BlueOak

Authoritarian leaders with larger egos listen to yes-men. Yes-men don't give good advice to strengthen your weaknesses / address your flaws, or let you grow with the natural course of events. Now we have Trump running on conspiracy, which the country is more tired of. I've said it before, but Kyle sums it up well here. Its the biggest flaw of authoritarians deep in egos, they make it about themselves at the expense of running a country. Not every single leader obviously, I'm sure there are authoritarians out there who genuinely listen to people telling them when something isn't working, but we only ever see the leaders that have huge egos because those egos like to get heard or seen. Equally for balance being a democratic leader doesn't negate this possibility either, it just makes less likely, because how you got to that point usually requires many people, not just a large wad of cash to buy your way in (usually)

Thank you and the others for helping me collapse this duality, its been a thing I've struggled with all my life I was shown the extremes in infinite love and infinite sorrow for perspective, but it's a thing I've been balancing forever. They are the same. Its the same energy. No need to avoid, or pick a preference, you just love. That's it.

Trump's policies depend on his ego and what he last heard someone say to him. Political and economic support for Russia Economic antagonism toward China Occasional Assassinations in Iran/Iraq/Syria when someone whispers the right thing in his ear. In the Middle East generally: even more guns to Israel and general bombing of Iranian Allies. On a political level only he'd try to appear to be doing more, not that there is much left to do practically speaking. Sadly Business as usual with the Saudis in Yemen no doubt. Further cooling of European relations with his backing Russia. Cooling of relations to a lesser extent with NATO generally. Not every country, but many of them behind the scenes. Defunding of NATO, he flip flops on everything, but with this you could flip a coin. Which to me leads us closer to WW3, unless Russia is so crippled it can't continue for a few decades. BRICS has sadly made that neutered outcome less likely, by funding and supplying them. Africa, No idea, I don't think he knows it exists. Probably the usual meddling all foreign powers do. South East Asia and the Pacific Generally, I can't predict this, he seems to want to be seen to be buddies with North Korea. I don't honestly think much would change, he may increase forces in the theater, but that's generally going to be down to China regardless. Asia generally ditto above, I don't think he knows much about central Asia or India for example. I don't think he'd improve relations much with his openly fascist and now touching on nazi rhetoric. I don't use those words as hyperbole, that's what he is moving toward in his rhetoric.

Maybe I am being too pessimistic, and people are finally tiring of it, I do see that as a distinct possibility.

Obviously political instability is not wanted, but that's what we've been pushed into by competing forces around the globe, some of which are trying (buying) to change America. I don't want political assassinations to be the norm. I don't want the Republicans echoing not just now fascist but nazi rhetoric, but they are. I worry that they will eventually turn against Europe I have made this concern known a few times. It looks like in part they already are with their support for Russia. This type of rhetoric will lead to violence, you preach hate get hate, and yes the dems are not immune. as I've said your parties are both toward the authoritarian right. It's just the Republicans are now openly fascistic, and still going right thanks to Russian and Chinese money pumped into your parties. The influence of certain groups online has contributed to sending them off the deep end. Taking him out at the polls is the best option and should allow for continued support for NATO and thus hopefully stop a WW3, but at the same time, it's not going to change the underlying dynamic of what is going on in your country. Though I see some light at the end of the tunnel finally, social media is not taken quite so literally and outlandish conspiracy is more openly mocked. I can't speak for China of course, they still might instigate it rather than exercise patience to get Taiwan, which they will obtain eventually anyway. Once the semiconductor industry has been formally moved, there is a fair likelihood that Taiwan will one day culturally integrate with China without a shot being fired.

