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There's a good article rooted around evolutionary psychology that basically sums up the drive behind human behavior... https://www.woujo.com/blog/2020/12/29/woujos-guide-to-anxiety-and-depression Loneliness is basically an evolutionary sign that a human feels disconnected from a sense of belonging, to being part of a tribe, being loved, being appreciated. Like it or not we are not genetically wired to be loners.

It's a minor inconvenience because not all content creators make great video. One creator's car crash compilation video might not be as good as another's and dislikes are a quick way to figure out if the video is good before watching it. Not that many content creators are getting legit trolled... perhaps the Biden administration is but they can just remove the dislikes from official government organizations if they don't want to allow the freedom of speech or criticism. In any case there's way too much content to consume and too little time to waste to spend it on youtube anyways.

Any chance I might have voted progressive has gone out the window, because they have turned into a party of cancel culture who want to silence the opposition and are quickly starting to resemble 1984 where they simply re-frame the narrative to what they want people to believe. I will continue to do personal development and practice radical acceptance but not while participating here much because of the progressive bias. I'll side with classical liberals like Bill Maher but not people who want to cancel culture you for simply expressing an opinion. It's a dangerous way to think, to play dictator. Human nature cannot be trusted, no matter how good the intentions. The road to hell is paved with good intentions. https://multipolar-magazin.de/artikel/i-cannot-do-it-anymore https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xR0eCp3ToM Aaron Rodgers has even had a change of heart, criticizing cancel culture recently. The article above from the German magazine is a well written summary of what is wrong with the modern progressive movement, as is the above CNN snippet. Take your cancel culture and shove it. Checks and balances and freedom of speech are paramount to keep civilization healthy. Laterz.

All I know is that the democrat party in the US has burnt bridges with me, and it's not because of conspiracy theories.. the media constantly tells half truths and lies, has a bias towards a narrative they promote, and the ruling class constantly break the rules they make for everyone else and almost flaunt that they do this. I don't believe spiritual growth necessarily means adopting progressive values if the people with those values believe the ends justify the means which many of them do in the US. We have much more toxic stage green here than in other countries. Playing dictator to force people to assimilate to your value system is not something I believe in. Lying to achieve an objective is not a valid approach from where I stand. Nor is cherry picking the parts of the story you want to promote. I've come to see a healthy assimilation of all the spiral dynamics stages is more healthy than person who is radically indoctrinated to believe in one stage. The ability to see things from multiple perspectives is very important. The ability to take criticism is important. The ability to question oneself and one's beliefs is important. I get the impression that many progressives want to spare people from this hard emotional labor and just tell them what to think... assimilate them to be radical greenies from a young age. I wouldn't have grown to the extent I have if I hadn't walked through all the shit I have in life... if I didn't have the ability to see things from a blue/red/orange perspective.

My father's girlfriend coddled his son and always makes excuses for why he can't be independent and thus he's 41 years old living with his grandma working part time. My one big criticism of stage greenies is they've forgotten the concept of tough love and emotional labor.. I mean Leo mentions emotional labor in his videos and yet we live in a culture where more and more people preach equity and want to coddle everyone and umbrella parent all of society. It's not healthy. The most healthy children come from having a strong father figure and mother figure in the family. When either is missing, the kid is not raised on a optimal setting. I'm not saying kids can't turn out well with a single parent, especially if that parent has strong masculine and feminine traits, but it's not ideal or optimal. It would actually be healthier for the child if they were raised with parents that were hard on them and caused them to leave the house early and become independent versus a household where they are coddled so much they never leave, in my opinion. The harder the life, the more bullshit one goes through, the greater capacity for growth. Hardship creates growth opportunities.

That's very location dependent. Housing costs vary wildly right now as do rental costs even from city to city based on supply and demand. I pay $750/month in rent while making around $30/hour and can easily get by in my situation, but I live in South Dakota. You can find employers now that will pay more than $20/hour starting around here, but you'll likely have to work full time. Looking at Rentals in Tucson AZ, I'd say it may be doable, especially if you get a roommate. There are rentals that are alright in the $700 range there.

