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Anyone know of anyone channels similar to CrookedMedia that focuses generally on UK politics?

https://www.verywellmind.com/mindfulness-meditation-technique-labeling-thoughts-3144768 I'd recommend following the general advice. Then when it comes to the part about choosing which specific labelling technique to use, I'd do the following. Simply note the emotion that the thought seems to correspond to. I.e. if the thought seems panicky in nature, just note, 'panic', or excited, note, 'excited'. I feel a significant calmness and groundedness after doing this type of meditation. And have struggled for years to find benefits from meditation, despite prolonged and repeated efforts with various other methods. Hope this can be of value to some folks!

@Nilsi Just seen this, but thanks. Do you know of a specific book/ section of a book, where Wilber talks about this specifically?

Whilst I don't necessarily disagree with your ban, I wish you well dude, both materially and internally.

@Max_V Agree except I don't think there's a difference in levels. I think everyone is on the same level. However, if you respond to someone's abuse with your own abuse, you are still committing abuse and that is generally wrong.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/06/chimpanzee-escapes-from-zoo-in-under-fire-ukrainian-city

@Devin I think I understand. I also relate to your sense of disconnection. Hope Fisher's work is of value to you.

I'd recommend IFS therapy, or Janina Fisher's work if you're rather dissociated. If you are interested and would like some recommendations about how to get into it, then feel to free to ask and I'll give you some.

I really think David Tian's recent work is the best there is regarding alpha male type discussions on Youtube. Once I found out about and was persuaded by the IFS model everything makes so much more sense, and the limits of a lot of alpha male talk becomes readily apparent.

I'd share if it wasn't for my wanting to keep my anonymity on here :). However, I saw you highlighted a quote from Terry Brooks on your goodreads, and was curious as to whether you'd read his 'Genesis of Shannara' series. Was one of my favourites growing up!

I really like that channel too :)

I think its better to be proactive than passive in situations like this, personally. If you feel like you might need to be seen again sooner I'd support your taking rapid action to get that to happen, i.e. 911. It might simply be that its something like anxiety. However, it could also be something serious. On that balance, I think it would be sensible to treat it as though its something serious.

@Shakazulu Sounds like valuable work to me!

My original comment that you replied to was about nuclear fusion reactors rather than nuclear fission reactors. The former have a lot more potential than the latter in terms of energy production.

@Nilsi Oh. It says its a nuclear fission reactor, rather than nuclear fusion reactor

@Leo Gura Ye dude I'd recommend being more respectful in these sorts of communications

@Nilsi Nuclear fusion ones? If so, do you have a link you could share?

@Shakazulu Hope the workbook has been going well :). If you found value in it and would like to explore the author's work in more detail, I'd recommend the following title: https://www.amazon.com/Healing-Fragmented-Selves-Trauma-Survivors/dp/B07RHQ9GFZ (I'd check out the appendix relatively early into reading the above book, if you decide to do so. I think there's some real gold there.)

I think if we manage to crack how to create nuclear fusion reactors safely then we'll have huge abundance of energy relatively quickly, dependent on how quickly the plants can be built after the scientific discovery's are made.

Can go to the 'career outcomes' part of this wiki: https://psychology.fandom.com/wiki/Big_Five_personality_traits_and_life_outcomes#Career_Outcomes

@Raptorsin7 Sure. I think we may as well end the discussion between us two, on this thread, here then.

Ye sounds to me like you handled it all in a reasonable way. I like what I see to be your leaving the date early in a respectful, yet healthily assertive way. It sounds like you've learnt some things from the experience which seems great too.

@Raptorsin7 Regarding my perception of why you have psychologically come to hold your current views, I'm not entirely certain that my opinion re unintegrated anger is correct. I may be mistaken. However, imo, its the most likely reason why you specifically are resonating with these types of views. Regarding how I can be sure about the intellectual judgments of the views you express, I think there is always potential that one is certain they are right when they are not. In that sense, I suppose I cannot ever be entirely sure. Yet, I'd say my level of confidence is nevertheless somewhat high because I'm drawing from what I see to be a pretty extensive amount of formal/ casual education, and also personal life experiences. I, to somewhat repeat myself, don't think it is a sign of growth. However, if you see the adopting of these viewpoints and engaging with these types of politics to be part of a current tremendous arc of growth, then it makes sense to me why you would not be too concerned with it. In fact I imagine it would be quite invigorating for you.

@Raptorsin7 I think Racism = bad. However, I will not argue further on the rationality on that because I think it would legitimise the debating of something that is wrong to even consider debating about. On another note, I think its worrying that you have this view. To my mind, this is a very extreme position to hold, and I think a dangerous one too. It seems to me like you've taken in a lot of right wing propaganda recently which has increasingly radicalised you. I think the right wingers on YouTube are very effective at marketing to those that are not emotionally stable, particularly those with unintegrated anger, and I think this has a part to play in this for you. My understanding is that I myself have gone down a similar path for similar stated reasons when I was younger. I say this because I think you really need to evaluate the path you are going down regarding your political views. I think there are real unhealthy consequences to this path. I've been to the point in this comment because I want to seriously advise you against indulging further in these sorts of views from these sorts of speakers.

@Raptorsin7 Dude that seems like a racist view to me. Different cultures have different stages of development but why say that there is something essential about white European's to the success of the western world. It seems to me like an argument that white European are inherently superior in some ways to other ethnicities and races.