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People associate workable solutions involving the state or a collective group of people, as bad. Before they have even considered them. People should not live in fear of an arbitrary label or dismiss related things under a wide label, without first examining them individually. This is why we have an unending homeless problem, poverty, and a war on drugs. These are parts of ourselves, and our society, that we fear, belittle, or shun because they require socialist policies to address collectively. This keeps us in stage orange permanently. Many of my views are not authoritarian and therefore not communist, so this is not me defending communism. I imagine I'd argue with a communist, but I wouldn't label his points as bad before I listened to them. I understand you probably experienced some of the tail end of these things firsthand, and moved or were moved somewhere more liberal, and that was your or your family's life path. So your bias is to label an umbrella term as bad. I used to do that with authoritarian views, but I have tried to reverse it.

I'm half Scottish and half English.

I didn't write the themes, they were decided on by a collective mind. You'd be hard-pressed to argue that communism isn't the boogieman over in America and the UK. One mention of the communist party sunk Corbyn's campaign, and it is constantly stated as a great evil or something to fear.

I'll copy-paste what I've written before. I bemoan this most in America, as I idealized the country at one point, but understand that I am referencing most of the Western world to a greater or lesser extent.

I did not. I said they embody half of the themes of fascism, and the republicans embody most of them. Combined, they make the government, which means America is almost fascist.

The Republicans embody almost all fascist concepts, and the Democrats embody half of them. Did you read the themes in the link, I've done a few posts on them in the past, and if pressed I can do it again but I might as well just quote what i've written already. I understand that it isn't completely fascist, but it's a relatable enough term at this point. This isn't bashing America overly much, the UK is getting closer to it too, the world is, which is why we are going back to the period when nation-states fought wars over land. That is what the breakdown of globalization means, and the elimination of the leftwing balancing out nationalist and imperialist voices.

Thank you for giving me a bit of culture. @Davino Let me offer someone who is more recognized now, so you may have heard, but still opens up my heart every time he plays. Many of the songs are unique, so if you like any, have a look around on the channel.

Light hits the prism of Earth to split into things you can see, taste, touch, and are affected by. Vibration creates different densities etc. If you mean, how does that happen, you are it. You are infinity, you are everything, and you've created your senses in this body to perceive this type of reality. Study what light is if you want to know more about this particular reality.

If you are going to give people a better one yes. https://www.politicalcompass.org/ What you'll find is resistance and confusion when you take a dual concept across society, and either try to collapse it entirely or broaden it to something more informative. I'd be dishonest if I didn't mention duality manifests things, so having a dual concept in a government allows it to do the same. That doesn't mean the pendulum doesn't tilt across four political axis when modeled that way, because it does.

It does, it was insightful. Thank you for the advice and for relating it to your own experience. @Javfly33

Do you ever find one part of your mind at odds with another part? In most people, this plays out by wanting to do something and sabotaging it, or by having a dilemma (two equal choices). If you are more sensitive or focused, you can catch the competing thoughts. The usual way to solve this is to do both somehow or combine the two. Collapsing a duality. You've saved yourself a few lifetimes because you'll know if anything is talking to you at any point after the death/life illusion is over, it's just you. Tell it to politely go sit down for a while and give you a rest, or just smile and enter a calm state (something you've been practicing meditating right?) Remember, you are talking to yourself always. When you read these words, you'll give them meaning, represent them to yourself, and maybe give yourself an emotional response. I cannot reach into your mind or emotions and give you those things, you do it all. You can also just move out of these things entirely because it's all in your mind. Someone will say there is no calm state, there is no smiling :). Well I'm doing it, and I'm not really here either. Its just energy moving in a certain way.

