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  3. I don't generally take advice from those whose lives I wouldn't want to live. Which isn't the same as saying all his advice is trash. His older stuff is much better. Red pill stuff just gets more clicks. Orion has been burned by women. I think he has turned slightly jaded. Which happens. It's usually the dudes who (previously or still do) love & adore women the most who end up in red pill resentment land. A lot of his rationalisations are cope for the above.
  4. @Basman AGI will be the realization you are a computer and arent even there.
  5. "Verbing weirds language." "There are only two things in the world: nothing and semantics."
  6. It has none of these qualities. It's a chatbot. It's just predicting what makes sense based on human set standards. It's a monkey typewriter. Hence why when you make AI art you have to do the shotgun approach just to get one that is good enough. It isn't deliberate in any way. The sooner people like you drop the fantasy that AGI is coming the faster this bubble can burst.

  7. Contemplating Motherhood

    soos_mite_ah replied to soos_mite_ah's topic in Self-Actualization Journals

    Being The Adult In The Room In my previous post, I linked a video that came on my YouTube recommended that I watched and reacted to. Then, I started to view more of this lady's content.... Her channel is called the Average Gen Xer and I think based on the 5-6 videos I watched, she very much embodies a very specific Gen X archetype that I want to dissect a little more while also looking at Boomers, Millennials, and Gen Z. Her personality and vibe feels like it was frozen in 1997 and then it was transported to a body of a woman in her 50s. I think it's the jaded attitude, the snark, and the knee jerk negative reaction to things like conformity and religion. I think those things also paint a picture towards the Gen X archetype of being rebellious and against authority. But the reason why it feels jaded and a little stale is because being rebellious and against the status quo in 2026 simply looks different. I wrote about that in a previous post in my main journal and I keep coming back to the same quote: And I get why people in the Gen X cohort have a knee jerk reaction to things like conformity and religion. They honestly got a much more crazy version of it in the overall cultural ziegiest than what I was exposed to. I think about this in the context of the Four Turnings theory on how Gen X and Baby Boomers are reacting against the collectivism that was present in the High and Awakening phase and as a result, they swinged the pendulum too far to the individualistic side to where now, Millennials and Gen Z are reacting against the hyperindividualism of the Unraveling and the Crisis phase. Basically, collectivism is in the highest during the High because things are going great and people want to conform, it decreases in the Awakening as people starts questioning things, it's at an all time low in the Unraveling because thats when systems start to fall apart and people become jaded, and it's starts to perk back up in the Crisis because it's a necessity to rely on your neighbors and the people around you to pull through til the next High. I found a chart that explains the different phases really well: Gen X were young adults during the Unravelling and I feel like the column above really encapsulates what was considered progressive in their time. Their childhoods were during the Awakening and in the most recent awakening, there was a real backlash against religious values and authority. I know this was mainly led by Boomers since they were young adults during the awakening, but I think of this video But now, in 2026 when the cultural weight isn't so much on Stage Blue, the Stage Orange backlash that the Boomers and Gen X had starts to feel really dated in some instances, or like it's part of the problem as it contributes to the excesses of Stage Orange in other instances. I just wrote about how a lot of adults as they move into their 30s can get stagnant and how that can manifest in healthy and unhealthy ways. And I think there is a way that generations can collectively stagnate and get stunted. I don't think everyone in Gen X for example has the same kind of stunting. I know Gen Xers in my life who are with the times and are expanding their wisdom. But I think that each generation has their specific archetype of being stunted according to when they were young adults in the Four Turnings model. I think the lady in the Average Gen Xer channel is an archetype of a stunted Gen X. I reviewed her content and I saw a lot of fatphobia, this bitterness when it came to conformity, and a lot of talk about over population (I'm making a post on that next). I have yet to see content from this lady regarding this, but I know a lot of Gen Xers who have this vibe of *you can't tell me what to do, fuck authority.