realize as identical to yourself. That would be the conclusion which results in the healing. But that is a tall order. I'm not tell you to necessarily just do it right now. You probably need much more time to pass before you are ready to face such radical integration. I'm sorry, this is difficult to tell you, but the following applies here: https://www.actualized.org/insights/actualized-quotes-090 The entire challenge of spirituality is to integrate that. To integrate that basically requires complete Awakening beyond what a human mind can imagine. It would be an Awakening so deep that you would basically die and return from the grave. In that moment of death, death itself would heal you. (I am not talking about suicide.) When the self dies, God's love cleanses your psyche of corruption by melting you into pure Infinity. An ocean of love where your dog, yourself, and your enemy are One. This Oneness is Absolute Truth. From this Truth all sense-making must derive, otherwise it will be corrupt.

@Jayson G Sorry, that is reserved for the course.

Actually, I changed my mind. The Dems did important work questioning RFK.

I share every source of mine in the book list and blog. My approach is not to look for meta big picture thinkers but to assemble that meta view myself, but consuming hundreds of quality, narrow, specialized sources like historians, spiritual gurs, scientists, philosophers, etc. If you read 200 books, you will have a very good foundation.

Okay. Why did I think it only happened days ago? Anyway, you might want to consider therapy, to talk things out.

Well, but it's good to air out all this nonsense. It needed to be purged. The demons had be let loose for all to see. The corrupt has to play itself out now and we will rebuild later.

@Daniel Balan How long ago did you lose your dog?

@freddyteisen The more perspectives you consume the less likely you are to get trapped in any one of them. I've consumed so many perspectives it's like a chess grandmaster who knows all the opening moves. Which makes it impossible to fool me with some common trick.

@Daniel Balan Something to keep in mind: you don't need to trust humans fully. You understand that they will be selfish, so you maintain a certain mild caution in all dealings with humans and you calibrate it based on red flags they send out. Most people are decent as long as their survival is not at stake at the moment.

I considered it but decided not to. Because I cannot predict the future accurately enough to give people such advice. But I can see that a storm is coming. How it will hit is hard to know. What is the alternative? Pretend like a storm is not coming? Pretend like nothing is knowable? Business as usual? My more specific advice is to not keep your money in flimsy or inflated investments. But I will not give investment advice more specific than that because it would be irresponsible. Handling uncertainty and chaos is a good learning opportunity.

There is no way around independent thinking. Consume many sources but then piece it together yourself like an autonomous mind. Stop wanting some human to give you the understanding. Enjoy the process of manking sense of reality. There's no better game in town.

Bingo. It's empty theatre. But at least it serves the function of publically shaming these perverts for the historical record. Better to have their lies on camera than not. Without that, future generations will not believe these people were real.

And then asshole Trump came along? Okay, so what? Why let such a creature influence you so much? Soon he will die of old age and the world will go on. Mankind has survived much worse. Keep things in historical context.

Yes, it is wrong. That is not how reality works. But it is too soon from your trauma to start correcting your worldview. At this time you need a good 3-6 months for your mind to settle and grieve. Then we can discuss how to improve your understanding of mankind and reality. For now just take it easy, comfort yourself, give yourself space and time, and try not to invent grand narratives about mankind from your current state. You are in a state of profound loss, hurt, and trauma so your sense-making from that state will be distorted and biased. That is okay, but try not to feed it too much or you will develop a toxic ideology which will be hard to dislodge in the future. Very horrific things can and must happen in life. Making sense of why they happen is very serious work which requires coming from an unemotional state. Wishing you peace.

His whole career is a grift. He gets huge money from the whole anti-vax shtick. He sells a book accusing Bill Gates and Fauci of purposely killing kids. This is how he make his living. He created this alt-health niche for himself and makes millions from it and uses it to get sex and feel powerful.

That's why we have arms races. This is the arms race problem writ large. No party can trust the other parties to disarm. Which is why we can't have nice things.

Are you saying you're blackpilled due to Trump? Certainly it is a disgusting turn of events, but the world must go on. You don't need any spiritual positivity. What you need is to appreciate how real life is. Life is real in that politics is brutal and serious, not merely a spiritual New Age "the world is on the brink of awakening" fantasy. The bitterness of society and politics is what makes life serious and worth living. I do not want to live in a New Age positive fantasy, and neither should you. It is good to be bummed out by Trump's victory for a few months. But then you use that grow yourself even higher!

This situation is still very fresh in your mind. Give yourself time.

The US certainly does not want multi-polarity. It is doing everything possible to undermine it at a geopolitical level. The entire purpose of US foreign policy is to profit from hegemony.

This is where your worldview is flawed. Anarchy is an arms race to the top. There is no other possibility. Global anarchy forces someone to dominate and establish supremacy. If this was not the case, no government would be necessary at all. So your worldview has this fundamental flaw. If your view was correct, China would not need monopoly of power over its people and neither would Putin. Your view is well intentioned but naive in typical leftist fashion and as mistaken as communism was in the last century. You underestimate man's nature. Man is worse than you know. China and Putin are worse than you know. And they would try to dominate the world if given the chance. There is nothing special about the American empire that makes it uniquely evil. That same evil exists in every nation that has a monopoly of power over its people. Because that is the only solution to anarchy. Contemplate deeply what I said here. This is very important. This is very important for your political development.

It was very necessary.

RFK fans live in a parallel universe, alongside their savior.