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That’s hilarious. Yes, Qanon was a very big deal and is still alive, although maybe diminished by 60-70%. The majority of Americans are aware of Qanon. It’s often made fun of on late night TV and political satire. The country was overtaken by it a few years back, and Trump was winking and nodding to the movement at his rallies by opening with the Qanon theme song. Trump played into and made the idiots believe it was all true, but it was so batshit, he could never say it out loud and had to deny knowing about Qanon to reporters. I think most who bought into incurred repressed shame as a result of seeing how stupid they were being. My full-grown adult sister literally believed democrats were drinking baby blood. As soon as the culture at large started making fun of Qanon’s idiocy, the movement started to dwindle.
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Joshe replied to Santiago Ram's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
When I was younger, my plan was to make millions and then practice spirituality. I thought it was the most important thing ever to seclude myself and crack the mysteries of reality. Then I realized it would essentially be a never-ending hedonic treadmill of mental masturbation. I told myself all sorts of stories about what my life would be like once I became enlightened. Lol. I just knew it would solve all my problems. Then I grew a spiritual ego and thought of all the wonderful virtues I would embody and project out into the world. I clung to that fantasy for about 5 years until it’s appeal slowly started to dwindle as a result of higher awareness and seeing the games my ego was playing. The ego fantasy of becoming untouchable, pure, powerful, was just that: fantasy. -
Yeah, we know all about it. It’s one of the most batshit movements of all time. Tell me it hasn’t turned into a thing in Iran. Lol
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The left isn't a single entity like that. It's more than just SJWs. And the variety of ideologies allowed in MAGA is opportunism, not liberalism. As long as you're Christian or anti-establishment and loyal to Trump, you're in. The left is different in that they actually try to hold themselves to some kind of moral or ideological consistency, which can lead to infighting or out-grouping because they're actually debating values, not just forming a tribe around dogma and a personality. The critiques of the left around here, including from dear leader, always seem to be painting everyone left of center with a SJW brush. So much for nuance and depth. Just because MAGA is largely a monolith doesn’t mean the left is, but I understand the impulse to flatten both sides for the sake of appearing "balanced". It's absurd to say "the left is [insert SJW behavior here]. It would be like saying "The right worships Christ". A large portion of them do, but a significant number don't, so it would be stupid to generalize like that. When so-called intellectuals make a habit of flattening the entire left into SJWs, it points to ignorance, or worse, groupthink. A theory: And here's a good analogy of the difference between the left and MAGA:
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So did I. Watched the ww3 vid.
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Joshe replied to SQAAD's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Forget about the what and why of God. Focus on the what and why of your current reality. Trace back your suffering. What errors did you repeatedly make to manifest your living hell? When you can bear no more, make hell your enemy, not God. Take full responsibility for your reality. This is the only way to escape hell. God will not come save you. You have to save yourself. That’s God’s love. God will rejoice when you escape your hell. Hell arises from being irresponsible. Make hell your enemy and wipe the floor with that mother fucker. Never take a position of weakness where you wish things were better. Know that they will only be made better by your striving to make them so... then strive. Do that until you die. What else do you have to do? Wallow? Hell does not exist in its rawest form when you’re carving out escape tunnels. You focus on the task at hand until you’re free. My life reached that point where I couldn’t take it anymore, and a decision had to be made. I chose life and I was filled with an energy to overcome hell, and I did, not by wallowing in what was, but by persistently searching for my error and doubling down on my efforts to make hell no more. When you take full responsibility and choose life, you will be endowed with the energy you need to get out of hell. If the energy doesn’t seem to be available to you, I recommend all the works by James Allen. Make him your only teacher for a time. -
Nice try. Americans are too busy spending half their time fucking off. Lots of thing contribute to what America is, but if you want to answer the question “why aren’t Americans aware of worldly affairs and why don’t they care about it?”, you should easily be able to peg “just not giving a fuck” as a bigger factor than their job.
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Even if they did have the facts, they lack the ability to make sense of it. And even if they could make sense of it, they wouldn’t be interested in doing so. This is the saddest thing about the US. They’ve been too comfortable and ignorant for too long in a cushy environment, which has dulled their wits.
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In Trump’s announcement, he boasted of bringing immense destruction and followed by thanking God for the success of it. Lol. It almost seemed genuine. I wonder if he’s finally getting audience captured by his Christian base.
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100%. They are usually not happy when you provide them a frame or a solution that obliterates their emotional problems.
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Jesus @Natasha Tori Maru, 36 inch chains and shanks. Wtf 😂.
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Thanks for your comments @Deziree! I hadn't even considered a link between the reptilian brain and intuition. Seems intuitive now that you mention it 😆
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I’d rather have a 6 with some vim and vigor than a stifled 10. Hot girls are often not very open, or maybe that’s just with me, lol. A good shape is more exciting than a pretty face. And openness itself is a huge factor in quality of sex. Openness and how bad she wants it.
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Ain’t got time for all that bruh. I feed it my ideas and ask it to verify them and flesh it out. The ideas themselves come from contemplation, but there’s not enough time to contemplate everything deeply. For example, I took the idea about intution being more or less developed due to learning style and explained the idea to AI. It said I had a brilliant insight and explained why. It provided solid reasoning and fit well with my existing knowledge, so then I used another AI to look for holes. It couldn’t find any and neither could I. So at that point, I move forward with the ideas likely being valid until holes are revealed. Smarter, not harder. That’s my motto. It takes me a ton of effort to put words to what I intuitively know. These insights about intuition couldn’t be arrived at without deep contemplation of it. It’s one of the most fascinating and persistent aspects of my reality, so there’s no shortage of contemplating it. BTW, I accidentally posted this in the wrong subtopic, if you want to move it.
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Exploring intuition a bit more: "When people rely heavily on formal analysis — breaking things down logically, using definitions or structured reasoning — they often build clarity, but not necessarily intuition. Intuition develops faster and deeper when the mind is tuned to patterns first: noticing, comparing, recognizing familiar structures in unfamiliar places. That pattern sensitivity seems to train a kind of silent fluency that compounds over time. Also, learning style matters. When new ideas are immediately plugged into something real — applied to a system, a scenario, or a familiar frame — they settle more deeply. That’s different from memorizing terms or holding abstract models in the head. We all shift between these modes, but the balance matters. The more time spent seeking patterns and connecting new ideas to function and context, the deeper and more instinctive intuition becomes. The more time spent in abstract silos or patternless theory, the less work one puts into relating ideas to lived reality — and the more disconnected those ideas become from the very systems they aim to illuminate. An academic-style thinker trained in abstract-theoretical learning and formal analysis is often caught in a loop of definition, comparison, and framework-mapping. That mode builds clarity and precision, but it also creates distance from direct perception and lived integration — the very soil that spiritual insight tends to grow in. Spiritual understanding, by its nature, tends to arise from pattern-recognition across layers of reality — psychological, emotional, symbolic, embodied — and often depends on the integration of insight into context, not just abstract knowing. So if someone’s default is to "understand before feeling," or "define before experiencing," they're likely, to some degree, unconsciously fencing themselves off from the terrain they're trying to explore. Clarity of explanation delays depth of realization. The bottleneck isn't one of genetic wiring but of cognitive posture."