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How is being right-wing or a centrist having an unpopular opinion? You have the same opinions as most of the people all over the world and for sure in your country, too. And most gays have the same beliefs as you, it's just that the left is pro-LGBT, but that doesn't mean that actual LGBT people are dominantly left-leaning. Being gay doesn't give you a free-pass on not having your political orientation challenged. And you should do it yourself, too, challenge yourself to read books outside of your main interest, because only then you can really grow. And since you are there I believe you can do much better than liking Milton Friedman. Libertariansim is either a position of really old people or uneducated ones. For example, take a look at Kate Raworth, her economic ideas are light-years ahead of Milton Friedman. How can you trust in 2020 someone who has been born in the previous century and lived most of their lives without computers and the Internet, what can they really know about the state of the world today?

Actually, it is legal and available in the Netherlands. I bet ir is legal in some other countries, too, but can't name them off the top of my head.

@Striving for more Just google safe filling removal and you will find some dentists with over-the-top gear who specialize in doing it.

@Carl-Richard yup, but doesn't matter how you cut it, Sweden always will be in a better situation, Belgium is a one big urban area of 10 million people.

Sweden's population density is 22 people per square kilometer, Belgium's is 383 people per sqkm. Whatever Sweden does they will be relatively good, they just have so much space and so little people to transmit the virus. Only dense cities might be a problem. Belgium is like a one single big city.

His Inner Engineering course is just a series of lectures. That's stuff for newbies, there's nothing even comparable to the content in the books about Kriya from Leo's list. Only "improvements" I have made to my practice by listening to Sadhguru is sitting to the East when doing yoga and when focusing attention doing oms I sometimes focus it 30 cm in front of the head as Sadhguru says instead of inside. This East, West, North stuff, I am not so sure if it's important, but it requires such little effort to apply, it would be stupid not to try.

They are a stage Blue people on the Spiral Dynamics model. They are nationalistic in structure, look-up to the authority of powerful people, and put classic books on a pedestal. Indulge in labeling themselves comrade, etc, thus creating a strong identity for themselves. So, they are nothing like modern, hippie lefties, who are at the stage Green. Similar content, completely different structure.

We can, but it's a matter of effort. The thing is food production and waste has to get REDUCED in rich countries. Then use the machines and fertilizers used there to support local food production in poorer countries. Yet, you can't copy exsisting forms of agriculture 1:1, but have to adjust them to the soil and climate in those countries. One of the problems is that, for example in Africa, countries are distributed on different latitudes and every latitiude can differ quite a lot in climate.

@Skin-encapsulatedego The longer the covid stays, the more people will turn to online dating. That's your best bet now.

That's like my life purpose. At least a part of it. I have trouble figuring out which career/skills to develop so I can be most successful at that goal.

It's essentially a code editor, but fine-tuned for taking notes

Jason Hickel from the Extinction Rebellion has some cool thoughts on how it will look like to live in post-capitalism. His new book Less is More explores some of the questions about he future of jobs, health and education when we finally stop economy from growing and devouring the planet. I can't wait for the changes in the world to happen in a sense. The way we currently live is completely twisted. Work, work, then work some more, then hire someone to do tasks you could have done if you weren't working non-stop.

Thanks for the info. Any thoughts on 5-MeO-MET or 5-MeO-MALT?

I have a book for you. David Airey - Work for Money, Design for Love

You just have hard competition. I am your perfect customer, but I already read Rumi's poetry on comedowns.

@Sam Johnson All that and way, way more, infinitely more. It's hard to pinpoint what exactly, because there's so much we don't know, even about our bodies. And the subtle stuff, like karma, how do you even make sure what is true or not in that realm, we don't have the tools.

I don't believe in Bitcoin reaching $100k next year, but I was so wrong about it so many times I don't value my own opinion, haha. Had bought at $100 and sold at $1000 thinking it will never get higher. But yeah, I think it will flatten and stop growing. I don't know where the money to pump the price would have to come from, the big players are already invested in it, and normies won't start using it for transactions, like ever, when the cost of a single transaction is around $10 or more.