Evolution of DNA occurs constantly. Read the book Evolution 2.0. Good read. If you don't use it you will lose it. Things we can expect... weaker immune systems from being in more sanitary environments, more pale, easy to burn skin from more time inside and use of sunscreens, changes in the shapes of our feet due to the use of shoes, and likely more and more loss of hair over time as we don't spend lots of time in cold environments outside. Larger brains and higher IQs over time. Better control of our animal impulses over time, as they are no longer necessary to propagate the species to the degree they were. We'll also likely lose our keen senses over time as we spend less time requiring them for survival. All this changes if we start to genetically engineer though... or even if all we did was copy the DNA of modern humans to preserve a lot of our positive traits like our acute senses. 100 years from now we'll likely be able to customize our children with any variety of traits. DNA is really just complex computer code created by some intelligence we are not aware of. https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/amazing-dna/

I got the vaccine but clips like this make me not feel overly confident about the decision. I'm just joking.. I've done my DD on mRNA vaccines and don't fear the Moderna shot I got. My mother is staunchly anti-vaccine because she visits Godlikeproductions a lot and has swallowed a lot of the anti-vaccine Kool aid. My father hasn't gotten it either as he eats plant based and believes the high amount of anti-oxidants in his diet will be enough. I don't really care and don't push it on people. Get it or not.

I have nothing against vaccines and got my second Moderna shot back on April, but one should take into consideration that the idea that the unvaccinated aren't necessarily harming people, that the virus is most likely to mutant among the vaccinated group, because it will be looking for ways to adapt to the vaccine. An organism will take the path of least resistance unless it has to adapt for some reason, it's basic science. If an invader comes upon force, it will look for tactics to try to get past the defenses. Plain, basic law of nature and evolution. If the virus is getting killed by the vaccine, it's among the vaccinated new strains will emerge. I believe the virus is here to stay, and as a society we will have to learn to accept it and get on with life, and I just have to say, I am done with masks and will not spend the rest of my life with a mask on. I don't care what any progressives think about it. It's not going to happen. I think it's a form of psychological abuse to expect that out of an entire planet, to expect kids in masks at school all day long, forever? For the next 100 years? No. Just no. I will not comply. My kids will not comply. I'll take natural selection and take my chances. You do realize doing that would just make the immune system less able to defend itself over time and we'd end up with the same problem. If you don't use it, you're going to lose it. It's the same reason people in third world countries tend to have much more hardy immune systems that can withstand the garbage they have to eat and drink compared to modern countries. In the end, natural selection is going to win out at least until we get the technology to play God and re-write the rules, which will come in time.

I was tempted to start a thread here asking people what they think of equity. Do people think giving equal outcome without equal effort is a healthy solution to cultural problems? I haven't spend a ton of time here yet but enough time to know there's lot of progressives with ideologies I don't necessarily agree with but that's alright.

For what it's worth, burn cycles are a natural part of forests in the western part of the United States. They are bound to occur, and have always occurred. They are part of the natural life cycle of a forest. Until we start seeding clouds and producing rain, burns will be around. https://www.newsweek.com/dubai-creates-fake-rain-using-drones-battle-122-degree-heat-1611887

It fulfills Maslow's hierarchy of needs. It's hard to focus on higher spiritual pursuits when you are lacking in your base needs. It's much easier for a typical man to practice tolerance, acceptance, kindness, and selflessness when he finds his "twin flame" ... at least this is the case for many men. It helps you grow.. all interactions do in my opinion. It helps if she is more mature and deeper versus pop culture indoctrinated of course and not overly materialistic or shallow. Our DNA is wired to want that connection.

