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Thanks @Keryo Koffa - I know this is true. I appreciate you articulating it. Fully integrating this will be my next big leap but I'm not sure when I'll take it. There's something about it that troubles me. I have fully embraced it in a trip before and it was probably the most impactful experience of my life. I'm not afraid of letting go of my positionalities but it feels like I can't carry the weight of the love or something. I tear up just thinking about it. Yeah, I did get hooked by "There is no evil". The trouble with communicating on the forum is that it's hard to know which ideas are directed at or suitable for whom, and it's easy to get wires crossed. I try my best to read personalities and tailor my communications to them or the situation, so ideas for one might not be suited for another... and of course, some of my ideas can just not be good. Also, I sometimes fuse communications meant for multiple people into a single message, and one person might get it but I confuse the other... lol.

Can you explain? I am wasting time like a boss but I'm not arguing without nuance, and lacking "perspectival integration" seems assumptious. Maybe "evil" has too much baggage. What I call evil is "that which is detrimental to the individual and/or the whole". The more detrimental, the more evil. Both the individual AND the collective are taken into account when assessing detriment. Of course, what's good for one thing is often bad for another and vice versa, but this truth does not make me indifferent to that which is detrimental. I don't know how any spiritual person ever could be indifferent to that which is detrimental. I can see how they think it makes sense, but I think it's fallacious af. If perspectives are detrimental, I don't simply say "that there's another perspective" and ignore that it's detrimental, because that is absurd and I don't think any amount of consciousness or spiritual development would produce an attitude of indifference in this regard. This doesn't mean I am narrowly focused in on some evil to the point that I lose sight or can't, in a single second, go into a higher perspective. I've chosen to value that which is good and my chosen highest good is the health and peace of the the planet and all life on it. If I make that decision and honor it, I have to make distinctions of what is good and what is bad for it. Hence, I will call bullies and rapists "bad" or "evil" or "detrimental" to my chosen highest good. This is not a blindspot.. it's intentional. I could decide to tear down all these structures I've built, but I choose not to. They were put in place for a reason. Sort of like how you have to fabricate your life purpose, you have to fabricate what is the highest good. This game is better than the indifference game. What is wrong with this position? I do not see any flaws. Maybe it's too much head and not enough heart.

@Lyubov You yourself acknowledge that some things are evil and should be avoided, and I agree with you. That was my point. I was making a point about not justifying evil with some higher truth, especially if one does not actually live from that. Yes, I believe it's possible as well, but to do it, you'll have to surrender some selfishness rather than double down in it. Devils cannot attain this.

Buck is right. This is not relevant. Girls have to deal with a crazy amount of creepy shit. When a woman stares at a man, we don't usually perceive it as creepy, but rather, as a signal. Also, I think most of the people who don't like women staring at guys are guys the women don't stare at. Otherwise, I don't know why it would be a problem.

Someone has said that from the absolute perspective, evil does not exist. But do you live in the absolute? Because here in the relative, if I tie you up and drag you to my basement and burn your face with a hot iron, you will call me evil, and if I tell you I'm really not evil, and that from God's perspective, I'm good, and you're just wrong and biased, you would call me a lunatic and you would then call God a fucked up piece of shit for accepting my evil into his kingdom. 😂 So, let's get real. Evil does exist. We can call it what it is, but doing so restricts the devil. (awareness alone is curative) Considering others interferes with the Devil's prime directive, which is to allow their animalistic whims as much uninhibited expression as possible. 😂

In case it's useful to anyone: Google has a grant program that gives non-profits $10,000 per month in free advertising.

@Leo Gura Have you kept up with SEO? If so, I'm curious how significant it is these days. I know it's important for local SEO stuff but is content marketing for SEO still a thing or have people mostly given up on it? Also, now that Google is answering many questions at the top of SERPs, I wonder if it's more and more a lost cause.

Anytime @Javfly33. Thank you.

