BlueOak

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  1. Bomb my home, kill my family and I won't like your country much either. The strategy you are promoting, separating people from Hamas, is not being practiced. Israel is instead strengthening Hamas and Iran by treating the population as Hamas, as you are doing here, repeating the cycle. There will always be an authority in Palestine. No plan is being made for what that will be. Even if Hamas changed the name, the people would still hate Israel. The entire strategy should have been the question: How do we separate Hamas from the people? Then How do we put, encourage, or get an authority in Palestine that isn't a violent gang?
  2. Because all sides want something the others cannot give, force became the only way to settle it. There will likely be no capitulation, just an eventual stalemate where the lines are held. Such large amounts of territory don't change hands overnight, and the death toll for each country won't be forgotten for generations. Russia will be involved in Ukraine for decades now, whatever anyone's judgment of their victories/defeats, reasons, or motivations. What could motivate Ukraine to lose land, not join NATO, and demilitarize? Nobody will agree to that after this war. Russia to give up the land it's taken, or stop Ukraine from joining NATO. Nothing. Europe to stop supporting Ukraine in defending its eastern flank from Russia? Nothing. China or Iran from supplying what Russia needs to keep fighting, or BRICS generally from helping its economy? Nothing. However, the Americans holding up arms shipments are giving Russia a large advantage in firepower, so they may crack the front in an area. The recent attacks across the front didn't make headway, thankfully. The American government has been infiltrated more successfully than most by Russian interests and propaganda. Another thing about democracies that authoritarians have historically underestimated is the level of resistance in their occupied areas.
  3. I've just quoted exactly what I said. I said the man's comment about people ignoring Russia was a lie, and they are straight out of Putin's mouth. There were repeated attempts and talks. He might not like the words or results, as you don't, but to pretend they didn't happen is a lie. I even told you why that was the case. Someone challenging your narrative upsets you like it does Putin, I understand, but when you feel that and get petty, question why rather than insult the person doing it.
  4. No. Here is what I replied to and said: Ritters Quote: We ignored all efforts by Russia to resolve the Ukrainian issue peacefully. - End quote I said: A straight lie from a dictator's mouth. Also known as, I spent decades pulling away from NATO and the EU, fearmongering about them to my people, and when our perspectives don't align (surprise surprise) I attack. - End Quote I did not say talks didn't happen, I said the perspectives are so far apart now they were never going to align. The cultures are so different, that's what happens when two cultures living side by side pull so far apart and cause conflict. Is Russia alone in that responsibility no, but they sure leaned into the hatred.
  5. It's a lie, Putin has engineered the hatred in the Russian population as a way of maintaining control, and then attacked when the perspectives were too far apart. Ukraine offered Neutrality and Putin ignored it. https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-offers-neutrality-exchange-nato-style-security-guarantees-russia-talks-2022-03-29/ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/30/ukraine-offer-neutrality-meaning-constitution-russia-what-does-neutral-status-country-mean-how-would-it-work
  6. I'm accusing you of using your hatred of America to intentionally avoid talking about a European war. But I see now it's because you really do not understand NATO or Europe. America does not control Europe, this is a delusion on your part. I can't put it nicely I'm sorry. Europe is a jigsaw of different cultures, voices, and perspectives. This is something you, Putin, and Russian supporters can't see. So they always frame their points of view by talking about America, a country that isn't even in EUROPE! They always see one voice, but instead, they are dealing with many, so their perspective is always lacking or flawed. Do you not see how infuriating that is lol. A Reality check: Europe's GDP: $24.02 trillion America's GDP: $26.950 trillion Europe has 751 million people. America has 334 million people. Europe is 10,180,000 km squared America is 9,833,520 km squared I'm not going to bother cutting Russia off of this, but you can estimate, because that's another thing to understand too, this is a continental war between European powers. It's one that's happened before, and likely is going to happen again. The concept of 'the west' to me is relatively new, before this war, I didn't even associate myself with 'the west', I was English, now I've accepted it as a label people use, often incorrectly. Before this war, the NATO power encroaching that you keep telling me about was breaking apart, it was much more nebulous than defined. That's how Europe is, so many different voices pulling it in different ways. To us, it was a treaty, not a single power, a treaty which makes using it for offensive war all but impossible because of all the different competing interests. If you were to focus on the Eastern European region, you'd have a better understanding of the war, but as you've said to me, you think its America that's driving it. When, in fact, we are closer to war because of Eastern Europe now (and I included Russia in this obviously) The further west you go, the less they are involved in the conflict. The further east, the more their security is threatened. As a consequence, you can't even see the war itself, or the reasons for it on the ground.
