SwiftQuill

Fuck this forum. Actualized.org' forum is nothing more than a stage green echo chamber crawling with pseudophilosophers and pseudointellectuals. There is 0 room for diversity of opinion here. Fuck this shit. And the whole idea of "stage green is multiperspectival" is bullshit. Have fun dunking on the retarded stage orange and retarded stage blue and everyone else you consider retarded just because they disagree with you on 5% of issues. I've wasted too much of my time on this shit forum.

Will do. I'll watch it this week. Sorry for annoying you guys with my antiwoke stuff. I get irritated sometimes and can't help it. Anyway, speaking of thesis, I need to work on my own Master's thesis now.

I am aware that when applied properly, Postmodernism, Feminism and Marxism can have some useful ideas. And I have studied Postmodernism on my own. And I have read the Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital for beginners (I think was the title). And I've watched part 1 of your series. Most of it were concepts I already knew. But that doesn't mean that I can't find serious issues in these ideologies. And I can't help it but I get irritated when people pretend that these ideologies have no ethical problems in them.

I feel a need to fight for truth and fairness.

I never claimed that the entirety of Postmodernism is Marxist, nor that the entirety of Postmodernism is Feminist. I am aware these are subsets. I'm aware Postmodernism also relates to art for instance. And ethics/morality.

I'm saying that these subsets exist and you guys deny it.

What I'm saying is just that there is a strong relationship between these terms. It's not even that controversial. I just posted 3 links on the topic. And I have indeed read literature on this. And you guys go after low hanging fruit like MAGA and the Andrew Tates and stuff like that. You also spend time fighting ideologies you find problematic. Maybe if my neighbors were MAGA or fascists or something like that, I too would have that emotional need to fight that ideology.

Wrong. There is indeed a subset of Postmodernism which is Feminist Postmodernism. https://www.simplypsychology.org/postmodern-feminism.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodern_feminism https://sociology.institute/introduction-to-sociology/postmodern-third-wave-feminism-diversity-difference/

I don't have a political agenda. I'm not even right wing. I have observed these patterns in the real world. And I have bothered to read Postmodern literature, like Feminist Phd and Master's thesis. I've done the research myself. I have also taken a course in Philosophy of Science. I may not have a 4 year degree on the topic but I do understand many of the terms. On the race and lgbtq thing I've not done as much research, but I can confirm that at the very least the Feminist religion subscribes both to Marxism and Postmodernism. It subscribes to Marxism because it says all women are victims and all men are oppressors. And it subscribes to Postmodernism because it uses Constructionism and the whole "objectivity doesn't exist because it was invented by the white patriarchy" garbage. And I'm not kidding. I've actually read it in legitimate papers. It's fine if you use Postmodernism and Marxism differently. But to pretend that these relationships don't exist, and that it's all right wing propaganda, that's dismissing real patterns.

Wrong. Marxism and Postmodernism are distinct but intersect in woke religion. Marxism sees society as a struggle for power (class conflict), while postmodernism applies this to identity - gender (feminism), sexuality (LGBTQ+), and race (critical race theory). Instead of just class struggle, power is now viewed through identity oppression and narcissistic victimhood. You have to admit that at least a subset of Postmodernism adopts a Marxist structure, framing all human interactions as oppressor vs oppressed.

I don't care about the source material. I care about the arguments the person makes. I used to be a Zizek fan in the past. I found him to be very intelligent. But over the years I saw through his bias. He is intellectually arrogant. He might have an interesting, sophisticated conception of how the world works, but that's only his perception. And he promotes it as though it's an objective truth. I've seen him defending and promoting many of the worst aspects of the woke religion. He might be "critical" of certain aspects of postmodernism but he is a marxist still. He is by no means dumb. Nor is he low hanging fruit. But he is still a wokie I won't waste my time with listening to.

Zizek is a communist SJW pseudointellectual. He promotes the religion of Postmodernism.

The "I'm not with those clowns" post is very cringe. I'll make sure to share with the aliens all the woke propaganda that exists in this forum. I'm sure it will change their minds on not eating the bald man.

I watched this episode today. I really enjoyed it. I love the format, it feels refreshing. This type of "let's explore this argument, the good parts and bad parts" analysis is interesting to listen to. Here is my opinion on the arguments: My opinion is almost the same as Leo's on most arguments. I find most of them to suck. Especially the most popular ones, they are terrible (Kalam, Ontological, Unmoved Mover, etc.). I liked the "Participation within the Universe" one. Not super compelling but it's sophisticated at least. Hadn't heard it before. Now, as an agnostic, I present you the most compelling argument for the existence of God in my opinion: "Look at the trees." This isn't even an argument. It's not even a syllogism. But to me, this argument is the only one that feels right. I remember one time as a teen as I was walking to school and I saw a rainbow. I was an atheist back then. But still, I remember looking at the rainbow, and even though I knew there was a scientific explanation behind it, I thought it was so beautiful. I couldn't put it into words. I saw something magical, spiritual in it. To me, this concept of "arguments for God" is somewhat of a waste of time. I think the most effective way to go about it is through exploration of feelings and perspectives. There are things we experience which we can't explain through words. I feel it when I'm engaging with my life purpose, for instance. It's a very spiritual thing.

