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Hi Trenton. Im sorry you went through all that. What made you decide to start talking about it? What you’ve gone through is why I think it should be avoided, because it’s too toxic for the psyche to handle. I agree that the number is much larger than we know and almost all will take it to their graves, which says a ton about you having the courage to face it. It’s so painful to allow that truth into existence that I suspect it’s a common cause of low consciousness. Self-reflection of any kind might be avoided because sooner or later, it could lead to reflecting on that unbearable truth, so stay unconscious so that never happens. That’s just a theory I have. The brother in my story is a close family member. He recently told me the story when he was drunk, and I realized he’d been suppressing the truth since it happened. He only opened up because the booze. He started to spiral in guilt and shame and I had to steer his attention away from it out of fear of what acknowledging it any deeper could do to him. I made no judgement and told him we all make mistakes as children. He said “Josh, I know but that was a big mistake”. This was very uncharacteristic of him to admit a mistake. I just said something like “ you can’t blame yourself for things you did when you were a kid”, and soon changed topics. I usually want people to acknowledge truths, but not this time. That’s how dangerous it is. I think your book is a great idea. Your courage is commendable and surely exactly what many need. Thank you for sharing your story. I hope whatever trauma you still carry begins to lift.

As someone who is highly intuitive, I understand intuition as unconscious pattern recognition of previously discovered knowledge or insights. Then, there is automatic perception of the result from the unconscious processes, which is called intuition. Since intuition is built by observation, knowledge, and insight, it’s certainly fallible. When the unconscious patterns being recognized are valid and the stored knowledge accurate, intuition is like magic, but if the pattern recognition is faulty or the stored knowledge incorrect, intuition leads astray. You can’t just spiritual your way to intuition. It forms only from deep observation. At least, that’s what I’ve discovered about how mine works.

@Leo Gura I view David Hawkins' politics like I view your pickup artistry and psychedelic escapism—slight imperfections that don't have much bearing on integrity, but maybe that's just a sneaky rationalization.

I can't speak for "most" but if Elon were a highly developed, integrous human, I'd be glad he has the power he has. I'd like for the world's richest and most powerful people to be integrous... so it actually is about ethics/virtue and not about being jealous. Many others feel the same way, so I'm not sure "most" want to see Elon fail because they're jealous. Seems that would be mostly applicable if you were already seeking power in the upper echelons.

Haha, I highly doubt Hawkins would be for MAGA. Politics was different in his time. He had a conservative bent but he wouldn’t call overt devilry good. He was too integrous for that. Also, Hawkins references a lot of news sources to prove some of his points. If he referenced Ben Shapiro, that is funny, but it doesn’t make him a fan.

@Butters the reason why any of us focus on anything we do is because we have told ourselves it’s important to focus on it. Some may find it important to focus on peace at the exclusion of chaos and some may choose to focus on the chaos rather than peace. Each person gets something from it, otherwise, they wouldn’t focus where they do. What drives people to do either is a matter of condition and circumstance, none of which they chose. Why do magnets attract or why is ice slippery? Because they do and because it just is. Leo is not the evolved being you seem to think he is. He’s just another human doing what all of us humans do…that which we do not choose. Our conscious attention and values are shaped by our own narrative-making…narratives we often create unconsciously…which is why it’s hard to answer the question: Why do you care about the things you care about? Why does one harp on Trump? Being someone who has done the same, it’s not easy to answer that question. I tell myself I do it because it’s important that humanity not blunder or that I care about humanity, but I suspect there’s much more to it than that.

