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I get the scepticism. A fair amount of gender specific analysis online, and in history is driven by emotional and hateful biases. I have scepticism when I see posts on this topic too. For me though, as long as its in good faith, I just see it as a cultural analysis of a societal demographic. The type of men and women a society creates is an important subject, and I see this post as just addressing some negative issues with the type of adult women that western societies tend to produce.

Tbf i only found out about that rule when I was talking about psychedelics in the HG voice chat and got politely told off by an HG mod hahaha

I get you for sure. I see so your issue here is that you aren't sure about how to strike the right balance regarding being heard out by friends, and dealing with things on your own. And what even the healthy balance is. I wish I had more to say on this but I'm not so sure of what to recommend myself. I struggle with emotional regulation myself. Perhaps you could experiment with talking to your friends about it. Maybe they will be honest with you about what their preferences and limits are. Btw, I think its great that you have friends who you are able to be open with and who help you deal with emotions! I would like to have more friendships like that! And even if you choose to lessen how much you lean on friends for emotional support, you don't have to stop completely.

@Judy2 I'd say a mature person would seek mentorship from the top tier of the list in the following short. Then if top tier mentor not available, then seek mentorship from 2nd top tier. And so on. So, in your case, this would mean prioritising finding someone who has had issues with talking about their mental illness and symptoms. Then overcome that. And then they have also helped many others with their issues around talking about their mental illness. So, i would look for books, or videos, or coaching/ therapy from people who fit that criteria. Patrick Teahan on Youtube comes to mind.

I get you disliked the post. What specifically do you take you issue with? If its because the post is talking around making generalised claims about women, then I can understand where you're coming from. But every culture/ society has a somewhat unique socialisation process that lends itself to specific demographics, i.e. women, developing general characteristics/ traits at a specific time.

@Miguel1 What are your views on modern dating? I'd be interested to hear.

@Mysterious Stranger I respect that you don't want to do something unethical. My first advice would be to change your question. I would ask "Is starting an ethical online business still sufficient if I have relevant rare and valuable online business skills". Many people don't have rare and valuable skills in their field. Further, they don't seek or don't know how to achieve rare and valuable skills in their field. So, their results in their field are far below what they could be. My second advice would be to ask "How do i achieve rare and valuable skills in a field". Here is my answer. Firstly, make sure you have good theory on what skills matter for success in a given field, and good theory on how to attain said skills. For example, in your desired field, perhaps a good book on marketing, blog-writing, engaging writing. Secondly, make sure you are engaging in deliberate practice regarding those skills. Deliberate practice being practice which designed to systematically improve performance. For example, instead of having goal of just writing blog posts, someone picks one aspect of blog posts to focus on improving. Perhaps they pick the aspect of writing engaging sentences. They find good theory on 'writing engaging sentences'. And then they practice applying the theory until writing engaging sentences becomes second nature. That way you are making sure your relevant skills are improving, and therefore the quality of your product is improving. Thirdly, try and find competent feedback on your skills. This can be by reviewing your blog-post/ newsletter analytics, or using a coach. Issue with using a friend/ family is that they might accidentally mislead you regarding what is actually effective. The result of consistent and extended following of these three steps will lead to you acquiring rare and valuable skills. And, with those rare and valuable skills you will have a rare and valuable product. And a rare and valuable product has a much higher probability of doing well. 'So good they can't ignore you' by Cal Newport is a book I would recommend for more on this.

@Stick From studying Shinzen young's teachings (meditation teacher), he would argue that Suffering = Pain x resistance. Pain is a fact of life. It can be emotional, i.e. grief. It can be physical, i.e. hurting wrist. However, he would argue that are degree of resistance to experience can be lessened. And in that lessening of resistance to experience our suffering decreases. So, in your case, he would argue that you suffer because of the following. 1) Painful thoughts/ feelings/ body sensations that result from, for example, loss of taste. 2) Resistance to said painful experiences. He has a method called: See-Hear-Feel meditation, which he sees as possible way to lessen resistance to experience. I don't have direct experience of this working that much for me. So, really just passing along a theory.

