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@Ryan M are you looking to retire on this money? How long do you want to hold it?

I appreciate the dialogue, but this is a limit for me. I'm going to exit now.

That makes sense, I can see how that would be healing. I think that's where we're different though. Connection seems to be a higher value for you.

Frustrating, and also somewhat isolating. You grow beyond what people can understand. But then you find God

You're a real one. That's what good sense-making looks like. Little bit of Aussie slang is okay too

I will take that to heart. I want you to understand though, that's not what is happening from my POV. When you write something, I DO consider it. I read it multiple times, I pause, I think about it, I write something back, I edit it, I edit again, I edit it a third time. It's a slow, deliberate process. It's also the case that SD Green arguments feel like remedial math to me. I lived it, chewed on it and moved on. I know the memes very well, including where they go right and where they go wrong. In that sense, I can see how it comes off as dismissive. I also don't always explain myself. I say things vaguely and expect people to think about them for themselves. But that vagueness can also seem like I'm not engaging with the argument, because I'm not explicitly answering the question. So that's my feedback.

@Emerald I will do my best to not assume my perspective is higher. But I’m going to ask you extend that same curtesy to me.

That's mostly right. I keep insisting that I'm trying to show you expanded perspective, and you keep insisting that I'm not and that you know more than me. So who is right? And who is really the smug one? That's the core tension we have going on. My perspective has evolved a lot over the years, so yes it might come across as different interacting with me now.

It matters because it shows how misleading a quote like that can be. People will hear that and assume awakening doesn't matter. It's basically a combo of trauma-healing, new age spirituality and personal success / relationship advice. She does not really teach Awakening. Maybe some superficial aspects.

You could say repression is most important to focus on, but only if you radically expand your definition of repression to include loss of freedom.

Of course. You're all a bunch of liberal, freedom junkies

I think I understand it fine. I'm trying to share with a perspective I've developed over the past five years, coming from profound insights into repression, freedom and authenticity. This is not something I'm just pulling out of my ass. If you think I don't understand repression, you're welcome to share where I'm going wrong. Focusing on repression is fine as a first step, but it's not nearly enough.

I'm not sure how this relates to what I was saying.

Not by a long shot. Focusing on repression is exactly the foolishness of liberalism and SD Green level-logic of authenticity as liberation. And it's exhausting.

This girl's channel has a lot of good Green examples:

Yes, you can live your life. The point was that Teal's followers aren't doing that. They are just asleep.

You can't become more yourself just by focusing on repression. Freedom is always highly constrained.

He is a good speaker. But can he deliver?

No. He's a pretty standard progressive.

Now we see if he can walk his talk.

Awakening means becoming conscious that you are God and that everything is your Infinite Mind. You do not get that by just "living life". "Living life" is the default of what everyone is doing. That's called dreaming.

I mean she has a tendency to frame awakening as pointless because "you're just here to create and live life!!". So then of course her followers don't awaken. Which means they can't even understand that quote to begin with.

I wouldn't say it's that extreme. Men can still be masculine mostly just fine, people just want a more balanced masculinity. It's important to not develop too much of a victim mentality around what struggles your gender goes through.