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Congrats man. That's quite an accomplishment. Many people today use drugs as an escape, including myself. I'm trying to wean myself off of pot and media consumption. I've been "trying" for a few years now. If you keep "trying" you never succeed, you just have to do it. LOL They say negative emotion is a motivator that drives change, so when you numb it out with addictive vices, you can basically not only waste a bunch of time, but stall the progress of your life and personal development. Of course, all of life is perception and perspective. One could be perfectly content doing very little, because this idea you have to achieve something in life, some worldly physical goal, is more a mental perception. This simulation is more a playground for the soul, akin to a video game. The only rules are the rules we make for ourselves combined with what our genes compel us to do, which of course brings us back to square one.. our genes to compel us to do things like eat, breed, etc.. and tend to produce negative emotional states when we are not acting according to our genetic programming. So do you do what is expected of you by society and your genetics? Leo's not wrong when he talks about sitting in a room and doing nothing... that itself is often a very important first step in whatever "goal" you need to achieve to break free from the easy dopamine of media consumption, THC, alcohol.

It wo https://www.numbeo.com/property-investment/rankings_by_country.jsp We'll probably lose the competitive advantage we've had over the decades. Quite frankly with housing prices like this it amazes me anyone bothers to participate in the system at all, in any nation on this planet. No more 4 bathroom houses with 3 stall garages with 6 cars parked in the driveway. It's not really sustainable for 8 billion people to live this way, even if it is an enjoyable life. Those who have theirs don't care though, as long as they have theirs. What amazes me is that current US housing prices are still "cheap" from a global perspective. I better buy my house before it's priced way outside my earning potential. They are still not that bad where I live. They've doubled, but are still in the realm of affordable for one person making what I make. The entire planet is on a money printing spree right now though, so who knows how it turns out. Seems like we have a parasite class of super rich that are pricing their respective middle classes out of the system on a global level, a reversion back to how things used to be. It started in 2008 when they invented something called quantitative easing, which is a way to bail out the investor class and keeps the system flooded with excess liquidity. It's why, for example, stocks are trading at double their historical valuations.

Agreed... this idea that cancer and heart disease didn't exist before modern times because we didn't have the level of technological understanding to understand what these diseases are is silly. Even a thin person with bad genetics can end up having issues with plaque buildup in the arteries. Blaming 99% of cancers on the "jab" or "gmos" or other stuff to me is a bit silly also. Good chance we've been getting cancer for as long as we've been evolving as a species. I mean, we used to be in the sunlight pretty much constantly and that will give you skin cancer.. we aren't meant to live a super long time... have kids around age 15, be grandparents by 30, great grandparents by 45. The best way to keep the body healthy is occasional water or dry fasting however. This can be proven using science and makes sense from an evolutionary perspective as well. We didn't always have ready access to 3 meals a day and often spent lots of time in ketosis or hungry. There are infinite theories out there as to the perfect diet... this thread reminded me of this guy who has a strange combination of things he suggests can lead to "development" https://www.drlwilson.com/ARTICLES/SPIRITUAL DEVELOPMENT.htm

My deceased grandmother smoked 2 packs a day for 50 years, she actually did it because she had a near death experience as a young adult and stopped fearing dying... my point is you don't need to worry about doing heavy metal detoxes because you smoked cigarettes for a couple of years. I'll bet a lot of people here have health anxiety because they are stuck in a state of analysis paralysis... the biggest factor in physical health is often mental health... if a person is sympathetic dominant they can have the most clean diet in the world and still suffer from various problems... David Hawkins goes over this a lot in his book "Healing and Recovery" where so much of good health is often psychological. I had health anxiety for a long time due to stress.... too much using doctor google and scaring myself with mystery illnesses which were almost entire stress related.

