Mr Being

For those who are not familiar with the Dall-e 2 project, it's an AI system that creates Art based on a description in natural language , Just for an example "a bowl of soup that is a portal to another dimension as digital art" will generate you this picture: link: https://openai.com/dall-e-2/ I wasn't able to get the full version of the Dall-e 2 (don't think its available for the public) however, there is a demo called DALL·E mini : https://huggingface.co/spaces/flax-community/dalle-mini It isn't as impressive as the main version, but it can still be interesting to do some experiments on it: I tried to use words such as nonduality, consciousness, love, truth, nothingness, oneness, reality, unity, no self, nihilism, illusion, strange loop, paradox etc. (If you try to write "God" it will show you pictures of Jesus lol) and I got some very beautiful results: You can also share your results here if you want

Reminded me this one:

I recommend that you watch a YouTube channel called "Sulha" its owned by an Israeli guy named Adar that discusses the Israel-Palestine conflict from a less bias for one side and tries to see each perspective and to understand them (I'd say its a green/yellow channel) he invites both Israelies and Palestinales to discuss and debate and also right wing and left wing Israelis/Palestinians If you really want to dig deep into the subject I recommand that you start reading books instead of getting reductive perspectives from the mainstream media, a good start will be the book "Righteous Victims" by benny Morris

This thread's goal is going to be about understanding propaganda, discussing and exposing all related propaganda tactics of psychological manipulations, lies, deceptions and their effects on Public Opinion. You may share information on the subject with videos, articles, book recommendations, and examples from Everyday life. Here is a brief definition according to Wikipedia- * Some introductory videos: And some books to consider looking into : https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0805074031/ref=ox_sc_act_title_3?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&psc=1 https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0394718747/ref=ox_sc_act_title_9?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&psc=1 https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0970312598/ref=ox_sc_act_title_10?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&psc=1 https://www.amazon.com/Media-Control-Second-Spectacular-Achievements/dp/1583225366/ref=sr_1_15?keywords=propaganda&qid=1583010624&s=books&sr=1-15

Another interesting anlysis on propaganda posters from WW1-2: And also adding a big Book list recommendation (From Bookauthority): https://bookauthority.org/books/best-propaganda-books

An interesting analysis on heroism and the Anti-war films based on Ernest Becker's (Denial of death) work:

I used to watch this guy about 5 years ago just for some self help advice, it looks like he got caught by the white supremacy/reactionary rabbit hole and maybe even adopted Nazism. This lecture that he posted recently is very much oriented towards the incel community trying to transform them into an anti-PC activists and to "reclaim their lost masculinity". he makes the same conspiracy theory nazi propaganda about the Frankfort school and the the destruction of western society by cultural marxism lead by jewish intellectualls. The most shocking part for me (watch from 39:42) was when he started to refer to the bible myth of the garden of Eden and the association with satan and the current culture war that he believes happening at this time. He literally talks about the connection between Satan and the tree of "false" knowledge with Jewish mysticism(kabbalah), marxism and the deep state/illuminati. This is not an ordinary reactionary talking points or even a white supremacy neofascism one, this is flat out a nazi talking point, and I was shocked to find out how much this guy fell into the Alt-right pipeline and maybe into pure Nazism since he never made an impression of a radical person.

Blue or Orange stage on relativism: "haha relativism is so stupid, because its self refuting, if relativism is true then truth is not relative and therefore relativism is false. checkmate relativists."

What is your prediction on the future of the human race?, Do you believe in a pessimistic doomeristic view that believes in the extinction of most humans in the next 100 years in the case of climate catastrophe, nuclear wars, the dangers of developing super AI that might take control of all human facilities. Or, on the other hand you believe in an optimistic future that humans will create a utopian awaken society and free of their ego attachments.

This is a great lecture series on the philosophy and history of science, it gives a more complex and nuanced way of understanding the scientific method as it currently is today . it might not be spiritual/nondual oriented but still worth looking into @Leo Gura Also might check his book(bit expensive) https://www.amazon.com/Laws-Scientific-Change-Hakob-Barseghyan/dp/3319175955/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Hakob+Barseghyan&qid=1603911542&sr=8-1

A great overview lecture on a historical analysis of propaganda

I'm bumping this thread for further discussions and for more info/resource suggestions: https://www.amazon.com/Rape-Mind-Psychology-Menticide-Brainwashing/dp/1614277877/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=the+rape+of+mind&qid=1595793780&s=books&sr=1-1

For economics this is probably the hardest and longest (over 1400 p) book on economics you will ever find.

