BlueOak

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.

@Karmadhi Europe We agree that Europe needs to do more to defend Europe. I have less faith in European leaders than I did a year ago, because most countries are not increasing the size of their militaries as they said they would. Turkey, Poland, and the Baltics are because they will be on the front line if Putin isn't stopped here. Germany, France, and the UK are a joke to me at the moment on the issue of security. Neutrality is saying I have no strong opinion or view on that, or I don't care what happens. As for the Americans, neutrality is not one-half of the country repeating Russia's narrative and lies, and then campaigning for them. If Trump gets in America becomes a Russian ally, not a neutral party. When I say one end scenario is America actively working against Europe, I mean that with sincerity. However, despite my attempts to get people to focus on Europe, and that this is a European war, thank you for doing that its refreshing to talk about the region itself, BRICS is backing Russia to a lesser or greater extent. Many of those civilian and military casualties are a direct result of Iran's drones, or China's electronics, and their partner's economic support. So Europe vs BRICS that's a much tougher fight headed our way. Part of my self-interest should welcome a war with Iran, if I didn't see that as a clear step toward a global conflict. Defending Yes, defending is much easier than attacking, it's not as bad in Ukraine because of the wide open spaces, but it's still a significant advantage to defend. For the majority of the war, Ukraine has been on the defensive, which is one major reason why they've taken fewer losses than Russia. Russia's Military Ukraine never had that much in the way of armor from NATO, or airpower. They had a scattering of tanks, second-hand APCs, lots of artillery, and good small arms, plus good training. Now they have little ammunition left. If we had geared Europe's factories to produce what we use ourselves for Ukraine, Russia would have been a smoking ruin on the map. The volume of missiles being used would mean a frontline shot was barely fired. So I don't agree with you at all here. Not when I've seen 60-year-old tanks being barely fixed up with larger sheet metal coverings to try and deflect modern drones, or WW1-WW2 machine guns being brought out of storage. Russia is not richer than Ukraine. It has regressed, while Ukraine has tried to modernize. Outside of the two main cities, it shows off to the world, Russia has decaying infrastructure all over the country. Russia is a huge territory, which makes their population problem worse because they still need to connect it all with deliveries, maintenance, power, roads, police/fire coverage, etc. Russia's greed for territory is one of the reasons it's in a difficult position, and compared to its neighbors is not going to retain as much soft power or sovereignty as we go forward, the war just sped this up.

Any of these symptoms come to mind: https://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/what-is-hypocalcemia Sodium fluoride acts as a calcium mimic, albeit a lower-grade one.

I think it's because I refused to believe that the people making decisions wanted things to get to this point. I was trusting their emotions were what drove them, even though I knew better. It's obvious theater meant for the masses. The people who thought, let's do this and get it over with, won out months ago. It's been obvious from the pattern. Damaging Iran can delay its nuclear threat. Takes a military ally away from BRICS for a while. Hurts their influence throughout the Middle East (threats to fuel and trade). Stops drone shipments to Russia. If I had to predict, it would be an excuse to hit various Iranian proxies that threaten trade, Iranian weapon/drone factories, and their nuclear sites. It does require Iran to keep doing what Israel, America, and the UK leadership want them to do. Responding on cue. Please note all of this is still stupid, in no way do I support WW3 starting, which has a much-increased chance during this period.

Kill her, and she can reincarnate a day later. Put her in jail, and she's there for 20–30 years. An authoritarian socialist would have her contribute to society for 20–30 years. Fix up some houses for the homeless, make some clothing for people who don't have any, and work in a soup kitchen, paying penance for all the harm she's caused, to the people she's caused it to. If they wanted an example, they could show the former billionaire every 5 years on national TV in a soup kitchen feeding people, or in the fields making their food. Humbling them while giving them a useful place in society, keeping them as a reminder to others not to do the same - That's authoritarian socialism. Better for society overall. The homeless issue would be a lot less of an issue if 10% of the prison population were made to do this, burglars, for example, come to mind as a very direct reflection of their crimes. But no capitalists will just bill the taxpayer and keep them in a small box for most of their young working life. - Logic.

That's most of what makes intelligence useful, holding a wider perspective. The further back you are, or the wider your perspective, the more you can see and take into account. This is why allies' or friends' voices are crucial in making the correct choices when you are emotionally too close to a subject. The people making these decisions on a strategic level will have a mind with a capacity greater than mine. Emotion is an excuse, but it's not a very good one for a professional in these positions.

