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Kamala and Walz need to bring in Steve Schmidt as a spokesperson or strategist. This dude fucking CRUSHES.

I think this is correct. Calling Trump an Orange Devil certainly appeals to me and you but not to the average conformist. It's safer for them to avoid making such polarizing judgments, otherwise they risk becoming "weird". Conformist instinctively desire to put space between themselves and what is seen as weird. It doesn't matter who is calling a thing weird. If large numbers of any group are calling a thing weird, it will trigger their instinct to demonize and distance themselves from the weird. That's why it's so clever! I can tell I'm viewed as "weird" by my community and I've seen them huddle together and talk about other "weirdos". I know they do the same about me when I'm not around. To them, it would be an absolute nightmare if others huddled together and had a conversation about how they were weird. I've called conformists weird before—they take that shit seriously. 😂

Optics wise , Kamala and Walz look great together. Side by side comparison, these two look competent, energetic, and ready to roll up their sleeves while Trump and Vance look like burnt out bullshitters who need a break from their con games.

Think about it. What scares adult conformists the most? The last thing they want to be is weird. I wonder if that’s the main reason the attack works. It’s the effect on their energies that is important, not the message. It really was a clever attack IMO, but it’s time for it to die before it becomes cringe.

Good insight. Fear of the unknown. Imagine being raised alone in a sealed, robot-controlled lab, unaware of the existence of other humans. As far as you know, you're the only human that has ever lived. Your skin is green. On your 20th birthday, a door opens, revealing an expansive outdoor area where you see groups of people for the first time. One group is white, one black, and the other green. Which group are you most likely to approach? The greens, right? This thought experiment seemingly reveals that we all have a benign, natural tendency to align ourselves with those most like us because to do otherwise carries more risk. The tendency itself seems to only manifest toxicity in low-conscious people. I've been trying to use logic and reason to beat the low-consciousness out of them, but the shit doesn't work.

Why aspire to inspire figments of imagination inside of an imagining? What else is there to do for someone driven by that passion? The figments demand engagement. If Mario suddenly finds himself in a world of monsters and coins, he should make the monsters his enemies and the coins his friends. There's literally nothing else for Mario to do. He is compelled to move. His entire world was created for him to engage with it. 😂 So funny! This connects to Bashar's main piece of advice about following your passion. Each main character has their own world/reality/construct and what they're most compelled to do is right for them in that reality, so it seems.

Misc Audible books on psychology, consciousness, and history. David R. Hawkins: Transcending the Levels of Consciousness I - Reality and Subjectivity The Eye of the I Discovery of the Presence of God Reality, Spirituality and Modern Man Letting Go Healing and Recovery James Allen - Complete Premium Collection E. H. Gombrich - A Little History of the World

This concept keeps coming up and is very interesting. I think of an octopus wrapping it's tentacles around 8 different objects and perceiving them all at once. This seems impossible from my limited perspective. It seems the 8 legs are looking for something specific to its survival and when they find it, that single thing becomes the focal point of perception. I've contemplated the implications of holding multiple perceptions/focal points simultaneously but there's a block I can't get through 😂. Obviously. But when you think about it... what would be the point of it? I think Leo has a good argument—one seems good enough, but that doesn't satisfy my curiosity here.

Nice! What was your overall impression? Was he pretty much the same as in his YT vids? Are you glad you did it?

It’s useful for some.

😂I have this too. Not sure it's a complex but it's the highest purpose I can find for living, so...

I thought I already understood Trumpism but you can't fully understand it without knowing about Paul Weyrich. A guy named Paul Weyrich has basically architected nearly EVERYTHING we see today as Christian nationalism. He's why Trump became president. He's why people like Charlie Kirk exist. He co-founded Moral Majority in 1979 and get this, The Heritage Foundation in 1973. They've been working very patiently and intelligently to amass power—and it's working. One man and his will to power is why my nephews were taken out of public school. Check out this excerpt from his protege's manifesto: This was written in 2001. It fucking worked, and they're doing this on many levels. They have this idea of conquering the "7 mountains" Education, Government, Family, etc.. They're making their own schools. Jordan Peterson just launched his own "university", PragerU, The Daily Wire school thing, that's what all of these are about. I thought it was just capitalism and fame but now I think they've grown bored of their old toys and now want POWER. They want dominion. They literally think they are the "Watchmen On the Wall". Literally! They join together and chant the Watchman's oath 😂 You gotta see this shit if you're like me and didn't know. These assholes have a database of mentally ill, desperate addicts who they track down and convert to Christians. They scout preachers from all over the U.S so they can provide them instructions for their flocks. Crazy. It's free on Tubi: https://tubitv.com/movies/100020971/bad Here's the referenced manifesto: "The Integration of Theory and Practice: A Program for the New Traditionalist Movement"

Yeah, you're probably right. It sucks to have members of your inner circle this far gone though. I've split with 2 of them in the past week and it was of course them who attacked me and ran when I got too close to their foundation with my jack hammer. LOL . It's fucked up.

