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I don't know how I'll be able to reconcile that hahaha. Before seeing this hearing I would've given it an 80 - 90% chance that Trump runs again, barring any health concerns. But the fact that this was only Part 1 of 6 of damning evidence against him!?! If a majority of Republicans can really see all of this and still go "yeah, this is the best guy to put forward for our party", it's going to obliterate my entire worldview. You guys weren't being hyperbolic about Trump being a literal criminal and just lying to further the agenda of your own party. What the actual fuck. I was so focused on all the other conspiracies that I missed the giant actual one being pulled right in front of me. Agree completely. Even worse, they're going to listen to right wing pundits spin it and tell them lies about what was in the hearing, instead of watching it for themselves. At first I thought it was corruption that they were having the hearing during primetime instead of the day, it seemed weird. But yeah, this actually needs to be seen and heard by all Americans. Also right wingers don't even understand the nature of the hearing. Most I've heard from think this is a televised court trial of January 6th trespassers a la Johnny Depp vs Amber Heard. It confused me to see that it was a committee of politicians.

Depends entirely on the context of the situation, who you're talking to, and other factors. You have to know your audience. If you make a joke to an atheist about Christmas it'll go over well. If you do it to a devout Christian, not so much. Which aspects of culture you'll be allowed to disrespect in a conversation largely depends on the other person's political affiliation as well. Generally best to avoid any sort of touchy subject when just building rapport or making small-talk with strangers until you've had time to feel them out a bit. Sounds like the guy you met was just a bit of a dick.

Sometimes the opposite. If you grew up in an ideal family and community, you haven't developed the mental muscles to detect deception. You've never been hurt by it and had a need to worry about it. If you've never been scammed you'll be more naïve and likely to fall for scams until life makes you a bit more jaded. It creates a blind spot, kind of like how autistic people can have difficulty detecting emotions in people's faces. Having people hurt you or let you down in minor ways can act as an inoculation that keeps you on your toes, and prevents you from falling victim to catastrophic life-destroying scams. Most people are okay at not falling for obvious Bitcoin scams or getting into relationships with criminals. But I think people overestimate their ability to detect a lack of integrity too. I've met a handful of legitimate psychopaths, sociopaths, and sadists... and they're always extremely charming and charismatic, you're instantly drawn to them and want to be their friend. They are really good at manipulating. You can only start to notice a lack of integrity over a period of weeks or months of interactions with them when their mask starts to slip. By that point you're likely already caught in their web.

I went into it skeptical but I watched the whole thing and I'm glad I did. A lot of that new footage really recontextualizes Jan 6th for me and my mind is changed. It's not just the boomers peacefully strolling into the Capitol any more like I had always seen it presented previously. I don't know why they waited 1.5 years to release the additional footage, it seems like over a year of extra unnecessary right vs left hatred. All of the video depositions from former white house staff are gonna really be the nail in the coffin. Trump is not gonna be able to run in 2024 after this. The frustrating thing for me this morning is trying to get other right wingers to actually watch it. They just keep making up crap about Jan 6th or repeating the same old lines without having actually watched the hearing. I almost fell into this trap myself and nearly commented here last night before actually watching it. One nitpicky thing... I wish they wouldn't refer to Proud Boys as white supremacists. Their chairman Enrique Tarrio is black, as clearly shown during the hearing. I think labels are important, and using incorrect ones slightly delegitimizes the message. If you wanna call them far-right that's fair. There are real white supremacist groups on the right but Proud Boys ain't one of them.

Kinda seems like you're just cherry picking dates and events. Maybe there's no progressive era, just progressive events that occur at random. Andrew Jackson, really? The dude that owned slaves and was an ethnic cleanser, signed the Indian Removal Act in 1830? Gay marriage was made legal in all 50 states in 2015, if that's not a progressive era, what is?

