Consept

To make a conscious effort to seek truth

Yeah I love power v force, I haven't read the other one so I'll check it out, thanks ?

He is under rated, excellent content but i think if you read one or two of his books youll know what hes trying to get across, it definitely got repetitive for me. I think it might be better just to get one of his books and read it every couple of years

I guess a question for you is, 'without trumps input, how likely would it be that the capitol was stormed?'. The implication in your text is that Trump was well within his rights to contend the decision (I dont necessarily disagree), and that he undertook perfectly innocent actions, the fact that the capitol was stormed is because of a few extremists who took trumps words and ran with it. Trump had set things up before the election, he stated many times that he was not going to concede if he lost and if he did lose it would be because of some kind of fraud, most likely mail in. This is what you call a priming his supporters, before the election is even confirmed they are already convinced that there will be fraud. His supporters tend to believe whatever he says in a religious manner and I would guess he's aware of this. Then after he lost the election he claimed multiple instances of fraud, all of which were completely thrown out, a lot of which by republican judges. On top of that his team sent numerous emails to supporters claiming the election had been stolen and they needed to support by donating money. In the minds of the supporters their reality is that there is fraud and that its a conspiracy to get rid of trump. This is a complete fabrication conducted only by trump and furthered by his team. His supporters obviously would be riled up as he puts pressure on any officials that don't want to go along with his story. Then finally he says at a rally that everyone should march to capitol Hill to protest this stolen election. Now he may not have thought the rioters wouldve got in, but he's fed them with months of misinformation, outrage, conspiracies, all of which they believed completely. He would've known something would happen, if he didn't that is sever and dangerous levels of incompetence so either way he would be a threat to America. All of this was further exacerbated by the fact that he took so long to denounce them and when he did he said he 'loved them'. If someone was just incompentant or unaware they would definitely do their best to put out the fire, this was absolutely not done. So you may chose not to call it a coup but at best it's dangerously reckless, incompentant behavior, at worst its planned, manipulative and targeted behavior, either way he's at fault.

Do you guys think some kind of civil war is a possibility? I mean the mind set of some of the maga people is extremely fanatical, reading the twitter thread earlier it seems even the not so extreme ones would be happy to go along with some violence, id be surprised if the military as a whole switched to trumps control but its not out of the question for a few factions to dissent. I dont know what will happen but i wonder if magas craziness is being underestimated. If it is on this path what can be done to avoid it?

Interesting as im contemplating the same kind of questions as well. Currently i do Amazon fba and im considering other investments, one of which is Real estate. I havent come to any conclusions but i have some thoughts. Very few endeavours are just either high or low consciousness, for example you could probably meditate in a low conscious way because you heard it will make you more successful, on the other hand you could make money and put that into different high consciousness things, almost like diverting it from low consciousness to high consciousness. So really i think it comes down to your intention, personally i would like to make money and maybe invest it into things like renewable energy companies or give some to charity, even with something like real estate you could have good rates for your tenants or invest more in poorer areas. The key thing is to be aware of the impact you have, sometimes it might be a case of mitigating the negative impact and when possible give as much of a positive impact as you can. It may be the case that you pick a life purpose thats a yoga teacher and that may have a good impact for a few people, but if you are interested and good at business or stocks or whatever, then i dont see why you shouldnt use that to create an even larger impact using the money or maybe giving people jobs etc. Not only that you could still be a yoga teacher just that you wont have to worry about survival in the same way, meaning you could potentially give more to that craft

Thing is free speech in principle could work if you didn't have bad actors deliberately muddying the waters and pushing the limits of it to destabilise and create chaos. The other issue is true believers of some potentially harmful ideology and its really hard to draw lines here because what could be classed as harmful? Maybe every dogmatic belief to some extent

This whole south park episode is what wouldve happened if trump was as competent as Eric cartman

Interesting take from DDN https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgrJbPkS6JE

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I wouldnt say he thought people storming the Capitol would result in anything changing, he may not have even thought they would get that far, but the point is he knew something was going to happen probably at the expense of his most die hard supporters (getting arrested or even killed in some cases). What he gains is his narcissistic ego being fulfilled by seeing others put their lives on the line for him, its also a show of power and threat to those that oppose him, hes clearly said that any republicans against him will suffer. So hes definitely winning i dont know what the supporters are getting out of it. In my analogy the abusive partner just has to make the abused partner think theyre winning to continue the abuse

Youre confused because you dont want to fully face the truth, youre like someone in an abusive toxic relationship 'he hit me but he loves me, im so confused'

It's not a quick fix, sounds like you might have some deeper issues you haven't explored, maybe look into some kind of therapy to get some answers of the root of your issues.