When you open your third eye, to get a glimpse of reality, it can feel like this. For the logically minded, imagine if you could see radio waves, in a city you'd be in a lightning storm or ocean. The visual spectrum is very small, the third eye allows a certain amount more to be seen. greymen, black voids, and spheres of light as examples. Yes this is all in your mind, but so is the apple, the chair you're sitting on, or this conversation. For me, this is where the grey alien subject comes from, or the spheres of light people say they see. People who say they are seeing demons are either experiencing psychosis, having another spiritual experience, or have their third eye open. Learning to close off these spiritual centers to give themselves a break is sometimes all they need.

Yes. Half of the US is fascist. Russia is fascist, or at least: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruscism 35%, Trump's core base is no ally to democracy. 60% is mostly right-wing of some denomination, with some being centrists. 5% I'd estimate, are actual leftists on the political compass. Why do I say fascist? Look at the themes of fascism on the right here, and you will see both parties embody some of them, while Republicans embody most. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism

A monster like Stalin would have eaten it for breakfast and asked for seconds. The people make the culture. What people keep calling 'the west': all their Authoritarians, Liberals, Libertarians, Socialists, Capitalists and Conservatives wouldn't have developed into that society in the first place, so they wouldn't need to address the part of themselves contributing to the problem. What makes you think a leftist is incapable of organized force or violence? Do you mean because the left has been suppressed to the point of being ineffective lip service? Well, whose fault is that exactly? The right and most western liberals are included in 'the right' along with conservatives.

@Karmadhi The likelihood of Russia, Iran, and China going to war with NATO rises by the day. It's never been as close as this in my 40 years of life. That's why countries in NATO have been stepping out of their arms treaties, so they can scale up their militaries without their neighbors knowing the details of their troop deployments. Traditionally, this is used when getting ready for war. That's why you see all the ballistic missile testing, and people talking about conscription to their populations. Putin keeps saying he wants to take former USSR land back for Russia. He is Russia, and if the opportunity presents itself, he will. His base like that idea and is sold on an imperialist greater Russia concept. That has been the pattern of Russia's foreign policy for decades. You say how can he? This is exactly the point: if he's held up in Ukraine, he cannot, because he can't fight a war in Ukraine and at the same time fight a war in the Baltics behind a frontline he's already engaged in. Even if they had the equipment, Russian logistics are garbage, because their infrastructure is terrible. You repeat that we have nukes. They are not the deterrents they were, the fear associated with their mention has diminished. Until they are used again. Putin's overuse of their nuclear threat is like the boy who cried wolf. I seriously doubt they would be used to fight a conflict along the border either, not when other options are available. Nobody wants to end the planet. So let's talk about conventional forces. It's been simulated in war games that if Russia pushed tanks to Kaliningrad, NATO even with America's help couldn't stop the tanks from getting there to cut off the Baltics, without America's help, there is no way. Thankfully, with Finland and Sweden's assistance, the Baltic Sea would probably remain accessible and provide a lifeline now. Both of these things I've heard those in the Baltics fear and praise, respectively. The conclusion is: that people don't trust Putin in Europe; he's created a lot of fear and uncertainty. So holding him in Ukraine removes all doubt or uncertainty about what he will do next. People in Eastern Europe never trusted Russia due to their long history of conflict, and Russia's meddling in their domestic politics, this now extends to most of Europe. Nothing he or you say will remove that uncertainty due to his actions and choices. I don't just mean the war, I mean the threats, the blackmail, the espionage, the assassinations, the constant cyberwarfare, and how his troops have acted like monsters during their war in Ukraine. GDP per Capita GPD per capita doesn't take into account the vast land-use it's put over. In Russia's case, it is extreme to maintain its infrastructure, which is why that infrastructure is in such poor condition. Show me a few places outside of St. Petersburg or Moscow that are places you are calling modern? (or whatever term you prefer) Even in those cities outside of the financial districts, they are not pretty. Ukraine only had a few decades apart from the USSR, but it prospered in that time because its level of corruption was constantly going down, and they are continuing to weed out corruption out of necessity.

This channel overstates things, but they provide helpful summaries on the ground regardless. So take this as Russia threatening Israel not to respond further, no more or less.

