Daniel Balan

What are they trying to accomplish? I mean, it is clear that they want to wipe Ukraine off the map, but if they supposedly defeat Ukraine, what is Russia's endgame? Do they settle just for Ukraine? I don't think so! My personal opinion is that if they could, they would conquer Moldova, then they will challenge Nato by trying a blitzkrieg on Romania! They will try to anchor their border with the west on the Charpatian mountain range in Romania and Slovakia, while at the same time trying to conquer the Baltics! Betting that Nato wouldn't risk ww3 over half of Romania and the baltics! I contemplated on the conflict in the last year and this is my hypothesis on what Russia's endgame plan. Basically they want their soviet era vassal states back! They would leave Poland alone, because Poland, in my opinion is as battle ready as Ukraine is right now, too tough to defeat and probably isn't worth the hassle. But via heavy propaganda interference in elections, they would take control over much of the former Warsaw pact, and in the countries they didn't succeed to place a trojan horse government, they would certainly attack militarily! Bluffing that Nato is not as united as Nato claims. Also Trump would probably give Putin all of Eastern Europe if that means that all the wars in Europe end. So guys, what do you think?

@MandrakeGreat comment. Thank you. I loved reading it!

The communist regime was, by almost all metrics inferior in comparison with the west. But it had some good characteristics. Education was one of the great things the communists did great. During the 45 years Romania was communist, it produced the best engineers, mathematicians and physicians. But the soviet style education system was also bad in many regards. Students were beaten with the ruller and put to kneel on corn beans for not doing their homework. The teachers always were very authoritarian. When I was in school, the techers were nice and more liberal, overall my school years experience was very beautiful. But for my parents and grandparents, it was very strict and authoritarian. But the soviet style education system was right. In order to produce amazing generations of people, the education system must be public, with no private schools allowed. Everybody must go to state funded schools. Public education across the whole country, a culture that values education, plus healthy stage blue aspects will generate the best outcomes when it comes to education. The soviet style education approach would be the best if it is also more liberal and a bit more soft and easygoing.

@Carl-Richard we definitely should have a constitutional court formed with the 7 most senior members of the forum 😂

I would definitely vote for @Yimpa as my representative and for @Xonas Pitfall as my senator.

I have one cool proposal. Why don't we have a democracy here on the forum? Lets say the forum needs to have a parliament with for example 30 mods( house of representatives) 10 mod senators( senate) and the president is forever Leo. But every 4 years we have elections for the forum parliament. I suggest we have 300 candidates for those 40 mod seats. Leo will choose who those 300 candidates are and once we have the list of names, every forum member can cast their vote for the house of representatives and for the senate. I think that would be a cool way of choosing our moderators. What do you think guys?

Jokes aside, in the past there were many shady characters on this forum that have been banned. The most famous example I can recall is @Preety_India. Also there were a lot of wanna be cult leaders lurking on this forum with their intent being audience capture or product promotion. Fortunately after heavy crackdowns, now the forum is scammer and bullshit free. It is still corrupt because we are all corrupting it with our biases and self deception, but compared with what it was in lets say 2020, today it is really state of the art.

Unfortunately I only received like 1000 rubles, an ushanka hat and an English-Russian dictionary to use it in case the Russians invade my country too 😂

😂😂😂 Being a mod is more of a curse than a blessing. Jokes aside, this forum has improved in quality tremendously since I first came in contact with it 6 years ago. The ammount of trolling and bullshit that was in here was staggering, but since Leo and the mods cracked down hard on the trolls and scammers that were here, this forum is now in pristine condition. State of the art environment and structure if you ask me.

I'm most of the time quite leftist. But on immigration, man I am quite a Nazi. I think we should only bring in people with clean criminal records. I don't care what skin colour you have, or what nationality you have, the moment you commited a crime, you beat somebody, or you stole something, you should get your ass deported to Antarctica. That is valid for locals too! Why spend money on killers and rapists when we could deport them on an empty island in the middle of the pacific? Man I hate violent people so much.

RIP Ozzy! May he rest in peace! I'm a big rock/metal fan and Ozzy ispired an entire genre. Rest in peace, prince of darkness!

Hey @Leo Gura! @Xonas Pitfall messaged me asking if you could please help him regain access of his forum account. Please help him regain access to his account.

Romania is a very interesting place. The era between 1930 and 1944 was ruled by the Iron Guard. An ultra conservative far right nationalist ideology. The era between 1945-1989 was ruled by national communism. An ultra conservative totalitarian nationalist communist regime. The only difference between the two eras was that the communist era was atheistic and the ww2 era was extremely religious. But both were murderous, both were brutally opressive, and both were ultra conservative. The national communism of Romania should be studied thoroughly. In my opinion it resembled more a form of left wing fascism than marxist communism.

Look, I give me as an example, most of the people in my village are stage red anti semite nazis. They are all brainwashed into it via group think. I always dismissed their views and regarded them as dangerous devils. No matter how much they talked to me their ideology, It made me abhor it the more they tried to brainwash me with it. But with leftist frieds from neighbouring cities I noticed that the more I speak with them, I become more and more leftist. Why it doesn't happen the same when it comes to the far right nazi ideology? Becaue I am not a conservative. I hate religion, conformity, traditions, I'm an internationalist, I hate nationalism, etc. basically the ideology that the rednecks try to impose on me doesn't find any echo within my mind. Because I don't identify even in the slightest with anything conservatives stand for.

The truth is in the middle. Leo is true that conservatives could turn into the most violent nazis. But Ober is right when saying that there are degrees of conservative. For example a conservative like Mike Pence or Mitt Romney will never have followed Hitler if they lived in Nazi Germany. Those 2 are what I call real conservatives. Or healthy conservatives. But these are the most developed and most rare conservatives. Maybe 1% of conservatives are like that. Those are like the CDU conservatives. Nazism could only work with evil conservatives. From modern day Germany only Afd conservatives would have followed Hitler. Die Linke people would rather eat dirt than follow Hitler, so will the people from SPD and the Greens.

