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I like Windows and Android. I find it more user-friendly. I've basically grown up with it.

His other book on the Cashflow quadrants has a heavy focus on systems thinking, creating business systems. Isn't that Yellow? You're saying there's no Turquoise. Yeah he doesn't talk that much about non-duality, he talks more about money, personal finance, investing, etc. Maybe his target audience is folks at Orange/Green. But as a person, I think he's very evolved. He does sometimes talk about his awakening experiences when asked. He also talks about his Life purpose as the Rich Dad, which is selfless on his part. Coming up against the Fed, the education system, the mainstream investment markets, etc. is a massive risk for him as a person and as a brand. Also, he does talk about the inner work he does on himself. To be able to teach what he knows in such simple language such that the masses can understand takes a lot of awareness about the level of development of other people. It isn't enough to just put out information, you also need to account for potential resistance from your own audience. He's able to meet people where they're at, which is analogous to being a Spiral Wizard. As far as his company going bankrupt goes, well, all good things come to an end. He had a great run. Edit: Teaching people to manage personal finances really means teaching them to do shadow work around money. That involves being a kind of spiritual teacher. That involves waking them up about their shadows around money. That's very Turquoise imo. Try being a spiritual teacher, or try waking people up. You'll see just how difficult it is to get out of your bubble and meet people where they're at. I'm sure Leo will agree with me on this, that it takes unbelievably high personal awareness to do that.

I am Asian. Racism, judgement, prejudicial thinking in general is normal here. In fact, it's considered cool. The more out-of-the-norm your judgements are, the more cool you are. This is what I've grown up with. When I went to America, seeing Stage Green was a culture shock in a very good way. I was really happy to see people who were politically correct, cared about social justice. I felt very safe from judgement compared to here. I've heard immigrants say they're scared of racism from White people. From what I've seen, it is a projection of their definition of racism. The racism they've seen in their home countries is much much worse than racism in America. When American media really highlights the few racist incidents on TV, the world hears about it and this makes people project a much darker image of America than it actually is.

Nooo!!! The Donald is the biggest creative genius ever!! Don't you know?!?! His IQ is higher than everyone else! The 2020 election is gonna be big, it's gonna be huuuuuuuuge!!

I've seen an ad of this Wesley Virgin guy on Leo's video. He was like 'It's your fault that you don't have a million dollars. It's your fault that you aren't financially free. It's your fault that you don't have a Ferrari. IT'S YOUR FAULT!!! TAKE FULL RESPONSIBILITY!!!' As Orange as it gets. @rosemayblake The reality is it is possible to manipulate the masses. It is possible to manipulate them with fear, grief, hatred, etc. The problem though is your brand could get hurt. If your ad makes someone feel fear, they will subconsciously know you as someone that makes them feel fear. This will hurt your brand long-term, even if you make some sales short-term. I'd suggest creating a brand that inspires people, makes them feel good. Now here's the issue - you need to actually have a good product and you actually need to care about your clients. You need to genuinely care about meeting their needs using your product. It must actually be valuable for people to feel good buying it.

"Military men are dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns for foreign policy." - Henry Kissinger

India. I assumed you live here too? I haven't changed my location on the forum profile.

The problem is that sex is the vehicle of reproduction. So prior to contraceptives, there was always the risk of unwanted pregnancy. If the parents weren't ready to have kids, say they were just teenagers, then raising the kids would become the responsibility of the rest of the tribe, which would lead to internal clashes. This is why the notions of 'marriage', 'nuclear family', 'parents being responsible for raising their own kids' were created by religious institutions. This is also why there are so many restrictions on sex. For example - You shouldn't have sex outside marriage. You shouldn't divorce. Single mothers shouldn't exist. The reason for this is to have parents do their 'duties' towards their kids whether they want to or not. Cheating is bad because it violates the rules of the 'nuclear family'. Prostitution is bad, because if the man of the house cheats on his wife and brings in STDs, that's bad for the health of the family. This is also why prostitutes are looked down on, seen as 'low' and 'dirty'. Recreational sex, hook-ups, etc. is irresponsible and disgusting. If you're deliberately trying to be attractive to the opposite sex, or you're wanting to attract your partner, that's 'immature cuz you aren't seeing the consequences of it'. This is also why taking ownership of your sex life is culturally frowned upon. Marriage should be arranged by the community, because young adults will choose partners who they find attractive, as opposed to material compatibility. Conditions for material compatibility include the man having a stable income, the woman knowing how to cook and clean, etc. These conditions for compatibility as a couple are, in reality, conditions for compatibility as co-parents. LGBT shouldn't exist, because LGBT sex is too complicated to regulate. So it's convenient for us to make it a sin. Yupp. If we live here too long, we will go crazy. We must find a way to get out of here asap.

It's not justified from some objective impartial POV. But we do it for our own survival.

How about Leo joins this party?! LEO FOR PRESIDENT!!!!!

