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Well, this is a world where there are humans experiencing life in a relative state of unconsciousness, and so we experience all sorts of dualities (which is all good). In being able to experience joy, harmony, and all kinds of thrills, there has to be a downside to those emotions, which is the suffering category of feelings. The two sides cannot exist without one another unfortunately, and people tend to remember only the pain more than the joyful experiences sometimes. Most people cannot jump out (via enlightenment), so we just have to play the game.

@Someone here It's hard to surrender, everyone has tons of stuff they cannot surrender. Even enlightened people need to survive somehow. If you are trying to overcome an obstacle you've been "failing" over and over again. I think you should try to stop trying in situations like these, when you've tried for a long time already. Stop trying to become better, fix yourself, or get out of some muck. Try to stop first and realize that if you cannot let yourself stop trying, then the real issue is not overcoming the obstacle, but rather the NEED to overcome the obstacle. It's hard to even stop actually. When I was still in church trying to spread the "gospel" and build this righteous self-image, giving up was sometimes a horrific idea, as if Satan would get a hold of me if I swayed away from the path. But once you're able to stop gradually and get some real rest, the space for creativity comes and allows you to observe the situation from different angles. Leo's videos will give you tons of examples on how to do multiple perspective practices. Life is not two dimensional, there are many ways to grow and develop. Giving up the current path is sometimes THE solution. I don't want to rant too much, hope this helps a little

Meditation would be a very long term solution. I think there is a more direct method, though it would also take time to implement. The direct method is just to be spontaneous to the world, meaning you should just simply be yourself most of the time. Don't worry about "failing", just let the fail happen. And when you fail, you can just be emotional and feel bad about it. Feel in the pain of failing very consciously, and from time to time when you pause to think about the failure, perhaps you'll be able to see that the fail is not a failure at all. Maybe the fail was just based on some goddamn should requirement that you could get rid of all along. Forcing yourself to meet some should statement is just like banging your head on a wall, a total zero-sum game. It might be what you have to do in certain situations (for survival), but I think you know it doesn't work in the end. Of course this method is not easy and very scary. But only when you can love/embrace and feel totally OK with exactly what you are right now can you really move forward.

@Zigzag Idiot I'll check these out, many thanks!

@Zigzag Idiot Unfortunately the Jews didn't really grasp what Jesus was doing either for long. It was probably very hard to break free from the ideology in the culture of that time. The Gospel of Thomas is quite hard to understand. Do you know any website that explains its contents in detail?

@Zigzag Idiot Why Jesus chose to hand himself to the Pharisees and get nailed on the cross, that might be a good question to ask. Did Jesus die for the sins of human being? If you notice, the four gospels say nothing of this. That's the explanation that was provided later in the letters written by fucking Paul. If you ask me, I don't believe in his horseshit anymore. You cannot pay for someone else's crimes, no matter how good you are. Jesus probably chose to die that way because it was an effective method to break the Jews free from the worldview of the Pharisees. So he used the sacrificial lamb analogy to sort of describe what he was doing to pave a way forward, which was unfortunately totally misinterpreted by the later Christians who said that only Jesus's blood could forgive the sins of men. Total cult level BS!

@Zigzag Idiot Thanks for the quote. Problem is, it is very hard to get keep jumping out of your own "selfhood narrative". And most people don't want to do this either. If you're not able to get to the level of God, might as well try to enjoy being human.

My question to God would be when and where would the next Jesus or Buddha level person be born on earth?

@NOTintoxicated Hahahaha! Cool thought, I wonder if that actually works though. @Leo Gura If God were the answer to all questions, it probably is because he accepts everything in the current moment already. He lives in some sort of a higher narrative than ours, and He probably doesn't care at all about our narrative. In this case, I really wonder if he could provide ANY answer to our deepest questions. What we want to know is how to be more human, and not more like God.

You mentioned that you would experience feelings of frustration, anger, annoyance, tiredness. If this occurs often, then I think that your emotions are trapped somewhere within you. Something is blocking you, holding you back from being who you really are. I don't know if any of your past experiences are causing this, but in my experience, I used to try very hard to be this goody goody Christian. In that process along with the very conservative and demonic Christian narrative that was fed to me, I developed many neurotic tendencies. Eventually I couldn't live up to the church's expectations, I broke down and left the church. I wasn't until much later that I learned about the concept of being, just letting myself be. I gradually found the deep emotions I had back at the church and the anger I had towards certain people. Only when I could identify and talk about those emotions, sort of expressing them with a close friend was I finally able to free my emotions and get a part of myself restored. So I feel like if you have deep anger, frustrations, shame, or some other feelings or beliefs that is holding you back, your body has to find a way to express that feeling very truthfully, or else your true emotions will stay locked. Hope you find some way to unlock yourself.

