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The two guys who lived in China for 10 years and saw it's slow transformation back towards Authoritarianism after Xi took power made a good point. In China they don't want to talk about all the societal problems they have. It's like they all know, but they don't say anything. With that type of mentality, nothing will ever change. The willingness to confront and discuss uncomfortable topics is paramount to a healthy society. It's when they started to talk about the issues of things like human trafficking and rampant government corruption that goes on in China that the government basically chased them out or disappeared them. That type of speech is different than bullying though. Bullying, cliquish behavior, and the like are hard to control but efforts need to be made to keep these things in check, because bullying an already insecure individual can really mess them up. Bullying is done by weak, insecure people to people they perceive to be weaker. If you look at it from a dominance or social hierarchy standpoint, humans are always trying to find their place. Perfectly normal people are fully capable of bullying, unfortunately.

There's no doubt about it. Any sufficiently large group of people that start to have groupthink, form echo chambers, and believe themselves to be right or superior to others could be classified as a cult. They become then dangerous if they try to oppress the rights of others because they believe their philosophy to be superior, so they seek to spread it and assimilate others. As for humans being hypocrites, almost all humans are. I catch myself being one, and I'm not one to let my own bullshit go unchecked. Partly though it's just people being addicted to drama. That seems to be wired into our species. Doesn't matter if it's ideas, events, or people, drama is still drama. Maybe you think you are fighting for what is right, and maybe you are, but it's important to pick your battles also. It's good for people to behavior check each other in moderation if necessary, but not get caught up in drama for the sake of drama. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=linus+tech+tips+drama The important thing to remember about "social media" is that they push sensationalist topics and drama to get clicks and subscribers, so I wouldn't get too worked up about any one content creator.. you always have to sift through the piles of fluff to get at the nuggets of truth. Sometimes it's hard to know what to believe at times, especially since youtube got rid of the "dislike" count on videos, but given human nature it's easy to make an educated guess. Any time you can stir up justified anger in response to some event, that's right up the ego's alley. That's why "Darius M" is more popular than "Corey Wayne" as an example I have used in the past. I'm more careful with what I consume lately... garbage inputs equal garbage outputs, and all that.

You already tested the blood sugar. Could just be the fiber. I like to eat my oats really watery, and don't really eat them very often regardless. Blood sugar was my first thought, LOL. As far as foods being "dead" foods well, every fruit and vegetable we eat is unrecognizable from forms we've had thousands of years ago due to selective breeding. I used to get really caught up in eating "natural" and alternative health but not so much. I just avoid excessive refined carbohydrates now, due to their addictive nature. I have to set habits or my addictions will take over.

Lentils need to be softened before they can be consumed anyways. Generally this requires either heat or sprouting. I eat canned Chili Beans and then add liquid splenda to them. Tastes like sweet chili, and the stuff is dirt cheap on sale. Black, Lima, and Kidney Beans to make Calico beans. I usually drink the liquid in the can at least with peas, not so much with beans... the nutrients are going to dissolve into that liquid after all. I don't care about eating beans with sauces in them. Spices add antioxidants. Antioxidants extend shelf life and are eaten by cultures with some of the longest lifespans. People tend to have food hangups that are irrational throughout society I've noticed. Too much ego programming. David Hawkins taught me to largely abandon all the programs and use common sense in his books "Healing and Recovery" and "Letting Go" .. I used to be into a lot of that alternative health stuff a decade back.

I mean, I respect Leo's opinion most of the time but he's mostly wrong in this case. Tap water when living in a modern house with copper, PEX, or PVC plumbing can be tested for safety, for things like chemicals and dissolved solids and there's no harm in drinking it. It might have levels of chlorine or choloramines in it from the process of treating it that you can filter with a cheap faucet water filter, but beyond that it's perfectly drinkable and safe. They do like to add fluoride to it for no good reason (along with using Bromine in foods), so every once in a while, take an iodine supplement... something weak like sea kelp, not super strong stuff like Iodoral. Iodine will displace the Bromine and Fluorine. Generally speaking western governments like the US and Europe have good safety standards when it comes to tap water in the modern era. When in doubt, order a water testing kit online. You can also install undersink reverse osmosis systems, but they do produce wastewater of a ratio of around 4 gallons to every 1 gallon of treated. They also remove minerals from the water that are naturally occurring.

