BlessedLion

Regarding the post on YouTube corruption. This is something I had been contemplating and noticing a lot recently as well. It’s sad, because I felt like for a while YouTube was a great platform that was quite unbiased and showed you interesting, thought provoking material. They were not like Instagram TikTok and twitter and held a certain integrity in not showing you dopamine fueled shorts and catchy thumbnails. And now you don’t even get shown videos of creators you’re subscribed to. I mean I found this channel via YouTube and it changed my life deeply. One good thing about YouTube is they don’t seem too politically biased. It seems like they just serve up what will make them the most profit, but they aren’t pushing some agenda like Zuckerberg or Musk (pussies) I was doing some searching for my own channel and it was so hard to do research. Seems like tons of videos are just gone or lost in the sea of slop that YouTube recommends first. Feels like YouTube is just like an entertainment platform now, and even educational channels are whoring themselves out to user retention and keeping people addicted. Sad. At least we have books still

I think the whole “sacred medicine” thing is not much more than a label for people to feel better about just getting high. And it doesn’t ensure it’s safe at all. I’ve sat in many ayahuasca and peyote ceremonies with trained Shipibo and Mexican Shamans from the desert. Plenty of people had horrific, traumatizing, and psychotic trips. Yet everyone just says shit like “that’s what the medicine wanted to show you” “there are no bad trips” as if the psychedelics are these wise entities who never fuck up. Super stage green and even partially purple imo. Also tons of shamans die from cancer from their tobacco abuse. What an absurd notion that just because they call it medicine it won’t fuck up their lungs. So glad I graduated this from this whole ideology a while ago

Exactly, agreed

I used to think this, and I still think it’s important. Yet it’s also important that a man is able to self regulate his emotions and let them go. If he is too reactive and emotional, she will feel the burden of his emotions and like she is mothering him too much. The best thing is to be in touch with the emotions and also able to share them in a calm and collected manner, not needing anything from her, but just sharing “hey, this is going on right now” Women say that want men in touch with emotions and feminine side but there is a shadow there, and if the man is too feminine or more feminine than her, she will lose attraction and run away. Honestly the woman who wrote this article OP shared sounds like a nightmare and she seems very disconnected from her heart. Just sitting around and judging men for every little imperfection in their personalities, while she paints herself as this deep, unseen victim. Spare me 🙏

What’s the most potent and effective way to fight back Trump and also the Palestinian Genocide- realistically? Protesting? Boycotting?

His circle of goons are absolutely spineless and you can see no soul in their eyes. Just check out that video I shared and look at the photos of them

Holy fuck I may actually stay abroad. Like legit

Hm. That’s interesting, and I’m sure there are all types of people there. It still doesn’t really explain the poor behavior abroad. Many countries are melting pots and don’t behave so consistently like this when traveling.

I think it’s nuanced and highly dependent on genetics. I’ve also had personal horrific trips on it. Worse than anything from shrooms, and have friends who have as well. I don’t think I’ll ever touch it again, doesn’t click with me at all. Sorry Mary Jane, you fucked me over too many times

An insult to Frank Underwood. He never bombed and starved children

They’re def executing on some sort of agenda. Hopefully they don’t succeed in whatever they are trying to do

Haha. I was just thinking about this thread as I’m supposed to go back to America soon but think I’m actually going to cancel that and stay in Latin America. It’s actually scary

I would normally agree with you, people always dramatize- but this situation is actually and legitimately quite dark and bleak. It’s pretty scary

Until they come knocking on your door. Then it won’t be fun

I got about 5 seconds in before concluding this wack as fuck

Israel, but they are more like "Pure Evil"

“Reputation is how other people perceive you, Character is how perceive yourself. You can fool others, you can’t fool yourself” -John Wooden Aka- As long as you are doing your best, staying in line with your highest values and living authentically- who cares?

Love the post on Ken Wilber. I truly think his work is the best out there and every time I read his books I grow immensely. He is way ahead of his time

The irony is that these are Orange metrics of success

I’ve been really enjoying diving back into Orange recently. Lotta beauty there that I initially labeled as “bad”

A great lesson on authenticity and life purpose, props to Mark, unfortunately i think his follower count will drop now that he is actually going to produce in depth content. I also don't really agree with his viewpoints or perspective on many things, but thought this was cool. Being a full-time podcaster seems pretty difficult, and this brings light to an even deeper issue: Most of these people being interviewed and famous podcasters are actually extremely contradictory and do not like being challenged on their views. I see why Mark got burnt out on these mainstream guests, honestly it's simply too much information to truly ground and go deep in anything, like quick hit dopamine self help

A good example of this is Diary of a CEO. It’s the number 1 podcast in the world but it’s like fast-food dialogue and entertainment. It’s Netflix wearing the cloak of education and learning. The latest video is on stupid gimmicks and tricks for manipulating your facial expressions so people like you. Like your appeasing a baby! Another recent one is on a crooked cop, there is no wisdom being learned here, just interesting stories and perspectives, but no one watching DOAC is learning core principles of living well. It’s bubble gum self help. And all these guests do is just loop and loop on different platforms creating this echo chamber which causes mass confusion on how to live but people think they are becoming smarter.

He’s already really rich and successful. I don’t think he gives a shit about it

I was laughing my ass off out loud in the cafe when I heard that part

I think it’s okay but it’s missing some serious principles and time tested values, has a tinge of nihilism to it, and he seems to have a serious chip on his shoulder around Stage Green values and practices like meditation and love. Not my vibe, but I can see how it could help a lot of people, especially young guys. Overall I think he’s a solid male role model, and doing good in the world.