Bernardo Carleial

@Leo Gura! DO YOU THINK I'M NOT AWARE OF THIS LEO!!!?? I was a pickup-artist myself!!!! Off course I know that I'm being needy!!! Do you think I'm doing this willingly!?!? I definitely wasn't expecting this!!! For years I thought that I got immune to this, because I haven't experienced that since I started doing pickup... But now it seems to have bitten me in the ass...

"For the primitives, childbirth is surrounded by strict taboos; in particular, the placenta must be carefully burned or thrown into the sea, because whoever might get hold of it would hold the newborn’s fate in his hands; this envelope in which the fetus is formed is the sign of its dependence; in annihilating it, the individual is able to detach himself from the living magma and to realize himself as an autonomous being." An excerpt from the book "The Second Sex" by Simone de Beauvoir

Now THAT is REAL Journalism!!!!

The worldview that this girl has is very vMEME Orange

This is gonna be one of those videos that talks about the notion o NOFAP. I would like to share my opinions towards it because I think not many people talk about that from this perspective. A couple years ago I was into nofap, and I was able to endure one year with very little relapse, until one day I realized that I was very worried about this notion and then I found that I became neurotic about it. Today I'm aware of the benefits of semen retention that he talks about. But I don't consider myself as a "follower " of the NOFAP group. And what ends up happening paradoxically is that it enhances more my sexuality. Because if I wanna watch porn, I watch porn, if I wanna jerk off, I do jerk off. But today I became so conscious of the toxicity and fakeness that porn can bring that I can even stand looking at it. I realized that there are more healthier ways to keep yourself aroused. Just watching a woman enjoying her own body might be sufficient. And if you think you can't do that, so yeah..., try a 6 month nofap and see how it goes, it can give all these benefits that this guys is talking about!???

This video might be hard to watch, viewer discretion is advised

@Hello from RussiaBecause I don't know enough about this particular stage(Turquoise) to make the case.? It is more due to my lack of knowledge other than anything else...as I have written before in my last post on this mega-thread: my spiral wizardry goes until vMEME Yellow . However, I know for sure that he is solid vMEME Yellow because of his Integral Theory. P.S: I realized that I have omitted the word "not" in my last post. Making it seem like I understand vMEME Turquoise, which is definitely not the case... ?I'm sorry for that.?

Yaron Brook: Ayn Rand and the philosophy of Objectivism | Lex Fridman Podcast #138 https://youtu.be/SOr1YYRljV8 This interview is very good for understanding the vMEME Orange worldview. It contains a lot of the references that Leo has mentioned in his video "Why Libertarianism is Nonsense"

A lot of members here put Ken Wilber at vMEME Turquoise. but because I'm not very familiar with that stage, I will put him at vMEME YELLOW/Turquoise. But in this topic in particular he touches on a lot of non-dual principles that is associated to vMEME Turquoise.

Here is an ENTIRE PLAYLIST on the subject. Which covers its fundamental concepts in a very educational manner. Enjoy!??

Sacred Prostitution is actually a very ancient practice, we have evidence that the Babylonians held rituals to the godess Ishtar, which involves giving offerings to her pristesses in her temple in order to have sex with them, because it was said that it gives them blessings. And it seems to me that something similar might be the case with the devadasi women... However, in our modern society, this tradition became completely distorted and is now associated with prostitution and child exploitation. Polarizing even more the social inequality in the lower casts of India.

https://www.amazon.com/Finite-Infinite-Games-James-Carse/dp/1476731713 Before I write anything down, I'll need to clarify that vMEME Turquoise is actually the most difficult stage for me to classify, my spiral wizardry reaches until vMEME Yellow. But this book seems very different from anything I came across so far... it all gravitates toward the notion of reality as it is experienced by us as being either a finite or an infinite game. And the author describes his teachings in very insightful manner(was the most profound book I've read this year), that gave me the impression that he really had access to some timeless principles of The Truth himself. But again... I might be wrong about that... he might be just another New Age Guru. I'll let you guys to decide, that's why I brought to you some excerpts from the book: "Finite players play within boundaries; infinite players play with boundaries. " "If no amount of veiling can conceal the veiling itself, the issue is how far we will go in our seriousness at self-veiling, and how far we will go to have others act in complicity with us." "There are no rules that require us to obey rules. If there were, there would have to be a rule for those rules, and so on. " "What limits vision is rather the incompleteness of that vision. One never reaches a horizon. It is not a line; it has no place; it encloses no field; its location is always relative to the view. To move toward a horizon is simply to have a new horizon. One can therefore never be close to one's horizon, though one may certainly have a short range of vision, a narrow horizon." "... For this reason it can be said that where a society is defined by its boundaries, a culture is defined by its horizon." "Metaphysics is about the real but is abstract. Poetry is the making (poiesis) of the real and is concrete. Whenever what is made (poiema) is separated from the maker (poietes), it becomes metaphysical. As it stands there, and as the voice of the poietes is no longer listened to, the poiema is an object to be studied, not an act to be learned. One cannot learn' an object, but only the poiesis, or the act of creating objects. To separate the poiema from poiesis, the created object from the creative act, is the essence of the theatrical. Poets cannot kill; they die. Metaphysics cannot die; it kills. " "A genius does not have a mind full of thoughts but is the thinker of thoughts, and is the center of a field of vision. It is a field of vision, however, that is recognized as a field of vision only when we see that it includes within itself the original centers of other fields of vision. This does not mean that I can see what you see. On the contrary, it is because I cannot see what you see that I can see at all. The discovery that you are the unrepeatable center of your own vision is simultaneous with the discovery that I am the center of my own. " P.S: sorry for the long post?

This is a very interesting video that describes how the greatest thinkers of history had tried to explain the notion of infinite, it has a lot of correlations with Leo's video "Understanding Absolute Infinity". Although in this video they don't want to arrive at any conclusion, they just want to share what has been written amongst philosophers throughout history with regard to this topic. Enjoy!??

Stage Green/Yellow

A little more on what's going on in Chile

Far-Left vs Far-Right(ideology)

@DocWatts it could be. I've just been recently introduced to his works and I already enjoyed the points that he makes! He also wrote a book about psychedelics, called "How to change your mind." Really good!???

This video presents us with some very interesting vMEME Yellow systemic problems

Thank you my friend!? @OriginsBy the way. What good source would you recommend as an introduction to Phenomenology? I tried to read Heidegger's Being and Time, but I find it extremely complex, both the content as well as his writing style... If you have any suggestions I'd appreciate it deeply.?

Hi @Origins ! Thank you for sharing your thoughts! ?? To be honest. I'm actually one of those begginers with regard to this topic, I don't know much about it(yet). But I decided to share it anyway because he seemed to be very factual with regard to its basic concepts as wel as its history. Well... I might be wrong about that...??

Very good documentary on psychological torture. Warning: some of the images may be shocking, viewers discretion is advised.