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This is a really cool idea, thanks for sharing. I’d like to bump it up to 2-4 times per year. I really like the deep sea diving idea. Something about scuba diving is very spiritual. Never been to the deep though. Calm is a requirement and can cost you your life if you break protocol. Lol. I like that for some reason.

@Natasha Tori Maru Thats huge. Congrats! And I’m just like that. If I postpone things that have to be done, anxiety and irritation pile up. Although unfortunately, I haven't mastered it the way you describe.

When I was in my 20s, I used to wonder how certain people acquired traits that I wish I had. There was one Gen X guy who was confident AF and possessed the strongest will I’d ever seen. I mistakenly thought he intentionally developed this in himself. Every time I tried to peer into his mind to see how he formed these things, he had not even the slightest clue. I found this to be the case for everyone else I came across who possessed a trait I admired and coveted. When I tried to ask them for their secrets or advice, they didn’t have any. They can’t tell you how they do it because they don’t know. People develop traits, attitudes, mindsets, mental orientations, etc, unconsciously and these configurations of mind manifest in different ways. It’s about the stories deep in the psyche, formed mostly by experience and circumstance, and then the position one takes toward those stories that make them prone to this or that action. The stories form around identity. Anyway, eventually I realized different mindsets have different energetic signatures. And if you can shift your mindset, like through loving-kindness meditation, where you actually feel deep empathy for even your enemy, then what else is possible? You can rewire yourself for immense love but not immense drive? Of course you can, if you can create the right configuration of mind and practice single-pointedness of mind upon that configuration. It’s an advanced practice, but it can be done. Have you ever noticed that if you have an appointment or someplace to be in the morning, when the alarm clock goes off, you jump up without grumbling and complaining and just go because you have to, but other times when you aren’t pressed for an appointment, you complain inwardly and create a living hell for yourself? This is a matter of very subtle thought that occurs in milliseconds and is very hard to notice. It’s possible to remove the mentation that creates that hell and thus, remove the friction, making it seem effortless.

100%. And 65% is much more reasonable. Now imagine if, instead of just giving everyone the same environment, one group had an optimized one. Would that group have an extended lifespan? How much could we move the needle through intentional optimizations? Even with randomness in the mix, I think the whole baseline shifts up with good optimizations. There's still a lot of room to affect outcomes. I don't buy that there's very little you can optimize for to drastically move the needle.

Nice honesty. I think these are very common feelings but most don’t have the courage to admit them. I notice similar feelings in myself as well. I’m not sure the best solution but for me, I just acknowledge the feelings and move on and try not to get hung up on them. I also don’t try to force myself to be good, as in be happy for the fortune of others if I’m not. When we feel we deserve so much better and see others we deem less deserving reap more rewards than ourselves, it is naturally unpleasant. The only way I would know to eliminate the negative feelings is to remove the “shoulds”. Which would likely take extensive psychoanalysis to identify and uproot. You’re likely a neurotic, like me. If so, there is a book that will show you things you will know to be true when you hear them, but never allowed yourself to see. It’s called “Neurosis and Human Growth” by Karen Horney. My preferred method to uproot things is psychoanalysis. It’s hard work though.

I agree on the depth. It is very deep, but Aurum and I argued extensively a similar topic a while back. They’re basically saying genetics determines 99% of one’s reality. Aurum was more saying it’s 80/20 rather than 99. But all you have to do to dismantle these positions is look at twin studies. 100% identical genetics and one twin can be a diseased, obese conservative and the other a health nut, pink-haired liberal. Until this gets squared, if we’re to respect reason and truth, their positions are wrong.

You can both contemplate and use tools to help you contemplate. What matters most is that you arrive at what is true, not so much how you arrive there (unless you have ego involvement). If I bounced back and forth between contemplation and material in a book, would you make fun of that too?

No one argued genetics don't matter. They just argue that it does not account for 99% of health outcomes. That position is impossible to even steelman because of how absurd it is. If you can't see the absurdity, well, I suggest contemplating whether or not you're offloading too much of your thinking to an authority figure. Plug the position into any advanced AI and watch what happens. Ask it "Does this text contain any fallacies? If so, explain them all." His text in this thread alone contains like 5 fallacies. Sorry if this is earth-shattering, but this should be like common sense stuff. "If genetics alone explained exceptional vitality, identical twins—who share 100% of their DNA—should have nearly identical health, energy, and lifespans. But they often don’t. One can become obese while the other stays lean, one may develop heart disease while the other doesn't, or one lives decades longer. These aren’t isolated cases—they’re the norm in population studies. That alone shows genes set a range, not a destiny. So when people point to rare outliers like Trump or McAfee as proof that effort is irrelevant, they’re ignoring the mountain of evidence showing that environment, behavior, and even luck play massive roles—even among people with identical genetic "blueprints."" "The allure of genetic determinism lies in its simplicity. It offers a ready-made explanation and absolves individuals of responsibility. But biology doesn’t support this view. Health, behavior, and even personality are not puppet shows—nor are they blank slates. They are dynamic systems influenced by both nature and nurture, shaped over time through feedback loops of action and adaptation.

