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@Flowerfaeiry I am definitely working on that. One thing I notice is that if I focus to much on negative habits and why I have them, it tends to amplify these emotions without a clear reason as to their purpose. I go on walks and play in a chess club now. Sometimes we are better off over powering negative thinking and emotions with love. I am here to learn other possible coping mechanisms which I have not applied.

I think a very simple example is modern slavery. There are children born in unstable countries in the middle East and Africa who are forced by ISIS to become child soldiers and fight US troops. Other examples include people captured by human traffickers who never escape, the upcoming famine in North Korea, the Israeli Palestinian conflict, lead and arsenic in the baby food and more. You get the same results out of life assuming an equal effort on equal footing.

middle-east-online.com/en/qatar-institutions-sued-us-financing-terrorism channel4.com/news/factcheck/factcheck-qa-is-saudi-arabia-funding-isis These sites discuss funding of terrorist organizations through Qatar and Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia describes their efforts to prevent funding of terrorist organizations in their denial of the allegations. There is an on going case in which Qatar is being accused of funneling money from the United States financial system to terrorist organizations. Qatar is accused of funding terrorists on several occasions for nearly a decade. counterextremism.com/countries/kuwait This last site describes some of the accusations toward Kuwait and the measures they have taken to prevent funding for terrorist organizations. It is hard to tell if all the allegations made toward these countries are true or not because there are ongoing lawsuits.

I will be making some threads which seek to understand modern wars. Many people will tell me that it is over oil, but this seems simplistic. It might be hard to understand modern wars objectively because they are ongoing, we are stake holders, and we are bombarded with fake and partial news. If you are up to the task, please share some of what you learned about modern war. This first topic is about private militaries. It sounds extremely corrupt, but here is my research. Oil companies buy private militaries because they seek protection from terrorists in places which have oil they are drilling for. These private militaries still commit war crimes and sometimes kill civilians. If you want to start your own private military, you can check out the following site. profitableventure.com/starting-a-private-military-company/ Where are these private militaries? How are they held accountable for war crimes? Should they exist? How much of the war on terrorism is the United States military fighting terrorists and how much of it is the private militaries trying to maximize profits? most importantly, Which wars are actually necessary to stop terrorist organizations like ISIS, boku harem, Al Queda, and others?

@NoSelfSelf By "pm" do you mean send private messages?

I watched the video. I know the tactic he is talking about. Allegations of sexual misconduct were used to smear Kavanaugh when he tried to become a justice. These accusations are used at opportune moments to destroy people's credibility. These accusations are the liberal equivalent of spinning baseless theories of widespread election fraud. I don't know how to go about changing liberal discourse to prevent baseless accusations. If this runs its course then people could be desensitized to these accusations to the point that they are not taken seriously. One of my childhood vows is that I would not have relationships with women because if I get the opportunity to run for a position of power they will accuse me of sexual misconduct if they don't like the relationship. To this day I am still a virgin. There could be a case of mistaken identity anyway because of the concerns of rape culture. So far my strategy for not getting accused of these things worked.

Similar to SOCOM, deploying US troops in Mexico could be counterproductive. When the US attempted a similar plan on Columbia, the results were that the drug cartels moved to other countries. One detail I found is that Mexican citizens support training and weapons, but no troops. I think it would help if various countries legalized alternative medicine. This includes ibogaine to treat alcohol and heroine addictions. If drug cartels become less profitable due to fewer people being addicted, then private militaries would become unsustainable. Mexico already did this, but it can't solve the entire problem on its own. Other substances like LSD are more effective anti-depressants when compared to traditional medicine which leads to drug addiction in many cased. This would also make it more difficult for drug cartels to profit off of these substances. Leo mentions some this in his correcting the stigma of psychedelics videos.