  7. Scott Ritter as the source. A convicted sex offender, who ran over to Russia to continue to vent his frustrations for a moronic Iraq war, and because he's a degenerate who didn't like being punished for it. Source; https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13089135 @zazen 'Ultra-nationalist government?' He means the least nationalist government so far. This is a repeated Russian lie about Nazis, the far right got 2% of the vote in the Ukraine election, much less than Russia's far right is or was. If anything war increases right wing views out of necessity. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Ukrainian_presidential_election 'We continued to push for the expansion of NATO to include Ukraine even though a sitting U.S. Ambassador warned it could lead to war.' Countries join NATO out of fear of Russia, something Russia has instilled in them over centuries. This would take an understanding that there are more than two countries in the world, something a Russian puppet like Ritter cannot do. We used the CIA to funnel money and weapons to Chechen rebels to help foment violence intended to break up Russia into component parts. Oh right, so now America is blamed for Russia invading Chechnya twice, and reducing it to rubble, a country over two hundred times smaller than Russia (quick calculation) is supposed to 'break it apart'. Ritter's delusions go into overdrive. We allowed the CIA to build 12 bases inside Ukraine for the purpose of carrying operations targeting Russia. Source for some of these? Other than a man with an axe to grind? I'd be very happy if it were true at this point, better than 18-year-old soldiers fighting out their disagreements. We built a Ukrainian military designed for the sole purpose of fighting Russians. One he got right yes. America and England were two of the few countries outside of Eastern Europe, that could see the Russian pattern of continually invading former USSR countries, even the Ukrainians didn't believe they'd be hit. They trained and prepared an army which ended up being very valuable in pushing the Russians out of Ukraine, without it we'd be in WW3 already. We ignored all efforts by Russia to resolve the Ukrainian issue peacefully. A straight lie from a dictator's mouth. Also known as I spent decades pulling away from NATO and the EU, fearmongering about them to my people, and when our perspectives don't align (surprise surprise) I attack. We used the CIA to create a malignant political “opposition” designed to undermine the Russian government. Aka anyone who speaks against the 'glorious' fragile dictator is killed. We facilitated the genocide of Russians in the Donbas by supporting Ukrainian/German/French non-compliance with the Minsk accords. These regions lived in peace till Russia came. We supplied tens of billions of dollars in military assistance to Ukraine in order to sustain a conflict we hoped would lead to the strategic defeat of Russia. Yes, to a stalemate to control and hold the war where it is. You have a warped understanding of the world, General. Russia isn’t at war with us. We’re at war with Russia. Hyperbole. You'll know when WW3 starts.
  8. I can keep pointing them out, but it only fits your narrative to talk about America and NATO. I can keep pointing out how you can't even see Europe, let alone Eastern Europe in your narrative. To consider the region itself, you'd get closer to the other side's position because it'd be closer to where the war is being fought. It's like me telling you about India and all I talk about is China and Brazil NB - I'm not saying you'll agree with me either but your argument would be vastly improved, because it would contain the region that is in focus, as the focus of your argument.
  9. 1, Yes, they were very stupid to trust Russia. 2, Missing 20 other reasons. 3, Russia is risking nuclear war invading into Europe. We are risking other countries going to war, if we don't stop Russia here. 4, Better a controlled frontline in Ukraine than a regional war across all of Europe, which we are close to right now. But you mention America because, guess what, focusing on Europe would bring you closer to it and understanding the other side of it. 5, All Major wars are fought against spheres of influence hitting each other. Traditionally, for the last few decades, this has been Russia vs America, or Russia vs China. Now it's BRICS vs NATO. It doesn't change, because people don't change.