Well he did say he would drain the swamp, so fair play

You can't blame the left for this, the right has to take responsibility for its actions, especially when they were condemning the blm protests peaceful or otherwise. They're also getting violent to stop a legal democratic election, I couldn't think of a worse reason to get violent. Tbf though I can't even lump the right altogether, this is people who are shitting on democracy whilst simultaneously preaching about democracy against everyone else, the levels of hypocrisy are actually insane

This was inevitable though unfortunately, just hope not too many are hurt

Great vid, i like both those guys

It's not so much that you drop it completely, not many can just decide and that right away, it's more you become aware of the illusion. You have a choice in that you can believe whatever concept you want, this is what's taught to us as we grow up and to some extent its true, but it doesn't change the ultimate reality that is that you're just awareness. This is not a belief or concept this is something that can be directly experienced or directly seen, if you just believe the concept it makes it no different than any other belief. Your choice essentially is to believe illusion ie your mind or experience reality. You may believe that illusion let's you do different things but to compare it you'd have to experience Non-Duality, that's the investigation you need to conduct

Your awareness comes first, everything, including your ideas about Non-Duality or anything else are within your awareness. Your getting lost in ideas, ideas are just content that you are aware of, there is no self that can benefit from an idea of Non-Duality, that is an illusion. The only thing in your experience that is not an illusion is awareness, this is something you can experience for yourself. I feel the way youre currently seeing it is that this idea of Non-Duality can help you live a better life, this is a contradiction because there is no 'you', that's what needs to be seen. Non-Duality is what's left when the self and all its ideas have been dropped, it's what has always and will always be there regardless of the content the mind throws up

This obviously is not surprising, but surely this is hard proof of an attempt to defraud the election, surely worse than alleged with no evidence fraud. So what is it actually going to take to make Trump supporters realise who this guy is? Or is it just an all out cult at this point? Potentially he could be hurting repubs with this type of thing

If someone does it unknowingly thats one thing, but you can infer intention from his general rhetoric in this case. Again its not that the term used especially offended me its just that it was obviously said to bait as it had nothing to do with anything, we werent even talking about Obama. For one thing black people are just more comfortable talking about race, as they have over the years gotten the short end of that stick. It has to do with power dynamics, so for example poor people can make jokes about being poor amongst each other but if a rich person made a joke about them being poor, it can come off as if they are being superior and looking down on them and also not really understanding their issues. Same with any dynamic like that, if an in shape person made a joke about fat people, if a young person made jokes about old people, if good looking person made a joke about ugly an ugly person. Its all the same, and also the definition of racism is believing yourself to be superior to another based on race, if you make a joke disparaging black people your intention may not be bad or even racist but it will definitely come across as such. If you take the 'Kenyan man' example its a way to reduce Obama to just his racial heritage as if thats all he is, so in that way the person saying it can in maybe think he or others are superior to Obama

Well I'm black so... But aside from that my point was more it's not relevant whether he's Kenyan or not, it literally had nothing to do with anything, but the person writing the comment knew that it might be offensive, which is something I see from the right a lot. It's like we have a right to say whatever and we're going to prove it by saying something we think would be offensive to you. It's just trying to bait people so that when they react they can say 'ha look how sensitive you are', normally I wouldn't comment but on this forum where its supposedly more 'advanced' people I don't think these type of tactics are needed or constructive

If youre trying to 'do' non-duality or take away duality, wouldnt that mean a dualistic perspective? The foundation is non-dual, you have no option of that, then anything you do pretty much lends itself to duality, all you have to do is be aware of this duality and see that youre not it. Its not some kind of lifestyle so to speak

You realise that OAN is heavily biased toward the president right, the clip i used was the actual Georgia Secretary of State along with surveillance footage of him literally explaining every movement. But if youre trolling do your thing, im not gonna argue with you