Heart of Space

Yup, even though I'm a leftist by todays standards I actually consider myself quite conservative in mentality. At the foundation, it's a mentality that values taking maximal personal responsibility for absolutely everything in your life. The difference between a modern conservative and me is that I still value changing the landscape and environment for the purpose of advancing society. The difference between me and modern leftists is that I don't let myself or others off the hook for their having their own autonomy and being able to take responsibility for themselves to pull themselves up by their bootstraps.

Thank you for sharing your dream with us, I enjoyed reading it.

Since a few months ago my dreams started to take the form of extremely creative metaphors and lessons. Similar to how you describe your dreams, so I can relate to having dreams like that. Sometimes they offer perspectives that you were aware of subconsciously that help you see something from a different angle. Sometimes they force me to see an aspect of myself or life that I've been ignoring. Or even give me basic advice on how to go about life. I actually value this quite a bit. Although, I've had some pretty nasty vivid and bizarre nightmares too. Even then though, they always had some sort of helpful narrative pointer to consider.

They also hand out extremely harmful and addictive drugs like vanilla wafers. And if you even have trace THC in your system from a CBD product they are immediately dismissive of you like you're just a drug user who had a bad experience even if you had a genuine psychotic break. They just shotgun a basket of drugs at you to sedate you, send you on your way, and then send you a giant bill in the mail. It's quite literally like using duck tape to cover a crack in the glass of a giant aquarium.

Well, of course, women ruin everything. It goes without saying.

Lol ya, he reminds me of a lot of my friends dads when I was a kid. Shame he dug his heels in so much when get got attacked by the left. I think it would have gone a long way to extend somewhat of an olive branch even if he disagreed on certain issues. He didn't do himself many favors in his contentious relationship with leftists.

He exudes love if you're an angry young man with conservative leanings. It's a shame though how he treated queer people. They need love too, young people need love in general. Instead he treated them with disdain and I think that was the biggest mistake he made.

I like your analogy and I think it makes a valid point. However, I would still contend that Deepak definitely has had an issue with how he communicates. Even someone like me, who is very open minded to spiritual ideas and concepts, understand why Dawkins perceived him in the way he did. Deepak consciously chose to obfuscate his idea's with his use of language. In addition to that he borrowed and used terms from science and used them in out of context ways. See his infamous use of the word 'quantum' if you want an example. If I was teaching you how to use a toaster and I did it in biblical language it would raise your eyebrow, no? Obviously he could have been genuine in his use of language, but either way, in my opinion Deepak definitely was not completely innocent. At best he communicated poorly, at worst he is a disingenuous manipulative hack. Which considering of how many hacks their are in the world the safe assumption is that he is a complete hack.

A little ways in Tim Pool cops to basically being center left. He's for Universal Healthcare, but not for dismantling private insurance and he's for higher education being payed for by the government. He's literally admitting his entire schtick is a grift.

This is my first time hearing Destiny, he's pretty good.

You don't think Deepak's use of certain scientific terms and vague use of language is misleading in some way? Honestly, Richard could be more open minded in those realms, but Deepak hasn't done himself any favors.

I'm curious how familiar you are with Dawkins to say that. I've read a lot of his stuff and anything relating to science and that has hard data he's a savant in terms of his analysis. Not to mention his politics are extremely green, but he doesn't get caught up in a lot of the SJW toxic green stuff at all. He's definitely dogmatic about science and rationalism, but there's a lot about orange that doesn't fit his character in the slightest.

Better get rid of the evidence that we are literally corroding the fabric of society it could effect our P R O F I T S LOL

Yang is a complete doofus. He's a complete spiritual moron. Anything he says that sounds good is parroted from something he read. Anytime he goes off on his own thoughts he literally sounds like a verbal dumpster fire.

As someone who has had an existential crisis that could probably go on a top 10 leaderboard somewhere in terms of psychological suffering I can tell you that you will get better with time. You have to make sure you handle it in the healthiest way imaginable. There's a lot of good advice in the thread already, I just wanted to reinforce your resolve to get through your tough time.

Yea I feel that. I don't mean to caste judgement, he is an entertaining speaker. Just my silly preference.

Lol, I actually like that about him. It makes him sound funny in an entertaining way. I feel like Vaush is kind of forcing his voice to sound like a radio announcer. ?

Aw damn lol, you got me there.

I read the wiki just now. It was interesting, but I still believe that if you are going to criticize the man, or a person on general do it on the merit if what that person says or does. I also believe that Vaush, Hasan, and others do make that connection for the purpose of vaguely connecting them to horrific ideologies of the past. To me that's not an argument on good faith, at least when they are doing it. It's also the last way you're going to convince anyone from the other side. You can connect a lot of more traditional ideologies with horrific moments in history. A lot of ideologies have baggage, let's not unload that on a person unless they truly deserve it. That's what I'm trying to say.

Man, I got to the part where Hasan makes some vague connection to JP's beliefs and the Nazi ideology and I had to stop watching. Nothing has made me cringe harder than when Vaush, or another leftist makes some vague connection from Nazism to american right wing ideology outside of actual white nationalists or some other group. He makes some good points up until then. But then he starts talking about how JP is using a dog whistle, which is his way of basically saying that JP is secretly a Nazi espousing Nazi beliefs, but doing it in just enough of a vague way it doesn't look too suspicious. I've heard Vaush use the same terminology against other right wing people. Not everyone who's right wing is a death cultist racist nazi. I'm a leftist generally speaking, but I'm getting sick of hearing this criticism. Your point is definitely valid. I have a bit of a soft spot for JP.

A few points: 1) Criticizing someone for using a prescribed psychiatric drug to help them cope with their wife's death is a low blow. Even if you preface it with all the information. I don't know if Hasan did this, I've just seen people do it quite a bit now. 2) You could also make a long montage highlighting the good things he's said as well. He does say a lot of really good things in regards to living a good life and self improving in general. 3) He does grift to the right, but I think part of that has always been because that's where a lot of his audience is. Which is a bunch of men who are young incel Trump voters, who badly need to hear the message of self improvement. These types of guys wouldn't listen to any self-help person otherwise. All that being said, he does clearly have a lot of bad conservative opinions and that shouldn't be ignored. I just think the guy has given a positive avenue for a lot of young conservative minded men to self-improve and become better people.

Oh ok, I don't know what the situation is outside of the states.

Progressives are not common, that is correct. However, regular run of the mill democrats are extremely common. Even Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by like 3 million votes. Center left is the most common political position in the country. Don't take my word for it. Go check the statistics for yourself.

Nah man, population wise most people are center left on average. The democratic party supports gay rights. Gay people are overwhelmingly left leaning, that's not really debatable. We can start googling statistics, but there's honestly not much point debating something that's so blatantly obvious.

@kag101Yea, there are a lot of well meaning people who are on the right. No one should make you feel guilty for having a political leaning and a lot of people on the left tend to stereotype and chastise people on the right to an unfair degree. Strive to be open minded to new information and simply be a good person you shouldn't have too many issues. I don't know what gay people you're hanging out with because gay people are overwhelmingly left leaning.