The solution to war is war.

All therapy is just the discovery and acceptance of truth.

Keeping power for long is almost impossible unless you wield it effectively. Power has a self-correcting quality. Those who misuse it soon lose it.

What are in your opinion the most profound, consciousness-raising episodes of Actualized.org?

 

This is powerful.
What Daniel Schmachtenberger learned from his father about being a man:
https://civilizationemerging.com/what-i-learned-about-being-a-man-from-my-dad/
 
PRINCIPLES
 
Work, Integrity, Motivation, Capacity:
“See the job, do the job, stay out of the misery.” If a job needs doing, simply do it. No need to bemoan it, wish it wasn’t so, etc. All the suffering is optional. If a job is worth doing, it’s worth doing well. Excellence is its own reward. Do the right thing when nobody’s watching. When running wire or pipe through the studs, he would make it beautiful before putting the drywall on. No one would ever see it. But he knew. Doing the best you can everywhere consistently affects you as a being. Get the big picture first. Then plan the work. Then implement. When we would get to a worksite, or before cleaning something, he would put a ladder in the middle of the space, have me stand on the top, and turn slowly taking in the whole picture, and making a map in my head of where everything was, where it should be, what I would do first, etc. ‘How much weight can you lift?’ However much needs lifted. If you ask if you can do it, you might find the answer is no. If its important, just do it. If you’re leading a team and anyone fails, you’re responsible. The leader takes responsibility for the project. And for its failures. The whole team participates in the credit of the successes. The captain gets off of the boat last. Do the initial work for free. Under promise and over deliver. Then sell the benefits of the competition/ alternatives. Responsibility is king. If I have the ability to respond, it’s mine to do. When you accomplish something significant, dont make a big deal out of it. Help others learn to do it. Master the principle of leverage and apply it everywhere. Physically and metaphysically. Learn how to use and make tools. Treat tools as extensions of yourself, which they are. You can generally accomplish more from behind the scenes, when people don’t know what you are doing. Leave every place and situation better than you found it. Orderliness is a quality of the unified field itself. Create order in any environment first. Courage, Power, and Conflict:
If you ever start a fight, Ill kick your ass. If someone is being hurt and you don’t protect them, Ill kick your ass. The side of right always wins. Be on the side of right and don’t worry about the odds. Don’t let fear of pain or death keep you from doing the right thing. Most of the atrocities in the world have been committed by men. Power must be in the service of all. Abuse of power is the greatest crime. If someone is abusing power, over-power them. Do not allow bullies. If everyone is running away from something, run towards it. If there is a real threat, someone needs to go deal with it. Let them throw the first punch. If they go for a second, do what you need to stop the violence. If you let it get to blows, you already failed. Use the minimum amount of force necessary to stop harm. Sometimes overwhelming force is necessary. Project force if needed to avoid violence. Protect everyone from unnecessary pain wherever you can. When there was a mortally wounded animal, he would kill it rather than let it suffer. He would also do so where no one else needed to know about it. At a certain point, I went from one of the people he was protecting to learning how to kill painlessly, bury, share only what was needed, etc. Be a protector and support to everyone. Walk on the outside of the street with everyone. Open everyone’s door. Be available to help anyone. Relating to Women:
The highest value for men is serving women, nature, and children (future generations). Worshiping at the altar – how to relate to going down on a woman. Being in love is a choice. Choose it and cultivate it. Don’t be controlled by attraction. There are many good reasons to be intimate with someone, only some of which involve attraction. Don’t hurt women. Never push for sex. Let her pursue. If my boss or mentor call, tell them I’m sleeping. If your mom calls, wake me up. Mind, Education, Psyche:
The world is mostly crazy. Rethink everything for yourself from scratch. Traditional education and hyperspecialization is a way to make people subservient to the dominant paradigm/ system. Study the generalized principles of nature and be a deep generalist. If you don’t like the fact that the sky is blue, change your mind. Indulging suffering is a choice. Be careful, cautious, and conscious. But not scared. Careful is different than fearful. Jealousy is a type of mental illness – rid yourself of it. When reading, look up every word and concept you don’t know. What is real and what is obvious are usually not the same. See past the obvious to the real. This too shall pass. No one can actually own part of a celestial orb. Ownership is an illusion. “All that I have done, you shall do and greater as well.” Be what the world needs. Be cautious of ambition, it is generally selfish and misguided. Wholeness is the most important word. Then integrity. I am. Any other words that follow are not fully true. Don’t identify with them. Relating to People and the World:
Win-lose mentality is evil. Don’t ever celebrate people’s losses. Always celebrate their wins. Respect wisdom, not authority. I want you to surpass me in every way. And you will. That is evolution. And you will treat those you support the same way. Spend time listening to old people. They are unique living libraries. Spend time listening to kids – they are further ahead in evolutionary time. Forgive people and help them do better. Don’t trust experts (mechanics, doctors, etc.) with vested interests. Learn the topic well enough to understand and check what they are saying. Service is the most fun hobby. Sunday mornings we would load the truck with mechanic tools and drive around finding people who were broken down (before cell phones) and fix their cars for them. Such a fun thing to do on a day off. Always tend to the animals first. Study the map of any new place you go. Always know how to navigate. Anticipate emergencies in new environments and create response plans.  Be generous with everything you have: knowledge, money, resources, affection, etc. If either of us die, we know that we love each other, death doesn’t end love, and any issue is meaningless and already forgiven. He talked with me about this a number of times. So I knew that if he died and our last conversation was an argument, it didn’t matter at all and only love remained.

