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I agree partially with the sentiment of #shutdownacademia, because promotions and job prospects do have racist elements in them, I was more focused on #shutdownstem, which as far as what the website suggests, is the idea that basic/pure research and applied research in science, technology, engineering and mathematics kills black people. It potentially does on the frisks of applied research, for example, fingerprint systems that incorrectly mismatch white robbers for black robbers, or facial recognition systems that mis identify whites for blacks, but the majority of STEM research is not perpetuating harm against blacks. I'm pretty sure that's what the movement is saying because I read a passage about facial recognition incorrectly identifying black people.

There could be systemic racism in the study of economics, liberal arts, business, sales, sociology or psychology, etc. But saying there's systemic racism in quantum mechanics or atomic theory or particles or the periodic table is nonsense. Its relative, sure, but its not racist. Or mathematics, saying Pythagoras's theorem is racist against blacks is nonsense.

Nah ya wrong about that. Its as partial as the 10 ox herding, ideas on enlightenment, and the concepts Leo introduces... yet you're still here.

that's got nothing to do with the inital argument that science = racism

lol that's literally me(intp) and my cofounder(intj) at our company.

What's that trap? Ive never seen Gods face before

illusion doesn't mean something doesn't exist, it means its different to what you think it is. A mirage looks like water, but its actually just heat reflecting off the ground. The water doesn't exist, but that doesn't mean the heat reflecting off the ground doesn't exist. Personality is the heat reflecting off the ground, and ego is the water.

yep agree, but personality is not ego, so isn't the body (yet the word body is a very loaded term with lots of illusion and falsehood attached to it)

Personality comes from the ego, your body is an illusion, the world is an illusion... and yet here you are, talking about stuff within the illusion, talking about illusory spiritual concepts, meditating(which is an illusion and within the dream) Making big life decisions based off this apparent illusion, finding tha certain meditation techniques work better than others because of the illusion, having mystical insights because of the illusion, being able to conceptually conceive of the idea of illusion because of the illusion... Maybe form and illusion are 2 different things being conflated as the same.

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Wanted to emphasise, or make a particular technique 'stick out' and get some attention as I believe its a great process/technique. The importance of releasing judgement of others is huuuuge! All judgements of yourself actually stem from judging yourself. If you judge someone else for being lazy, careless or something else, as soon as you find yourself doing it, you suffer... a lot. Try and become aware of that. Judgements are part of standards and conditions you have set for yourself which define what happiness is. Its part of a process of creating conditional happiness. All your life you have chased these standards, and tried to run away from anything other than these standards, especially its opposite. This process also exists in spirituality. One of these standards is 'high consciousness', where you chase the idea of yourself being 'highly conscious' while running away from the idea of you being 'low consciousness'. Imagine if you're viewing a post on here and a person writes something nooby or stupid and you therefore label that person or his post as low conscious. Now imagine while discussing spirituality, someone says you're low conscious. Try and see that you're triggered because you yourself judge and label other people as low conscious. This process is actually a 'blocker' for seeing yourself in others. Its a mechanism of separation. So long as you judge, you isolate yourself from 'others', define yourself as different to others. This works a little bit in the beginning, but in the long term you yearn to be one with others and so it backfires. By merging or realize you're one with others, you actually need to radically, and completely release all judgement of others. These judgements include: low consciousness, dumb, stupid, egoic, spiritual ego, inhumane, backwards, primitive, etc. God can't help being God, and because of that, God dreams up and pretends to be everyone. He/She pretends to be Hannity, Tucker, Trump, Connor, Owen Cook, Hitler, the Pope, Leo, Adyshanti, etc. God literally pretends to be everything you judge. God is capable, and literally does do stupid, dumb, primitive, low consciousness, inhumane, evil and weird things. Everything in the world that you see others doing, is literally what God does. Relatively speaking, you will reincarnate as Trump or Tucker after this life. Not only must you embrace, unconditionally love, accept and celebrate who you are, but you must do these things with ALL others. Relatively speaking, you could reincarnate and do anything or everything you judge. And the trick is, your judgements aren't real. What the others do IS real, but whether what they do is bad or good, or inhumane, or low conscious, etc. is not. And you can finally retreat from the rat race of chasing some arbitrary standards, and just enjoy whatever is happening now.