I have become a Blackpill anti-sjw selfish egoist misanthrope due to hundreds if not thousands of terrible experiences. I say accept the bitterness. Accept the harsh lessons that life has taught you. Don't try to escape what you are feeling. Accept it. My bad experiences have made me bitter but also wiser. I now see through people's facade and deception. And recently I have also had profound spiritual insights about myself and society. Lies are fluffy and comfy. The Truth is bitter.

I once read a story about a character stuck in a time loop. It was caused by a time machine that the protagonist had invented. It was supposed to allow for time travel but ended up forcing her to repeat the same day over and over - another Groundhog day clone. So she is stuck in a time loop, repeating the same day, after only having used the time travel machine once. The protagonist writes in a journal the events of each day. And what she plans to do to try to escape the time loop. In one of the entries, she conducts an experiment with the time machine. She inserts an apple (biological material) into the time machine, to see if she can send it to the past or send it outside the time loop. Instead, the apple was destroyed (the time machine destroyed all the organic matter). This entry is foreshadowing. So after giving up on using the time machine to escape the time loop, she attempts other things to break free of this "curse". But nothing works. She goes mad over time, even developing some sort of psychopathy due to the insanity of living the same day over and over. Near the end of the story, the protagonist writes a final entry in the journal. She says she has exhausted all options to break free from the time loop. And that she has no motivation to keep living like this. She says goodbye, and that she plans on entering the time machine one (all her organic matter will be destroyed - she will attempt su*c*de). But that's not the final entry. After that entry, she writes another one that says "It didn't work". The next day, she writes "It didn't work..." The next day, she writes "It didn't work..." The next day, she writes "It didn't work..." Over and over. The only chance she thought she had of ending this nightmare would be by entering the time machine and dying. But that didn't work. She was forced to live like this for eternity. The concept of living the same day forever on repeat, and being so stuck in that limited, maddening existence, without even having death as a form of mercy, as an escape, I found it incredibly dark. To me, this might be the darkest ending I've ever seen in a story.

These are my role models: I love Piers Morgan. Political bullshit aside, I love his style. I wish I were half as assertive and confident as him.

Never played it but I've seen videos on it. The lore seems interesting. I love this subgenre of scifi with a bit of horror, with a sort of claustrophobia. I might play it in the future.

I've been working full time and studying part time - in college - without taking vacations or breaks, for the past 2 years. I just quit my current job because of an awful work environment - uncooperative, critical, competitive, nasty coworker. The tiredness is starting to affect me. And the stress on top of it makes it all worse. My manager sometimes talks to me and sometimes I don't reply immediately. Because my mind is so tired, I feel like my thoughts are in slow motion. And I feel fatigued just by concentrating and putting ideas into words. The stress of this current job made it so much worse. So I quit. And I don't regret it at all. But now I'm stressed out because I have a 3 month job experience in my CV. Recruiters immediately go asking me why I left. Because of course in late stage capitalism they want to filter as many candidates as possible. Today, I applied to another company, had a job interview, and was accepted. But wait... Their reply: "You did worse than expected in our interview but we decided to accept you for this position anyways. We are going to take the risk of accepting someone with your limited qualifications, so we expect you to give your best and show us you deserve to work for this company". I can't. I fucking can't. The attitude of "we're doing you a favor" is just, no. I can't. I can't deal with this extra pressure. I just want to pay my bills and survive. Ughhhhhh My mind is so fucked nowadays. My ability to concentrate is diminished. And my ability to regulate my emotions is neglegible. The exhaustion is taking a huge toll on me. Empathy or words of advice welcome. "TaKe PeRsOnAl ReSpOnSiBiLiTy BrO pUlL yOuRsElF bY tHe BoOtStRaPs" stage orange shit not welcome.

I just read Leo's Rational Wiki's page. Jesus Christ. It's so toxic, so full of defamation, it's disturbing. I think there might be a little bit of truth in the criticism. For instance the section where they criticize him for misconstruing Godel's theorem or some quantum mechanics concept. But for the most part, that article is absurdly biased. The authors of that page decided to ignore 95% of Leo's good content from his videos, decided to focus on the 5% of scientific inaccuracies (debatable), and strawmanned some horrible things which I won't even write here. I have also seen lots of thumbnails of Youtube videos of people accusing him of being a narcissist, a cult leader, a creep towards women, and other bad things. These are horrible, horrible allegations. Videos agreeing with Leo, or engaging with his ideas in a neutral or positive manner? Very few. Only one or two podcasts where he's the guest. And it does make me feel kind of bad for the way I've responded to him here in the forums. I get irritated because I find him to be a bad interlocutor. And his way of engaging with certain topics of political nature, can be closed minded in a stage Green way. But damn, he's a fucking saint compared to the way many people portray him. Thank you for all your videos, Leo. I do believe that watching Actualized.org over the years has had a positive impact on me. To this day, I still find you to be a huge source of inspiration for me. I might dislike this forum, but I love your videos. I rewatch them and listen to them on my way to work, or while working out, very often. My favorite videos are the ones that cover Life Purpose and Motivation. This is among my favorite ones: ❤️

