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@Holymoly not generally but people do on occasion ask me. I generally answer depending on where I feel the person is at in their own spiritual path. The less progress it seems they have made, the more vague I will be. But if someone seems to have done serious spiritual work, I will share more details. I suppose that creates sort of a self-fulfilling prophecy for the person listening, as their own paradigm causes me to feedback information to them that matches it. Which is why paradigms can be so convincing and hard to break. The universe is reflecting back to you what you think.

More like God is blurry vision. But seriously though, might wanna get that checked out. God cannot lose a part of itself. God allows for it because God is blurry vision. How can God not allow what it is? Speaking as someone who also has struggled with vision problems, it certainly is not as pleasant of an experience. But technically it is all still God. You cannot not experience God. God is Absolute. You don’t. No one is ever disconnected from God to begin with. You cannot not be God. God can only self-deceive itself into disconnection. Which does practically appear as real since the deception is so deep, but it is false.

@LoneWonderer You can’t assume that God is necessarily interested in granting magical powers to everyone. Or that things would be better if everyone knew about these things. Consider that there is a deep wisdom to the limitations of your human life.

For sure. There is an irony to the View critique and Krystal + Kyle coming to her defense. The irony is that Marianne actually has an advanced understanding of the metaphysics of disease, more so than even many doctors. From my POV this is a plus, not a negative. But of course it can be framed as a negative. Especially when looked at through the materialist paradigm, which cannot make sense of her metaphysical positions. Her health care plan reflects her understanding and is more holistic, which I very much appreciate.

Such a good example. Showcases almost every single Green meme. Key memes: anti-materialism, inner happiness, health and wellness, empire, anti-elites, leveling power dynamics, back to the earth, anti-rat race, invitation not condemnation

Yes, but I would argue it’s more than that. It’s clear from my study of ACIM and other New Thought teachings that “sickness is an illusion” would be a pretty accurate statement of what they believe. But of course, you must also understand what such a statement actually means. https://lessons.acim.org/en/chapters/lesson-136 So yes, the View critique is missing context. I’m not worried about Marianne trying to enforce faith healing across the country. But I do suspect her beliefs towards illness carry a strong metaphysical / spiritual component.

Yes. Her spiritual background may also help her connect with the religious Right, as long as she keeps it vague.

I personally appreciate the way she has handled critics so far: She is doing the right thing: stick to the issues, take the high road, but also don’t let them walk over you. It’s going to be interesting to see how far she gets. I hope we at least get a public Biden V Williamson debate, that’ll be fun. Also, it’s interesting to watch Krystal and Kyle try and make sense of Marianne’s New Age beliefs. They want to frame it as if Marianne is just being pulled out of context, and she doesn’t actually believe that “sickness is an illusion”. Or does she? You cannot make sense of Marianne’s worldview from inside the materialist / dualist paradigm. But many progressives will try.

Key memes: vulnerability, connecting to your emotions, safe spaces, healing trauma, escaping the rat race

@BlessedLion Aubrey missed big on Covid. He is a smart guy spiritually, but a number of his political takes are low-quality. This is one of them.

If the images are still being hosted with Google, then IMO yes. Google uses PhotoDNA to track for this kind of thing. It’s just an algorithm. It not sophisticated enough at this point to know your human intentions. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/photodna He can certainly do that if he wants. I don’t know how much of a legal case he has though. He’d have to talk with a lawyer. My unprofessional guess is the case would be pretty weak, but maybe he could still get paid some damages.

I will admit that I am looking at this through the bias of someone from a western country. Also, it sounds like I am likely a bit older than you and therefore have a different dating agenda. I will do my best to account for this difference and I am open to critiques for how to improve in this area. At the same time, my bias means that I may be able to see what you cannot see. Because you also are biased. In this case, your bias is towards success in pickup. What I am talking about is much more subtle than actual rape. I am talking about the unconscious strategy you are using to be try and be successful in pickup. There is no guarantee such a strategy will actually work, but nonetheless we develop and use them. Most strategies are unconscious to us because they must be in order to be effective. Once we become conscious of them, the question is whether we wish continue using it. A different choice is also available at that time.