Without the government, white people would be lynched and caged

That's exactly whats happening to me. You wont get it from smoking 5 meo dmt a few times, unless you're massively spiritually gifted, but you will get that from meditating and practicing spirituality for a few years. You will loose the goals you are trying to manifest, and it will be a very painful growing pain, the most painful you'll ever go through, but by loosing those goals, new goals will emerge and those goals will align more with your True Being.

He's right that Silicon Valley needs regulation, but why would anyone expect Facebook to willingly give up their billions to protect democracy? Capitalism is capitalism, and capitalism don't care about democracy by design, they care about money. Spiral dynamic stages have nothing to do with what profession you're in. You can be a purple, blue, orange, green or turquoise pope, you can also be an orange, green or turquoise engineer. Lots of engineers these days are yellow because their work requires it. Go look at engineering groups trying to solve climate change to give you an idea of green/yellow engineering.

Interesting article for the scientists of this forum: https://www.spiritpharmacist.com/blog/2020/6/13/a-tale-of-two-tryptamines-nn-dmt-and-5-meo-dmt-in-combination-with-maois?fbclid=IwAR0m4mkQJvCjphIjxohH9E2mMrmQgB6K2CLJGB-ENkA2OhyYEYdLQiN9v1w

From contemplation, I personally define miracles as problems that are impossible to solve, that gets solved. For example someone having cancer in like 50AD, where there's no modern medicine, and Jesus coming up and healing him. Back when I was in school, I had bible class for a little while. And I remember vividly my bible teacher telling me that this world is a miracle. There was nothing, then all of a sudden, god clicked his fingers and produced trees, materials, space, time out of no where. That's a miracle. Us humans invent things by rearranging materials, but god can click his fingers and make materials appear. We all live in a very sophisticated, advanced matrix, and we all believe that this matrix wasn't invented by us, but by someone else, and we are in it. As you go through the spiritual journey, you start to see how fundamental truths and material 3D objects are just thoughts, and don't have substance. This 3D matrix is huge, and manipulating it... let alone becoming conscious of what it really is, is a ridiculously massive undertaking. And there's no 'future' to this matrix. This matrix is what it is, if it changes, that change cannot be predicted. You've literally jumped to another universe. That's why mystical experiences are so 'woooooow'. You can't map or draw what you're in for till it happens. From the way I see it, if this matrix's fundamental laws change, to the point where the entire matrix rearranges and re-organises itself, I see that as being a miracle. Just like what my bible teacher said, this re-organisation doesn't come from rearranging material items together, with a click of your fingers, everything is different. The new matrix came from nothing, it just appeared. It didn't come from metal, or thoughts, or anything else, it just appeared out of nowhere. And this matrix aint some candy from the candy store, its the entire universe (or dream). Its fucken huge. I think its nice to appreciate that abolishing slavery was a new matrix that appeared out of nowhere. Back in the 1800s, black people being lesser than white people was a fundamental truth. It wasn't like the world was deluded, and black people where equal to whites all along... no no no! (to be more precise, we are all deluded all along, about the world being real rather than a dream, but I'm talking relatively here) Black people became equal to white people only when that new matrix appeared out of no where. Before that, black people literally were lesser, fundamentally. Right now, if you shoot a cow, you don't get a murder charge. Within this matrix, that's fine because within this matrix a fundamental law of reality is, people are more valuable than cows. That's a fact, fundamental, and how the world works. Yet replace cow with black people and now you have the matrix of the 18th century. Imagine tomorrow the matrix changed so that cows = humans, and humans get murder for shooting a cow, how radical that would be... it would be a miracle. I just think its valuable in a time like this, where there is so much chaos, negativity and turmoil to sit back, and just appreciate and remember that all revolutions that have happened in this world are miracles. And if we ever get a big revolution in this life time, its not something to gloss over, its literally a miracle, a gift from God. We should be excited, woowed, amazed and full of joy to see, experience and be apart of any revolutions that happen moving forward. Both on a personal level and collective level. These times are exciting times ahead. We aren't just transitioning from stage orange to green or whatever, we are literally reinventing how the world fundamentally works. We are changing the laws of physics, God is creating a world that has never ever existed before, a world that is impossible yet relieves heaps of suffering, and that is fucken amazing, regardless of all the chaos it causes.