Intuitively I would think that environment and upbringing plays the biggest role. But I have a friend who is a perfect case study and I don't know if environment was the reason. He made a great life for himself and has a doctor/lawyer type job. Despite coming from a house with irresponsible parents and growing up in poverty. In high school he had to work a part-time job and give money to his parents just to keep the utility bills paid and to keep them from going bankrupt. He's got two brothers. One ended up with a mediocre job building cabinets. The other is a deadbeat loser that still lives at home with the parents and smokes weed / plays video games all day at 25. I've spent a lot of time thinking what separates the successful child from the deadbeat one. They grew up in the same house with the same parents, went to the same schools. For one thing, my successful friend is only their half-brother. All 3 kids share a mom but the other 2 brothers have a different dad. So maybe genetics plays a part. I do think there's a decent IQ difference there. Other than that it might just be an innate internal drive to strive for greatness and create a better life for yourself. Some people settle into the mediocrity they're born into, others have a desire to rise above it. Is it just genetic or maybe did he have a teacher that really inspired him, or some other event in his life that the other 2 kids missed out on? I dunno. Maybe also that the successful one is the oldest and the deadbeat is the youngest/baby might have something to do with it as well. Just one anecdotal example.

It's going to come down to sacrifice. Trust me that there is a buttload of cheap land out there in pretty much every country. But it's not within a 30 minute drive from cities. For sure in rural Ireland if not in England. Check out Mossy Bottom or The Bridgeman's Cottage on Youtube in addition to Kris Harbour above, probably dozens of other examples I've been following on Youtube for years as they create their life in the wilderness. But that might mean only getting to see your family a couple times per year if it's what you're really passionate about. You might not get perfectly flat, clear land. You might have to live in a trailer and spend a couple years ripping out trees and transforming the land to make it suitable first. But if it's truly your life's calling you'll make it work. Who informed you of this, it definitely seems like BS. Urban land is going to be way more prohibitive than rural. There are over 300 zoos in the UK and here is a full list of all the animal sanctuaries in the UK with a phone number for each. How did they all do it? Maybe calling up a few and asking would be a good first step.

My ex was a sign language interpreter, she made bank. Your best shot at a stable career without having to worry about scams is finding a reputable agency to work for. There are companies that police departments, news agencies, and other large organizations have on-call for when they need an interpreter. You can go solo and earn more but then the work will be more irregular, you'll have to find them yourself and sort out legit jobs from scams and time wasters.

Keep a journal and record where you are and what's happening when this occurs, and see if you can find a pattern. Immediately make a note in your phone after it happens so you don't forget. When I went to church as a kid I'd get something similar to what you describe from being in a religious environment with everyone singing, etc. Even when I was too young to understand what was going on or being said from a theological perspective. From what I gather, a lot of people experience this in that sort of environment. Most of them interpret it as God touching them or speaking to them. It doesn't have to be Christian, I get the same thing from listening to the video below. There's something special about people gathering and singing spiritual stuff. You can see multiple people experiencing it in this video, it's so extreme it looks like some of them are faking it but it's legit, they're blissed tf out: If I really focus and try to sing along with this I'll quickly start tearing up, full of gratitude and other feelings, that's the Love of God coming through. I don't have to be Hindu to get it, some transmissions are so direct that they transcend belief and language barriers. Music is very effective at breaking these barriers. I also consistently get it if I'm outside in nature and the lighting, temperature, etc are just right, and a few other situations. Whole body tingling, heart opening up, my "spirit" kinda raises up like I'm on a rollercoaster.

Stephen Hawking was a world-class physicist and had 2 wives (incels get rekt.) He went on a 0-gravity flight with plans to go into space before he died. If you're really passionate about what you do, even being quadriplegic won't stop you. Of course there's some stuff you'd never be able to do again. If your LP was being a master pianist or craftsman. In that case you might just off yourself. But I people adapt more than you'd think. Personally I feel like I'd probably kill myself if I ever went fully blind in both eyes. But maybe the survival instinct is strong enough that I'd find a way to live with it. I could live with deafness, paralysis, or most other things.