Maybe someone already posted this but still, if not, this is a really good codex of different kinds of biases to be aware of https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cognitive_bias_codex_en.svg

His criticism against the mainstream political modules/compasses is true to some extent, but his alternative "dialectical materialism model" is still insufficient and lacks many more historical and psychological aspects of the human condition and human nature in order for it to explain the different kinds of dialectical progression of history and politics in large.

Tomorrow is the 3rd time election of this year in Israel , the political tangle prevented the establishment of of a government in the past two elections. at the moment if Netanyahu (likud party) manages to gain 61 mandates for establishing a government he will most likely try to prevent his trial that was set to date at the 17.3.20. this means that Netanyahu will be able to keep his prime minister status and have a majority in the parliament for passing laws that will weaken the court system and the Prosecutor's Office with also firing the current Attorney General that may also open new cases for Netanyahu. and in consequence Dismantle the democratic regime in Israel. At the moment there is still a chance that he will succeed and i hope it wont turn into one of the devastating turning events of the fall of democracy in Israel.

That was before the true results came, the media declared Netanyahu as a winner because the poll samples gave him almost a garenteed win( 60-60 only 1 more for a majority) the tides have changed and the true results show that he actually lost 2 mandates which means that he cant establish a coalition government with his peer parties

So as it turns out Netanyahu lacks a majority for his government at the moment 58(for right wing -religious parties) vs 62 ( center-left-Arab parties), the political tangle continues, however there was a suggestion by the blue and white party (Benny ganz) to correct a law that will prevent a charged in criminal parliament member for forming a coalition government .This is pretty huge, if the majority that are against letting Netanyahu establishing a government will vote for this correction of law this will cause a great backlash from the voters of Netanyahu (he still holds the biggest party). My biggest concern now would be a violent riot that might escalate into a civil war. But I'm still skeptical about how far Netanyahu supporters are willing to go in order to keep him in the prime minister office. even a violent riot would hurt a lot the current cultural situation in Israel. lets hope that the moderate people from both sides will condemn any violent act from their peers and let themselves accept the new reality. Netanyhau is a symptom of a deeper cultural dialectic of the Jewish and Israel identity , Netnyahu wasn't like this in the past, despite his right wing position he was still a very moderate and caring towards all parts of Israel society( At least imo). He had changed. too much power and time in his prime minister position made him corrupt and now he uses all of his very skilled political manipulation tactics to create a division between Israel groups. Netanyahu is no populist he's an elitist that uses populism for his own benefit.

A catalog of books discussing various topics on the subject of consciousness. the list is sorted by year of publicity, It contains dozens of books for anyone who wants to understand consciousness on an intellectual-academic level ( Of course not coming in place of spiritual practices,other spiritual texts and direct experience) http://barang.sg/index.php?view=books&part=33

For those who are interested on both viewpoints, here is a debate over capitalism vs socialism featuring Richard wolff and Gene Epstein.

The situation in israel's election results became more complicated and problematic. At the moment the 2 big parties blue and white (Benny gantz) and likud (Bibi) dont have enough recommenders for colition so in this case they will have to negotiate with other parties that cannot really match themselvs from different political reasons. There are a few scenarios at stake right now: 1. Bibi and likud party manages to get 61 parlament members and get his own right wing religius colition(highly unlikely). 2. The biggest party yet- blue and white, manages to get 61 with the arab parties (which some of them are anti-zionist and dont match the characteristics of blue and white party and other jewish parties), so highly unlikely too. 3. Bibi(likud) and Benny gantz(BnW) both reach a colition together as a unity government and ether do rotation on the prime minister position or since benny gantz promised to not negotiate with Bibi as long he holds corruption charges and demands for another likud member to take the lead of the likud party and preform a colition with him(not very likely) 4. Go to a third round of elections ( possible but everyone wants to avoid at all costs) so right now were stuck and we'll see what happens here is an overview about the reasons we had a 2nd elections this year:

I'm also worried about the situation in my country, i'll vote for blue and white and hope for the best. there is even a senario in which we will go into a third time election this year since both big partyies cant establish a govement with thier number of recommanders ( the elections in israel are parlamental and not presidential) Bibi is a pure orange leader, if you think that trump is a highly skilled marketer/manipulator then bibi is probbly a master when it comes to manipulating systems and marketing himself. i'll just show you a conversation( unfortunatly only in hebrew) about his marketing tactics . However i should note that bibi isnt a bad and cruel leader, he did many good things for israel and in general he wasnt hasty in his political decisions (which can be an advantage from the political situation in israel), but in this situation he fights for his survival in both his political and self image, which causes him to lose his Integrity and to short-sell all the values of his party so he can keep himself out of judgment.