Leo Gura

It's certainly possible to have a weird or scary mystical experience and then seek answers to make sense of it. Quite logical. It's just that his Christian answers are not gonna be much good. They're going to be very corrupted.

You don't have to develop at all if you don't want to. But if you follow Actualized.org then it's assumed that you care about developing. And if you are going to undertake the goal of developing yourself to high stages, that will involve emotional labor and suffering. It certainly won't be easy or automatic. Can you be happy without developing at all? That's an interesting question. It much depends on your psyche. Some psyches can be happy living unconsciously, others cannot. Could you just live a happy life of career, family, sex, success, travel, etc. and never think about development? Maybe. But you might also get stuck and unhappy doing that. Realistically, your life will stall out at some point and you will seek for solutions. Those solutions will involve development, which will involve work and suffering. It's like if you wanted to start a business. Starting a business involves suffering more so than if you didn't. Doing difficult things is difficult. There's no way around that other than not doing anything difficult. Which will ironically create its own kind of suffering. As the Buddha wisely said, life is suffering. This work is not about me or anyone telling what is good. It's about you recognizing the Good using your own conscious intelligence. The highest intelligence in you sees the Good, at least to some degree. The more development work you do, the clearer you will see the Good. Do you have to be good? Nope. You can be a psychopath. But you won't be happy with those results. The reason for being good is not because you're told but because your intelligence recognizes that it is objectively the best way to live. Living badly is not intelligent.

I think most people who lack social intelligence are just lacking massive social experience. They could also be neuro-divergent which makes their brains slower in seeing reality from a social point of view. Picking up social cues has a genetic component. Even caring about the social domain has a genetic component. Some brains just don't care. You can't be great at someting you don't care about.

Sure, that's part of the package.

Bernie's whole appeal is he has the vibe of a genuine decent human being who truly cares about working people. Which is very rare in among politicians. He has vibe of a genuine authentic populist. Bernie also appeals to voters who care about policy. Such voters do exist.

Maybe that's true, for you. But this topic is not about you. Just because you managed to dodge the ideology says nothing about the vast majority of Christians. We are not talking about you. We are talking an entire religion. Just because you are the most Woke person on the planet says nothing about the religion. Even in North Korea there are people who manage to do well for themselves. The issue is North Korea, not that one person's success. The argument being made by advanced Christians is like this: "Hey, stop talking shit about North Korea. Look. I'm North Korean and I managed to do so well for myself. Stop hating on North Korea." This kind of reasoning would never be acceptable in any neutral and objective situation. It is only acceptable when one has a profound bias towards Christianity which requires it to be true. Just the bias created by being Christian is already a profound corruption of Mind.

Here's a prime example of Mark Zuckerberg just being utterly stupid about government and politics. Obviously Zuckerburg is not a stupid man. But in the domain of politics he's like child. This is how many intelligent people are when it comes to understanding government. To understand government actually requires serious philosophy, which is why the US founding fathers were all philosophers and deep students of the ancient Greeks and Romans. You can't build a nation like America on the childish libertarian ideas of Joe Rogan and Zuckerberg. Their level of understanding of polity is just embarrassing. And these guys have relatively high IQ. Imagine how a low IQ voter thinks.

These people are not stupid. I was talking about the average voter. However, you have to remember that politics is a very special domain. Intelligence does not directly translate into knowledge of government and politics. So you can be very intelligent in other areas but then stupid specifically on politics. So while I would say that those people are intelligent, on politics specifically they are stupid. And they are also corrupt. You have to take into account how much corruption shapes one's politics. Rich and famous people, especially, prefer to side with power vs challenging. Beautiful.

https://www.actualized.org/insights/the-danger-of-stupidity

Of course that's what I'm saying. I've been saying that for years. When I call people stupid, I truly mean it. I'm not just being arrogant or immature. You have to realize just how stupid the average human is. This is like an existential realization. It's not polite to ever say in public because of course people will hate you for saying it. But be careful because not everyone is stupid. But if we are talking about the average voter, then yeah, the ignorance is so deep that it will be hard for an Actualizer to understand. It is a mistake to assume people are more intelligent than they are. This is a mistake that many progressives make and one of the key reasons they lose elections. It is a deep paradox that mankind is both so intelligent yet so stupid.

