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@thisintegrated He's mostly stage green, with open mindedness enough that gives him that stage yellow aspect, but he's not perfect in his ego development as he does have shadows of past stages to still work through.

@BuddhistLover This what I mean about being judgmental and dogmatic, and not about making distinctions. As long as people keep behaving similarly we will be making slow progress societally speaking. Keep in mind Leo used to follow Peter Ralston, who was a really good fighter in the past.

@Hardkill I don't know, more context is needed to determine if the ban was good or bad. An example of this is if the ban was a prohibition style, and wanting to revert the education system into a more traditional religious fundamentalist system. In sucb a system to unilaterally impose bans of safe sex education and sexuality would likely lead to nation wide sex repression and suppression, which can lead to unhealthy catharsis. On the other end, we also don't want to show too openly and too much either, in a reckless way that could lead to more perverted people later in life. Ultimately, we don't want to normalize behaviours that are hentai like in the education system, which is the deep fear of traditionalists and conservatives in the right, without suppressing sexuality that the left also fears, but we also want to normalize conversations and teachings in education settings, which is already a visceral problem for some who are parents to even think about and probably for some adults who care for children's wellbeing. We also have to accept that no matter what solution we propose and provide, we cannot make everyone happy with it. Who knows the full consequences really? Maybe this could cure the Incel red/blue/blackc pill problem that a growing number of young men are experiencing, because they received more sexual education at high school, and know theoretically how to fuck properly in college, and got sexual techniques and laid early to not make a big deal of it in university. But do you see what level society has to be to handle this delicate problem?

@Yarco I agree for the most part, at puberty and above can they teach sexual education along with gender roles and fields related and relevant a bit later. Below that is questionable for a teacher to teach that to elementary and primary schools, as they are still strangers but because they are at a teacher role and those are students, it's clear to see the discrepancy in power and authority. A teacher is like a second extension of a family unit in that way, so it's likely that students, most, will just listen and take in information without thinking critically about what they just internalized. Of course, policies and politics and the collective consciousness of the masses are very interconnected. Scandinavian countries for example, despite their violent history, might be willing as a people to teach about genders and other sexes today, as they are for the most part stage green countries with some stage yellow values and systems. When you see transformational dilemmas, that is just part of that group's development. Another tricky issue with sex education, is how do we know when to teach more or less as a society, in the education system? Taken to it's ultimate, extreme implication, is that we are essentially trying to cram a diverse and charged topic into curriculums, but that topic is both pornographic and intimate in nature. How do we determine the standards of how to pass on sexual knowledge and integrate that into a normal curriculum? How do we teach both the theory and application of that safely? Do we make it mandatory? If this is not treaded carefully, it can backfire very quickly, as this takes a delicate hand to be able to manage this issue. The how to do this is a tricky problem to solve. We want the younger generations to have healthier sexuality and teach sex in a safe way, but we don't want to teach too much or too quickly and early that it causes traumas and identity crisis sexually speaking.

This is a good example of art and science in synchronicity. You can be more intuitive and less scientific, you can be more scientific and less artsy, which is decent, but you can't be greater than that without the two synchronized with one another: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/apr/04/mind-blowing-ai-da-becomes-first-robot-to-paint-like-an-artist

@Someone here and Is decent advise. Just follow the suggestions and you'll have decent results. Advice on my part would include self introspection of your sexuality, sex preferences and limiting beliefs around sex, how sex and your ego interact, is it mainly coping mechanism?

@thisintegrated Actualized.org has if not one of the best teams of mods and moderation policies I've ever come across compared to typical social media forums. Yes, I'm biased as this forum is my first, and more time and energy spent here than in other forums, but seriously good moderating had here. Only few problems with mods in the past were misunderstandings and my sense of humour, that's mostly it. If you behave yourself and conduct yourself the right way, very few mod related problems if ever would happen.

@ZGROPIUS I personally would call that quote more judgmental than making distinctions and discernment, but as to if the author really meant it is up to debate. No, that's not what you do with making distinctions. You make distinctions by exposing yourself to more experiences related to what you want to do, and contemplating knowledge you learn, and applications, and comparing and contrasting and making interconnections, visualizing the problem and brainstorming solutions, and so on with many other ways. It's not helpful to strawman this author's and my experience as well into some little box. It's part of free speech, and freedom of expression of one's opinions worded in certain ways. That's what you artists really value as well right? Expressions? While it is partially true that some scientists, pragmatists and utilitarian's sometimes voice negative opinions, meanwhile artists, idealists and like minded people say far more aggressive opinions about pragmatists and logical/scientifically minded people, so when does it stop? When artists start to learn to actually be practical and not only fantastical, and learn to see from that side's point of view, POV, otherwise what's the point of learning linear perspectives and non linear perspectives in your early art classes and other art subjects? Why should a general statement from some random stranger trigger you? is it because it doesn't fit neatly into your world view, or? How about chill and learn to be rationale for some time and see if there's some value instead of being similarly dogmatic as the person that triggered you?. It's also possible to be both intuitive/emotional and creative while being logical, rational and scientific. That's called vision logic, which is where the few geniuses were at when inventing new stuff. That's a more healthier relationship between logic and intuition. Work yourself there.