It's kind of on you then. Maybe one day you'll get lonely enough to reach out and make some friends. This whole post is kind of confusing and sounds really conflicted. On one hand it sounds like you're bragging about being able to handle being completely alone, on the other hand it sounds like you're grieving the fact. Do you place a negative value on the idea of being alone? If you don't feel any interest in trying to change your situation, then it must not bother you that much.

Less speculative: Listen to the last 2 minutes and he says it explicity... He sees his dad in Dr. K. MrGirl's dad was a psychiatrist. And the idea of having to go to lunch with his dad was enough of a stressor to make him hit his ex-wife in the past. Maybe he cares about his actual dad or has enough loyalty to not destroy him. But he can vicariously destroy everything he hates about his dad by attacking Dr. K instead. The spiritual stuff definitely triggers him as well. There's also the fact that Destiny said MrGirl reminds him of Reckful a lot, so he might feel extra attached to defending him due to that.

He was pretty subdued. From previous conversations about Dr K and his accounts of how angry watching the streams made him, I expected MrGirl to be screaming at his screen. I think he's projecting anger and hatred onto Reckful that isn't really there. Yeah he's avoidant but he's not bottling up rage for DrK's ideas These videos were recorded before Dr K even started creating the course and coaching program but he seems pretty hung up on this being an advertisement for something that didnt exist yet. Everything else is pretty on point

Bugs are unintentional and relatively benign. Imagine getting hijacked by brain viruses and Trojans that allow someone to take control of your body like a drone, implant false memories, etc. Better hope we can do daily backups of our memory to physical devices by the time that comes online. Because the only way to get rid of the most serious viruses is to do a full wipe and system reinstall, then restore back to an older version. As soon as you introduce an ability to interface with something you add a vulnerability. Look at Apple in a cat and mouse with hackers trying to make their devices unable to be jailbroken, but always losing.

Trains work great in dense places like many EU countries or Japan. I took the train to/from work when I lived in the UK and it was great. In the US or Canada not so much. Everything is way too spread out. We have a hard enough time getting cell towers put up to provide good phone coverage. Trains can also be FUCKING ANNOYING. My city has train tracks that cut right through downtown and a few other high-traffic areas. The trains stop all other traffic -- cars, bikes, pedestrians -- multiple times a day, usually during rush hour when you're trying to get to/from work, 5 - 10 minutes if you're lucky, sometimes for 30 minutes at a time as they move forward and reverse to change tracks or unload cars. To put in one overpass to remedy the situation at one location would cost like $100M. My preference would be to just get 4x as many busses so they come on all routes every 10 minutes and make them all electric.

Surprised he only caught a 1 month suspension, he must do good work and earn them a lot of money! Too good to let go, so he just gets a slap on the wrist. Almost like if you're a semi-public figure, you shouldn't just be posting stream of consciousness shit on Twitter under your real name You have nothing to gain and everything to lose. I don't think you have to bring spiral dynamics into it, this probably would've happened even in a solid orange workplace within the past decade just from having both genders involved. I've heard crazy stories about the late 70s / early 80s in the workplace from near-retirement female coworkers, like routinely getting slapped on the ass by other male workers or your boss and it was just the norm, you just take it. That's what stage blue is, not insensitive tweets.

I don't get some of the moral judgements in the video. A couple of times Leo puts down perceived negative activities like trolling or food, sex, porn. At one point he compares spending your time trolling online to stabbing a knife through God's heart. I think God appreciates a truly masterful troll. If you love trolling people, I think you should train and learn from the top trolls out there, and be the best god damn troll you can be. Why can't gangsters and mafia bosses operate from a place of love? You don't think Al Capone or Pablo Escobar loved their lifestyle, even while escaping their mansion through secret underground tunnels to evade authorities, or having a shootout with police, or breaking someone's kneecaps? They love the action, the risk, the high stakes, and the rewards that come with it. Isn't making the world's most sophisticated money laundering operation an expression of your full creative potential? What if that's what's most meaningful to you? Why can't an ambition to be the world's #1 supervillain or build the world's largest criminal empire come from a love of life? If you are truly psychopathic (or even just think what you're doing is righteous, maybe you see it as a Robin Hood type of situation) and there is 0 internal moral struggle over it, what's the problem with it?

