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@Epikur It says nothing about scientists lying, but that lab leak is totally a possibility, which is true, and I agree, tho natural cause is the most likely, lab leak is not impossible either. It is what the WHO concluded, too; they think it's likely natural, but not 100%. But then again, there is not enough evidence to prove either case definitively as of now. This is why I said to wait for further research and not to believe in any theory too quickly. I personally think it is the most likely a natural cause (about 65% likely). Based on few facts. 1. We know that covid could have been in Spain in March of 2019. They found the virus in their swage water in March 2019. This is way before any known lab (Fort Detrick) shut down or virus outbreak. 2. We know the first confirmed case for covid found through antibody test is in September in Italy. Meaning the virus was in Europe in August since there is an incubation period of up to 24 days. August is also when Fort Detrick shut down, and an outbreak was reported in Virginia, so a lab leak from Fort Detrick is possible, but the previous point also makes this questionable. If the virus was in Spain in March, it couldn't be caused by a lab leak in August. 3. Even in the US, the first confirmed case goes back to December(Confirmed by CDC), about a month before the outbreak in Wuhan. The virus likely started in Europe naturally but not as dangerous enough as it is now, so it has been mistaken as pneumonia, then it mutated over time as it spread and became a much dangerous version in China. 4. A lot of Wuhan lab leak theory suggests that the leak happened in October, but if that were the case, they should see an outbreak in November due to the 24 days incubation period. But that wasn't the case, they first found a patient with covid symptoms at the end of December, and the number only start to go up in January. Again there is too little evidence right now. It definitely could have been a lab leak from any bio labs we have worldwide (In public and secret). We have so many of them and in almost every part of the world. Any one of them could have leaked before March 2019, and it mutated over time. Or it could just be a natural origin which could be from anywhere around the world since we are all so connected now and it will spread to different continents very fast. It could spread to every continent within the same month without us knowing, thus making finding the origin more difficult. In the end, it doesn't really matter where it came from. Another pandemic is sure to happen again, so we better start preparing.

You have no privacy, your data is always going to someone. But there is nothing you can do other than stop using the internet, which is not possible for most people nowadays.

@Epikur Can you share the source? Can't find any in your previous posts.

@Epikur "The joint international team comprised 17 national Chinese, the 10 international experts from Australia, Denmark, Germany, Japan, Netherlands, Russian Federation, Sudan, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Viet Nam, and United States of America, plus seven other experts and support staff from the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) and WHO. " - From the WHO report on Wuhan page 12 Sure, scientists can lie and become corrupt for survival. But I think it's very unlikely for you to buy the integrity of all these experts from around the world. Not impossible, but very unlikely. You can lie about scientific theories/findings, but once the definitive proof is found and peer-reviewed, it will overthrow all the falsehood. You can usually find biases in a research paper report pretty easily by their method or ways of interpreting data. Not to say there is no problem with the scientific community. I very much agree with Leo on most of the issues with the field and its limitations. But I think there is no reason for those scientists who have integrity to lie in covid research. There are a lot of people who think this was a lab leak think that we should stop all experiments with viruses. But then how do we deal/prepare for future pandemics if we stopped learning more about viruses? Because there is definitely going to be another pandemic in the next 10 years. Many virologists are looking to potential virus candidates now to study them so we can develop treatments and vaccines before they even become a disease. We will continue to research viruses no matter what conspiracy people come up with. The idea that all virologists are lying to keep their job funded is absurd. Virology research is not going away any time soon. Of course, it is most important to do these experiments safely so there will never be a leak, but even if it does leak by accident once in a long time, we are better to continue to research and prepare for the future than just doing nothing and waiting for the virus to kill us. The citizen "journalists" were live streamers who went inside the hospitals to spread fear online by showing corpses of the deceased. They were disrespectful and caused many troubles to the healthcare workers to gain views on the live stream platform. Both were jailed by the police for a few months for spreading fear and misinformation, and both were released last year after they served their time. I researched this story last year, and the families confirmed that they are out and back to normal lives.

@Epikur Try to read the report and then make a logical conclusion for yourself based on the analysis of their data and method.

@Epikur That was the early stage of the pandemic tho. Scientists say what they think to be the most likely, but it doesn't mean they are always right. They later updated all their guidelines as time went on, as we learned more about the virus. At the time, we are not even clear about how the virus spread.

@Eternity The first whistleblower was not a lab researcher. He was a doctor working at the hospital. He texted his family and coworker about the potential that there is a virus spreading. The government told him not to spread the information because, at the time, they still didn't know for sure that this is a contagious virus and how it worked, but they were already doing scientific investigations to find out more about the virus. They didn't tell the public because it will likely lead to fear and people wanting to escape the city, thus potentially spreading it farther and faster. Which worked out later when they locked down the whole city after confirming it's a virus. The virus didn't really spread that far within China because of this. The doctor went back to work on the front line in Wuhan and died after contracting the virus. The government later released an official statement apologizing to the family and called him a hero after the public voiced their condolences. You don't really hear all these details and context in the media in the west.

