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I'm very skeptical. I still remember the Incubator baby hoax that was used to get us into the Iraq war. This is now admitted to have been a lie. The baby theme is too similar and could be propaganda. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nayirah_testimony

A solution is possible with a higher level of leadership. Those bombed out pictures of Gaza show the mentality of the current leadership of the world. We would never accept this in our personal lives. Oh, my car doesn’t work. But I got a solution. I am going to blow it up with TNT. That will fix it.

RFK, Jr. gives his view on the current situation. He cuts to the core of the issue by pointing out that the Palestine leadership are billionaires not working in the best interest of their people. Of course, the other side is also controlled by billionaires. It’s time to reject the simplistic control narratives and expose the puppet masters.

RFK, Jr. has a real chance to win. Look at his competition – one is a madman, and the other belongs in a nursing home. This is what a corrupt uniparty system looks like. There are millions of silent people who can see this and want change. The “experts” said that Trump wouldn’t win, but he did. Their statistics based on the past couldn’t detect the underlying dissatisfaction of the population. They are invested in a corrupt system and can’t even feel the present, let alone predict the future.

The important factor for me is that Trump and Biden don't act as spoilers for RFK, Jr. RFK, Jr is a true system's thinker, which is what we need right now. All the other politicians only care about pleasing their donors. We can't survive this anymore in a dangerous world.

The takeaway is that they felt safe and protected, but they weren't. We could be in the same boat.

What do you think the chance is that this is going to spread to the United States? Large numbers of military age men are entering the US illegally on the southern border. Anyone can get in. Hamas are determined fighters and the US is their enemy. Why wouldn’t they be taking advantage of such a huge loophole? And we already know that the intelligence agencies can’t be relied on.

Julian Assange's solution to war.

Here is what the solutions look like. Relational Processes in Ayahuasca Groups of Palestinians and Israelis https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8170481/ Healing Community Trauma in Israel and Palestine https://acupuncturetoday.com/article/32937-healing-community-trauma-in-israel-and-palestine So far, the Tates have given the most intelligent and realistic commentary on this recent conflict that I have seen anywhere. https://x.com/Cobratate/status/1711079393999962323?s=20

There are still a lot of unanswered questions here. Is it credible to believe this massive attack got by Israeli intelligence, which is the best in the world, better than the CIA? The other issue is does Russia have any role in this attack? I saw one YouTube video of Palestinians praising Putin. In my opinion, this isn’t totally unrelated to the Ukraine war. That’s why sending billions to Ukraine to fuel the war is insane. Our main goal here should be to stop a nuclear war. If Israel attacks Iran, this could easily spiral out of control. Our leaders are incompetent. America has to come to an agreement with Russia.

Didn't he previously agree to the Minsk agreements? This has already been discussed in another thread so I won't belabor it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minsk_agreements#:~:text=Following that decision%2C on 22,to blame for their collapse. Keep in mind that even FDR agreed to sit down and talk with Stalin. Also, Victoria Nuland is in the Biden Administration. She was also in the Bush administration and the architect of the Iraq invasion and she is very pro war.

It’s an easy case to cast Trump as a wild man who had it coming. But they are also demonizing(e.g., “conspiracy theorist”) and excluding Robert Kennedy, Jr. who seems to irritate them even more because he is so reasonable and taking positions that were normal democratic party positions in the 1960s. Or for that matter, mild mannered and extremely polite Barry Goldwater was demonized with campaign commercials of a nuclear bomb going off implying that if he was elected there would be a nuclear war. But now democrats are uniformly in favor of sending money to Ukraine to inflame a dangerous conflict further, flirting with nuclear war, instead of advocating for a diplomatic settlement.

The real lesson here is that philosophy won't get you to liberation.

Bishop Berkeley was able to take the heat even when things got physical. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_the_stone

They should run Robert Kennedy, Jr. But the primary system is rigged against anyone not approved by the party bosses. It is not a democratic system and they deserve to lose. With Nancy Pelosi voting until her death in her 90s, the US government is turning into a nursing home. A sign of a decaying system controlled by big doners and not the people. In a vigorous, healthy democracy you would have literally dozens or maybe hundreds of highly qualified candidates in their 40s.

Your observations are accurate. It’s way harder than it seems. I learned this when I went to the Amazon to do a plant diet for two weeks. A real shaman will do a plant diet for thirty days. He will go to an isolated spot in the jungle and take powerful plant medicines to purge and purify his body and mind. He will be vomiting every day for 30 days. Only at the end of thirty days, will he take the ayahuasca. His preparation is the equivalent of an intensive meditation retreat. Also, in the West we have the additional problem that we are left-brain dominated. Your brain is being damaged when you look at a computer screen all day. We are extremely unbalanced in our perception. We have to learn to perceive again with our senses and the right brain. One way to do this is with a Dark Retreat. That is where you live in total darkness for one week. A damaged receiver can't receive. The element that is missing is detoxification – of both body and mind. Taking a magic pill that works without any effort is pure fantasy.

One thing I have learned here is how quickly non-duality can turn into another dogma, not dissimilar from fundamentalist Christianity where people parrot their favorite Bible versus. My teachers are people I have a personal relationship with. I have had an opportunity to observe them and thus know that they are the embodiment of their teachings. Nevertheless, the forum is a valuable resource. It depends on us to use it wisely. The technology itself is just the technology. If the content is weak, it’s up to us to post with good intentions.

Online University is the solution to the high price of college now which is really a scam on young people. When Coursera first came out and was free I took several dozen courses and they were all excellent. I took some courses that I had taken in university and Coursera was way better. They can get the best teachers in the country to teach the courses, and use online computer tools to enhance the learning. AI learning is also going to be huge. It's the perfect technology to break the University's monopoly.

The second noble truth says that there is an end to suffering. This was the Buddha's greatest discovery. Here is a talk by Shinzen "Pain without suffering"

Having pain doesn’t mean you are suffering. Pain is a sensation. All suffering IS psychological. Shinzen often uses the formula: Suffering = Resistance x Pain. Resistance is the sense that you can’t stand it and want it too end. If Resistance = 0, then by the equation Suffering = 0. But the resistance goes deep into the unconscious mind. That’s why it takes years of meditation practice to root out resistance at the deeper levels. A good practice for exploring pain and suffering is strong determination sitting.

A Zen master would be aware of the bat before it even made contact. That's why samuri warriors trained in Zen. Using meditation to master pain has a long history.

I'm not sure about that. When I was studying with him, he would go to the dentist and request no novocaine because he wanted to experience the delicious flavors of sensation.

He did a sun dance, where you dance in the sun for 3 days, and then after, they put two knives in your breasts and hang you from a tree. He has taught many HIV patients to live with pain.

I’m not defending his past behavior. I don’t listen to his show and actually don’t know much about him. I am mainly concerned about the free speech implications. Not only has he been dropped from YouTube, but the British government sent a letter to Rumble asking to shut him down. Thus, free speech is an issue here as a result of mere allegations going back more than a decade that were brought up by his competitors. If people are censored for being naughty, the entire mainstream media would have to close shop. As for rape allegations, they are allegations. The rape allegations against Julian Assange were eventually dropped. As for Russell Brand, no formal charges have been brought by the judicial system. So if they are brought that would be a separate issue.

They weren’t bothered by Russel Brand when he was living the life of a hedonist fool. Some of the allegations go back to 2003. His media accusers couldn’t care less about his behavior. But when he started to challenge the powers that be, it was time to remove him. Could it be that he is being punished for starting the process of waking up?