  10. We can look at a few, let's start with an older one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor Kill Ukrainians - Move Russian speakers in over a long period - Claim land is Russian. Conclusion: Never let the Russian population settle in your country, and stop teaching the Russian language so they can't use that nonsense as an excuse for war. All I heard at the start of this war, was to protect the Russian speakers! Despite the fact, most spoke Ukrainian too and there was no tension previous to Russia's meddling and malice. It's closer to ethnic cleansing. Russia either shipped out Ukrainians living in those regions, including children, which is what Putin's war crime charges are, then brought in Russians to replace them, or directly conscripted Ukrainian men, forcing them into the LPR and DPR forces to fight their countrymen. Doing that is illegal in war, but what do BRICS and Russia care for the law or the rules we live by? Not much from what I've seen. It's a new era, expect brutality as we see more of it globally, until people develop respect for life again, if that's at all possible.
  11. To fit your theory, you ignore: The pattern of Putin fighting 8 wars in former USSR territories to get to this point. All the territories he's annexed till this point, including parts of Ukraine. Every point I've made previously about the cause of the war you've not addressed to better fit the narrative you'd prefer. India is not neutral, and neither are you. They support Russia economically and allow it to continue to finance the war, that is choosing a side, as is your preference for the dictator to win his war. A neutral person would say, let them get on with it, or I have no strong opinion one way or the other. You want Russia to win the war, to annex territory, threaten nukes/food/energy, bomb civilians for two years, and use its military in Europe while getting away with it? What signal does that send to China, and Russia in 5 years? It's worked twice; let's do it again. The world does not operate in a vacuum. It would be supreme stupidity to allow Russia to break Ukrainian lines or legitimize what they have taken. AGAIN. Then regroup, rebuild and go again. The line is held here, or it's held further back in Ukraine 5-10 years from now, then Moldova, then the Baltics, then Poland, then Germany. Until either Russia is defeated, or one man's ego and Russia's lust for war are finished, and people stop making excuses for it. Yes, a democratic coup. Russia doesn't hold elections LOL. One candidate runs, and everyone else is for show. It forces people to vote the way it wants by fear and suppression, which is not democracy in any shape or form. The reason that the coup happened, (I watched it unfold), was that students were beaten for protesting, and then snipers started opening fire on the crowds that protested the beating, even the church came out in opposition to the actions. The 'opposition party' (joke) couldn't even take the concerns seriously. So it wasn't just a dictatorship, but a stupid dictatorship. A border is not a problem to free trade, there are borders all over the world, so your argument makes no sense. Russia wants control, as does BRICS. The people in Ukraine are not aligned with Russia they haven't been for decades, and especially so since Putin has killed hundreds of thousands of their family members. He and you, on this issue, live in the past sadly. These regions will never be given up peacefully, not for a hundred years, that's how invasions of foreign countries are. Again, with just America. NATO has many voices. Numerous leaders didn't want Ukraine in NATO and they couldn't be in NATO because Russia held Crimea, so it was an impossibility anyway. I don't take Mearsheimer seriously because he can only see Russia vs America, which misses the 19 other reasons for the war or the actual realities on the ground, or the long history of what led us to this point.