I don't believe they would agree to the interview without having the control of the frame, them being the interviewers. There are also videos on YT with Dennett and Rupert Sheldrake, who holds similar positions to Leo, and they are not that fascinating. Dennett in debates is beating around the bush and tries to tell others that they are not professional philosophers, so they don't have the required rigour when making their claims. Would be boring I think. People like Sam Harris or Dennett would try to turn an interview with Leo into an ego game. I could be wrong, though, maybe it would be gold.

@John Doe You can just click the Bookmark option at the bottom of each post and have it saved into your collection. You don't have to screenshot the stuff you like.

It might be an important problem, but it's hard to find to find tangible data on the subject how really it is affecting the population. And on the scale of country I am 100% sure it doesn't make the majority of people ugly and stupid, that just how we humans are, haha. Have you ever lived for longer in some other country? Honest question, I am suspecting you just hate people and justify it with inbreeding theory. We Poles look with envy to the countries to the West, that are doing better, and are snooty towards the ones that got it worse, like Ukraine or Lithuania. It might be hard to believe, but people hold resentments towards their fellow citizens very similar to yours. Being born in Europe doesn't protect you from having disdain towards your own people, haha.

This is literal definition of leadership. Power in a sense of giving orders that others have to fulfil. You can be a leader that only gives recommendations, that someone can listen to or not, using their own judgement. Yet it is only possible in very developed communities. Let's get back to the beginning, the guy said: and you said: And I am just trying to point out that people in power are not inherently corrupt/deceitful/greedy, nor power driven. If we agree on that, then it's cool. I don't want to argue about linguistics.

@toocrazytobecrazy Rulers kind of implies that it's by force, doesn't leave space for volounatrily choosing people to have power or even just a advisory/visionary role. Not every leader needs to have power over others. Saying that people need rulers also kind of ignores the existence of tribal culture were there is basically no ruler, nor democratic structures like co-ops that are pretty flat, no artificial rulers. Centralized power only starts to be needed on a rather big scale, and keeps being relevant until the people being ruled reach a certain high level of consciousness, where they can +- cooperate peacefully. I am saying that mindlessly getting rid of bad leaders will give you even worse leaders by default. Americans got themselves Trump for not wanting another neoliberal Dem president, Hillary. And that happened in a tested democratic system that the US federal governemnt is. Imagine how much worse would be a solution proposed by some ideologue from the internet.

Humans require leaders. Some become leaders by force, others come to position by climbing hierarchy and the most evolved solution is to let leaders emerge naturally. But for that organic leadership you need a sufficently developed group, society, otherwise people will be to scared to make that jump and unable to cooperate in democratic way. You can't have a democracy if people are too much preocuppied with their own well-being and needs. In that situation hierarchical leader is better than nothing, because nature hates vacuum and it will get filled with something even worse, like tyrannical dictator. Dismantling the legal system in the way the mah-freedom loonies propose is pointless, first, because it won't work and would be actually dangerous if it could ever work, second, by paving the way for someone worse to take power.

No wonder. But how can we communicate then? You are asking people to watch an hour long video and get into some Anna von Reitz rabbit hole, but you yourself don't want to watch at least a single video on Spiral Dynamics, which is a must have for writing in this particular sub-forum IMO. Eh, no-one here wants you to leave, but be here to learn. The worldview you are promoting is just simplistic and people here are used to discussing politics on a higher level. It's hard talking with you, because of how misguided some of your points are, for example saying that the government is some inherently evil, greedy institution, like it was not doing anything useful for the society. Do you like read any books on politics, apart from this government = evil, "some Other is trying to control us" rabbbit hole? Yes, I am aware I am very confrontational, please understand I don't have too much patience for having the same discussion over and over again, with people who accuse others of not doing the work but themselves never going out of their comfort zone.

@Chrism It's clear you haven't studied anything politics related in college or even watched Leo's videos. Please go and watch at least Spiral Dynamics series on Actualized.org channel. The epsiodes on Liberatrianism, Authoritarianism & Democracy, Authority, Conscious Politics would be cool, too. Otherwise, how we can even have a discussion? This sub-forum is dedicated to systemic discussion of politics and social issues. Stop this constant gaslighting and watch the episodes on Spiral Dynamics.