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You've got the wrong understanding of me. I've tried just about every alternative health fad there is out there in the spirit of open-mindedness, including your guru's celery juice. The vast majority of it has been a waste of time and money. Some of it has even been dangerous. But that isn't the debate we are having. Of course it's possible that you improved after doing MM's protocol. The debate is what to attribute that to, along with all the secondary / tertiary inferences you are making about autoimmunity and mainstream science in general. Why assume Stage Orange doesn't corrupt the alternative health space just as much, if not more? Especially since it's less regulated by the government, which is really the only check we have on unfiltered, stage orange capitalism. Alternative health is a gigantic industry that sacrifices truth for profit. Supplements, courses, retreats, books, coaching / consults, influencer marketing, sponsorships, medical devices, etc. Massive corruption is happening. Also, it would be supremely impractical to research every protocol someone just pulls out of their ass. People disagree. How are we supposed to judge what is worth researching and what isn't? Usually you have to abide by basic societal agreements, like getting a license or degree. So you can justify the lack of evidence for MM by saying no one is willing to research it, but this is hardly a strong argument in your favor. Saying they are "completely unexplained" is a joke. We have decades of research and treatments for many of these conditions. Research that alternative health gurus like to piggyback on when doing their grift. Yes, in the past medical science has mostly been focused on stopping people from dying from acute problems. Things like infectious disease, famine and blunt force trauma were top priority as a society to handle. Now we've gotten much better at it, and the focus has shifted to more chronic conditions / aging. Alternative health gurus sometimes act like mainstream medicine is unaware of the problem of chronic disease, or that diet and lifestyle matter. But this is also a complete joke. You can literally specialize in Preventive Medicine as a doctor and just work with people on this issues if you want: https://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/what-is-a-preventive-medicine-physician At the end of the day, the weaknesses in mainstream medicine do not validate the efficacy of alternative medicine. That has to be separately evaluated. I can understand being desperate and looking for a solution anywhere. Maybe you'll even find one. Just be careful what conclusions you draw from that.

And where is the evidence for MM's cure besides his anecdotal testimonials? Anecdotes mean very little when it comes credible evidence in healthcare. You aren't satisfied with decades of research that hundreds of scientists have done on autoimmunity, but when MM presents you absolutely no evidence, apparently that's enough. No, that's just how science and research has always worked. When you actually take a question seriously and don't get to just coast on "channeling", sometimes things are unclear. Sometimes it takes a long time to figure things out. Again, you can just google this question. But you will be unsatisfied with the answer like the last ones I provided. Condescending or not, it's your blind spot on this topic.

Having participated in these kind of communities for several years, my POV is more cynical. I think what's happening is that people don't actually want to do real spiritual work. What they want is all the human stuff often associated with spirituality (manifesting money, healing emotional trauma, romantic relationships, physical health etc). So the mind rationalizes that there's "just too many people focusing on God" in order to justify focusing on what they actually want. It's like a collective coping mechanism spiritual communities engage in. An imaginary problem invented so people can meet their survival needs. Of course, this doesn't mean spiritual bypassing can't occur. It can and does. But that's not the primary reason people are frustrated.

Look dude, you can just do a google search and learn how autoimmunity works. https://consensus.app/results/?q=what is autoimmunity%3F&pro=on https://consensus.app/results/?q=Why does the body attack itself during autoimmune conditions&pro=on https://consensus.app/results/?q=What causes autoimmunity&pro=on https://consensus.app/results/?q=Why is autoimmunity rising&pro=on Don't act like this research doesn't exist. You could spend the next several years going through all these papers, learning more and more about autoimmune conditions and how they work. You are correct that environmental factors and viruses might generally trigger autoimmune reactions. And yes, Epstein-Barr virus may even play a role in Hashimoto's (https://consensus.app/results/?q=Is Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis caused by the Epstein Barr virus&pro=on). But this does not mean the body doesn't attack itself because "love". Or because "it wants to survive".

This is exactly incorrect. Autoimmune conditions are easily explainable through the lens of survival / evolution if you choose. And there is an abundance of scientifc evidence that the immune system does indeed attack the body. No controversy on this topic exists, except in the mind of alternative health sheep.