The I AM: Everything is you. The self: You are unable to see value or expansion or X in suffering. I've seen tremendous value and expansion or X in suffering. The self: You see it as a negative, as counter to your potential. I see it as a necessary and loved part of life. I love suffering, I see tremendous potential in suffering, the healing of it, the exploration of it, the protection/learning/growth/humbling etc I love healing. I love the food I just ate. I love the shelter over my head. I love the computer, this forum, the stress I am receiving from work. I do not need to avoid these things or dissociate from them. Thank you for reminding me of the last one. They are not counter to my potential unless I decide they are, and I decide and define potential as avoidance or disassociation from these things. Neither of us is wrong or right from the perspective of the self. The I AM: I am already dreaming/imagining/thinking this reality to manifest it. I can't be less or more dreaming. I can't be less or more the absolute or the I AM. This is inside the self's imagined mind. Where you are creating the process of disassociation so you can experience it. The self can picture this person is more awake than this person etc, they can create hierarchies and structures out of the dream but it's just in their head. What they are saying to me usually is, this part (person) of me is less awake than this part of me, or sometimes I want to avoid this part of me (person), or I don't know how to elevate or put into context what they just said with my own reality. Its all you so *shrug* you are always judging yourself.

When part of you is suffering its suffering. Its literally trapped in your nervous system. We fracture ourselves into pieces through traumatic events, especially those in our childhood that were not equipped to deal with. Animals do it too, then they roar, bark, shake themselves, run around but humans don't do this, they hold onto it. Then they get emotional states or experiences that happen related to it that repeat for the rest of their life till they become aware of it. You can ignore it I suppose, but this is terrible advice because it will keep repeating and repeating and repeating until finally you do what you were supposed to do. This is true on the micro and macro. I used to be a master at evading my emotions, I was initially drawn to spirituality in the 2010's as yet another way to avoid pieces of myself that were suffering. I could bliss myself out and ignore everything. You are EVERYTHING. NOT JUST BLISS! Thank you for settling this for me once and for all, I needed that finality.

The most irresponsible thing you can do is walk around and feel happy - His reflection. If we are going meta: Responsibility is in his head. Miserable is in his chest. Happy is in his chest. He's not walking anywhere the universe is. He then assigns what that facial expression is, what that mood leads to, and what the result of that is going to be or at the very least what he focuses on. I've done some of the most enriching healing of my life in miserable states. Putting a happy face on when alone or depressed was the WORST ADVICE I was EVER GIVEN. I understand in public smiling can lift moods, but it also traps emotions inside your body that get stuck and then recreate the events that led to them until you go back into them.

For the first time today, I realized the self wasn't moving a body. I have attempted to just walk where infinity led me a few times, and that can be fun, but this was different. It is difficult to word accurately at this point. Doing a simple Yoga routine, I use the breath of fire on some exercises for the immune system. Somewhere twisting side to side, I realised that the self is controlling nothing because the self is a concept. It sends a request and the universe does the rest. I will have a better explanation or way of wording this in the future. I want to say there is distance or a sense of separation, but that isn't the exact word I want to use, just an understanding that the self focuses on things and the universe responds. As you are the universe, it's like the tree moving, or the car.

Infinite love and becoming it cannot be explained adequately. It's every happy memory and sensation you ever had all around you at once. You are it. You are everything and everything is love. I struggle here because I go through phases of saying to myself that was one more sensation or experience, and other times saying it was the culmination of all experiences and sensations. Other times, if I could pick anything to experience I would pick that, and as I am picking, that's what I would choose at least once a year (or once a month ). BUT so do people who chase chemical highs habitually (not for enlightenment), it's the same concept and I wonder if it's the same pitfall. I have the experience of my brother's struggle with narcotics as a backdrop. Receiving actively: Self-chasing something is less helpful when you can already be it. The self-seeking manifests the journey or the search, not the experience. I, the self don't change anything, the self doesn't find or seek out anything. The I AM dreams it, the self experiences and focuses on what it wants more of, and then I AM manifests it. It's all love anyway. I don't doubt some of you reading are looking for that infinite love state through chemical highs, but you don't need to go anywhere or do anything to experience it, being completely unconditional in loving everything is the key. Many others are in the journey or search, and so they create that, as with most spiritual teachers they create the process to teach. The student and the teacher both. Loving every word, every reflection, and every experience. Then just being open to receive actively. Not seeking, looking, or creating a journey unless the journey is what you want to experience. This is helpful: 🙏 Putting the Left/Right hemispheres of the brain/reality in unity and cultivating gratitude - joy and love.

