Danioover9000

Especially those of you who like to draw figures, scenery, and who do comic strips either as a hobby or a profession, have any of you started to do the free lance version of them, for example concept art or illustrator? And how did you guys go to free lance of it?

@Blackhawk Was it the interpretation video? Well, that's another interpretation of that fact. And a fact is also an interpretation too. Depending on what zoom you're in, it will see, hear and feel differently. You could be zoomed out far enough to know an opinion is an interpretation, but not far enough to also see facts and hard evidence as interpretation. Also, some are so zoomed into the content of a box that even an opinion is treated as truth. The holocaust is a horrible event in itself. Zoom out, you see that the holocaust is part of many atrocities in WW2. Zoom out more, you also include past events like WW1, and so on with wars all the way back to ancient times. Also include going forward in time and see that wars such as the Vietnam war and Pacific war are also horrific as well. Keep going, and such events will eventually no longer have a hold over you.

@cookiemonster Which is why it's important to be able to entertain those conspiracy theories through contemplation, and also be able to detach from them like an after thought.

Very interesting.

Hey guys Richard Branson has just flown with his space plane and successfully landed the plane! We might be able to fly in space in the future! What are your thoughts about this?

I would give some credibility to what he says, if he has tried hundreds of other psychedelics than 5-Meo-DMT, and that he could show us what vision is or is not an egoic projection. If he can't do one, or both, I'd not listen and I'll come back to improving my life, bit by bit.

@Hap E-Boi Likely. Leo also had a video showing a dog giing high on psilocybin mushrooms it found on the wild in his blog posts.

Not even starting with psychedelics. Just meditation might be enough to turn the medicator into an animal. That was one of many dark sides of meditation an old Leo video listed. @flowboy

This video showcases the following limitations of a scientist trying to explain religion as a biology in a society: Notice how his worldview that is materialistic and scientific explains and implies that most of the leaders of religion have milder forms of schizophrenia, which fails to see how that is because those religions are at the development stage they are at, not due to the genetic traits expressed in those groups, in fact he conflates elements of stage purple, Shamans, to being applicable to elements of stage blue priests and is not aware of how he constructs this mistake. He is not aware that he is interpreting the information from a mostly stage orange to tiny elements of stage yellow mind, and the orange mind is, based on the cognitive, moral development and life experiences so far, unable to see that stage blue, red and purple's development is necessary, especially in regards to the creativity and evolution of states of consciousness through collective development of those stages. Keep in mind, Dr. Robert Sapolsky is an accomplished intellectual, yet this is not enough for realizing self bias and how your world view and developmental stage distorts information and colours how you interpret reality, including interpreting other cultures and groups of different stages. Even if, suppose I am being generous, and say actually Robert Sapolsky is 50% yellow, 10% green and 20% orange, even if the majority of his psyche is more in yellow, which is self aware and construct aware that the tier 1 existence is necessary, that still is not enough to help him realize the mystical elements that exists behind each religion and each spiritual tribe so far in humanity, which is greatly realized at stage turquoise, because the key development needed for this is linked with meta cognition, and with self reflection, and that is states of consciousness and consciousness development. If your development of consciousness is not high enough, it will struggle to get a grip with how mysticism is linked with religion and tribes, which is one of many pointers to deep truths like No self, true self, infinity, oneness, and will struggle as to why there are so many different versions to God in every religion or spirit tribe. Feel free to share your thoughts, and after watching the video, share what you think and what came up. Interestingly this topic on the biology of religion, he didn't want to post on the official Stanford playlist as it might get backlash. Yes, backlash from stage blue fundamentalists getting triggered, but also notice this, too, he is not aware of how the fear he feels is a projection of a future his mind created, to justify not sharing the video. Ta-da!

@Milos Uzelac Yes, crysty is short for Crystal. As for her general appearance, as I've mentioned, she has a light tan and looks, ethnically speaking, Indonesian. Sometimes, either because of her non physical state, or my mind's need to save will power, she has another form that appears more anime than real life. So I treat those forms as if they were like how an octopus could change itself to suit environment appearance. Well, this is what Crysty is capable of. Her speaking in English could be because I also speak English, and she learned from our interactions over the years, or from being in a country where it's bilingual, both English and Quebec french language, and she may have picked up how other people speak, from life, tv or the internet. Also, about her knowing anime tropes and such, comes down to me also growing up consuming those mediums, and sharing those experiences with her. I don't know much about my ancestry other than that I'm half British, quarter Indonesian and quarter Dutch genetically speaking, although that's as far as I know. Regarding this I also wonder about while I was doing some research about this, and this possibility seems more far fetched because her communication is similar with mine, and I have yet heard her speak differently, and I encountered her in Niagra falls, not in Britain or in Indonesia. Although I know enough to say thag on my mother's side, there were a bunch of paranormal events that occurred in her family, which did deal with one event of a ghost haunting that her family hed to deal with, and another event that I don't know much about. And yes, so far in my personal development and spiritual development journey, Crysty and I had some pretty good experiences with eacb other.

@diamondpenguin Probably too much trolling.

@Gesundheit2 I mean, it's rare but it's possible to independently think about a conspiracy theory at stage yellow and seperate it to it's constituents, but other than that there's gonna be a ton of subtle fears and deep shadows and thought stories attached to each theory that it makes it much harder to treat it with neutrality. Also, that latter point about attaching conspiracies together, that is possible. Take Qanon for instance, it's part elitist taking over, part satanic worshippers, part connection to reptilians working under the shadows of the federal state, with a hint of sexual slander, and you have a cluster of conspiracy theories that have now become one conspiracy theory. With flat earth theory, as obvious as it is a conspiracy theory today, 10,000 years ago the majority of mankind believed the earth was flat, and it was the center of the world, as real as life itself.

