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Fantastic! Thanks for sharing. I will actually be in Thailand next year 🇹🇭

I was wondering what kind of spiritual group activities you guys take part in. I am really a lone wolf but I think it's healthy to do some stage green stuff every now and again. I think this weekend I will go to ecstatic dancing event. I always enjoyed those in the past, though it's mostly just old people. Also used to go to yoga class but not so much lately. Most yoga people don't do yoga for spiritual reasons.

You can say this about literally anything.

That's a tough one. Individualism: this might apply to all Western countries but still. I've lived in Indonesia for a few years and I really missed my privacy and ability to just do whatever the f*ck I want. Architecture: I think many cities have a perfect blend of modern and old Dutch style houses, churches, train stations and other buildings. Egalitarianism: everyone is pretty much equal. There are facilities for drug users, homeless people etc. Those who have a low income can receive government money to pay healthcare or childcare. This is also part of the cultural values, to a degree. Least favorite: Weather: spring and fall are lovely, but winter can get depressing. Not enough AC availability in the summer. Conformism: but that's just because I've been here so long. You wouldn't notice this if you're not Dutch. Prices: are quite high. But it's also very Dutch to complain about the weather and prices.

I loved watching this video so thought I'd share here. Plus she's Irish, what's not to love?

I wouldn't put it that way. Relax, enjoy, take your time.

You are projecting your own desires on this scenario. In perfect unity there is no desire to form any exclusive relationship with one person.

@Emerald that's not how it works though. In practice if you develop yourself more, your interest in 'attracting women' is lower or goes away. There's no reason to commit to any relationship, including sexual.

That's a fantastic and inspiring answer.

Largely true, but a minor contradiction. If you just speak less and do more calm physical guiding you'll be just fine. They will project their ego fantasies on you. But if you speak too much you'll break that. It's still annoying that you can't find a "true" partner but it it what it is. God is in love with every woman, why bother committing to one? Why do you need to have sex? God sees the divine mother in every woman, but you want to be a mother fucker.

It's not that hard to understand. I go out into the street, I do stupid magic tricks for tourists but it makes them laugh. They give me some change. There: I created money out of NOTHING. I wash windows, I charge $20. Maybe I smile, make people feel good about themselves, crack a joke, I charge $40. The soap only costs me $2. I made $38 out of thin air. I feel sad, I spend my last dime on a warm meal. I have no money. It's all relative. It's not real. It's just an energy. It's purely the PERCEPTION of it being abundant, infinite or finite. If you believe that money comes from exchanging your time then you're not aware that this is only one possible interpretation. Some people make millions of dollars with no effort. Money is merely something we MADE UP to represent value. When perceived value is exchanged, money is exchanged. It's not real. Countries can print more of it; billions of it, trillions of it, quantilizallions of it (we can make up new words to represent new quantities of made up money, who cares!). Money = Energy.

Martial arts.

Nobody said that. What's the reason you think it's a lovely place? I think it's repulsive and has no culture or warm atmosphere from what I've seen. They also don't respect personal freedoms and have homophobic laws. No thanks.

I put this one on as I went to bed. I was very careful listening to it and I was confident it's not AI. His voice and this audio sounds so authentic, until he started to speak about social media. If AI voice is already this good, you never really know if voice is authentic or not.

Oh yes, definitely more left compared to the U.S..

International Waldo Day!

PVV had 37 seats from last election in 2023, that was the real surge. This feels like a decline in populist votes but still huge. But the Netherlands is a pretty conservative country politically, it's the Randstad (Amsterdam and surrounding cities) that's liberal.

Happy Halloween 🎃

This sounds really lovely.

Humor is often just telling the truth.

No, my point is that his original stuff gets millions of views. If you remaster the audio you'll probably get more views than creating these weird new scripts. It's just not well thought out.

Populism: The Netherlands is a tiny country that's part of EU. Although wonderful and rich, it has very little influence on a global scale by any stretch of the imagination. Yet populists don't see it that way. They would like to move away from the EU (total exit is entirely unrealistic) and are against migration, even though it helps us economically. PVV has all sorts of unrealistic, anti-constitutional 'ideas'. These voters are under the impression that the country is being overrun and turned into some Islamic state. This is based on nothing and has nothing to do with reality. Voters probably know this but want to 'vote against the system'. These 'votes against the system' help put clowns into government who don't give a shit about actually governing, delaying progress for absolutely no reason other than 'baseless voter sentiment'. At least we don't have kings or presidents in power.

A beautiful nondual approach to money.

Somebody colored in this footage from around the world from the early 1900s. It's fascinating footage. But the people look so happy? I'd be miserable if I had to live in those times. Why do they all look so happy? There must have been a much stronger sense of community back then. But just imagine the hard manual labor these people had to do just to survive. No automation, nothing that comes close to our modern standards of living, just an endless grind.