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  1. Posted · Edited by BlueOak

    Its also interesting that people forget Russia has spent as much time fighting in Africa and arming regimes this last century as anyone. Their biggest loss in Syria was the airfield and ports to project that power overseas. The Middle east have been something they've influenced for a hundred years, and now China's getting involved in Sri Lanka or building a trading empire in Uruguay. If that's not imperialism then I don't know what is.

    I also feel every time a democratic coup happens people point fingers, but nobody does it in reverse. It's amusing the hypocrisy I read every day.

  2. Posted · Edited by BlueOak

    @zazen

    While I agree clarification is helpful, imperialism only needs clarification because its problematic for the current direction the world is moving in, and so people want more room to manoeuvre their latest justifications for violence. In previous centuries when other powers were judged, that definition was fit for purpose. Do you think 1,000 years from now people won't be looking back at it all as barbaric just the same?

    You are disconnecting things that are naturally connected.

    Survival leads to security, which leads to wealth and eventually power. Its all one and the same. There is nothing keeping that power in check but other powers. No moral structure which cannot be bent, twisted, or ignored in the pursuit of it. Because all it takes is any one of millions of decisions, from millions of people enacted in policy at the expense of another country or local cultures, building up over time to create that imbalance. Russia frequently takes from its poorer minorities and gives to the Muscovite regions as an example, or just takes over their land ownership.

    As well as providing security or a buffer, the Ukranian regions are rich in food, ports and resources; where Turkey sits, it becomes the center of the world in a non-globalised reality, and Russia wants direct access or eventually control over much of it. It also wants manpower, because it lacks it and shorter more defensible borders to guard along the coasts and mountain ranges.

    A war is a war.
    Defence can be argued to be anything and is frequently argued by those you hate to be why they do what they do. Its been used as the justification for most wars for millennia.

    So if Europe go to war with Russia over them meddling in Poland and Romania I’ll turn around to you and say Europe is defending its eastern flank from Russia overthrowing their governments.

    Then people will argue whose sphere it is in. If Russia owns Ukraine you or someone with your view will argue its on their doorstep, and thus justified. 

    Over any length of time where borders or spheres shift, it's all nonsensical, and I really wish that could be agreed upon, but we're still having to go over this, with you or others threading needles to tell me violence on any large scale has any justification whatsoever. People the world over need to handle their own insecurities and resource or security challenges via cooperation and not force. - That means every country. No ifs buts or why nots. It means everyone reading this eats their hatred of the other and does what they can to stop it.

    China keep expanding their borders, BTW, eradicating problematic cultures or absorbing them. I think it was you who asked me for a list of Chinese wars or atrocities last time? I can list them here if that helps. They have African ambitions for resources, and in the South China Sea, they want to replace the dollar in a trading empire. It’s the same pattern that any power wants to emulate until they meet a force or resistance to it.

  3. Posted · Edited by BlueOak

    8 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

    Russia doesn't have to be imperialist just because it fights some wars around its borders where many Russian people live.

    It's not like Russia is trying to conquer Poland or Kazakhstan. Russia is fighting for geopolitical influence in its own sphere of the world where is has been historically dominant. Russia is trying to stop Western encroachment into its sphere.

    You can call it wrong, but it's not really imperial. At least not yet.

    That's all anyone ever does. Extend their sphere of influence outward until they can't anymore. 

    All you are saying to me is the proximity makes it less imperialist. Russia is an empire of cultures and provinces, and its trying to extend it. Thus the problem will always be 'close' to hand and never ending.

    I think England invading ireland or scotland for example was extremely imperialist, and that distance is closer than what we are talking about.

    It makes little odds where in the world someone is fighting to conquer, only that they are doing it for the people involved. Once Russia gets X country they will push for Y just like everyone else does, its what they've been doing since the 90s and centuries before that. So let's be generous and say 20 years go by, Russia absorbs another culture just like @Scholar says, then considers the land 'Russian' and keeps going again.