Here's mine... mostly I believe everyone's truth is different based on their stage... it's not my job to force them to be green or yellow or whatever... they can live according to their own truths and that's fine as long as they aren't intentionally hurting people which would be too animalistic for modern civilized (western) society and the moral codes both the left and the right hold and often share for society which are actually more similar than dissimilar from my perspective. The problem is human nature itself, and that our genetic makeup still has lots of strong instinctual drives that when people are stressed can throw them right back into survival mode (red, blue) ... basically it's easy to be a saint in paradise, but a lot of humans do not live in paradise... throw in a little social isolation or genetic preponderance towards violence and/or psychopathy... it can be easier to intellectualize stage yellow principles than embody them as a state of feeling or being emotionally, which I admit I am not at yet. Too much buried trauma still.

I prefer the taste of Almond Milk anyways... 1/3 the calories of cow's milk also, helps with overall calorie intake. Have to find the stuff that's not fortified with excessive calcium as I tend to consume a lot of it, so around 2/3 of what I buy is the "organic" stuff where they don't add excessive calcium.

Internet is all content peddlers trying to monetize their efforts these days... it's why you have so many echo chambers and so many niche diets. Truthfully as you get older there's more you have to think about with fitness, such as managing things like golfer's elbow, tennis elbow, shoulder impingement, lower back pain from improper form or too much volume, etc.... stuff they really don't tell you in a lot of these videos. Enjoy your 20's and early 30's while you can, because life is short and age will catch up with you. Just lift stuff. If you feel pain that is not muscular, figure out why and adjust your workout to stop the pain. Sometimes I question just how much people actually need to exercise and that overdoing is simply wears the body out faster. It's all about moderation.

Perhaps. I'm probably an asshole. I don't judge him for it. Most politicians in general and people who seek power tend to have a certain personality type that is not what you'd call unconditionally loving, then again hating the haters is a trap people fall into that makes them no better than the people they hate, at least in theory...

He's clearly on the spectrum. He reminds me of myself and I likely have Asperger's. He's not voting for the right as much as he's voting against the left. He has many of the same concerns I do about them. Among the policies that will not end well.. unchecked immigration, excessive money printing, and excessive censorship being the main ones. Also it doesn't seem like any leftist prosecutor wants to give jail sentences for any crime. Crime becomes out of control and instead of blaming lax law enforcement and unchecked immigration, gun laws are blamed instead. Enforce the existing laws and punish people for stealing cars and robbing stores. That said, there is a global cost of living crisis and I feel for people who have to be wage slaves to barely get by, but it's not something I see the left doing anything useful to fix, when I look at nations like Canada and their cost of housing, they seem more intent on trying to prop up the real estate bubbles, as does China and many other nations. They seem intent in making it not affordable for the working class to reasonably live, no matter what the political makeup of the country. Maybe they just aren't leftist enough is the problem... maybe the leadership are just a bunch of hypocrites who live a lifestyle opposite of what they preach? Maybe they are trying to prop up pyramid scheme social programs with an aging boomer population taking more government benefits and need inflation and consumption to do so? In any case, the american democrats leave a bad taste in my mouth. So do the republicans, but in the end I cast a meaningless vote for Trump in a state he's going to win anyways, while also voting for legal marijuana and abortion rights measures that are also on the ballot here (South Dakota) ... neither party is going to fix anything. If democrats wanted to win, they should have picked a more winnable candidate than Kamala with Walz as a running mate. That's on them. Maybe stop giving $250 billion to Ukraine every 3 months in this never ending war that I believe Trump can quickly end, stop doing this to the national debt... https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GFDEBTN

