Hansu

@ivory Yikes, 12.5 dollars an hour does not sound that much anymore Even if rent was only 500 a month, another 500 dollars on healthcare really changes the perspective

@ivory How much is the rent for a basic, about 40m^2 or 430ft^2 apartment in California when its approx 12 miles away from the border of a city centre? 12 dollars/hour for burger flipping sounds a lot to me so I'd guess rents have to be expensive

Minimum wage is good tool to fight against companies that need to compete by taking advantage of the people who are desperate enough to live with any salary in a job that can be done by anyone with 2 weeks of training. Jobs like burger flipping at McDonalds cant pay a decent salary unless every other fast food joint pays a decent salary too. However, minimum wage limits job opportunities for mentally or physically handicapped people. It also comes to question how long it takes that a burger flipping machine replaces the human flipper, and too high minumum wage would certainly speed up that process.

People tend to go outside less when its dark during winter (Especially when its like -25c outside). I dont know if its contributor to melancholy or the result of depression due to the darkness. I'd say its one of the factors that have helped northeners grow inside. Imagine doing 3 months retreat each year when all we had was horses to move around and only a book or two to read, if you were able to read Edit: Or instead of growing northeners the solitude probably just made us alcoholics. Lol

Red meat or fish or what? For spiritual purposes I dont know When speaking of general health red meats biggest drawback is that it is high in unhealthy fats unlike fatty fish or low-fatty meat like broiler. Personally I dont see a health related limit to lean meat or fatty fish, but one shouldnt go all crazy for red meat. Edit: The acidicy of meat can be countered with balanced meal if one is worried about that

Personally I would love if Leo made a dozen of 5-30 min videos on different principles and subjects but I also feel like that would just increase the workload for him, and he is already doing gods work for free (Aside his patreon) "If I am to speak for ten minutes, I need a week for preparation. If fifteen minutes, three days. If half an hour, two days. If an hour, Im ready now" -Woodrow Wilson Honestly, 60-120 minutes a week isnt much to invest in the wisdom he gives for free

Blasphemy! Horumph I sayeth!

A lot of people where I come from look at crime statistics of refugees who have come to Europe during and after the 2015 refugee crisis. They use this statistic to support their -statistically truthful but lacking in understanding- claims against taking in refugees. Is this unhealthy orange or just plain blue? (On sidenote: I feel like there is so much crappy research and statistics that none can be trusted without first learning the subject) I have used this excuse a lot to do mental masturbation on comparing myself to oppressed people. I think it has been some kind of defense against thinking outside myself. Like whenever I heard how "white people has to be punished for the centuries of oppression of people of color" and even though I nowdays look at my ancestors without victimhood but only pride, knowing that the people survived the oppression and hardship and the culture, especially the language survived the censorship, but I used to throw myself in as a victim. That gives me a connection with the Irish, the past and the alcoholism But I've come to realize that this is past and nothing to be fussed about. To me its something that happened in the past that is thankfully not happening to my people in the modern world. This is why I feel like its silly to fuss about things like the British empire's conquest of the world. I mean yes, they should return the artifacts they stole to their rightful owners but cutting the modern englishmans head or shaming them for what their ancestors did isn't going to make the oppression of British Empire go away. I feel like its not productive to cling to something that happened centuries ago by our ignorant ancestors if it does not affect our modern society, shouldn't we learn to forgive and work on the modern day problems? I can 100% say that this is me. At times I have mindfully tried to look at things from the perspective of another group, but I've found myself to give up on that pretty quickly. Instead I've gone back to projecting my own beliefs onto the groups whom's perspective I attempted to gain, with the "shoulds" in mind. How does one best build the ability to look at things from others perspective? Direct experience within the group? I feel like more I know an individual, the better perspective I get, but I really lack the ability to do the same on a group of people This is what I love about actualized.org. When I came to this forum with right leaning ideas, knowing that the forum is most likely very left-leaning and progressive made me afraid of speaking about things how I felt about them because I felt like if I did, Leo or the mods would just come to my thread, ban me for 48 hours and call me a close minded ignorant idiot who needs to read a certain book and then I'd be known as the right-wing idiot among the members who is not to be taken seriously. This haven't happened though, and I've learned to be more open here which has led to an immense amount of growth when I compare myself to my past, when I just started writing here. You mods do amazing work here, thank you for that!

Fix this first. And dont listen to those on workplace or at school who brag on surviving with 5-6 hours a night. It can be hard to adjust your schedule so you feel alright going to sleep at 21:00, but its all worth it! Melatonin greatly helped me with this challenge, just dont take it too much to create depency

Hes an idiot and I hope he wont win but if I was forced to bet, I would definetly bet on Trump too.

Well, I spent 2.5 hours past my bedtime to contemplate on this and I think I have at least a little bit more understanding of this subject I never saw discrimination in words or gestures because I projected myself on a black person and thought "If someone called me drunk subhuman mongoloid, I would laugh" but just because I personally live in that world does not speak for a black person. I had problems understanding blackface (And I still dont understand blackface because I have not experienced its affect) because I lived in this world: Then I realized that I take pride on living with the attitude seen on the video by the woman. I thought everyone should live by that attitude because I thought I was better for it. To me skin color has been for approximately 5 years merely a skin color, I never thought more deeply about it because I projected my own beliefs on it. So my belief in absolute equality made it easy for me to not feel empathic towards others. I didnt need empathy because you see! "I believe in absolute equality, and Im better for it! And if someone else dont believe that then I dont have to care! They are childish and need to grow up! Words don't hurt grown ups!" If I have understood correctly, then an orange person fights against racism for the sake of fighting against racism. An orange person opposes blackface because the news outlets are saying that it is racist, potentially because an orange person is afraid that being perceived as racist is bad for his relationships and career. And then, correct if Im wrong, a green person fights against racism because they know how racism affects a minority groups life. A green person dont oppose racism because their mothers taught them its wrong, the green person opposes racism because it is what is right, because a green person has the ability of look at something like blackface and feel how it would affect black person or black community, which is an ability that I lack due to my lack of experience I think I have a lot to learn about these groups that I vilified in my first message

