Leo Gura

Of course. That's how all politics works. Society has worked this way since the dawn of time. The purpose of most politics is to get rich by getting special treatment for your friends at the expense of the general public. The party in power serves it own small in-group at the expense of everyone else. This is the essence of corruption: self-bias.

Yes. Although in practice it will be quite indirect. It's hard to remove corruption without already knowing truth because you don't even understand what corruption is or where it comes from. Building yourself up emotionally is good and important for truth-seeking. So yes, something like therapy will help you handle truth in the future. But nothing replaces love of truth for its own sake. Truth should be pursued for its own sake, once you are strong enough. It's good to view it both ways. Absolute and relative truth are both important. Figuring out relative truths helps with ultimately reaching absolute Truth. The connection is quite loose and mostly one way. That means being highly creative will not get you much closer to truth, but getting closer to truth will boost your creativity. Truth requires direct pursuit. But creativity and art is great stuff so I'm not suggesting you quit that. Sure, there is much room for customizing your path. But you want to be careful not to kid yourself. Most human activity has nothing to do with truth-seeking. Just doing whatever resonates is probably not you far towards truth unless you really love truth. If love of truth is present in you then following what resonates works. You gotta love the right things! If you love Satan then following your love is not so great. Both.

I don't know that they shouldn't. But they should be extra careful and clear-eyed. But of course they won't be.

You gain freedom from human nonsense -- which is her entire life.

Broken people LOVE, LOVE, LOVE spirituality because they have no capacity for truth, lacking any kind of epistemic responsibility, which means they get to run wild with spiritual fantasies and use pleasant spiritual stories to rationalization and excuse away all their broken, toxic, unconscious behavior as something anointed by God. Spirituality is the prefect excuse to avoid responsibility and not do any genuine work. Why do the hard work to fix your brokenness and worldview when you can have faith in Jesus?

@Daniel Balan Because the less conscious a mind is the more it operates on group-think. Group-think is an unconscious survival mechanism. This means group-think rationalizes unconscious survival activities like theft, exploitation, abuse, illusion, falsehood, lies, propaganda, indoctrination -- as good. An unconscious and selfish mind calls whatever serves its survival as "good" and anything that threatens its survival as "evil". That's what every religion does. Religious morality is a rationalization of human bias and selfishness.

No. God-Realization is realizing God. Whether you live it is another matter. You can realize God and then still live like an animal. But you still realized God. You are just also an untrained animal. Nonduality does not mean you realize God.

Of course. Like I've said elsewhere: don't chase women. This is a huge turn-off. You must do the minimal effort possible when attempting to date them. The more effort you do, the worse they respond. Women want to date men who are too busy and too serious to cater to them. Be so serious about your own life that you simply don't have time or desire to chasing down a girl. You just invite her for a drink and if she doesn't agree you don't engage in chit-chat, you ignore her. Girls who are attracted to you do not need to be convinced to meet you. They will agree with very minimal work from you. Working to get a girl to like you does not work and it makes them like you even less. If you make the girl feel like she is the prize, like you are the lucky one to date her, she will not sleep with you. She has to feel like she is the lucky one. To make her feel that way, don't contact her too much. She needs to feel like she will lose you unless she acts to meet you. The girl needs to feel: "OMG! If I don't act quick I'll lose this amazing guy." Therefore: DO NOT CHASE WOMEN. You invite her and then you wait for her to come to you. You do not desperately message her to be with you. And you do not chit-chat aimlessly with her, and you do not befriend her with rapport-building over text. Do not try to butter her up to like you. Maintain a detached frame.

Too bad. They can't handle it. First finish high school before you enter grad school. Broken people who enter spirituality end up corrupting it and turning it into toxic delusional shit.

People in such groups are incapable of serious truth-seeking. Such people need to first resolve their addiction problems through social support before they try to undertake the advanced pursuit of transcending human-kind. Truth-seeking is the most advanced pursuit. It is not for broken people. You don't tell a child to survive on his own in the forest. Surviving alone in the forest is for hardcore, serious, capable people.

Prioritizing anything above truth.

No, he is extremely extroverted and he genuinely loves being friends with women. That is the perfect personality type for getting laid.

@Nito "Let's grab a drink sometime." That's all you need to text a girl. If she is serious she will agree. If she doesn't agree, no amount of bullshitting with her will get her to agree.

Dude, big mistake trying to understand girls behavior like this. Just ask her to meet up, if she refuses, ignore her for a while and ask again a few days later. Keep doing that until she agrees to meet. Stop playing stupid games with her. Stop trying to figure out her chaos. That's way too much emotional investment. You don't need to understand anything about her. Just get her to meet up.

My God, these Christians just cannot help themselves with their BS. It was smart until he had to bring Christianity into it.

Bro, Belgium isn't hijacked by the largest corporations in the world. America is. How do you propose to undo that? The capitalism in Belgium is like a micro-penis while the capitalism in America is like a mechanically augmented elephant cock soaked in steroids going straight for your rear end.

