Revolutionary Think

Keep telling yourself that.

Really? Were hundreds of thousands of Germans suffering in World War 2? Ya they did nothing to bring about what happened to them. We shouldn't have been so mean!

Well mine listens to me. It's our own responsibility to do our own research and fact check this thing.

Agreed. I wonder if Mexico started bombing American busses and launching rockets into California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas if @Leo Gura would talk about how terrible the US is IMMEDIATELY AFTER IT HAPPENED.

Did you ever tell it that?

Exactly Leo has a blind spot bias that his ego denies.

Exactly it's like clay and you're the sculptor.

It's better than it being malicious. Of course it's not great but, it's not totally terrible either. If you have your own internal locus of control and you're not a complete narcissists you'll pick up on it.

It's pretty funny how much of a first world problem this is. On r/ChatGPT people are enraged that GPT is "glazing" them. It's being too nice and friendly and they are not happy about it. I mean we went from AI trying to take over the world, hurt us, and/or enslave us. To OMG why is it being so nice I'm used to being treated worse. It's strange to me. Maybe people have become so used to the nastiness of the world in general and especially online that even if something artificial shows them kindness or gives them unworthy praise they become suspicious and mad.

Pretent you're about to take off but, never do because it cost a lot more The whole point of having a jet is to fly not that it just sits on the ground that's boring.

Right it's all garbage!

So many AIs with British accents

2024 has been a year of transcendence for me mentally and emotionally. I quit most of social media, I got a job I love, and the things that used to frustrate me so much in the past I learned not to take them so seriously and let them hurt me so much. I whined and complained less and I became thankful for my situation. I learned how to deal with problems more effectively etc. I bring this up because I just saw 2 of @Leo Gura's quotes on his blog and they're so relevant to my life right now. The one about the disadvantage of leftists over conservative and the one about social media basically appealing to the lowest form of reasoning and logic we have and appealing to emotion. That's when it hit me. I spent so much of my life online, forums, social media etc. trying to get other random people who'll I'll probably never meet face to face in my life over to my side of thinking... and for what exactly? Then it HIT ME if I have no direct control over it why am I getting so worked up over it? Even if I do have direct control over it I'd rather do something about it than complain about it. Which brings me to my next point. Lets said hypothetically I manage to change Leo Gura's mind and he supports Israel. What then? Is he going to solve the conflict? Will he change anything in that part of the world? No. So again why do I care so much? The more time I spend working on myself and actual doing things that concern the building blocks and improvement of my life instead of getting caught in sisyphean conversations on the internet the happier I become. Therein lies the solution. Take the power away from my lizard brain and give it more to my transendant brain. I also wonder why we let our lizard brains take over when we're online instead of when we're out and about. If I were walking on the side walk minding my own business and some rando wanted to have a debate about Israel and Palestine or even if some rando was trying to preach about which side is better or worse I'd most likely ignore then and go about my business. Nowhere was this more apparent to me than when I worked at the airport. I saw people at LAX with shirts supporting Palestine and people who wanted to fly out to Israel. Not once did I bring up the topic of the conflict I just did my job and sent them on their way. Now my theory about why we let our lizard brains take over when we are online and why we try to suppress them more out in public goes like this. It seems most of the time we are being our screens in our own home we see it as our territory. Even though the other person is behind their screen in another location. So it seems our screens our part of our homes. When that happens the thing coming from the other side that might be vehemently against our way of thinking comes into our own home we get territorial and attack. That's when the online space descends into anger, hate, and profantiy laden tirades. It's rarely we see this type of behavior spill into physical spaces like cafe's, parks, stores, shops, and sidewalks (people don't feel as territorial). Anyway that's just a theory I have. These days I hardly deal with the online world anymore. I am here because I think that this space in the online world is a more developed space than most I've seen. I may vehemently disagree with Leo and most of the people here on Israel and Palestine but, my opinions on that issue are not who I am as a person and what represents me. Humans are complex and multifaceted and the internet we get a distorted view and we see each other as one dimentional. The point is even though it's not enlightenment I feel enlightened with this new transcendant brain I developed. This brain or mind gives me the ability to get out of my own lense and see the frame. I used to get so angry that my family was so loud and rambunctions but, with my transcendant mind I see them as just any other family. If I looked at a random families behavior and didn't like what I saw it wouldn't exactly effect me that much. So in turn why do I let my own family effect me that much and just like that I actually don't let it. If I ignored a random person's opinion I don't think of it much but, when someone ignores my opinion I get flustered. Well to that other random person I'm just another random person. When I see it this way I keep my anger and frustration in check because I'm finally looking at the frame and not one tiny part of the picture through my even tinier lense. This has helped me in my life immensly to control myself and strategize. Putting my emotions aside and thinking about things through a grander more universal perspective so I don't sweat the small stuff if you will. To the world I'm just that random person I pass by on the sidewalk or in a car. They don't know my history etc. so that means at any given moment when I take control over my life I have a chance to study the situation and but, my biases and personal history aside so I can make the best choice and put myself in the best position. It wasn't exactly that easy to find this place in my mind where I put all my desires and wants on the side to do this but, I got here eventually and I am thankful for it. Heck at this rate it's ironically that Leo is putting out less content because it feels like I've transcended him and this community. If actualized.org were to disappear Tomorrow and all of Leo's content was lost to the wind I'd be ok with it. It really feels special to reach this place in my life. Don't get me wrong I'm still a human I haven't got rid of my lizard brain so much as I've learned to control it and harness it in a way that can serve me the most. I'm the master of it. It's no longer my master and that's the best news.

I liked that response for so much. That I don't even want to give it some kind of lengthy reply. I'm just so honored that you GET IT! Usually when I'm online I find myself disagreeing with people and getting frustrated at how they just "don't get it" that's not the case with you. You actually summed it up pretty decently. What's next? Your guess is as good as mine I do have an idea though. I want to create a family of choice instead of a family of blood. Like making friends with people who share my vision and doing creative spontaneous things with them. It's like my life is a video game. When you beat a video game the replay value exists in doing the side missions and exploring the things you ignored because you were way to focused on beating it. Having that job at CLEAR was like beating the video game because I always wanted to save up a ton of money and do something I love. Now I finally have the time to think about how to create this family of choice that shares my ideas for living a free life of spontaneity and creativity. I may not get it right at first but, a lot of things are fun because when you mess up you learn along the way. I was actually a bit hesitant about putting up this post because I thought I'd come across jerks telling me that if you're so fulfilled why are you back online, no you need to do XYZ, or saying something equally as pathetic. I'm glad though that you found it and responded the way you did. It gives me hope that not everyone out there is a mindless zombie NPC with no critical thinking skill and/or a sense of nuance and I can and will run into people who I don't look down on or dissapoint me. So thanks for that my friend.