Yes. The whole problem is that Google does not know what these photos are being used for. Therefore it must act as if there could be an issue. Well that I agree with. I’ve been saying throughout this whole thread. I would like to see Google rectify their error. See my response above to Dani. Google must act without evidence because it doesn’t know ahead of time this person is innocent. It cannot just assume this person is a caring parent taking their kid to the doctor.

Nice try, but no. That fact that you are even saying this just proves my point. You are not seriously taking the consequences or externalities of your behavior. It's not the woman's responsibility to stop you from doing creepy things, which it sounds like you were. That's something you're suppose to figure out on your own. Some women will just not say they don't want to engage with you because they are either too afraid or uncomfortable to say so. You won't take this seriously because it doesn't serve your pick up agenda to do so. What serves your pickup agenda is to eschew responsibility for how you negatively impact women, as well as to see women as sexual objects for conquer. This is what allows you to keep doing your approaches like you're doing. And that's exactly the attitude you are displaying in this thread. Maybe she did. But also consider that it's because she just didn't like you. You don't seriously consider that because then you might have to change your behavior. Thus, you yet again externalize responsibility.

But that's not the case. A cut finger is not going to trigger any google alarms. No one cares about that. But a child's genitalia can and should trigger those alarms. I think the only thing Google didn't do correctly here was reinstate the guy's account. So that's really the only problem to remedy. Perhaps Google needs to funnel more resources towards handling appeals for wrongly banned accounts. Hard to say exactly.

A good example of how David Packman (mostly Green) misunderstands Blue: Key thing to notice here: the lack of understanding of why Blue cares about Bibles in hotel rooms and how that makes sense to them. For Blue, God is the ultimate authority figure. God's word is Law. God is how you create order in society and know what is right or wrong. Therefore from Blue's perspective, without God, you are morally lost and lawless. Notice also that Blue is not completely wrong about this. The whole reason so many people follow this stage Blue strategy is because IT WORKS. Of course it is also very limited and eventually needs to be transcended.

Speak for yourself. We don't all have your needs.

This kind of thread is why people think pickup is toxic and women don't want to be on this forum. And they're not wrong.

I didn’t say it’s not important at all. It’s important to some degree. What I said was that your privacy is not as important as your post suggested. You suggested that google is overreaching by being able to see your photos and cancel your account. And I don’t agree. Google cannot and should not allow its millions of users to host illegal files. The FBI would shut down Google in no time. 99.9% of users will never have a problem. Only when people do something obviously egregious like hosting potential child porn will there be problems. Or in a case like this where there was a legitimate mixup. Granted, I’d still like for Google to reinstate the dad’s account. Seems like the right thing to do since he was innocent. But that’s separate from the issue of whether Google should have the authority to see your photos and flag them.

Some amount of division is good. Division can create competition among candidates. If you take no division to its ultimate conclusion, you get a monarchy. Not saying I believe you are advocating for that, but I think it’s good to be cognizant here of the limitation of both sides. Too much division = support is too diffused and splintered. Too little division = authoritarian, lack of choices and a lack of checks and balances.

That’s because it is reasonable.

A bit of a longer example, but contains many Green memes throughout if you pay attention. Notice: Lyrical themes of the song (healing trauma, authenticity, positive affirmations, freedom over fear and conformity) The sign language interpreter (inclusivity for non abled-bodied people) The “letting go” communal ceremony in the middle of the song The sign off message about “changing the world” as the band leaves

I don’t see the problem here. If anything, this was intelligent Twitter moderation. Right-wingers are reaching so hard with this whole Twitter files thing.

I didn’t say it didn’t suck for the dad. I admitted it’s bad customer service, and obviously I wouldn’t want that to happen to me. I’m simply saying OP is paranoid and overblowing the issue.

@MsNobody I personally love all the creativity that feels like it has opened up to me. It doesn’t feel draining to me, if anything that’s when I feel most energized. You might just need to simply and slow things down a bit. See what is really necessary and what might just be unnecessary pressure you are putting on yourself.