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@Commodent Yes, that is the core problem with his version of UBI. He is still too much business-minded about government. Government is not and should not be a business.

You are the final authority as to what is "real" since you are God. Whatever you imagine to be real will appear real to you. And there is nothing outside you. I cannot tell you because I am just a fragment of your own mind. You must realize this and take back your authority rather than projecting it on me. Anything I tell you is actually you yelling yourself. It's a mindfuck for sure.

Both of course! You ARE experiencing my perspective! That just means you are living my life and have zero knowledge of ever having been you. Which is literally what I am. I am just you minus all your memories and experiences, plus all of my memories and experiences. My life is your life. Your life is my life. When you become me, you become fully me! Which means no more old you. God is an infinite multi-parallel processing hallucination. It has no limits.

@Etherial Cat Yes, that's why integrity is such an important quality in a good leader. Which is why Trump is such a terrible leader. He does not even know the meaning of that word. Bernie has amazing integrity. High integrity comes with consciousness. So as our society becomes better as elevating the consciousness of all citizens, we will have more high-integrity leaders (and followers).

All 3 are the same.

I never said that. Careful what you assume. I do not support binary classifications of consciousness. Of course trickery is not a negative. It is Creation! It's beautiful. The whole process of awakening is full of suffering because the ego has to processes all of its own bullshit. But this a purification process. So it's positive in the long-run. No pain no gain. The devil will not leave your body peacefully or quietly. There will be moments of great self-doubt and self-loathing.

She is good. Too good to win. Oh the irony of life!

I am well aware of Yang. I watched many of his interviews and speeches. He is definitely very authentic, smart, and in some ways visionary. But I have some serious problems with his proposals: He uses UBI as a universal solution to too many issues. UBI is good but it cannot solve all the problems he proposes. He wants to fund UBI through VAT taxes, which is a bad idea in my opinion because it is a tax on the poor not the rich. His UBI also goes to rich people who don't need it at all and it counts against other government benefits like social security and food stamps. He is against free college for all. He is against Medicare For All. He is against $15 minimum wage. He seems to hold some libertarian notions. He does not directly question the structural problems of capitalism itself. Yang is good, but Bernie is better. If Bernie proposed a UBI, Yang would basically have nothing left to stand on. I think Bernie should propose a UBI in addition to everything else he stands for. I give Yang lots of credit for proposing UBI in the first place, and for talking about job automation. The final problem is: he simply doesn't poll well. I don't think he has a serious chance of winning the primary. Of course that could change, but Bernie has much better odds in my estimation. But in the end if Yang wins, I would be happy too.

I have warned you guys so many times about self-deception. Go back and re-watch my self-deception 3 part series. It's very important and you still don't appreciate how serious this problem is. This work is devilishly tricky. No, you cannot use concepts or science if you wish to understand the deepest levels of what reality is. There is no reason why you should feel entitled to that. Sure, I use concepts all the time to teach, but the difference is, I understand their limitation whereas you do not.

Illusion IS reality. So if you think you have a past, you literally do! However you hold reality is what becomes real for you. Since you are God. What people don't generally understand is the constructive nature of the mind. Reality is not a given. It is constructed by you. People do not like to take responsibility for being The Creator. It is a radical degree of responsibility.

No, all of that is God's imagination. LOL You are hopelessly lost, son. Lost in your own mind. Listen to the wisdom of those who have escaped their minds.

Of course there are dangerous. Awakening is a very radical thing. We are basically talking about renouncing your whole life. There will be times when you will feel depressed, insane, and even suicidal. All of this comes with territory. And there are many more dangers. Too many to list them all.

If the button is gonna be pushed, might as well smile

@7thLetter Much more conscious forms of manipulation are of course possible, and the whole point of our work here. Actualized.org is a collection of more consciousness self-manipulation strategies which ultimately point the way to transcending manipulation.

1) You haven't seen the full depth of it. Not even close. 2) People need to understand how radical this work is. Otherwise they are deceived. It's important to properly communicate how it FEELS from the subjective POV of the ordinary human. To play it off cool is just dishonest. It is incredibly radical. And it is dramatic. It is not a walk in the park to realize God. So let's not pretend it is.

