Leo Gura

What I find helpful with Spiral Dynamics is to break it up in your mind from a monolithic model into smaller chunks which you apply more selectively.

You can have mysticism at any stage except Orange. There is Purple mysticism and Blue mysticism. That's basically what all the ancient religons and prophets were. They were not Turquoise. Islam is a great example of mysticism at low levels of the Spiral. Which is why Islamic politics is so barbaric and regressive. Study the difference between Purple, Blue, Green, and Turquoise mysticism.

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$20k down in the US will not buy you a shack, nevermind a house.

@Atb210201 You are a Westernized Iranian. But many Iranians are not.

Sadhguru got raided for attending a P Diddy freak off

Could? Netanyahu has already made this case. That's his position. Def a problem.

There is a big difference between using nukes to start an attack vs using nukes in response to a nuclear attack on you. I do not think Iran would use a nuke to start an attack. But they would certainly use it if invaded. All that Iran having a nuke means is that they cannot be invaded. Which is proper. No one should be free to invade Iran. This is the situation in North Korea.

I don't buy that at all.

I'm not calling for any coups. Not only it is fair, it's the only way a country can be fixed.

There's not a democracy because they are not developed enough to sustain one. You are not going to shove democracy down an Islamist's throat. Please stop with such fantasies.

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There is no monolith of Iranian people. They are many factions which will break out into civil war if you try to do a coup. Iran is a deeply Islamic place. People there will not abandon Islam, they will double-down on it. Nor will they tolerate a secular Zionist puppet government.

No one is going to fix your country for you. If you can't fix it yourselves then it will stay broken.

Don't you dare start with this. Invading Iran is a garbage idea, not to mention illegal and immoral. If Iranians want to change their government they are welcome to do so. Not Israel. Not America. If Israel invades Iran then I will support death to Israel. The bias here is just shameless.

You are asking for 20 years of bloody civil war where 1M+ of you will die.

We've heard this nonsense before Iraq. If you support invading Iran, I will support invading Israel and overthrowing all the Zionists.

Regime change in Iran is the worst idea since regime change in Iraq.

Well, I'm just glad Bashar is not a fucking Trump supporter. "Lead" here could mean long down the timeline, not necessarily within 4 years. Like a fork in the timeline. Which is not so crazy. That Trump is a disaster is obvious to anyone with half a brain.

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@Carl-Richard You make some solid points in questioning the limits of Graves' method and sample size. Susanne Cook-Greuter's model has a much more solid grasp of the highest stages and you can use it to help you fill in the gaps in Graves and SD. The Construct-Aware and Unitive stages are very well described by Cook-Greuter. You can wonder, what would a community/culture of such people look like? That would probably be Turquoise. As for Green, a lot of Green New Age people parrot stuff without a serious development of it as a stage. You can parrot Alan Watts or some guru or some yoga thing, but that doesn't not mean these people have Construct-Awareness or Unitive stages. There is much New Age spirutual larping going on by immature, underdeveloped, deluded people. The people you see at some yoga retreat are not Tier 2.

Is this really true? Source? That's a huge win for them if true.

Nonsense. You are denying the whole game of angling to get the highest value men and the whole screening process that involves. As if that isn't happening. That is the lie. You can play whatever games you like for whatever rationales, but don't then carry that deception into the domain of understanding reality. Anyways, I'm tired of this topic. It leads nowhere good.

That's the trick! Because in reality women sleep around easily and frequently with dishonest players. But the nice honest guys get the short end of the stick. Thus game is born.