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Does it let you throw dead diseased beavers into the city water supply? SimCult Lol

Yes, this is a great thought experiment which I indirectly referred to. Unfortunately most people cannot preform it because they are too self-biased and they are not conscious of: 1) their privileges, 2) how bad life is for some people on this planet. And ultimately they don't care because all they are about is increasing their personal survival advantage, regardless of where they are situated in the hierarchy. Watch that Vice documentary video on Liberia and imagine that you were born there. If that doesn't open your political eyes, nothing will. A big part of the libertarian and conservative fantasy is that they assume everyone is as equally capable and privileged as them. Most conservatives cannot even imagine that 200 years ago it was only a matter of luck that they were not born slaves or terrorists. In their minds such an outrage isn't even a possibility. Because they purely see themselves as "the good guys". It does not enter a conservative's mind that he could be born a mentally crippled kid in a poor urban neighborhood to drug addicted parents surviving on food stamps, so someone predisposed to drug addiction. A conservative mind is not capable of such empathy. For example, an Evangelical cannot imagine being born a Wahhabist Muslim. Nor can a materialist scientist, really. Which is why they demonize divergent worldviews. It takes an extraordinarily developed and open mind to run such thought experiments in an objective, non-self-biased way. Rawls' through experiment is only the tip of the iceberg. It's not merely that you COULD be born as someone else. It's that you WILL be born as EVERYONE else! It's that YOU ARE EVERYONE ELSE! The moment you realize this your entire politics is revolutionized. You can on longer advance positions which exploit the ignorance and weaknesses of others. Because it's like fucking over your own mother on her birthday.

@Salvijus It will be a problem because in 500 years humans will not even be humans any more. His teachings will be so outdated and antiquated as to be counter-productive. If history has taught us anything, spirituality must be reinvented for each new generation. Even the language and metaphors Sadhguru uses today in his videos will be hard to understand in 500 years. In the same way that it's almost impossible for ordinary people to read Shakespeare. Even today Sadhguru's integration of cutting edge spiritual tools like psychedelics is outdated and crude. Just imagine how outdated it will be in 500 years when we use genetic engineering to transform the structure of the human brain. The spirituality of the future will be much more radical than anything that has occurred in human history in the last 10,000 years. The next 1000 years will be nuts! It will be completely unpredictable and it will require extreme mental flexibility and innovative new spiritual teachings which bridge the divide between science, technology, society, and spirituality.

That's precisely what I said, another religion. We are in agreement. He just doesn't see it as a problem.

What you fail to appreciate is that God CANNOT fulfill your wish because God has no form. It can only come through a vehicle, and this can always be denied. By it's very nature God cannot force itself on a person in denial because the one denying God is God! God explained this to you in the book. Yet you missed this important point. God IS a closed circle. If you do not realize that God is talking through you, you're shit out of luck. Because you denied yourself, because you are God. If God appeared in a glowing white robe and beard on the White House lawn tomorrow, and procliamed, "HEAR ME HUMANS! I AM YOUR GOD!" Most people would laugh, denying it, and some would even try to kill it and subject the corpse to scientific testing, at which point they would conclude: "this was just an ordinary human with some brain defects." So it is imposisble for God to reveal itself to humans because humans are too stupid and closedminded to understand God. This seems like a cop out. And yet it's precisely true. Because you are God denying you are God. If you don't get that you're God. That's it. You're fucked. Even God cannot help you now. This is the definition of devilry: you have cut yourself off from God by your own ignorance. The truth is that God speaks to and through everything, but you must have enough wisdom to see it. And neither science nor skepticism nor proof is wisdom.

@Salvijus The problem is that spirituality cannot be a static thing. If Sadhguru's words are taught precisely 1000 years from now, it will be as bad as religion because the society will have changed so much that adaptation will be necessary. But I understand his concern. We wants to minimize devilry. Unfortunately he can't stop a stage Blue organization from avoiding devilry because such people are dogmatic by definition and he feeds into their dogma a bit. After he's dead the whole thing will become another religion.

@Aeris I updated the book list 10 times. Nowadays I don't read much because my understanding has gone beyond basically all books. Books have become a waste of time. It's a bit sad. But that's how things get.

