Leo Gura

This applies all the way up and down the chain of life. If a Unified World Government seems unlikely or impractical, just remember that 2000 years ago the idea of a country was crazy because there were only walled city-states. And 2 billion years ago, the idea of multicellular organisms was crazy because there were only single-celled organisms eating each other. For a human body to exist, single-celled organisms had to learn to cooperate with each other despite having their own selfish agendas. This is a game that life has played out for 2 billion years.

He was a regional war hero, akin to George Washington. Imagine how Americans would react if George Washington was assassinated by Iran. That is the situation here. Even the most moderate Iranians will now be pissed off and driven to violence because this is a matter of pride and self-respect. No self-respecting nation can allow such abuse. When Iranian history books are written, Soleimani will go down as their George Washington, and now a martyr at the hands of an evil empire. A generation of children will grow up hating America. Killing him was the worst possible strategic blunder from America's POV. Iran is now united and empassioned.

@butcho I doubt you have even begun to transcend culture.

Because all he's doing is acting out childhood dogmas. There is no contemplation of anything, it's all self-justification. There is no truth-seeking.

Every US general and secretary of defense is a war criminal by the US's own logic. Of course top military leaders mastermine the deaths of thousands of people. That is their job. By the US's own logic, all top US officials are justified to be assassinated for their military planning. That's how absurdly self-biased the position is.

Stop listening to him period. His intellect is just garbage. Anyone who takes the likes of him or Tucker Carlson seriously is just a joke. You cannot take anything they say seriously because it is so stunningly self-biased and intectually bankrupt. Some people are so banrkupt that even to listen to them or engage with them seriously is already a mistake. This pretty much goes for anyone at Fox News. It's self-biased propaganda. You might as well be listening to and debating with someone who is pro-slavery.

Meaning is imaginary, just like everything else.

This was the greatest concern about Trump now come to fruition. The correct wording here is: the US assassinated Iranian top leader. But notice how US media doesn't phrase it that way due to self-bias.

@Chumbimba Bottom line is that it will be too expensive for you. You need to look for cheaper options. You don't need to spend that much money to do consciousness work. Buy the Kriya Yoga books and get to work, if you're serious. Don't wait around for others to do the work for you.

It's a small factor but nothing worth worrying about. BTW, reverse racism is just racism. Racism doesn't only apply to white people. Anyone can be racist. Conservatives love to use the notion of reverse racism to argue that nothing needs to be done about racism or that racism doesn't exist. Which is just hogwash.

No catch that I'm aware of. Your results may vary.

Just sit still. And don't go into it expecting sobbing and rage. That becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. Expect good things. Expect answers to your deepest questions.

That's your strawman of what they say. They never actually say 90%. More like 25%. Which is about right. Yes, they demonize the right too much sometimes. How else could Green be? Racism is a serious issue which the country has not yet fully addressed. There's a lot of denial going around about it still. People like to think they are more developed than they actually are.

Lol Society is 50 years out from mastering the basics of what they talk about, and you want something higher? A Yellow person has better things to do than criticizing TYT and Majority Report.

Your issue is more basic than meditation. Meditation is not going to fix your neediness because you're not at a level of development yet where you can even take meditation seriously. The advice for you is: work on your isolation, learn to socialize, build social skills, develop friends, develop dating skills, have sex, and THEN meditation will help you reach higher levels. Meditation is not a shortcut for avoiding learning basic survival skills like dating, making money, proper diet, etc. Meditation is a rather advanced skill for people who have already become proficient at survival and want to reach the next level. Once you've had a bunch of sex and made a bunch of money, then you ask, "Okay, what's next?" That's where meditation starts to look appealing. Don't assume that. Most people here don't meditate or meditate so ineffectively that they might as well be watching TV. Serious meditation is a rare skill that very few people practice. And meditation takes years to pay off.

@JunkyJu Why would it not be worth it? Have you not read some life changing DMT trip reports?

If you put a stage Orange person in a Green environment, they are likely to not fit in and have falling out. Which is what happened. Spiral Dynamics is not so simplistic as to say that if you put an Orange person into a higher environment he will automatically grow into it. Many people will have a backlash and entrench themselves in their old stage. If TYT hired a white supremacist, he would probably quit in short order and start his own white supremacy YT channel.

I think it describes his behavior very well. Since a solid Orange person is very much driven by personal success and profit, it makes a lot of sense that Rubin would dump TYT and its values to start his own show and make a big name for himself speaking out against liberals as a gay dude. It seems that Rubin's work at TYT was not based on deeply held Green values but a desire to make it in online media. Which is a very Orange thing. And that's exactly why he didn't fit in there and why he's doing his current show. He wasn't developed enough to last at TYT. This is easily evidenced by his last of understanding of Green values and his libertarianism.

Yellow? Ha! He's stuck in Orange with a big Green shadow. He didn't see the limits of Green. Just as he started getting exposed to Green he couldn't handle it and doubled-down on Orange. He is criticizing Green from below, not above.

Infinite Love There is no hell outside your selfish perception.

Lol, good luck with that. Every story you construct will come crashing down on your head one day, because you are building castles in the sky. And to defend those stories you will of course become a devil. Because the truth is, they are all fictions you've invented to suit your ego's survival.

Well, that's not gonna happen. Even the idea of a safe space is already ridiculed and demonized by the right-wing. And they are certainly incapable of non-judgment and non-criticism. As are most left-wingers. If we could get everyone to agree to a safe space and non-judgment, we would already have solved 90% of the worlds problems. Yup, I get that too. Listening to aggressive ignorance really tests one's patience and compassion. That's the challenge of our work. How do you deal with people who are so closedminded and ignorant that they might be willing to kill you for speaking truth? Even Jesus couldn't solve that problem.

Of course, otherwise it would have been resolved a thousand years ago. These are profound existential challenges of a cosmic order requiring millions of deaths to understand and transcend. This is life and death stuff we're dealing with. It doesn't get any more serious than this. And yet ironically it's all a joke in the end. We (God) are stuck in an existential bind of infinite proportion.

Yes, which is why I said serious training of consciousness is necessary.

We can always put your beliefs to the test with a hammer The hammer will win.