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Apple is very good at deceptive marketing, its buyers or fans such as you don't even know that they have been deceived. If it's only partially true then it is not true. If Apple was really being honest with their marketing, they would advertise their products something similar to this: iPhone 13 is the best on the market. Take pride in owning a phone which uses cutting-edge technology and has an affordable price. Of course, it is all made possible via the exploitation of the blood and sweat of underpaid wage slaves around the world, especially in China. On top of that, Apple has been a secret supporter of forced labor. But Apple is very good at pretending to be ethical. So, join us and be a pretender. The video below is the source. Capitalism and marketing are metaphorically dirty in many ways.

If you watched the video I shared until the end, it should have been clear that China is catching up fast.

It is because to be alive is to be evil. We just need to be at peace with that. All human activities such as dating, business, marketing, politics, etc. involve some form of exploitation and deception. And deception is devilry. I started a business myself and I was guilty of deceptive marketing, at least to a slight degree. I needed to do it, otherwise I wouldn't persuade a sale. How would my business survive without some form of deception? The point is to minimize the evil things you do while alive. You will always be a devil in some form as long as you are alive. You just need to be at peace with that. It's also good to create as much beauty and goodness as you can while alive. That compensates for your devilry.

In the end, the old man is just doing what he believes what he should be doing. He walks his talk, and that's integrity. It's also philosophy in action. Luckily for him, he is satisfied with living alone on the island, and that's what matters. It would have been better if he was completely self-sustainable, which means he doesn't need to receive money from his sister to shop on another island for survival needs once a month. Yes. I think the best way is to have both worlds. You can participate in this current civilization and its systems in your own way. Enjoy your PC, internet, coffee, pizza, brothels, bars, cars, stupid sports, museums, parks, and wage slavery (if possible ?). And from time to time, you can go camping or glamping alone in the wild for 1 month. Doing so is synergy. Participating in the current civilization highlights the beauty and simplicity (though it's actually complex if you deeply investigate it) of the wild and nature. Being alone in the wild and nature highlights the beauty and complexity of the current civilization.

This perspective on pain is partially true. In reality, it is much more complex than what the OP suggests. If pain is all it takes to awaken or liberate somebody, every wage slave (almost everybody) would have been awake and free by now. Everybody wants to escape the PAIN of wage slavery, and understandably so.

The best language is superior in functionality (grammar and logic), simplicity (grammar and vocabulary), and how it sounds (determined instinctively). I'm using my smartphone to write this post so I can't expound. I have heard many languages. When it comes to the most beautiful-sounding language, I must say Mandarin Chinese. I'm not sure which the least beautiful-sounding language is. But Russian is a top contender.

I also considered renouncing society and living alone in the forest after getting fired from my wage slave job for being sensible, creative, and integrous; and after my divorce which caused me to lose almost everything. I was too disappointed and repulsed by how selfish, deceptive, and conformable humans are; without or little respect for truth, goodness, and intelligence if these things inconvenience them. But now, I am less bothered by humans' lack of integrity and intelligence. I even appreciate the beauty and intelligence of capitalism and other systems society created. I see the faults of such systems and how they should be improved, but simultaneously, I don't take the value produced by such systems for granted. I'm considering a career change or a new life trajectory. But renouncing society which is what you are considering and what the old Japanese man featured in the video below has been doing for more than 20 years is not one of my options. If he's still alive, the Stage Green philosopher is 86 years old this year. What are those options? There will always be wage slavery because we all need to survive. Wage slavery enables survival. The only way I see how wage slavery ends is when AI reaches a very advanced level, it could replace 90% of all wage slave jobs. Capitalism and probably the money system also need to significantly evolve as a result. Why are you done with people and "the machine" of society? It's better if you expound it.

I recommend you finish watching the video first. I think China will be much more dominant than you think. But I'm having a difficult time seeing how Mandarin Chinese will replace English. English is spoken around the world and has the most language learners. And computers, Programming languages, AI, and other IT devices are English based. The future's very interesting. When I say future, I mean the next 2 decades.

Here's a very good video which demonstrates how the US has already started to collapse and will be replaced by China as the world's Super Power in a few decades. I wonder whether English will also be replaced by Mandarin Chinese as the global language.

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This is an intelligent reply. They are not transphobic. They accept transgender people or at least indifferent to them. And their opinions are nuanced. It doesn't mean they hate or want to persecute transgender people. You are too needlessly sensitive. There are 3 reactions or feelings towards LGBTQ+ people; support or approval, indifference or tolerance, and hate or disapproval. As long as it's not hate (transphobic), it's good enough. You can't expect all people to show support to LGBTQ people. And it's wrong to label indifference as transphobic. I am indifferent to ALS people, to be honest. Many people support ALS sufferers. I'm not one of the supporters. But it doesn't mean I'm ALS-phobic.

It's obvious to me. You are the only consciousness in existence, and your life is a dream or an illusion. So of course, you are dreaming or imagining Leo. Leo is just an illusion pretending to be real when he tells you that from his POV, he is dreaming or imagining you. It's a very consistent and deceptive dream.