Obviously! Of course vibes and popularity is relative to your opponent. Kamala had vibe problems.

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It's not irrelevant because the base needs to be jazzed up to win elections. Swing voters certainly find Trump's fascist vibes appealing. To them Trump represents masculine power, strength, economic success.

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To you. His base loves his vibes, and so do many swing and indie voters. Trump is a master of vibes. His vibes are exactly what drive people to vote. His vibes are perfect for half the country.

Do not equate this to Covid or inflation. People will not feel or notice climate change or butchering of medicaid. This is an optics game. Even when Trump screws thing up the ignorant social media will scapegoat wokeness and blame the wokes. You can't win this battle on facts. It's all about people's perceptions. Most importantly it's about the perceptions of the more ignorant people. Ignorant people don't understand climate change, medicaid, government agencies, nor institutions. They don't care! They care about guns, Jesus, and Joe Rogan making fun of women with dicks. Can you crack a good woman-with-a-dick joke? Then you got the right vibes. In politics, you're dealing with children. Children want candy, not a policy lecture about climate change and systemic racism.

Obviously it's more than just vibes. The reason I insisted on vibes is to correct people who overlook the vibes and get lost in policy debates. The point is not that it's only about vibes. The point is that it's more about vibes than intelligent people want to admit. I often say simplistic and exaggerated things just to correct for the absurd views people have. It's meant to be a slap in the face. When Kyle Kuliniski or Cenk Uygur is rambling on and on about how popular progressive policies are in the polls, he needs to be slapped across the face. Because he's missing the point and misleading the audience.

By demon he means a poor brown person begging for coins on the street corner as Tucker drives by in his Range Rover while sipping his latte?

You can even boil the principle down to this: Just vote for the least toxic candidate.

That's so simplistic. Obviously Biden's vibes took a nose-dive during 4 years of the media ecosystem beating on him. And even just his age. Vibes look bad when Biden mubbles on TV and hardly walks. Also, Biden got a huge advantage in 2020 due to Trump mishandling Covid. Covid basically lost Trump the 2020 election.

@martins name My notion of "highest stage" excludes toxic versions of all stages. Obviously you don't vote for an unhealthy toxic verison, unless the alternative is an even lower toxic version.

It doesn't matter if he did. What matters is that people blamed him for it. He was pretty decent. He was over demonized by the right and the left because both extremes want an extremist, and Biden is just normal.

Vote for the highest stage running who has a decent chance of winning. That's the principle. Do not vote for people who have no chance of winning even if they are Jesus. Jesus is never going to win an election so don't even consider that option.

That's the trap. The truth is that you don't know if it will work out. But instead of just accepting that, Christians force faith on themselves. Faith really means: you don't know but you wanna act like it will go your way because your survival needs it to go your way. I don't need faith that a crocodile will not eat me. I just don't know. Maybe a crocodile will eat me one day. That's the simple truth. Whereas Christians walk around telling themselves every day that they have faith that a crocodile will not eat them. This faith will be eventually broken by God because it isn't true. It is not just that Christians have faith in God. They always conflate faith and God with their personal and social survival needs, which is a corruption. The problem isn't merely that Christians are corrupt, it's that Christian ideology necessarily creates corruption. Their corruption is not coincidental, it is causal. My argument is, if you want to free yourself of corruption, let go of Christian ideology.

This video does not contradict vibes it confirms vibes. Biden had bad vibes. Vibes are also set by media. Alternative social media ruined Biden's vibes with their ignorant analysis and spread Trump's macho fascist vibes. That alone is enough to shift an election. Of course inflation was a huge novel factor. The development of people doesn't change fast enough to swing elections. What changes is how the media inflames and stokes the fears and passions of various development stages by playing up the vibes. That's exactly what swings elections. It doesn't matter what the actual stages are, what matters is how they are preceived. If you demonize Green all over social media, Green will lose.