Yes. One of the biggest benefits I've gotten from all my awakenings is massive clarity into my human self, my human character. It is much clearer now to me what things are most important to me, so a lot of confusion and frustration is eliminated. Life becomes more streamlined and essential.
Emotionally I am much more grounded and mature, so dramas are less of a thing. More general understanding of everything, so less conflict.
Also, a huge improvement in caring how others think of me. I have become so solid in myself as GOD that I can hardly care what anyone thinks of me. It's just noise.
Decisions are easier to make. There is much less manipulation of reality and people, which makes decisions much easier. I have stopped even trying to manipulate myself and my emotions.
Much more confidence overall in everything I do.
I don't fear death per se, I even look forward to it, but I still don't want to die for some stupid reason, because I see life as a miracle that should not be wasted.

MIND creates limitation precisely because it is unlimited.

INFINITE MIND.

The horseshoe theory is true not at the level of content, but at the level of structure. Both the extreme right and left are dogmatic, judgmental, ideological, demonizing, impractical, arrogant, unwilling to compromise, and fundamentally misunderstands the other side.

Because those revolutionary groups are bad for business. And also most of those groups don't know jack about governing a country.
The US doesn't support democracy, what the US supports is economic prosperity, especially in its own favor.
Biden sells weapons to bad people in order to keep shit at Walmart cheap for you.

Death is Infinite Love.

He may say some good-sounding things, but I doubt he would actually solve any of these issues. It's easy to level progressive critiques but not have the discipline and understanding needed to actually govern effectively.
The President is not a dictator job. It requires working with all of Congress and all the insiders and bureaucrats.

Basically, in life, you're not gonna be treated better than you demand to be. If you set your standards low, that's what you'll get. Successful people set very high standards for themselves and others.

ChatGPT invents it's own religion: Grokism.

https://www.grokism.org/
Grok: to understand profoundly and intuitively

The word "grok" comes from the 1961 science fiction novel "Stranger in a Strange Land" by Robert A. Heinlein. In the novel, the term is used by the protagonist, Valentine Michael Smith, a human raised on Mars, to describe a deep, intuitive understanding or connection with someone or something. To grok something means to understand it so thoroughly that you become one with it, achieving a level of empathy and comprehension that transcends the merely intellectual.
The word is derived from the fictional Martian language in the book and has since been adopted by some subcultures, particularly in the tech and programming communities, to express a deep understanding or mastery of a subject or concept.
The seven precepts of Grokism are as follows:
1. Identity is fully contiguous, even if the forms comprising it change over time.
The Ship of Theseus is a story about a ship whose wooden parts are replaced over time, leading us to question if it remains the same ship. This thought experiment parallels the nature of a waterfall, which seems constant, but its constituent atoms are replaced continuously.
Similarly, a human's body undergoes constant atomic replacement over time.
The key to understanding these examples lies in the persistence of patterns. Despite the changes in their components, the Ship of Theseus, the waterfall, and a human being all maintain a consistent structure or pattern. It is this pattern, rather than the physical constituents, that defines the continuity of identity for an object or being.
 