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It's not inherently wrong but it's wrong in the sense that it's not the proper way to live a healthy life as a solid member of society. If a brother and sister decide to leave society and spend their days in the woods, then what's wrong with that? lol. I mean, it's not for me, I think it's sick and weird, but if people want to do it, why not? But if they want to function in a society, it's a no-go. I recently had an insight that many incestuous relations start at a young age when the child becomes curious about sex. I saw that it was much more common than I had previously thought. More often than not, it gets repressed, but the longer the relations go on, the harder it is to repress/suppress. I recently heard about a teenage brother(16) and sister(15) having sex some decades ago. The story goes like: both kids were very attractive and curious about sex. They were attracted to each other but knew it was wrong. The sister enticed the brother and when the brother started penetrating her, she told him to stop but only out of guilt/shame. She intentionally brought about the conditions for the encounter to occur and invited him into her room when he was naked. Years later, she says her brother raped her. What better way to avoid the shame of wanting to sleep with your brother than to say it was against your will. Anyway, my point is I think it's more common than most realize but it's not psychologically healthy to engage in and if for nothing else, should be avoided based on that reasoning alone, regardless any feelings of disgust. Plenty of fish in the sea... don't fuck yourself by succumbing to the lust for your family members. 😂

It could work if he plays his cards right. Trump’s managed to keep his con running on the world stage for about a decade now. But if I had to guess, Elon won’t be as effective at it as Trump. A lot of the followers have underdeveloped egos, and those egos tend to have a secret hatred for anyone who reminds them of their own inferiority. That’s why I think Elon’s house of cards could come down much faster than Trump’s. Plus, he’s not even really American. MAGA don't like that. That said, even though Elon is basically a disposable tool for MAGA, he’s still a major figure for the right-wing establishment. As far as I can tell, he’s one of their biggest assets, so they can’t just cut him loose even if he totally screws up. If he blows it and goes full scorched earth, the propaganda machine and the big players will just spin his fuckups into something people shouldn’t take seriously. Trump would step in and say something like, “Did you see what that Elon did? He’s a wild guy, but a good guy, a genius, and we need him, we love him,” and that’ll be enough to smooth things over. 😂 The thing is, most MAGA people think Trump is one of them, and in some ways, they’re right. But they know Elon isn’t like them. They’d drop him in a heartbeat if they had to, which isn’t the case for the establishment. The more I think about it, the less sustainable it seems. Now that they’ve won, the Democrats aren’t really the enemy anymore. They’re all turning inward, jockeying for position and trying to figure out who they actually like. Without the Democrats as their common bogeyman, I think the whole movement could start to erode. The disparity between the elite and the everyday MAGA supporter will get easier for them to see... maybe.

haha, yeah, it's just so pathetically obvious. I imagine him sitting around coming up with his schemes, getting giddy at the idea of buying leveled up gamer accounts as part of his scheme to trick the world into thinking he's a god among men. Rogan and Dave Chapelle were bought as well. A while back, they were publicly idolizing him as a god, which I sensed was orchestrated. Now I'm near certain of it. Musk has spent a ton of money to spread this idea that he's a genius. I guess when you suffer from grandiose narcissism and have unlimited capital, that's the most obvious thing to do.

WHAT??? I thought he was one of the best in the world at World of Warcraft? You're telling me he's paying for those accounts as part of his long-running PR campaign to trick the world into thinking he's a genius? What an utter fail from the people who think/thought this guy was special.

We need a thread to keep track of all the loyalist/sycophants being installed. I'll kick it off with this: A Fox News host just got appointed to oversee the DOD, the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Space Force. Official title: Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth: Served in the National Guard, so that's how they're justifying it. Additionally, reports indicate that the Trump transition team is considering a draft executive order to create a "warrior board" tasked with reviewing and recommending the removal of senior military officers deemed unfit for leadership. This move is seen as an attempt to purge "woke generals" and could lead to a restructuring of military leadership to align more closely with Trump's policies. They're going to corrupt every facet of government and they're moving very fast. It seems like the people will know their mistake much sooner than I thought.