  12. The way we measure IQ is improving slightly. Still, a great majority are not being measured accurately. Alternative IQ could be considered meaningless for much of life. Depending on which definition you prefer, I would prefer it to be more encompassing and meaningful if it is to be used at all. Let's say we have a 100-IQ farmer who raises a family, his children are healthy and successful people. The farmer is not only very successful at his job but also preserves the soil quality and sustainability of his farm for future generations. The farmer can relate to his wife and family's needs, he understands himself very well. He is well-liked among his friends, and socially very capable among them and the local community. He is reliable and loyal, he has a handle on his life's challenges, plans his family's financial well-being, and generally people like him, he's a positive influence locally. He takes care of his health and has a good diet, he will likely live well and for a longer time. Then we have a 200-IQ genius. He is depressed most of the time, and he struggles with addictions. He's had three failed marriages and has no friends. He's separated from his children, who barely know him, and when he gets together to see them, there is constant fighting and stress. He has no sense of self-awareness or awareness of others. The man is unreliable and can't hold down a job for long periods, but he is a genius when he applies his intellect. The man stuffs himself full of carbs, sugars, and fats, and will probably die from his poor health and dietary choices. Do you honestly think we should be measuring these two example individuals as we currently measure them? It was this sort of gaslighting throughout my life that contributed to everyone saying, 'oh he's intelligent he'll be fine, or oh he'll apply himself eventually'. Growing up, people should have looked at me and given me help in areas that were not academic, because that was already a breeze for me. Creative, Social, Financial, and Emotional IQ are not considered in the makeup of a child nearly enough. Because they are not tested, they are considered secondary considerations, if at all. Note my IQ isn't that high, it's an example of my experience coasting through school while doing no work. Meanwhile, I was a **** up for most of my life, but even as a mature student, when I had my third shot at university, people were repeating the same old garbage to me. 'Oh you'll be the only one that uses this', or 'oh you'll be alright.' Despite the fact I'd just skipped half the year. Just pin a calculator on your forehead, and life's good I suppose. IQ as it is currently, is one aspect of potential in a few disciplines, nothing more or less.
  13. A perception exists because we exist. Infinity Becomes. Watching -> Infinity If you were every possibility, there would be no movement, no distinct form, no separation, and nothing to observe. With self, it provides a window to observe. It's an illusion because infinity can't chop a piece of itself off, but it creates illusionary separation and illusionary space to view.
  14. @Javfly33 Then how would you know it disappeared? Did someone else tell you? or did you observe it dissolving and disappearing?
  15. Nothing is a concept. Being is a concept. Thoughts are a concept. You can never remove the witness, its the only thing with permanence.
  16. I understand what you are saying, but when I experience nothing, that is an experience.
  17. @bringa I lived my life like that. I psyched myself up out of my depression, and then, when the effort didn't get me what I wanted, I went back into hiding in my room. That was my longest-running pattern because it was transactional, it was expecting a result for the action I was doing. The way not to have that problem is to keep finding out who you are, so when you do something, it's because you want to do that thing itself. If the thing itself has 500 conditions before you can feel anything, maybe you are putting too many conditions in the way? Could you do a less perfect version of it right now, and would that bring you some joy? Let's say I wanted to be a surgeon, and I knew it was because I wanted to help heal people. Well while on the long journey to being a surgeon, I could still help heal people by giving dietary advice. It would not be my dream job, but it would be what I enjoyed and why I was training to be a surgeon. A lot of us with parental trauma never got the guidance necessary to know ourselves in our formative years. We spent so long hiding ourselves so as not to get abused, so we have to put the work in to learn ourselves now. It sucks, but that's the reality, often with a lot of behaviors covering it that we used to hide away, fight, freeze, or manipulate and survive. You talked about love, so let's give you a step. Gratitude is easier than love to start with. You can be grateful for the food, for the shelter, for the air and water, and for the simple things we all take for granted. Really sit there and feel gratitude, take a moment, no rush whatever happens, happens. Tell yourself you are thankful for the things that matter in life, be kind to yourself, learn to feel. In your analogy of feeling empty: when you are doing this, you are placing that gratitude inside yourself. You are the thing you are experiencing. Placing your hands together can help put the body in that state. Practice that, so you can begin to see you are what you focus on. Then people go through a similar process with joy and love. You will feel empty and depressed if you are doing something that isn't you. You will feel in love if you love something. You can put yourself in any emotional state, but if you've never felt love, that might take guidance and patience. It will need you being unconditional with yourself. I just did it by closing my eyes, and taking a posture that I consider the best way to express love. Gentle, caring, and nurturing. No conditional result or thing I had to do. Whatever happened, happened. Your body posture goes a long way to assisting your emotional state. This also goes for depression and sadness. It's only a temporary thing, but it's there. To fill that emptiness day to day takes understanding yourself, and then doing something that lines up with who and what you are, not the result you want out of it. Fame, money, attention, praise, acceptance, etc.