Intellectual knowledge is not the same as getting your emotional animal (limbic) brain along for the ride, or getting the learning incorporated into daily habits (the subconscious mind) ... a basic premise of personal development and mentioned by Leo in many videos... intellectual knowledge is not substitute for practical experience. The experience and the repetition gets that programming into the part of your brain that is impulsive and acts on habit. My intellect might have lots of stage yellow "beliefs" while my subconscious still has lots of revenge and anger thoughts from past traumas. Getting through those is the "emotional labor" that Leo talks about. His video on addictions and his video on how to deal with strong negative emotions, where you just sit there and feel them without letting them control you, while changing your mind about the whole scenerio... takes time, not easy, especially the older you get....

And as it has been since before the era of the great empires... Romans, Vikings, Aztecs, Egyptions, etc... throughout history the elites have struggled with ways to keep the masses under control. Is reality a simulation? Are we souls incarnating in a playground that we created because oneness became too boring? You're assuming God cares about the end result of this simulation... whether the economy collapses or not, whether Cuban rebels get slaughtered or not... if there is karma, and reincarnation, it's meaningless in the grand scheme of things. Our species will be long extinct before the sun goes Red Giant in our simulation, which is but the blink of an eye in the entirety of "existence." Now, don't forget that the extended warranty on your car is about to expire! "As I was saying, the solution to our real enemy--boredom--turned out to be mortality. There were practical reasons for this. God pondered over a concept which eventually came to be known as time. Because in order to beget a damn thing outside of Source, there had to be an artificial construct to build into as well as the possibility of a beginning and an ending to act as bookends. In other words, it had to be finite or it would not solve the problem of a reprieve away from eternity and infinity. Sometimes infinity is a pain in the ass, and no one knew this better than God." We we need to do is figure out a way to crash the simulation. Chuckle. Maybe hijack the operating system and learn to re-code the program to suit our needs.. not just DNA which we will have mastered within 100 years but some of the basic laws of nature... at that point we can travel to distant "planets" within the simulation.

I would have taken away insurance coverage for people who got covid unvaccinated without a good reason for not getting it. I mean if you get covid, voluntarily chose not to get the vaccine because of an anti-vaccine mentality, why should the government or insurance companies have to pay for your ventilator? They never want to use operant conditioning to get people to do the right thing. They just nag them, or force them. I would have "highly encouraged" them by letting them gamble on whether they want a $150,000 hospital bill or not. Hopefully they are working on booster shots if needed. I'll get mine with the flu shot in October if offered. Also, some conspiracies are worth pursuing. If Fauci or some other government officials are funding experiments with lab viruses and this one got out, it's worth knowing about and having accountability held. People in power have a history of hiding their misdeeds from the public, and it's human nature to want to play detective.

If there's one thing I got from Leo's video on conspiracy theories, it's "so what" ... even if such and such a conspiracy is true, so what? It it going to make me a happier or better person to know that? That said my ego is still an information junkie and I still enjoy digging around especially in the sciences. I have very much a live and let live mentality. I don't meddle in other's lives, they don't meddle in mine, and all is good. Transgenders can marry, guy on the ranch can own his guns, guy at work can smoke his pot, it's all good. That said, I don't subscribe to many of the progressive ideologies the majority here subscribe too. Around where I live people fear having to mask up and lockdown again more than they fear simply getting the virus and getting on with life. I disagree with having to lock down society once again. If this virus is going to mutate like the flu there's no way I will spend the rest of my life with a mask on. Throughout the history of our species viruses took out the genetically weakest individuals, leaving the strong to survive, and I believe a certain level of "survival of the fittest" mentality is healthy, and fits the science, and that more damage can be done by over-reacting to a virus than the virus itself... that is to say the treatment is worse than the disease in numerous ways. Let's hope the Delta variant does hold up to the mRNA vaccines because I don't look forward to more months and years of this.

I'm not sure the exact graphic but this point in this documentary shows why debt based banking can be problematic and it's also the reason they are trying to peg interest rates at zero by controlling the bond markets or even having negative rates despite inflation much higher than the manufactured numbers: https://youtu.be/4AC6RSau7r8?t=1466 The whole idea behind the great reset is debt monetization. They want to salvage the system by monetizing debt or inflating it away, to pay for all the social programs they can't otherwise afford with lower birth rates and more people taking from the system without contributing.