Its whatever you decide, with your focus, choices, idea, beliefs etc You are the I am X *insert yourself here* Emptiness is a concept you have in your mind, the same as full would be. Nothing is a concept people are telling you, ditto many of these: Reality is a concept. Dreaming is a concept. Energy is a concept. Destroyed/Created is a concept. Goal is a concept. You are a concept. Your mind is a concept. I guess all that's left to collapse is the word concept...

Infinity probably picked that because we are very imaged-focused as a society right now. Beauty has always drawn attention to a subject or person but perhaps now most of all with the projection of tiktok and social media phase of our collective egoic development. This is until we heal collectively from our narcissism which I do happily see signs of around me.

If this were true the word socialism and all its associated meanings or policies would be met with neutrality instead of extreme opposition, ditto authoritarian, capitalist and libertarian influences. What you are saying is unfortunately false from a global perspective. The democratic party is not central on these four axis. Authoritarian Capitalist Socialist Libertarian. What you are going to argue they are central on, is along what the current people with money have decided the American political axis is, altered slightly due to public sentiment, which they also steer.

@questionreality You have no left-wing major parties in America. You have an authoritarian right party. And a center-right party. These two maintain power due to their corporate donors, institutions, and foreign governments, who, as a balance like to maintain a certain level of authoritarianism while removing all socialism and balancing libertarianism. Both of them have fascist elements, I mention this because both of them use conspiracy in their messaging. Yes, the Republicans do it habitually, and most of their influencers invent stories or run with memes and conspiracies to earn money, but they have taught the liberals to use it also from time to time. If anyone wants to refute that, I can once again trot out the themes of fascism for anyone. Also, there should be four people in that debate. It's supremely stupid that the population of your country tolerates a two-person binary debate or two-party democracy where everything can be scripted and run so predictably easily. I understand why the stability overall helps the structure of your country, but it's also so structured it stifles the natural flow of it. Trump is fairly predictable in his responses, Kamala can almost be given cue cards about how he will respond. Touch his ego and its all he can focus on, it's so easy. On another note fact-checking is good. It reduces conspiracy, reducing fascist influence, and yes both sides should be fact-checked. But that would only apply if people wanted accurate facts, rather than feeling good. Trump is a feel-good vibes candidate, which has worked for him for many years, but he's going to lose because its so open and exposed now. That and he's old, he's got so many cases against him and honestly in his governing, he's less predictable in his whims than a boring right-wing corporate liberal. This is without even adding in abortion and 2020 as thorns in his side over and over again.

As someone said: Then don't let go. Improve. 1) This seems like two things. A core issue, something that needs a person there with you saying write your reasons for improving something down and then do it. Ditto changing if you feel that's the course. Depression is like rolling a big boulder, it takes a long time to get it moving, and feels like its heavy, but as it gets moving it gets easier (and sometimes squashes your feet along the way). I've been there many times. 2) When you have a stuck emotion in your body good, you are aware of it! That lets you sit with it, and see what it needs/wants. It can heal you, you can heal it. (Learn/Protect/Comfort let whatever comes up come up etc) If you've not done teals completion process have a look, I still use it on stuck emotions in the nervous system to do this day: This next one is a playlist someone put together, I'd advise going to the link (top right of the video) to have a browse Reality is quite literally not only experienced through your emotional state but also altered by it so what occurs is directly happening inside your own chest/ribs/head/legs etc.

Somewhat. It depends how much of a flow state you are in as to what can change for example. The feedback of the environment or dream around you (yourself) plays a big factor in reinforcement and potential. Physicality tends to allow for slower changes as energy/consciousness is slowed down. I don't have a better word than 'slowed', I am not a physicist, only that matter is vibrating more slowly, and the physical universe is the vibration of energy. Anything you are viewing is also you. *This is where the emotional state and the movement of energy is important, as you are moving and manifesting faster.