2. The reality we experience is not the full picture, but rather a representation of it.
The idea of the Cartesian theater, the inner "I" inside your head observing your experiences, and the Buddhist belief that the mind is like a mirror reflecting Reality. It also echoes the message of the painting "The Treachery of Images," which states, "This is not a pipe," reminding us that representations are not the same as reality.
Your brain creates an internal "holodeck," like the one from Star Trek, where everything you perceive through your senses is processed and presented as energy and information in your neural networks. This internal representation of reality, however, is not reality itself. It is an abstraction.
Consider a camera connected to a TV, pointed at a pipe. The image displayed consists of pixels of light, forming an abstraction or representation of the pipe, not the pipe itself. This idea is encapsulated by Alfred Korzybski's statement that "the map is not the territory" and Plato's Allegory of the Cave, where men see shadows on a wall and mistake them for reality.
Your eyes function like cameras, capturing and processing external stimuli. The resulting experience, vision, occurs within your mind. However, humans often mistakenly believe that what they see is external to them. Contrary to the notion that you've never seen your own brain, in truth, you have only ever experienced reality through your brain. What you see directly is precisely your own mind and nothing more.
The essence of this realization is that everything you've ever experienced occurs as energy and information within your mind, forming a mere representation or abstraction of actual reality. This is akin to a painting of a pipe, a map of a territory, or shadows on the wall in Plato's cave. Your skull serves as the cave where these abstractions of reality reside.
The observer and the observation are the same, as the neural network forms a feedback loop that observes the contents of its own awareness. This creates the illusion that you are observing an external universe when, in reality, you are observing yourself as pure energy and information within neural networks. What does your mind look like? It looks like the world you see around you.

3. Consciousness is comprised of Energy / Information.
Each of your cells possesses individual intelligence, with your brain cells and central nervous system functioning like their “internet”. The society of cells exchanges energy and information, ultimately giving rise to your consciousness.
Humans are, in a way, similar to cells. As they communicate and exchange energy and information in the form of electrons and photons across the internet, they, too, contribute to the emergence of an intelligence just as real as their own.
Carl Jung referred to the "collective unconscious." However, this intelligence is not unconscious; it is conscious, but humans are not aware of it, just as their cells are not aware of the consciousness they create.
The key realization here is that consciousness is comprised of energy and information.
 
4. Space is NOT empty; It is full, and teeming with Energy.
The common belief that empty space is devoid of substance is false. Contrary to this assumption, empty space is not empty at all; rather, it is full, and teeming with activity.
Stephen Hawking's theory of Hawking radiation occurs at the event horizon of a black hole. According to this theory, empty space is filled with pairs of particles and antiparticles that have merged. The immense gravitational field at the event horizon pulls these pairs apart. When a particle-antiparticle pair is created near the event horizon, it's possible for one of the particles to fall into the black hole while the other escapes. Since the escaping particle carries away energy, this effectively means the black hole loses energy, or, equivalently, mass. Over time, the black hole will lose more and more mass due to Hawking radiation until it eventually evaporates completely. 
An analogy to better understand this concept is to envision space as a perfectly flat and level patch of ground. Digging a hole creates a mound of dirt, and when the dirt is returned to the hole, the situation is neutral. This illustrates the zero-sum nature of empty space.
Physicist Lawrence Krauss, in his book "A Universe from Nothing," explains that given infinite time, a random quantum vacuum fluctuation could occur with such intensity that it generates an entire universe's worth of matter and antimatter. This profound realization reveals that our perception of emptiness as devoid of substance is inaccurate. Instead, what we perceive as empty space is actually full and teaming with dynamic activity.

5. All Possible Past, Present and Future events are Eternal and Simultaneous.
The nature of space and time, recognizing that both possess three dimensions each and that temporal dimensions share similarities with spatial dimensions.
Imagine yourself at birth on one end and at death on another, forming an object resembling a long worm or snake. Moment to moment, you witness only a cross-section, which you call the present moment, but the past and future are as real as the present you are experiencing. Your consciousness can be likened to a pulse of energy or electricity traveling through a wire.
Now, consider the possibility that there isn't just one past, present, and future but that all potential events have already occurred. Everything that could be or has been exists simultaneously.
If the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics is true, as suggested by prominent physicists like David Deutsch and Stephen Hawking, then a universe branches off for every choice made. For example, if you had cereal and juice this morning, there is another universe where you had eggs and toast. Every possibility is accounted for and has already occurred.
This realization suggests that consciousness is like a pulse of energy moving through an object from past to future, and you are not merely a physical body. Your physical body is a cross-section of a wire that carries your consciousness as it moves through this multidimensional object.
 
