Mesopotamian

I lately noticed some of the aspect of capitalism and that's pushing to buy new things all the time, and at the same time the world is filled with already made second-hand good. Here in Iraq the government isn't pro-manufacturing at all, but they allow any amount of imported goods to enter Iraq, even tons and dons of second hand goods, and lately Amazon returns good, but even so, the culture here is that people who can afford should purchase new stuff as a status symbol. The society here proud themselves to be guardians of morality, but recently I found out how they are being immoral, not by consuming loads of new goods, but also they can't see that with this approach to life, they are creating suffering for the people who manufacture these goods. I dream of a world where we can all share the resources in a fair way, and that people don't have to work 24/7 to get money. Why wouldn't rich people start buying second hand goods and donating the money directly to the workers who make new goods? is it moral that there are people dying in sweatshops and others who want to purchase only new goods?

@VioletFlame Also you are not smarter than me, and in fact you seem to be sitting there doing philosophy and completely detached from reality, trying to interpret it from a distance and see it as less ugly that it really is. I truly hate that philosophy that you've presented in your reply. When it came to the main point, you refrained from pointing the obvious and admitting that these folks are just selfish mother fuckers, but you brought up a rather peaceful answer, they are simply "forgetting to align values.."like wow! can it even be more peaceful than that? but also can your answer be more detached than that?

@VioletFlame People are simply having fake morality, they can't see the result of their action and the suffering they are creating for others There are probably going to be consequences from the evil created by them while you seem to be refraining or trying to distant yourself from condemning their actions in any direct/explicit way or form. But it is alright though, if you can't dare to point out the obvious, then this doesn't affect the reality in any way or shape or form, and you're going to suffer as a consequence because you seem to lack the ability to judge when is needed, therefore you let evil continue in this world, and your reward is just whiteness atrocities happening before your eyes until you are able to use your intellect to point out the obvious and try to change it before it spirals down uncontrollably.

I think these one liner "Wisdom" don't go with the theme of actualized.org. Leo puts hours and hours into creating content with tons of examples and explanations. Maybe if you would to listen to 100 hours of Leo's videos, you might know some of the answers there.

This looks interesting. Good luck with that!

I don't think people here are afraid to introspect.. That's why we come here And what kind of music you make? do they have a genre?

I've talked to so many liberals over the past years about the issue of invading Iraq, and they all were trying to blame George W. Bush for that, calming that his action has sabotaged the country and the Iraqi nation an such, yet I would like to mention here that the successive administrations have worked to maintain what Bush administration has started. I don't know if this is a big shame or not, but truly it is not working for me! This Iraqi state and the status quo is now sponsored by the US, a country that's supposed to stand for freedoms and human rights, yet for some reason, the successive US administrations have turn a blind eye to the lack of freedoms in Iraq. It is utterly astounding how they can achieve that. They try to keep lo-profile in Iraq. They are there, but also they are not there. They claim to help rebuild Iraq. but non of that has been achieved over the past soon to be 20 years! They claim to fight ISIS, as if it is the real devil, not understanding the circumstances that led to the emergence of ISIS, which in my opinion is lack of personal freedoms, and too much morality, to the point that corruption is becoming the norm, and some people choose to fight their government, so they form terrorist organizations and turn the tables. All this for the sake of keeping the oil flowing, and keeping a weak balance in place, a balance that will not serve anybody in the future, because it is built on no other foundation but truing a blind eye to how the Iraqi state is managed and the corruption that's ongoing on there. It is utterly absurd how they don't even treat Iraq as a country, and they turn a blind eye to the human rights violations that are happening every single day here. But everyone will pay the price in the future when the next semi-collapse happens in this heated region.

These are nice words. Thanks! I am going to channel this anger and rage to try to do change to my life to be with better people

@Rokazulu The morality here is killing me! They want to create the most moral country in the world! there's no space for creativity, everyone should get a piece of the pie of the oil returns somehow or just die. There's no space for any new projects or ideas. If anybody managed to somehow break through the walls of morality and get away with doing something new, then a thousand person copies his idea and start the same business! I hate this country, I hate this place. I hate those people

Telling a story of yet another different side of my personality. The story of my desire to become a woman started when I was a child. Probably at age 4 or 5 my parents thought to themselves that it is a good idea to dress me as a girl, put a make up on my face and lipstick, and flip my hair back. They then took me to a photography studio and took a photo of me in a dress. My mom said the photographer was stunned of how beautiful I looked back then and when he asked what’s the little girl’s name, they told him that I am actually a boy! The memory of this photo always remained in my mind, and luckily enough, this photo has survived the ISIS occupation of Iraq in 2014 when ISIS occupied my city, Mosul and while some of the militant leaders came to live in our family house back then after we fled the city, they started to burn all my family’s photo archive and any personal belongings that we left behind when we fled the city, but this photo has survived miraculously. I wasn’t able to find an explanation of why they were after my family photo archive, but one thing that might explain it is that my family was a minority Christian family, and back then the Christian community was ordered to leave Mosul after the head of church refused to negotiate a deal with ISIS that would’ve enabled Christians to stay in the city under strict conditions that ISIS was about to impose. So maybe they were after erasing the history of minorities in the city when they were burning my family’s archive? The rest of article https://medium.com/@iraqi.transgender/what-would-it-take-for-a-man-to-transform-into-a-woman-in-iraq-e3b08fff6910

