Apparition of Jack

Some people are born more naturally attuned to spiritual matters than others, yes. These are the priests, shamans, healers, poets, (Actualized.org visitors.. ) of any given society. Someone born into strong states of meditative absorption tends to be very rare and when they do arise they usually end up being powerful teachers. Also place matters too. I can't say this for sure but from what I've heard people end up clustering in places depending on, among other things, their spiritual development in their past lives. This is why so many gurus and yogis arise in India, so many CEOs and entrepreneurs arise in the US, so many warlords and fighters arise in Africa and so on.

I'm using the term "objective" here rather loosely, since as we all know everything is ultimately relative. I just mean in the sense of taking the biggest-picture, most conscious stance that takes into account as many factors as possible in any one given moment of space and time. For instance, an "objective" stance on the climate issue would be that CO^2 emissions do indeed create a greenhouse effect which in turn slowly heats up the planet over time. This position has been arrived at through an understanding the context of human pollution, the nature of Earth's ecosystems, how data is measured and the motivations of climate scientists taking down the data, and so on. Obviously such a statement isn't taking into account the fact that the physical world is just a manifestation of Infinite Imagination, or that the words describing this process are inherently limited and dualistic nature and so can be misinterpreted or fail to provide a complete picture and so fourth, but for the purposes of understanding where humanity is at, in our current relative geopolitical climate, it's useful to use this relative terminology. We can't be engaging in deep epistemology when discussing every political and social issue we face, essentially.

Nature. Seriously, nature is fucking incredible. I was feeling anxious today and I couldn't pin point the cause, but then when I opened my windowed and just absorbed the energy of the leaves in front of me I started to feel calmer and more aware and I managed to get through the rest of the day. <- This here is a guy looking through a small window at the wonderful nature outside

All news sources are biased to some degree, this is an inescapabe fact due to the nature of language. You're right that even higher-consciousness news sources like TYT / The Humanist Report fall into the trap of self-bias and ideology, it's just the difference in ideology is one of stage Blue conservatism (Fox News) and stage Green progressivism (TYT/THR). The point is though to be as aware of ideology as possible and to move beyond it. If you want to be truly objective about news, you'll have to expose yourself to a number of different sources and always keep a critical mind about the information being presented (along with how it's being presented) and come to your own own conclusions. Learning epistemology and how bias works can be helpful in this too.

The point is that there isn't one. "Whiteness" is a social construct that's only a few hundred years old at most, and exists because the people coming up with it had specific survival interests in promoting it. That's not to say there aren't distinct European (or European-descended) ethnic groups out there, just that labelling them all as "white" only works in very limited contexts and ultimately ends up causing more confusion than it gets rid of.

@Annoynymous That's because that's what the interviews are designed to do. Fox News interviews are not good faith discussions between two people with differing ideas, they're "the host" (who is supposed to be a stand-in for the audience / the audience's beliefs) inviting different "crazy" guests on to make fun of and to reaffirm their own ideological supremacy over the guest / guest's beliefs. Of course this only works if you agree with Fox New's ideology in the first place, so if you're more developed than that the host, in this case Tucker Carlson, you will recognise that they're being dismissive and rude.

Well, it depends on context. Just because say, a Chinese nationalist and an American nationalist are both blue, that obviously doesn't mean they'll see eye-to-eye, lol. Content is important, not just structure.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2020/feb/11/new-hampshire-primary-results-exit-poll-live-bernie-sanders-pete-buttigieg-latest-2020-updates Good news for everyone interested in self-actualisation, sustainability, humanism, awakening, etc. He's won the popular vote in these two states and is set to win even more, as he has large support from minorities who have so far been under-represented in these two mostly-white states. Not to mention all the other support he has as well. If you're politically-minded at all and his message resonates with you, it would be good to get involved in supporting his movement. Even non-Americans can get involved through things like text banking for him. I'm not sure if posting political links is allowed here but a quick google search of "Text for Bernie" or "Call for Bernie" can set you straight if you're interested in this. Of course, we should support him in a non-ideological and conscious manner, and avoid getting too heated or too upset about the twists and turns of this primary. There are still a lot of undecided voters out there and being calm and respectful can go a long way in getting people on board with his ideas. Spiral Wizardry would help a lot. But there is cause for hope and there is a lot of momentum on his side. He has a winning strategy and is frankly just a very cool person Let's help the world evolve to Green everybody!

