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This section and forum in general swings a bit to extremes. I mean I do think people saying protesters will start getting shot is a bit over exaggerated. I’m not saying we shouldn’t ignore things. Can really backslide here. And if we were more mature as a society we would recognize this can get ugly, but I also think dems would connect with people more if they kept it a bit practical and really went after Trump where it matters, healthcare, housing, cost of living. Bernie has got really solid messaging but little backing.

All possibilities. At the same time there are some checks like our constitution and elections. There’s plenty to fight back with. Not trying to downplay the situation but I also don’t want to be so fear based. Got to find some balance in the face of adversity.

Keep in mind we had a Trump presidency before and he was defeated. I know the pure lie the right likes to live by about the election being stolen. But he was beaten in an election in 2020 and people were really sick of his shenanigans especially form his mishandling of COVID and all the racial tension. It can and will build up if he ends up tanking the stock market.

I don’t believe in spiritual advancement. There is just spirit and then whatever label or hierarchy model you impose on it. You can be some Hindu or Amazonian Shaman with all sorts of mystical experiences, walking the path and then drink cow piss to clear your chakras or sacrifice a human baby for the sun god. You can believe all sorts of superstitious beliefs and had all sorts of mystical experiences and still want to kill your neighbor.

interesting read, I agree with much of what you wrote.

Space in a woman’s life (or rather her body) is quite competitive. It’s like one of those decent online jobs. For every opening (pun partially intended) there are hundreds of applicants. Women will screen pretty heavily for a guy they believe is perfect for them (status, smart, strong). It’s not uncommon to see mating not take place out in the open either. Picking up women is so random and out of your control sometimes. Just seeing the effort itself is a major turn off for women and it really needs to just flow and be natural for her and/or you need to strike gold and be seen as a prize from your first impression. You gotta be upgrading your life in every single way as well as actively socializing and going on dates and most importantly dissolving every belief keeping you unaligned with your higher power.

I think you would be creating “suffering” just as much if not more if you didn’t align with truth. We can never know what wasn’t. Truth is freedom. I don’t see how denying truth somehow leads to one creating less suffering, maybe through choosing to live unconsciously or sheer denial can one avert their attention from their misalignments, Perhaps for some time but the weight eventually gives way. I also think the word suffering is a lofty word which really just means painful emotions. And since painful emotions always reasonably come from the beliefs one holds, it’s basically a choice to create this suffering or not, this is a bit of an oversimplification if one hasn’t done some of the leg work needed to become aware of one’s beliefs and how they are 100% in one’s will, and I say this compassionately if one here isn’t yet conscious of this and creating suffering for themselves. But I try to write here in plain and understandable English. So basically suffering is just a reminder to come back to oneness and live in the mystery and beauty.

Brain rot like Graham Hancock's theories opens up the doors to all these weirdos hopping on board and shoveling more shit onto the deck. Because that space of intellectual ambiguity isn't really based in anything and especially doesn't prioritize integrity, and uses all sorts of twisty turny fallacies to fend off arguments against it, it makes for fertile ground for corrupted information and belief systems to plant their seed adjacent to it. This is why you see nazis like this flock to fringe stuff. They wouldn't even be able to gain a foothold in anything closer towards traditional academia or an editorial because of the cross referencing and self reflection that is common practice in these circles in order to be platformed. But these guys have social media now, which if you know how to hook people with any old piece of shit, you can have them consider your viewpoint even if it culminates in racial cleansing or stealing.

“Musk Donates to G.O.P. Members of Congress Who Support Impeaching Judges” NYTimes article Musk really trying to buy the federal government and shape it in his image.

We have plenty of solutions that feasibly would work. It’s not the problem. The problem is corruption, selfishness and lack of oneness awareness .

Most people want to have a justification for what they are doing and look for some reason to explain why what they are doing is valuable and important, so they focus in on the painful emotions they are creating for themselves and dress it up in lofty ways by calling it suffering.

Am I the only one who completely forgot about this guy for years until this thread?

That’s precisely what our voting system does due to its current design. The core design of it needs to be rearranged to something more democratic but that would mean some people giving up power.