There's nothing wrong with seed oils as long as they aren't rancid. Of them, canola has the best nutritional profile. I don't eat a ton of them but I don't fear them. There aren't actually many if any peer reviewed studies or meta analyses showing the supposed "inflammation" these seed oils cause. More likely cause of systematic inflammation is combining excessive fats and carbs together with a calorie surplus. Being fat itself causes most of the problems. Fats cause an insulin resistance effect on the body when combined with excessive carbs can lead to glucose spikes. People in western nations overeat, stuff like eating entire pizzas. Most established first world government health institutions such as the american heart association say seed oils are fine in moderation, because they are. If you want to be able to feed 8 billion people you can't feed them all on local whole food diets. You need preservatives and mass food production to efficiently produce food... that means lots of grains and seed oils as your base, and that's fine if people don't overeat. This obsession with "ultraprocessed" and "genetically engineered" foods is overblown in my opinion. They can be made healthy if done properly. I find most youtube content is sensationalized and designed to appeal to a niche audience. Most content creators are trying to monetize their efforts by catering to the algorithm. That's fine, but it tends to create echo chamber thinking and subreddit type cult movements. The vegans and carnivore types are the most obnoxious of them all... create an extreme diet and try to peddle it to the masses and force adoption.

I heard an ad for Trump shoes yesterday. Yes I already voted for him but the stuff he's selling is so cringe worthy, lol. It's humorous that people would actually buy this stuff. Makes me wish democrats didn't go out of their way to bring in as many migrants and print as much money as possible, because I really want a viable progressive or third party to vote for. Look at this stuff, lol... https://gettrumpsneakers.com/

The history of our species is filled with conquest and slavery. It's almost like it might be wired into our genetic makeup and maybe tribes have been warring with each other for territory for tens of thousands of years or more. Before the Europeans came along, Indian tribes in NA would fight one another. It was easier back before the era of mass information to propgandize and brainwash citizenry to try to justify wars and the best way to do that is to demonize entire nations/tribes/cultures or simply tell young solders that they fight or they die. There was tremendous peer pressure to not go outside the herd thinking because of our biological wiring. A person is only capable of knowing and acting for the most part in the way their culture raises and tells them to act until enough people in unison decide to rebel. Back when there were competing species of hominids around at the same time and homo sapiens won out, why do you think the others went extinct? I'm just pointing out that evolution is savage, and none of this stuff should really surprise anyone who's studied biology, natural selection, or the history of our species. Rather than obsessing on what we did in the past, we should focus on trying to do better in the future. Although maybe people need to look more at the past, because we always focus on small aspects of our nature to politicize a certain agenda, like "white man bad" because he enslaved blacks. More of the divide and conquer stuff. Human nature is true among our entire species, not specific ethic groups. Look back far enough in time and Romans were enslaving Vikings, etc. Yes, it's true Israel was created through the migration of jews at Britain's blessing in the early 1900's via a document known as the balfour declaration. Britain controlled a lot of territory outside it's home turf during their peak, and often didn't treat the natives that well. Australia has a rather unfortunate history with their natives that some probably already know. There are conspiracies that Hitler was actually making secret deals with zionist jews who wanted to get jews to migrate to Israel. This was known as the Haavara Agreement. There's quite a bit of fine details around that time period that don't often get brought up in historical context. History is written by the victors. "Ethnic cleansing" is par for the course for our species, that is to say, all the men on the losing side of the war, as the invaders take the women for themselves and the children get indoctrinated and assimilated into the new invading regime's cultural norms or eliminated.

https://www.isidewith.com/profile/5279637183/ballot/2024-presidential Sounds about right for me. I'm neither right nor left. I like to vote for the underdogs just to keep power balanced because I don't believe in large groups or organizations having too much power due to human nature,so I voted Trump. If they weren't letting in migrants at obscene levels and ballooning up the national debt with no sign they plan to slow any of these two policies, I might consider voting for democrats. There's just too many things about their behavior that lead me to believe they are actually the threat to democracy they blame the right for being. That said, any significantly large or powerful group or person can be a threat if they gain enough power, because of human nature. Everyone thinks they have the ideal vision of how a society should be and wants to try to force everyone else to live the way their utopian ideals present themselves out being... nonsense. The best we can hope for is gridlock to keep these people who want to force their vision on everyone else in check. I did find that both Vance and Walz were much more competent in their debate than either Trump or Harris was. Go figure. In any case...