That is a critical detail right there. I did a quick Google search. Multiple sites confirm that ISIS is one of the wealthiest terrorist organizations in history, making as much as 3 million dollars a day. It is interesting to note that ISIS pays benefits to the families of militants. This encourages impoverished and starving people to join. It explains why do many people join if you account for global poverty. cnn.com/2015/02/19/world/how-isis-makes-money/index.html The more I research the weirder and weirder it gets. According to cnn, ISIS makes over 1 million dollars a day selling oil that is smuggled into Turkey. The U.S. mainly targets the financial assets of these militants because they understand that if they don't have all this money, they can't run a military. It is interesting that the United States targets oil refineries to stop ISIS and maximize profits at the same time. ISIS also makes money from ransoms. They have made hundreds of millions from this. European countries pay the ransoms while the United States does not. This is how more US citizens are more likely to get beheaded when compared to European citizens. This leads to debates over whether or not we should pay the ransoms. I think we shouldn't because they will use the funding to hurt even more people. There are other ways ISIS makes money, but you can just look at the sites. huffpost.com/entry/isis-funding_n_5850286 According to this site ISIS also has wealthy donors. "The governments of Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Kuwait also covertly provide millions in aid to radical Sunni groups fighting Assad.". It is very frustrating that countries keep giving weapons and money to terrorists. I will need to do more research into why countries are giving so much money to these organizations.

It is my understanding that these organizations are terrorist insurgencies which are not operated by any government. I read about ISIS. I found that their goal is to enforce what they believe to be the original and one true interpretation of the Quran without any innovations or corruptions. They are willing to kill anyone in the world who does not share the same interpretation. If you can expand on the significance of them being private militaries, that would help. Perhaps you are implying that private militaries are essentially terrorist organizations because they are not held accountable for war crimes. That would be very hypocritical of the US.

nondoc.com/2019/09/13/privatization-of-the-military-facts/ This site mentions more disturbing facts about private contractors. It mentions that they are not charged for war crimes such as torture and 85% of interrogators in the CIA are private contractors. If I can figure out how many private contractors there are, I would have a rough idea of how much of the war is for resources. washingtonpost.com/national-security/2020/06/30/military-contractor-study/ According to this site, in 2019 there were 53,000 contractors from US companies and 35,000 US military troops. More contractors are killed than US troops as well. This would imply that the majority of wars in the middle East are for maximizing profits. Less than half of the armed conflict is the United States fighting terrorism. Furthermore, politicians are misleading because contractors are not considered "boots on the ground.". There are politicians who sound like they are opposed to the war, but in reality they could easily pull out troops and replace them with contractors. It is rare to find a politician who is truly anti-imperialism even if they say "we need to pull out troops out of the middle East."

@FoolsGold another question I have is in regard to the Mexican drug cartels. If the United States wanted to stop terrorists which could be motivating people to leave Mexico and go to the United States, then how much military aid should be sent to Mexico? I think this is an example of fighting terrorism for the sake of security rather than resources. I will try to figure out how much of the war is terrorism and how much is resources.