    I think the problem I have with Han and Muscovite cultures specifically is they like to absorb other cultures into themselves (or eradicate 'problematic' cultures in the latter case), thus creating a never-ending problem.

    The Definition of Imperialism might help:

    Imperialism is the maintaining and extending of power over foreign nations, particularly through expansionism, employing both hard power (military and economic power) and soft power (diplomatic power and cultural imperialism). Imperialism focuses on establishing or maintaining hegemony and a more or less formal empire.[3][4][5] While related to the concept of colonialism, imperialism is a distinct concept that can apply to other forms of expansion and many forms of government.[6]

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    57 minutes ago, NoSelfSelf said:

    Okay i get it but also even if you are in the village,desert or mars who you are does it change?

    Does it matter if she has lines of guys if she has a boyfriend this is all defeatist mindsets.

    This is first problem that needs to be adressed location is easier to change.

    Are you the guy shes gonna pick from everyone or if she doesnt why do you care?

     

     

    Its about numbers.

    If you walk around in a city you see more women.
    If you work in customer service you meet more women.
    If you work outside or travel around more in your job you meet more women.

    All it usually is about is meeting plenty of women and talking to them.

    In a rural area this means you meet less people. I have direct experience of both types of locations as well as working in customer service vs a factory or small office for example.

    I don't buy that anyone in life can't find a woman, its just meeting enough of them.
     

  7. Posted · Edited by BlueOak

    1 hour ago, NoSelfSelf said:

    I am but you are busy being distracted by my cyinical/"dark" humor that i always give insights beneath it all.

    Im not making fun of a person, im attacking the dishonesty if someone came and said im scared to talk to women and i dont know how, then there will be no cynicism.

    If its triggering and one doesnt see the value ill delete them, if that makes them feel better and stay where they are at.

    Some people live in the middle of nowhere.

    Its is objectively harder to meet women in person in a rural area, especially where transport is limited. I know, i've done it. i remember as a kid, when a single girl moved into our village she usually got swarmed with teenage boys and had a boyfriend by the end of the week. Its also why most of my relationships were distance.

    Meeting women in a city is easy by comparison of my time in them.

  8. Posted · Edited by BlueOak

    I'll see if this lands a synchronicity.

    Are any coders interested in partnering with us to make a contracts portal for a percentage? I have some hobbyist knowledge, but honestly, I was just going to save up and drop some money on this, because I don't understand coding databases well enough to pull it off. My business partner is sales focused and nobody else I am looking at recruiting to the team is good at the technical side.

  9. Posted · Edited by BlueOak

    @Nilsi
    Well put. That will definitely come, I can talk to anyone, but developing the skills to do it effectively as you do takes work and time. Its time I can dedicate a certain amount of and will week to week.

    Talking about gatekeepers, I am not asking for any specifics just a yes or no to this:

    Do you have access to gated portals where actual B2B contracts are bought and sold. Because I was told they exist, but so far I haven't found a trace other than vague Chat GPT references to places that don't exist anymore, and companies folded or not running the same service.

  11. Posted · Edited by BlueOak

    Is Freelancer, Upwork, Linkedin, Jobber, networking, Consultants and Cold Calling really the only way to find business-to-business contracts?

    Its mindboggling to me. I almost registered for https://www.b2bquotetenders.co.uk/ till I realised, no, its just another public contract portal.

    There has to be a better way. I'm looking for marketing, sales, customer service, surveys, lead generation, complaints, debt recovery etc. Anything over the phone or related to it. Preferably with access to reverse bid on them, that is to offer them a price/service for what they need.
     

  12. Posted · Edited by BlueOak

    2 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

    Because my concern is to help you avoid getting your mind stuck at Green.

    I don't want you to become the next Cenk/Ana/Hasan.

    I'm not really interested in politics. I'm interested in taking your mind to higher levels of understanding. So I have a very different agenda than anyone in the political domain.