@Serotoninluv I never defended blackface and it wasnt the point of my argument but I get your point. Its true that I dont know the history behind blackface and Im opposing blackface merely because someone said its racist, not by expriencing its impact on black people. I must admit I might have mixed aggressive people in green politic movements to be stage green people, and thats probably because of too much Youtube and lack of understanding spiral dynamics.

@Serotoninluv Well, we have different understanding of the word racism then. To me, racism is discrimination based on race. But police stopping a murderor? Thats like the most authoritarian position you can be in western country! You are locking someone up potentially for years because they might have done something they didnt do! In america you may even have the right to end the attemptee's life! Yeah thats very libertarian Im not trying to bash green. Im trying to move there myself, but I find it disgusting how stage green people bastardize words to give them a thousand meanings to support their authoritarian politics. For example: If you cosplay black character and you are white descend yourself, then painting your face black is racist blackfacing and not painting it black is racist white washing. First of all, thats narcissistic double bind tactic and second of all, thats racial discrimination. And when you ban the person doing it from cons or form a mob to harrass the said person, then it turns to authoritarianism. And its disgusting Sorry OP, didnt mean to take over this thread but I got winded up

Ah, I guess I was vague. Hippies are far from authoritarian. I meant that the exclusion tactic used by nationalistic people in the past had morphed to the inclusion tactic used by groups like SJW today which is perceived as okay by the public For example its not okay to exclude someone based on their race, but its okay to include someone based on their race. And as long as there is inequality in the society, this kind of racism and authoritarian politics should be followed. Just because a policy is green doesent make it less racist or authoritarian.

@Apparition of Jack I had no idea authoritarianism is a sport where one group is trying to outdo the other Just because exclusion has become inclusion does not make authoritarianistic behavior less authoritarian.

I doubt Putin has studied spiral dynamics. And green can be very authoritarian too, just look at groups that play identity politics like LQBT and the American feminist movement. They love liberty until someone uses it against their ideology.

@Swagala He did. He now snaps with spirits, with Snibeti Snäb, he heard about it from the truth tortoise on his second enlightenment Snibeti!

I theorize that a name usually has something to with the persons background and with the cultural expectations. Like where I live, the name "Niko" is a traditional name while "Nico" is considered to be a wannabe american white trash variation of the name Niko. People named Nico are more often less successfull than people named Niko where I live and I think its because its more popular among less succesfull "white trash" parents. Those parents are more open to alternative styles of names while more succesfull parents are less open because they fear that they or their child will be discriminated for giving a "bad name" to their child. This reminds me of a reddit post where someone wondered whether he/she should give their child non-black name to boost their career. This is just my theory, take it with a pinch of salt

@Jonac Gotcha! @Serotoninluv Alright. I think Im going to start my journaling with this practice. I feel like it has great potential in regards to raising my awareness when it comes to repeating thought patterns.

I was doing my mindfulness meditation for today and was distracted in the mid of the meditation by a thought. Often when I focus on hearing a thought, I notice that a mind image accompanies this thought. Tought such as "I feel like having hamburger" spawns an image of McDonalds in my minds eye. Sometimes these mind images even affect me when I focus on feeling something, like I imagine how it would feel like if someone massaged my leg, then I label it "feel" and as I focus on the feeling, I get a vivid image of a woman massaging my leg while I lay there meditating. I always focus away from these mind images and focus on what I labeled, but I wonder if these mind images are actually a part of the feeling or hearing label? Like should I notice that the image is there while I take in this feeling or hearing sensation, or try to not notice it? Edit: Just to be clear, Im wondering whether these mind images are filters of my mind that could hold me back in life, hence the title

You understood correctly. I find it funny that you call self development a luxury. Maybe its luxury for someone in a poor country, but you live in Greece! If you have been on spiritual journey since you were 10 years old, then I'd be bold and say that self development has become more like a basic need to you than a luxury. Luxury is for kings. However, even in developed countries wanting to give your family that opportunity as well might be considered luxury unless you create your family with someone who is financially stable. Exactly!

@Serotoninluv Do you keep a written journal on those thought patterns, or just take mental notes?

@Serotoninluv Ah... Of course, its so clear now. I should have contemplated for longer before opening a new topic Thanks Edit: To specify, the images are usually part of my addictions and somehow I didnt make that connection

@wavydude You caught me @pluto My whole question is an ego defence mechanism?

What if there was connection but personalities and life goals differed greatly? Like if I felt connection to a person whos life is a trainwreck and who's life goals would greatly differ from mine, wouldn't it be wiser to count in outside factors than to jump into the relationship knowing that there will be hardship? Like, lets say OP wanted to pursue entrepeurship and dismissed her/his intuition to limit the partner choice to someone who understands finances, then wouldnt that spell disaster as she attempted to manage tight financial budget but the partner wanted to spend away not caring OP:s life goal? Or the partner cared about her life goal and wanted to help her but couldnt because of his/her lack of financial skills?