  18. Yes. You are in patterns that are created before you experience them. Now is a concept in people's minds also, BTW, so don't cling too tightly to it. There is a lag to see the full pattern. If you've had dreams, intuition, or a predictive psychic ability before, it's not unexplainable. I get them when I am in a self-loving state for long enough, I can get a picture of an event before it happens, but even in this dense state I am in now, I can get intuition or ask questions of the bigger me. I look at everything in life as an ongoing pattern that is rarely deviated from, and the deviations are usually what interest me. Develop a method of connecting with your larger intelligence, higher self, bigger self, soul, god, outer bodies, whatever you call it, to find a method that works for you, simple yes/no answers are the easiest. You'll be surprised at how much information is already set up in a pattern. No, you won't know the lottery numbers (don't bother lol), or probably what football team is going to win next week. Things with clear patterns and answers you can receive if one exists. Some call this divination to get you started. My favorite simple tool is a spiritual pendulum, aka dowsing pendulum. Yes/No. A circling or side-to-side motion for the answers. For clear questions or to clear up dilemmas. The first question to ask is, show me no and then show me yes. There is no magic here, your subconscious stores masses of information, and to your wider intelligence, your life is a drop in the ocean. Another simple way is, to look for a sign of the answer in front of you when you ask or think of the question. - This takes a bit of faith in yourself, not taking things too literally or seriously, and flexibility in the mind. When you start setting this up in life, answers are often there for you when the question comes up, you'll find yourself in more synchronicities. - Again, sometimes there is no answer, or your question doesn't make sense. - Every day you are giving yourself signs and answers to your own questions, it's your mind all this is in.
  19. Putin wanted Ukraine to be back in a Russian Empire, a new USSR. Russia has fought 8 wars to get pro Russian governments in former USSR territories or annex them outright. Part of what caused this war, was the democratic coup in Ukraine. You mentioned Ukraine which is good, thank you for that, and you recognize that Ukraine couldn't be in NATO. I'll add while Russia held Crimea, it blanket stopped any chance of Ukraine joining. Nor did many member states want Ukraine in NATO before these hostilities started, they were afraid of seeing war in Europe, so it was unlikely to happen, but I agree not impossible. Now it is very likely they will join the EU and possibly NATO. Then you mention America and China. Which takes us away from Eastern Europe unfortunately, I understand the global tensions; I mention them a lot myself too so sure I can see how you can compare Chinese annexation, which they have done all over China, to America's or now Russia's 'liberations'. They are similar in nature for different flawed goals. Unlike Tibet, or East Turkestan, it's the water that stops China from invading, not some higher moral compass. The losses they'd incur do not guarantee victory in landings by sea, which are very difficult when the enemy is prepared for you. The larger number of aircraft carriers, American bases, and their allies within reach. China has more patience than Russia, not their leader so much, but the government. China's trade wing of the party is sensible enough to realize they will influence Taiwan eventually over time. Not quick enough for any one dictator's ego trip, but eventually given their growth, size, and how democratic elections can at any time produce a result that favors a particular government. Xi Jinping has a very clear and often stated One China Principle, which in part inspired Russia to do the same. That's not ambiguity at all. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_China The America position is as you describe, but not China's.