@Karmadhi Apologies for linking the wrong article, I must have had a few open that day with everything going on. Most people did not have time to evacuate the areas under Russian occupation closer to the border, so cities like Mariupol, Sievierodonetsk, or Lysychansk have high death tolls. I watched the devastation done to those places in the early days, and the civilians caught up in it. This is why I cannot consider the UN numbers to be serious. Much of those areas were completely wiped out. It is a pro-Russian position to tell anyone to surrender ground to appease the Russians for the second time, in the face of their 8th war in former USSR territories and an aggressive BRICS posture. It's frankly stupid to not acknowledge what that pattern brings. Unless Ukraine is put into NATO, Russia just rearms, reorganizes, and goes again for the third time. This is a clear pattern now, and Putin has repeatedly told us the territory he wants to recover. He'll keep doing so till he's stopped. It is also a reality that if someone can commit terror against a civilian population over two years, threaten nukes, cut off food supplies, and blackmail energy supplies, they will use these tools again if they succeed. It normalizes it for other countries to do so, such as Hamas to blanket target masses of civilians, or Israel to ethnically cleanse an area. As for futile resistance, it hasn't been futile so far, not while Ukraine has had the weapons to defend itself. Ukraine kicked Russia out of Kyiv, Kharkiv, Sumy, and Kherson, now holding the line despite being outshot by artillery 10 to 1. We are not talking about 2 people fighting, and one of them has moved away. That's 40 million people, many of whom live in those areas, and have had family and friends killed, tortured, or conscripted to fight for the Russians. There will be violence in these regions now regardless, because of the assumed, not accepted, change of authority. Authority doesn't shift because someone says that's the border now, millions of people don't just shrug, and say okay Russia, let's go back 30 years to the USSR days. There'll be violence in those areas for decades and a permanent military presence needed along the now-extended border and within the territory itself. Russia is a regressive, backward country run by corrupt despots who spend too much money on their military at the cost of their people. People are leaving en masse because they don't want to live there. Why would anyone outside of Russia want to go back 30 years to the USSR days, especially after all this bloodshed and terror Putin has inflicted on them? Ukraine can take back its territory if America gives it the weapons to do so. They are not doing this, they have cut off weapon supplies because the American government has gone so far right that it now drinks the Russian propaganda. I just wish people would be honest about things, half of America backs Russia, and is in favor of a tyrant. America isn't a democratic leader anymore, it's falling into fascism.

@Ajay0 The Russian military is badly equipped, badly trained, has bad supply lines, daily partisan activity within its borders, has no officer core, increasingly less control over its industries (china buying them up), and little discipline They have numbers, and more weapons now since America is not continuing to back Ukraine - I'm just going to call that like it is. This makes it doubly silly when people try to talk about America being the belligerent factor here. The Russian economy is Chinese. Nobody fights an expensive large war on its doorstep and increases the power of its economy. China is slowly buying Russia up. Again, this is not a terrible result for the West, because Russia has become China's proxy between NATO and China. Do you honestly think Europe, with an economy ten times the size of Russia, is suffering more than Russia domestically? They can't even maintain their dams or infrastructure, outside of the two cities Moscow and St Petersburg that they show off to the world Russia is a decaying country that's had millions of young people leave it and for good reason, it's not a global power, it's a regional power that spends and maintains a military as if it were a superpower. It's an old empire that wants to be bigger than it is (like England used to be), and everyone in this war (at least those of us watching the ground action) has seen how ineffectual the Russians are against a country half its size, who didn't even have much of a military before this country began. People have been telling me for over two years, just wait, just wait, Russia is close. Even out shooting Ukraine 10 to 1, if you believe the reports, they are stuck in the same place they've always been: Throwing mass numbers of bodies into a meat grinder and getting a few hundred meters out of it. @Karmadhi Firstly, thank you for being the first pro-Russian supporter who acknowledges ethnic cleansing regardless of where it happens on a map. I genuinely appreciated someone who didn't try to pretend something didn't happen. Those who are compliant will still be conscripted. In democratic countries, we don't bow down to dictators, we resist them. A dictator is functionally different from a democracy, and the populations are going to resist when they are placed under one. - A miscalculation from Russia is how the local population was going to receive them. https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/02/1147082 Even the UN acknowledges 30,000 civilians dead, and 70,000 injured. What's usually known as 100,000 civilian casualties in common reporting. They also acknowledge that the death toll will be higher than this. This is without access to the graveyard that was Mariupol, the cities in the east that were flattened, or taking into account every civilian Russia illegally conscripted in the LPR, DPR to fight their own country, and killed for resisting them in the occupied areas. The Azov Brigade again? That was a few hundred people who were reorganized into a proper military unit before the war, and the leader left the unit. Russia's LPR and DPR militias were active in that region, armed, and given manpower by Russia to cause trouble in the area. Amazingly, people think that out of nowhere, a peaceful region suddenly becomes hostile on its own. - A coup happened, Russia obviously didn't like this and started trying to break those regions away through the militias, which caused a low-level conflict, and when it realized it couldn't, this became one more reason for it to invade.

There are no sensible decisions in this war. Hamas attacks Israel's civilians - Stupid. (Nobody tell me thousands of people were planned and organized without leadership in Qatar or Iran.) Israel ethnically cleanses northern Gaza - Stupid. America and the UK back this up by saying 'oh I couldn't not do' - Stupid Iran's proxies try to disrupt global shipping, drawing in more countries. - Understandable, but stupid. Israel attacks Iran's consulate - Stupid. Iran takes the bait - Stupid I understand why these things are not stupid from the leadership's perspective. That far-right governments' have to appease their far-right population. I understand why the initial attack by Hamas happened. I understand why Israel created a refugee camp in Gaza and reacted out of survival/fear. I understand all of it, but still, with even a small measure of distance, every action here leads one way.

Zero surprise. It's been predictable for months that this would become another regional conflict. Both sides kept pushing it, and the world is so far right-wing that all the governments in power react virtually the same. We have one more chance not to go further. The next few days is going to decide what happens. If it's a regional war, it'll be no surprise that China moves against Taiwan. I'd be surprised if that didn't happen in the next couple of months. For America, this all makes a Trump presidency very likely, and for the rest of the world, making it three ongoing regional wars, which is close enough to call it WW3.