There is also the opposite conspiracy narrative, tho much less popular in Western media and suppressed. The theory claims the virus was leaked from the US at Fort Detrick Bio Lab since there was a confirmed safety breach and was shut down in August 2019, and they reported a respiratory illnesses outbreak in Virginia right after the lab shut down. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/05/health/germs-fort-detrick-biohazard.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2019/08/02/virginia-reports-higher-than-usual-number-respiratory-illnesses/ China, of course, has asked the US to let the third party scientists and researchers investigate Fort Detrick. The US has not yet responded and anything related to this topic is suppressed on the internet. The scientists at WHO went to Wuhan and investigated/reviewed the lab and wrote a long report saying that a leak a very unlikely and the origin is most likely a natural cause. Here is their report: https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/who-convened-global-study-of-origins-of-sars-cov-2-china-part Basically, all sides are trying to politicize this and benefit from it. Take everything with a grain of salt and only read scientific reports with thorough documentation on their methods and data.

Covid was in Europe and the US months before the first official case was comfirmed in China. https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202106/1226339.shtml https://www.wsj.com/articles/covid-19-likely-in-u-s-in-mid-december-2019-cdc-scientists-report-11606782449

You sleep to go back to the source and infinity/God to balance the limitations of this imagined existence. Dream is no different than reality. Our imagination creates both as infinity/God. As God, even tho you created all the limitations of your current existence, you began to crave the infinite power/love you had. But at the same time, you don't want to be God all the time. So you made a rule that gives you the best of both, when you are awake, you are human, and you experience your own creation. When you are tired of that experience, you go to sleep and become God to dream up whatever other experiences you wish, but then erasing most of them as you go back to being a human again when you want to. If you are super aware/conscious, for example, after experiencing God through psychedelic, when you go to sleep right after it, it will feel like you simply skipped time without sleeping. The moment you close your eyes and the moment you wake up will feel like an instant event, even when hours have passed in reality. Because you do not need more experience of God, thus you do not dream nor go unconscious. You will simply construct reality in an instant in your direct experience.

@SaltyMeatballs Here are some ideas. Common Career Paths As you’ll soon discover in the section below about jobs and titles, nearly every Sparketype, with intention and action, can find a satisfying outlet in nearly any job, title, industry or field. You need not restrict yourself to one specific type of work or industry just because it’s the most obvious or logical place for your Sparketype to find a home. In fact, when you apply the work of your Sparketype in jobs or fields not normally associated with those skills and abilities and drive, you may well find this both a strong differentiator and an edge in your ability to perform and excel. We’ll talk a bunch more about this in the section below. That said, there are some fairly “typical” career paths or industries where certain Sparketypes are likely to find an easier path to expression. For The Maven, these include: Researcher Librarian Historian Writer Monastics/clergy Professors Speakers

@SaltyMeatballs What's your shadow?

@Ivan Dimi That's a great one too! The Nature of Order is an expansion of the main ideas in A Pattern Language. A Pattern Language focuses more on architecture, while The Nature of Order goes into many subjects. Definitely read them all if you are interested. A Pattern Language is more like a practical manuscript for building holistic architectures with step by step process of some of his projects.

@Preety_India Nice! I'm a maker and maven. This test is less well known, but I found it very accurate and useful. All the other tests I know are more well-known, so you probably did them already.

@peqkno Good! I still recommend reading the book yourself tho, it has a lot of visual/real-world examples that bring deeper context to these concepts.

What's happening to you is that you are awake but don't have the necessary knowledge to understand your own awakening. If you went all the way, you would know that you are literally everything/nothing. No matter what happens, you are what you are, and you will never be anything else. This should liberate you as God to enjoy life fully, instead of trying to understand your awakening through your ego's lens. Of course, life seems so restricted and empty to your ego compared to infinite love in God-consciousness. But don't forget this is God too, your ego's experience is God, and it will never be anything else. So raise your baseline awareness/consciousness and experience existence as God/ego, and then you will feel better.

@Vignan Follow your heart. Stop doing psychedelics if you feel you don't need to. Just live life and enjoy, existence is literally God and love. If you want integration, meditation/just being is good for grounding your consciousness. You might still get to higher states naturally sometimes due to some chemicals that are still active in your brain. But just surrender. Surrender to existence and you will be fine. It's all love anyway.

You can't maintain God-consciousness in the human state. Reality literally breaks down in higher states. Take it slow, and just be in the state you are in now and integrate everything. Tho you have a glimpse of higher states of consciousness, it seems that your baseline is not affected by that experience. You still perceive your current direct experience through your ego only. If you are more aware, you will experience your existence through both your ego and God at the same time. There are more to become aware of after this point. When you reach better integration of the experience, you will gain more clarity.

A glimpse. Keep going!

Yes, you can reach a point where you can turn your mind on and off like a switch.

When you awake you are then truly free to do whatever you want and enjoy life.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Ching https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_hexagrams_of_the_I_Ching#Hexagram_1 https://www.iching-online.com/hexagrams/ https://www.yijing.co.uk/intro/yijing.html