Here's a very good and honest interview with a former male-to-female transgender who was "analized" or raped when he was a kid by his own father. Jake was also a drug addict and had a brother who had drugs and alcohol addictions which caused his early death. It's a very informative interview. I resonate with him because I was extremely mentally-emotionally (verbal and physical) abused by my own father my entire childhood (except during my first 5 years of existence) and teenage years, and was raped by my own grandfather when I was a 4. I was also an alcohol and cigarette addict for 13 years. I tried meth and marijuana many times during my teenage years but was not addicted to them. At the near end of the video, he says he can't find love, understanding, and forgiveness. It's because healing is a very long process which usually takes a decade or more if he even succeeds. If not, he'll live being deeply traumatized or hateful, or both his entire life and will die in a similar way (which is very tragic). Many end up murdering themselves. But he is on the correct path; quitting doing drugs, directly facing his childhood trauma, and acknowledging the deep pain and anger embedded in his soul. He also asks "Why would anybody want to do it to his own kid?" His father raped him for 2 reasons: to satisfy his father's pedophilic, homosexual desire; and to inflict pain and trauma to little Jake as his father's way of exacting vengeance for the pain and trauma inflicted on his father when his father was a kid (whether it involved sexual abuse or not). That lessened his father's own trauma and enabled him to be more functional. In the sense I explained, God is crazy.

But isn't it better now than in the past?

Is this the case? How does it happen when the LGBTQ+ community is accepted more than ever? In the past, they were shunned or even murdered for coming out.

I have watched all 4 episodes. Here is Teal's response to episode 4, defending herself. I could see that the documentary makers are biased against Teal. For example, when Blake was burying his goldfish, they flashed a powerful, evil-looking image of Teal. That gave me an impression that Teal killed the fish or Teal cursed Blake for leaving her community. But the things I said in my earlier post (quoted above) were correct. After watching the documentary, the exact type of brokenness Teal has became clear to me. She hasn't embodied her own deep insights. She lacks integrity, self-honesty and self-awareness. She has the tendency to gaslight when cornered. She is also codependent, which means she relies too much on her core group for mental-emotional support and stability. I also saw a few "the dark triad" characteristics in her. And it is better if Teal develops her feminine side more. She needs to prioritize working on her brokenness instead of continuing what she has been doing if she wants to be a better healer and teacher (and of course, to further heal her damaged soul). To all mentally-emotionally damaged people who look up to Teal, planning to attend her workshops, or wanting to get close to her; do the things she says, not the things she does, and maintain a healthy emotional distance from her.

Yes, the expansion is horizontal. The video demonstrates it. If you are not sure, lie on your back. Your abdomen should expand when inhaling and contract when exhaling.

There's only one POV which is yours. That was why Leo said "from your POV". Leo is an illusion pretending to be real when he said "from my POV". That's how realistic this solipsistic dream is. You can be angry at God for deceiving you. But you can also admire and appreciate God's superior intelligence and grand design.

Yes. Breathe deeply and slowly. It's the abdomen which expands, not the chest. I have been breathing this way for many years. I breathe in for at least 5 seconds and breathe out for more or less the same amount of time. It's good for your general health and gives you mental clarity.

Inablity to take action because of poor integration of various perspectives Inability to experience, enjoy, and appreciate the "lower" beauty of existence (women, food, work, museums, coffee, technology, trees, rivers, etc.) because of desiring only deep awakenings being an evil-enabler as a result of weaponizing the spiritual insight "Evil doesn't exist." Forcefully converting other people from being normal into being spiritual Using spirituality to escape suffering instead of working on mental-emotional problems Inability to embody or implement deep insights as a result of teaching full-time, running a spiritual community, being satisfied with conceptual understanding, and other seemingly valid distractions Inability or delay in generating new deep insights, and spiritual growth as a result of teaching full-time, running a spiritual community, being satisfied with conceptual understanding, and other seemingly valid distractions

No, it doesn't. You lack nuanced judgement. And no. I actually look the homeless person in the eye with compassion, give him (most of them are male) some money, and then hope God will eventually "love" him.

Teal is not flawless. I see significant brokenness in her and some bullshit in her insights. But she is still one of a kind and deserves appreciation and respect. If you don't recognize this, it means that you have eyes but not see.

Here's proof that just because somebody is a licensed psychologist, doesn't mean he is intelligent and aware of his self-bias. He obviously slanders Teal's character, ability, and intention to heal people. He assumed Teal is not capable of handling mental-emotional pain and diseases simply because she is not a licensed therapist. He also assumed licensed therapists automatically have a deep understanding of mental-emotional diseases and are capable of handling and healing any mental-emotional diseases, hence better than Teal. This guy's level of self-bias and lack of nuance are repulsive. Teal defended herself well here. It's important to emphasize that having a mentor is not needed to be an effective healer and teacher. When you reach a very high level of consciousness or intelligence, and self-love; you naturally have the capability to learn from your own experience, observation, and contemplation; and from others. Everything becomes your mentor.

I have watched episode 1. That was interesting. At 19:05 mark of the documentary, the root cause of almost all forms of neuroses, psychoses, and suicidal desire is revealed. Repressed, neglected, deep childhood pain and anger is where the internal hell and torture begin. But it's also where heaven and significant healing begin. If you ask psychiatrists about the root cause of extreme mental-emotional diseases, they answer "unknown" or "chemical imbalance of the brain". Or they might not answer at all. They just give SSRI's and other prescription drugs to correct the "imbalance". That's absurd. The "chemical imbalance" is a correlation or result, not the cause. Correcting it might alleviate some symptoms but it will never heal the disease. If you suffer from anxiety, OCD, BDD, BPD, agoraphobia, depression, schizophrenia, etc. or suicidal, and you still need to take prescription drugs to feel "ok" or "normal", then it is a clear sign that you are still far from being healed. But these "official", "regulated", "licensed" mental-emotional health doctors earn a fortune. It's a perverted world.

You didn't delete the link above. So, it didn't cross my mind that sharing free links is a violation. But I have no problem with that forum rule. This will not happen again.