Apparition of Jack

I have mixed feelings about this. On one hand, she’s like the only non-geriatric person in a position to be President within the next four years (who isn’t also an evangelical wingnut like Pence is.) Plus, she has that generic “Yass Queen” energy that appeals to many undecided normies who might like the fact that she’s an outspoken woman. On the other hand, I get a really bad vibe from her when I listen to her speak and I 100% believe she’s going to be as stubbornly status quo as possible, a few minor platitudes aside. Even Biden seems to be more genuinely progressive than she does these days. Plus, unlike dementia-patient Biden she has the mental fortitude to put up resistance to progressive policies. I’m still hoping Biden wins, but it means that when she inevitably takes over from him when he gets too old, it’ll mean progressives really have to hold her feet to the fire and push her to be as radical on climate change, lobbying reform, healthcare etc as possible. We can’t let her be Hillary Clinton 2.0 just because she happened to be in the right place at the right time.

“Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau. I do not feel there will be soon if ever a 50 or 60 point break from present levels, such as they have predicted. I expect to see the stock market a good deal higher within a few months." - Dr. Irving Fisher, Professor of Economics at Yale University, October 17, 1929

Stage Purple comes across stage Orange industrial technology:

You have a house, but there’s 10 homeless people in our town with nowhere to stay. I decided to kick you out of your house and put the homeless people there instead. I’ve just helped out the maximum number of people with the resources we have. Do I get my good boy utilitarian points now?

A little bit of column A, a little bit of column B IMO. Humanity is always progressing towards greater consciousness, freedom and Love, but at the same time our lower human impulses (ego, greed, violence) are a fact of life and can't ever truly be eradicated no matter how developed we become. It's a paradox, but that's how you know it's true, lol.

So you mean he's going to get outsmarted by a couple of teenage girls?

@Roy what would be wrong with that?

@Roy Hard to do personal development when you’re in jail for dissent or are stuck in cyclical poverty because crucial social services are unfunded.

@Dragon Liege I don’t know if you can map anti-mask sentiment onto spiral dynamics, but whatever the case it’s an absurd belief to have. My respect for Ralph Smart at this point is basically 0 so it doesn’t surprise me he’s pushing this sort of nonsense.

It might sound all nice and fluffy, but if they avoid talking about tax reform then that’s all it ever be.

@Leilani Please for the love of your daughter just have fun with her! Death may be Absolute Infinity but sometimes you just gotta enjoy the simple things in life!

@Don Wei This article might interest you, it touched upon some of the things you were concerned about

@Parththakkar12 His VP will take over, which is why his pick for VP is such a big issue this election. There's a very good chance they'll effectively be running the country in a year or so after he wins anyway.

Trump's persona appeals so deeply to a few key identity pin points of the American psyche that there's a large portion of the US population that would sooner die than admit Trump was wrong. Some things like: He's white (very important one) He's a man He's "macho" / "masculine" / a "winner" (at least, he portrays himself as such) He's unbonded to "political correctness" (meaning he's free to say whatever racist and sexist nonsense that comes to his head) He's from the corporate world (a lot of Americans see themselves as "temporarily embarrassed millionaires" who are just a year's work away from the big bucks) He talks up nationalist rhetoric and downplays "playing nice" with the "globalist elites" (it doesn't matter that he's part of the global establishment himself and has undermined his country countless different times, Stage Blue just needs the aesthetics of nationalism to be on board with a demagogue) All make him out to be the archetypal "winning American" in many voter's minds. It's what many Americans see themselves as, whether or not they actually live up to that reality. He's like a manifestation of the unhealthy shadow of the American collective conscious, but the utter disaster his presidency has been means that that consciousness is rapidly changing.

If people are peddling conspiracy stuff then they're probably not as developed as you would assume. It can be an easy mistake to make since a lot of the sorts of people you're talking about use language like "Consciousness", "Healing", "Awakening" etc. so they can sound very awake, but they're still stuck deeply in Tier 1 and probably have a lot of stage Blue/Orange shadows they haven't worked through. New Agey circles can be magnets for all sorts of whackos, unfortunately. As for what "the elites" are up to, it's most likely possible that there's some sort of secret discussions at Bilderberg meetings and such, but these are probably just boring talks about further trade deregulations or government support of large corporations and stuff like that. Not exactly healthy Tier 2 politics, but not exactly "sucking the blood out of babies" either. Don't forget that even the rich and powerful are unconscious themselves, and aren't always aware of the damage they do to society, so it's usually best not to attribute harmful behaviours by those on top to malice when it can be better attributed to ignornace. And of course, the answer as to what to do about all this is to continue to develop yourself and raise your own consciousness, as you will be naturally more able to see beyond the unconscious forces that cloud the mind and see the world in a more clear light. Spiral Dynamics, self-actualisation etc. are all great tools are making sense of the world.

@Leo Gura Yeah, I regretted putting that in there, I'll delete it now. I suppose what I meant to say in more simple terms is that the progressive ego is simply under too much pressure right now and turning towards unhealthy behaviour as a way of coping. Progressive causes have been hamstrung for too long that those who believe in them are getting desperate. This isn't to denigrate progressive causes at all though, ending racism, tackling neoliberalism insanity, tackling climate change, etc. are all absolutely necessary to creating a conscious, sane world.

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@Leo Gura Just out of curiosity, what would you say makes that game Turquoise?

@Askarov he has a Twitter but he hasn’t used it for a while Why do you want to find him on social media anyway?

@Seiden Sounds like a utopia when it comes to dealing with pandemics I wish westerners weren’t so fucking stubborn

@Husseinisdoingfine This town is so white I can’t believe it hasn’t needed a stain wash yet

Blackjack & hookers

@Consciousone35 Listen dude, I don't know you and I have no idea what your life situation is like, but I can't help but feel there's a really unhealthy reason behind you wanting to do this. You mention sex offenders taking an extremely narcissistic form of enlightenment, which is weird because I assume most sex offenders don't even know about or care what enlightenment is. It sounds like to me are you are dealing with some sort of need for revenge or "justice" from something you may or may not have witnessed personally that you want to enact out in the world but aren't fully thinking through the consequences of such a path. Yes a life purpose isn't about being "nice" but it isn't about being needlessly vindictive and single-minded either. Put it this way - if you put all your time and effort into prosecuting sex offenders (and only sex offenders for some reason), you'll have wasted all that time you could've used to find a more holistic and uplifting life purpose and developed and grown as a person yourself. Focusing on this one, singular issue will keep you undeveloped and surrounded by negative energy preventing you from living a better life. There's probably a much healthier, visionary and holistic life purpose for you out there. It could even involve the legal system, but just not in a way that's focused on hate / revenge and instead focused on love / upliftment. You could be a public defender for instance, helping to defend people who don't have the money for a private lawyer, or you could get into corporate law and hold corporations to account for this misdeeds, and so on.

@VerballyHazardous You probably shouldn't be watching such toxic memey bullshit, it'll keep you stuck in the lower stages