@Raptorsin7 its similar to the delibrate practice concept. Just throwing hard maths problems at yourself wont make you a better mathematician if you dont critically analyse and fix up your mistakes/feedback. Selling your house without a backup plan just for kicks wont make you any more conscious IF you don't place your awareness and contemplate on the pain, suffering you go through. If you're so freaked about selling your house that you're too irrational and scared and neurotic to think things through while homeless, you'll be like that kid that doesn't take any feedback from getting the hard math questions wrong.

The only reason why the US needs guns is so they can shoot trump and the police

yep same thing in Australia: fucken cops at it again

My dad is a trump supporter/fan of breitbart news, he's been saying 'the world's finished' since I was a kid, 'germany is finished now that merkel let in all the black cunts', 'the US is finished', etc. And you know he's right, he's exactly right, because what's finished is his worldview. But he confuses his worldview for reality. So when you say will the united states end, what you're actually asking is will your worldview end? There is no united states in reality, just whatever ideas you've projected. There is no 'end' either, that's all made up. Your version of the united states will probably end, yes. If it hasn't already.

There's a difference between being low conscious and being ruthless or tough. some sages are pretty fucken ruthless. I've heard of some scary stories from some indian gurus and also Jesus.

You're not questioning WHY policing is tough in the first place enough. WHY is policing tough? WHY do people steal tasers? WHY are people committing crimes? WHY are they resisting arrest? There are countries out there where policing is 1000x easier than it is in the US. Policing is way easier in Denmark, UK, Australia, Canada, etc. Policing is easier in those countries because the culture is different, social norms are different, there's less systemic problems there, people have their basic needs met more, people are treated better, people are more aware, the laws are different, consequences are dealt with different, more holistically, more compassionately, less harshly, more focus on rehab than solidary confinement, etc. Most developed countries have banned guns... and that's a first start for the US. The fact that you guys have guns is unacceptable and way below your standards as a country. Policing is tough work, because the US believes cure is better than prevention. Its better for cops to solve all of the US's problems rather than to solve it at the systemic level. Instead of putting effort into reforming education, worker's rights, UBI, pill testing, medical stations, etc. Lets knock civillians into submission with machine guns and military equipment until they do what we want. If you've got a kid, and the only way you've gotten that kid to do what you want is through violence, expect that kid to be violent too. There is a lot of police bashing going on, and while its unfair because its the fault of the training rather than the police officers themselves, its totally warranted, because its the problem. Police have it tough because your society treats your civillians like a piece of shit. Stop giving so much money to the police, and put it into solving the root problem, and that's what your progressive states are starting to do and its great to see. CHAZ (or CHOP) wont last forever, but its like a renaissance, live music, community coming together, money put into solving systemic problems rather than giving police machine guns, its great.

I don't have any friends are largely alone. I love not having friends because I don't have obligations to fulfill their needs to go to their parties and hang out with them. I can do what I purely want. And focus my life on my terms.

Correction: you fixed something and now can never go back to insane. Of course it seems like the reverse to you, but haven't you noticed that th truth is actually the opposite to what you think it is? Subjectivity is real while objectivity is not, feeling is real while thought is not, subtle is real while gross is not, etc.