I tend to think human nature itself will prevent any sort of utopian system from being long term sustainable. Our genetic makeup is simply too primitive yet, filled with a lot of evolutionary drives that are straight out of our past primitive nature... we are only 100ish years into having electricity... not enough time for long term changes to the genetic makeup absent genetic engineering. The best we can hope for is a system that works well for most and keeps us progressing as a species technologically and socially in a gradual manner. In a perfect system we allow people healthy amounts of personal freedom, freedom of expression, and the ability to question their reality and the system in which they are participating. Of course the big philosophical question is how much freedom do we give people? It could be argued they need to be told what to do, for their own good. That order versus chaos argument will always be the ones that pushes cultural movements going forward. Will our future be a dystopian nanny state where questioning the status quo is not allowed? There are those who believe that should be the case if it's the system THEY happen to agree with. If you ask me, this is dangerous thinking. What is the perfect system? Nobody really knows. I prefer to not be part of large numbers of individuals who join groups, especially large ones, whether it's religions, political parties, or whatever, who support causes or belief systems they wish to impose upon everyone else "for their own good." I'd rather be the outsider, analyzing these groups from an outsider perspective. I guess it's my inner Aspie/Autist.

Quite frankly men need sex to stay relatively psychologically stable and there's a growing number of men who lack the interpersonal skills to date women whether due to being on the spectrum or not being socially well adjusted. Society likes to shame these men when it's really not their fault, not really. Plus modern women are much more choosy these days because they no longer "need" men and many would rather be single than be in a relationship with a guy who's boring or socially underdeveloped, and plenty of us men are pretty boring. Having legal prostitution would fill a marketplace demand that would help keep men more stable in the end. Personally I find it fascinating that many on the extreme left have more in common with the religious right in their value systems. In reality the value systems are fairly compatible in pure theory, leaving their followers out of the mix. Neither side wants prostitution? They want the right to choose and have their freedoms but only on certain pet issues... on issues they don't approve of suddenly they are all for "banning" and "heavily regulating" ... not totally unexpected.

As long as people aren't forced or trafficked I'm fine with it. The whole social stigma around sex is largely due to cultural/religious creation combined with the fact there are transmitted diseases. If you can do a check for these diseases and certify the cleanliness of the situation why not? Thing is, just like with regular workers, the woman will do all the work and the corporation she's working for will take the lion's share of the profit, just like with every other corporation out there. Look at our closest genetic ancestors the bonobos they engage in sex as a form of greeting with one another. There basically is prostitution these days, it's called Tinder. Do I think people should be sneaking around on their spouses? No, I would rather not associate with liars, but unfortunately it's going to happen, it's wired into our DNA to behave this way. Better to accept our flaws and be candid about how we will behave the suppress and repress our natural urges. We should definitely be shaming liars though as a way to get them to change their behavior.

I'm a moderate. I don't visit here that much because I believe most people's leftist beliefs here are rather disconnected from reality. Personal development is supposed to be about waking up from the dream, in my opinion. I think the one thing neurotypicals do right is simply live their lives without worrying about politics or taking it too seriously. Of course they love drama and love to judge as much as us neurodivergents who frequent internet forums. Everyone wants to tell everyone else what to do, how to live, this and that. The drama of life. I mostly believe in individual self determination, no overbearing nanny state governments micromanaging everything excessively. Without bias here, I have to say Trump did terribly. She baited him. He took it. If he loses, it's his base's fault for nominating him, and his fault for not stepping back and letting someone else run. He's clearly a narcissist, but they mostly all are in the political space. Most average people trek on in spite of, and not because of, the people in charge in their respective countries. Power attracts those who seek it... our genetic makeup is not yet suited for a stage green+ utopia where we leave our evolutionary drives behind... our species hasn't evolved enough or been subject to genetic engineering. Regardless, it seems like more and more the republican party is the party of old angry white men shaking their fist at the sky that society is not the way "it used to be" .... if they aren't willing to adapt and grow with the times they will lose their relevancy which would be bad, because one party rule typically doesn't end well. I prefer gridlock. I look at both these candidates and say to myself "this is the best they could do? Really?" Chuckle.

