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Terrible. A vote only has value if it goes towards someone who has a decent chance of winning. I'm not a fan of symbolic voting. To me that's a wasted vote. BTW, Bernie IS an independent! He's an indepedent senator. He's merely running as a Democrat because it is practical.

Taxing consumption is terrible because most wealth is never consumed, it sits in bank accounts, while poor people get taxed. We need to specifically tax wealth so it does not accumluate at the top.

@montecristo Yang's UBI will actually turn into a net-win for Republicans. Yang will reduce welfare programs to fund his UBI, then when the Republicans come back into power years later they will just end the UBI and the welfare programs would already be crippled. Thus creating big step back. One of the key problems with UBI is that it's so easy to end it. What's necessary is to build deep-rooted infrastructure and systems which cannot be cut easily in the future, like Medicare and Social Security. Unfortunately the UBI has no infrastructure behind it, making it weak to cutting.

Trading stocks is a bad idea overall because you are not actually generating any value for the world. So the likelihood of failure is enormous. Make yourself valuable. Become a massive value provider if you wish to break free of wage slavery.

@Surfingthewave Everything changes 360 degrees, leaving you right where you began. But with a higher understanding. Everything is the same, but nothing is quite the same. After enlightenment, the laundry.

@Etherial Cat There is a degree of integrity at any stage. But the higher the stage the more consistent it tends to be. It varies a lot from person to person. Yes, Orange can have high integrity. Howard Stern might be a good example.

@electroBeam You scratch my back, I scratch yours. You jerk me off, I jerk you off 69 baby! Snake eating its own tail. God's masturbatorium.

@Merkabah Alone vs together, one vs many is a duality. Guys, watch the dualistic framing of your questions very carefully. Sloppy framing leads to poor understanding. Just by framing your question as me vs you, that's already wrong. Me = you By distinguishing me from you, you create my ego and your ego simultaneously. Self/other is the very first duality.

@electroBeam You are assuming there is a difference between me being real vs you imagining me. But there is no such difference when everything is imagination! Unless you imagine there is, in which case there becomes a difference for you. Ta-da!

@Inliytened1 You are correct. Anti-capitalism is a trap. There needs to be an intelligent synthesis of capitalism and socialism. Which is really already the case. We do not live in a purely capitalist system and we never have.

@Commodent Yes, that is the core problem with his version of UBI. He is still too much business-minded about government. Government is not and should not be a business.

You are the final authority as to what is "real" since you are God. Whatever you imagine to be real will appear real to you. And there is nothing outside you. I cannot tell you because I am just a fragment of your own mind. You must realize this and take back your authority rather than projecting it on me. Anything I tell you is actually you yelling yourself. It's a mindfuck for sure.

Both of course! You ARE experiencing my perspective! That just means you are living my life and have zero knowledge of ever having been you. Which is literally what I am. I am just you minus all your memories and experiences, plus all of my memories and experiences. My life is your life. Your life is my life. When you become me, you become fully me! Which means no more old you. God is an infinite multi-parallel processing hallucination. It has no limits.

@Etherial Cat Yes, that's why integrity is such an important quality in a good leader. Which is why Trump is such a terrible leader. He does not even know the meaning of that word. Bernie has amazing integrity. High integrity comes with consciousness. So as our society becomes better as elevating the consciousness of all citizens, we will have more high-integrity leaders (and followers).

All 3 are the same.

I never said that. Careful what you assume. I do not support binary classifications of consciousness. Of course trickery is not a negative. It is Creation! It's beautiful. The whole process of awakening is full of suffering because the ego has to processes all of its own bullshit. But this a purification process. So it's positive in the long-run. No pain no gain. The devil will not leave your body peacefully or quietly. There will be moments of great self-doubt and self-loathing.

She is good. Too good to win. Oh the irony of life!

I am well aware of Yang. I watched many of his interviews and speeches. He is definitely very authentic, smart, and in some ways visionary. But I have some serious problems with his proposals: He uses UBI as a universal solution to too many issues. UBI is good but it cannot solve all the problems he proposes. He wants to fund UBI through VAT taxes, which is a bad idea in my opinion because it is a tax on the poor not the rich. His UBI also goes to rich people who don't need it at all and it counts against other government benefits like social security and food stamps. He is against free college for all. He is against Medicare For All. He is against $15 minimum wage. He seems to hold some libertarian notions. He does not directly question the structural problems of capitalism itself. Yang is good, but Bernie is better. If Bernie proposed a UBI, Yang would basically have nothing left to stand on. I think Bernie should propose a UBI in addition to everything else he stands for. I give Yang lots of credit for proposing UBI in the first place, and for talking about job automation. The final problem is: he simply doesn't poll well. I don't think he has a serious chance of winning the primary. Of course that could change, but Bernie has much better odds in my estimation. But in the end if Yang wins, I would be happy too.

I have warned you guys so many times about self-deception. Go back and re-watch my self-deception 3 part series. It's very important and you still don't appreciate how serious this problem is. This work is devilishly tricky. No, you cannot use concepts or science if you wish to understand the deepest levels of what reality is. There is no reason why you should feel entitled to that. Sure, I use concepts all the time to teach, but the difference is, I understand their limitation whereas you do not.

Illusion IS reality. So if you think you have a past, you literally do! However you hold reality is what becomes real for you. Since you are God. What people don't generally understand is the constructive nature of the mind. Reality is not a given. It is constructed by you. People do not like to take responsibility for being The Creator. It is a radical degree of responsibility.

No, all of that is God's imagination. LOL You are hopelessly lost, son. Lost in your own mind. Listen to the wisdom of those who have escaped their minds.

Of course there are dangerous. Awakening is a very radical thing. We are basically talking about renouncing your whole life. There will be times when you will feel depressed, insane, and even suicidal. All of this comes with territory. And there are many more dangers. Too many to list them all.

If the button is gonna be pushed, might as well smile

@7thLetter Much more conscious forms of manipulation are of course possible, and the whole point of our work here. Actualized.org is a collection of more consciousness self-manipulation strategies which ultimately point the way to transcending manipulation.

1) You haven't seen the full depth of it. Not even close. 2) People need to understand how radical this work is. Otherwise they are deceived. It's important to properly communicate how it FEELS from the subjective POV of the ordinary human. To play it off cool is just dishonest. It is incredibly radical. And it is dramatic. It is not a walk in the park to realize God. So let's not pretend it is.