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Burma changed its name to Myanmar. It's not as hard as it seems.

They also need to change the English colonial word "Hinduism" to "Sanatana Dharma".

That’s about a 30 time difference between the lowest and highest estimate. The one thing that could explain it would be cryptocurrency where a multiplication of that magnitude would be possible. But is there a way to track cryptocurrency profits? Isn’t it anonymous? And if Tate is voluntarily reporting the higher number, doesn’t that make him a target for taxing authorities if he hasn’t paid up? Why would he risk making this admission? If he paid the taxes, that would be solid proof.

Andrew Tate is a muslim so he has an obligation to give a percentage of his wealth (about 2.5%) to charity. https://www.investopedia.com/terms/z/zakat.asp#:~:text=Zakat is an Islamic financial,individual's total savings and wealth.

His mother put him in a mental hospital because he said God is everywhere and she believed you only see God after you die. The kid was very articulate but way over her head. He looked peaceful and content and she looked like a nervous wreck. But he was the one put in a mental institution.

There are several issues that I haven’t seen addressed here that one may consider. These tend to come up in ceremonies, but most here seem to go it alone. The first is trauma informed facilitation. Most facilitators are ignorant of trauma and don’t know how to guide or help you which means you will be retraumatized instead of receiving healing. I don’t use the word “shaman” anymore because in the West there are no shaman, they are facilitators. The other issue is possession. There is the possibility of being possessed by spiritual entities, or an entity expecting you to serve it upon receiving help. You wont believe this until it happens. The other big issue, of course, is integration – how to use the medicines to transform your life rather than being a one night experience that just becomes another memory.

The underlying issue is actually economic. The idealogues in the Democratic Party won't look at this. Robert Kennedy, Jr. understands the problem and has a solution. Here is a good book that gives the contextual background. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Listen,_Liberal

This forum tends to assume that awakening is the only purpose of psychedelics. I attend ceremonies in Latin America where they are used primarily for mental and physical healing. For example, I have met several people who are using them to control neurological disorders.

Chairman Xi is making sure that any imperialist invader is going to be facing 1 billion little Andrew Tates. In contrast, the Western world is determined to stomp out “toxic” masculinity. Which country is crazy?

China is building infrastructure and relationships with African countries, which is going to be of strategic importance to access to resources, such as rare earth elements. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belt_and_Road_Initiative

With the Belt and Road Initiative, China is building a global infrastructure by investing in more than 150 countries. Examples include ports, road, bridges, dams, electric stations, and railroad tunnels.

This guy use to live in China and had a travel log, but now he has turned into an anti China shill to get clicks. I don't believe any of it. America has over 800 military bases in 70 countries and China has about 3. The Chinese have been relatively peaceful compared to the West and focus on being an influence in their own region.

When I was in the Amazon, I was walking in the jungle alone, and there was this huge green snake lying in the path. It moved towards me and started to lift its head and body for a strike. I turned around and ran. The snake moved so fast that I knew if it wanted to go after me I wouldn’t be able to outrun it. It made me realize how insanely quick a snake can be.

This channel tries to present a balanced view. https://www.youtube.com/@BetterBachelor

That brings up the issue of government corruption and drug laws being used to victimize innocent people by corrupt police. I have been searched in Mexico several times while walking in public by police looking for “marijuana”, even though aya, mushroom, and bufo ceremonies are done in the open. But cannabis is illegal in Mexico. So, if you are a gringo you become a target for a mordita or extortion.

Pope Urban II started the crusades to keep the European tribes from mudering each other and directing all that aggressive energy to a "noble" cause, while getting them out of Europe. Ironically, Islam was also created to resolve the problem of warring tribes, focusing all that aggressive energy on conquering new territory.

Interesting. The color photo even shows the red dot in the green half and the green dot in the red half.

People react to Ayahuasca very differently. Many people vomit and it acts as a purgative. Not everyone has visuals. It is more physical than mushrooms. When I was in the Amazon, I took Black Ayahuasca, which is like a super ayahuasca, and I was freezing cold even though I was in the jungle. The guy next to me said he felt someone punch him in the face. I have intense visions and stories. But it keeps me in my mind going into the unconscious. It doesn’t take me out of the mind. Only Bufo Alvarius does that.

Mohammad was primarily a political leader and a judge. He was able to resolve disputes between tribes in a way that was seen as just and fair. It’s not hard to see the problem. In order for a culture of warring tribes to unite, it is necessary to have a trustworthy legal system outside of the tribe in which everyone has confidence. This is not an easy thing to pull off. Islam provided the superstructure so that the tribes could unite and direct their aggressive energy to conquering new territory. It worked.

This is an interesting interview with RFK, Jr. when he was younger. You can here what he sounded like before he lost his voice.

Coursera has several free courses on global warming, for those who want to learn the science. https://www.coursera.org/learn/global-warming

Because of the nature of the problem, it makes it extremely difficult to find a solution. The biggest barrier is the political structure. In order to solve global warming, it requires cooperation of every country on the planet. For example, if a developed country cuts carbon emissions, that can be negated by Brazil cutting down the rain forests. But world cooperation is getting even more difficult. The neocons is the US promoting what is going to be a decades long war in Ukraine and making Russia and China enemies doesn’t help. Then there is the fact that once things get too serious to ignore, it is already too late to do anything about it. Then there is the unknown but real chance of a positive feedback loop changing the earth’s climate to that of Venus.

My strong suspicion is that it is ego most of the time. However, the Sufi mystic Al-Hallaj was executed for saying “I am the truth”.

One of the problems with climate change is that the scientific models can’t predict with any accuracy what is going to happen. This is because of the positive feedback loops that can occur in the environment. So once we have the concrete evidence it is too late to do anything and we are doomed. This suggests a cautionary policy.