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I like Shinzen Young’s explanation. There is a difference between suffering and pain. The formula is: suffering = pain times resistance. We suffer because we resist pain and the suffering increasing by a multiplicative factor. Thus if you have 10 units of pain and resist by 10, then your suffering is 100. If you don’t resist the pain, it increases sensation only linearly and is bearable. Nature doesn't give you more than you can handle.

But that is just one opinion from a mob based on one youtube video. Maybe and maybe not. Due process is a procedure where the person accused has a right to receive a precise complaint and the opportunity to respond.

This is how mobs dispense justice as they see it. That is why in a civilized society there is due process.

Science and materialism are not the same. Science finds patterns in nature and ideally expresses them in mathematical equations. Materialism is an ontology, and hence part of metaphysical philosophy. You can believe in God or be an atheist and still solve Schrodinger’s equation. The equations don’t assume any particular ontology. I spent my entire career in science and technology and was a scientific materialist. That changed over a year ago when I took 5-meo-DMT. Since then, experience and contemplation have solidified my change in perspective.

America has actually gone backwards. It use to be normal for workers to receive pensions. Leaders of corporations like Hewlett and Packard believed in making a company where workers could thrive. IBM use to brag that it never laid off anyone. Everyone would receive the same 3% in their bank account. The turn around began with the election of Ronald Reagan. Fascists like Milton Friedman gained prominence in the academic and financial system. Pensions started disappearing. They even tried to privatize social security. The financialization of the economy with the advent of hedge funds and exotic financial instruments has introduced a parasitic element and the acceleration of wealth inequality.

There are only a few ways that you can make the exploitative profits that can produce a billionaire. One way is to have a monopoly. An operating system forms a natural monopoly, which is how Bill Gates became a billionaire. Another approach is to do something illegal like the drug trade. The other way is to game the financial system and use your money to buy politicians. Hedge funds operate by leveraging other people’s money including money borrowed from the banks. The theory is they are providing value by assuming risk. But the last time the world financial system almost crashed the government had to bail them out, i.e. to big to fail. How much risk are the managers actually assuming? Stage orange professors and noble prize winners are dedicated to justifying the virtues of the system that supports them and give explanations of why it is good and correct. The only way it will change is when the system finally crashes, similarly to the way the Soviet Union did because it was unsustainable.

He made his money managing a hedge fund, where huge profits can be made based on borrowed money and financial manipulation. That this is allowed is a major flaw of Orange stage. Now, if someone made a billion dollars by selling a useful product the enhances people’s lives, that would be different.

This video transmits masculine energy that is off the charts. It is a devotional song to Shiva. The singer’s expression embodies masculine tranquility and effortless power.

The world governments have been sold on this strategy of vaccines and brutal lockdowns by the medical establishment whose outlook is a scientific reductionist paradigm. Gorgion Agamben reflects on the life being created by a myopic science : "Agamben reflects on the meaning of the new order and warns that: ‘Fear is a bad adviser, and I don’t believe that transforming the country into a plague-ridden land, where we all look at each other as potential sources of contagion, is really the solution.’ He is alive to the way that a kind of social alienation has become deeply embedded in the management of the epidemic, explaining that ‘because our neighbour has become a potential source of contagion, we have agreed to suspend our friendships and relationships’. He also warns that ‘social distancing… will be society’s new organising principle’. ‘I do not believe that a community based on “social distancing” is humanly and politically liveable’, he states." Giorgio Agamben describes the consequences of science’s focus on biology in negation of the spirit: "Fundamental to his argument – a claim that he has made elsewhere, notably in Homo Sacer – is the observation that modern social norms increasingly diminish human existence to the bare condition of biological life. That means we lose sight of the importance of freedom and self-expression. ‘Human rights’, in this account, lead us to abandon civil liberties in favour of mere biological existence, as if we were like cattle. ‘People have been confined to their houses and, deprived of all social relationships, reduced to a condition of biological survival’, Agamben writes. The problem comes when ‘people no longer believe in anything, except in a bare biological existence which should be preserved at any cost’, he says, ‘but only tyranny, only the monstrous Leviathan with his drawn sword can be built upon the fear of losing one’s life’. We have reached a point where more engaging social projects have lost meaning so that ‘our society believes in nothing but bare life. But bare life is not something that unites people: it blinds and separates them.’ " Giorgio Agamben describes the consequence of a materialistic world view – authoritarianism: "Agamben also draws attention to how a state of ‘exception’ or ‘emergency powers’ can be invoked to suspend ordinary democratic rights and legal norms. He has written previously on how anti-terror legislation created an ‘exception’ that allowed for surveillance and a loss of rights. The coronavirus pandemic is similarly an exceptional circumstance that is invoked to suspend ordinary legality and liberties. But the point about these ‘exceptions’ is that, paradoxically, they quickly become the norm – or the ‘New Normal’, as is often said today. Agamben thinks ‘it is very likely that, after the health emergency is over, governments will attempt to continue the experiments… we will no longer gather to have conversations about politics or culture’." https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/03/17/where-are-the-postmodernists-when-you-need-them/

