BlueOak

Oh if you want my personal opinion and feeling: There are a whole host of things I would say Putin should be locked up for. I've seen tanks firing at civilians. Mass graves of those tortured to death. Plenty of people were sexually assaulted by Soldiers in Ukraine. I've seen Russia shelling small boats of civilians trying to rescue others in a flood Russia caused. Russian missiles hitting food lines of hungry people. Russian opening up corridors for residents to flee, then shelling them as they do so. The near daily targeting of commercial areas, residential areas, and a terror campaign that Russia has waged for more than 18 months. Russia is a terrorist state. Its done a universal pardon for all crimes committed in Ukraine, so there are no consequences for anything a Russian soldier does. I'd just want Putin shot. I also said that on day 1. He's the cause of so much suffering and death, all because his ego is stuck in the 1990's in a fantasy that no longer exists. But we don't get what we want or feel do we. We get what a large amount of people in power will practically allow or can make happen. We can both sit here and hope America lets Israel bear the consequences of their genocidal actions so they stop killing indiscriminately, like we can all hope BRICS allow the Russian economy to collapse so they can't keep fighting wars. - Neither of which is going to happen, because two sides are being drawn up, which is going to lead to increasingly larger wars. But kidnapping kids from a war zone, keeping them from their families, and then re-educating them to be Russian is about as scummy as it gets. So locking him up for that one day in a political trade, or making Putin's life difficult gets no sympathy from me. That's if you want my feeling. Not just the practical reality. This would be the difference between a stage green me above, and who I am now, someone who sees what I want is nearly irrelevant to the larger picture.

Putin has always been trying to rebuild the USSR. He's been manipulating domestic European politics behind the scenes, using his oil/energy leverage to turn policy his way, and trying to put in power governments loyal to Russia. The only difference is one of these governments was pushed too far, and there was a coup in Ukraine which turned into a war. This will not change just because Putin wants it to. We are not in the 1990's, Putin still is, and so we have war because people can't accept then adjust to reality and want to make it different.

People join NATO for fear of Russian aggression. NATO doesn't go anywhere. Neutrality was offered to Putin. He rejected it and has ever since put up impossible conditions to meet. Ex: We can't catch the easter bunny and give him to Putin, just like we can't catch non-existent Nazi's in control of the country and give them to Putin. For a variety of reasons I've already listed, Putin wants to expand to the former USSR borders. Ukraine is in the way of that, as are the Baltics, Moldova, Poland, and Romania.

There is a good chance of larger regional wars in the coming years. Russia - Europe China - America Iran - Israel / America There are a lot of minor regional ones as flashpoints. Turkey - Greece. Saudi Arabia - Iran. China - Everyone it's trying to steal land/sea territory from. South Korea - North Korea. North Korea - Japan. Belarus - Poland, Kyrgyzstan–Tajikistan. Argentina going into meltdown. Africa is heating up with a new colonial push from BRICS. There are so many flashpoints now. Depending on how much larger but neutral countries like Turkey, India, Nigeria, and Brazil are involved. There is a good chance of WW3. I am in my 40's. There is more tension in the world than there ever was. Everyone is further right than they ever were. There is more indifference to life. Competing global power blocks. People fighting wars over land. More suppression, more fear and more uncertainty. Along with ongoing wars happening right now. Unifying Globalism is vilified and nationalism/fascism ascendant. Everyone has forgotten why things like human rights were created and all the horrors of WW2. It is the exact conditions that led to WW1/WW2. It's the same cycle. I can see Fascism and Anarcho-Capitalism starting to compete. Is WW3 Guaranteed? No. The patterns are there. So far nobody is making different choices.

Picture yourself as a teenager or younger. All the mistakes and learning you had to do, before you became who you are. Now picture you have little but violence to learn from. Nothing but hate or death as a teacher. Anger, grief, and pain. A young, stupid, impressionable mind filled with hate. That's most of Hamas. A few live to become angry men who recruit them, but not many. If you mean the leadership. All this is doing is giving them recruits.

@Princess Arabia Yes you understand a pattern. Which gives you influence.

You can't control what people will do with the information you give them. You can be mindful of your intent. Just aim to improve lives where you can, rather than sucker people into wasting their money.

I have never had any attraction to a male. With women sometimes I realise I am attracted when I am in close-proximity usually. I don't have to think about it or rationalize it, I feel the connection and then decide if I want to act on it or not. Attraction for me has never been an intellectual choice.

You can meditate on literally anything, even the desire to imagine something new. I'll add I think most people go for silence or stillness, because most minds are stressed due to many different factors.

Get more countries to start selling power and water between their grids. Interconnect more countries. The effect populations have on climate or social conditions can also be 'moved' based on how fast their transport networks are. Living in one place, working in another. Industry in one place, clean air in the other. Lessening of migration tensions. Landfill etc. The same is more than true for power generation, which moves a lot faster than people do across boundaries, and can be stored in advance of being needed. I was trying to convince a person in a country bordering Iraq, that they could be making a fortune selling water to Iraq from their ocean connections. But all people would say is how expensive salt water is. Well yes, but water is worth more than gold when you don't have it. Anyone with an ocean connection should be using it. Anyone with a solar power advantage should be using it. Just have to get the oil barons onboard. If they are selling this, they aren't fighting it as much.

