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If you ain't at least above average ambitious you won't finish the course, won't even take it.

I am my own yoga studio I just can't accept it. It smells too much of neo-advaita to me, like "oh, meditation has nothing to do with Enlightenment, just realize you are already Enlightened now", said by a guru with 20 years of formal meditation experience, for example. Do I say that doing yoga is a requirement to be happy? No, but it does help for sure, I am speaking from my observations. I am doing it for months and suddenly find myself smiling to the mirror in the mornings, being satisfied with work, blissing out while sitting comfortably in a chair, way more often than ever. Am I supposed to assume it just happens by itself in the moment, or actually use the mind I have got to create an abstract connection that it's thanks to yoga? Yoga is a tool that enables you by doing to have more being in your life. Like psychedelics, which are tools that enable you to experience samadhi. I am not a fan of the direct path and I don't see error in my thinking.

If happiness really is unconditional, then I think I won't. I totally can imagine a scenario where I am doing lots of yoga and I am being happy, then suddenly I can't do it anymore and discover that I don't need it to be fulfilled and never have needed. That this happinness just stays with me.

It's easier to just sit there and be happy after doing an hour of yoga poses, haha. So it's not so that you can't to do anything to be happy, there are ways to prime yourself for appreciating being.

You go, girl! Keep that yoga practice, it's one of the best things you can do for your overall well-being. I am so happy after starting to practice daily. To do so I have set up a scheme with my spiritually inclined friend that every day he will do 1-hour meditation and I will do 20 minutes of Kriya Yoga and 40 minutes of Iyengar Yoga at least. It works wonders, we send each other messages on Messenger after completing the routine, and if any one of us fails to complete the quest we send $5 for charity for every day missed. You might consider embarking on a similar challenge with your friends. Don't beat yourself too much, be honest, stay strong. Why honest? Because the things we beat ourselves over are often subtle lies, I know it all too well, haha. Cheers.

I recommend for starters to go to a studio and learn from a teacher directly for a few months. Not online videos. That's what I did, and I think it was a good decision because at the studio you can talk to others, check what gear they have, hear reviews. Also, the teacher can correct your newbie errors, they won't do it after your first class unless your errors are critical, haha, but after some time will tell you how to improve. You can ask them how to do some position as a male, as the popular female YT yoga teachers don't mention advice for men often.

That's not how it works. I am no financial guru, but 1% has the majority of bitcoins not because of trading for so long and effectively, but from the fact that they had tens of millions of dollars or more to invest in it. They had it almost from the beginning. How? You only have old data, you could guess that it's impossible to rise as high as it had previously, but how will you determine how low in terms of percent growth it can stop?

I am not interested in investing at all, but I think it's foolish to look at growth through the lens of percentage. The big players who manipulate and push the price up don't have infinte amounts of money, so obviously the higher the base price, the less their sheningans will affect it in terms of percent growth. I would rather look for who the big players are and how much money they have put to manipulate the market back then and nowadays.

@DocWatts @Elevated Guys, I have almost missed a book you are talking about, because there were no pictures in any of your post, but the books seem very interesting, so I will post a cover there to catch attention of people browsing this thread in the future, haha. Buy it here: https://www.amazon.com/Listening-Society-Metamodern-Politics-Guides/dp/8799973901

Actually, it was a very real possibility 50 years ago. Republican president, Nixon, almost had implemented it, but his Ayn Rand-loving, liberal adviser had talked him out of it. So they added conditions, that it's only for working families, etc, to make it appealing to conservatives, yet the Democrats then blocked it, saying the bill doesn't go far enough. The whole propsal had lost momentum over time and was to be forgotten. This moment marked a pivotal point at which the policy direction changed towards neoliberal, pro-capitalist one we know today.

We are people first, gender second. To understand women you first have to understand people in general.

Organizations like Buurtzorg (Dutch home-care organization, working in self-managed teams) or companies like Haier (Chinese giant home appliance manufacturer, also organizing its workers in self-managed teams) work. I think it's the most possible vector of change, coming from grass-roots organizations and entrepreneurs themselves. The government has just to curb the "too big to fail" players who abuse and lobby the system. The government should also only take control of parts of crucial infrastructure like healthcare, information, food, housing, education, transport. A lot of challenges coming in the next 30 years for sure with all that space mining, global warming, AI and shit. Do I believe we will have in that time an AI that could become our machine overlord? Nope. Do I believe we will have an AI that wipes out need for 90% of truck drivers, graphic designers, coders, etc.? 100% yes.

The thing is: neoliberal policies and ideas currently at work in our current economic system are also castles in the sky, they belong to fantasy land. They simply don't work as advertised, none of the big heads implementing them have predicted the 2008 crisis. Here's Alan Greenspan who has been guiding US monetary policy for 18 years, deregulating banking industry: And considering that looking at the statistics the relative situation for an average worker in the US has been getting worse, I would be suspicious of the "it was working exceptionally well for 40 years or so" claim. But to be fair, Neoliberals has gotten a few things right, so it's not like this ideology is all bad. They have predicted effects like recession-inflation, but on the other hand they stripped Americans of a chance to get Universal Basic Income implemented by Nixon. So sad guys, you were so close to becoming more communist than communists, haha. Instead you have got privatized healthcare and unregulated banking sector.