Great, so we're all a part of the Anhedonia family (sarcastically put). To quote from Wikipedia: Anhedonia is a diverse array of deficits in hedonic function, including reduced motivation or ability to experience pleasure.While earlier definitions emphasized the inability to experience pleasure, anhedonia is currently used by researchers to refer to reduced motivation, reduced anticipatory pleasure (wanting), reduced consummatory pleasure (liking), and deficits in reinforcement learning. This means that the way our brain functions might still be the same when we were growing up, used to the toxic and abusive environment we were in. Therefore our brain still gets "attracted" to the insecure and abusive behaviors we've had between family/friends of the past. Getting a therapist should help, though I haven't talked to my therapist about this area yet (what attracts me sexually). I have this problem too, I believe the "answer" is that my neural network is not behaving normally when it comes to accepting love. Therefore somewhere in my mind, a reprogramming is needed.

Slow down man. Try to simply be yourself at the moment, and find someone you could talk about your anger to. Life is not about being right or perfect, but just experiencing what is present before you. You need to be mad and angry right now, your emotions are important signals from your mind and body. There is no need to enter a "higher" state in life (though you sort of will when you're able to let go of what is causing you frustration right now). The only thing you need to do is just to notice the current state of your mind and what your current situation is. List out two or three of the main things you don't like about your current situation. Then just pick the issue you would like to resolve first and find someone who you trust can provide you guidance to talk to. I've learned that sometimes changing doesn't really have to do with overcoming the obstacle (becoming better in some area), but rather observing your narrative through multiple perspectives. The problem might have never needed to exist in the first place.

Revenge is a very straightforward way of expressing and freeing your emotions. Just need to sort of consider the consequences. If I had to choose between revenge or having a trauma for a few years, revenge is definitely my choice! Of course the suggestions above are all good, still better to resolve the problem using other methods. I believe there are many ways to resolve the pain and anger between you and your "enemy". However sometimes the "good" ways just don't work and you'll just have to express your feelings.

Although there are many possible long term solutions above, I don't think any of them can be implemented in a short amount of time, not even within 5 years. Man, you're really in a tough situation. You're mom's insecurities are haunting you every day. I think a simple start would be to have someone you could talk to about this. Maybe a close friend or a senior you could trust. A therapist would be great, though it would cost you a bit. I'm just curious, what kind of a person is your mom like? What are her main beliefs and world views? I'm just curious, you don't have to respond to this question if you don't feel like it.

I think that if you want to bet against the US economy, you shouldn't put in over 10% of your portfolio. Also even when the US economy tanks, people would sell Bitcoin, gold, and other stuff to pay off their debts, and the money would flush back into the US as everyone suddenly tries to save their wealth. The US dollar would go up for a period of time then. If you want to invest seriously, you should probably put most of your money that you're willing to invest into more conservative items, maybe like Amazon or Google. As the pandemic mutates and rages on, tech is still going to be major player in the stock markets.

I'm playing the game, but I think the game is way too over-hyped. The main story is not much better than the first watchdogs game I played years ago.

There are many ways to take care of yourself and stop the spread of the virus. Taking a vaccine is not a necessary path.

Although Bitcoin has huge potential, it is not the most common currency used in any country yet, and it will have many obstacles getting to that position. So if you like Bitcoin, hold on to it. But don't think of Bitcoin as a get rich quick scheme.

@amenX Joe Biden is Catholic. So I believe he says these things from more of a religious(blue stage) standpoint.

@The0Self It is important to feel, understand, and acknowledge/love your lower consciousness part of yourself. However if you just let your ego run rampant, you'll start hitting obstacles or head off a cliff sooner or later.

@Proserpina Really? Wow. However, I don't think Trump is a spiritual person at all. Could you share how Trump has helped you spiritually?

No matter the final outcome of this election, Trump-ism is here to stay. The amount of people who resonate with Trump will always be a huge proportion of the population. So someone like Tucker standing up for 2024 could be a reality if people can't do anything about the situation! It seems like a huge challenge for Joe Biden, if he gets elected, to bring unity between the Republican and Democrat parties. Hopefully with his many years of service, he has the connection and ties to get things done in a projected Republican majority senate. However in the end, the President can't really do anything to change the division. Only people can bring unity, and that requires a lot of conscious people.

It is impossible to change these type of people. I think the best step would be simply to observe the same thing in ourselves. For example if you recognize Republican or Democrat views up to a point that you absolutely don't want the candidate on the other side to win, then basically you have a biased worldview as well. Well this means basically all of us have a relatively simplistic world view, and I think we can try to take a step back by not trying to enforce others to agree with the candidate of our choice (in this example). We can try to be neutral, try to see both sides as one, and try to see how one candidate getting elected "benefits" the country from both perspectives. After all, any idea of one candidate being better is ultimately just a selfish idea. So if we can implement this type of mindset, anyone would approaches you would see how you can put yourself in their shoes and be comfortable with either outcome. That should help enlighten them to be open-minded.

It's hard to determine what level in spiral dynamics that Putin is in, because he is governing a country that is transitioning from red/blue to orange/green levels. I would guess Putin is a blue/grey guy, will a lot of grey since he has to do a lot of governing and dictating.

I wonder how many of the chanters agree with what they were chanting. I think most Trump supporters take his words sarcastically sometimes.