I firmly disagree with you here. I see it in my family, they are all far right nazis, I'm the only one thats a leftist. I'm always bullied, strawmanned, shamed, laughed at and so on whenever I express my opinions. Because of that I always shut up and if they start making fun of me because I am a leftist I say that they are right just so I get them off my head. In Nazi Germany probably a good 40% were like me. They just complied and shut up to not get socially excluded or to not be labeled as traitors. In those times you could be fking killed by those nazi rednecks just because you oppose them verbally.

Don't delete it Leo! It is the first thing I noticed about actualized.org, the fact that actualized.org is just a vehicle to help me realise that the best tool I have at my disposal is independence of mind. If actualized.org had a bible, that bible would be me having a perfectly uncorrupted independent mind. That is the goal of actualized.org, to develop such independent tought and mind, that you don't even need actualized.org anymore. Thats why this is not a cult, because cults want people to solely rely on the cult, whereas Leo goes above and beyond to emphasize that you only need to rely on your independence of mind

That blog post from January titled what is there to talk about with humans, or something similar, still echoes in my mind from time to time although I haven't read it since! But everytime I have a conversation with a human I remember that blog post and I marvel how much I identify with everything you wrote in there. Humans are so shallow, so empty, so superficial, so false. My extended family came to my house recently and I love them and all, but I simply found nothing meaningful to talk to them. Every year that goes by I feel less and less motivated to even entertain a basic convo with stage red people. Their immaturity, their conspiracy theories, their backwardness made me litteraly throw up in the middle of the gathering. But I am proud of myself. Because I have risen well above the centre of gravity of development that my family is at. And because I never cared about being validated by anyone, It makes me even more eager to push into tier 2, seeing the staggering difference in development between me and them, I am perfectly fine for being seen as the traitor and the outcast of the family, I feel like I am on the right path if stage red sociopaths want to always hate and bully me for being different than them. Going above the centre of gravity of one's culture is a rare thing, and I will do my best to never regress back and every year to increase the gap between my development and theirs.

I contemplated that today. I don't like it. It left me unsure of myself. I want to know if something is false from the very beginning, I want myself to be the first person in 1930's Nazi Germany to recognize that nazism is false. I know Nazism is false having today's hindsight, but I want to know to recognize the falsehood of something at the very beggining of the thing.

Then why do all my elderly family members (now in their 40's and 50's )hate me for saying that communism was a plague upon Romania. They say that Nicolaie Ceaușescu's regime was bringing them a lot of national pride and factories and jobs and mines for miners to work etc) I nearly got beaten by them for contesting everything soviet communism brought upon Romania. They were Russia's bitch for 5 decades, yet they call that being sovereign, not being under the boot of the evil decadent west. I hate my relatives so much. It begins to feel unbearable to have conversations with stage red sociopaths.

Because Gaia created us with the same right to life as any other being. A larger group of selfish beings that seeks to rule over a less numerous group of slightly different beings is falsehood because it would be like my two arms would try to enslave my left leg. It is falsehood because it seeks division duality and hate, whereas truth represents love and unity. Thats is as far as I understood from your teachings. Thats the limit of my understanding.

Thanks a lot! I thought that because it has such high traction to people, it must be true. But it has high traction because most folk are deep entrenched within falsehood themselves. A few months ago I remember, you said on the forum that conservatives will never realize that wokeness is true, or something similar you said. Why is wokeness true? Because it seeks to create a more equal and fair society? Whereas conservativism is false because it seeks to preserve the corrupt and unequal hierarchical system of the status quo?

I genuinely don't understand why anything could be false because everything exists, therefore it is the case. That's litteraly your definition of truth. I perfectly understand why nazism is wrong, why it is self deception, why it is devilry. Yeah I contemplated and I came to the conclusion that Nazism is wrong and it is devilry. I simply don't understand why you keep using the word truth and falsehood when you could be using wrong or right. To me falsehood is something that isn't grounded in reality. And because the entire continent of Europe followed Hitler into the clutches of death 80 years ago, I do believe Nazism was grounded in reality, therefore it is true, hadn't it been true, no one would have been convinced to adopt the Nazi ideology. To me truth means being a realist, abiding by the laws of maya. Truth = realism, Falsehood = illusion and fantasy

@Leo GuraPlease explain to me what is falsehood and what is truth? Why for example tradition, conformity, religious fundamentalism, atheism, nazism, fascism are false? And what are the criterias you use to recognize something as false? And viceversa what criterias do you use to recognize something as truthful? This is the biggest hurdle I have encountered when I try to understand your teachings. You said in the past that atheism is false, but from my direct experience I perceive atheism as being true because it is not rooted in any illusion, no sugar-coated lies are found in atheism, only brutal cold reality. There is no God that looks after our wellbeing, no God to pray to give us a couchy life. I think we both agree that God, even if it exists, doesn't care more for me than it does for an ant.

Hi @Leo Gura! Why you say conservatives always lose? Across the world they seem, for now, that they regained their foothold. America has chosen conservative over liberal 2 times now with Donald Trump. Maybe in the long run they lose, but they will still win and regress society from time to time. And why do you say things like tradition or religious fundamentalism being untrue? Maybe I don't understand english that good, but in one of your videos you said that truth is that of which is the case. Tradition is the case for over 50% of the globe and so is religious fundamentalism. They are the case. They exist! Why you say they aren't true? Please explain this to me. I always had a difficult time understanding what you mean when you say something isn't true. Please 🥺