Lyubov

I agree with everything you wrote up to until the end. It isn’t up to grace or luck. It’s about taking responsibility and reparenting yourself, shepherding the ego with love. What you are I believe is something beyond just the body, something so indescribable and great it’s difficult to maybe comprehend or understand. But one thing you know is that the ego can’t drive the car. We know it’s familiar and we can definitely thank this ego (I call it the inner child since it really is just like a child) for trying to protect us. But we see we can’t have it grasping at the illusion of control. And it’s like you said, the ego just doesn’t like this unknown and unfamiliar because it sees it as unsafe but we have always lived in the unknown, nothing changes about living in the unknown. This is one of the core teachings of Taoism and Wu Wei. We live in the unknown, we are floating down the river, there are crocodiles in the river so we can do our best to navigate it, but moment to moment we don’t know. We don’t know what will happen in 1 second from now. It’s just unknown. The very paradoxical thing about is it isn’t up to luck. It’s up to responsibility. The inner child doesn’t like oneself living responsibly because it is then accountable. For example say you honestly know you love music and for you, you want to make your life purpose about music, and you take on this responsibility but let’s say you run out of money and now you need to get strategic about your finances which may be interfering with you practicing your music, the inner child doesn’t like this because it doesn’t like the unpredictability and how life can invite in criticism from others and situations not going our way. The ego / inner child would just criticize you about you a being a failed musician rather than a balanced belief system where you maybe acknowledge your finances need work but you can also find time to focus some on music too. You choose your beliefs. You are not and never have been a victim to this structure. You can choose to soften it if you so want but often times it’s not helpful to do so by sheer force but with love and recognition. Something so powerful from your core that it doesn’t ever need to exert itself. It’s so loving it never forces, it’s silent, still, wisdom. It has nothing to prove and watches over with no judgement and in the most indescribable loving way, offering guidance if we so wish to nurture our connection to it and listen. This is where the aspect of balance comes in and living in Wu Wei. We balance and live through this silent wisdom within but at the same time do not judge this sometimes childlike human side to us, they dance together, will h the spirit leading and the child looking out in wonder at the miracle of life.

That plane is more compromised and bugged than a gift from Soviet Union school children

They need to lean into a lot of things. The party is like half of their voters, confused about who they are. They need to fucking toughen up ffs.

Stuff like this isn’t always easy to go through. Been through similar stuff. One lesson I learned is to never doubt my greatness and always make space for myself, listen to my fears and comfort myself through tough times. You have innate value no matter what, don’t forget that.

Look into Taoism. It’s one of the best teachings for balance. Also look into yin and yang. Very powerful and transformative stuff if you want to live a practical life that’s also deeply spiritual.

Where are you located? Consider moving

Stage Orange is neglected here and even by me. I’m starting to make my life more coherent, cutting out naiveness. You go to the life purpose section and few people here have really built anything for themselves, most are in college or not really doing anything profound with their lives except meditating. The most financially successful person here is Leo. This is not an ideal community to learn about how to actually live life, but I can see people are working a lot on their relationships here. I think you get a very specific type of demographic here, young men who are decently educated aged but not hustlers, who have work to do on socializing, I was part of this demographic. People are just discussing or pointing out the marvel of consciousness or their extreme shifts in state/perception brought on by psychedelics, the community itself isn’t so mature and hasn’t realized there’s more to life and spirituality than peak experience / exploring god conscious states. Not hating, just noticing the blind spots here. People here are trying their best, just wonder how they are supporting themselves financially.

Not my experience at all, quite the opposite. My belief is that academics ends up twisting the mind so much that they end up confused. The interesting this is education still remains critical for personal development, but I think it’s kinda like medicine. You can take too much sometimes. He’s so smart that he’s dumb, some simple profound truths will only be realized if you let go of all the nuance and melt into them.

I’ve thought about this myself a lot and I agree that experiencing a sense of separation is important for many people in balance along side being one with everything, Wu Wei balance. I think what’s most important though is to be conscious of why you want to be separate because sometimes it can come from long held beliefs about wanting safety or control. Not that those are wrong, just so you know if they are driving the car or not.