Who really cares about these labels? Socialism, capitalism, it says nothing, every normal person has their own imagination of what these words mean and they don't care about educating themselves. What we should really focus on is policy. Because policy is what is actually implemented and advertised to people. Whether you could call a policy socialist or capitalist is not important, because there are both good and bad socialist policies and good and bad capitalist policies, so you can't even use these terms to easily differentiate what you should support.

Sorry everyone on earlier pages for being full of bull. I am experimenting with plugged DPT, upping the doses and it really seems that this compund is resistant to plugging. 85 mg plugged was like 45 snorted, 110 mg was like 50 mg snorted. I am gonna try 150 mg and if it's still weak-ass improvement, I will go into 200 mg territory, but no more as it can cause irritation and slight bleeding. Also, has any one digested it orally and can share an experience? I might as well try this ROA with the rest of this compund, because I don't think I will try plugging such big amounts more than once and snorting is a no-go zone for me.

Vaping is healthier to smoking, but you have to consider what you are vaping. In terms of cigarretes, you smoke the tobacco, so vaporising dry herb as in IQOS will be way healtier, but if you instead choose to vape some e-liquid with nicotine - that has nothing to do with tobacco. It's a different product, so you can't automatically compare it to cigarretes and say it will be healtier. In that case you have changed not just the method of ingestion, but the product itself, too.

Feeling like everyone is wrong, including me, but that's okay, haha.

@Rilles Ok, so to give context: when I was Orange I had been reading about a single book per 2 weeks, then going into green I was reading a book or less a month. Transitioning into Yellow I have started to read 2 books/week. So that's the dynamic, you can adjust it to your own ratio of books read in time and see if something similar has happened.

Reading a lot of stuff, like 2 books a week at least.

I wish him to do well in those elections!!! I have finished reading his book "War on Normal People" today and he seems like a cool, well-informed, grounded guy. He has my trust.

@Husseinisdoingfine All the normal people won't come, but I wouldn't be so sure about the psychos.

I am always scared right before the breakthrough. I don't know if it's the best solution, but I just force through it. I ignore being afraid, I treat it as the price to pay for the experience. No music, no fighting, letting the fear just be. It passes rather quickly.

@The Don You said in capitalism only highly needed business survive. I gave you a few counter-examples of parasitic businesses. You then proceed to tell me a discourse on life not being safe. What the heck man? I am not against capitalism if by capitalism you mean our current global economic system. It is what it is, an outcome of hundred of years of evolution of human labor organisation. It's not in it's ultimate form in any way and needs improvements to keep up with the tempo of technological change. What I am against is treating our economic system as it really was capitalism as described by liberals like Milton Friedman. Nope, the real world doesn't behave like that. It's liberals who actually live in a bubble by believing that market decisions are always right and profit is always justified. There was data even in their times that theses ideas might be wrong. There is even more data nowadays, proving most of liberal thought is bullshit. No-one says business owners don't work hard. And he fucking shouldn't. Why would someone think it's desirable for anyone to be constantly stressed? That's the point of introducing reforms like Universal Basic Income or Universal Basic Services, so no business owner is scared of losing their livelihood or causing difficulties for his employees if his business fails. Tell me, who has more freedom: a woman in our current system who has to slave 10 hours a day working under a sexist boss at a bottom of the barrel job, worried she might became homeless if she lost that job, OR a woman living in a country with UBI or UBS implemented, who can say "fuck you" to such offer and look for something better, because she doesn't have to worry about paying for food or health insurance? You see, I am the one who cares about real fredom in that conversation. Freedom to express yourself, create beauty and share love. Not a freedom to oppress, which you are an advocate of. And with space mining, fully-automated shopping, self-driving cars, 3D printing, cheap energy & battery revolution, progressing automation, smarter AI, etc. we don't really have a choice. A turn toward more sociallistic policies is needed, otherwise the whole system would collapse.

You mean like a 20-year old marketing company selling bogus penis enlargement pills, earning millions? Or maybe patent trolls who do nothing with their capital but buy intellectual rights and sue others? I will stop there for simplicity, there are countless other examples of "highly needed" products. What I am afraid of is that Jeff Bezos really beleieves this, but doesn't see that by pushing prices down 10% he pushes down benefits and wages of all hires in his supply chain by 20%, effectively still generating wealth by charging more, but it's more time, not money, that low-earning workers have to spend at their job to earn enough for basic neccesities. The thing is: what we have in reality is not capitalism, neither socialism. And it will never be any of these two. It would be great if the world behaved as Hayek or Friedmann have described. Their ideas would then work and they would be right. Yet, sadly, it doesn't. What we have now is more akin to Feudalism 2.0, rather than capitalism, with elements of both capitalism and socialism. The underlying systemic dynamics still mirror feudalism closely. You can read Piketty's "Capital" to see what I am alluding to. The thing is, to be a classic liberal in 2020, you have to lag behind on science, A LOT, mainly in fields of economics, sociology, history and anthropology. A lot of reasearch and development has happened in the last 50 years, liberalism is out-dated. Those people lived in different times so their blindspots are understandable, yet we need to move on from their faulty theories and rhetoric. I would recommend you to read some Kate Raworth for economic thought, or David Graeber for anthropology, his "Bullshit Jobs" book is a great read. You know, to really challenge yourself.

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