The US constitution was designed to prevent this, but it's only as good as people's willingness to enforce it. Human nature (and looking back at history) shows that opportunists who support collectivist, authoritarian ideologies which are worse than "mass democracy" will try to gain power when they can, and this is why cultures tend to go through cycles of Plato and Aristotle. Bad times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. Weak men create bad times. The circle of causality is complete. You will never have peaceful, blissful representative democratic republics where power and wealth are distributed in a common sense matter forever. Something will always upset the apple cart. Typically it's the concentration of wealth like is happening in the west today where corporations and governments are buying up more and more farmland, residential real estate among other things, or the fact that people become victims of their own success and become soft, but in dictatorships like the Chinese CCP, it's just an unusually bad leader that gains power (Xi) who subscribes to theories (Mao) that don't work. It's not even Xi's fault though. He was a product of his childhood and the way his father and subsequently he was treated by the Chinese Communist Party of that era. Again the A leads to B leads to C causality factor at play.... new dictators like to clean house to keep things in check, and Xi's father was among one of the victims. Of course this thread is about monarchies, not dictatorships. The queen of England is more a celebrity figure at this point. Ruling because of family bloodline is just another form of authoritarian dictatorship if no checks and balances are in place but Britain's system is different compared to say North Korea. Should we have caste systems where one's social status is determined at birth? A human being should be able to advanced based on individual merit, individual qualifications, and individual achievement. This is healthy. Any system that pushes equity, collectivism, or social status based on bloodline, is by it's nature inferior. Systems like this can justify their oppression of whoever they want "for the greater good" of whatever dipshit is calling the shots. Like I said in the other thread, the road to hell is paved with 'good intentions'

It's what has been called the "slippery slope" argument, or the road to hell being paved with good intentions. Who's to decide what speech is allowed, and what guidelines do they set? In the long struggle between individualism and collectivism, between Plato and Aristotle, it seems like collectivism, authoritarianism, fails spectacularly every time it's tried. The real reason for freedom of speech is simple... to keep human nature in check. Checks and balances. No entity should have the right to control the narrative and potentially create a reality where what you perceive and believe is simply what the state tells you to believe, actual scientific or otherwise "facts" in the matter be damned. Modern examples include North Korea and the CCP under Xi's leadership. Prior examples include Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia. It's all about how many restrictions we want imposed on our right to individual identity by the collective. Of course these same collectivists (whether they are "left" or "right" or whatever nonsense cult they choose to identify as) will use the more "free" societies to push their philosophy at the same time, so you always have to be on the watch for things like this. The people who preach freedom once they get power do the opposite, because human nature. Intellectuals traditionally through history like to push Plato and forms of collectivism, which fails due to human nature. It will never, ever work. Again, the road to hell is paved with "good intentions." The only thing that seems to work is keeping power and wealth from concentrating, and the system that can do that the best, while still promoting profit and innovation in moderation, will remain the global superpower and promote growth and progress in a more healthy, balanced way. Also, no matter how hard you try, you will never, EVER please everyone. You need a system that works for the majority. When you go trying to "save everyone" that's when those "good intentions" start to bite you in the ass, and you leave yourself open for authoritarian type rule. It's the paradox of governmental rule. Trying to fight for the minorities ends up subjugating the majority at the same time and provides the right elements for opportunists to gain power. I personally believe we saw a miniature version of this stage play during the covid pandemic. Fortunately life returned to relative normalcy, minus the damage to the supply chain, resulting shortages, and the subsequent severe rise in the cost of living from the money printing that went on.

It's better to not grill meat at high temperatures or excessively smoke meats, but I still do...applewood smoked burgers and steaks...I also grill beyond burgers when Costco has them on sale...I can go either way, but I counter my meat consumption with antioxidant consumption. Plus I don't particularly care when I die. If it's my time, it's my time. Most meat eaters around me eat lots of other junk food and low fiber diets. It's the diet as a whole you need to factor into consideration. The safest meats to eat would be things like Costco canned chicken...canned meat cooked through basically boiling is basically harmless. Also stews and slow cooker meat that is also basically boiled. Meat is in fact quite healthy in moderation. Most vegans end up with nutrient deficiencies if they don't supplement. Worst for you foods are processed high carb seed oil filled foods...pop tarts, chips, pizza, crackers, donuts, cookies, French fries, etc... I have lots of Costco canned sardines. Best source of EPA and DHA with least mercury content of any omega 3 fish. I never liked sardines until I realized it was because of the crap they were flavoring them with...only olive oil that's what I like. But yes, overcooking meat produces carcinogens. This can be mitigated somewhat by mixing antioxidants into the meat or applying rubs which contain antioxidants. Allowing fat to drip on to charcoal and produce smoke is among the worst offending but it's also the thing I love to do most :-). Nonetheless everything posted in the OPs original post is scientifically true.

