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  2. Hasan Piker is a dog shocker.
  3. In my opinion, the job market have definitely shifted in the past few decades. Things are no longer as rosy as before for the average Joe. Sure, you can find some people who make it online but these people tend to stand out and they are the top 0.01%. In the past, it was easy to get a job. And then it became harder and harder.
  4. It depends on how famous you really are. If you are ultra famous like Brad Pitt or Tom Cruise, making money would be of less priority. Freedom would be higher priority. But maybe they love to socialize too.
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  6. Leo's Blog Discussion Mega-Thread

    Natasha Tori Maru replied to Leo Gura's topic in Personal Development -- [Main]

    Actualized Quotes #591 One hundred fucking percent!
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  8. I think so too. This is why I don't fully like the advice of pursuing spirituality "later" in life. Imagine pursuing something so meaningful, energy intensive, and cognitive intensive when you are not at your peak years. You need huge intelligence for this work. And I don't think the "pursue" when you are older is a universal truth like people on this forum seem to believe. I think if you are on this forum chances are you are more intelligent than the average person, and I don't say this with arrogance at all, it's just my observation. If you are here I don't think you need to wait that much to pursue deep stuff. One should use, one's vitality, intelligence and freshness while one have it because tommorrow may never come. Just my 2c
  9. haha, that's pretty nice i don't do it for every single activity though — that'd be quite neurotic lol
  10. I think Ralston could be getting old, ossified and curmudgeonly. Doubling down. Not that I don't adore his body of work! Cognitive flexibility tends to decline as we age. And he is what, 76? Not super old. But old enough for this to be a distinct possibility. And hey - it may not even be age. Too much flexibility can mean our thoughts are polluted by external pressures, that openness can be adaptation. There is a required amount of firm conviction when innovating and making unique breakthroughs. It strongly facilitates creation.
  11. @Lila9 Australia 🇭🇲💛 deserves to win this year. After that Finland and Denmark. Still of course I want Israel to end as high as possible, just that Noam's song could be better. Anyway, he is a good performer and a very good singer. We all screamed here when Israel made it to the final. Can't wait to see how it goes on Saturday.
  12. I think people are just too unconscious though. Like they have no awareness of thoughts, emotions, and so on, they are just in a constant state of hypnosis: Drunk on sex, drunk on power, drunk on money. Basically, machines reacting to primal instincts, there's no space, no consciousness. People just react to Biology. Also, no realization of impermanence, Death, and no self. The solution to corruption is wisdom and consciousness. The guru thing is real, but I think there are still legit gurus who is mega developed, but we probably don't know them and never will.

  13. Anger is not always wrong

    UnbornTao replied to integral's topic in Personal Development -- [Main]

    Ouch! Angry! Hurt!

  14. Decentering Man.

    Basman replied to Rafael Thundercat's topic in Society, Politics, Government, Environment, Current Events

    If your grandstanding your probably not truly genuine. It's more like a narcissistic kind of emotional expression and yelling at clouds while patting yourself on the back for being such a decent human being.

  15. Funny video thread

    Jehovah increases replied to Raze's topic in Off-Topic: Pop-Culture, Entertainment, Fun

    https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYPmNjTh9FM/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

  16. What is some music you like?

    Jehovah increases replied to itsadistraction's topic in Off-Topic: Pop-Culture, Entertainment, Fun