What we are seeing is the insanity of a modern medical system based on scientific reductionism. Instead of working with nature, they fight nature using their magic bullets and brutal lockdowns, and nature is winning. We were told that the vaccine was the solution, but now we are told that there are dangerous mutations. It’s interesting that the Amish community is the first community on record to have obtained herd immunity. The Amish reject much of modern technology and don’t buy into the false paradigm created by scientific materialism. https://www.fox29.com/news/amish-community-in-lancaster-county-reaches-herd-immunity-from-covid-19-medical-center-says

That’s not what they are talking about (100% replication). An example is the Zimbardo prison experiment at Stanford where people shocked prisoners when ordered too. This experiment has been cited over and over thousands of times as evidence of human nature. But the experiment has never been successfully replicated. This is just one example of bunk that passes for knowledge because a reputed expert said so. The scientific establishment routinely points the finger at homeopathy and alternative cures saying “where is the proof?”. It is appropriate to turn the spotlight around on the scientific establishment. They do not have a monopoly on knowledge. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment

If it is relative and can't be defined then the epistemology is faulty. Their claim is that the scientific method leads to statements that can be considered to be "knowledge". That is a high bar. If they can't define it then they have no monopoly on the claim of knowledge. "In 1966, an early meta-research paper examined the statistical methods of 295 papers published in ten high-profile medical journals. It found that, "in almost 73% of the reports read ... conclusions were drawn when the justification for these conclusions was invalid." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metascience

Below is a good article on the "Replication crisis". At least 50% of scientific studies cannot be reproduced. Much of medical research doesn't even meet the criteria of the scientific method. People just assume the system is responsible and not corrupt. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis

There is a left wing criticism of the public policies related to the coronavirus pandemic. The most strong response in opposition has come from the postmodernist philosopher Giorgio Agamben. https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/03/17/where-are-the-postmodernists-when-you-need-them/

What an ignoramus. Around 2.00 he says “There was an I, and the self, and then the self was gone, whatever that means”. He reminds me of the psychologists in the 1960s who were saying that meditation is a mental illness.

We can easily conceive of infinities in our minds through mathematics. The integers go on for infinity. The even number and odd number go for infinity. And mathematicians can prove the integers, odd numbers, and even numbers are the same size. There are also different sizes of infinity. Even though our particular known universe is finite, it should give a materialist pause to wonder that our minds are able to so easily articulate infinities and describe their properties. In addition, the universe is only about 14 billions years old meaning time doesn’t go back farther than that, so what occurred before the big bang and how do you measure it, raising the issue of eternity.

Join some activity where you can enjoy the company of masculine men. Masculinity is a group energy that you can receive. One possibility is to take courses in auto mechanics in a trade school. You will make friends talking about a common subject you are interested in. When I lived in Mexico, I was a member of a boxing gym, and it was great for masculine energy. It was inspiring to see fathers mentoring their sons in boxing. Masculinity is about the power to do things in the world. So don’t get overly intellectual and subjective in this space. Work with the energy.