I just checked out his rally in GA. It seems like a large segment of his audience knows he's full of shit and can see the overt manipulation and some of the lies. He literally just told them to the only way to stop their families getting murdered and raped is to prevent Kamala from winning. I think most of them can see through that by now, but not sure.

"If Harris wins, a never-ending stream of illegal alien rapist, MS-13 animals and child predators will flood into your communities." — Trump, ≈7:00 PM, 08-03-2024

I like Bashar but he loses me when he starts explaining metaphysics. He's pretty damn funny though. Goood DAAAYYYYYEE doyouall! 😂

@integral I see what you mean! I agree.

True, but should one not aspire to align their consciousness with their preferred states and principles their higher self has found to be valuable? It sounds like you're saying it's a fool's errand to attempt to change the psyche because it's simply not controllable to a significant enough degree to warrant the effort and you have to just accept that. Consider loving-kindness meditation. If you spent a year practicing it for an hour a day, I'm pretty sure it would significantly change you. The more you practice, the easier it becomes to create those states. So maybe you can't control consciousness, but you can definitely train it. It's good to recognize the limits but to sit in the backseat on this ride isn't my cup of tea. Part of the thrill is pushing the limits. Maybe I'll find out one day it's all just cope but if I have ZERO control, it just zaps the zest right out of the whole thing and I'm not interested. I'm not sure to what degree my ego is involved here but it is what it is for now.

How intelligent can Brand be? He found his way to Christianity. He wasn’t even indoctrinated. You know you’re fucked up if you make it to 50 and then join. I judge overall intelligence not simply by the degree a person can manipulate and toy with abstractions, which Brand and JP and Ben Shapiro can obviously do, but to truly be intelligent, you have to do more than just toy with ideas. The whole point of gleaning the essence of things is to understand them so you can figure out their place and value. Once you’ve gleaned the essence of Christianity, which has little to do with spirituality, the wise thing would be to do with it what you would do with any other toxic thing… get it away from you. More importantly though, brand does not care about religion. He’s grifting. Here’s proof:

It’s funny, I just mentioned this book the other day in post someone made about synchronicity. The actual audio book on Audible was much better than the video IMO. The narration is much higher quality and more polished. It seems like the same voice in both but I’m not sure.

You'll never create healthy conditions for humans and life on the planet by forcing them to adopt ancient beliefs and values. If there's a dominant force seeking to hold dominion over your psyche, there will be no peace. You might not be forced to buckle up for your own safety and to save government resources but peace, health, and flourishing go right out the window. I think when you understand this, you can easily categorize their position as antithetical to what is good, thus evil. It's nowhere near a viable option.

It covers already well-established self-dev principles but I found it helpful in its organization and approach to integrating the principles. It had a very logical and sober feel to it, which was different from my preferred style but it was overall valuable for me to see how a more logical person than myself approaches it and I got some inspiration from that. I liked how the principles were articulated and couched in fresh perspectives. It had a sort of robotic-like aim in forging the principles, which also appealed to me.

What I'm most shocked by is how well-organized and strategic the ring leaders are. I mean, it really is something. They have massive amounts of tax-free money, they're a large, well-connected, organized network of elites that have been concentrating power and influence and acquiring an army of obedient Christians over a period of decades and those Christians are ready to take whatever cue their preacher man gives them, who gets his cues from the network of elites. And these elites share a common end goal—to take over the government. I knew there was some half-assed organizations but had no idea anything of this magnitude and sophistication existed.

If I were to go and spend 1 hour contemplating "what is racism", my understanding of it would change or deepen and your dictionary cannot capture the realities and insights found in those depths. I don't expect you to go to those depths but just trying to show you they exist and you can go there if you want. haha, I don't need to be told this. But you should know that not all people are susceptible to influence and bias to the degree that most are. You seem woefully ignorant of what this means. Some people don't rely on others to tell them what is what. Conformists do that. I am not at all obsessed with race and nowhere close to what you would consider a "woke" liberal or leftist. I'm mostly apolitical but when the world started to praise Trump and a large segment of the population failed to see what was clearly before them, I started paying attention. I said they don't hold much value in the world of deep understanding. If you want to ask "what is a thing", you can't penetrate what it is with words and labels. You have to look at its nature. And why do you want a consensus? Spoken like a true centrist 😂 This is foolish. It's not my fault you can't look beyond what your betters told you to call a thing. Think for yourself! There's no need for a consensus, unless you're in a debate or afraid you'll be ostracized. I wasn't trying to convince you of my understanding of racism. I was trying to show you how I came to the conclusion that Trump is, at the very least, likely a racist and through a similar method, you could come to that conclusion yourself, but that means you'll have to leave your dictionary behind, strap on a sac, and as Neil deGrasse Tyson would say, travel into the great unknown! 😂