Corey Wayne's stuff is pretty good. It's not flashy and doesn't throw shock value at you to get social media clicks...just practical advice. Media loves to sensationalize because humans are emotional creatures that crave drama, generally speaking. Tate is just another figure trying to get his piece of the pie. I also like Woujo's stuff. Takes a look at things from an evolutionary perspective. Ultimately we are animals evolved through the same process as every animal on this planet, subject to the same natural laws I would agree with those that say Tate is not good or bad....he just is....and being like him still gets you more worldly recognition than being a doormat. DNA doesn't care about compassion...it cares about whatever genetic traits are most fruitful in passing along DNA to future generations. Generally this is displays of strength, including killing, at least in the animal kingdom.

For me clean eating is simply avoiding excessive refined carbohydrates and seed oils... basically no cake, donuts, pop tarts, chips, crackers, hot pockets, pizza, etc... I eat lots of beans. Steaks. Eggs. Greek Yogurt. Salads. I do eat processed "healthy" foods such as Nick's Ice Cream, along with those inexpensive costco protein bars that have chicory root extract in them. One positive to come out of processing is being able to add prebiotics, fibers, and sugar alcohols into food to mitigate the blood sugar rise and excessive calorie/carb consumption.

Try to have the same sleep schedule set by yourself through creating healthy routines. I'm unfortunate to have a job where I have to rotate shifts every 2 weeks and it really does rob you of a lot of your potential to have to do this. Your nervous system will not be in a optimal state having your circadian rhythm messed up all the time from lack of sleeping at the same time every day. Find wasteful habits like screen usage and cut them out. Program yourself to do certain things only at certain times. You should aim for 6-8 hours of sleep per day. If you have a job that doesn't pay well, quit it. If you live in a high COL area, move. The chinese 9/9/6 thing ... I'm glad I wasn't raised and indoctrinated in that country. Some people can work all nights and that's okay if they go to sleep at the same time every day... but having random sleep times because you are too busy in front of a screen is a bad idea.

Leo's content doesn't translate that well into small clips in my opinion. It takes the subconscious mind longer to absorb material you don't want to hear, versus material that strokes your ego and pushes confirmation bias. It's the difference between a truly neutral news outlet like news nation and a left/right outlet that panders to their audience like most networks. Confirmation bias and echo chambers and sensationalism sell. Darius M's youtube content gets more views and comments that Corey Waynes, because he panders to his viewer's egos more. Leo generally doesn't, and it takes the subconscious longer to process information, especially hard truths about reality we don't want to hear or believe. It's easier to believe the lie, because the lie makes us feel comfortable.

Evolution and natural law tend to conflict with the beliefs of progressives (and conservatives of course.) Our subconscious desires especially the desires of women revolve around being attracted to powerful men based on evolutionary drives. Compassion and this umbrella society where we try to save everyone go contrary to the laws of nature which involve pain and hardship. Evolution is not compassionate, not in the slightest, if you actually study the plant and animal kingdom. Lots of trial and error and suffering come along with an animal species evolving. Use as an example the animals subject to the radiation around Chernobyl. Many of them had to suffer and die for the rest to evolve to become resistant to the radiation. Frogs in that area have become a darker tint because apparently melanin protects not only against UV radiation but the ionizing radiation found near the Chernobyl site. https://www.livescience.com/black-frogs-evolution-chernobyl You can't negotiate attraction. When it comes to sex drive, value systems tend to go right out the window in favor of what gives us tingles at any given time. The subconscious mind wants what it evolved to crave based on which genes got passed on over the last million years. This tends to be largely out of the control of the conscious mind. This is one area where I criticize progressives... despite their supposed belief in "the science," their science is very politicized and biased. To compensate they come up with these subjective belief systems to give this impression that reality is all about perception, but the truth is universe has very concrete laws by which it operates that are very much objective, much like any computer software... the code is written into the system. It's integrated into the hardware itself (matter and energy) and our DNA which is nothing more than sophisticated computer code. So now the fun comes in playing God and hijacking the laws of nature, or the very laws of the universe... to be able to manipulate and reprogram not only DNA but physics itself at some future point.... to hack the matrix and create it in our image. To figure out the software the runs the universe, the mathematical equations that govern everything, and manipulate them. Fun stuff. Way outside the boring left/right feces throwing match that goes on in politics and cult-like belief systems people hold. People's desire for control and to manipulate the narrative to peddle some philosophy is very primitive in my eyes. All that matters is raw truth. Society the world over has become so fake, where people simply believe the lie because it's more comfortable. The best examples are always authoritarian dictatorships (Chinese CCP as an example) or whenever any group of people gets too much power and has "good intentions" in which they believe the ends justify the means. These tendencies are simply evolutionary traits programmed into our genetic makeup as we are a herd species.