I was a total fucking prick when I was 17-22. I was the epitome of "fuck it, fuck them, I'm looking out for myself, the world is cold, I will be colder". I would lie, steal, cheat, you name it... It took some time but the karma showed up and my life slowly turned to absolute shit and it only got worse and worse. The lies add up. The enemies add up. Your reputation becomes known and you are hated and you hate the ones who hate you and you act like you don't care. After a few years of living like this, it becomes too heavy. Amidst all the suffering and acting like I didn't give a fuck, it eventually became obvious that I couldn't continue on like this. My options were either to change or to kill myself, so I thought that I would stop being bad and see if my life improved. I wasn't spiritual and didn't have any good concept of karma but I had good intuition and pattern recognition, so I thought it was worth a try to see if being good would solve my problems. What do you know... by the time I was about 25, my life wasn't an absolute disaster anymore. After I made the decision to be good, I had to wade through my karmic debt for another 2-3 years, but eventually, all the suffering that came from it was gone. I didn't have anymore enemies and no one was lying to me and I wasn't lying to anyone else. I didn't hate people and they didn't hate me. This transformation was probably only possible because I moved away from my hometown where I incurred all the karma from. I probably would have commited suicide if I didn't stop because the consequences of my ways produced a life that was not worth living. You don't simply "burn through" karma of this type. You have to live with it and carry it and suffer the consequences and you might think you're big and bad and can handle it, but you should heed my warning if you embrace this path. It's not something you really want to fuck around and find out about. But... you gotta do what you gotta do. In other words, it is in YOUR best interested to not be a piece of shit. The person who benefits the most from being good is YOU and the person who suffers the most from being bad is YOU. This is reason number one to be good. It's not just about contribution or morality. It's so YOU don't suffer.

Tools like this are badass as well. Infinite canvas whiteboards with AI integration. I haven't found a great option for this yet but this is the best I've come across so far. https://www.heuristi.ca/discover/ca392ec1-face-4685-a686-87387adb5a18

By style, I don't mean aggressive. Consider how Vernon Howard might yell something like "GOOD GOD MAN, LOOK AT HOW PATHETIC YOUR LITTLE EGO IS". 😂 Some people would call this cruel, over the top, and just too much, but some, myself included, appreciate it because I don't want to be pathetic, I don't want to be weak, so it's motivating. It doesn't hurt me... it jolts me and makes me say, "how am I being pathetic?". If I see the weakness I've been operating on or by, that weakness is not Vernon Howard's fault and I'm glad to have someone be blunt and direct with me. I prefer this style of communication. I don't want any sugarcoating. This is an aspect of Leo's teachings as well. IDK the best label for this style, but "aggressive" is not it. It's coming from a good place, even though it might seem harsh or aggressive. Since I have no prior history to judge from, IDK if kksd's critique came from a good place or not, but I could see how it could have, so I had no reason to assume it was aggressive. If it was coming from an ego kicking down, then of course, I would condemn that, but that wasn't discernable to me from the post.

@Javfly33 James Allen touches on this topic a lot. It is commonly supposed that to get ahead in business, one has to deceive and play games. People justify their deceptions by saying things like "other people are doing it, and the only way to play against them is to play their game... if you don't play, they will take advantage of you and you will not win... you HAVE to play because it's the only way to win". It reminds me of a time Leo said something like he doesn't own a gun and he said others might say "Well, what if you need one? What if someone kicks down your door and a gun could have saved you?" And Leo said something like "yeah, that's the risk I take by not partaking in guns". James Allen talks about the character you build when you take the high road and do not deceive. Sooner or later, the deceiver's karmic debt will mount up and their whole game will collapse, whereas the man who never lies and who builds his life from integrity will never have those regrets and can build on solid ground. They will show others that it can be done and in the process, will gain far more reward than the deceivers because they will earn the trust of their fellows and their psyche will be guilt-free and can rest in peace knowing they have done good. You cannot have this peace if you embody devilry. If you're interested in James Allen's teachings, I think they are in the public domain but here's a PDF of most of his works: https://1lib.sk/book/23422791/948a89/james-allen-21-books-complete-collection.html

Yeah, I like to just put out what comes out and then refine a little bit afterwards. My 11th grade education level doesn't help much but I do the best I can without going deep into structure. I at least try to punctuate and spell correctly. I should set aside some time to improve my punctuation. I often ask AI how I can articulate my thoughts better, which is probably one of the best tools available for this sort of thing. Grammarly seemed cool a few years ago but it was getting on my nerves and interfering with stuff in Chrome, but I think I will have a look at some tools like this. I recently started using "windows + h" for speech to text into any textbox. Pretty nice.

