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Yeah, it's possible it's that simple, but the alternative is also possible. Sounds like you're pretty sure about your position. I'm at 50/50 because I just don't know.

@puporing What it's called isn't important. My point was that I think Russia has spread or at least considered spreading good spiritual teachings as a means of psychological warfare. lol. Are you getting what I'm saying? It's speculative but it's hard not to take seriously after seeing that excerpt in the book.

There are degrees of devilry, and I don't need an authority figure to confirm that.

No, I mean spirituality, not religion. I think Russia has amplified actual spiritual teachings—the kind we're all familiar with—as a means of weakening or destabilizing people. Just think about it. What's more likely, the KGB agents were interested in spirituality or interested in figuring out how to use the information in the best-selling spiritual book for psychological warfare?

lol, yeah, that's probably true. There is no single devil. Putin and Trump are devils.

You aren't the only one who can see the devil. Check this out: Russia/Putin has likely even infiltrated spirituality. This is from a spiritual book called "Love is Letting Go of Fear". The author traveled to Russia as a part of his book tour back in the 70's, and was assigned KGB agents as "translators", but he didn't know they were KGB agents at the time. The agents were asking for lots of copies until eventually, his supply was running low, so he asked the agents where all the books were going and the agent told him they were being used to "teach English to other KGB agents because the concepts were so new and interesting. 😂 Nah, what was happening was they were trying to figure out if they could weaponize spirituality... and who knows how successful they were. It seems this never even occurred to the author.

Take modafinil. It worked for me for a couple of years but it seems everything I get these days is garbage. I gave some of my friends modafinil and it didn't do anything for them cognitively but it did a lot for me. Pattern recognition skyrocketed, spirituality was closer, and my passion for consciousness was amped up to 11.

Musk has been talking a lot about social security lately.

It's hard to have a high-conscious forum when it's open to the public and members aren't vetted. Maybe the best feature would be adding a maturity or conscious meter beside everyone's avatar or something that allows people to vote on a user's post quality. Maybe a simple "like/dislike" feature. That might make people think twice before they post some nonsense and it would eventually weed out the simpletons because they would hate looking at their stats. Adding new features like this isn't as easy as it sounds though. It costs money and introduces potential problems down the road with updates, databases, etc., but I'm thinking 2k should cover it. @Leo Gura Go find a good developer on Upwork and let's get a like/dislike feature.

Sometimes, but I think only if the particular truth is within orbit or has been previously glimpsed or if one is prone to deep contemplation + intellectual integrity. I think silence can serve delusion just as much as it can truth.

Bro, I dare you to run this through ChatGPT and ask it to assess the maturity level of such a statement. You obviously wouldn't listen to anyone here, so ChatGPT is neutral source. Go ahead. I dare you! Fuck it. I'll do it for you. Avoid deflection. Embrace reflection: We're here for you if you need to talk. Seriously. Reflect!

AFAIK, pitted just means the pit/seed has been removed, so you don't have to worry about breaking your teeth off when you bite into them. The ones I got are super soft. They get harder the older they get but you can soak them in warm water for 20 mins to soften them up again.

So... attached to being the least attached. Got it. Congrats on transcending identity... by upgrading to a premium one. 😂 The ego is avoiding the truth of where the negativity is actually coming from. You clearly want people to align with your worldview of how consciousness should be. You say it’s because their low consciousness causes suffering, which is true, but it seems you’re mostly bothered that they aren’t feeding your ego what it wants. They’re busy feeding their own egos instead of acknowledging yours. They’d rather talk about politics than validate your spiritual insights, which robs your identity of what it really wants: attention, recognition, and status. John Diamond once said something like, “You know, the problem with therapy is you can't just tell a guy, ‘Dave, your whole problem is that you hate your wife.’ You have to lead him to it slowly, inch by inch.” Don’t be like Dave.

I just picked up some pitted medjools. Tastes like candy.

"Why doesn't everyone want to focus on the things I want to focus on and live how I want to live? People should be the way I’ve decided is right, and then we can all live in peace together, striving for what truly matters." You want people to be on the journey with you, but they don't see it the way you do—and that bothers you. Welcome to the club. Here's a question: How attached are you to your 'high-consciousness' identity?