Feature request: rename the politics forum to "Low Consciousness Resources". Or to "Stage Green Circle jerk". Now, as for how to resolve the issue, I make two suggestions: - Embrace more perspectives. Leo loves to pretend he values different perspectives but in reality he, and most of the forum users, are more interested in asserting their own perspective than inspecting someone else's. The Politics forum is a perfect example of this. - Improve online communication. I can write a long paragraph on a certain topic, and people tend to ignore my overall argument, and focus and nitpick this or that irrelevant detail, leading into a tangent. Online communication is a huge problem of the forum format. People intervene without reading the entire thread. People engage in multiple threads at once (Leo). People decide to make their arguments as succinct as possible, allowing room for misinterpretation. People also decide to start with the point of disagreement instead of the common ground. I could write a post that has multiple premises. Someone might agree with me on 95% of the argument. But instead, they pick the 5% of disagreement and turn that into a debate. Right now, this forum is at the same level of Consciousness as some left wing subreddit. I find it tragic, really.

I have done more critical thinking and inner reflection work in the past 2 months than over the rest of my life combined. I have suffered greatly in my life. I am deeply dissatisfied with my lifestyle. And that is due to very incorrect assumptions I've held for a very long time. 2025 is my year of transformation. Possibly the biggest transformation in my entire life. I have managed to change my inner dialogue a lot, and I have adopted the necessary habits to achieve my life goals. But that isn't enough. Within me, I often encounter resistance, and conflict. I often find myself whether I should sacrifice my feelings and happiness for practical purposes, or if I am being a fool for making decisions that are impractical to my goals. After a lot of introspection, I managed to deconstruct many flaws in my way of thinking. These fallacies are common to many people. And so, I have made the decision to write a philosophical manifesto. Title: The Selfish Manifesto These are the topics I will cover in the document: The lie of Common Truth - how society lies to you into believing others have the truth, and the problem with institutions defining truth, and the fallacy of appeal to popularity The lie of Oppression - how society instills in you a mindset that you are oppressed, and that you need to navigate the world through the lens of an oppressed individual who needs to either join a woke ideology, or to serve your masters The lie of Ideology - how society promotes distractions, fake solutions, fake cooperations, and fake ideas to pretend there is an ideology out there that will serve the "greater good" (Feminism, Wokeness, LGBTQ rights, Socialism, Capitalism, Marxism, and even low hanging fruit ideologies like Right Wing, Christianity, etc( The lie of Selfishness - how society demonizes the concept of selfishness, when in reality it rewards the most selfish individuals and smashes the least selfish ones The lie of Morality - how society twists notions of morality according to its corrupt needs, and how you shouldn't fall for conformist moral systems How to take the Truth - how to discover the truth for yourself without relying on reading books written by others (yes I know it sounds self refusting but this point is anything but that), and stop seeking truth and validation from experts, and mainstream opinion How to take your freedom - how to accept that you have freedom, how to apply freedom into your own life, how to make tough decisions in order to maximize your freedom How to take your happiness - how to learn to be happy on your own, without relying on ANYONE to serve you, laugh with you, love you How to love yourself - how to accept your looks, your personality, essentially how to become such a narcissist that you give love to yourself This is going to be the most anti-ideological, anti-conformist, antiwoke document ever written. And it is going to be very antithetical both to common spiritual teachings and to practical, stage orange self help concepts. I will invite the reader to stop bending over backwards trying to receive validation and rewards from society. I will refute the notion that "the Ego is the biggest Devil" and all of that terrible advice that spiritual teachers like Leo like to promote. The idea of hating your ego and trying to kill it, eliminate it, "transcend it", is preposterous. If you live your life trying to diminish your ego, that is a path to guaranteed suffering. I will present a healthy, timeless perspective on Selfish Egoism. The document will be short. Between 50 to 100 A5 pages long. No bullshit. No stalling. No philosophical mumbo-jumbo. No counter-arguments, not bending over backwards to justify every little point I make. I'm very excited about this project. After so much introspection, I believe I have some interesting universal truths to write here. And this is no exaggeration. These aren't some weird ideology I am promoting. These principles should serve any individual, in any era, in any context. These are the most encompassing principles anyone could hope for. And they will serve me (and whoever reads this) to guide a powerful, authentic life. The primary audience for this document, however, will be young men. I don't expect some woke feminist Hollywood celebrity reading this with any amount of charitability or good faith. I am very aware this document will be perceived by many people as some toxic manosphere blackpill rant, or even as some cringe right wing Ayn Rand philosophy. This document will be very triggering for people who are married to their woke religion. I'm very excited for this project. I predict I will have the document ready in 4-6 months. Maybe less. I will publish it here for free as PDF.

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/davidpakman-com-bias/ David Pakman is biased as fuck. Considered an extremist to the left.