Raze

https://www.edge.org/conversation/moral-psychology-and-the-misunderstanding-of-religion

I think he has a very strong ego, he said in one blog video that he has difficulty stopping thought because he's fascinated by his constant insights. Probably he hasn't properly surrendered because he enjoys thinking too much. That is why I believe he likes psychedelics so much over long term practice, because while temporary they may force him to surrender.

Read I hate you don't leave me by Jerold J. Kreisman and Hal Straus, and Stop Walking on Eggshells by Paul T Mason. If you aren't already you need to talk to a psychologist, if you were in a relationship with a BPD person it may be a sign you have an undiagnosed problem like being a fixer or having codependent narcissism.

Found an insightful stage yellow thinker

How is societies current transition between stages going? Is it not smooth enough, is it possible society will revert? How do you feel about claims that young people in western countries lack meaning in their lives? Do you feel foreign policy reflects understanding of stages, or do larger countries try to force smaller countries to skip stages?

Playlist of stage yellowish gender/relationship perspective

https://rd.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10902-021-00362-9

https://apnews.com/article/legislature-legislation-local-governments-nevada-economy-2fa79128a7bf41073c1e9102e8a0e5f0

The power Big Tech is gaining is very worrisome. They have an absurd amount of control over what a large amount of the population sees every day. Now they are using their wealth to lobby the government. With enough lobbying and a divided opposition they could legitimately control the federal government eventually.

Women desire a man who is more 'masculine' then them so that they can feel feminine. This means they usually want him to earn as much or more than them, be more outgoing, etc. But in the west women are more masculine in general, in fact single women even earn more than single men, so no matter how 'masculine' they get they want a man who is even more masculine than them, which becomes a smaller and smaller minority.

A good beginner work on Islam is The Life and Times of Muhammad Paperback by John Glubb. It's not a religious conversion and he tries to weave together a wide variety of sources with different levels of trustworthyness. I've also heard good things about Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources by Martin Lings but I wonder if it's biased since the author converted to islam. I wasn't a big fan of Leo's video, I overall agree with his points but I feel like he didn't research it that well. For example he brings up the 72 virgins thing, but from what I heard the source is extremely iffy and some claim it was a mistranslation of raisins, not virgins.

The taliban said that they didn't do that for religious reasons.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/07/bernie-sanders-vermont-freeman-sexual-freedom-fluoride/ This article contains links to essays Bernie Sanders wrote in the 1970's. Back then his ideas were a lot more radical, I don't know if this means he went down on spiral dynamics or up. Some interesting things I noticed is him saying public nudity should be legal, working 9 to 5 causes cancer, women not having orgasms causes cancer, and children shouldn't be sent to school. The whole essays are worth a read.

Despite accusations of racism against Trump and a large push by Democrats for diversity and anti-racism, Black, Hispanic, and Asian voters all moved away from democrats and towards Republicans during both Trump elections. If this movement is sustained (of even increased if republicans run an outreach program to minority communities/lose divisive rhetoric like Trump had), the democrats could potentially lose a huge advantage from what was a growing population of voters. Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/20/opinion/joe-biden-inauguration.html

https://www.businessinsider.com/gen-z-changes-political-divides-2019-7 https://ifstudies.org/blog/the-conservative-fertility-advantage I am talking about long term TRENDS. I never said minorities voted majority for Republicans in 2020, the fact that they voted overall for Biden in 2020 is irrelevant to my point. My point is they are TRENDING away from Democrats and towards republicans. If that trend continues, eventually Democrats are going to lose a large advantage with their populations. The data in the original thread post literally shows this. I know they are not a monolith, but I am talking about them overall. I find it incredibly unlikely it was Trump magic that caused them to trend red. Trump was extremely divisive and barely tried to reach out to them, except for a small amount he did later in 2020. Most likely they weren't coming to republicans because of Trump, it was in-spite of Trump. If Republicans have a less divisive candidate and actually have a plan and message to reach out to minorities they may expand this trend. America doesn't elect presidents based on popular vote, so I don't see why that matters. It might as well be a fluke since 2000 had a difference of 0.5%, and had Republicans lost in 2000 they easily could have won big in Obama's place if Al Gore oversaw a great recession. One of the biggest bases of demographics favoring Democrats is the increasing minority population, mostly of Hispanics, but if the trend of them moving away from democrats continues, that would become an advantage for Republicans.