  20. Russia is risking a nuclear war for control and resources, mostly control. I can see from their perspective how other countries don't have voices or agency, that its up to Russia and America to decide the fate of the world. Like a dictator would think. To Russia, nobody else matters but what America and Russia want or will. In democratic countries, they choose who they ally with. More than one voice can speak. NATO isn't one voice, its many. I'm fed up with people saying there would be no war without treaties, for example, NATO is a treaty. The treaties have stopped the major powers going to war directly. If Russia were continuing to invade or push their power into Europe, we'd just have had a major war in Europe again, like every other century. If we keep ripping up the treaties, and old rules, we'll be back to fighting large wars across the globe again, not regional ones, and that is a completely different level of devastation that you in India and me in the UK won't be spared from. At the moment, we just feel it in our quality of life and our economic output. If the larger powers go back to war directly, we'd see devastation on the streets, or the deaths of those we know. And by larger powers, I don't just mean Russia and America. Please try to see other countries, unlike what these videos are capable of doing. For example, France is considering using troops to help Ukraine in some capacity, (probably not directly), the Russians are not happy, which means two nuclear powers are closer to war. They are likely doing this in part because Russia messed around and took over some of their colonies in Africa, Note that I am not pro-colonial for anyone reading, but I knew France would eventually react either in Africa or in Ukraine. Russia's response: https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/other/in-rare-call-russian-defense-minister-warns-french-counterpart-against-sending-troops-to-ukraine/ar-BB1l25uZ Britan's response: https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/other/britain-must-send-troops-to-ukraine-or-risk-becoming-a-lost-nation-if-macron-intervenes/ar-BB1ljWSr This is the kind of movement that would be happening independently without NATO where everyone acts completely independently. It's closer to Eastern Europe's position. As another note, I think it'll be to secure areas and not fight directly on the front; if they went, it'd be in the rear or providing support in an allied country. As you can see Europe is closer to war with Russia than America is, so PLEASE reference Europe as the focal point of understanding this conflict. If people can't take Eastern Europe as the focal point at least they can look a bit closer by not just saying America all the time to me, or NATO (which isn't a country making decisions), its the countries within NATO.
  21. I appreciate that, and I would like the same, I am in full agreement. I have realised though we need to talk about both sides more when making our points. This is why I brought up India to you. Like my own country, you'll find people hungry for conflict, especially at the start. Mostly because they are not near the front line, we live in places a great distance from it, so our people can afford that kind of language. It is understandably very difficult for the average person to take a life. Its even more difficult to kill someone unless they are a monster. So what countries have to do, is make their enemies monsters and terrible threats. Whenever you hear this pattern, you can understand it's always an exaggeration. Most people would rather be safe, employed, and well fed than live in a war zone. The few that want war, quickly realise this too when they experience it. Despite that war does turn some men into the monsters that you see, using their worst instincts. NATO is not a monster, and nor is Russia. There are some people in these countries far from front lines that either profit from war: America, or stay in power from War: Russia. Its not just Putin, or Biden, its the way the upper echelons of those countries are structured. Money from politics in America, and Ruling by Fear of the Enemy in Russia. Both of these things are cultivated and used to govern in each country.
  22. or Whichever appeals most. They might both be helpful to view for different reasons, your inner child and your adult self.
  23. Creativity is key. The closer to mainstream you are, the worse you have it. It might drive people to make movies that are not just patterns of the past. Coders building AI are making themselves obsolete because that is entirely a replicable pattern. Coding can be creatively driven, but not for everyone. I am writing a book, and I assume I will compete with AI. So I am designing things in the book that the AI will not have or know to use. I see other people who plan their books and use formulas or concepts from others. If you think about a great novel and make it formulaic through a thousand different versions of it, I can see how your business will be affected. If you handcraft a story, how is an AI going to copy what doesn't exist and that it hasn't learned from? Even if the AI reads your book, you are going to be one of millions of authors, a drop in the ocean, making your work difficult to replicate by many. Unless you are on the best seller's list, then hopefully you are doing okay anyway because you've made it, and you've got an audience that will keep coming back. I would like more regulation on AI, as with any life changing tool, mostly to protect smaller-time artists who struggle anyway to make ends meet. These kinds of people are usually the ones feeling new changes the most. Otherwise, AI will hasten the stagnation of cultural development, which leads to the collapse of everything it supports or renews.
  24. Russia's infiltration of the US government.