I go for a lot of walks around my neighborhood. This is what I see from my experience rather than just from the news stories. The area I live in is generally very peaceful with no civil unrest. It is a suburban area which I feel safe walking around in. There is still crime in this area. My parents abused drugs, there were shots fired at stores as evidenced by the broken glass I found, there were people abusing drugs in the public bathrooms as evidenced by the fact that the bathrooms were shut down when I tried to use one and more. Harrison avenue is more peaceful than the street I am describing. My dad was a gangster. I ran into a homeless guy on multiple occasions. I can't tell if he was a fake homeless guy or not because sometimes people beg for money so they can get drugs. I ran into a few people who asked me for a lighter. There is an addiction to smoking which affects many people in this area. I have not seen anyone die because of it, but there was a man who told me that he feels like he has less energy and he is not breathing as well. Alcoholism affects my area as well. I went to alcoholics anonymous once and heard about some of the horrors people experienced because of the addiction. There was also a middle aged man who hit on my teenage sister at the park. In my schools I witnessed a lot of sexual harassment and sometimes I was the target. Many students, myself and my brother included, at some point had suicidal thoughts. I developed various coping mechanisms to help me, my brother, and others in the community deal with these emotional episodes. One of my coping mechanisms comes from enlightenment through the deconstruction of morality when we think of ourselves as bad people. Through realizing that these judgements are fundamentally false, we do not need to hold guilt against ourselves as this is unproductive. I encountered a trans woman on one of my walks and my cousin is a trans male. These trans people are fed up with the intolerance of others and argue that some trans children are encouraged to commit suicide because of it. They are dissatisfied with democrats and republicans because neither of them appreciate the complexity of the issue and they are just doing what they think is good. I can relate to trans people through autism. People often assumed ill motives because of my abnormal behavior. The suicide rates in autism are also very high (granted I googled the statistics.). In any case I never felt like I belonged in my community and some people could be driven to suicide because of the prejudice of our community. The common factor between transgenderism and autism is the negative reaction toward mental abnormalities. Abnormal does not mean bad, just different from normal. At Kroger I have a co-worker who was a victim of predatory loaning when she tried to go to college to learn about criminal justice. She lost all of her credits when the school was shut down and she was left with all of the debt. This student loan debt is unfair and I think it should be completely forgiven if a college gets shuts down for predatory loaning and you lose all of your credits. I ran into some Mormons and atheists. The Mormons asked me on multiple occasions if I would convert. I declined every time because religion is a paradigm lock which can prevent me from seeing the world from various angles. I don't want to limit myself to one way of thinking. As for the atheists, they argued that religion was superstition and none of it was based in reality. I told the atheist about what I read in the bible about Christian rituals and he thought it was insane. I also ran into a non-relgious spiritual person who thinks that we know through not knowing. This is the guy I am drawn to the most. He had an abusive girlfriend and my mom had an abusive boyfriend. Most people in this area obeyed the mask mandates. There were a few people who refused to comply when my job was to ensure that everyone wore a mask. Nobody was belligerent, they just ignored me. I also saw a lot of Trump propaganda because of the Trump train outside my Kroger store. The state of Ohio when to trump during the election although I voted for Biden. I asked some trump supporters why they liked him and they said it was because of the economy. They argued that Bernie Sanders wanted to put us in communes. My grandma is a Trump supporter who thinks Biden ruins everything. She is anti-trans because God created adam and eve. She also doesn't like gay people and she is racist. There is also a lot of construction going on constantly. The streets and sidewalks are torn up a lot and rebuilt. There are some new buildings being put in place, and electric poles being replaced. My family often argues about racism, abortion, and other issues. I do research into these topics and I discovered arguments that both sides in my family often overlook. I am interested in political discussions when they are educational, but they quickly devolve into emotional games of manipulation and lying. I suspect my mother used the n word to intentionally provoke people. I prefer listening more than speaking when there is something of value being said. My second grandma is much more conscious than my first grandma and my mom. Most of the issues are beyond my control, but there are a few things I can do like convince people not to commit suicide, fact check the fake news people fall for, educate myself on the discussions people have, and more. This is what is going on in my community from experience rather than just need and research. I probably forgot something, but it is a start.

First of all no. I will not repeat that just because you told me too. Secondly, the changes I have in mind are the abolition of American imperialism as well as our responsibility in modern slavery such as our cell phone sweat shops in which workers are not paid a minimum wage and the right to unionize is not protected. Our economy is fundamentally broken so long as wide spread human rights violations across the globe are necessary to maintain a position as a global super power. Thirdly, the knowledge I am missing is greater clarity on why the United States wants to start a war with China. We need people to call out corporate greed in advance of any armed conflict so that we stop the cycle of constant war by moving from Syria to China when we bomb civilians. Racism, imperialism, and capitalism are all tied together and the more clear I am on how, the better. Anti Asian and Muslim rhetoric is designed to plant the prejudice necessary to make us feel justified in exploiting other nations for their resources in order to maximize profits while remaining a global super power. Fourthly, no such revolution can occur from within the government. There is a conflict of interest which prevents anti-corruption measures such as term limits from being implemented. If we are serious about bipartisanship, then the government needs to become functional through anti-corruption. After this, corrupt politicians can be removed from power so that systemic change can take place. This can only occur through massive action by many people. The government does not want to do it. Maybe I need to start telling people about the constitutional convention as our only way forward. This can reach people anywhere in the political spectrum. Finally, as for independent thinking, it is one of my values and I will do my best here. I have this life. I just appeared in existence one day without an explanation. I already knew English and that the woman looking at me was called "mom.". Life is amazing to the point that I can't comprehend it. This is why I want to do something incredible that accurately reflects the value of this life I have. The question I need to answer is "what best reflects the value of my life and how does this compare to how I am currently living it?" Life is more than money, more than sex, and more than me. (Note that anti-money or anti-sex as a moral dogma does not work, it is transcended through a higher vision.) If I ever hope to accurately reflect the inexpressible wonder of this life, it must be put toward something bigger than me. Life is more selfishly surviving.