First off, I would be careful asking a girl out at your work. If you're asking this question I'm assuming there is some apprehension and lack of clarity in your current abilities to interact with women in this way, so just to avoid any misunderstanding it's better you just avoid work situations because making a social mistake there carries the possibility of some issue unfolding, not so much in other situations. Second I would examine your beliefs about yourself. If you have any sort of self doubt or confusion, definitely start there and figure out the beliefs behind everything. I would try to get a really clear on any beliefs you have about yourself socializing or your self value or image. This is where the real work takes place and it spreads out into your actions. Lastly, when it comes to asking a girl out, you just ask, but what's on display isn't just this question but what I mentioned prior. A girl can sense if you believe in yourself when you're asking from a place of wholeness and your intrinsic value vs lack or any fear based belief running the show. So Really all your actions have to culminate in is taking the lead in a balanced way and asking when you see it as appropriate and learning from any mistakes as they arise. It's impossible not to learn from mistakes. You had to fall over many times before you could walk. The same concept applies here more or less. Don't think too much, just ask when you can. If you are choosing to be in your head wondering if it's right or not, then it's going to make things unclear and confusing, stay present and just ask when you believe it's appropriate and then reflect on it after.

Keep in mind the SD model can fall apart sometimes when applied in different ways and it also isn't the best for understanding internal division. I also think it falls short of understanding the belief system behind corruption.

I think Musk is high as shit on cocaine and ketamine for sure very often. Most super rich nepotism guys that act like this are huge users. Trump is actually an exception but let’s be real, many boomers act like Trump. That entire generation is egotistical. They get high off something else entirely, probably the fact they were the most coddled and spoiled generation ever that left behind barely anything for the next.

It’s cause our elections are held where a congressman just needs a plurality to win so it doesn’t make sense to have multiple parties in this system where the seats are allocated by the vote they represent but rather the person who get sene most votes takes the seat of a district. Realistically dems / republicans could be split into multiple parties and represented equally by the amount of people who vote for them but we have a winner take all system.

I grew up around such Christians. It’s a pretty thick hallucination.

Damned if you do damned if you don’t. People been saying dems need to grow a pair and stand up to Republican corruption since Obama… not happening

Ugh, hopefully there’s some sort of new deal revolution or something to wake people up so we build back something better…. I don’t wanna live the rest of my life out under an oligarchy

So basically everyone is going to be much poorer after Trump and economically it will be very difficult ?

I’ve caught up on Leo’s blog and noticed he’s writing many insights and lessons I’ve learned from living The Way (Taoism). Read the Tao Te Ching, it’s one of the most direct ways to living truth and fully and directly living love, living truth, existing moment to moment as your truth and your life. He talks about life being a miracle. YOU ARE A LOVED AND VALUDE MIRACLE REGARDLESS OF YOUR CHILDHOOD OR ANY MISTAKES YOU HAVE MADE. It’s so simple and beautiful. Just align with this truth, life unfolds from here. Be at the center. The rest follows.

You’re brave for sharing a very personal story like that. I would really focus on cultivating a honest relationship with that part of you which was misunderstood and accused as a child. I would also suggest to you that in this moment no one can make you feel anything but yourself, the beliefs and viewpoints you choose. It seems you chose to see yourself as less than or damaged by what you went through as a child. But I would ask do you believe a child that is mistreated is less than or lacking value and not a part of this grand truth and spirit you label as a trap in your title? I would say you are whole and valuable no matter what you’ve went through and spiritually you’ve always been normal even if you may have been through these challenges and mistakenly saw yourself in a way as fundamentally altered by these events. You have always been a normal and lovable human being, no matter what.

There’s just a bias against it here because a lot of people here are from Anglo-Christian countries so we have seen a lot of the issues that arise from all the group think and lack of self inquiry about what one believes and knows to be true. Most theist / worship based practices get this wrap here because they have been taught in such a way that you sort of deceptively give your power away if you partake in worshiping. This is a holistic community that looks at everything so anything that’s fundamentalist gets a bad wrap here but there’s also times people reference Christ as a great teacher to understand and apply love. So yeah, generally speaking fundamentalist organized religion isn’t held in high esteem here.

What is the thought process behind these tariffs and whatnot? Like how do you rationalize and come to the conclusion this is a good idea? I genuinely think Trump is of average intelligence and reasoning abilities and this is purely a sort of petty eye for an eye move because he is such an egomaniac that in his world it just makes sense to run and function everything like this even if you’re president. I don’t think he’s really capable of any sort of coherent thinking and honest thinking and almost everything he does lacks impartial observation and reasoning. Crazy how someone like this can get power democratically. Goes to show people don’t vote based on reason or impartial logic. Just pure feeling and it leads right back to the person running in the campaign. I just hope the wake up calls aren’t so incredibly harsh that we have to scrape by for years and years after if he needs up really fucking things up due to his stupidity. I guess Musk has brainwashed himself as well, how are all the “smart” people surrounding Trump not talking sense into him?