He's never been a good debater but in my opinion she is winning the debate. I mean, I wish the right had a different candidate but I'm stuck with him, lol. I don't think he'll be able to salvage it. I suspected he'd go off the rails eventually. Ah well. I'm not that invested in this election.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions. I don't personally trust human nature because I believe history repeats, and no it's not different this time. The crying call of the dictator is the belief that people are too stupid to make their own decisions, so central authority should make it for them. As an example... Between 160,000,000 to 200,000,000 people have been killed by totalitarian governments around the world. Some estimates are as high as 262,000,000. There is a correlation between mass murders and gun confiscation imposed by governments who knew that the only way they could continue to control their people and stay in power was by disarming them. And now anti-gun politicians, academics, news pundits, and uninformed people want our leaders to have the same ability to rule unopposed by disarming our citizens. Vladimir Lenin referred to them as “useful idiots”. A useful idiot describes a person who, through manipulation or not, is useful to a political cause that is not their own despite not fully realizing their role.” This makes them unwitting and useful pawns of propagandist. Examples of governments killing disarmed citizens is a very powerful rationale for the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution. Our Founding Fathers knew what could happen if a government disarmed it's citizens. The Ottoman Empire in current-day Turkey achieved full gun confiscation in 1911. Between 1915 and 1917 approximately 1.5 million Armenians out of a total of 2.5 million were murdered by their government. This mass murder has become known as the Armenian Holocaust. There are reports that discuss the formation of “Butcher Battalions” composed mostly of violent criminals released from prison to kill the Armenian people. Armenians who were part of the Ottoman military and discharged were disarmed, placed into labor battalions and killed. Soviet citizens were allowed to have firearms until 1929 when private gun ownership was abolished. The regime of Joseph Stalin emerged at the same time that firearm ownership was outlawed. Tens of millions of Soviet dissidents and others perceived as threats to the government were rounded up and either murdered or placed in labor camps or prisons and forced to work, usually to their deaths. Stalin’s indifference for life eventually led to the purging of the Communist Party at the same time a total gun ban was instituted. Stalin once said during the purge “If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.” Sound familiar? Representative Eric Swalwell said something similar during the 2020 presidential race. He said: “If Americans fight against gun confiscation, Feds can nuke them.” How about Joe Biden's statement of warning Americans who support the Second Amendment they would “need an F-15 to take on the government". Another mass murderer of the 20th century was China’s Mao Zedong. In 1935 the Chinese government established gun control. According to the Black Book of Communism, an estimated 65 million Chinese people died as a result of Mao’s repeated attempts to create a “socialist” China. The Chinese people were killed by execution, imprisonment or forced famine. Mao Zedong famously said on at least two occasions in speeches “Every Communist must grasp the truth: Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.” Presumably that truth applied to gaining power by killing innocent people. In 1938 Nazi Germany under the leadership of Adolf Hitler instituted gun control about the same time he ordered the extermination of Jewish men, women, and children. Which resulted in the death of approximately 13 million people. Cambodia issued its total gun control edict in 1956, but the real problems did not begin until several years later during the regime of the Pol Pot. Between 1975 and 1977, his regime murdered as many as 1 million people in killing fields. The facts could no be any more clear when it comes to gun control and confiscation. The question is whether you trust human nature or not? I trust nobody.

I think it's a matter of having underdeveloped playful skills. People who are serious all the time because of lack of socialization in childhood, perhaps from being neurodivergent or autistic, but perhaps just not having many friends or parents that taught one how to "play" and instead defensive reactions were produced so the banter that normal people find stimulating just isn't there in some of us. Even on this forum (and most forums actually) the difference in people who are there to debate and intellectualize and those who are there to be playful and banter is fairly evident. Some are skilled at banter, some aren't. It's hard to change hardwired programming from childhood to large degrees, though it can be done, though the older people get the more set in their ways they tend to be. I sometimes worry when interacting with co-workers that I'm somehow "infecting" them with my too serious demeanor. I'm not mean, I'm just not playful. I encourage them to get their playful banter from others. In truth I enjoy my solitude, though I can feel the genetic cravings for companionship and being accepted by the "herd" inside my being, I learn to mindfully observe all these sensations and find my peace of mind.