I've had forward and rear facing dashcams for some time. Might consider that also. Don't take anyone at their word. I haven't captured a convenient cop worth posting yet... just some people who threw their fast food garbage out the window on the interstate.

Radical acceptance. Why is it so important everyone thinks the way you do on every issue? Honestly I don't know what to think when it comes to worldview anymore so I'd rather just say screw it, and work on undoing karma, trying to be accepting, loving, and all that. Mask or no mask, guns or no guns, vaccines or no vaccines, marijuana or no marijuana, so much focusing on the trees instead of the big picture.... Someone else can fight those battles. As long as we don't start trending towards marxism, I'm not going to worry about it too much.

To me the idea of aliens visiting here would be simply common sense, so regardless of the validity of the video I don't really give this issue much thought anymore. Yes I enjoyed the X-Files. To say we are the pinnacle of technological advancement and that alien civilizations couldn't possibly make the trip here, is a rather narrow viewpoint. Still, I'm not going to storm the Groom Lake base or spend all day researching UFOs... that would be a slippery slope into being one of those conspiracy nutjobs. A couple of quotes from the X-files I've always liked: "I just wanna say, everything you've seen here is equal to the protection we give it. It's you who have acted inappropriately." "There is an ancient Indian saying that something lives only as long as the last person who remembers it. My people have come to trust memory over history. Memory, like fire, is radiant and immutable while history serves only those who seek to control it, those who douse the flame of memory in order to put out the dangerous fire of truth. Beware these men for they are dangerous themselves and unwise. Their false history is written in the blood of those who might remember and of those who seek the truth." One of my favorite clips... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1K5Y1ZOZw8

I've posted this article before on city-data. I'm not convinced the idea of a mass melting pot is a good thing. My kind of ideal nation would be socially conservative, capitalism with heavy doses of social programs thrown in, and homogeneous, like the Nordic nations used to be before the "global elites" thought force feeding refugees on them would be a good idea. The problem comes down to the replacement rate and to be able to sustain social programs with lower birth rates, you need more young people (or robots) to keep the system sustainable. Hopefully we get the robot thing down in the next 25 years or so. You may need a VPN to bypass the paywall on this site. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/11/business/sweden-economy-immigration.html

Reading about some of the things he did, his fetishes... it really shows what our animalistic evolutionary wiring and drives of our more primitive limbic brains are like when we don't try to control them. Seems like he built up more negative karma for himself that he'll have to work off in future lives, as Epstein did. Their demise might be considered karma coming back to hit them. I'm convinced a certain subset of the population would thrive under a Postman scenerio.. that some actually crave it. It would allow their animal natures to fly free... most of our cravings, impulses, and feelings coming from evolutionary animalistic drives. All this makes me wonder how many supposed "yogis" and other mystics of the past weren't actually narcissists and sociopaths. Some were, some weren't, I'd imagine. In order to become famous enough to be passed down in historical texts, you had to appeal to the crowd in some way. To be honest I never heard of him until his death, aside from using his anti-virus software once upon a time. These quotes about him are part of the documentary "Gringo" https://letterboxd.com/film/gringo-the-dangerous-life-of-john-mcafee/ "The strange story of John McAfee, who went from millionaire software mogul to yogi, Kurtz-like jungle recluse to potential murderer, and most recently a prospective presidential candidate for the American Libertarian Party." "From inventing the ubiquitous McAfee antivirus software to running a suspiciously criminal compound in Belize to making insanely bullish and grossly phallocentric Bitcoin bets to eating shit (literally), this guy legit existed on the fringe. With a stockpile of guns, a harem of young Belize women, and an entourage of gangsters hired as bodyguards / periodic hitmen (he totally paid someone to kill that dude who crossed him & killed his dog), Gringo offers visual proof that orthodox laws and norms never applied to the infamous life of McAfee. This is obviously why he found himself exiled to exotic locales where venal politics and bribery ruled everyday society. "