@DefinitelyNotARobot Thank you for your support and for sharing with me your opinions, which seem to be balanced, and some of the highlights about this topic. I would imagine there's humiliation and abuse everywhere. I can't move to the west right now because of the bloody borders, but one region that has good transgender population who are living in peace is the Philippines! I would easily fit if I could make it there, I am surprised by the emotional support that I am receiving from people there.

I haven't finished reading yet, but man! This book highlights how a woman actually feels, thinks and see the world around her in different stages of her life. If you're a woman and read it, I guarantee you will be crying of how it tells things accurately. If you are a man and haven't read it yet, you're going to have troubles understanding women for the rest of your life. Called The Female Brain by Louann Brizendine Good to be coupled with Leo's video titled: Masculinity vs Femininity - Psychology Of The Male & Female Mind

We men are sex machines, it can take me basically less than a minute to get there using my own hand if I want to, yet women on the other hand are hard to reach there. In good days it would take me more than 10 minutes of rubbing on a woman's clitoris to reach there. As a result of that, men cannot think straight and can be stimulated by anything, even a small chat with a female online can make my little buddy start throbbing and asking to meet my hand! Ironically I've been taking two very simple supplements lately that are supposed to help with the sexual drive for men, at least one of them Meca root, and when I take them combined, I feel like my capacity for love and romance increases, while my erotic desire decreases. Even though Meca is like a natural Viagra, and it helps me have and sustain an erection easily, but then I don't feel the urge to work on that and get to where I usually want to get. The other herb is Fenugreek. I've tried it alone, and it works on your libido. If you take enough of it, it can make you shiver if you start to touch yourself. Yet combined with the Meca root, I find myself a bit more stable of a person, almost like a woman is, and I am able to have better conversation with women, without the urge to get there fast! My theory that this expands my love capacity while simultaneously decreasing my erotic desire. I am suddenly treating a woman with more compassion and love! and seeing her less of a sex object, while at the same time feeling great and having good time with her. This applies on online relationships for now, cuz I still live alone with no girl basically.

Hi Leo, Thank you for the solipsism video, it was amazing as usual, and a great comeback. Here's the deal: - The idea of no other will not likely create monsters out of your followers. -There's a low chance that those who don't follow your work will be able to take what you say in that video seriously. -You've now created a legend, and people might take the video and re-upload it again, this is the Internet man! while if you've just put it, it can hide in plain sight and almost become invisible and everybody forget about it. -Seriously there's little out of the ordinary in that video. -I am now capable of loving others more after I watched it! Cuz they are an illusion, therefore my tolerance for their BS will be greater, my hate and triggering rate to them will be lower. -I won't be wasting my time trying to be extra nice to people whom I know deep down inside that they are closed-minded. -I mean you've mentioned that life is meaningless, and for me that was the big one which got me more. -The world needs your work still, I need your work to compensate for the dark years of "my past". - The impact of the video will likely be forgotten after a while by those who are unable to do trips. I already forgot so much of what you've teached in the past, and only remember what you iterate. -You can't just forgot about what you shared here, and it will be integrated with your next videos, with so many having no clue of what you're talking about (Imagine if you withdrew the Spiral Dynamic Series) Bonus Reason: - It brings a slight concern that you've deleted something you've uploaded earlier. Makes me think that one day you might wake up, have a new awakening and delete all your work. I go back sometimes to your old videos and I refresh what I've missed. It is not enough to get the most of them by simply watching them once, and there are some stuff you've collected and put out there that many of us simply are lacking the time and skills needed to go and collect them and organize them again the way you've done here.

No I am not what are you talking about?

Iraq was never blue in its history probably. At the most cases, it was under red leadership disguised as blue (Saddam Hussain) but then it regressed basically to a modern version of Purple right now. Adjacent houses with high walls, no community organizations, tribalism, you name it, only with added flavor of modern technology, and crappy copies of western educational universites.

@Leo Gura you've put much love in trying to reason with him, and showed much love with taking your time writing this post. From the conversation that you had it became clear that he doesn't want to stay, yet he's unable to put it in words.. or probably he's on psychedelics probably most of times? Or Stage Torquise? Who knows! I admit I was trying my best to understand what he means when he was replying to my posts. Most of times I fail.