Planning and intention. If something is important to you, you need to schedule it in or it'll become an afterthought. Work out at a specific time on specific days of the week. Devote a specific time like 30 minutes before bed each day to reading. Have a standing appointment to visit family or have coffee with friends at a certain time each week. Set time to mediate at the start or end of the day and start small like 10 mins so you dont get overwhelmed. Once you schedule stuff in, you dont have to think about it any more. It's not a choice, the time comes to do that task and you just do it. As you create a schedule, you'll see there is plenty of time to do all the things you want if you're strategic and make a plan. You dont need to prioritize and sacrifice some things for others. Most people (basically everyone except people like CEOs with huge amounts of responsibility or people working 2+ jobs to survive or people looking after multiple kids) have hours and hours of spare time each day, time is not the issue. Create a yearly, monthly, and weekly budget for your finances and make sure your income exceeds your spending with a good amount of room for savings. Put aside the savings first as soon as you get your money and the bills are paid. Having a separate account helps to get it out of mind if you're tempted to spend all the money you get.

I'm not bipolar either but I go through similar to what you describe. A couple of times per year I become ultra engrossed in my work and go into a mania phase where I can work like crazy for about a month, where the work just seems effortless and enjoyable. Then I might need a break where I do minimal stuff for a month or more afterward. Listen to your body and intuition and do what feels right. Work when you want to work, and rest when you want to rest. Especially when you're doing your own thing, you don't have to stick to conventional wisdom of consistently working X hours a day. You can do bursts here and there. If you can do a month's worth of work in a week and then chill for the other 3 weeks to recover that's a valid strategy. I got manic about podcasting and recorded 10+ episodes in advance, now I've been chilling and playing PS5 every night instead and havent touched it for the past month. I'll probably pick it back up soon and research/record another 5 - 10 episodes in a week to schedule out. You can probably do the same with Twitter... write up like 3 months worth of posts now while you have the motivation, set up an app like Hootsuite to automatically schedule them out to post on their own each week, and stop when you need a break. If you have a few big projects on the go at any given time, you can switch between them to mix things up whenever you start to feel burned out. I need to be doing something new after about a month to keep things fresh. Go ham on your twitter until that gets boring, then record a big batch of podcast episodes, then switch and record a chunk of your course, and repeat. That way you're always being productive but your brain stays stimulated and you're less likely to burn out.

+1 I built my entire career around this course. Maybe not for OP for the reasons I've outlined above. But if you want to make a niche website this is the best resource online. Check out their Youtube channel and get a feel for it. I dont know how I feel about the future direction now that Jim has left and it's just Ricky. But there is enough existing content to make it worth it. You get probably the best course on making a successful blog available today. Plus an equally in depth full course on making a Youtube channel. And about a dozen smaller courses. It's costly but I've continued to pay the $250/year for 3+ years just to keep access to the community. It's like this forum's life purpose section expanded out to it's own full forum, and because it's behind a paywall the quality is very high, and full of actual business owners. I've more than earned my money back by networking and working with other P24 members (10s of thousands of dollars.)

I think everyone wants to be authentic if it was just a matter of making a choice. No one wants to lie and hide their true self. But the problem is that being authentic requires sacrifice, and inauthenticity often has survival benefits. If you've been a doormat all of your life, you might need to sacrifice the majority of your friends and family to start acting authentic. You might have trouble forming new relationships or even get into fights with strangers if your authentic views are too different from the norm. I think being authentic to yourself is a must. Acknowledge your own weaknesses and shortcomings. But there are lots of times where being authentic with others might not be worth it and a white lie or omission would serve you better.

