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@Stef My personality result has changed at least 5-6 times over the course of 3 years, only the N has been consistent. And my Understandmyself.com result has changed dramatically multiple times too. Personality tests do not work for me. I recommend people to retake the test every 6 months to see if they change much, perhaps others get very consistent results.

@Roch This sounds like low orange behaviour. Getting into ego spats is something oranges do all the time. A stage red person would be much more destructive and hurt people more than words ever could.

Red is destructive by nature. Orange is destructive as a side effect.

@Joseph Maynor High Orange. That's when it emerges of course, it finally fully develops at yellow.

I've worked at a computer retail store before, I was completely disillusioned within the first week. Here are a few reasons why Computer Salespeople at least are forced (yes forced) into being manipulative: 1. In order to compete with other retail stores, managers often price computers for $50-$100 dollars less than what they bought it for. If the store bought it for $600, they might be selling it for $550. They do this because it gets people in the door. If one store is advertising a computer for $600, another will advertise it for $550 so people go to them. This keeps going until the store physically can't get it lower. It's a negative feedback loop. The salespeople are then forced to make up for this deficit. 2. Salespeople must make enough profit for the store to warrant paying them. So how do they make this money? Add-ons. The things salespeople slap on to whatever you're there to buy make ALL of the money. The profit margins are murderous. A 5-year subscription of Internet Security might have $300 on the label at a retail store. Guess what the store buys it for directly? $20. Extended warranties usually have a 300% markup. 3. KPIs. The targets the store must reach. Each salesperson has their own KPI, a target amount of profit each person must make. It's equal to roughly 1.2x what their salary is per day. If they don't reach this each month, see ya. There is also commission, which for me was roughly 10% of total profit I made. Those are some of the hard structural reasons. Of course there's stage orange motivational reasons, but they only thrive because of the systemic structure of retail.

How will I ever reach your levels of moral superiority?

Perfectly balanced, as all things should be.

There IS a self, it's just not who or what you think it is

I recommend stopping this thread. The Fousey case is just a sad situation that needs to be left alone for Fousey's sake. Fousey has plenty of issues and his self-image is completely tied to his social media persona. He'll benefit more by being separated from the internet more than he will by 'meditating'.

@SoonHei That Alan watts moment you talked about is cute, but it still has the same problem as using language. Instead of using words to describe reality, he used a bell. Same thing. Using a piece of reality, be it words or a bell, to describe all of reality makes no sense. The only way to describe all of reality is to become conscious of all of reality. You as an ego, cannot do this. The ego, a tiny piece of reality can't grasp both itself AND everything else. So, the only way to grasp all of reality is to become all of reality. God.

I thought the paranormally sensitive child was a Hollywood cliche. My childhood was completely absent of such things. I just asked a few friends and none of them could report anything like that. I wonder what percentage of people would say they had an experience like that?

Try connecting with film schools in your area and see if any students need an extra actor. Find every possible event you could improve your acting skills and go there with the intent to improve.

@Brayanwangulo If you really want to act, act god dammit. Read the biographies of your favorite actors. Find out how they got their first role. Or do what Stallone did with Rocky, write your own movie and act in it. Be like a character in a movie, proactively drive the action forward.

To think I used to worship these guys as gurus. Jeez man... scary.

You right. The planets better get out there and protest!

The mistakes are because you're not conscious of what you're doing. I used to make the worst mistakes at work. I once, half asleep, pushed the button under the counter at a retail store that calls the police to tell them that we were being robbed. You wouldn't believe the surprise I had when the police visited the store asking me about the robbery. Boss didn't like that much either But when I'm working on something I really care about, those kinds of mistakes just don't happen.

@Lynnel If you can't look back and cringe, you're not evolving Cringe is a blessing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tantalus "He was made to stand in a pool of water beneath a fruit tree with low branches, with the fruit ever eluding his grasp, and the water always receding before he could take a drink.' Tantalus is essentially the Greek's embodiment of the unsatisfiable nature of the ego. "Tantalus offered up his son, Pelops, as a sacrifice. He cut Pelops up, boiled him, and served him up in a banquet for the gods." Tantalus, in an effort to gain favour with the gods, hurts the people he loves in the process. The Greeks are essentially suggesting that attempting to manipulate reality or forcefully fulfil a desire will only lead to pain. The Greeks never got around to telling the story of Tantalus' redemption, but is it not enlightenment? If only he realised that HE IS the water and the fruit.

@The Don Be conscious about how you feel when you get anxious. I still get social anxiety a fair bit, but I used to be WAY WORSE. Most people I've talked to feel anxiety differently, some feel it in their throat. Sometimes they can't stop their hands from shaking. Personally, I fidget. I incessantly fidget. I scratch my nose, adjust my posture, it's horribly obvious. I also feel the need to shit, really bad. Especially in the lead-up to the event, but once I'm there it goes away. If you can identify exactly how you feel, that will help a lot. Next, don't shy away from situations where you would feel anxious. You need to confront them with awareness, and the intention to alleviate the symptoms. That's what works for me at least. Hope it helps.

@Hansu Try working at your local University. There's a good vibe for getting things done there.

I really liked the passage from Leo's latest blog posts. Does anyone know any other great examples of biblical texts referencing nonduality? Open to all sacred texts - not just the bible of course.

Infinitely.

@Ruby White That picture is great. I love the fact that Orange is making a parallax error, meaning he is observing his measurements from the wrong perspective ;). But the hard scientist would never accept that.

@Sea I've oversimplified, but the idea is still there. The green people he 'hates' are the particularly 'bad' greens, there are very many healthy greens out there. For example, you can care about political correctness by understanding the position they're coming from. You don't have to share it, but you must understand the underlying logic and that it is not 'evil'.

You can ascend to green without being for PC or Social Justice. Instead, an in-depth understanding of those causes and a mild 'sympathy' is needed instead. Green's problems are it's ideological possession, as Leo said in his orange video. So you actually hate the negatives of green, not it's positives. You don't hate the positives, you said yourself you didn't 'care' about them. So a caring for the causes is required, but not possession by the cause. You see?