Iraq, Once More, There's this notion in people's mind that progress can or should happen automatically. Iraq today is a collection of homes, with no real sense of community. Mosque isn't a community, it helps people gathering five times a day, but it is pretty much useless. In a sense, Iraq is in a modern version of stage-purple, where people live in small communities (mainly homes and houses), even within the cities, but they have been introduced to modern technology, cars, electricity, medicine, you name it. They have incorporated this technology in their lives while keeping the other aspects of their belief systems intact. The push to freedom is needed, and who's better to do it than the USA? These traditions of freedoms that this country enjoyed needs to be pushed and imposed on other countries as well. The US doesn't need to develop further and adopt socialism like the Scandinavian countries, but they need to keep pushing freedom worldwide Bush style. The modern social countries at the first place wouldn't exist without the new world order that's sponsored by the US for the past 75 years or so. The US needs to shove freedom down other's throats, because the modern technology is making people's lives miserable, they now have the means to proliferate and thrive thanks to the capitalism which made survival less challenging, while keeping the same old belief systems. That's the ultimate hell! Stage green people don't care about the advancement of a community or a country, all they care about is for the latter to have the appearance that they are functioning well, yet truth is that staying afloat is not even achievable without the development of societies of any given country. Why as a stage-green person care for a country to appear functioning, you feel the guilt of any consequences of an invasion or an intervention, while you know deep down in you is that if the society of that country isn't developed, they're going to regress back again and cause suffering for themselves in endless possible ways? If anything, this approach is keeping countries in a bottle neck, preventing their advancement to new better life. People should start caring about dilemmas equally, allocating the same amount of care to decentralization in North Korea for example, as well as expanding freedoms of free speech in Iraq. Why is it different that people are afraid of nukes, while not afraid of absence of freedoms in other countries? are they truly believing in borders? because if so, then 9/11 proven that borders won't even protect you unless everybody is having similar values as you or your country do. Nothing will protect you unless you share the love that you have, that's freedoms with others, in a masculine type of style sometimes if necessary. Or else, just stop selling technology for people immediately, isolate them, take their countries and borders recognition back, and grant them the freedom back to start to develop naturally, instead of shoving technologies down their throat, and hindering their natural course of development, and then sending money through NGOs to deal with the disasters that this situation helped to create.

Maybe this manipulation is needed to keep the country afloat? last time the US wasn't in the leading nation of the world we had a World War going on! Imagine if someone as Bernie reaches the white house!

@Ash55 Hi there, I am from Iraq. Don't get discouraged by your surroundings, Keep watching Leo, develop your personality, get high self-esteem. forget about meeting stage Turquoise people, instead you need to meet stage-orange people, businessmen, because you need to get your financial situation handled. Good luck

I've found out that in today's world, I don't worth anything to anybody unless I mean something to them, and I sometimes feel sad about that, because in certain moments, when everything is crumbling around me, find myself barely surviving day to day and struggling, taking care of my body and physical existence, while at that moment of weakness, I am unable to 'mean' anything to anybody. Also I found out that it is easy to get someone's attention when you try to cater for their values, you really start to mean something to them, which opens the door for me to establish new relationships after showing some interest in their values, but again, I feel like I am lying inside, and I am sort of putting a mask, or using others' weaknesess in order to gain such relationships In the lights of the above, the idea of unconditional Love starts to play in my head, and I feel grateful today that I am able to love more lately, especially when growing and consuming quality content from Actualized.org, I can now see how narrow the love of people around me is, and also be able to expand my 'love domain' or capacity to be able to love things/people around me, even though they mean little to me.

Someone has to write about this. Is this a comedy sketch? Facebook changed its brand name to Meta https://youtu.be/vP1h2Hzgyzg One of the most unfavored websites to Leo adopts the label of one the most loved concept to him.. Sometimes your worst nightmares come to live!

Noted.

Few months back, and while I was trying to sleep, I suddenly been shifted/visited/transformed into a completely new and different dimension, a dimension where blackness is so black, and there's only energy, and almost no visuals, but I could still see the outline of things as I remember now. I wasn't drinking, I have never taken psychedelics because we don't have them where I live, and that wasn't a dream also. The thing was very real, almost to the degree that horrified my psyche, and my memory experienced a total blackout. In fact the incident did disappear completely from my conscious memory for the next 24 hours then came back again. The incident's duration wasn't long, and I can estimate it like three seconds. I went out of body to the other dimension, got scared like hell, came back to the body, forgot about it for 24 hours, then remembering it again. I never asked for it to happen, and I can't replicate it, it is not a reoccurring thing, and I don't meditate even that much. What the hell was that? anybody else?

@Seraphim Thank you for sharing your thoughts, I hope I can remember to stay calm in case this happens. I remember I also felt presence of others, but it was too short that I didn't move much in that space. I can't answer if it was another dimension, or dimensionless, I have no idea how to distinct between those concepts. I am only assuming it was another dimension because the experience felt nothing like I've ever known or encountered in my life. Also it was too short, but there was a movement, I moved in that space out of "the portal" , but then everything collapsed. I can't say it is a void no, there was energy, even if everything was black, but there was a visual field too, this is how I remember, but then it doesn't make sense, cuz everything was in black. I have no idea. I guess you can call it so, but can you elaborate a bit more?