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I absolutely agree with @K Ghoulhere. Moral standards are needed. Such moral standards are expected from someone who is working in a high political position. It's called moral integrity. In this case he has not shown sexual integrity. Nothing wrong with getting attracted to a woman he meets on a beach. But in this case it's a professional setting and she is a journalist. Of course any man in a political position should understand the implications and restrain himself. Let's say a woman seduces him and he engages in sex with her while divulging government secrets to her. This can be a threat to national security. Also he could easily put her in a favorable position to continue to get sex from her, which is a massive sign of internal corruption. This reminds me of Bill Clinton doing things to Monica Lewinsky in the Oval Office. Bill could have easily let out important secrets to a newbie like Monica thus putting national security at risk. If a person in a high political position cannot have sexual restraint then he is not fit to be in that position. If they cannot have restraint with their sexual desires, what more things exist that they don't have control over? If they can't have sexual integrity, if they can be sexually baited, what else can they do that is worse, like cheating, lying, stealing, embezzling, frauding to get sex or money. Taking sex is similar to taking money. It comes from a desire. Desire can turn into greed. Then they can sacrifice anything to satiate this greed. It calls their whole moral compass into question If they cannot be trusted with their sexual integrity, they can't be trusted with anything else either. Having sex or soliciting sex in a professional environment is a very risky and callous irresponsible and unprofessional behavior. If he can ask sex or be okay with being seduced by her, then he can even ask sex from his assistant or secretary or any woman in a subservient position. He might even go far as to blackmail or threaten or coerce if he doesn't get the sex he wants. This can lead to blatant abuse of power and appointing corrupt people in positions simply because he finds those people sexually attractive Such a person is not trustworthy.

I can already edit the color and size. However I wasn't talking about text color. It's about highlight. Highlight is like a big yellow block over a text to make it look prominent

Up voting replies actually leads to segregation of forum into biased groups and creates an echo chamber kind of mentality where friends will support their friends on the forum even if their replies were not good advice. That feature existed on the forum. And it was removed because it was misused so much. I saw the same people liking the same people's replies every time. It gives those who are generally not well received on the forum a bad feeling or isolated from the rest. Not a good idea. I'm against replies and Reputation points.

I want a highlight option in the text editing bar while creating a post. It shows bold, italics and underline but no highlight the way you have in Word. Can't highlight a sentence yellow.

A leader believes in abundance.

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Very very very true. This is absolutely what's happening with me. My family is like a cult. And my parents have fostered codependency in me since I was a kid. Everything had to be done with their permission, evaluation, consent and approval. Everything I did needed their validation. Since I have been raised this way, it's difficult to break out of it and feel normal. Breaking up with them makes me feel unhinged or guilty or wrong. They are narcissists.. They are very successful but they are narcissists. I either comply or I be humiliated for doing what I want. Maybe some day I'll be able to break free and never look back or maybe they will realize that I don't have to be how they want me to be, in order to be a part of them

@ajai I agree with you. @mandyjwyep. I'm looking into creative pursuits.

That's what I want to do. Just keep working at my regular job and not make things very complicated. I hate how families have to be so controlling and push this narrative that I have to follow their expectations or else they will cut me off from any emotional support. I find my heaven in spiritual growth. And I don't want to chase dollars anymore. But my family doesn't understand it. They are too controlling and narcissistic

Absolutely agree. They always make me feel like a loser and no matter what I do, they are never happy. It's like I'm never up to their expectations. It's too hard sometimes. And a culture that literally worships family like a religion, it's very hard to separate and break off. Always in some ways I've become codependent on my family for emotional support. It feels like if I completely break off, I will end up very alone. You're right that I feel trapped. And I'm trying to rebel against their expectations. Although thats a difficult process.

@modmyth I'm very close to my family. They are always in direct contact with me. My mom often comes and stays at my place or my siblings visit me. I don't like their presence but I have to put up with them, it's also a social cultural thing, the families in my culture are very close and family influence in decision making is huge. In fact most families in my culture are very tight knit and I'm thinking about distancing from my family as much as possible..

@Keyhole that's really great advice Keyhole. Thank you so much for taking out your time and giving such a thoughtful response. I really appreciate.

@Keyhole good point.

I already bought the Life Purpose Course 2 years ago. I went through it. It was helpful. But I kinda skimmed through it. Skipped a lot of exercises.

I'm currently doing a stock brokerage job and I'm doing fine with it, earning a decent amount which is enough for me as a single person. Now I understand that it's a kind of wage slavery but I don't have any entrepreneurial skills or the confidence to start my own business, nor the money to set up such a business. The thing is my life is kinda okayish with this job and I don't want to be super ambitious with money anymore. I have enough savings that I earned in the past during the high stress job years and these savings will last me a long time. I'm looking for spiritual growth in this current time because I don't want to lose any more time chasing the whole marketing /capitalist corporate model to make more money. I'm happy with my ordinary sustenance. It's my family that is not happy and pushing me to do more more, achieve more. I already did it for the past 7 years being the cash cow, even working while I was in college. Now I just want a life that is more enriching spiritually, where I can focus on meditation, mindfulness, creativity, consciousness work, something that I missed out on during the last 7 years because of my commitment to a career. I don't want that life anymore. I'm not demonizing that lifestyle, but I lost the pursuit for money. Now I think there are so many things that are more valuable than money and a career and my time now will be better spent investing in these spiritual life opportunities. My family however thinks that there is nothing like spirituality, to them the consciousness work is bogus and to them I should be working high end jobs making more money and living rich. They're rich themselves but I don't want to be a part of the same clout. I want my way. Because of them pressuring me, I sometimes wonder if I'm doing something wrong by not following their Stage Orange mentality. I don't want to wind up feeling like I did something wrong by following my heart and my core passion which is spirituality and consciousness. Now If I tell my family that I just want to live how I live and follow the road of spirituality and consciousness, they will laugh at me and ridicule me. I'm different from the rest of my family who are very stage Orange, they are all doctors and scientists and tech people in my family who work for big corporations. I am happy for them. But I don't want their life or income. They spend grand on vacations, they are usually stressed out and miserable from all the work. I abhor that. I am quite happy in my life, however they don't see me as content, they see me as a loser for not keeping up with them. So I'm kind of a stage Green hippie type person stuck in a successful stage Orange family. I'm happy with spirituality and Consciousness work and I don't want to go back to my Stage Orange lifestyle ever again.

I have come very far in life and I still have to go far.

@VincentArogya so all those quotes are from Jed McKenna?

I was browsing through some threads when I suddenly came across this picture. Then it disappeared immediately. Maybe I accidentally hit backspace. But now it's gone. I was still able to retrieve the link Can someone let me know in which thread or which user posted this picture or screenshot.

I agree. He wasn't a troll. A warning point might have been okay.

@Adamq8 can you please tell me which app you are using to write these notes. Thank you.

@acidgoofy thank you so much. @ajai yea I tried searching. It was empty

Omg. 85 is too much. I can't do that.

I feel like I'm a bit selfish in my relationships.. That's the pattern I see.. I don't know why I feel this way. But this could be true. How can I train myself to be less selfish?

@Arcangelo

This guy Biden has clearly laid out plans whenever he is asked about what he specifically plans to do. In contrast, Trump is lame and without any specific plan, just big hollow words and claims. But when asked about specifics, he stumbles and fumbles.. This was very visible during the China and North Korea question.