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People who already know how to engage in social situations don't need to holler and scream. However, somebody who is timid needs to do something to get the volume of his voice up.

His solution for everyone (not just his son) is to talk louder, holler and scream. He is a one-trick pony. It is a useful exercise for people who are too timid, but has to eventually be integrated with common sense into the underlying context.

"For God is not a God of confusion but a god of peace" 1 Corinthians 14:33

This is a good point. If Canada was added as one state it would get 53 electorial votes. If each of the 10 provinces was added as a separate state, they would get 73 electorial votes. I had Chatgpt do the math. That doesn’t include the three territories. If the 10 provinces each became a state, former Canada would have 20 senators. The democratic party should jump on this.

Vegetarianism is a more natural diet, and you can still get animal protein with milk. It is a sattvic diet practiced by holy men in India for centuries. Veganism sounds extreme and unbalanced. I prefer ancient wisdom over modern developments.

Trump only has two years to implement his agenda before the congressional elections. I don’t see how he could implement something as time consuming as the acquisition of Canada. A president has to be focused on a few key areas to be successful. But, as for the acquisition itself, keep in mind that the acquisition of Alaska was called “Seward’s Folly”. Some of the congressional opposition said: "Seven million dollars for a refrigerator”, “What will we do with polar bears and icebergs?”, “rivers of ice, and death-like solitude”.

Scientists get around the fine-tuning argument with the Multiverse theory. If there are an infinite number of universes than one of them by chance will be capable of supporting observers and those observers will, of course, note that the universe is fine-tuned. But ironically by Occam’s razor this scientific theory is a less simple explanation than God as a designer.

Populism emerges when the public loses trust in the elites and institutions. The policies (such as mass destablizing immigration and anti-family wokeism) of the Western elites has become widely unpopular. There have been other populist movements in US politics. The Jacksonian Era (1820s -1830) emphasized the rights of the common man against the elites, the progressive moment of Theodore Roosevelt, Huey Long, The Tea Party, Bernie Sanders Campaign. Populism is a democratic response to elites who become out of touch with the needs of the people.

I believe that his father Pierre Trudeau served as Prime Minister for 15 years.

Try living without a smartphone. There are businesses you can't even interact with without an app. Your choice is really no choice at all.

Psychedelics at best can get you on the path but they don't substitute for a spiritual practice. At the end of a trip you are left with a memory and your samskaras are intact.

Canada still has huge problems just keeping Canada together. Empires ultimately collapse because they acquire too much territory and become unmanegable. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_sovereignty_movement

I haven't heard much about the actual effect of his teachings. Does he have ashrams where people are being liberated and healed? Can you give examples of enlightened devotees? Will his organization produce worthy successors or will it turn corrupt like Scientology? This is the real test of whether he is an enlightened guru or not.

It’s futile arguing about whether someone is a good guru or not. I believe that it depends on a gut level impression and then we look for evidence to validate what we feel. For me, at a gut level, Sadhguru just doesn’t appeal to me so I tend to look for the evidence to confirm my opinion. For others, the turbin, beard, robes, and accent produce instant trust and there is no way you are going to convince them otherwise. In India, they have a million gods for a reason. Everyone can choose the particular god they resonate with. The spiritual path is very individual. Osho once commented that the organized religions are not the highest teachings because “when you talk to the masses you have to make compromises”. The important thing is to just start on the path where you are at.

Sadhguru is a good business man. The problem is that a real guru doesn’t have any interest in running a business that appeals to the masses. But then judging Sadguru as a member of his peer class – Elon Musk is more worthy of worship.

He was charged with assault for apparently approaching the cop with clenched fists? This seems like over charging. He had a big mouth but he was trying to control the frame with talk. I never saw him as being violent.

I use to live in Houston a long time ago and liked it. It had a libertarian bent, for example, with a lack of zoning laws, so you could see a small house next to a skyscraper. The real estate was way more affordable than California, but now that is quickly changing as so many Californians are fleeing and driving up the price of housing. You also meet more genuine people.

Where Osho went wrong.

I had a too beautiful girlfriend years ago and she would complain about being beautiful. She was just divorced and working in a temp agency. She couldn’t keep a job because the women were jealous of her and would get her fired. She eventually took a job in a daycare center to avoid men. Strange men would follow her home in their cars and knock on her door. When we would go out to a restaurant it was like being a celebrity, everyone was look at us. The experience made me realize their psychology and why beautiful women put up defenses.

Trump has only two years to make real changes. If he becomes unpopular, the democrats will take over congress in two years and he will be a lame duck. Changing the system is like trying to move an elephant. If Trump actually succeeds in disrupting the status quo it could be good in the long run, else it will just be an infinite future of mediocrity being ruled by bureaucrats and kakeling kamelas. It’s hard to see how to make any real changes in the power structure because big money rules both parties. So maybe nonlinear change ultimately makes sense. You go down before you go up.

I just saw a video of DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas giving no answers but saying there is nothing to worry about. People are expected to be satisfied with this explanation. This is why these clowns will be out of power in a month.

This video informs us that it all started in Grovers Mill, New Jersey.

Just like the New Left was organized to oppose the Vietnam war, became the new elite and now support forever wars in Ukraine and the Middle East. The Who summarized this sentement perfectly: “Meet the new boss, same as the old boss”.

Everyone has a killer underneath that will come out if you scratch the surface. That’s why this case has given so many permission to vicariously participate in murder with their approval. This is why Buddhist monks meditate day and night to uproot the three poisons. Sorry, but psychedelics won't help us in doing the real work. It takes great effort.

The American medical system is broken. I had plantar fascitis on my right foot. I went to two podiatrists and they were worthless. They gave me cortisone shots which only cover up the pain and do nothing to fix the real problem. Furthermore, it actually causes more damage. I did some research and found there was evidence that shockwave therapy can initiate the healing process. I did the shockwave therapy in Mexico and it was the only thing that actually worked. I did it in Mexico because it was cheaper and American insurance companies won’t pay for shockwave therapy. The one thing that works – they won’t cover. However, Biden recently uncovered a plan to have weight loss meds covered under Medicare. That’s right, instead of addressing the food industry which is making everyone sick, pay for the pills which provides profits for Big Pharma. Don’t actually cover anything that actually works. Keep people sick to drive up profits. Oh, and what is our brain dead government doing? https://x.com/HHSGov/status/1865803532537930120/photo/1 This is a recent announcement from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Just notice the connections: Big Pharma, wokeism, reductionistic mindset finding solutions only in pills. The entire system is corrupt. The CEOs are just the tip of the iceburg.