They need left wing economic populism, reign in corruption (lobbying) and unregulated capitalism, and common sense reforms with guns and whatnot. They then need to drop all the LGBTQ stuff, feminism, identity politics. All the try hard ideologies they push. Stick to centrist identity ideology that is just very neutral and welcomes anyone but isn’t pushing some whiny narrative about 80 different genders or trying to to pretend a fat person isn’t fat or a grown man in a dress should complete in women’s sports. But of course they make the culture wars the front and center stuff they talk about.

Russia poisoned people on British soil already and nothing happened. It happened in 2018, look up the Salisbury Poisoning. Russia definitely has the reach and resources to fund assassinations like this.

Security guarantees from who? Anything from the USA means nothing now after Trump.

The problem isn’t AI art. It’s all the stolen data used to train the AI how to make the art and the way it’s used. Everyone obviously has an opinion so there’s an echo chamber of extremes but avoiding extremes any reasonably developed person supports both AI and the ethical use of it. You can be pro AI and truth and also recognize the disruption it brings in all areas of life.

It’s true. There is zero opposition. Every single dem rep needs to be doing what Bernie is doing. They just sit there taking punches. It’s pathetic. They sit around waiting for orders or to “act cordial.” They are really just useless the lot of them. Lip service. They ran for office but just stammer and “act outraged” but out zero effort into the fight. They should be fighting like Ukraine.

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Half of them have built their entire personality and world view around this guy. To admit your entire belief system is lies and rubbish, especially if you identify with it so deeply. Many will go to their grave screaming they were right. Disconnection from life.

How long until the general public fully turns on Trump / MAGA / right wing populism? I think you won’t notice any sort of push back until the midterms but will they ever be made to answer for their crimes? Are we in store for a J6 2.0???

Just ask yourself what do you believe and why do you believe it? It’s simple but that’s why it can be a bit tricky sometimes. Just live your life the best you can, being as authentic as you can. At the end of the day speak the truth and be kind to yourself. That’s the way towards living truthfully.

The beauty and allure of the unknown because you don’t know what’s going to happen

Same goes for many men with their girlfriend or wife. Not entirely, but it’s draining and kinda annoying being around a woman for long periods of time. They are so annoying sometimes, needy and just childish and wanting attention and praise. I can’t stand being around my girlfriend sometimes (live together and both work from home) I just want my own fucking room so she can’t bother me.

Yeah, dems are pretty awful at campaigning and messaging. We could have an opposition now that should be fighting but the party is such rubbish it is like a rotting corpse. The party needs to drop the woke, LGBTQ, and minority stuff and just stick to being an inclusive party that doesn’t care about identity politics but passes legislation that helps everyone. Really reign in corruption and economic inequality. They instead choose to make the party focused on their ideals. It’s like when I was in NYC there were ads for tinder on the subway and every white person was effeminate and gay and the one straight white man was very athletic and handsome but dating a giant fat white woman. They push this weird idea of equality that isn’t actually equality but their fantasy of transgenders competing in women sports. It’s really infuriating to see as a down to earth liberal man. The party could just be a chill place that doesn’t give a fuck about who you are or largely irrelevant social issues compared to the larger fight against oligarch /authoritarian rule. Nope, instead the party wishes to split itself up and fragment itself over all the gay minority inclusion stuff and label white people as bad, etc.

It’s hard to say. That’s sort of what they are known for though. Taking brazen risks. Leaving calling cards. Keeping people guessing. Stoking conspiracy. It’s the way they have always operated to keep people guessing.

You would think, but they can be quite petty like this. They have targeted journalists before. I’m not saying it’s certain or anything. But it’s entirely believable.

thoughts? It’s all over the news , he had a judge arrested. https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/04/25/politics/fbi-director-wisconsin-judge-arrested

They will try, he literally incited a riot and tried to overthrow the results of 2020, his own former VP hates him, Trump told him not to certify the election. And Republican congress rolled over. Of course he will try to do this again. The entire party is vying to take over as a dictatorship. The public is so delusional and apathetic they have no way to understand how serious that is for US democracy.