@Rinne Pretty much all stock investing is leeching, even if you are doing long-term investment.
Just ask yourself, what work are you doing to add genuine creative value to the world? And you will quickly see where you are a leech.
Even when you invest into a 401k for retirement, you are still fundamentally a leech. You expect others to work for you for nothing.

@Mythos Stocktrading is not a replacement for a job/career.
To get a job you need marketable skills. The problem is not the economy. The problem is your lack of skills. If you were well-skilled you would be hired quickly no matter what the economy.

And, as I said all along, daytraders are not your friend:
You guys are too easily hyped. Learn this lesson for the future.
In the future, expect Wall Street to hijack social justice movements to make mad money. That's what you invite them to do when you act like a mindless herd animal.
And the only difference between hedge fund managers and daytraders is the amount of money they have.

Cancel Culture: when conservatives would stone homosexuals, blacklist socialists, do witch burnings, torture heretics, and demonize all other cultures but their own.

I realized that I was addicted to self help when I realized that most of my interests revolve around it and that I tend to base my self worth on how conscious I am being. Part of me was attracted to self help because I genuinely wanted to be the best I could be but I would be lying if I said that this is the only thing that drew me to it. Another part of me was attracted to self help because I think that there is something inherently wrong with me and that I need to make up for lost time because I have all of this potential that I haven't tapped into yet. While this addiction has helped me grow a lot as a person, I'm starting to see the limitations of it for me personally. I also realize that getting over self help is also a form of self help since I'm working through an addiction I have. It's a paradox lol.
But yeah, how do I deal with this?  

Lol
You don't get it.
YOU are all there is. There is no discontinuity in Spira's consciousness because YOU are conscious!
For fuck's sake. Your conscious is Absolute and there is no other.
You guys are arguing pure delusion. All your arguments are wrong. They are not even within the same plane as Truth.

No, I think it's just a matter of social evolution.
The culture has shifted up since 2008. The Overton window has shifted. People get more liberal as society evolves -- even despite MAGA. Conservatives are usually fighting a losing battle. Every liberal president who is elected pushes the envelop forward a bit. Which is why progressives need to calm the fuck down and be patient. It's not going to happen overnight.
8 years of Biden/Kamala will move us considerably forward even if they are neoliberals.

@Striving for more I think I told you on a different post already.
Rsd inner circle on facebook. Its a group to find wings. I found people on RSD inner circle Barcelona. You look up any big cities near you and you should get into the group on Facebook, Whatsapp or Telegram
 
 

When I experience people with really cleaned up mind and psyche I feel so nice in their presence despite them not really being woke. It's amazing, really. I'd even say they are actually quite woke but in their own way. Just more of a secular definition of woke ness
Healthy psyches = Healthy beings
I feel we just need more holistically healthy people in general and the world will already turn into much better and much more woke place for anyone

It is a shame the RSD forum was shut down. That place had some golden gems amidst a sea of toxic things too.
One of the coolest things about it was that you could use it to find wings in any city in the world.
You could just be like, "Hey, I'm going to Vegas for the weekend. Who will wing me?" and you'd find at least a few guys. I found some good wings that way.

https://samharris.org/subscriber-extras/waking-up-jim-newman/
Jim Newman apparently still has anger arising caused by bad drivers, Sam can abide in non-duality 'when he remembers' and sees anger as impossible then.
1h40min of pure delight 
This chat was the most useful to get Jim Newman's non-message, compared to any other talks or interviews I've seen of Jim.

Yeah....
That ain't how a straight male's mind works. When I look at porn, I don't even see the guy.
You definitely got some queerness going on. Time for you to get honest with yourself and figure out what the hell you want sexually/romantically.

Plenty of people develop no-mind but are still dogmatic.
The problem is that an empty mind does not guarantee that when your mind starts turning it doesn't turn out shit.
Emptying your goldfish's bowl does not guarantee him what he really needs, which is clean water.
The opposite of dirty water is not no water, it is clean water.

Well, the good news is that most of them lose money already, so justice is served

That is a dogma.
Sam Harris is not awake. And of course he cannot admit this to his audience as it would discredit and embarrass him and shake their materialist, rationalist worldview. So he plays these games and fools him audience along with him. They have no clue how wrong his epistemology and metaphysics is.

To create massive value you must develop yourself and build the necessary knowledge, expertise, wisdom, and skills.
Just because you make some easy cash fast does not mean you have a clue as to how to use it to create massive value. In fact there will be an inverse relationship there because if you were serious about creating massive value you would not be chasing easy money in the first place.
I'm not saying don't invest your money. But recognize the difference between prudent investing vs gambling and hoping to get rich for nothing.
The truth is that nobody knows the real value of crypto. So you're just gambling. Just because you get lucky does not make it not gambling. Be careful not to fool yourself that you know things which you don't really know.
It's very easy to fool yourself with investing, especially when you're chasing some craze like crypto. You buy into social media hype and get so excited you stop thinking straight.

Most people's method for awakening is like trying to catch fish with bare hands.
Horribly ineffective. And then when you tell them to use a net or stick of dynamite they demonize you for it because they have been brainwashed that unless a fish is caught with bare hands it isn't a real fish.
Human spiritual technology is still in the Dark Ages. Like trying to saw down a tree with your teeth because you saw a beaver do it that way.

Your framing is wrong. It's not random at all.
It's like saying that catching fish is random. Only seems that way to unskilled fishermen.
If you use a stick of dynamite you will catch fish every time. But if you insist on catching fish with your hands, then you will struggle and it will seem random.

We will not be promoting day trading or other flakey get rich quick schemes on this forum.
If you want that, you've come to the wrong place.

What is your problem dude?  Why not just leave me alone than constantly attacking me all the time on this forum. 
Who are you to tell to leave the forum? You've no right. 
Learn to be respectful. Or don't talk to me at all from now on 
Why are you taking me out of context? 
Why are you using the word threatening? 
I was politely telling him that when he was creating a new thread I was going to use some of my  quotes for the discussion. My quotes. Not his. Do you even bother to read before attacking me? 
It was a polite request
Stop being disrespectful  and don't talk to me again. I don't like to engage with you. 
Leave me alone. 

Yup, that's how devilry happens.
@erik8lrl Don't bullshit us. China is definitely racist as fuck and they have a long history of doing evil shit like this in Tibet. They kidnapped one of the Dalai Lamas.
When I told this to my former Chinese girlfriend, she started to cry because it sounded so evil.
As bad as the US is, China is up to evil shit.

@Leo Gura LOL Can you imagine an old white bill gates like figure with grills (diamond studded teeth) tossing money around and smacking a girls arse on an expensive car?

Yup
Solid Orange people tend to be more modest about their wealth. Like Bill Gates or Warren Buffet. They have it, but their ego is not so insecure as to need to flaunt it in everyone's face.
Tacky displays of obscene wealth and luxury are a hallmark of a Red psyche.

I mean, he's not wrong...