@Mezanti Yes, I will improve it.

@Hansu So what you're saying is, before the Civil War you would have been pro slavery. Centrism just means you're basically going with the status quo, adding a little lipstick to a pig. You have no vision for how great mankind could be. And, see... as an centrist you're extremely easy to fool. All one has to do is stack the argument with extremist positions and you'll reflexively just adopt the half-way point. So one side says: Abolish slavery. The other side says: let's get even more slaves. And you say: let's be reasonable and just keep the slaves we have. Or one side says: global warming is a serious threat. The other side says: global warming is a hoax. And you say: who really knows? Let's wait and see. All I have to do to fool you is fund a think tank which generates whatever serves my agenda, and you'll always split the difference because you don't evaluate anything on the merits of it by simply take the mid-point. So I just manipulate you by making sure to put forth such extreme positions that your mid-point ends but being exactly what best serves me and my interests. So if it serves me to own 50 slaves, I will set my position to be: I should be able to own 1000 slaves. And you as the centrist will go, "Okay, 1000 is too many slaves. Let's be reasonable. You can have 100." Deal! What you're missing is that truth and rightness are not the average of any two positions. You can't take a multiple choice exam, mark every answer "C", and expect to ace the class. If only life were so easy. Rarely is the answer "C".

Most of India is Blue so of course Isha is gonna be infected with that. So will basically all Indian spiritual schools.

This video gives a peak into the mind of a libertarian. I find it both hilarious and educational. It shows how naive people are about government.

1) Business's whole strategy is to strong arm and use enormous leverage to manipulate wages. An average person has little chance to negotiate for a fair wage. They are forced to take whatever offered, which usually undervalues their work. This is the core reason why a minimum wage is needed. To not address this point is to be naive about how business negotiation works. He with the most leverage takes the cake. 2) The idea that a living wage would hurt small biz is silly. A living wage could eaily be a requirement only above a certain number of empolyees. For example, all companies worth over $100 million or employing more than 100 people. The whole point of using the "this will kill small biz" excuse is to conflate giant multi-national business with small mom and pop shops so that the giant multi-national can squeeze their employees dry. A company like Walmart or McDonalds should be paying a living wage. This doesn't need to affect tiny businesses. Living wage can easily be adjustable to cost of living per state and county. So in LA it could be $25/hr while in Alabama it could be $10/hr. People make all sorts of bad arguments aboug minimum wage simply because they have an ideological position against it and no understanding of how corporations use leverage in negotiations.

That's not some random woman. That's Nina Turner. She's a national co-chair of Bernie's campaign.

@whoareyou Mind your closedminded and arrogant tone. Paranormal phenomena are more complex than you appreciate.

Nice share!

Yes, such a period in one's life can be stressful and exhausting. Starting a biz is not easy and eats up a lot of time and energy. But if you do it right, it will pay dividends for the rest of your life. Starting my own biz was one of the best decisions I ever made, enough though it was challenging and stressful at times. Just make sure you don't burn yourself out.

Do you guys not have term limits?

If a thing exists, it is necessary. Until it stops existing.

I have direct experience channeling God. It's possible.

My whole channel is talking about the process. The process is complex, nuanced, and usually takes months and years of gradual changes to stack up.

Consider the possibilty that English words can originate from aspects of Infinite Intelligence which are not human.

No

I think it's more complicated than that. Be careful taking spiritually advanced people for fools. Channeling is a well documented phenomenon throughout history. She ain't the first one to do it.

In other words they would realize everything important to life

@DoTheWork I don't really disagree with anything you said in your opening post. That's basically how I expect it to work. Of course God cannot stay in God mode all the time, otherwise there would be no human birth. At some point God has to choose to forget and re-enter the Matrix. What should you do? Enjoy your Creation. Be the Creator and all that entails. Of course it's all meaningless in the end. That's what makes it so meaningful! It's an Infinite Game. Yes, awakening robs you of a certain innocence. There is a certain bliss to being asleep and clueless. It's fun to play a new video game, getting all excited about acheiving something in it. It's no fun playing a game you yourself designed just like it's no fun watching a magic trick you've deeply studied.