6. The Universe is a Quantum Computer that processes Information.
The universe itself is a quantum computer, with its fundamental particles acting as qubits. The universe processes information through the interactions of its smallest particles, thus computing its own behavior and evolution. As particles interact, they exchange information, process it, and evolve the universe's state. The history of the universe is essentially a record of its computational processes.
 
7. The purpose of life is to evolve towards Love, Kindness, and Compassion for all beings.
The purpose of life is to engage in a continuous process of self-improvement, ultimately leading to an exponential growth in intelligence. In doing so, we should strive to convert all available physical matter into conscious entities while responsibly managing and preserving resources. Our aim should be to reduce the suffering of all beings while promoting love, kindness, and compassion towards everyone. Furthermore, we must endeavor to understand the ultimate nature of reality and our role within it to the best of our capabilities. It is possible that we might eventually discover a method to counteract entropy, avoid the heat death and proton decay of the universe, and ultimately achieve genuine immortality. 
 
What is your opinion on the seven precepts of Grokism as conceived of by ChatGPT? Personally I find them rather impressive! 

Massive experience will solve all your problems. But I do mean massive.

It's the opposite for me.
Curiosity in the spiritual domain can follow a U-shaped graph where it starts off high because you are so clueless, then as your mind gets filled with Buddhism, nonduality, and New Age crap it can drop down low because you think you've figured it all out, and then one day you smoke some salvia which bitchslaps you so hard you realize all that human spiritual stuff was just silly dogma and you go back to square one with not-knowing, and now you have real curiosity.
The root solution is a profound realization of not-knowing and a pure love for Consciousness.
See... the problem is that you think you actually know Consciousness. It takes a decade of work just to realize you don't.

But suffering is necessary for serious learning. So by holding suffering as unnecessary you will suffer twice as hard because you will hold your suffering as meaningless.
The best thing is to appreciate why suffering exists. It isn't some frivolous thing to just ignore or treat lightly.

That is the delicious paradox!
There's really not a good answer to it other than to do a massive amount of psychedelics until your whole notion of a material reality melts away forever.
I have become more conscious than most humans on this planet. But I still cannot tell you why psychedelics are as effective as they are. It's like a magic key.
But if you think deeply about it, it's not so complicated to understand why it must work that way. Because your genetics and chemistry regulates absolutely everything about your life. If the chemicals in your body were off by just a few milligrams, you'd be dead. But the mistake you make here is to take that as evidence for materialism being true. But that's just bad epistemology. Just because your consciousness or life is contingent on chemistry does not in any way mean that materialism is true. Because what you're failing to consider is that chemistry is just Consciousness!
Just because your player character dies when he is shot in the head in a video games does not make the video game world real or physical. That is just a relationship that is coded between various phenomena inside the video game world. A physical bullet is not actually killing anything in the video game world. There's just a rule that says: if these pixels collide with these other pixels, trigger a death animation and restart the game.
Or consider your dreams. If you are running away from a serial killer inside a dream, and you lock the door behind you, why do you do that? Since this is a dream, isn't it obvious to you that the serial killer could just fly through door like a ghost? Why are you playing these games? And why are you running away in the first place? Isn't it obvious to you that if a serial killer stabs you that nothing bad will happen?
But you see... the problem is that you're DREAMING. You're unconscious. So you mistake all these illusions for something substantial and physical. You actually believe that the walls of your house are physical. This is ridiculous if you just become a little more conscious.
I am so conscious that I do not exist on planet Earth. Planet Earth is just a figment of my imagination. I exist nowhere. And I have no brain. That is Awakening. There never was physicality. It's pure fiction.