People have said Trump doesn't have two faces. He is exactly the way he is in his private life the way he is on camera. Yes, that's true.

One of his high-consciousness ideals is Personal Growth, even more so than materialism. This is huge, because it is fundamentally based on the Absolute Truth of Impermanence of form. I see 'Rich Dad, Poor Dad' as a Yellow/Turquoise book. Of course it's Orange because it's about money, but it's about the psychology of it. His understanding of the issue of lack of financial education is systemically accurate, which is Yellow. He is all about shadow work. He also manages fear in a way very few other people are able to. He's able to be present with the fear without suppressing it, but also without allowing it to dictate what he does. An Orange person will be like 'Man up! Man harder! Push through the fear!!', who will not care about understanding the fear.

He speaks out against the Fed, the education system, the banks. That's Green and Yellow. He also says that giving the masses financial education is part of his life purpose, which is Green/Turquoise. He has this question 'What does God want done?' which he uses to guide his life purpose. Edit: He is very spiritual and he does a lot of inner work on himself. I think that's Turquoise. He's had awakenings. He meditates a lot and is very intuitive.

The Donald has the most incredible sense of humor, is the President of the most beautiful country, has the most amazing wife and kids, has great amounts of debt (I mean, wealth), ...... (I'm callously using these words like he does. I learned something from him!! Yaayy!!!)

The 'everyone working together' is everyone who is a stakeholder in the specific issue we're resolving. What's being worked for will be decided in the process of resolution. The principal problem here is that we have different groups whose agendas clash. People will have to be willing to reconsider their agendas and ask themselves what it is that they're really wanting out of this. A common goal will arise out of that resolution process. I feel this is important in today's time with the current situation, when there are so many warring agendas and differing perspectives. Maybe it'll work, maybe it won't, but it is definitely worth a shot. Now you may say 'What if the problem people don't participate in your resolution process?' Maybe they won't. That is the vulnerability of it. We want to do it anyways. Maybe we will have to fight them if they don't participate in the process, but this time it will be to resolve the conflict as opposed to winning it. The end goal of this process is to arrive at a peaceful state where everyone's happy with the result. 'Everyone' in this example does not include the people they're hurting. What it could actually look like is this - they could work with activists who represent people's best interests, or politicians who want M4A and they could come to an agreement, provided everyone is willing to honestly question their agendas. Is it practical in this situation? Maybe, maybe not. I don't know the specifics of this issue. This is a different scenario altogether. It depends on whether everyone is in favor of slavery or not in the specific society. The slave masters are of course happy with it, maybe even the slaves are happy with it as their survival needs get taken of by their masters. It is archaic and barbaric if you think about it, but there's gotta be a reason slavery lasted all those centuries. So 'everyone working together' could mean working toward maintaining and expanding slavery. Or, once Black people start wanting out of slavery and start empowering themselves, then it's a completely different story. Then it would mean White people considering the perspectives of their slaves and letting them go, which is highly unlikely. Because of the nature of the problem and the time we're talking about, 'everyone working together' did not happen. It wasn't the best idea for Black slaves to wait for their masters to let them go, the better option was for them to fight the Civil war. There are a lot of considerations for whether this strategy will work or not. Things like specifics of the problem we're addressing, the time we're talking about, the willingness of stakeholders, the level of consciousness of people. For example, pre-WW2, the concept of World Peace was not thought of yet. It is when America dropped atom bombs did we really become weary of potential extinction if we didn't keep our wars in check. For the first time in history, we're at a time where our level of consciousness is such that we can aspire to create a peaceful world. If we really want to do this, conflict resolution would be the way to go.

Adding to this - If you're gonna go through with my solution, I feel it's important to not skip steps and go through the process in the right order. Every step will give insight on how to progress into the next step, if done in the right order. Genuinely being on each other's side, working on effective communication and resolving conflicts are very important prior steps if you look at it from my eyes. Here's the point - once we have everyone working together to solve this issue, doing it will be much simpler. Then we will have multiple heads coming up with workable ideas on how to resolve this issue. The activists can be leading this process, using all the help that will be much more readily available once the conflicts are resolved. It will be a matter of creatively coming up with solutions. Of course there will be a lot of debate and deliberation even on the workability, feasibility and effectiveness of solutions. But the process will be a lot more frictionless if we're on each other's side and organized together.

The thought of calling women vagina-people makes me cringe lol

That's a classic Stage Blue/Orange solution. I'm no expert in solving these problems. What I'll say is let the experts debate the feasibility, debate the effectiveness and arrive at a multi-faceted, technically complex solution to a technically complex problem. Then to try and test the different solutions until you see positive results.

