I disagree with the forum

[WonderSeeker]

What is one thing you personally disagree with most of the forum on?

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Note: This thread is not for being a dick or arguing with others.

It's just an opportunity for you to make a journal entry about what's important to you even though it may not be the majority's taste on the Actualized forum.

Breaking free from conformity means even doing things that may seem "conformist" for nonconformist reasons in a nonconformist style. Answers will vary, and I'm curious what y'all put.

[WonderSeeker]

My answer: I get the sense that most people on this forum are disinterested in having children (if not, completely against it). Personally, I want to have kids at some point, and consider it a deeply important part of personal development.

It can help you integrate so many character traits and relative truths that you're hard-pressed to find otherwise.

For example, by having kids you will learn how to caretake a vulnerable, complicated, unique being who you have a deep, direct, blood connection to. To do so, you have to become pain-stakingly clear on your values. It forces you to mature and develop high degrees of empathy and integrity. It gets you to take possibly the highest degree of personal responsibility you can as a human. It also forces you to be really pragmatic financially and materially (a good way to smooth you out if you're an idealist like me).

All of this, of course assuming you want to raise a rockstar kid who becomes purposeful and interested in consciousness. (Now that's a project)!

Part of the reason I posted this is in response to people who reference the below video.

Thumbnail: Should you have kids? What if I told you that it doesn't matter because reproduction is a fictional narrative you invented as part of your robotic drive for survival?

Not that I don't grok the metaphysical points made in the video, but I get the sense it argues in favor of not having kids without considering the upsides.

This is a massive lifestyle decision that varies person to person, so I'm not trying to come off as a creepy, finger-wagging, white Christian Karen who says "you gotta pump as many as you can cuz the birthrates are going down," but moreso sharing a personal preference that's important to me.

I may not even necessarily have kids in the end, but in principle I think it can be an extraordinarily good thing for people who want to integrate all kinds of different skills and experiences in this life. I think doing this Actualized work and then becoming a parent would be an interesting way to go about life. Parenting and finding creative ways to continue the work while you are raising new life. What I find so interesting about it is how do you balancing the two halves.

Cheers.

[Stick]

For some reasons people here think the US government is hiding aliens which sound nuts to me. lmao

Edited 3 hours ago by Stick

[Leo Gura]

19 minutes ago, Stick said:

For some reasons people here the US government is hiding aliens which sound nuts to me. lmao

 

[enchanted]

2 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

 

Do ants realize they have been in contact with more intelligent life? Maybe our brains aren't developed enough to have realized it yet. 

[Stick]

3 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

 

Come on man, he says they are not kept in a facility. In this big world, there are probably millions of aliens among which a few might be more intelligent than us. But considering the massive size of the universe communication is almost impossible. I would love to meet a awakened alien though so I hope they exist and that they are kind.

[NewKidOnTheBlock]

I dissagree with the usage of psychadelics

[Leo Gura]

13 minutes ago, Stick said:

he says they are not kept in a facility

As if they would tell him and he would tell you.

Edited 2 hours ago by Leo Gura

[Xonas Pitfall]

I’d say most of the forum posts are very valuable to me. Always look forward to them 

I think Leo sometimes dramatizes or sensationalizes his statements. That initially put me off, since I tend to prefer more precisely defined, almost “autistically” structured language. Over time, though, once you adjust to the style and recognize that he is often aiming at a broader, big-picture lesson rather than strict definitions, the posts become yummy. I think he himself has also moved away from making extremely strong statements, like “I am the most awakened one, etc!”.

The posts that consistently felt lower in quality were the masculinity and femininity ones. Those often rely on weak arguments, in my view. I actually wrote a post some time ago pushing back on many of the claims made there. 

Femininity & Truth (Parody of Leo's Blogpost) | Femininity & Truth (Debunk of Leo's Blogpost)

I also had some issues with the Infinity of the Gods episode, mainly with how the “higher and lower infinity” and “an infinity of many infinities” were defined. I think there were several semantic problems that could have been easily avoided if the terms had been defined earlier on. It made things unnecessarily confusing. Still, it was an interesting contemplation that I’m open to revisiting it later 

Infinity of the Gods & Solipsism [Part 1] | Infinity of the Gods & Solipsism [Part 2] | Infinity of the Gods & Solipsism [Part 3]

Edited 2 hours ago by Xonas Pitfall

[Joseph Maynor]

Boxing people into rigid labels like scientists, etc.  But do as you will.