Small tasks, sure. But current AI doesn’t have a big enough context window or memory to handle much complexity at the same time. If there’s just one thing to solve, it can do it. But if it has to track and manage, say, 5 things, each with 10 variables, it’ll screw up—every time. Even if you show it exactly where it’s likely to fail, it’ll still make mistakes. AI is great at predicting the next thing, but it’s focused on one thing at a time. It doesn’t know how or where to look for potential pitfalls because doing that would mean effectively handling 1,000 moving parts just to get one complex request right. Chat: Why Skepticism Is Warranted Sequential Prediction Isn’t Understanding At its core, AI is pattern recognition and next-token prediction. It doesn’t "know" or "understand" in the way humans do. General intelligence requires causal reasoning, goal-setting, and an ability to model the world beyond patterns in data. There’s no clear path from sequential prediction to these capabilities. Lack of Intentionality and Agency Intelligence involves agency—the ability to set goals, prioritize, and act autonomously. Current AI has no self-directed goals; it reacts to inputs based on pre-trained patterns. Adding intentionality requires fundamentally different approaches that are not yet well understood. The Frame Problem In AI, the "frame problem" refers to the challenge of knowing what information is relevant in a given situation. Humans instinctively filter out irrelevant details, but AI has no innate mechanism for this. Without solving this, it’s hard to imagine AI managing the complexity of real-world reasoning. Emergence ≠ Generality While emergent abilities in large models are impressive, they are still narrow and task-specific. There’s no evidence that simply scaling models will lead to truly general intelligence. Extrapolating from current trends may be overly optimistic. Human Cognition Is Not Purely Sequential Human intelligence is multi-modal, involving memory, sensory processing, emotion, and intuition—all deeply interconnected. AI lacks these "soft" aspects, which are critical for general intelligence. Philosophical and Ethical Limits Intelligence isn’t just computation. Some argue that aspects of consciousness, subjective experience, or biological embodiment are essential to intelligence and cannot be replicated by machines.

There will be no Christian democracy. It will be Christian Nationalism, and it is authoritarian. Christian’s will take by force, and their aim is to stamp out your fancy ideas and convert you to their way. They will force Christian mythology onto the children of atheists and other religions and they will use their mythology to strip rights, remove good laws and install regressive ones in accordance with their delusions, and diminish science and institutions. This is an overt attack on the constitution and a blow to the heart of America. The whole point of the US is to not be under tyrannical rule. When the time comes, you should advocate for rebellion, not passive acceptance.

I would currently define woke as an ideology that recognizes injustice and unfairness and seeks to address them in misguided and immature ways. These approaches stem from underdeveloped egos that derive purpose and meaning by entrenching their identity in the cause, resulting in outward expressions and solutions rooted in self-righteousness and moral indignation. These often cluster: Identity politics Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Cancel culture Virtue signaling Language policing Privilege checking LGBTQ activism Social justice activism I live on the east coast of the US and it doesn't seem very prevalent here. It seems to mostly be embraced by younger, less mature, and undeveloped people in cultures where religion and conservatism aren't the norm. But those cultures are not the norm. So I'm just curious, how prevalent is it really? I wonder if woke TV shows, advertisements, and social media make it seem larger than it is. I realize it's hard to quantify, so I'm just looking for opinions, really.

@What Am I I decided the guy was full of shit after listening to him speak, not because Kyle proved it. It is a bit of a hasty judgement on my part and I’m not highly confident in it, but a billionaire goes on a conspiracy theorists platform and talks conspiracies where the bogeyman is the left. Plus, his conspiracy sounds absurd on the face of it and I did pickup on some idiocy. TBH, I am relying on some quick heuristics, so I should have said “I think this guy is full of shit”. Lol. I agree about Kyle. He’s far from advanced. I didn’t mean to convey his analysis is perfect, but I think he made a couple strong points. The reason Kyle is useful to me is because he’s more educated on politics and political history than I am and I believe him to be sincere and more integrous than most, even if not the brightest. I actually think his wife is brighter, but less integrous.