    As much as I comment on politics my work is not political. That's why it's powerful.

    Fair point. On an individual level. On a collectively level though:

    Am I misguided to think not everyone is capable of this? And so to some, this is exactly where they are meant to be for this lifetime, or with the right conditions can anyone progress past green? If people cannot, then the energy they have would be better integrated and put to purpose rather than resisted and pushed into opposition. I understand some of that purpose is to highlight it as simplistic, while the rest is a collective drive for the change to occur. 

    I am well aware of all the problems with relying on a moral compass that is imaginary, and how far into fantasy it can take us. I don't even need to see another tyt video to understand that's half of the message.

     

  13. Posted · Edited by BlueOak

    9 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

    You are never getting rid of elites or hierarchy. Never. If you think you are you are just ignorant of how society works.

    If you want to improve the status quo first you must understand it clearly. You can't just assume that your utopian ideals will work.

    What you see with progressives and leftists is this constant struggle and denial that their ideas are unfeasible. Which is why they aren't already enacted.

    Progressives want the world to be better but their minds are totally underequipped to face the realities of the world. The world is not better for very deep reasons, not shallow ones.

    Deep but not hard to understand. Let's do a few of them which cross most cultures existing today:

    1) Instant Gratification. I want I take. Is a primary reason the world is as bad as it is. While it is natural to meet someone's needs, the speed at which this is demanded does fuel development, at the cost of pressure and stress on the global system. Its certainly going to get worse with gen z. While they are less money-focused, they have even weaker attention spans or resistance to instant gratification. I have seen some signs this is improving, but not much. 

    2) Different is resisted. Again it is natural to resist something outside of conscious reality, but the level of division is higher now. Contrast and uncertainty are feared more than at other periods in my lifetime, and by more people. This is somewhat influenced by diet and the resulting anxiety of chemical imbalances like sugar and poorer health generally affecting the body/mind. It is also the changing global circumstances, and saturation of media for money needing sensationalism (also reduced attention spans).

    3) The Rich are hated more when things are hard. This is a theme throughout history. The more someone's survival is threatened, the less someone with 8 houses, 8 cars and a 500-pound boat is tolerated. The Rich are also able to sit on passive income streams once again in feudal top-down internet domains, making them more isolated; this is one of the biggest non-talked-about points in the inheritance debate. Wealth staying in websites, for example, means the rich kid never even needs to leave his home to see the working man or the real world, creating friction, disconnect, and frankly stupid choices on the part of the elites. See Hollywood for many great examples or almost all large corporations these days, whose workers loathe them.

    Finally a note on progressives. That's their place leo. Their place is to push against the wall to move it an inch. Your constant denigration of that shows a lack of understanding on your part of their place in the collective. Sure people can be more effective in changing something, if they are capable of it, not everyone is. To constantly put down the populist left is to push it all to the right, but you and most others still haven't learned it.



     

  14. Posted · Edited by BlueOak

    23 hours ago, LittoDitto said:

    Hello,

    I've been experiencing this feeling and thinking for a couple of weeks now. I think it involves getting into the present moment, realizing objects around me, and then realizing I am in a completely alien world. I would label the world as "bad" and "unknown". Also, I think if I investigated and went deeper into this feeling, madness would result.

    Before this, and still, I would use the same method and feel the opposite. If I do that, I can label the world as "pure magic" and "unknown".

    Basically, I don't know if the spiritual world is good or bad, but it is unknown. And feeling like the spiritual world is "unknown" and "bad" puts me in a depressive state.

     

    Do you know what's going on here? I appreciate the feedback.

    Thank you!

     


    You are taking slightly more control over your reality by relaxing a rigid structure of understanding, and letting yourself form different conclusions about your life.

    1, You are deciding to feel depressed when something is bad
    2, You are deciding what is bad.
    3, You are deciding what madness is.
    4, You are deciding madness would result from an action

    The real world is spiritual. Physical/Spiritual. It's all the same thing.

