Epikur

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  1. Posted · Edited by Epikur

    10 minutes ago, Serotoninluv said:

     To me, progressive policies are more aligned with what you are talking about. For example, they are consistent with “All Lives Matter”, they want to give healthcare and education to ALL lives. 

    That is the reason why they are feared. This saying can be and sometimes are interpreted like we are all equal and must be treated equal even if one lives in USA and one in Afrika. 

    Then it becomes suddenly "logical" not to have borders and national states. When reasonable people hear that they turn away in horror.
     

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    11 minutes ago, louhad said:

    The whole point of the site is self actualization. Becoming the absolute best version of yourself. Being more selfless. Becoming psychologically developed. Increasing your capacity to love and have compassion for yourself and for others. 

     

    I just don't personally feel like trump reflects those. 


    This comes to my mind:

    Actually this site is very interesting in this regard. Self improvement is the pillar of this site. This is not a left wing talking point but it is regarded as a right wing talking point. 

    Even the color stages can be seen as racist. It could be interpreted as othering people. It is an other way of saying that they are primitive and unciviliced. Coincidently almost all black communities and Afrika are then lower stages.

    The stages can be seen as hierarchical structures. The person on the top has more authority. 

    It reminds of protestants who talk about god and compassion but they use that to calm their mind to be then more charged to go for the real thing that is money and power.

    Or it reminds me of the CEOs and  Samurais who meditate and are ego-less temporarily to be even more effective later in their "wars"

    The difference of this site to the right wingers is that this site puts more weight into socialistic visions. 

    With all that in mind this site repells far left and far right people. So this site is quite centrist politically from an european point of view. The art of this site is that it can channel the angry energy of the users into spirituality. This is the trick why this forum does not become toxic like other forums and that is something special.




















     

  4. Posted · Edited by Epikur

    TheAlchemist, I agree at the moment Naval seems to be the guy who has most of all for me. I am looking for intellectuals who have less blindspots. He seems to be one of them. 

    First I tried it with Zizek but it did not workout. Then Eric Weinstein but he has also lots of blindspots. 

    I just relistened to the podcast yesterday with him and Tim Ferriss and that was quite nice. I am going to listen more to his work. 

    I was following RSD for years. The Derek guy was never on my radar. Lately he is doing more marketing and I checked him out. He is really hard to digest. He feels really not likable. 

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    I am doing the breathing exercises on and off for couple years. One thing I rediscovered is that it effects my sleeping pattern. In general the breathing exercise gives me around 50% more energy throughout the day. That means I don't get tired at the usual time. I get tired 3 hours later. So I have to adjust to it.

    Another effect of the exercise is lower intellectual capacity. It seems like the exercise raises the energy level through tapping into survival mode. In that mode the brain function seems to get lower in the priority hierarchy. So one has to count in the trade off.

    I am going to look more in to the Gracie breathing exercise as well. He says with this method the survival mode will not be triggered.