What I find interesting is the screaming, yelling, clapping, etc. This is actually energy work and moves people to a high energy state. Doing it in a large group amplifies the effect, which quickly wears off after the seminar. I went to a Pentecostal meeting once, and a person stood up and started speaking from the holy spirit. Then all hell broke loose and people were screaming, crying, and moving energetically with some crawling on the floor and foaming at the mouth. You could also reach this with Osho’s Dynamic meditation. Ernest Angley would work up crowds like this and claim to heal people. This is group hypnosis led by a charismatic speaker. These techniques can be traced back in America culture to the 1800s.

The woman in the video is obsessed with calling out what she sees as racism. In the video it can be seen that she enjoys it. She even calls her husband a racist. She is making a very good living at this. It is interesting that stage orange low consciousness corporations are willing to embrace this bullying counter productive approach. Here is an example of how someone at a high spiritual level would handle this. Thomas Hueble has led workshops where half the people are children of holocaust survivors and the other half are children of Nazis. He has them heal each others trauma by talking to each other. He says that group trauma can only be healed by the people involved communicating in an environment of compassion. https://thomashuebl.com/ Healing Collective Trauma

If you observe closely enough you will notice that there isn’t just one ego but most people have more than one ego or personality. They protect us from anxiety and strong emotions and are triggered by different situations and contexts. For example, you may have a Mr. Careful that obsessively plans to avoid errors and mistakes, but when that fails and the moment of crisis arises, Mr. Panic is activated and screams and breaks things. If you can get them to talk to each other, they can work out a more balanced strategy. The behavior is highly automatic, so is mostly unconscious. The thoughts are automatically generated and repetitive with no new insights. We are numbed out by our ego defense mechanisms. They protect us but at the cost of not feeling alive. It is like walking through life in a hazmat suit. While under the toad, my defense mechanisms deactivated and I felt all the repressed emotions of years all come up at once resulting in a cathartic experience. I felt an aliveness I have never experienced before and a strong conviction that the reality I was experiencing was more real than my waking life. I felt what is was like to not be numb.

The American media really started going south with the advent of cable news. At that point news became mixed with entertainment. Now news is pure entertainment and is presented in a way to triggers the prejudices of a particular population to create fear and anger, because this captures the attention of eyeballs to be monetized with advertisement. The world is divided into left/right a simple model that maximizes profits. Stage orange ultimately corrupts everything it touches. If you have any doubts, study the Iraq war where the government lies of “weapons of mass destruction” was completely adopted by the mainstream media. Also, can anyone find even one picture of the aftermath of an American bomb and the dead bodies? How can this be possible in an age where everyone has a smartphone with one or more cameras attached? Can you imagine the level of control the system has to censor information?

The argument against free will is determinism based on the notion that everything has a cause and thus every event is caused by preceding events, so the present is completely determined by the past. If this is true, there can be no free will. But that would mean that creativity is not possible. So, Leonardo da Vinci didn´t create the Mona Lisa. It was something that just had to happen due to a history of molecules bumping into each other. Most people can intuitively see this as wrong. But the philosopher David Hume proved that there is no way to prove that a cause produces an effect. And Kant put causality, space, and time in the mind. So, is it causality or free will that is the illusion? The creativity of God is infinite.

Some shamen use Rapé to send you off on an Ayahuasca journey.

America manages death like orange juice. Hospice is a profit-making stage orange industry. I recommend just avoiding it. A Tibetan Buddhist considers his daily meditation as a practice for his death.

When people are dying they beg for the drugs to alleviate their pain. It is the pain drugs that actually kill them. But the most distressing part is that they aren’t allowed to die consciously. The relatives can’t talk to their drugged out loved one because they aren't there. The dying person gets no support and the relatives get no resolution. What could be a meaningful experience is turned into a mechanical, inhuman, managed affair. Death is denied to the very last moment. I went through this with my father. Fuck this inhuman culture. Oh yes, they push for the DNR order. It is all part of “pain management” and "palliative care".