I think we incarnate here to learn lessons and undo karma and the best way to do that is to subject ourselves to discomfort and fall on our asses and have to pick ourselves back up on our own. To me the idea of an over-reaching socialist utopia that tries to save everyone from everything and make it so they never have to be a wage slave, get bailed out from everything, etc, is counter to the idea of growth, spiritual or otherwise. Also in the US it seems to me like it's the progressives that promote the racism they claim to be trying to solve, by constantly playing identity politics, telling minority groups how supposedly oppressed they are and thus stirring anger within them, and when they don't play the oppression game suddenly they don't matter. For example more and more asians aren't being considered people of color, because when they come to this country they work hard and make something of themselves, rather than sitting and screaming "victim." I've heard Leo talk about community responsibility in his videos but to me that only goes so far.. you have to have personal responsibility also. US politics in general turns me off... both sides are so corrupt and try to buy people's votes while spending the majority of their time in politics raising money for themselves. The amount of blatant hypocrisy is astounding. To me all this political stuff is really not making me happy, and a waste of time though. I know what I should be doing, versus what I am doing. I avoid this place because lately in the last couple of years it's taken the direction that campaigning for causes is a good thing, but that's not what enlightenment is really about. Advanced yogis transform people merely by their high vibration, and that high vibration comes from a state of radical acceptance of what is, not making the dream real and trying to be some spiritual warrior. It comes from living by example... focusing one one's own development rather than what everyone else is doing. Honestly I'm surprised the reincarnation aspect isn't discussed here more. If there's no reincarnation there's literally no point to to undoing karma at all.. if we just die and nothing in this life actually matters or carries on into future lives. In Leo's video on addictions he said that when you die that's it, you are gone for billions of years. Perhaps his view has evolved since he made that video... Why not just take the blue pill? There's plenty of happy people in my state that some might call "asleep" ... they work hard, own a house, have a family that makes them happy, they take that family on vacations, post pictures of their kids on social media, take them to sporting events, and all that traditional nuclear family stuff. Utah is one of the happiest states in the US because they follow these traditional values of Mormonism... so who's to say what the right way to live is, what kind of politics are right for a culture? This is why I want to ditch my politics.. I see it as largely pointless. Chuckle. I just get turned off by the state green elitism here sometimes... I'm so progressive so I'm so much more evolved than the peasants... no, you are not. It would do all of us good to get off our high horses and ditch our spiritual egos... myself included.

In my area there's simply no supply, so to try buying a house, which is more space, upkeep, etc, than I need, would mean doubling or more my monthly living costs. In the US companies like Blackrock are now using what is in my opinion bad fiscal mismanagement by central banks by suppressing interest rates and giving out low interest loans and massive QE to buy up residential real estate. The more they buy, and rent out, the more capital they start to accumulate, and the more they can buy and the big just become bigger and bigger. I would have allowed all these bubbles to deflate themselves even if it meant temporary discomfort for much of the population. I'd also bar large LLCs and corporations from buying up mass amounts of single family residential real estate. My total monthly costs for rent are around $750/month for a 2 bedroom apartment with garage. To buy any house right now those costs would double or more, because nothing is coming up for sale and it's all quite expensive for South Dakota standards. I'd rather not be a wage slave just to live so I pass on that. The danger is the reckless fiscal policy continues and inflates away people's wage... 3% yearly raises with 8-10% inflation rates. A lot of them are participating in the meme stock bubble or already own houses and profiting off all these paper gains though so not everyone is complaining. If they happen to be on the winning side of the trade... https://www.yardeni.com/pub/peacockfedecbassets.pdf

Throughout the history of the evolution of our species, humans were backstabbed by individuals they thought they could trust, so it's wired into our DNA to a degree to question authority. That's the simple answer, really. Why are there people who feel the need to force their lifestyle preferences on the entire population and have some socialist collective? Those same biological drives.