  15. Posted · Edited by BlueOak

    Summary of the below:

    Personally I would see it as a cause for growth and move out. I would remain open to talking to my family and if I lived in a particularly religious community I would keep up with advanced metaphysical studies on religious texts, and use that as a vehicle for my own development but also to meet any questions or queries with something that will open up their own minds, while preserving my own standing in that community.

    Let's look at this from a few perspectives.

    1, Why do you consider religion to be a lie? Its no more a lie than me looking at a tree and saying tree, or your avatar and saying Sandhu. Sure the way religion is taught in your average church is somewhat limited but it can create a code of conduct to live a life by and harmonise a community if that community is able to be harmonised. 

    If you want to consider religion beneficial for a moment, you could flip this and look at its communal aspect. If you want to take it as a vessel for enlightenment, there are scholars of the bible for example that have delved quite far into its metaphysical aspects, I haven't looked into it much but I assume for your family's religion the same exists.

    2, Another perspective would be, to move out now and things are usually easier with distance.

    3, You are experiencing a contrast, and to achieve what you seem to want, to stay living with your family, while pursuing some conscious development, this is what that contrast feels like.

    4, You could alter the belief around the word lie. I indicated this a bit above. Recently, i've had to relax my own definition of the word lie, to allow for people to manoeuvre a bit more freely in their interactions with me.

    5, Consider that you are not the only one that visits a place of worship and doesn't go for anything else but appearances and for other reasons (such as community/family), this may make doing so easier.

     

  16. Posted

    A very long time ago I said to a Tony Robbins coach, if you are so sure your program works, I'll take it, give it my all, and give you a (small) percentage of my new business rather than the fee. They laughed.

    There are no guarantees but yourself, your ability to strategize, adapt and your own work ethic. If you are very lucky a good team along the way.

    If you have a mind that can listen for at least 30 mins a time, and Spotify premium, try this:
    https://open.spotify.com/album/3hJgMDAwSyAODOhsP2kvUg

     

  17. Posted · Edited by BlueOak

    47 minutes ago, vibv said:

    Who's to say that a green sour apple on a tree is less evolved than a big red sweet one?

    Always and forever you.

    It would depend on your own evolution and what you could do with, connect with, empathize with or work with. How people had reinforced that within the collective and what biases you'd picked up along the way. I've said this about religion and stage blue often, religion can be tribal or it could be enlightened depending on the observer, individual subjects are more collectively fixed in the model than individually designated. (Hence the collective bias within the model and people's individuality kicking back)

    Nevertheless, it's much easier for me to tell you that the sour one is sour and the sweet one is sweet.

  18. Posted · Edited by BlueOak

    I am 44. I agree you can slowly make the workspace, those you interact with, and your mind more stable. There are a lot of pros to getting older, you are more used to and comfortable with how you work, and your mind has expanded if you've taken the time to do so and kept it open. I notice a lot of anxiety in those younger than me or at least more uncertainty within themselves, if you've worked through that it no longer plagues you nearly as much. You can learn things like failure is just a teacher, etc rather than a jailor.

    For me, it's the other variables we pick up along the way.

    Injuries that harm exercise or create a lack of exercise take you out of peak performance. Right now I am skipping running today because I got 4 hours sleep.
    Dietary issues cause other body issues, or just general illnesses and considerations you pick up along the way.
    Sleeping difficulties are more prominent. I've realised how many people have them after dealing with insomnia again for another two months.
    Mounting stress due to things like family issues, deaths, illness, kids, and heavier workloads.
    More financial obligations often make changing course in thinking or life more difficult.
    Greater contrast between your reality and the younger global collective.
    Loss of people that help frame reality in the way you are accustomed to operating in. Yes, you can always just watch or interact with the next person, but there is a certain random chance at finding another connection irl or even online that fills that void, and of course grief or reflection on what was.