The concept of mind yes.

Influence comes through understanding and empathy. Towards people and patterns internal and external.

Words form worlds Language in your mind forms your reality.

Universe. U in verse. Infinity is observed through a fractal creation. Relative from the point of observation. The fractal is created by representation. Creating everything seen in an ongoing cycle. Stillness is given motion or separation/form to observe through the fractal expression.

For me, that would be a stage yellow problem. Holding both perspectives at once. I fully understand why others would prefer to integrate them together.

For me it's a deeper codependent pattern, or at least the end of one that I haven't yet cleared. Everyone offers different perspectives, some argue them with others, some don't care to argue or speak further once its offered, only a relatively small amount stay in a discussion arguing that others accept theirs alongside their own. At least I don't see many doing so, but without arguing for that space for multiple perspectives to exist, achieving any level of existence without conflict seems less likely. But the older I get the more I see that behavior I have as unhealthy.

Yes, I apologized. I need to keep reminding myself through these discussions that accepting multiple perspectives means actually accepting them, not equivocating them into a larger one. Equivocating them is still a codependent behavior, as opposed to just offering the perspective and then leaving.

Eh I am doing it again, I am arguing with someone to accept reality as I see it, and for that, I apologize. I wonder if one day I'll break that habit. Hope springs eternal.

What makes you think what you said is any more true than what I said? There will be nothing at all you can point to. Because you created the representation anyway. Take any subject at all, any representation you can make, any perception or form of it. Infinity has an infinite amount of possible perspectives. All we do is pick things to create or observe an experience. Structure or order things to have them make sense and become material and usable. You are severely limiting yourself deciding only one perspective has truth to it. You could tomorrow decide the complete opposite about something in your experience, and you'd still be true/correct. *In fact all conflict comes from human's inability to take two perspectives at once as true.

Existence is non-dual and dual. I don't understand why people need so badly for one to be true. People exist and don't exist. Truth is true and not. Things are relative and not. Infinity doesn't have a single answer. Its infinity. Its all answers. I can keep reflecting the opposite of the division people (and I) enjoy, or keep saying this. If someone decides 1, What real means to them - then 2, An image means not real - then 3, The things around them are images separate from the words he/she hears - then 4, Defines those images to be non-existent figments of imagination. Well that's entirely their line of reasoning made up in their own mind. It'd be the same if it was the opposite. Its no more true or false than me saying all minds are interconnected sharing an experience. One framework for existence is however more solitary and miserable. The other is filled with infinite possibilities. But both are a choice.

Everything is relative except observing or creating something to observe.

However, you decide to represent reality to yourself is correct. If you decide you are alone you are right. If you decide there is infinite complexity to life and many gods/minds/people sharing a global experience you are also right. If you decide both you are right.

Essentially a powerful message here in this context. The closer the words you say are to the universal fractal design, the more they are likely to take root. The closer your actions are, the more likely they are to find success. The closer your ideas are, the more they are usable, stable, or enhancing. I've always known this but I've had a lot of resistance to it.

@Keryo Koffa Thank you. That's a very comprehensive way to structure different aspects of physical and behavioral experience, and how they link to non-physical experience. The Birth/Death/Birth fractal pattern is a piece missing in this model that would be interesting, as it would frame more of it, but I feel I should say take a rest for a good long while, that was a big download. My intuition is saying don't push yourself in these, take it slow and steady. We hide aspects of reality all the time. Either through focus, a universal magnifying glass looking at something. Parts of our mind being engaged, while others are not. Having energy available to do or be something. The universal fractal consciousness design, limits access to certain patterns, until we align in certain ways with the greater whole more. This happens both in physical and non-physical life, all through our life experience, it is no different when talking about altered states of consciousness, or what people call spiritual gifts for example. These things unlock when the pattern we are aligns in the correct ways. A disconnect I had was, that I was considering these states of experience somehow separate from each other. Sleep - Wake - Meditation - Altered State of Consciousness. What you've done is give me a model that allows all these pieces to better fit. Not completely, you still described these things like separate subjects. But I can see yet more cause/effect here linking them now and for that I wanted to offer gratitude. Language is hugely fractal, and forms understanding, which forms our representation of the world, which forms our world. Here is someone you might find interesting. I'm not 100% in alignment with his perspective/reality, but it might give you something.

He can't see he's deciding on what image means, the relationships between the things, the concept of real, other people. He's deciding on the meaning of the words, and how they frame reality. So even his frame of reality is completely subjective, or the fact reality has any frame at all. But we can't convince him otherwise either, because he's correct he's the only person in his reality or mind. There are just several billion interconnected or possible realities on earth. If he wants to he can experience them, if he doesn't he won't. Why create a reality that has nothing in it at all, that's why you built all of this, because the opposite isn't pleasant, or useful or educational whatever. Humans can literally recreate how they represent reality to themselves in any way they like. Its a fun mystery to unravel it all, but that also is just a process you've created to experience.