@Gesundheit2 It could be that the theories were presented more aggressively that it became annoying for mainstream, which is probably why it's censored. I get it if it's a more dangerous conspiracy theory like quanon or about anti vax, but flat earth? What I've seen so far is that it's not that dangerous compared to other conspiracy theories to warrent aggressive censorship.

It's better than a typical 9-5, that's for sure. Are you planning on being a free lance too?

@StarStruck Yes, it is hard for a guy to understand the perspective of a girl. Some do treat nice guys as trash, but some don't treat them like trash, and some treat them differently than trash. Some do treat dick heads as kings because at that time they relied on them for security. However, some don't, some now can leave or treat them differently otherwise. Some do treat them nicely, and some don't, sometimes out of spite, but sometimes they could be busy doing other things as women nowadays have a life. Keep in mind the female friends who talked to you about this are in your social circle. Have you talked to other women outside of your immediate social circle? Immediate social circles tend to just echo whatever is in the in group. Girls have more power is context sensitive. This might be the case in some parts of 1st world democracies, but not so in 2nd to 3rd world democracies and other forms of societies.

really any advice about this issue is much appreciated.

@Onecirrus You could look into advice on personal investment and financial investments. For example, ownership investment has mostly been a good way of investing money, examples of ownership investment are stocks, real estate and small business mainly. If you're in the USA, consider saving some money in a money market fund more so than a bank account, as that could yield more money long term than a typical savings account.

For example, My past passions and hobbies include the following: dinosaurs, videogames, board games like chess, writing and storytelling specifically reading fiction, listening to music, poetry, origami, and lately drawing realistic images, manga and western comic styles. I also loved to see fantasy/nature scenery, golf and do quick sketches. These are hobbies thay I'm good at, and some really good at. Where I'm lacking is in marketing, knowing my potential customer base and how I provide my value, in a product or service format. For the marketing bit, I don't know that much. I'm thinking about using spiral dynamics model to tailor my marketing towards providing that value that the group resonates with. It's just that the execution is where I'm unclear, so for those reading who have studied marketing both traditional and digital your insight is appreciated. As for the customer base I want to service, again not clear on this. Does it come to using the spiral dynamics series to help with this? Also the opposite problem is too narrow of a base. For example, manga is typically realised comic series unlike western comics in general. shounin manga is a mainstream Japanese comic book published weekly, aimed at audiences that are children to teen readers, while shoujo is aimed more for teens that like romance, with an artstyle good for weekly-monthly realises. Senin manga is a monthly realise comic with more detailed artwork, that narrows sown the niche to mature audiences, yet here we can keep narrowing it down. Some series can hyper specifically provide a niche, and some artist only have a specific style. So when do I decide if my niche is way too narrow? And do do research and listen and capitalize for opportunities? For example, currently manga is seeling better than western comics due to manga being more affordable and have better catalogue as serial series and story narrative carry overs more than western comics (western comics mostly realise issues independently regardless of character/plot development from a previous author's work in that story) aand due to a stage green backlash in rushing in casts of protagonists that are politically driven to represent minorities and some elements of stage green and gen x( I don't mind stories having political elements, other than how it was implemented was too rushed and in your face, that it disrespected any past work of that story.) So I could see myself potentially realising an online comic series that has solid story and good artwork, and I narrow down to one political representation of a specific group. Is this a good line of thinking? As for how I provide value, I do have some ideas here at least. I had some experience creating mock websites in past computer classes, ans I know some coding. This, along with some other experiences had me thinking about going free lance with my work. The issue related to this is how I invest time and energy. I could delegate by advertising, for example, a writer to write my story, or an artist that specializes in comics to draw the panels, or an editor, or some other marketing specialist that markets my work somehow, or someone that could set up my website. The delegation I view it as saving me some energy and time for other areas of life. However, most likely the delegation I will be paying more than them doing it for free, and I will be spending more time on marketing for these specialists than on my work. Or the other extreme I could do the entire process, from outlining the characters and plot, placing story beats, really structuring a solid story and script, plus designing the world setting and characters, plus doing rough drafts and finalizing my comic, plus handle the marketing and the website. With this approach, I'm squeezing all my free time into this, and more mental and physical energy into this, and leave me very little wpare time for anything else. For those of you who have done a process like this, doing free lance regardless of what it is specifically about, how have you approached this? Really appreciate some feedback.

@flowboy The common downside to workaholics is lack of rest, but that aside I I don't have issue with them. They do take massive action and figure it out on the fly whether they have a vision or not.

Yes, the problem of the shrinking middle class over there. It's pretty bad in the USA.

@flowboy Well, some successful people are workaholics, so the last thing to them would be quitting regardless if their work has become stall to them. Although you are right that most successful people who don't do enough personal development, including contemplation, they could quit early.

Cancel culture is like the boy who cried wolf too many times. Keep in mind, this is not entirely stage green's weakness, but stage blue/orange business people can and do use social media leverage and use mob justice. against their competitions that resembles a tiny bit of plagiarism.

Ever heard about the boy that cried wolf?

@trenton This could be the case.

@Fearey Oh shit, some of us are screwed then.