I love a lot of Dr K's content! And have a lot of respect for Dr K! Bro has helped bring my life onto a positive trajectory. And i think he is a really positive and unique influence on the internet. I would argue Dr K gets the most stick for the following reason. Critics often mistake Dr K's advice regarding what is effective/ necessary to survive/ thrive with Dr K justifying a societal arrangement. (Sometimes the critics are correct that Dr K is being political but often they are mistaken). Dr K has said his vision for the HealthyGamerGG project is to help people do better given the circumstances they find themselves in. This is understandable because one must have focus, and also play to their strengths. This leads to, even well-meaning, folks often seeing Dr K as indifferent to or not attaching enough importance to politics/ societal arrangement. For example, if Dr K watches a video of a girl in her mid twenties. The girl is crying, complaining that the demands of employment leave her no time to enjoy life and she is always tired. Dr K might then say something like, 'I empathise... etc", and then go onto say something like "Tech can make us more tired, so lets see if we can reduce tech usage " and/ or "do more chores on the weekdays". However, folks seem to often miss the first empathy bit and then treat the advice section as if it is Dr K blaming the girl, or its Dr K legitimising a societal structure. But in doing so, they miss what Dr K's project is with HealthyGamergg. Dr K is coming from the view that 'Things are the way they are. Perhaps they can be changed for the better. But as individuals we cannot rely on that change. So we have to try and approach the way things are as best we can'. ---------- I re-read your post and realise you were looking for high-consciousness criticisms rather than defences. I can't think of one for now but just wanted to acknowledge that my post isn't really what you were asking for.

Agreed. And he was cleared on the Reckful issue by the boards after he was reported.

I mean to be fair, I'm a part of that discord and they just have a no drugs policy I believe.

Hey folks! Wishing everyone well. After a long time of feeling lost and trying to find something I deeply align with, I decided that I just needed to do something. Especially being 27 now. I at least wanted to do something that wasn't unethical and had a skill tree. With that in mind, I've committed to trying to develop mastery in Cybersecurity. Ideally, i would like a vision of how i could have a real positive impact with Cybersecurity. But my mind keeps generating thoughts that I'm just gonna be protecting the assets of some rich company. I know there is some positive stuff like working with protecting hospitals and that sort of thing too. However, I would like to hear the perspectives from the creative folks of actualized.org! In regards to positive/ high-consciousness things i could do in the cyber-security field. (Please feel free to drop any ideas you may have. Regardless of your knowledge of the field, or life experience!)

@CARDOZZO Appreciate it bro!

My issue with this is that you speak with certainty that we can build a better system regarding logistics. However, your argument is purely theoretical here. The issue with theorising is that much theorising is based on what intuitively makes sense. However, much of ho reality works is counter-intuitive. So, often theories are wrong. Now it may well be that your theory turns out to contain much truth to it. However, I'd argue that you are much too certain about your theory's accuracy. If you real world evidence to support the theory, then that is another matter.

Thing is though by quoting these as case studies, you are arguing from a higher quality place than many socialists ever will. Its good you do this though, in my opinion.

I'd argue one reason is that NFL glorifies violent domination of one group of people over others. Stage red stuff. And, many actualized.org people like more stage green stuff more. And spend more time thinking about how to stop violent domination of others in the world.

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I recently started BJJ. Though I might restart soccer too. Maybe Miguel and I can start an actualized.org soccer team, and win the Champions league.

ooooo omw to the embassy!

I refuse to believe Australia is a real country. I've seen too many videos of kangaroos squaring up on people to take its existence seriously.

Gemini AI describes the site in the following way: "Ground News is a news aggregation platform designed to combat media bias and political "blind spots" by showing users how different news sources (from left to right) cover the same story, using AI to summarize articles and provide bias ratings from independent services". It seems like GroundNews could be a high-consciousness tool for consuming news media. However, I would be curious to hear if anyone has any perspectives on the website/ app.

A trait of purple is spirituality

Congrats!

#CLAWWW

hahaha love that vid