Or I define feminism differently to you, which I suspect is the case. For me, it's an interest group within society campaigning for equal rights. Like any such group, when it achieves equality, it's doing its job, when it unbalances things, it's not. This can only ever be achieved when family is a central virtue in society, not an unhelpful necessity. Example: A healthy maternity leave to encourage having kids. I would equate women getting 2 years off to raise a kid as equality because, in my ideal reality, the family would be the core value it was based on. In my reality, men would be happy that a woman was getting 2 years of paid leave to raise a child properly. Jobs would be done for the family, rather than seeing it as an inconvenience. Then everyone wonders why people are not making families anymore: It's considered an inconvenience, at the least its difficult to time it right. Men blame the feminists. Women blame the misogynist. Both genders would be better off focusing on promoting healthy family values, and then people would aspire to healthy family values. How is that achieved? In many different ways. I'd use education and teach a special interest subject called family values, next week: financial acumen, - social skills - emotional awareness, and then back to family values. Cloaking it under religion doesn't work these days, only being honest with people and teaching them these concepts at a formative age. *I know someone is going to come back with I saw this crazy woman or man on the internet and he/she was shouting all this.... they were bitter and twisted. I know I've heard it all. It's what happens when you want something like companionship or love (consciously or unconsciously) but never get it for long enough.

You are describing someone who doesn't know what most emotions are, or how to process or experience them. It could also be you are doing things so far out of alignment with yourself that you feel nothing at all from them, or both of these things. I was like that at one point, aside from anger or depression, I'd switched off my emotions so I could survive. It's a common thing in trauma. I still find recognizing things like love difficult, or not overthinking things, as examples. Back then, all I knew how to do was try to survive, all I did was toward that end. Without the emotions inside of us to let us feel the richness and depth of life, we are like husks of ourselves just surviving. I am still overly focused on survival, but I fought to get my emotions back. To feel everything, it took work on myself, understanding what had happened to me, and why I did what I did, to begin to realize what normal emotions were. I had no money for a therapist so I used people like Teal Swan's videos on emotions to begin to identify them. She's got some really good beginner content on emotions, just search under an emotion name on her channel to find them. Joy, Happiness, Fear, anger, etc. I slowly worked through these and spent time with myself to correct what I'd done to survive as a kid. Another way is to listen to songs and try to feel the words, to connect with the singer. Play music, write, do art, express yourself, and try to put those emotions onto something or somewhere. Processing these emotions when I'd just evaded them all my life was difficult. However, they give life depth and meaning, so it was worth it. It was also quite addictive at first, like getting legs to walk on for the first time. Emotions are very helpful in understanding yourself. Not relying on the logical construct in your mind that you've created to describe yourself, which has altered itself every day you've been alive. When you can feel what makes you happy, then finding the core of that is what you look for in your career. Same for pride, or other emotions you want to experience in life. The negatives you use to avoid what you don't want to do. When you have that core emotion and you know what triggers it, then you look for a way it can earn you income, survive, and prosper from it. At least, living happily is the dream for many of us, but first, you need to know what happiness feels like and what triggers it in you. I hope it helps. @bringa

Can I give you a slightly hurtful but hopefully useful bit of advice, @Leo Gura Maybe you don't need different courses, just different sales pages. The way the life purpose informational page is listed immediately put me off. It's laid out like a cheesy 1980's sales pitch. The whole slimmed-down white page look immediately appears like an MLM scheme would be laid out. Please don't take this too hard, you help a lot of people, it's just me talking about my impression of those layouts in the past. If you want to bring in new people, try to present the information in a completely new look/way somewhere else and see if you get different customers. I realize this layout has worked for your existing customers, maybe 3 other types of sales pages would bring in more people. Your only problem is, how do you get those three types of sales pages in front of different people? Rotate the existing one? Put a sales page somewhere else, like a satellite site? Use one for an advert? Though an updated 2.0 life course wouldn't be a bad idea at some point, its what people do to reward themselves for the effort they put in. Then you can discount 1.0 and sell on that too.