I just found this content creator tonight and was looking for his chart and this forum popped up in google search, lol. By his definition I have an intellect at level 8 with an emotional/limbic response as low as level 1. Having the intellectual understanding of how I (and everyone else) respond to stimuli but having the cravings, impulses, or emotions control you and take you down a selfish, hedonistic route is obvious something that is harder to master for some rather than others. I know what I need to do, it's a matter of doing it and breaking the addictions. We are all genetic computer software shaped by DNA and culture. I would argue there's not much free will, even among people who have access to this content... they are still being "programmed" by a particular philosophy... who's to say that philosophy is "right" ... one's feelings? The release of oxytocin from a bonding reaction or using shrooms? Logic would dictate radical true love rules all, but in a matrix like this universe with these natural laws including evolution and natural selection, our species would eventually go extinct with such a philosophy. Ultimately it takes all types to drive a specie's evolution especially homo sapiens. Natural selection is savage and doesn't care about a specie's overall morality, if it's successful and passes on it's DNA to subsequent generations. His more recent videos go into why "doing whatever you want without anyone judging you" can lead to cultural collapse. Spoiler alert he references a lot of stuff regarding terms that aren't necessarily very popular among people here. I myself have gotten warned on this forum for posting about this stuff. Free speech is not free. I mean, given his youtube username is "hoe_math" it shouldn't be that surprising his content would have some of this. Honestly, it looks like he's using spiral dynamics to promote "that" type of material, if you get my drift... .that matrix reference we can't talk about. Still, his first video posted by the op was quite informative. Will strive to continue growing my aspie brain. Just another tool in the toolbox to try and understand this constructed reality, the known universe, this dimension, whatever it is, whoever created it, along with why we are here, probably just a video game for some energetic intelligence. Who knows.

New evidence suggests that a lot of rental firms are using the same app known as "Realpage" that suggests rent prices and that this could be a stealth form of collusion, despite vacancy rates going up the price of rentals has not come down. The government agencies have been investigating. https://www.entrepreneur.com/business-news/realpage-rent-price-fixing-probe-escalates-with-fbi-raid/475109 What's insane to me is that one investment corporation would own 85,000 apartment units. Is this consolidation of wealth into the hands of giant corporations going to pose ever more growing problems going forward?

The problems of wealth concentrating have been with us through most of civilized human history. The "middle class" is a relatively recent thing. There's no easy or perfect system to manage human nature, much less monetary policy. Here's another documentary on fractional reserve debt based banking: 24:30 in the video explains why the debt goes up at an annualized percentage rate, and will keep going up forever. By 2050 I would estimate the US National debt will be somewhere around $100-125 trillion and the purchasing power of the dollar will be probably 25% of what it is now, assuming the system doesn't implode by then. The fix for the interest problem is actually zero or negative rates, but that creates problems of it's own. It's all quite complicated and not even those who run the banking system have full control of outcomes, because of the chaos and entropy built into life itself and of course human nature, our genetic wiring.

Watch red pill content to unwire the "provider male" conditioning in your brain. SSM has some good stories. You don't want to be the first to say "I love you" and put her on a pedestal and let her have you wrapped around your finger. You might have "mommy issues" which is the male equivalent to a woman having daddy issues. There's nothing rational about romantic relationships... they are mostly based on evolutionary impulses. You can study our psychology to distill down our traits but for normies that spoils the "mystery" and the "fun."

If you are able to sleep for 6 hours, meaning your nervous system is healthy with good parasympathetic activation, it doesn't really matter as much if you maintain a consistent schedule. Even with a fixed bedtime there are some who suffer from insomnia for various reasons but most of them involve nervous system overstimulation.