Joseph Maynor

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  2. Posted · Edited by Joseph Maynor

    10 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

    "Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye;

    and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye."

    -- The Bible ;)

    I'm not blaming, I'm perfectly accepting stupidity as a feature of reality.  The point is to account for stupidity.  Assume that reality contains stupidity.  Assume that you must plan-around stupidity.  This is a not a blaming or a shaming, quite the opposite -- it's an accepting.  And it's a no-brainer.  I'm surprised you don't appreciate this insight, Nietzsche's insight. 

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    17 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

    And so can you and Nietzche. So who's more nuts?

    How do you account for Nietzche's stupidity? ;)

    Take what people say with a grain of salt.  Remember, we're the bullshitting animal.  People can say anything.  And people can mis-perceive and/or mis-conceive.  Don't be naively trusting I think is what Nietzsche is saying.  Make stupidity the norm rather than the exception.  People also have confirmation bias, so they find what they're looking for.  We must account for foolishness.  Reality has foolishness.  Lots of foolishness.  Our job is to avoid the foolishness, or if we can't avoid it, at least account for it as Nietzsche taught.  Stupidity must be factored into the human experience -- it's a necessary element in the system of life.  Stupidity/foolishness is a feature in the system of life not a bug.

  7. Posted · Edited by Joseph Maynor

    I like the Big Five definition of Extroversion as including the two sub-traits of Enthusiasm and Assertiveness.  Extroversion in the Big 5 sense is cultivation of social confidence.

    It's Openness to Experience in the Big Five that's about increasing smarts.   The two sub-traits of Openness to Experience are Intellect and Openness/ Creativity.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Five_Aspect_Scales

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    The Essence of Each of the Big Five Aspects of Personality:

    1. Openness to Experience — Smarts
    2. Conscientiousness — Work Ethic/ Career Prospects
    3. Extroversion — Social Confidence
    4. Agreeableness — Social Relate-ability
    5. Neuroticism — Emotional Instability

  9. Posted · Edited by Joseph Maynor

    I notice a lot of people are not conscious of these decision trees in themselves.  This will also show you the limits of the Rational Mind; including but not limited to how the Mind forms blocks like: false choice, taking the belief for reality, limited beliefs, excuse making, disempowered attitude, etc.  What I find is that a lot of people need to dump the Mind and just go do for this very reason.  That's why I like to say, all beliefs are excuses.  This is like the dark side of the Mind if we think of the Mind as a double-edged sword.  The Mind is pretentious in its authority.  It makes it seem like its thoughts are reality, which gives the Lower Self mental justification to not do the Good.

  10. Posted · Edited by Joseph Maynor

    Every Egoic System wants to see its most sought after preferences reflected back to it by other people (systems).  This is what makes other systems useful and valuable to you, including but not limited to the opposite sex.  What we're looking for fundamentally is a sustainable solution to our most sought after objectives.  

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    You're both a self and a no-self.  You wanna sort of accept that paradox and work both ends of it.  Actually, in truth, you're neither; you're God, but that paradox is one mental framework that we can put over Being that is less likely to lock you of thinking of yourself as one side of the paradox to the exclusion of the other.  That's a trap that a lot of people do is they define themselves with mental categories instead of using mental categories to explore themselves.  The Paradox of Ego and No Ego is not a truth, it's a tool to keep you open to exploring yourself because you're not clinging to being an Ego or a No-Ego.  God is not limited by the Mind's categories.  God demotes the Mind from Colonel to Corporal.  The Mind and its concepts/beliefs are a hand-maiden to God not the other way around.

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    1 hour ago, Wisebaxter said:

    @Joseph Maynor @Leo Gura mentioned it, in Free will vs determinism. But maybe I took it the wrong way somehow. I laughed uncontrollably for a while and felt completely liberated, but since then I've had this dilemma being caused by not knowing how much control I should be exerting. Control feels like ego to me you know?

    You're both an Ego and a No-Ego at the same time.

  17. Posted · Edited by Joseph Maynor

    Good

    My notes from the video:

    Sedona Method – a method to reduce the emotion of X.  X can be anger, fear, sadness, resistance, etc.

    1.  Get in touch with your feeling of X.

    2.  Ask, could I let this feeling of X go?

    3.  Ask, would I like to let this feeling of X go?

    4.  Ask, when would I like to let this feeling of X go?

  19. Posted · Edited by Joseph Maynor

    Good.  This would be a good course that would nicely follow your LP course as well.  You could sell the shit out of this course.  But make the videos at a minimum.  People need this information to go from their lower self into their higher self.  The mind does need PROACTIVE re-programming to get over the Ego's resistance to leave its comfort-zone.

  22. Posted · Edited by Joseph Maynor

    59 minutes ago, Consilience said:

    Think about what you just said. History has shown this is clearly false, unless you’re trying to bring non-dual relativism into the discussion, in which case there’s no point in replying. 

    Also speaking from personal experience as someone with a chronic illness and requires a functioning healthcare system to keep my body alive, politicians can very much influence the quality of my life. Obama raising the age for individuals staying on their parent’s healthcare has been pivotal for my early career and life purpose development. 

    If you're wise you should be able to flourish in any kind of environment.  You're just gonna have a different set of initial conditions to work with.  This doesn't mean don't focus on Political Work.  It means exercise all your brains irrespective of which clown is in office.  Oftentimes, focus on Political Work prematurely can function as a distraction to you getting your own life well put together.  Get your own life well put together and then worry about exercising your powers beyond that first priority.  Assume the people in office are all idiots and take that into account as you design the systems of your life and your community.  Nietzsche said it's wise to factor in stupidity and to account for stupidity.  This means that you prepare contingency plans around expected (foreseeable) stupidity.  You should be able to flourish in life no matter what anybody else does, including but not limited to the government or silly politicians.

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    On 7/6/2019 at 6:40 PM, Autumn said:

    I never said you shouldn't vote. It is true that I believe that voting (In the US anyways) is pointless (apart from benefiting the voter by letting them feel like they're doing something productive) because the system is so incredibly rigged.

    Your life should be great no matter who's in office.