Leo Gura

If you are asking this question you clearly don't appreicate how seriously Jews take their relgion. If Jews were purely rational then we'd be dealing with a very different creature. We're dealing with a very Stage Blue culture there.

No. In some sense it is closer to God.

You are conflating different orders of imagination. Dogs and unicorns are both imaginary, but unicorns are more imaginary.

Is the Earth round or not?

By that logic Hamas should not have killed civilians on Oct 7th.

Yes, that's a small taste of Awakening.

@An young being Like watching porn under a microscope.

That's pretty rare. You just got unlucky.

You need to suggest an alternative plan. Like, "let's go get some pizza" or "let's go see the fountains". And if all else fails, "Can I come with you?" or "I'm heading that way too." You have to learn to manage them a bit. Give the friends compliments to gain their trust, small-talk with them a bit, then return your focus on your girl. And ultimately you have to seduce your girl to run away with you while her friends are busy. Grab her by the hand and say, "Let's run away together." 1) More physical game. More dancing. 2) More eye contact and facial expressions. 3) Speak louder directly in her ear. 4) Move her to a quieter part of the club. If a girl gives you a fake number then you didn't attract her, so it doesn't matter. Your goal is not numbers, it's responsive numbers. No, you don't need to call her to validate the number. Just trust that the number will be real because she likes you. Google and read: "Kino escalation ladder" Just ask them: "How many drinks have you had tonight?" or "You look like you're on molly." If a girl is so drunk she cannot balance or walk straight, don't even bother talking to her. It's not worth the time. Move on to another girl. Your time is valuable. Don't waste it on slobs. This is great. Girls will never touch you unless they are attracted. On the dance floor they could be in drunk party mode.

For all the bombing Israel did, there was plenty of motive to kill the hostages.

That's not really the core of Stage Yellow. I suggest you read the chapter on Yellow from the Spiral Dynamics book. Forgiving people who hurt you is a great idea simply because it will make you feel better. But do not mistake forgiveness for tolerating continued abused. Do not forgive people if they keep on abusing you and refuse to change.

Unless he kills you first.

@abundance Dugin is not opposed to AI per se, he is opposed to the degeneration and destruction of mankind and man's soul or spirit. An example would be plugging yourself into a VR porn world for 12 hrs a day while robots cook your food and clean your house. For Dugin this is Satanism.

Inflammation of the brain can take a month or more to recover. So patience is a factor.

Tolle isn't a philosopher. He's doing very narrow nonduality. There's pros and cons to that.

I would really like to see this discussion elevate to Tier 2 rather than cycling over and over again on Tier 1 finger pointing. Try to notice that finger-pointing is not achieving anything.

You're not being in the present.

I've socialized for years without alcohol or drugs. You just have to train yourself to build up state.

This is EXACTLY why Dugin calls liberalism Satanic. Because he believes it will ultimately devolve into that, and you are proving his point.

Yes. If Hamas was as evil as some of you want to believe they would have killed all the hostages.

I thought all the hostages would be killed.

I assumed Hamas was more evil than it is.

If Russia organized itself well as a government it would be one of the major poles in a multipolar world. Russia has a lot of talent and potential which is not being properly activated due to bad governance and corruption.

Yeah, the Indian subcontinent is really bad in that respect.

What post-modernism gets right is that reality is deeply perspectival and there are way more valid perspectives than just one. What post-modernism gets wrong is that humans can and must agree on some core facts, truths, and values. Just because there are many perspectives does not mean all these persepctives are equally truthful and good. Some are more deluded than others. Flat Earthers have a worse persepective than Round Earthers, and this is not merely an opinion.