I am very curious about personal development and how it relates to politics. Considering some of the greatest leaders of all time, how is it that they were able to rally tens of millions behind a common goal? How would ordinary citizens like us have to change in order to become the next great leader? I understand that many of King's goals have yet to be realized. This includes reforming the medical system, eliminating global poverty, eliminating systemic racism, and others. King was also opposed to the Vietnam war arguing that capitalism and militarism were inseparable. A modern example is the American attacks on civilians in the middle East. According to Donald Trump we should take their oil to pay ourselves back. If the next Martin Luther King were to emerge, what would he or she have to do in order to unify millions behind a common goal? I think a good attempt would be to get people from all across the political spectrum to support a constitutional convention to impose term limits. Currently many conservatives and liberals support the idea. If something does not change, then mankind will fail to stop the water wars and the damages caused by climate change. At one point in my life I considered becoming an activist, but I felt that there were no realistic ways to realize the goals I had in mind. Using King as an example, which goals are realistic or not realistic? His goals often seemed unrealistic, but we would have been wrong. I have a hard time distinguishing between being realistic and limiting beliefs in this case. I think being realistic is a limiting belief, but at the same time we might fail if we pursue such ideals.

@AtheisticNonduality what do you think would be the most fitting way to start a peaceful revolution? What changes should we be calling for and how should they be actualized? What knowledge are we missing?

@Willie sounds like a start. What exactly is charisma? I don't think I have a lot of it. I guess so long as the ideas resonate with people, it should bring about some progress even if the dream or goal is not realized in this life time.

I learned about this in my environmental courses in school. Water wars are already starting and they are expected to get worse with rising global temperatures worsening droughts and wild fires. The threat of water wars is what originally made me think of the importance of a world government in order to prevent this deadly collapse. https://journal-neo.org/2020/07/15/water-wars-are-turning-into-a-weapon-of-mass-destruction/ This source mentions the harms of building dams. The nile is a good example because it runs through Africa. If a dam is built upstream, then all countries South of that will begin to suffer droughts. These man made structures can cause a lot of serious tensions in the future. It is already starting and without a global government this crisis is inevitable. Given how slow mankind is to fight climate change and destruction caused by excess stage orange, I don't see how mankind can realistically evolve to the point of building a global government before the water wars. This issue makes me pessimistic about the future of mankind because the wars and droughts could lead to some countries collapsing completely. If we want to fight water wars, then I have one idea. Government corruption is the root of many political issues. If term limits were imposed on the house, senate, and supreme court, then new, younger people would have a chance to express their concerns of climate change and have a greater influence. This makes me optimistic because even trump supporters love the idea of preventing people from serving in Congress for 30 years. If this keeps up, then mankind's evolution will be too slow to stop some of these crises. Some states are calling for a constitutional convention, but we need about 15 more if I remember correctly. This is the key to unifying America despite its division and polarization. I think it is the only way forward in the developed world.

What would a rough sketch of this government look like and how would it come about? First, there should be a single military funded and shared by all nations to intervene in the event of a genocide. This would also prevent arms races with each other while banning nuclear weapons. This would be very useful for preventing water wars by properly distributing our resources, but the water wars are coming much faster than the global government. Today's world may not be the one that will create the government and the one that does may need to follow massive global conflicts over water. The United States will probably try to hoard water to the dismay of billions. Whatever the world ends up looking like after that is where it looks like the global government might begin. I don't know how many will survive, but the global government could start as a massive humanitarian effort to get everyone the resources they need post water wars. I would think that I world government would be run by all nations democratically. There would probably be a constitution about human rights including the right to life and protection from cruel punishment. Cruel punishment would have to be universal to be enforced because different nations have different standards. For the most part power would be decentralized, allowing every federal government to function like local governments. Should there even be an executive branch? I don't know how other branches of this government might work. We definitely should not have an emperor. I don't even think we should have a President. I think the collection of world leaders would be like Congress on a global scale. How would the branches of this government work?