I'd basically just want to know if I'm spending my time wisely to reach my highest potential and to actualize my goals, which is what happiness means to me. I guess a better question would be: What should I devote my limited time and energy to in order to be truly happy in life and at the end of it? It's hard to know if you're spending your time wisely and are on the right track. Someone might work decades on their life purpose only to realize in the end it was a waste of time. Our values change over time. I haven't taken your life purpose course so I'm not sure if you touch on that or not. This is one issue I see with choosing a life purpose when you're in your 20s. What you think you want in your 20s will change. Same thing for your 30s and maybe every decade... if you're growing. Other good questions: What’s the one thing I’m neglecting that would unlock the next level of my growth? What’s the most efficient way to spend my remaining years? What am I wasting time on that I will regret?

His perspectives are usually worth knowing about IMO, but they aren't meta and you have to overlook his overt bias.

Looks like Lex isn't the only 'reasonable MAGA sympathizer' to delete their tweet. But it's no wonder Lex deleted his: Then, he came out with this one: And now, the vast majority of the comments from right wingers on that are calling him weak. He fucked up his image on both sides.

I’d ask God: At the end of my life, will I be happy with how I lived it?

Haha, yeah, that’s what I think too. I’ve been contemplating why MAGA is such a powerful motivator for me. I’m not driven by bullshit motivators like identity, gamification, etc, but something about being outdone by my toxic inferiors really lights a fire under my ass.

You don't think the most divisive figure in modern history (by far), who is foolish, childish, and a malignant narcissist, as well as a power-hungry authoritarian in the midst of dismantling the US government, in charge of the world's most powerful military, is uniquely bad for world peace? If you could add "level-headed", "forethinking", and "disciplined" to his list of adjectives, then you'd have a better argument, but you're talking about an unhinged, unchecked, underdeveloped buffoon who no longer needs the votes of the American people to make his wet dreams of domination a reality. There are consequences of the U.S tossing out its values and integrity on the world stage just to appease Putin. You cannot make peace with Putin without compromising your own values and integrity, which is why no one of moral and cognitive development would entertain the idea that standing with Putin and telling the rest of the world to fuck off is a good idea. When a bully comes to take your land, you can either give it to him or draw a line and say "we'll die on this hill, and if we do, we'll die standing up for what is right". There is no fucking middle ground here if you have a spine. IDK how best to defeat Russia but it's not by tossing your values out on the world stage and abandoning your allies. Making peace with Putin isn't a viable option if one is to maintain right values and integrity. Putin's "peace" is contingent upon him being free to reign down his chaos. There is no negotiating with that IMO. I listened to him and didn't think he was being rude. It sounded like he simply had a different perspective than Vance and was trying to articulate it and in doing so, was smeared as being disrespectful because some man-children can't handle perspectives if they don't bolster their own. You could say he's not politically savvy and he should have known that he has to walk on eggshells around these two morons but "disrespectful" is not what I picked up on. He was being assertive and sharing his perspective, yes. If anyone was disrespectful it was Trump and Vance. IDK Zelensky's personality, so many he was being subtle, but I didn't pick up on anything like disrespect AT ALL. He was attacked from nowhere, out of the blue. It was fucking insane.

Security News This Week: The Trump Administration Is Deprioritizing Russia as a Cyber Threat https://www.wired.com/story/trump-administration-deprioritizing-russia-cyber-threat/

Have you ever known a narcissist? They go scorched earth when their reputation takes a hit like this. Narcs self-destruct by overstepping in their power, dominance, and manipulation games, which leads to burnt bridges and a growing list of enemies. Trump just burnt a fuck ton of bridges. Do you know what is typical of narcs when this happens? They get angry with intense hate at all the people who dislike them, then start scheming on how they’ll exact revenge on them. THAT’s why Trump is uniquely bad for peace in this moment and why we might ally with Russia… because when a narc burns all the bridges that matter, what do they do??? They form alliances with anyone that will tell them they are the right. Who do you think is now willing to praise and pat the narc on the head while everyone else condemns him? All the idiots who voted for Trump under the whole “chaos agent / let’s shake the system up, we will arise stronger” perspective, … yeah, this is exactly the type of situation people with half a brain intuited could transpire at any moment, and now it has.