Another problem is modern monetary theory (quantitative easing) ... there are now talks of bailing out the commercial real estate industry, all these incessant bailouts and printing of money act to prop up the status quo, further concentrating the wealth up the economic ladder. What would be healthy is allowing highly leveraged entities to go bankrupt instead... allow some deflation, allow recessions, so we can cool off asset prices. "Too big to fail" corporations is silly. Bailing out banks beyond the FDIC $250,000 is silly. The rich basically are allowed to take risks and then if it doesn't pan out for them, they get a bailout. Horrible policy. The price of real estate is the highest inflation adjusted it's ever been because all this liquidity printed into thin air and spent ultimately ends up in the hands of the top 10%, and because there's so much liquidity in the system, they bid up the price of homes, start to invest in homes, and price the middle class out of the system. Realtors should be banned from investing in homes in the towns they live in. Corporations should be banned from investing in residential real estate. Individuals should be banned from owning large numbers of R-1 zoned residential real estate. Wealth concentration of what is occurring ultimately is going to cause the west to decay if not mitigated with checks and balances.

David Hawkins brings this up in his book "Healing and Recovery" that most illness is stress based and belief systems can cause a lot of health problems. A similar theory was brought up by John Sarno with his "Tension Myopic Syndrome" and later by Dr. Brady who dubbed it "Autonomic Overload Syndrome" ... though these theories only take you so far. You're not going to for example be able to drink gasoline and be healthy simply through the belief that you will. These theories have some merit for sure but within the limits of common sense. If you have an overactive sympathetic nervous system, you need to deal with that and find your inner peace. The process of self actualization, tackling hedonic activities and substituting with eudimonic, will help quite a bit. A common sense balanced diet is the best overall over only eating meat or never eating meat. Variety in a diet is good. Avoiding processed carbohydrates and other addictive foods that cause weight gain is prudent if one lacks self control. As the end of this video shows, a strict vegan diet would not have worked during human evolution, before our ability to fortify foods with nutrients.

I'd implement a set of checks and balances to divide up power in such a way that no individual or group of people could have too much say over any other group of people. Nobody should be able to be a dictator, whether through revolution, votes, or their wealth. The US is more of an oligarchy at this point. The Chinese CCP isn't any better, it's worse. Variations on a theme, thinking any of these "isms" are going to solve the problem of human nature. The road to hell is paved with good intentions. Beyond keeping human nature in check I have no desire to destroy any institution just because I don't agree with them.

It could be argued that the fact sex is so stigmatized by our culture that we make a big deal out of it. Our closest DNA ancestor the Bonobo us sex as a form of affection and greeting including the adolescents. I do think from an evolutionary perspective sex at puberty is normal. All mammals do it. The age at which Mary supposedly got impregnated with the baby of Jesus was 13. The question these days is more a cultural one... does natural selection care about human imposed morality? I care when anyone of any age is forced into prostitution against their will. Nobody should be a slave to anyone else through using fear as a means of control and threats of death with non-compliance. No human being should be property of someone else, period. Doesn't matter if they are 10 or 25. The men behind these trafficking groups should have their testicles removed in public with no anesthesia as far as I'm concerned. Beyond that it's more of a grey area as far as mutual attraction goes. Developing young girls can definitely have attraction to older men. The real question is whether we allow anything to happen as a society or not. It definitely happens all over the world in many cultures. In most of our specie's evolution it was basically normal for girls to be having sex and marrying in the age 12-18 range. What was NOT normal was waiting until 30, or even 40.