@Sincerity It’s kind of like conspiracy theories. Intellectual people usually have a knee-jerk negative judgement to things like this. This was the first thing I thought of when I felt an impulse to share the video myself. Notice how Leo and his sycophants won’t even engage with the analysis due to their pre-judgement. I bet you they watched the video but can’t offer a single argument for how his position is flawed. They’re either using a flawed heuristic, are jealous, or just aren’t very open minded. Not open minded enough to realize it’s possible for an intelligent person to talk openly about such taboo on social media and the main drive not be chasing clicks. It’s possible this dude is just chasing clicks, but it’s ridiculous to use use such a simple heuristic to claim that is the case, especially when his reasoning is as solid as it is, and he has a successful track record of predictions using game theory.

Yeah, that was a bit absurd to me. It's the ego mind that says hotter is better, because it sees it as a trophy to make oneself feel special. I for one prefer sex with a 6 where there's a good chemistry than sex with a 10 and weak chemistry. And he comes out and claims to know this is false. What is happening is, he has a high NFC and loves discovering novel insights. I assume most here do, but the more developed don't treat novel insights like trophies to hold over others. Rather than being like "hey y'all, what do you think about this insight". He says "I've discovered yet another insight (trophy) that you guys didn't because you don't have access to states of mind like I do." Plug his last 10 blog posts into an AI and tell it to give you an FBI Profiler style report on it. The results aren't good. I gave him the benefit of the doubt for the longest time that he wasn't fueled by ego, narcissism, and grandiosity, but it's clear now these are dominant in deer leader. The amount of people who enable and fuel this is cringe AF. "Oh please, please dear leader, tell us all your juiciest insights!" "That's pure gold dear leader. How you come up with this stuff is amazing. You truly are the wisest person in existence and I'm so thankful to know you." Not such a high-consciousness community after all in my opinion.

Collections of thoughts and ideas get anchored to specific beliefs to form a “why” to live. The thoughts, beliefs, and the “why” are buried in the subconscious. This body of stuff buried in the mind has an impact on energy. The degree of impact depends on one’s cognitive functioning. I’m sure there are other factors but this seems a good starting point. There’s a psychic schema by which these folks unconsciously operate. It’s not so much genetics as it is configuration of mind. Genetics predispose but don't necessarily lock you in. Mind and it's orientation can be changed. Have you ever switched mindsets and had a sudden shift in energy? Felt tired and some recognition of something obliterated the tiredness? How does that happen? How does what feels like heavy pressure all of a sudden dissipate from a shift in perception or perspective? I suspect the way you use and orient your mind, or the way it uses you, is the largest factor. 1. Wim Hof studies Participants trained by Hof were able to consciously influence their immune response (modulate cytokine release) under endotoxin exposure—something long thought to be automatic. This suggests the mind can override elements of autonomic regulation. 2. Placebo / Nocebo effects Belief alone can produce measurable shifts in pain, hormone levels, and performance. Some individuals show stronger placebo responses than others—possibly due to belief structure and cognitive flexibility. 3. Meditation and neuroplasticity Long-term meditators show altered brain structures and baseline cortisol levels. Emotional reactivity and even inflammatory markers can shift from disciplined mind training. 4. Epigenetics Thought patterns and stress levels influence gene expression. There's strong evidence for this in chronic trauma, but also in positive interventions. 5. Psychosomatic illness Entire disease states can emerge or vanish based on belief, trauma, or subconscious orientation (e.g., conversion disorder, tension myositis syndrome).

Right. It seems to serve two functions. 1) Make the low-intelligence segment of the citizenry feel like their interests comes first. 2) Virtue signal (care, concern, empathy, patriotism) to the low-intelligent citizenry. And of course the citizenry thinks their needs should come first, before anyone else's. The whole notion is pathetic AF.

By suffer, people don't usually mean physical pain. They mean the hellscapes that were constructed by repeated wrong thought and action. In that case, the person did cause it, and is causing it. If they want it to be no more, they have to identify how they're constructing it and stop. Focusing on the now is just pushing the mentations that perpetuate the hell out of the mind, but it's not very feasible to expect people to remain in the now, so I agree that this method is not ideal in most situations. Sure, it could work if one had extraordinary discipline, was very motivated, and/or didn't have to worry about survival, but this isn't the case for the vast majority. What's more effective for escaping hell is to make it your enemy, know your enemy, and strategize against it. Then, rather than sit still and push hell out of your mind, dig your way out. If you're focused on the task of escape, hell is not so bad. It's only bad when you're laying in a dark corner, sad, fearful, hopeless. This method also isn't feasible for everyone because not everyone seems able to be inspired in this way (maybe lack of vision or an unconscious addiction to the hell?), but I think it's more effective than the NOW approach.

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.

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

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:

So did I. Watched the ww3 vid.

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.

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.

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.

100%. They are usually not happy when you provide them a frame or a solution that obliterates their emotional problems.

Jesus @Natasha Tori Maru, 36 inch chains and shanks. Wtf 😂.

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 😆