Rafael Thundercat

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    Well, I start this one in a Begginers Mind. What is Nationalism. There was a time this term dosent even exist, I mean for me. The same way as a child I couldn't say exactly what was a woman or man. Well not that far in begginers mind. The aim here is to see Nationalism as a animal evolving from its whatever beggining, and as the video say "whatever a beggining means" So I will begin with this video and see that the intelignece of Actualizers bring forth. 

    I like how in the end of the video there is a shift to the importance of literacy in the construction of nationalism, yes make sense because without language to tranfer all the cultural baggage and nationalist narrative how a men mind would even become nationalist or tribalis in the case of ancient groups . I will share one video later with the perspective that Napoleon Bonaparte is connectec with the creation with what Nationalism is today. 

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    4 hours ago, WonderSeeker said:

    Where would you place yourself now having removed yourself from the Morman way?

    Somehow I position myself at level 5. I mean in this exact moment, maybe new Realizations in the future this year may change me in ways I cant predic. But after being in the Mórmon  Silo or Box I had my time Studing Osho, being a Clubber, Drunk in the Weekends Parties lot till the point of not being fun anymore than I found Ayahuasca Circles and had some mindfucks for around 7 years, became a Percussionist in this Circles,learned to sing Indigenous Songs and be a Guadian in the works, till the point I realized that being exposed in this so called Healing circles became counter-productive since I am a sponge to energies( had even being attacked by a Bootha or Ghost in liminal state dream) So now I am quite satisfacted in just being a Human even if I know this character have limited time expiration and the Gargantular mouth of Infinte is waiting to eat me. Ah I also did 5Meo 2 times one was mild ans second was hardcore and I was present while a older person passed away in the process. So, yeah I had my share of craziness that today even Mórmon BS is nothing more than Harry Potter Stories. Ah today is Sunday, I was supposed to be at the Church by now 9:14 but I will just drink Coffee and relax. 

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    41 minutes ago, PurpleTree said:

    The guy who wrote the book was a Nazi SS member, Wernher von Braun.

    In the book the Elon was the ruler of Mars. 

     

    So even of Erron Musk used to read this book to his kid with the same name this dont mean to much. Is like a Mórmon giving the name Lehi to his son and reading the Book of Mórmon ( where Lehi is a prophet) and we making a lot of fuzz about it. The Trap of Conflation. Elon Musk maybe was influenced by the book, great, lets go to Mars, he can Rule there with all the Rocks.

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    Today I saw a post on insta that sound like Conpiracy BS claming Elon Father Erron Musk named his second to the name of a character in a book (link bellow) 

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Mars:_A_Technical_Tale

    The book is called Project Mars. 

    I dont know where the guy took this ideias but he uses a lot the word " apparently" what means that is not something truly confirmed.

     

  7. Posted · Edited by Rafael Thundercat

    A friend of mine traveled to this festival in India that happens every 12 years and this one completes to be the 144 one. The Mytological Cosmological Reson for this Festival is explained well on Wikipédia. Suposely one can clean past Karma by Bathing on Ganges. I dont know if after one need to drink strong antibiotics too. Let see how it goes to my friend.

     

     

     

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    @WonderSeeker the first video made me remember of how life was resonably easy when I was a Mórmon. In a sense I was conforming with the hivemind of Mórmon and had no trouble knowing that I was part of the True people, the ones to be exalted in the Millenium when Christ came back. Life was good, I could keep in that, marry a nice Mórmon girl, be a teacher or maybe even now I would be a Bishop. But my Aim for Truth was bigger than conforming and one day I saw that I could not lie anyomore to myself, I put all my Mórmon manuals, Books and even the Bible and Book of Mórmon in the Trash bin, all in one swap  closed the bit and walkes home, now I was with no epistemic ground anymore. Of course I created other meanings and worldviews but never more that I was certain of all existence. 

    Life can feel easy in conformism. But one must feel that the bill will come in the end. 

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    13 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

    I don't want to be your crutch for hope.