The problem is a human nature problem. Someone is always going to try to rise up to power and/or try to control people around them. There's no way around it. There will always be people that challenge authority, rebel, and want something else that what they have. Again, human nature. The best you can hope for is a system that works the best for the most people that divides up power with heavy checks and balances. However, once a society becomes well off, they tend to become lazy and victims of their own success, leaving them open for overthrow. You'd like to hope that won't happen and that humanity can vibrate in a state of enlightenment, but that's a tough thing to achieve. I believe China is going to become the next "world order" because they are playing the long game. I don't agree with authoritarian dictatorships, but they can work. In the end the extreme left and extreme right end up using the same tactics to maintain power, which is why I chuckle when people seriously think Trump would be a dictator or "threaten democracy." He's an immature smack talker, that's all. In any case, the laws of the animal kingdom... the most powerful survive and thrive. If you want something, you take it... with any means necessary. Morality be damned. CHINA

Do people here really think someone should be able to identify as a cat or a cow? I want to separate the sane leftists from the ones who would be better off institutionalized. I consider myself fairly moderate and tolerant, but so many policies seem like they're taking things to an extreme. I do take pride in not aligning with any group of people, personally. It makes you more prone to echo chamber thinking, hive mind mentality, and not being able to see someone else's point of view. I've tried to see the point of view of the cat identifiers, but I'm not getting it. Call yourself whatever gender you want, but to me this smells of psychological grooming, not genetics or science. "You need to go to a different school" "you need to have a proper educational conversion" ... pathetic really. If you don't support freedom of speech, I will stand against you to the end. Left or Right. I suggest not getting assimilated into any cult, and right now the woke is the "in thing" among the progressive establishment to try to assimilate people into. Enough keeping quiet about it to remain polite, I'm going to call them out on it.

I think it's a bit of a joke. All presidents possess classified information after they leave office and we've never held any of them to this standard except Trump. They never even asked him to give it back, they just decided to go in for the kill because they don't like him, LOL. I am not a huge die hard Trump fan or anything, I just see the left becoming dangerous because they believe the ends justify the means. They are not playing the game fairly. They are like the religious right when I was growing up... an undeserved sense of moral and intellectual superiority that clouds their judgement as they are assimilated into their cult belief system. Just another group of people who think their poop doesn't stink who happens to be the ones in power right now. Human nature being human nature. In any case, Trump was the least likely candidate to win the election if he was nominated on the republican side in 2024, so the democrats just shoot themselves in the foot if someone else gets the nomination, say a Desantis/Noem ticket.

I don't have kids because modern women don't want boring guys. I always wanted the white picket fence being responsible, clean, making good money, and even being in good shape (6 foot 1, 175 lbs) but I've come to a certain level of acceptance and I don't really feel like cultivating the type of personality that turns modern US women on. Just not my thing. I'm okay with that. People who don't raise kids because they think "the world is going to hell" are victims of media propaganda. The world has always been a hell. There has never been an ideal time to raise a family besides very small windows of 20-50 years every once in a while. If you truly look back on our history with an objective lens, you'd never say modern society is a hell. It's paradise compared to anything we evolved with the last 5 million years. I'd say either a person wants to settle down and have a family or they don't. Modern culture doesn't push loyalty and monogamy, it pushes novelty, experimentation, new experiences, dopamine hits. There's nothing good or bad about that, it just is. Find your happiness. Stop worrying about what other people are doing.

Imagine being a human being incarnating as a soul into a North Korean... personally I'd rather be a wild animal in Africa than some human being who's life is robbed from them by a dictator.

One thing I've learned about these self help authors is they all take their stuff from earlier material. This includes Hawkins and his scale of consciousness which is derived from earlier work. There's nothing wrong with taking past work and improving upon it but it's often interesting to go back to try to trace the earliest works that have modern usefulness. I find "How to win friends and influence people" to be invaluable, but there was also the Master Key System which was released 100 years ago and is what The Secret was based on. It would be interesting to trace back the tree of personal development to it's earliest beginnings. I know we have Buddhist teachings which managed to be preserved and the like. I've never really gotten into his muscle testing to use to calibrate things. Personally I don't believe in it's validity. The ego of the participant would cloud the results.

Anyone with the least bit of intelligence and psychological stability would know to use puberty blockers and surgeries to alter the bodies of young teenagers is probably not the best idea. This is another case where I believe the left are being fooled by big pharmaceutical companies and hospital administrators and other interests making a killing off of these procedures and drugs the government now green lights and pays for. What kind of person would think that changing the gender of an 11 year old is a good idea? Not somebody with a good psychological foundation in life. We have some questionable people in charge these days. That said, we kind of always have, and people in charge are always trying to control the masses by controlling the information. Even during the "good old days" we were largely controlled through propaganda. See the BBC series "century of the self." I don't care what people do with their lives, unless they become lifetime government dependents. There's a lot of people who think they deserve cradle to grave support system where they don't ever have to work, which defies natural law and evolution. We are not genetically wired to operate this way. I wish the left was better with "the science" they always talk about.

Here you are: https://www.marinhhs.org/sites/default/files/boards/general/equality_v._equity_04_05_2021.pdf