@Danioover9000 You can have other passions without them being a life purpose. Maybe you just enjoy music, lots of people enjoy music. Feel free to investigate further and lean into it, and see if there's anything more there. Do you just want to listen to music, do you want to find out what makes good and bad music and be a reviewer and music critic like Anthony Fantano, do you want to learn to make your own music? Or will it stay as just a hobby you enjoy in your spare time? That's perfectly fine too. You just have to experiment a bit and see how it feels. For me as an example: Writing is my primary medium / life purpose and has been since 2017, and will stay that way for the foreseeable future. I've had a few feelings that I should branch out into other mediums though, so I try them out. I wanted to start a webcomic so I did. I made about 20 comics and then kind of lost my passion for it and stopped. I saw that I wasn't going to be able to fulfill one of my main values of contribution/impact with it. I wanted to start a podcast as a different medium to fulfill my same life purpose, as a substitute to writing to mix things up a bit. I've been doing this since February. I wanted to learn 3D modelling so I downloaded software and bought a couple of cheap courses on Udemy to start learning the basics. It feels like there might be something there that really calls to me, but the learning curve is very steep and I feel like I have other priorities right now. I think I'll come back to it and something really good could be there for me, maybe I could even transition careers into it somewhere down the road, but I'm putting it on the backburner for now. Don't be afraid to try different stuff and have multiple plates spinning at once. Just try not to dabble too much. Think of a few things at most that you want to seriously try each year and commit for a time.

You'd have to be a pretty ballsy cult leader to put out a multi-part series on cult psychology, and then somehow find a way to run a cult without meeting the common signs of a cult that you told your followers about in your videos.

To a degree this makes sense. If somebody tells you that a pool is freezing cold, you're going to amp yourself up. Even if the water is actually bath-warm you'll probably start hyperventilating and tensing your muscles pre-emptively. It might even feel cold for a split second until your brain triggers that error message. This self-generated input also allows you to act on autopilot for most tasks that you do repetitively. You've probably experienced doing something when you're deep in thought, and then having no memory of actually doing it. It takes about 100 ms for data from your eyes to reach your brain and being able to actually act on it. By predicting our world we can fill in the gaps and make it appear free of delay most of the time. The thing is that I suspect we are triggering that error message and running into discrepancies a lot in life. More than you would expect. You're walking and bump into something, error message. You look out the window expecting to see nothing and a bird flies past, error message. Walking down the aisle and there's a red sale sticker next to your favorite pasta sauce, error message. So in an average day where you eat the same cereal, drive the same route to work, do the same task... I would imagine your brain can ignore 80% of inputs and only do occasional audits to make sure things are aligning. But if you're at day 1 of a brand new job or starting a new grade in school, or travelling in a strange country for the first time, your brain is probably having to take in closer to 100% of inputs because you can't predict anything. You can tell this is going on because you'll feel way more tired at the end of the day when you've actually had to use your brain for once.

Offer value first before trying to take. Lots of people try to get advice or help from successful people. The more successful you are, the more moochers will try and take from you. Really popular people are getting hundreds of requests a day. Set yourself apart from the unwashed masses by actually offering them something. Most people who reach out for mentors aren't serious, they're wasting their own time and the other person's. If they're local, offer to take them out for lunch and pay for it to pick their brains. Work for them for free if you have to. Successful people are busy, don't waste their time. 30 minutes every 6 months is all you need. If you set limits it'll be more successful then "can I email you whenever I have a question". Have a specific goal in mind going into the conversation, not just "tell me everything about X". Learn everything you can on your own before talking to them. You should only be asking them very nuanced questions that you couldnt find through researching on your own. Every time you meet with them, show them you've actually implemented their advice from the last time you spoke. If they have a website, that's the best way to contact them. Lots of world class people have already done dozens of interviews each in most areas of mastery that you can get on YouTube for free. Really question if you need to learn from someone 1 on 1 or if the information is already out there.