The part where I mentioned helping them figure out more conscious ways of meeting those needs. If I were a BLM activist (or some sort of racial equality activist), I would take the lead in meeting those needs. Say for example, in my inner work where I find out their reasons, I understand that some racist White people come from White-trashy backgrounds where they were poor. Now when Black people are having more of a say than White people, these people are feeling jealous of Black people, which has turned into hatred and resentment. The problem here isn't that they think Black people are inferior, the real problem is they're poor. So, I'd team up with other activists who are in charge of lobbying for creating blue-collar job opportunities in their area, where you can learn a particular trade or skill. If they're willing to work hard, figure out a way to recruit them. As I said, I don't really have experience as an activist, so someone who does have that background could debate me on the effectiveness of my ideas. My point is that I'd dig hard enough to find the root before deciding what to solve, and I'd do it from a space of awareness that they are a part of Me. The more their motivations for hating Black people go away, and the more secure they feel about their survival, the more they'll be naturally motivated to get out of their narcissistic bubble. The more they'll want to wake up to the reality of systemic racism. The point is to remove incentives for being racist and add incentives to wake up to it.

Before doing this, step zero would be to do an honest enquiry on what's to be gained from doing this, what good will this do for yourself or the world. Will this boost your sense of significance? Will it give you a sense of intellectual superiority? Would they want to see what you're about to show them? I'm not saying the selfish reasons are bad, I'm saying it's important to be conscious of them so that your ego doesn't hijack the process. The first step would be to wake up to the reality that they are a part of You. Leo describes this very well in his video on 'What is the Devil - The Mechanics of Evil'. When you see that, you are able to get insight on what they are missing. It almost always turns out to be something you weren't expecting! When you understand their perspective, you will understand the following - It looks like they're crazy to miss the elephant in the room that is systemic racism, but it's very easy to miss it from their perspective. Then, you want to get good at communicating. You want to become conscious of projections on your part and their part. It's a good idea to understand why those projections are there. The point of this would be to have clear and coherent communication where you generally trust each other and are on the same page. You also want to become conscious of what their motivations are and what they need, what they're scared of. When you do that from a conscious perspective, you start to have answers for them on how they can get what they want. This makes your opinion very important to them, as importance corresponds to needs/desires. This will make it so that when you talk, they will be all ears. The next step would be to go ahead and figure out a way to meet their needs. I don't have any business experience, so I'm still figuring out this part. But someone with business experience/marketing experience would be able to figure this out. Also, someone with a background in social work or activism would be able to figure this out. The hope from this whole process is to first resolve the conflict, then to create incentives for them to wake up to it. What we need to understand is that they can deny it all they want, you can't take away their free will. So waking them up is a vulnerable process for you, where your success/failure entirely depends on what they decide to do.

You guys seem to be interested in winning the intellectual battle. That is important. What I mean by that is bringing in the science, proving your claims about systemic racism and debating with them. It is important to prove to yourself that those claims are based in reality, otherwise the conservatives will end up gaslighting you into believing it's BS. That's step 1. The next step though is to wake them up. That is an entirely different ballgame altogether. Debating with them does not work, as they become more contracted and resistant. Debating is important if you want to get solid in your perspective on it, not so much if you want to wake them up! Waking them up will first require you to put aside your selfish reasons to do so. If you don't do that, you will end up perpetuating their dysfunctional indoctrinating practices. It will have to come from a place of genuinely being on their side and caring about them. For this, we must first wake up to the reality that they are a part of Us. How bad do you want progress? How hard are you willing to work on yourself to create it? This will be an important question all the way. It will require you to see things about yourself that you will resist like hell. It will also require you to reconsider your opinions, be radically open-minded and work on your beliefs. (which is standard practice for folks like us) Once you've really found and put aside your selfish reasons to do so, then the next step will be to borrow a page from Spiral Wizardry. To see what they're missing, and what they would be open to seeing. These are my insights. I'm sure @Leo Gura understands this because of what he teaches. My hope is that other progressives also understand this.

Denial is a behavior. But the people doing it have an important and valid perspective. The reason I say that is they're all a part of You.

Maybe they will deny it. Their perspective is limited. But it is still a valid and important perspective. You can say it's 'egotism that distracts from progress'. That is undeniably true. Having said that, the ego is still a valid part of human beings. I'm gonna ask you this - what kind of a relationship do you want to have with your own ego, or our egos, or their egos? This is an important question we must ask ourselves if we, as progressives, are wanting to wake them up.

Alright. You may have to fight the powerful and selfish. But, when a sizeable swath of the population is not happy with what you're doing, are you sure you're doing them a service? The whole point of SJW-ism is to serve the public by creating the change you want, am I right? Let's not forget that the people in power are there for a reason. If you ask someone 'Should Black people have rights?', most Stage Blue people will say yes. There will be some Alt-right Nazis who will say no, but most decent people will say yes. However, it's these very same people who are not happy with BLM. If you ask them why, I'm sure they'll tell you it's because they aren't happy with the way it's played out. This isn't one or two people, it's actually the majority. When you have that going, the people in power will successfully uphold the status-quo against you. I think they'd be right to do so.

Realistically, no. What happened was inevitable. Having said that, what's unrealistic today can be realistic tomorrow. I find that an inspiring vision to aim for.