@Leo Gura I run on renewable resources (Love :P)

@Leo Gura Forgive my ignorance on how US primaries work, but what's stopping something like a secret paper ballot being used to elect the nominee instead? From what I understand such a method of voting tends to be the most secure and with the least problems. Is there any reason why this can't be used?

@silene IMO the Cross is one of the world's most successful cases of marketing ever. It's such a straightforward symbol (literally just two lines) that can be applied anywhere, and yet when you see it you know instantly what it means. I would even go so far as to say that our modern understanding of brand logos was at least in part heavily influenced by the Western mind's attempt to attach so much meaning to geometrically basic symbols. Christianity would never have had the staying power that it did if it didn't co-opt the image of the Cross as it's main symbol.

That doesn't sound like Green to me. That sounds more like unhealthy code Red or Orange co-opting vaguely-Green sounding language. True Green still has a sense of ethics and code of conduct, it's just based on an individual's capacity for compassion/empathy, rather than dogmatic rules as was the case in Blue.

In some cases, there are groups that have always been ignored and neglected by society no matter the time and place. In other cases, the groups who get ignored and neglected depending upon the specific society/culture that you're from. For instance, homeless people, the disabled, the elderly (especially those without large families), kids from rough homes, etc. tend to be ignored and overlooked in every society. These people can "fall through the cracks" so to speak, since it's easy for most people to overlook them and it's hard to find people willing to take the time and effort to properly accommodate their needs. In other examples though, it'll depend specifically on the culture. For instance, let's say you're the child of a peasant family in code Blue Imperial China in the year 1900. You've managed to get your hands on a few code Orange western science books, and have found a passion for chemistry that you never knew existed, and you realise it's what you want to dedicate your life too. You want to travel to Beijing or Shanghai and go study at the big universities there so you can become a chemical engineer to help your society. However, if you try to tell your parents this your wish though, you may be told you're being crazy or unrealistic and that you should do what everyone has always expected of you - become a peasant, find a partner to have kids with, and just live out your life in the same village you grew up in. You're not being neglected in the sense that your physical needs aren't being met, but rather your creative and intellectual potential is being neglected just because it doesn't align with the dominant cultural paradigm you're born in. You, a budding scientist, are being neglected not because you come from an underprivileged place in society, but because the specific cultural norms of your society don't allow for your potential to flourish. If you had been born in the same village just 50 years later, when China began to take a huge interest in science and engineering and was looking for as many people interested in it as possible, those needs would not be being neglected, since you'd be encouraged to seek them out and develop them as much as you can.

@Jed Vassallo Trump lost the Senate by a huge margin in 2018, has officially been impeached and was acquitted by only two votes (TWO), has had some of his most egregious policies shot down or reversed, and continues to operate a revolving door administration of lackeys-turned-enemies. This is nothing to say of the American people themselves, who are far too conscious and humanistic to let a military crackdown fly in their country. Yes, Trump has a lot of ardent supporters, I'm not denying that, but they're in the minority, and their strength is a short-term schizophrenic rage against changing realities. Trump will try to harness this energy to maintain power, but the odds are stacked against him. Spending too much time on the media can make it seem like an authoritarian takeover is coming any day now, but you have to be careful that you're not just being sold alarmism either. Without wanting to downplay the risk that Trump or his supporters currently represent, they are still in many ways paper tigers.

@Jed Vassallo Maybe in fantasy land they do, but in the real world the government doesn't work like that. Separation of Powers is one of the fundamental principles of the US government, and exists precisely to stop the sort of scenario you're describing from coming to pass. Remember: the US military is loyal to the constitution, not the president. If anything if Trump tried to pull something like that he'd be more likely toppled by the military than listened to by them.

