Basman

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  1. Judaism as a religion is unique in how little it is tied to a particular nations history and culture compared to every other religion. Islam is uniquely Arab, Christianity European and Hinduism Indian but Judaism precedes having geography for most of its history. Jews can be found a bit all over the place as a minority religion. They've always been doing their own thing to a certain extent and been principled in their culture for better or for worse, which has lead to conflict. Generally, people don't like foreign, much less in the past.
  2. Being culturally isolate is perhaps the biggest cause why people are suspicious of Jews historically.
  3. Kind of shows the incompetence of the Trump administration. If they wanted to bury it, it would be much better to just let it die on the vine and never bring it up again, but they had to make a big statement about it. Now a probable cover-up has turned into an obvious cover-up and has been inflamed by the apparent lies.
  4. Sounds like your using masturbation as a procrastination tool. Procrastination is a fear response. It's always fear. It means you are putting great importance on the thing you are procrastinating. Procrastination is associating more pain to doing an act than not. However, your imagination tends to be bad at predicting the future. The act itself is most likely less bad than you think. People tend to underestimate their ability due to fear, lack of experience and wanting to have it easy.
  5. I've heard whispers of the Baltics. I don't have the knowledge to make an educated guess but definitely not Poland when there are less gangsta countries. I've also heard from Vlad Vexler, which is where I get most of my info from, that certain East-European countries might actually invade Russia first, but that is just a rumor. Don't take it seriously.
  6. Russia isn't above it, for sure. Crimea after all. And they have a mythical belief in their cause similar to Al Qaeda. Russia doesn't have borders. But the endgame is the dissolution of the West. Putin wants NATO/EU to become irrelevant. He is fighting against stage orange and above to maintain power in the grand scheme of things. It's about regime security. Putin will prepare to test NATO commitments following Ukraine. His hope is to break up the western union. It's why there is so much propaganda and misinformation from Russia during elections, like with Brexit. You don't have to be a superpower to be a serious threat. Russia threatens with nuclear escalation and has already killed thousands and displaced millions of people since 2022. Russia is a serious concern irrespective of China.
  7. Great video. Great point that women can still think your attractive despite rejecting you, but she never explicitly explains what that attractive "power" is that she is alluding to throughout the video. Is it just masculinity broadly speaking?
  8. Russia's goal isn't necesarilly to destroy or conquer Ukraine but to destabilize it's government. Democracy and western influence are a threat to Russian authoritarianism, so Russian escalation can be thought of as largely Putin's war. It's about regime security and a mythical idea of Russia's place in the world. That a world without Russia shouldn't exist. They are fighting their own growing irrelevancy as a blue/orange country and war puts the spotlight on them. The west/NATO is a threat to Russia but only in so far that they are an authoritarian state as opposed to democratic. Putins nightmare is a Qaddafi situation happening in Russia.
  9. Rudolf's cooked.
  10. Apparently reindeer get high from eating red cap mushrooms. They are immune to the poison. https://www.cairngormreindeer.co.uk/2017/10/13/why-the-reindeer-loves-its-mushrooms/ Animals getting high is nothing new and potentially rooted in incorporating new behavior and evolving the species. This book by Samini is all about animals taking drugs: https://www.amazon.com/Animals-Psychedelics-Natural-Instinct-Consciousness/dp/089281986 Perhaps there is a correlation between poison and hallucinogenic effects and narcotic effects in general. IE. when self-defense measures become benign you are left with certain narcotic effects.
  11. Why do psychedelics raise consciousness exactly? Is it just chemical?
  12. Could you elaborate? What significantly expressed masculinity look like?
  13. Life purpose is about aligning your life more with your unique personal values and the kind of impact you want to have on the world. Life purpose is literally just what you are good at + the kind of impact you want to have on the world. If you work hard at it you can find success but success (defined here as material gains) is not the end goal of having a life purpose. It means to not chase money and fame. If you yourself wouldn't pay to do your life purpose it isn't your life purpose.
  14. There's being nice, IE. kind, and there's being nice with strings attached, expecting people to like you, treat you well and avoid conflict. Being kind is a matter of giving. Not necesarilly of how you present yourself. You can never smile and be mostly silent and still be a kind person as someone who finds joy in giving. The problem with nice guys is that they are essentially inauthentic and cowardly. They act despite their true feelings to avoid rejection and create a sense of control while typically not being kind in earnest. They "game" their interactions and play up for approval. People have a instinctual dislike of fakeness. Being nice for survival gains is a fear response.
  15. Teacher blindness When a teacher neglects making essential distinctions and ideas explicit due to taking those distinctions and ideas for granted and seemingly forgetting what is like to not know what they know. A kind of being out of touch with ignorance. It's important to meet people where they are at if you are to effectively teach someone. As a teacher you have to appreciate the degree of ignorance present with untrained minds and bodies or you just end up frustrating your students. Art teachers are particularly bad at this in my experience because they don't tend to be intellectually rigorous. Spiritual teachers can seriously mislead people if they don't appreciate the depth of ignorance of average people because of the effect their work has on the psyche.
  16. There's too much complaining from Green in general and not enough results oriented action grounded in cold mundane reality. Imagine if Occupy Wall Street and Palestine protestors had as much energy for lobbying, petitions and running for government as they do protesting and looting. Stage Green is ineffective at actual survival because they prioritize emotional consensus over hard results even though results is what they say that they want. Doing the boring work to create the world they want doesn't even seem to register as an option. There's a lack of resolve to Green and certain excesses get lost in the sauce.
  17. The problem with Green style policies broadly speaking is that they are ineffective and ultimately destructive of society. If people feel like they are being excluded politically and economically and if their welfare system and infrastructure is being strained by migrants, then you'll risk society sliding into authoritarianism. A high migration rate is not politically viable if it's not the will of the people and if the resources aren't there for that. A lot of Stage Green people are advocating for minority rule. Denmark, with one of the strictest immigration policies in Europe, is simultaneously investing into these third world countries. Prevention is cheaper than a cure. Effective climate policies are necessary and will likely intensify as consequences begin to accrue.
  18. You can be more loving as a person but it won't be the same because you still value your survival. Unconditional love is letting clouds shift and change instead of trying to maintain a particular shape. Unconditional love would mean loving everything that is bad for survival. Everything painful, torturous and murderous. You necessarily have to set conditions in order to maintain your form. Imagine being thrown into the brazen bull and loving every moment of it. If you can't love boiling in your own fat than you fall short of unconditional love.
  19. Humans don't have the capacity for full unconditional love by nature . Unconditional love is a radical notion that goes beyond flesh and blood. It's essentially death.
  20. Most internet users are only as opiniated and unhinged as they are anonymous.
  21. Instant gratification is always going to err towards the low-brow, cheap and shallow because it takes time and effort to create something that is relatively deep and of high quality. Your never going to beat slop in quantity at least. High conscious stuff will most likely be more niche as well. You can get a very loyal following though if you ace your niche. Watching a multi hour spiritual video is ironically hardcore internet usage.