Hey, ya'll, I need your help! I want to create a comprehensive list of video examples of prototypical stage Blue thinking. This is not meant to humiliate or demonize stage Blue. It's meant to be an educational tool for people learning about Spiral Dynamics. So towards that end, scour Youtube and find all the videos you can which exhibit stage Blue thinking. Try to find videos which are short and sweet. Conservative talk show hosts offer tons of Blue material, but also try to find other unique examples. The more diversity we can display here, the better. Try to find examples from various cultures: Europe, Middle East, Asia, Indonesia, Japan, Russia, Africa, South America, etc. We will create a mega-thread like this for every stage in the Spiral, from Red to Turquoise. But for now, let's just focus on Blue. Each week I will start a new mega-thread topic for the next stage. Do not start a political debate in this thread! It is not our goal here to defend our personal political positions or to judge any stage, but simply to compile examples. Thanks for your help! I'm excited to see what kind of juicy stuff you dig up. Try to be selective with your choices. This can turn into a really cool list. Stage Blue values: Absolute truth cannot be questioned Only one right way to live Belief, faith, certainty Objective right & wrong Good & evil exist The devil is real Hard work, discipline, duty Law & order Justice, stability, security Sinners deserve punishment & no compassion Hierarchy, social order, status quo Patriarchy, women serve men Meaning & greater purpose Morality Defending one's culture Culture, tradition, heritage Crusading for a righteous cause Serving God Theology Root out the heretics & traitors Doctrine, ideology Orthodoxy, dogma, conformity Family, family values Obedience, reverence Respect for elders God & country Patriotism Righteous living Honor, principles, moral codes of conduct Good manners, decency, etiquette Finds profanity offensive, blasphemy Dress & hair regulations Prayer Pride in one’s civilization: we are the best Canonical texts cannot be questioned: Bible, Quran, Torah, Gita, Constitution, Upanishads, Vedas, Buddha Holy book is the literal word of God Strict literal reading of holy books Obeying authority: Pope, Muhammad, Allah, God, Christ, Buddha, Confucius, etc. Afterlife, heaven, hell, salvation are real Strict church attendance Ceremony, rituals Sobriety, chastity, virginity, anal self-control, restraint Charity, giving back to my community Loyalty Enforcing borders Building character & moral fiber National identity Cultural superiority Stage Blue Examples: Middle East, Palestinians, Zionists, Saudi Arabia, Medieval Europe, Iran, Pakistan, Indian caste system, Puritanism, Confucian China, Islamic fundamentalism, Wahhabism, Hasidic Judaism, the Salvation Army, patriotism, standing for the National Anthem, Zen monastery, Catholic Church, evangelicals, religious Right, Conservatives, Republicans, Boy Scouts & Girl Scouts, Sharia law, banning birth control, banning abortion, banning flag burning, border wall, anti-immigration, witch trials, Crusades, Roy Moore, Alt-Right, neo-Nazis, white supremacists, KKK, Noah’s Ark read literally, Ten Commandments, uniforms, Catholic nuns, Amish, Shakers, The Bible-belt, American South, The Moral Majority, Newt Gingrich, Billy Graham, Rev Jerry Falwell, James Dobson, Pat Robertson, George W Bush, Mike Pence, gay conversion therapy, kamikaze pilots, Samurai Code, harakiri, Marathon Monks of Mt Hiei, Hindu religion, Hindu family, Islamic family, Mormons, Creationism, the war on Christmas, Bill O’Reily, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Alex Jones, Fox News, 2nd Amendment, mandatory military service, codes of honor, virginity pledges, nationalism, Victorian England, military families, police officers, firefighters, blue collar workers, Nazi managers & generals, ethos of Starship Troopers, religious terrorism, Spanish Inquisition, imperialism, missionaries, Spanish conquistadors, Magellan, Hare Krishnas, soldier jumps on grenade, theocracy, prayer in school, Communist China, colonial South, Imperial Japan, patriarchy, culture warriors, right-wing talk shows, Romulans from StarTrek, TV evangelists, Bible school, colonial duels, Maoist China, 20th century Marxism, holy war, battles over holy ground, grand cathedrals temples & mosques, protect children from sexual corruption, killing apostates, imprisoning homosexual, unequal women’s rights, prayer in school, sanctity of marriage, Japanese tea ceremony, country music, war on drugs, Ben Shapiro, NASCAR, hunting, confederate flag, Sarah Palin, John McCain, Tucker Carlson, Fox & Friends, Mitch McConnell, Paul Ryan, Jeff Sessions, Ann Coulter, Ben Carson, Breitbart News, Steve Bannon, Brexit, Hitler, Mao, Mussolini, Rodrigo Duterte, caning in Singapore, death penalty, segregation, Jim Crow laws, whining about reverse racism, etc.

Newsom can win, that doesn't connect with rest of your question. Newsom is just a typical lib politician like Clinton or Biden or Obama. There doesn't need to be some special truth-movement for a guy like Newsom to win. Eventually people will get sick of MAGA. The issue is that Newsom won't solve our deep structural problems any more than Biden did. I see no solution on the horizon for any of our structural problems, regardless of who wins. The problems are too deep for any one guy to fix it.

When I say liberal, I mean anyone left of center. Diversity is a value of the left, not the right. Leftists want more diversity, rightists want less. Do right-wingers want diversity of sex, race, religion, gender? No! They are psychologically incapable of handling diversity. Jordan Peterson still struggles to handle the idea of women working.

Liberals are more openminded than conservatives.

There's various ways to define those parameters. Psychedelics is the most obvious avenue. But there are others.

By getting very clear on your values and then just committing to following your values. There is no magic trick. You just start and you refuse to quit. I care about truth so I am willing to work towards it. But my discipline is not so great. Especially due to health problems, it's often just impossible for me to follow through on certain goals. Your problem is you don't want it bad enough.

Then you will remain Godless.

I have been so busy with stuff that I haven't played much chess.

Leology is the study of Leo.