  17. It’s not even a good analysis. They don’t function the same way. Fuentes is far more strategic and calculating. He makes his shocking statements combined with exaggerations and humor as a purposeful strategy. But he holds grudges and like a porcupine stabs anyone that gets near him. Hasan says stupid things because he gets riled up and it blows up in his face. However on the other hand is better at forming connections and building inroads with institutions.
  18. Hasan is problematic, but no one on the left is as bad as on the right.
  19. Sam is an example of how you can be consistently biased and stupid, but if you do it while bashing trump and speaking calmly and softly and talking about mindfulness mainstream democrat leaners will still take you seriously. He was also whining about Mamdani being an Islamist, in reality Mamdani is a woke leftist. He’s exactly what Sam had called for in the past, Muslims reforming to be more liberal. But the truth is that’s not what he wants, he worships the state of Israel and wants anyone against it to be a target of the US government. Hes convinced the public is just biased against people like him and innately drawn to islamists which is why they’re turning on Israel. The actual reason is Sams delusions and positions are so idiotic and damaging to the world and country it forces people away from him. Most Americans would obviously be biased in favor of Sam and his ilk, secular Jews, than Islamic radicals and Iranian mullahs. It actually shows more about how appealing he is to the mainstream and left that a large segment of his base turning on him didn’t happen sooner. They stuck by him even as he endorsed starvation sieges and praised trumps foreign policy because of his deference to Israel. Sam to this day argues the IDF in Gaza fought more morally than the US in the war on terror. Despite being part of the intellectual dark web and bemoaning the left for running from conversations, and for then bemoaning the right for ignoring experts. He’s refused to talk to a single expert on the other side of this view. The closest he came was arguing with Rahm Emanuel, one of the most pro Israel democrats, after he mildly critiqued israel. Sam passionately supported the US attacking Iran and said the US would easily create a secular democracy in Iran. He now is surprised the public doesn’t understand how right and moral he was to endorse a war of aggression that massacred an entire elementary school of children and is wrecking the global economy for no coherent benefit other than the sadistic glee he gets from seeing civilians in Israel’s enemy countries being massacred. Some people say he changed, no he didn’t, at the height of the controversy around the US using torture in the war on terror he wrote an article endorsing it. Sam is the banality of evil and dunning-Krueger personified.
  20. As of May 12, 2026, President Trump has proposed a temporary suspension of the 18.4 cents-per-gallon federal gas tax (24.4 cents for diesel) to relieve high prices exceeding $4.50/gallon following the Iran war. This proposal requires Congressional approval to take effect.
  21. @Lila9 thank you for sharing this, this is exactly what I meant by God complex and spiritual ego. As the disregard of ego and everything being one, makes you blind to more nuanced things like good versus evil and then a guru can do all kinds of evil in the name of nonduality.
  22. Sure, for them enlightenment is knowing that reality is one and it's consciousness, then they go to meditate, get empty their minds and think: this is pure consciousness, then I'm enlightened. It has absolutely no relationship with enlightenment, it's co crazy that is funny. Enlightenment is being open to what reality is, not knowing that you are pure consciousness. This is just an idea disguised of a realization. "Realization" is also an idea. Being open to the unlimited means being the unlimited, not knowing that you are unlimited. It's like if you vape a huge dose of DMT, you don't know nothing, reality loses it form, it's absolutely empty, without borders, but then what is manifest itself, it's everything, it's the fact of being that implies everything. It's not one, two or anything else, it is, period. "One", "duality", are just mental structures. The unlimited is not an structure. Then you can be in your normal life as open as it's possible, seeking the real connection, and giving your best anytime, enjoying the moment as it were magic. That's the point of spirituality
  23. If he was gay he would have zero issues getting laid, even if he's ugly. Go ahead and download Grinder and test it yourself lmao.
  24. How do you know that? What is consciousness for you? Some thing that is the foundation of the reality? Maybe a creator who is dreaming?
  25. It's the only way forward imo. Anything else and you are short changing yourself. Unless you prefer being a corporate drone. Selling yourself out in a myriad of ways. But its painful... Well, it's honest.
  26. Frankly I’m thinking the democratization of game knowledge just caused more harm than good. Guys try it, it doesn’t work for them, they get resentful. Most guys probably can’t learn game or even social skills on their own. It needs to be transmitted through coaching or at least learning with peers.
  27. Duality does exist, but it doesn't mean that non-duality isn't true either. Both are true. Two things that seem contradictory but exist simultaneously this is a paradox, not something that can be resolved by logic, nor is there any need for it. I think that non-dualists, ironically, even though it may not be their intention, are spiritually bypassing if they don't acknowledge duality and if they completely disregard the body, the ego, the difference between truth and falsehood, health versus illness, good versus evil, light versus darkness, consciousness versus the subconscious, and the earthly and daily aspects of existence, which are not necessarily contradictory to spiritual development and are crutial part of spiritual development.

  28. Anger is not always wrong

    Jodistrict replied to integral's topic in Personal Development -- [Main]

    Philosophical discussions of anger remind me of Buddha’s parable of the poison arrow. A man was shot by a poison arrow but won’t let anyone remove the arrow until they can explain who shot him. Anger is both energetic and conceptual. There is always a story with it. The feelings provide the juice that makes the anger alive. When I feel anger arise, I also fully feel the suffering that it brings. My body then makes the connection and automatically drops the story. It’s like if you hold an object that suddenly becomes hot, your hand will reflexively open and let it go. You actually don’t need anger to do anything that you need to do.
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