@Shaun Step 1: Go have lots of sex until you are full. Step 2: Then return here and ask about how to transcend sex. Additional notes: Do not skip step 1 Wear a rubber

Notice, the final arbiter of that is you. It is actually you who is decided if he is a bot. If solipsism is true, then you are the only thing in existence, and you call all the shots. So the only one who determines whether he is a bot or not is you. So if you tell yourself, "He isn't a bot", that's what becomes true for you. Whatever you imagine is true, is what is true for you. Since you are God imagining the whole world. If you believe this world is real and not imagined by you, that's you imagining that you aren't imagining it, therefore making it real for you. If you stop believing this world is real, it will stop being real. The problem is this: because you have a dogmatic position that solipsism cannot possibly be true, you do not realize your own fully authority as the creator of reality. You have literally cut yourself off from your own authority, projecting this authority onto an imagination "other" or "world". And of course that is precisely how you create yourself as this limited human puppet. You have actually managed to convince yourself that there is an external world with physical laws which were not created by you. But the truth is, you created the whole world and then cut yourself off from the fact that you created it. And thus a human being was born. You were not born as some biological creature. You simply imagined your parents and hallucinated a life backstory for yourself. In truth, you were never born. You just tell yourself you were. So right now you are imagining that solipsism cannot be true and I'm full of shit. And so that is what becomes true for you. All of your childhood memories are things you're imagining RIGHT NOW! They only seem to have happened because you think so. And so that becomes true for you. Ta-da! Those are the true mechanics of reality. There never was a physical world at all. Nor was there a human self. Nor are there other people. It is ALL YOU! All by yourself playing this twisted game of infinite imagination. Neat, huh?

Overcoming manipulation is itself manipulation. But there is such a thing as non-manipulation. And it is not survival.

Truth is not a statistical probability. Thinking about Truth statistically is a rookie mistake, one commonly committed by poor scientists. Look! Truth is right here, right now! It probability is always 100%! Reality is happening right now! So it is 100% right here! You are overlooking the obvious.

Truth is unfalsifiable. Don't forget that

No! Simulation is a duality and therefore an illusion. Stop listening to materialist scientists. They are clueless about metaphysics & consciousness.

What's true is that you are God, God is all alone, and God is imagining everything. Oneness cannot help being solipsistic. It is ONE! Not two. But of course one includes two and all the rest. So in this sense it's not the standard Wikipedia version of solipsism. It's actually way more radical and insane. Absolute Truth feels very solipsistic. Because it is you! And there exists nothing but you.

See my video: Balancing Theory vs Practice It's an important one. You need to get good at just taking an action when you find yourself paralyzed by indecision. You can take an issue which confuses and compartmentalize it, setting it aside for another day. But in the meantime you can take some kind of action. And also sometimes it okay to be lost & lazy. That's a normal phase of life. See my video about: Chapter & Phases Of Life

The problem is more tricky than that. The problem is this: a conscious politician would be a decent human being. By virtue of this, he/she would not be very manipulative nor stoop to dirty and unfair tactics. But an unconscious politician would not be limited in this way. He/she would manipulate to the max and act like a devil. This devilry would give him a huge advantage against the conscious person when it comes to capturing the public's attention. This is exactly what Trump and far right-wing people do. They have no shame because they are unconscious and absolutistic in their ignorance. And even in the rare case when a highly conscious leader manages to get elected, he is usually quickly killed or demonized to the point where his reputation is tarnished beyond repair. And in this way, devilry and falsehood sustains itself. It always loses in the long-run, but the short-run it can be very powerful. This is a profoundly deep and difficult problem. It has no easy resolution, requiring us to go through war, conflict, violence, debate, anger, etc. Which is why human history has been so violent. War is a feature, not a bug. Ignorance cannot help but be ignorant.

@Joseph Maynor @Aakash @Etherial Cat You will be banned if you keep derailing this thread with your back and forth pointless comments.