@ZGROPIUS Discernment, not judging. Discerning and making distinctions is what you do if you want progress in skills.

@DrugsBunny @zurew Name one straight forward reply from Demon mama, to any one simple questions. Name one time where Demon mama actually stuck to one argument point ever? At this point she exhibits some of the dark triad personality traits like narcissism, sociopathy and Machiavellianism when she can't even answer honestly and straight forward without Gish galloping to irrelevant points.

Already thinking that something is full of something is paradoxical.

@integral The opposite is also true as well, lack of or too little information, images, sounds and feelings in that art field, and the lack makes it extremely hard to make an objectifiable standard for good or bad art and in between. Enough standards and contexts surrounding that art, makes it easier to discern your own progress in that field of whatever art field.

@integral Art is completely subjective and constructed? At this point in my life, the constructed part is much more obvious as I've always designed stuff in my head before putting it to paper using pens or pencils and contemplated it deeply, but is it completely subjective? Maybe when art is still in the abstract domain, but when a whole, or part of art is more and more contextualized and niched down into some field, then at that point it's now possible to build standards for 'good' and 'bad' art, and degrees in between because there's enough contrasts and comparisons to make in that field. I'm not sure it's completely subjective.

@Arthogaan Enough about me or any users here, what about you? What do you do for a living?

@Jon_Bundesen Most of the time, hobbies are not a waste of time, but maybe if such hobbies you treat like a full time or part time work, and spend too much time and energy that it effects some other parts of your life, then it's arguable it's wasting a bit of time and energy, so schedule times accordingly.

@Epikur Dunning-krunger effect at it's finest. Demonmama is so convinced that she's in the right, and is so habituated to weaseling and whataboutisms that it seems like that way of talking means being more right and winning. I'm surprised there's a fan base around this person.

@KoryKat Also most of other's criticism of him come mainly from YouTube's comments, some Youtube channels that are drama and reactionary, and small groups. A few reporters from very small independent news also critic him, but majority slander him on the psychedelics and spirituality angle. Other than that, if it's really serious to warrent a response, he would do so, but keep in in old Leo Gura was more reactive to these types. For example, 21 century boys commented on his good and evil don't exist video,and he had a back and forth with them.

@KoryKat He mostly doesn't, unless it's clear he had to at the time.

@hoodrow trillson Dude, why so triggered? I wasn't even attacking you, I was saying that reality is created by one's language, which creates a map over actual reality. I wasn't saying to stfu and don't discuss those issues. C'mon, don't you strawman me. Yes, in this limited communication format, we are discussing this issue at the surface level, but it can go deeper than that, because depending on one's stage, cognitive and moral development, states of consciousness, life experiences and other lines of development, these alpha/beta/sigma/omega/romeo/chads/giggachads, while being typologies, are and can change meanings when contexts change as well. I am not disagreeing on the relativity of alpha, beta, sigma and omega for example. One setting the man/woman is an alpha, but another setting a beta, and in another setting is seen as a sigma, and in another situation an omega. I'm not disputing this point. And not all beliefs we have, earlier ones, are bad. For survival, you have to own yourself! Otherwise, somebody else will. That's one major reason why we're in this self actualization journey, right? Better self esteem and responsibility? Extreme ownership? Less co-dependency?

@BlueOak Arguably speaking, Russia has the greater concentration and volume of nuclear warheads slightly more than the USA that are land based, and some with submarines. The USA has about equal in land, but slightly less volume, but much more polarise submarines in the oceans that could be anywhere, so MAD is still a factor. Question mark on how many are in satellites orbiting around us, or EMP weapons from either side.

@Gesundheit2 Running a website and forum can be hard sometimes, and then running a youtube channel, making and editing videos on top of that.

@hoodrow trillson Again, because language creates your reality, from one person's pov. These terms likely don't hold much meanings to you, but to them it's important atm. More importantly, you are self aware enough not to get lost in whatever reality that language creates, so really in practice you shouldn't be caring that much for those identified differently than you. Attaching and believing are part of survival, so it's not always a laughing matter. On some situations, attachment and belief can be a significant factor in helping you go through whatever you are going through.

A very interesting video I found. I'll be giving my thoughts on this after some time thinking it: https://youtu.be/QILpACNYw6o

@Husseinisdoingfine This proves there's collective ego, and how it evolves throughout time.

@Gesundheit2 I think that if a criticism is constructive, and the person is willing to give examples and explains to you your mistakes and what you could improve on, in a non judgemental way, then that criticism is from above. Any other criticism is from below, including the more emotionally charged ones.