First of all I am a fan of chess. I recognize the importance of health because without it, one cannot maintain the stress of playing professional chess. Some people get pale after playing in tournaments non-stop for just 2 weeks. I remember I once was so focused on a tournament, that I forgot to eat to dinner. I often have problems sleeping as well especially if I am too concerned or pumped up. The positive motivation for this is that it translates to chess mastery. Here is how I am starting. My family eats good from restaurants multiple times a week. I stop eating when I feel like I am getting sick off of all the fast food. I make something myself if they bring taco bell home. I am noticing that I still feel sick when I eat other fast foods as well. I understand that my diet won't be perfect if I replace fast food with more homemade food, but at least I can keep a healthy enough gut for chess. Food making me sick tends to be a very powerful motivator even though it is negative. My family just offered me skyline minutes before this post and I declined. I will note that I have already taken soft drinks out of my diet for the most part. I still eat a lot of sugar in its place though. It includes dairy, cereal, cookies, and ice cream. I would say that replacing soft drinks with water is a good start for avoiding excess sugar. One reason I get demotivated is when I look for foods with less sugar and it becomes hard to find If sugar is everywhere. For now my focus will be on creating a consistent sleep schedule and avoiding fast food. Fast food makes me feel like vomiting sometimes. There are other unhealthy habits I need to correct as well. For now the main take away from this post is that if you find a powerful life purpose that you are enthusiastic about, then it may be the beginning of a serious health investment. I can work with some negative motive for avoiding sickness for now.

I hesitate to write this because I once made the mistake of crusading and now I'm leery. I first want to compliment this forum because I learned about so many different things. I learned about gun control, factory farming, modern slavery, abuse of power, and much much more. I want to know what all of this powerful education would look like if it were put into motion to resolve the issues discussed in an individual and collective level. What are the people in this forum doing to solve the problems? When I tried to figure that out, I ended up getting everything backwards. I think a realistic goal is anti-corruption. Many States are calling for a constitutional convention to impose term limits, balance the budget, and to stop the abuse of campaign funds. These amendments, especially the term limits are very popular across the entire political spectrum. In fact some people voted for Trump because he ran on term limits. It means that there is broad support for anti-corruption and if it were put to use, it would cause a constitutional convention. I also think that anti-corruption is the only approach for those who are serious about achieving bipartisanship. Are there other realistic goals? If so how should they be accomplished? What causes should be donated to and what information should be spread on social media? (My family was against me donating to Wolf PAC when I tried. It could mean I would have to get away from them first in order to take action.) which petitions should be signed? (I signed a couple of petitions already like anti-corruption and anti-slavery.) Which public officials should be contacted and what should they be told? When is the best time to contact an official? (COVID is still preventing any meaningful contact with the government.) This is the most important lesson for me to learn if I ever hope to get conscious politics right without turning into a false life purpose. These are the questions I am most afraid to ask because of my past mistakes, but I will be brave. Any response will be greatly appreciated.

I watched part of Leo's video on going meta. In the video he mentioned meta chess. This is a game in which you get to change the rules during the game. Charlie never had as much fun as I did with chess because I won many tournaments and he did not stand a chance against me. In meta chess we were now in equal footing. Some of the rule changes included: Black moves first the fourth and fifth ranks are lava and any piece that touches it will die. The board wraps around itself on the a and h files. Bishops can jump. (This one is broken) Pawns can capture backwards. Bishops have a sniper rifle. Rooks have machine guns Knights have double range (This one is broken) Captured pieces join your side At any point in the match someone could say "it is now regular chess" Sometimes he won. Sometimes I won. Charlie learned more about chess this way and he had a lot more fun than usual. I can share the final game here. https://lichess.org/analysis/8/4k3/8/6q1/6N1/6P1/PKP5/8_w_-_-_0_1 In this position Charlie thought the position was hopeless because knights move like queens and queens move like knights. I told Charlie that he could change the rules one more time. I told him that if this were regular chess then black is completely winning. Charlie thought that he was terrible at regular chess so I told him that he should try to check mate me from this position with no more rule changes. Along the way I taught him some basic tactical tricks white could try to win the black queen. In my attempt to make a fortress, I eventually pushed the pawn to a5 with the knight on b3 protecting it. Charlie thought he had to stop the pawn, so I taught him about initiative. His queen can attack my king and pawns faster than I can promote. After this my position crumbled leaving me with a knight against a queen. I did enforce the touch move rule as if we were in a tournament. I did this because I wanted Charlie to earn it and make more fun that way. Eventually Charlie landed check mate. We shook hands and we both had fun. At this point I showed off various stalemate tricks I tried in the hopeless endgame. Charlie learned more about real chess strategy this way. When Charlie is done with exams I can train him for chess club next year. He is more enthusiastic about learning chess now and is a little more confident in himself. Thanks for the idea Leo. I can watch the other half of the episode tomorrow.