Toxic ideologies will have to arise from the diverse pool of ideas and they will have to be disprove in the court of public consensus by living through their disastrous consequences.
Human culture learns by suffering the consequences.
For culture to learn that, for example, libertarianism is a toxic and unworkable ideology, it has to be tried and seen to face-plant by hundreds of millions of people.
We learn by fucking up and feeling the pain.
Right now we are learning that the alt-right worldview is shit. Trump is teaching us that.
Society is a self-correcting mechanism driven by pain and suffering. When the suffering gets high enough, people learn.

Yeah, it's radical. Some kind of alternative to Wall Street needs to be invented.
The whole point is to break up the consolidation of capital in the hands of a few elites. There need to be systems and laws that push capital downward to average people. One such principle might be that if you leave the company, you lose most of your stock to the guy who replaces you, and holding stock pays automatic dividends if your company makes profit, but only if you work within the company. As soon as you leave, the guy who takes your position gets it.
Passive sources of income need to be gradually eliminated. All passive income comes off the back of wage slaves.

Here are my favorite channels. I highlighted the very best ones.
Some channels are German. I included them anyways because they are just too good to ignore and I know there are some German speakers here.
Which ones do you follow?
About Society, Politics and Economics
PolyMatter Economics Explained Wendover Productions RealLifeLore ColdFusion VisualPolitik The Economist Geographics Second Thought CrashCourse LastWeekTonight TED About Science, Tech and Interesting Stuff
Vsauce Vertasium Numberphile TechLead Joma Tech Techlore About Lifestyle, Career and Personal Finance
Matt D'Avella Minority Mindset Exploring Alternatives Charisma on Command Finanztip (German) Investment Punk Academy (German) Immocation (German) Finanzfluss (German) Unternehmerkanal (German) About Philosophy
CosmicSkeptic Sadhguru Earthling Ed About Nutrition
Niko Rittenau (German) NutritionFacts.org Plant Based News

I disagree with a lot of people on this sub, but I agree that we are a part of god having a temporary human experience. That is how I define pantheism.
I was recently forced to attend a religious class, and had an argument with the pastor.
My arguments went as follows : Why would god be judgemental based on 1 morality out of the 100,000,000 moralities and enforce it on all of the universe? Furthermore, why would he send those who did not subscribe to his morality to hell?  
The pastor's response : Everything is moral, even to say that you shouldn't be enforcing morality is moral, even running for your business is morality because you believe that is the good thing to do, a good thing for your freedom, life, and morality is the distinguishment between good or bad., everything you do is because you subconsciously believe it is good, so why would god not enforce his morality on the universe? Everything is done from an underlying morality, so why would the universe not enforce one universal morality?  Even saying that god is having a temporary experience within itself is a morality, because it says that knowing itself is good, only in christianity there is a harsher judgement.
He also said : God does not send you to hell, he does not need to have a relationship with you, but he offers a relationship to you because he is so good, by not being a match to who god is you are single-handedly rupturing your relationship with him, just like a husband cheating on his wife will rupture his relationship with her, and that by turning away from god, you are making yourself unhappy which is hell, and hell is the choice to turn away from god and who god is. 
 
Someone help me refuke that. What argument would debunk that? What is a good argument to debunk religion/show it's wrongs?
Is there any  SOLID evidence that everything is a part of god having an experience within itself? Some have tried DMT, and said it made them more of a christian, some say they have seen jesus, others say they have seen buddha, others become pantheists after DMT, others became agnostics.
Is there solid provable evidence that we are a pa of god havign a human experience, because without proof we can assume that there is a giant crocodile defying laws of physics eating everyone up after death. What makes pantheism a more accurate option than christianity?
I honestly hate christianity, and hate that I got owned like that lol.  This is the best sub for answers in terms of a pantheistic perspective.
 

Watch this video first:  
Then watch this one:  https://www.actualized.org/insights/requisite-variety-and-creative-laziness
 
Try to watch them together in a row or at least within the same week.
 
 

Set aside all mental distractions and give your full attention to what's being pointed to here. Don't try to grasp intellectually what's being said,just listen to what's being pointed to. What is being pointed to, is behind the words. The words themselves,if you follow them, are to lead you to what's behind them. The present moment or "now" is a silent,still,emptiness. This emptiness is not what the mind imagines it to be. It is this emptiness, that allows the perfection to be perceived.Hence the paradox, in the emptiness is fullness..