    I don't want to give your promises and guarantees that your life will end well. That is not in alignment with truth.

    Reading a book on the Spanish Inquisition and thinking if I would be able to be a crutch for hope for those Heretic people tortured to accept the Holy Faith. Truth be said, is that if I was born around 1400 I myself could be a Inquisitor or a Heretic. So, in a big scale we are part of all this Survival Game, we came from those crooked people. I have Italian Bloodline, who know the Evils my Ancestors commited? 

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    A  video with somehow a post-modernist vibe. But nuance be applied because many things she say makes lot of sense. As always is hard to chose the wheat from chaft

    Is about language domintation and all shenanigans of it in a social cultural context. Example: English is dominant because is the best language or because it is the language of the colonizers?

  16. Posted · Edited by Rafael Thundercat

    Somewhere Leo Gura gave the ideia of not only reading books, bit using rhe power of internet to read and at same time look for videos,maps,graphics etc..

    is the case I use this ideia even to Leo Videos. So I am listening the PostModernism part 2 and related to the when he say Rural America life  is not compared with China Rural life. 

    Is am still looking for some videos. But I found this one of a Phillipino Teacher reaction to a Rural area she came to teach. Nice to see videos where a worldview of someone is confronted with another culture. 

    And this guy get himself to hold some communist flags by some sweet aunties in Rural China Lol

     

     

     

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    12 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

    I have had cordial private conversations with NoSelfSelf since January 1st, giving him feedback about what I saw as some problematic posting behavior.

    After several back and forths, he was not interested in taking constructive feedback to elevate his conduct as a Mod. We discussed him not being a Mod any more. He was open to that and not offended. I was careful not to make any rash moves, so I waited, hoping that maybe he would take the feedback to heart and that his posting quality would improve. That did not happen and the situation had escalated today in his conversations with other Mods, not wanting to hear any feedback from them either and getting disrespectful with them. So it became clear that it was time to demote him from being a Mod. Then he created this thread after sending me a slew of profanity-laced private messages.

    That is the situation. At this point he is no longer a Mod but also no longer able to post on this forum because he is clearly upset and letting him post is no just sensible now. We have higher standards for Mod behavior, but he doesn't even meet the standards for regular members now.

    Unfortunately demoting someone from Mod is not always easy because people can take it personally.

    Actually, my conversations with him go much further back than Jan 1st, me trying to nudge him to post in a more mature manner. But he was not open to changing his posting style, deeming it as "weakness" to cave to people's sensitivities. His position was that if he took my feedback he would weakening himself to wokeness or political correctness. I explained to him that the opposite is the case, that this was an opportunity to develop more empathy and better communication skills, but he disagreed on principle.

    It pains me to ban people from here. Especially a Mod. But sometimes there's no other choice.

    What are the Criteria to be considered a Mod? 

  21. Posted

    20 hours ago, ryoko said:

    source: https://metamoderna.org/why-are-so-many-metamodernists-so-miserable-and-what-can-we-do-about-it/

    @Rafael Thundercat
    So, I get the feeling that most of the resistance I'm facing is more of a cultural clash.

    And that combined with my own resentment towards the corruptions and compromises which happens within the same demographics. Just notice what you feel when hearing "Microsoft" or "Apple" or simply "Tech Companies". I see compromised innovations, lost potential, or perverted values. I kinda sympathize with them too, because they are sadly in a stage Orange Society. Remember this is me looking at these through the lens of "GNU/Linux" and Open Source values. Infact these days even the Linux ecosystem is getting corrupted by govt funding, banning Russians and other shenanigans.

    Nice that the links offered some clarity and new nuance inputs. For me I see this Gentrification where I live. i live in a Tourist Destination and the Real State market is dominated with North Europe buyers making the cost of Living high to many locals. Of course one can take advantage and earn upon this,but still the local culture is slowly shifting to accomodate more of the Foreing than to the local. We see this happening in many places and is a natural phenomena of change. But there still consequences on socioeconomics.