Big lesson: How you do anything is how you do everything. Try to do everything well. If you get red squigglies under your words when typing, try your best to correct it and after you can't, look it up on Google. This is how I learn to spell. Example: I just learned the problems with this word: This lesson is hard to balance though. I don't want to spend too much time on spelling.

Hell yeah man! That's nice. I like the sound. I was waiting for a beat drop though 😆

Yeah, non-aggressive is the best default. I think some people find it beneficial to be hard on themselves and so they think others could also benefit from it too. I've been like this and still am to a degree. It can definitely be toxic though. I've overshot this in dealing with my nephews and have felt really bad about it. But, it can also be a whip to weakness, which is commonplace, and is itself a big problem. I think this style of critique is more favored by people who value advancement over comfort and they find comfort in being made stronger by rebuilding after each tear down.

It would be weird to ask OP for his personality test results, age, and maturity level before providing a critique. 😆 But maybe that should be the norm. Yeah, that's a good thing to think about. Why would a stranger provide a critique to another stranger? Why would a stranger seek another stranger's critique?

When producing work for the public, ALL critiques are useful if they can be viewed objectively. Each critique gives you another perspective from which to look from. Collect and analyze all critiques, including @Kksd74628's. Here's how I interpret the critique: Many readers might feel the content is repackaged and a waste of the their time. In the marketplace of ideas, originality is like a rare gem, and people like rare gems. Rare gems sell easier than common gems. You can always improve upon something by addressing its imperfections. Perfection is never reached but the degree to which you strive for it is the degree to which you'll get closer to it, which should make your product more valuable. Of course, the degree to which you sugarcoat things depends on the person you're critiquing. Probably not a good idea to be so direct with a 14-year old who just released their first e-book.

Thank you @Keryo Koffa! I wasn't able to comprehend very much on first pass but I'll sit with it a while.

I think phone is more likely than non-phone mobile device because no one wants to carry around 2 devices. We're gonna be running out of pockets soon.

This is interesting. Zuck thinks the "interaction layer" between humans and AI will be AI Glasses, but I think that's a bit ridiculous because everybody already uses phones. He might be looking too far ahead. The phone should come first and glasses second.

I can't offer any long-term solutions but for short-term: Buteyko breathing works well for me. For social and performance anxiety and if your symptoms make themselves known by sweating, red face, heart racing, etc., you can mitigate that with beta blockers, and just knowing you have those available can reduce your anxiety a lot. Depending on where you live, you can get a prescription from gokick.com. Also, I discovered how to make myself sneeze non-stop by stimulating the trigeminal nerve with a massager. If you do a 5-minute sneeze session, you will expel much mucus and you'll produce a lot of tears. When you're done, it will feel like you have been crying and your parasympathetic nervous system will be activated and much tension will be gone. I have used this to manage acute anxiety. It's also really good before going to sleep.

RFK Jr. asks Supreme Court to keep his name on New York ballot despite Trump endorsement. https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/23/politics/rfk-jr-asks-supreme-court-to-keep-his-name-on-new-york-ballot/index.html He fought hard to get his name off the ballot in NC but he's doing all he can to keep it on the ballots in blue states.

We'll start with Tucker Carlson wanting to outdo big tobacco.

Basically the same constraint you mentioned about traversal. The mind operates like a single-threaded processor, processing one instruction / thought / mentation / emotion / memory / judgement / previously formed perspective, etc at a time, in linear fashion which culminates into a perspective. I was just curious if I could have multiple threads running simultaneously. This was several years back. It seems like a childish dream now. Why would I want such a thing? Efficiency, and to see what emergent phenomena might arise from it. Just dreaming, really. It was a "problem" I found inherent in building perspectives. Now that I think about it, it doesn't seem relevant to OP. Probably just an attempt by my ego to interject it's 2 cents. Oh well! 😂 Even if you construct grand perspectives, which can hold many things, you can't be in micro, messo, macro, and meta all at once. That's what I wanted. Multiple threads. Don't know why.