Yeah. It's time I moved countries or planets :). Ghosting is somewhat like avoidance. It might be ghosting a partner because you are going through a tough period, whether it's related to the partner or not. Dropping all contact rather than engaging with them. I'm not permanently in a ghost pattern but I have my moments still. This week was a harder week than usual, so I appreciate the reply. A healthy mind picks and chooses their career, a person running a ghosting pattern will pick a career with less care and then try to spend 60 hours a week there to avoid life. Ditto gaming in solitude, drinking themselves to distraction, or any activity that takes them so far away from everything or everyone else, that they bury themselves away from the world. It's difficult to see sometimes because someone could do these things because they love work, or they want to live in solitude in nature.

I realized an amusing thing here. That it's 'okay' for liberals to sabotage leftists who aren't liberal. But leftists must always still be loyal to liberals. Half of his party sabotaged Corbyn, rather than falling in line as they preach when their leader is in position. Yet for me to suggest doing that is somehow the worst thing ever.

I'll swap you for being below the poverty line for whatever wealth you have.

Everything is an attachment. Everything is spiritual.

IQ is held higher than it should be compared to these other areas. I am not a young man anymore, so I have no idea if education is the same as it was, I can only tell you about my lived experience and the experiences I have seen in those around me. I do still see a clear bias in people's reactions if you say your IQ is X, but to me it's just raw potential. Financial Intelligence Measuring financial intelligence would be reasonably simple. @SeaMonster I don't mean to be critical here, because my financial intelligence is also low. How you have phrased the question, shows why it needs to be taught as a subject, at the very least in schools. It's like starting a subject for the first time in school and asking the teacher how it would be structured or graded. The question is common, as people haven't considered it before. What we need is a banker and an accountant to answer this question. Not me, who has no money in the bank. I will try with my limited financial intelligence: The long-term management of money and related strategies. The ability to handle money under stress. Good short-term decision-making regarding money, as we can't avoid these often crucial decisions at times that happen out of the blue. Understanding how the core concepts of things like compound interest affect these choices, or your capacity to achieve anything financially in life. Understanding the effects of debt and how to maintain a healthy bank balance. Something every child should be taught. The capability to grasp these or similar topics and apply them would be the IQ measured, or its influence on the overall intelligence score a person has. A negative would be a neurotic person or someone who acts on impulse, and a positive would be someone skilled at planning, or able to understand financial data. A Word on the Others If you had asked me about emotional intelligence, I could have written a similar thing here. It would be more nuanced, as emotional intelligence cannot only be taught in a book as easily, it needs to be lived and experienced. Self-awareness would factor heavily in, the capacity to understand behavioral patterns and spot them both in yourself and others. You could test for that knowledge as a subject, but it's the ability to apply it to your and others' lives that is where intelligence can be measured. Social intelligence would be harder, as it more directly involves other people. However, there are still clear markers, of how you handle an interview, a social event, and how effective you are at communicating. Anything involving social interactions with others. It's probably the easiest to measure but the hardest to find an accurate measurement across all scenarios.

I agree. Yet throughout my life, it has been used as such and shows us why certain areas are lacking in society, from early education onwards, while others are well catered for or culturally reinforced. When I talk about these concepts, I introduce the possibility of Social, Financial, and Emotional IQ being recognized as of equal importance to standardized IQ results in people's thoughts about life, their future, or the future of their families and countries. It's a standard response I've repeated for many years. In my estimation, awareness, or perception, multiplies the potential of IQ by a great deal, so a scale for it would be extremely useful. Social IQ, for example, would be the ability to effectively leverage the intelligence, perceptions, resources, and skillsets of many individuals to cater to our six human needs that drive human behavior. Connection / Love Certainty Contribution Growth Uncertainty / Variety Significance We each have these needs to varying degrees, either consciously or unconsciously.