Why would the military listen to him? Or the judges? Or the rest of the non-executive US government? There are many people in the Pentagon who have no great love for Trump, not to mention the brazen illegality of such actions. What's Trump going to do to get them to obey? Sick Ben Shapiro on them?

@DLH This is ridiculous. This is like saying we shouldn't have fought the Nazis because they needed to grow and develop in their own time, and trying to force an overthrow of the Nazis on the German people would've caused a backlash. Yeah, try telling that to the innocent citizens of France, Denmark, Russia, not to mention the millions of Jews of Europe who were killed mercilessly under the Nazi war machine. If reactionaries are so threatened by the developing code Green society that Bernie is helping to manifest that they're unwilling to accept it without resorting to violence and hate, that's their problem, not ours. At this point, a degree of unhealthy Blue backlash against Trump's defeat is inevitable. It's not a matter of will it happen, but rather how big it will be when it does. In fact, letting Trumpism fester for another four years will almost certainly make the situation worse, not better. It's like a cancer that needs to be ripped out before growing too large.

@Scholar Tankies are weird

@Ibn Sina Keep in mind these apps are more or less designed to promote the most jealousy-invoking images to the top, since it helps both keep you addicted and keeps the people posting these pictures interested in posting more, since it creates a feedback loop of addiction to the "likes"/comments/offers to advertise from companies and so on. Instagram, facebook etc can be tools for growth used correctly, but you have to be careful with them because it's very easy to get caught in unconscious patterns of seeking the next "high" from seeing a friend's "amazing trip" or finding out "what's hot" with people around you and so on.

@Husseinisdoingfine That's not so much a problem of Social Democracy but rather just financial imperialism, which exists regardless of whether a Social Democratic party is in power in any wealthy country. You could argue all day that Social Democracy upholds this imperialism, but I'd argue that such a take is too unnuanced and doesn't take into account the very real cultural shifts that Social Democracy facilitates that then gives wealthy governments the willpower to cut down on unequal financial agreements between wealthy and poor countries. I understand that the very existence of financial imperialism causes a lot of heartbreak for code Green people, and I truly understand why, but blanket, Tier-1 solutions of something like "we need a communist revolution to end global inequality" just aren't the solution, unfortunately.

@Jed Vassallo It could be Blue/Green, but honestly that just sounds like more Green using imagery that is more traditionally associated with Blue. There's no reason why a cathedral can't be home to Code Green yoga lessons and LGBT meetings, other than a lack of popular imagination linking the two.

I've spent a little bit of time in New Agey circles lately, and one thing I've noticed is that a lot of people mostly use the flowery language of "soul journey", "living your truth" and so on as a way to cope with the stresses of late capitalist society but without wanting to really dig too deep into solving the root causes of their distress or doing some deep epistemological investigation. I suppose I had set myself up with too high expectations so I was a little disappointed when the experience wasn't what I was hoping it to be, but there I was going to these places hoping to have dense discussions on Neoplatonism and the need for integral politics to solve the climate crisis and instead I got a few hours of feel-good music in a language I couldn't understand Still, I don't want to disparage these movements too much. As far as living in the modern west goes, New Age hippies with unexposed Blue/Orange shadows are still way more developed than most of the rest of the population, and honestly I encourage people to expose themselves more to this style of being. I've actually met some truly inspiring people who have helped me along my own journey with their openness and vulnerability, so clearly there is truth to these movements. They're just not... the be all and end all of self-development / actualisation / hardcore spiritual enlightenment. Just my random ramble.

I wonder if he was influenced by the 2016 Justice League movie... Media can have a weird effect on people

Just to give some context, Leo is banning people who say stuff like "Actualized.org is a Satanic cult and only Jesus can lead to God" repeatedly without budging, not people who say stuff like "You all suck I've done the techniques but it doesn't work", but who then begins to open up when exposed to compassion and some new tools to get them to assess their situation differently. One is coming from a place of single-minded ideology with no desire to improve, the other is coming from a place of hurt and lack of insight but a desire to improve.