It is the opposite. Almost every spiritual community is focused on human endeavors. People might talk a lot about God, but don't confuse that for people actually doing the work, or even wanting to do the work.

That's putting it extremely mildly. The whole situation was deeply corrupt.

I think you're freaking out a bit. I'm not saying it couldn't happen, especially if things continue to deteriorate and people become more active in their resistance. But people like you and I would be extremely low priority. We are nobodies. They would come after important political opponents first.

That's what I mean. They no longer have to, which is good for all of them, including Trump. They're better off installing someone who is just as much of a sycophant but without the obvious baggage and bad press. There's no shortage of these kind of people.

Smart move on their part. There’s a decent chance he wouldn’t get confirmed and senate repubs would have to turn on Trump. Now everyone can save face.

Jesus or Ghandi could have been sitting a cave for the last 30 years. In that case, they wouldn't even know who Trump is. They would be totally ignorant on all political issues.

Spirituality and politics are unique domains of understanding. Expect that you will have to specifically work at each individually.

Momentum is a huge component. The more socializing you can do that puts you in a good state, the easier it all is. You can also improve your ability to just snap into the zone by improving your inner confidence.

Basic math. Look at who he has aligned himself with.

Wishful thinking. He will not seriously challenge the corporations at all.

You can look forward to the fight for justice and being a light for people in the darkness. But you can't be a leader for anyone if you can't be stable in your own emotions. Acknowledge how you're feeling, but stay conscious and in control. It just is an uncertain time right now. Such is life. We were all living in an American bubble of unprecedented democratic success that said authoritarianism couldn't happen. When in reality, authoritarianism is the norm for most of humanity. Now we have to resist against it, just like people throughout all of history have done.

You're right to have a bad feeling. Things are bad. But don't get lost in your own mind either. Try to stay connected with the facts of what we know and not wildly speculate too much. ^yes also this. From what I heard on TYT, AFPI is actually the more likely agenda. But they're relatively similar in content.

Just find a summary of Project 2025. They've literally told us exactly what they want.

Slavery still technically happening, even in the US: https://www.walkfree.org/global-slavery-index/ As far as racial segregation, I think that would be tough. Society is already deeply racially integrated. And it's not clear to me that they're interested in that anyway. I do expect to at least see a rise in racial hate crimes though. People are going to feel like they have license for their worst impulses.

No. There has been no fundamental value flip. It was always this way.

Worse than that. I’m saying many of them never really did care. They only got democracy because they inherited it from those who came before them that did care. Authoritarianism is the more natural state. I’ve never really thought of myself as patriotic. I never really cared to sing America’s praises. In college, you could find me head banging to Rage Against the Machine and reading about socialism. I had many criticisms of America. So you would think that when an actual authoritarian threat like Trump comes around, people who love to think of themselves as patriots would be the first to fight against him. After all, isn’t democracy our top value? Isn’t democracy what makes us actually great? What separates us from the rest of the world? The thing we’ve been saying we care so much about for 200 years? But no. They mostly do not give a shit. They want what they want, and they will throw democracy out to get it if they have to. This is why a lot of the messaging that liberals put out about Trump being a threat to democracy landed flat. The average American is not developed enough to care about that.

That's even the sadder part. Voting against their own interests.

If Trump actually overrules democracy, potentially you would have a serious leader rise up to challenge him. My guess though is that such a movement would only have enough support once Trump actually does it. Things have to get bad enough for people to actually care. And even then, it might be more of a "Trump has made things so bad, we just need someone else" kind of movement. Rather than people actually caring about higher ideals like democracy. The most shocking thing about this election for me has been seeing people's apathy towards democracy. They just don't care. They care about their egg prices and all their other lower survival concerns. And they just want what they want, regardless of how or who is going to give it to them.

Brian Cohen did a good segment on this: Most likely route right now seems to be "Trump's first term didn't count...because ya know, impeachment".

Oh god. I have no faith in RFK to accomplish anything. Even if he has some good ideas, it's all outweighed by how delusional he is on obvious positions like vaccines. This alone disqualifies him from handling public health. And do people honestly think Trump and his goons are going to let RFK stick it to the corporations? Lol. Trump's administration and Republicans in office will handcuff anything genuinely progressive he tries to do. It'll all just be anti-science bullshit.