Bro, this dude is ridiculously full of shit. Because you're pro-Trump, the banks will kick you out. 😂 They'll put politics over money? Got it. I've said before, we're entering a new era where malignant falsehoods like these will continue to proliferate and Rogan will be the most effective propagandist mankind has ever known. Just watch. It's gonna to happen, and fast. This house of cards they're building is going up way too fast. There'll likely be dire consequences for feeding the population malignant lie after malignant lie. What is the consequence of stacking falsehood on top of falsehood, over and over and telling the public the falsehoods are true? Might people become unstable when they realize hundreds or thousands of things they called true were all false? Interesting that Joe is constantly bringing on millionaires and billionaires who attack the Dems and support the right. I guess it's all just organic and the all the skeptical conspiracy-theorists are right not to suspect any fuckery going on with these particular, everyday people who own rivers and have billions. Nothing to see here folks, just some good ole honest, decent folk.

https://www.axios.com/2024/11/12/trump-cabinet-members-tracking

I disagree with Leo here. I've managed to avoid the trap. I've been popular throughout several chapters of my life, so I know what it's like to ride high on that. I don't miss it and I don't want it back. It's all fake bullshit. All selfishness from everyone involved. If you can see that, it's not alluring nor appealing. But I guess you also need wisdom and integrity to go with the awareness.

Not unhinged, but kind of trying to force his way of life or his crusade onto another who clearly didn't want to answer the question of what his pronouns were. I too would be caught off guard if someone asked me what my pronouns were. It's too presumptuous, intrusive, and even disrespectful. A more respectful question would be "Do you prefer specific pronouns?". Vaush isn't an example of the blue-haired SJW Ben Ship likes to belittle for profit, but he is an example of wokeism and I think maybe even more representative of the ideology than the blue hair caricatures. I somewhat like Vaush for his candor and quit wit, but he's clearly a culture warrior. Also, his masculinity mostly disappears in social settings, which is interesting. He turns from hardass to cheerfully giddy.

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I don't think you're employing it, but I think you've unwittingly fell for it. How else would one arrive at the position that RFK's ideas are just as credible/valid as top-notch scientists? How else would one vote for a guy who did everything in his power to steal the 2020 election and who will spend the next 4 years fabricating evidence to justify it? The reasons and justifications you present to support your stance all seem to be explained by the notion of "post-truth". I'm still exploring the idea, but so far, it's tracking really well. I can't believe it took me so long to come across this idea. I mean no disrespect here. I'm just saying what things seem like to me.

I'm pretty sure it's not just meant as "audience capture". For example, the algorithms facilitate alliances as well, but I need to look into his concept more.

It's not taken the wrong way at all. I don't mind being challenged or questioned. It might not seem like it, but I'm careful with what I consider to be true. Most of my judgements on this topic are probabilistic, but there are some things I know to be true that others might find it impossible to believe I could know. It can seem like I'm full of shit or just arrogantly assuming things if prerequisite truths are unknown by the observer. In the grand scheme, no one can definitively say how Trump or Kamala would impact the world. This kind of relativism is the sneaky game being played and it's being used to undermine truth. It undermines critical thinking and blurs the lines between valid assessments and subjective opinions. This I know to be 100% true. This game was played by big tobacco in the 50s. Big oil plays it, hiring think tanks and scientists to do research that sows doubt on actual scientific fact. The same thing is occurring with the embrace of RFK. Relativism is being used to diminish truth and reason. Here's an example of this if you're interested in seeing through it: And if you want a deep dive: https://www.audible.com/pd/Post-Truth-Audiobook/B07CH1GW9M?source_code=ASSGB149080119000H&share_location=pdp "Publisher's summary What, exactly, is post-truth? Is it wishful thinking, political spin, mass delusion, bold-faced lying? McIntyre analyzes recent examples - claims about inauguration crowd size, crime statistics, and the popular vote - and finds that post-truth is an assertion of ideological supremacy by which its practitioners try to compel someone to believe something regardless of the evidence. Yet post-truth didn't begin with the 2016 election; the denial of scientific facts about smoking, evolution, vaccines, and climate change offers a road map for more widespread fact denial. Add to this the wired-in cognitive biases that make us feel that our con9clusions are based on good reasoning even when they are not, the decline of traditional media and the rise of social media, and the emergence of fake news as a political tool, and we have the ideal conditions for post-truth. McIntyre also argues provocatively that the right wing borrowed from postmodernism - specifically, the idea that there is no such thing as objective truth - in its attacks on science and facts. McIntyre argues that we can fight post-truth, and that the first step in fighting post-truth is to understand it."