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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.

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 😆

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."

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.

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.

This movie ain’t got shit on the original. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098206/

Elon doesn’t want to father more children. He has to. For all of us. It’s not pleasure, it’s sacrifice. While the rest of us squander time on hobbies and Netflix, Elon is out there, tirelessly dipping his dick, impregnating the future. He’s not just building rockets. He’s building humanity, one personal reproductive mission at a time. Call it what you want. He calls it a legacy payload.

I’m calling it. Trump is going to attack Iran. What do y’all think would likely unfold if that were to happen?

Marketing is like pickup, but the goal isn't to sell yourself to one individual, but to sell a solution to many. It isn't inherently bad, but since the masses are low conscious, they are easily manipulated. But you can do marketing without being shady. I like books like this: https://www.smashingmagazine.com/printed-books/click/ Nudge If the masses were high-conscious, deceptive marketing tactics would backfire, which would manifest a more honest and good-faith marketplace.

It’s interesting you say that. I’ve arrived at a similar recognition. I wrote down on a whiteboard 2 years ago “everyone is for you”. It’s still there and I glance at it from time to time and I say to myself “ yes, that’s true, but I’m ignoring it for now”, and I continue on with the npc filler. Sometimes I’ll be doing some mundane task like washing dishes and think of how I’ve gotten lost in irritability towards them, and I’ll recall that it’s all for me, then contemplate why, and my best hypothesis is transcendence. Postponement is a good word. I’m doing just that.

haha, yeah, I never wanted to admit it either. I just always told myself they were all capable of seeing the same things I see, their thinking just needs to be adjusted. They don't care because they can't see, I thought. They're so petty because they haven't contemplated it. All they have to do is contemplate it, right?? 😂 There were multiple opportunities to join, and I tried many times, but in the end, I couldn't betray myself even if I wanted to.

While Trump throws himself a military parade in D.C. for his birthday — tanks and all — the rest of the country is rising up. On Saturday, June 14, Americans in over 1,600 cities and towns — red, blue, and everything in between — will take to the streets in a mass, nonviolent protest to say: 🛑 No more authoritarianism. 🛑 No more lies about having a mandate. 🛑 No more silence from us. 🗺️ See how massive this is: 👉 View the protest map You’ll probably find an event within minutes of your home. Last time, on April 5, 5.2 million people marched nationwide for our rights, our Constitution, our health care, our bodies, our immigrants. This time? We’re aiming even bigger. If you're thinking, "I'm just one person, it won’t make a difference,” or “Someone else will go,”—understand this: movements don’t need perfect people, they need present ones. You don’t have to chant, carry signs, or stay for hours. Just showing up—even for 10 minutes—adds one more visible body to the crowd. That’s what shifts perception, what gives courage to others, what makes the media pay attention. Staying home is exactly what they’re counting on. So if you’ve ever said “I care,” this is when it counts. 🔗 Find your protest + RSVP here: https://www.nokings.org/ https://indivisible.org/ 📢 Share this map. Talk to your neighbors. Bring a friend. June 14 isn’t just a protest. It’s a correction.

@DocWatts I understand all that and agree in principle, but I’m not sure if the polarizing effect will backfire. For many who have tuned out of politics, they do so to avoid having to be at odds with their MAGA family, neighbors, coworkers, etc. As we saw last election, majority of apolitical people sided with MAGA. Seems polarization would do more harm than good in winning them over, especially if they voted for Trump in 2024. If the numbers are there, then it’s fine, but if they aren’t, it’s risky IMO. I just wonder if another angle could have been more effective. Maybe something about protecting the constitution. When tuned out people hear “no kings”, then look into what it’s all about, most of them walk away thinking its the hyperbolic, catastrophizing left making a big deal about nothing. At least that’s what it seems like gauging responses on social media. It is being dismissed out of hand due to the name. I think we have to stop attacking Trump directly and start attacking ideas. Seems more effective, but maybe harder to build movements that way.

In hindsight, I think the protests were not good. The goal was to galvanize resistance, but it should have been about cross-partisan persuasion (harder sell, I know). The protests served to re-entrench MAGA even deeper. Not sure what the best move would have been but something that was less polarizing, if that was even possible.

I’ve been wanting to dive deep into cognition and map out all the ways it can be used. Consciously choosing various modes of cognition is one of my most-wanted skills. Ideally, we could choose the type of cognition required for our goal, but we have cognitive habits we’d have to break to achieve this. To describe something, you could think fast or slow. Slow might be to just stay preverbal and see how it’s fits in reality, structurally. Once you have the structure, consider the structure of the presentation. Once you have that structure, maybe look for adjectives for use in assembling your description. This reflects: Preverbal awareness — perceptual immersion without jumping to language Phenomenological noticing — tracking how the thing shows up in reality Structural modeling — noticing shape, texture, relationships, behavior over time Then: Presentation modeling — how you might present it clearly and meaningfully Then: Lexical assembly — deliberately choosing adjectives or framing language to reflect that structure