* I also see the fatphobia, the kneejerk negative reaction to conformity, and this desire to do things outside the norm that might freak people out in Leo's content as well. I know he's like the elder half of Millennials but he also borders Gen X and I can see shades of that. The attitude to be against authority would be great if it was a principled stance but it backfires when their version of giving authority the middle finger is Gen X refusing to get vaccinated, believing in conspiracy theories, and voting for Trump because of his rhetorical style. I get that institutions are crumbling and they have flaws that need to be questioned and I get that y'all had a lot of toxic conformity and blind allegence to authority, but sometimes people are experts and have positions of authority because they are qualified and have expertise that the average person doesn't so it makes sense to follow their lead. You can't let your issues with authority cause you to act like a petulant child. Sometimes following authority isn't blind. Sometimes it's genuinely substantiated. I think the stunted archetype of the Boomer is simply someone who doesn't know how the world works anymore and has too rosy of a view of how to succeed in today's climate. I know this trope has been overplayed, but it's the guy who still thinks you can pay for college with a minimum wage part time job and that since people aren't doing that, they're going into debt because of their laziness. Then of course, you have the racism, sexism, homophobia, the *i hate my wife* and *my husband is a hopeless idiot* jokes. My favority from my personal life is when my Boomer uncle randomly gave me $20 this one time and told me to go get myself a meal at a nice 5 star restaurant. I accepted since $20 is $20 but in my mind I was like *great, I can get myself Chipotle.* While Gen X is stunted in the way that teenagers want to rebel against authority for the sake of it, Boomers are stunted in the way that some children don't have the most nuanced and updated view of the world. Like no, going to school, getting good grades, and getting accepted to a good college won't necessarily lead to a decent paying job, a marriage, and white picket fence with 2.5 kids. Life is not that simple. I think this naiveity and simplistic world view is also why a lot of boomers fall for the phone scams. A lot of stunted boomers work under the straightforward narrative of the modern era and they didn't move into a more post modern narrative structure. I also wrote the following in a previous post: Finally, I think the archetype that comes to mind when I think of stunted millennials is the girl boss. Rather than looking at the systems that are perpetuating harm, this archetype just wants the fucked up system to have slightly more representation. It's this notion of *WE WANT MORE FEMALE DICTATORS.* You also have the archetype of the 40 year old that is too attached to the 90s because that's when their childhood was and they cannot move past that. I think this also concides with the Disney adult as well as the Harry Potter adult where they are leaning into escapism and nostalgia hard to cope with the chaos that's currently happening rather than facing the chaos and guiding younger generations. You can see the escapism in the form of parents that are glued to their phones to dissassociate from their stressful jobs and they just give their kid an ipad instead of being present parents. I think the archetype of the Gen Z stunted adult is something that has yet to fully come into fruition. After all, the age ranges of Gen Z is 15 to 30 so we're just now coming into adulthood. But I do think that things like the cultural nihilism I wrote about in my main journal, the looksmaxxing, the ageism, the billionaire worship, the YOLO attitude with finances, the tradwife/soft girl aesthetic, the alpha male podcast bros and more are not going to age well. So why am I writing about this in the Contemplating Motherhood journal? I think in order to be a reliable parent and/or a reliable guide to future generations, you cannot let yourself get stagnant in your world view and your politics. It's going to be difficult to look to the future and give advice to the future when you're stuck in the past and your advice no longer applies because the world moved on and that context no longer exists. I think this is one of the things that my own dad got right. Don't get me wrong, in a lot of ways he is a typical boomer but I do admire the way that he wants to update himself so he doesn't sound like his brother when his brother hands me a $20 bill lol.
  8. You can definitely care without worrying. I wouldn't even say they are the same thing. You can pick an item from a restaurant menu, I don't think that is worrying. That is not true. It is a misunderstanding. There is no benefit to believing you will experience the future because no one experiences it. The benefit is still part of the belief. In fact, there are even tribes which do not include the concept of the future in their language.
  9. Lol. After a while they will have to start thinking differently. Like when they observe quantum mechanics. I actually think all the "crazy non-dual stuff" will be quite normal later on in science.
  10. There is no other way to have a reality without this distinction. .
  11. I agree there are a lot of interesting views and perspectives from Orion. But something feels off about him at the same time.