It's interesting and perhaps helpful to think of how consciousness forms into a creation to experience itself in a certain way. You do it every day, and every moment, you reform or change, experiencing infinity differently. It's also helpful and breaks the logical mind to understand now is all that exists. This point in the pattern of your life. We do this X to manifest that Y, but there is no past, or future. You are just reforming yourself right now to be what you need/want/will/are patterned to be.

Do you mean for once, people won't just be talking meme's and weird internet conspiracies to rounds of applause? Have we grown? This was the most annoying thing from American politics because I had to interact with people whose reality was so far out of synch with mine that it made each conversation an exercise in futility, even on the small day-to-day things.

That is the main message I wish I could shout from the rooftops. That the so-called average working man, who puts a hard day's work in, and gives a damn about the woman he's with, does his best by her is so devalued (in his own mind) at the moment it's comical. We have guys looking to Andrew tate or millionaires for how life is supposed to be, celebrities or tiktokers with fake profiles rolling in cash and free gifts, and then the average guy wonders why his head and world are upside down. Ditto the girls who are given completely backward priorities and expectations from the current age of materialism we are in. People wonder why the birthrate is down, and dating for them is a minefield.

Ease up and calm down a bit. I've had too much exposure to good women. I've seen my mother carry three jobs and two kids when my father was near death. I've seen a woman drop a man because a friend earned a bit more. I'll let you guess which I took as an example to look for. Yes a man is a provider, that is a positive trait. I've gone over why in multiple posts as to this filter, and its always served me well in finding good women who appreciate when you provide for them, they don't expect it, it's not assumed, and they all had zero entitlement. Your generation has gone too materialist for its own good.

Women put the time in. So do men. The hours I put in lifting weights, running and learning my trade. The blood sweat and tears of building my self up to be the man she wants, physically, mentally, financially, socially etc, and going through all the hoops I went through to get my life, mind and body straight. Yada Yada. No men talk about this because that's just how it is. Only when someone comes and tells me I had it easy do I bring it up. And BTW, none of that surface-level preparation you just said is what I look for in a woman, it's the lifetime she put into being who she is. Honestly, I think you are too far into the materialism and 'image above all' of the 20's, like most people now with that answer.

I agree that is who I look for. I used to always believe that as an absolute in all things. Recently, there has been a push in the collective for people to be the same more than complimentary in certain ways. Example: (2.30) is relevant to opposites. Nuanced:

I don't do fun and spontaneous. Not that kind of person. I am serious and planned. I loathe the term 'game' for example. Of course, I look at all those things, for me, that goes without saying. Shy smile, touch of the face, and kindness towards others draws my eyes. Are we relating in how we view the world, and are we connecting, does she have depth, creativity, and a playfulness I find initially interesting? That's the next level, and after that it's integrity: Is she honest, loyal to her friends and family? If I've got that far, it's going very well. Then, because I'm a man I'm looking at her beauty again, while the other half of my mind is trying to formulate something interesting that connects with what we've shared. You can say it proves nothing, but you can say that about anything. It's a first date. How she reacts will prove how she relates to me at this point, that's all I've got to work with.

Yeah, we have a chasm of difference in how we look at it, and that's fine. I understand your judgments better because I now understand how you view first dates. I don't mess women around, I am authentic all the time. If I date them I date them. I am not looking to get laid and leave. But they'd know that because I say something similar to them before they'd even met me in person. I don't attract partners who are not serious, and I don't attract people who don't know what they want or who they are: Meaning they have no problem telling me.

That's fine we wouldn't be compatible. The first date for me is a getting-to-know-you date, which is going on from both parties. Part of that is how is she regarding money and expectations. The very fact she'd make it a big deal, for example, would tell me a lot about how I'd relate to her. I am making money more important in my life and have been for some time, and is one of a hundred things I would unconsciously and consciously respond to on that date. Women will be scrutinizing plenty about me on that first date, and I will be with them also. However, the topic of the thread is what it is. Had it been what are the top three things I look for, we'd be having a different conversation.