    To name a few, I am tired again, so the brain isn't working at full capacity, but that's my point.

    Unless you contemplate the difference, you can accept the reality you are currently in as being as fast as you were when you were 20, but it is not. I talk too quickly for most people, but I realise I am operating in a dull mental space again due to fatigue. I also realise I resist a lot of new patterns that I am not accustomed to, but I catch this and take a day to think about them.

  20. Posted

    4 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

    They are not better, they just pander to ignorant people and ignorance always sells better than intelligence.

    It's easy to peddle bullshit to rubes.

    Calling that "better" is sick. It's the difference between skating downhill vs skating uphill. Skating downhill is easier but it also leads you off a cliff. So it's not better.

    I know its just us observing the process of the global realignment. It just sucks is all. 

    Then again Leo corruption in authoritarian governments that we are aligning with is a global norm so *shrug*. 

  21. Posted · Edited by BlueOak

    On 02/05/2023 at 11:10 AM, Jwayne said:

    I'll explain how a similar model should be created to avoid ideological defects.

    If you want to understand non-WEIRD psychologies, you must learn their language, participate in its traditions and experience its multi-faceted civilization identity from within (its own literature, art forms and ways of life, etc.). That approach will give you an experiential basis so as to first-hand be familiar with those peoples own phenomenology, so to speak, with their own epistemology. Which of course, won't be stated in such terms, but expressed howsoever that culture sees itself.

    Spiral Dynamics is just looking from a culturally and historically-contingent WEIRD perspective, with an obvious linguistic bias, from the outside at the rest of humanity in all its richness. And it assumes - erroneously - objectivity about its conclusions rather than seeing them as obviously self-conditioned.

     

    Yeah reading that, it is true. You would need to experience the cultures first-hand to model them effectively, or better put more broadly, but only so much cultural data can be included in a model of human existence. Historic accounts do exist of societies progress but obviously, they are flawed as they are third hand. Language of course is a filter in itself to construct a representation of reality.

    You - The Writer - The Witness

  22. Posted

    On 01/05/2023 at 6:18 AM, Jwayne said:

    The first objection should be its blindness, or lack of self-awareness, to its own political, linguistic and cultural biases.

    Next is its ensuing categorization of those biases into a universalist claim to objective knowledge rather than a model for instrumental ends and specific purposes (i.e. shorthand convenience within the ideological frame).

    Lastly, would be a critique of the actual contents. But that would take as a given the above mentioned ideological assumptions as a desireable standard and I'm not willing to grant that because I think it is flawed there too.

    Models of the human species are inherently going to be reductive, as is every word or sentence you or I could possibly communicate here on the subject. Its a look at a pattern of development. When new patterns emerge, they can be modelled, but as they are not here yet, they are not able to be modelled yet.

    It is western and anti-suffering in its leaning, also there is a slight collective bias.

  24. Posted

    If you want, like billions of people, you just remake the life you've had now with a few differences. Then your memories will be experienced the same. Sure the names/pictures etc will be different, but what you experience will be similar. 

    This is why barely anyone ever leaves earth. Some of course pick the exact opposite experience and just take the other half of an event, which they could have done already if they took the other perspective on here.

  25. Posted · Edited by BlueOak

    I became the shape of the vortex in my minds eye, so infinitely large that time/space lost all meaning, so I know where I imagine myself when the physical form no longer contains me, and where I will decide to go/be/imagine when I die. Oh and disappearing into infinite love/white light for 5 minutes, hug it with intent (not physically) if you are given that wonderful experience.

    I think though just being able to fall back asleep after insomnia wakeups is infinitely more helpful. I get these big experiences so not to take reality too seriously.

    Right now there is an insane amount of energy in my nightly meditations when I wake, more than i've handled before moving through me. Before now I would have it in 5-10 minute bursts, but this lasts as long as the meditation does.