  12. Are You Aligned In Life?

    UnbornTao replied to Miguel1's topic in Personal Development -- [Main]

    Anything but listening. Hey, use this. As a contrast to your fluffy theories and feel-good philosophies. At least it's starting to get more real now. You can probably tell that your facade doesn't work with me. You're full of it, and that's OK. If you claim to be so advanced, then confront this. We can all talk about our commitment to "truth." And in practice we run away from it like the plague, especially when it contradicts what we want to hear.
  13. But the scientists not acting like it tho..
  14. Emotions are there to transform us, not for us to transform the lesson they are designed to teach. It's a nuanced lesson, a perfect time to practice self-discernment then. Think of the most immature adults you can think of, they have the most ambivalent relationship to emotions you can imagine. And they often call themselves intellectuals or personal development teachers of some kind (I.e. spiritual). They call themselves these things because they cannot see that which is calling themselves these things nor can they name the action of that calling, RFI (relational network theory), and the funnel that leads to that calling, RFL (reality feedback loop) - [ Those two acronyms are my own designs and can therefore be ignored ]. Wishing you strength and resilience.
  15. I don't reveal it much. You do act like it but you have a young persona. Keep that.

  16. Are You Aligned In Life?

    Miguel1 replied to Miguel1's topic in Personal Development -- [Main]

    @UnbornTao I am usually quite a patient and compassionate guy but you are actually starting to piss me off now. Since you never bring any proper information and in a constructive and friendly manner on the table, and on the other hand, just post these empty passive-aggressive bullshit, I am losing my patient with you. I already asked you once to stop contributing here. This will be my second time. If there is a third time, we will involve other moderators and possibly Leo in this. Nicely said: if you have nothing to add, leave me the fuck alone. Thank you.
  17. How about we ban you.
  18. Today

  19. Are You Aligned In Life?

    UnbornTao replied to Miguel1's topic in Personal Development -- [Main]

    @Miguel1 My God, you really insist on pretending that your shit is somehow special because you're glamorized by being here. I'm sorry - besides my frustration at hearing BS, I like poking fun and playing the jester. You can hear this as an 'ugly, unloving thing' from 'unconscious' people (mostly because you don't like hearing it and it doesn't confirm your fantasies), or actually pay attention to what you're doing.
  20. Dinosaur.. JK. You gave me my first warning before I became a mod. Love you man and keep up the good work but more importantly health and happiness. Wishing you all of it.

  21. Should I take 5-MeO-DMT?

    Breakingthewall replied to thenondualtankie's topic in Psychedelics

    Just fight as your life depends on it. What's true btw. Maybe you won't die of hunger, but you could die of depression
  22. I have no interest in his blog. Not direct enough.

  23. Should I take 5-MeO-DMT?

    Breakingthewall replied to thenondualtankie's topic in Psychedelics

    😅😅Please don't trust anyone. Anyway, if you ask me, I would say yes, try it, but don't believe anything about God or dreams, just break your mind without mercy Pd: oh beginner in spirituality, you must know that this reign is the reign of narcissism, projection and self induced hallucinations. Is short, the reign of bullshits, so be smart and don't believe anyone
  24. @Inliytened1 That was published on his blog soon after he took down the video . Do you follow his blog ? A lot of deep Material there .
  25. Awaken me, make no mistakes.
  26. I have listened to it. And this is the point. He specifically says how blunt he was being in the video. The point is hammered home at minute 6:30
  27. We got until July 7 before they move it to API pricing. You got 6 days to get as much from it as you can.
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