Today I noticed a lot of connections and similarities between many different corrupt organizations. Rape and other forms of sexual abuse is a broad problem that affects every religion, the military, corporations, prisons (police officers on inmates and inmates on inmates.), and entire governments. Strikingly, there are psychological similarities to humans that cause animals to rape other animals. One example is how seals rape penguins and let them live. This is a show of power to make the penguins fearful. In order to stop sexual abuse in we need to address this psychological mechanism that comes up when we have a lot of power. We think that we can get away with whatever corrupt selfishness we want when others are powerless, and in most cases this is sadly true. This even extends beyond rape and into abusive relationships which can include rape as well as other forms of abuse when one party (male or female) is too dominate. How should a society and various organizations be structured in order to stop sexual abuse? How can we ensure that those in power are held accountable given that we could be punished for trying to punish them? What would you do if you were abused by someone in a position of authority? That second question reminded me of how when I was child I was afraid to challenge corrupt adults for fear of punishment. This is all the same thing. We need to be extremely brave to call out drill sergeants, priests, politicians, police officers, and corporations for sexual abuse. The "Me Too" movement is probably here because most people are too weak and ashamed to after something as terrible as rape happened to them. The catch-22 we are dealing with is that we need anti-corruption, but those in power don't want anti-corruption because they are corrupt. As a result whistle blowers are punished and demonized and those in power will mess you up through the legal system they control if you challenge them.

What is the point of sending them to prison if that only makes their trauma worse? It looks like prison should be skipped and these people should be held on this island for ten years instead of going here after prison.

@Leo Gura Very true. A successful genocide is one that not only wipes out an entire ethnic group, but also destroys the art work and history of the group to erase them from history. If there was a successful genocide, we would never learn about it because any evidence of this ethnic group ever existing would be destroyed. Possible targets of successful genocides would be small pagan and native tribes which would be destroyed by imperialism and religious crusades. Any statues would be considered blasphemy and thus be erased from history when they are destroyed. Small, isolated native villages would be burned even if it is their only village. Some of these survived and exist to this day whereas others may not be as lucky. There are also an endless number of alternative histories which could be told if Nazis or southerners won. The U.S.surrenders when Nazi Germany dropped the atomic bomb on the U.S. Capitol, killing the president and the rest of the U.S.leadership. All children would be taught to equate Hitler to Jesus because he cleansed the world of the evil Jews. The future religion would pray to Hitler statues (similar to Kim Jong Un) and Nazi symbols rather than Jesus Christ, creating an alternative to Christianity. Deconstructing Nazism would become as difficult as a religious fundamentalist questioning the bible because they took pride in Christians killing evil Muslims and pagans as they went on conquests around the globe. The Nazi conquest would be romanticized like religious crusades. This is what relativism teaches us when we say Nazis are evil If Abraham Lincoln lost the civil war, Robert E. Lee would be the equivalent of Lincoln in future schools. If we think systemic racism is bad now, then it would be ten thousand times worse had the South won. This was of independence would be fused with the narrative of the founding fathers to romanticize the struggle. It would be socially acceptable to use the n word on place of black person because blacks would not be considered people. When Martian Luther king Jr finally emerges he would fail if he tried peaceful protest. King would have no choice but to start a slave rebellion, killing U.S. Leaders to set the slaves free. If there were a successful slave rebellion, then this would mess up history profoundly if blacks sought revenge on the whites. A slave rebellion would be terrifying for a white person in that situation. This is what relativism teaches us when we say slavery evil.

@Leo Gura I'm curious as to what the most accurate telling of western history is. Where do you think it is the most biased? A few examples are... The U.S. Was Intended to be an empire with security through expansion by committing genocides against natives. " the relationship between a slave and his master was like a father and son.". (From an actual history book.) In order to maintain its status As a world power the U.S. Must exploit weaker nations for cheap labor. An accurate history of all nations could have a dramatic impact on mankind if our worldviews adjusted for our brutal history. Where should people learn history? Maybe I should ask Europe, Asia, and Africa about the history of America.