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That’s not what they are talking about (100% replication). An example is the Zimbardo prison experiment at Stanford where people shocked prisoners when ordered too. This experiment has been cited over and over thousands of times as evidence of human nature. But the experiment has never been successfully replicated. This is just one example of bunk that passes for knowledge because a reputed expert said so. The scientific establishment routinely points the finger at homeopathy and alternative cures saying “where is the proof?”. It is appropriate to turn the spotlight around on the scientific establishment. They do not have a monopoly on knowledge. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment

If it is relative and can't be defined then the epistemology is faulty. Their claim is that the scientific method leads to statements that can be considered to be "knowledge". That is a high bar. If they can't define it then they have no monopoly on the claim of knowledge. "In 1966, an early meta-research paper examined the statistical methods of 295 papers published in ten high-profile medical journals. It found that, "in almost 73% of the reports read ... conclusions were drawn when the justification for these conclusions was invalid." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metascience

Below is a good article on the "Replication crisis". At least 50% of scientific studies cannot be reproduced. Much of medical research doesn't even meet the criteria of the scientific method. People just assume the system is responsible and not corrupt. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis

There is a left wing criticism of the public policies related to the coronavirus pandemic. The most strong response in opposition has come from the postmodernist philosopher Giorgio Agamben. https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/03/17/where-are-the-postmodernists-when-you-need-them/

What an ignoramus. Around 2.00 he says “There was an I, and the self, and then the self was gone, whatever that means”. He reminds me of the psychologists in the 1960s who were saying that meditation is a mental illness.

We can easily conceive of infinities in our minds through mathematics. The integers go on for infinity. The even number and odd number go for infinity. And mathematicians can prove the integers, odd numbers, and even numbers are the same size. There are also different sizes of infinity. Even though our particular known universe is finite, it should give a materialist pause to wonder that our minds are able to so easily articulate infinities and describe their properties. In addition, the universe is only about 14 billions years old meaning time doesn’t go back farther than that, so what occurred before the big bang and how do you measure it, raising the issue of eternity.

Join some activity where you can enjoy the company of masculine men. Masculinity is a group energy that you can receive. One possibility is to take courses in auto mechanics in a trade school. You will make friends talking about a common subject you are interested in. When I lived in Mexico, I was a member of a boxing gym, and it was great for masculine energy. It was inspiring to see fathers mentoring their sons in boxing. Masculinity is about the power to do things in the world. So don’t get overly intellectual and subjective in this space. Work with the energy.

What I find interesting is the screaming, yelling, clapping, etc. This is actually energy work and moves people to a high energy state. Doing it in a large group amplifies the effect, which quickly wears off after the seminar. I went to a Pentecostal meeting once, and a person stood up and started speaking from the holy spirit. Then all hell broke loose and people were screaming, crying, and moving energetically with some crawling on the floor and foaming at the mouth. You could also reach this with Osho’s Dynamic meditation. Ernest Angley would work up crowds like this and claim to heal people. This is group hypnosis led by a charismatic speaker. These techniques can be traced back in America culture to the 1800s.

The woman in the video is obsessed with calling out what she sees as racism. In the video it can be seen that she enjoys it. She even calls her husband a racist. She is making a very good living at this. It is interesting that stage orange low consciousness corporations are willing to embrace this bullying counter productive approach. Here is an example of how someone at a high spiritual level would handle this. Thomas Hueble has led workshops where half the people are children of holocaust survivors and the other half are children of Nazis. He has them heal each others trauma by talking to each other. He says that group trauma can only be healed by the people involved communicating in an environment of compassion. https://thomashuebl.com/ Healing Collective Trauma

If you observe closely enough you will notice that there isn’t just one ego but most people have more than one ego or personality. They protect us from anxiety and strong emotions and are triggered by different situations and contexts. For example, you may have a Mr. Careful that obsessively plans to avoid errors and mistakes, but when that fails and the moment of crisis arises, Mr. Panic is activated and screams and breaks things. If you can get them to talk to each other, they can work out a more balanced strategy. The behavior is highly automatic, so is mostly unconscious. The thoughts are automatically generated and repetitive with no new insights. We are numbed out by our ego defense mechanisms. They protect us but at the cost of not feeling alive. It is like walking through life in a hazmat suit. While under the toad, my defense mechanisms deactivated and I felt all the repressed emotions of years all come up at once resulting in a cathartic experience. I felt an aliveness I have never experienced before and a strong conviction that the reality I was experiencing was more real than my waking life. I felt what is was like to not be numb.

The American media really started going south with the advent of cable news. At that point news became mixed with entertainment. Now news is pure entertainment and is presented in a way to triggers the prejudices of a particular population to create fear and anger, because this captures the attention of eyeballs to be monetized with advertisement. The world is divided into left/right a simple model that maximizes profits. Stage orange ultimately corrupts everything it touches. If you have any doubts, study the Iraq war where the government lies of “weapons of mass destruction” was completely adopted by the mainstream media. Also, can anyone find even one picture of the aftermath of an American bomb and the dead bodies? How can this be possible in an age where everyone has a smartphone with one or more cameras attached? Can you imagine the level of control the system has to censor information?

The argument against free will is determinism based on the notion that everything has a cause and thus every event is caused by preceding events, so the present is completely determined by the past. If this is true, there can be no free will. But that would mean that creativity is not possible. So, Leonardo da Vinci didn´t create the Mona Lisa. It was something that just had to happen due to a history of molecules bumping into each other. Most people can intuitively see this as wrong. But the philosopher David Hume proved that there is no way to prove that a cause produces an effect. And Kant put causality, space, and time in the mind. So, is it causality or free will that is the illusion? The creativity of God is infinite.

Some shamen use Rapé to send you off on an Ayahuasca journey.

America manages death like orange juice. Hospice is a profit-making stage orange industry. I recommend just avoiding it. A Tibetan Buddhist considers his daily meditation as a practice for his death.

When people are dying they beg for the drugs to alleviate their pain. It is the pain drugs that actually kill them. But the most distressing part is that they aren’t allowed to die consciously. The relatives can’t talk to their drugged out loved one because they aren't there. The dying person gets no support and the relatives get no resolution. What could be a meaningful experience is turned into a mechanical, inhuman, managed affair. Death is denied to the very last moment. I went through this with my father. Fuck this inhuman culture. Oh yes, they push for the DNR order. It is all part of “pain management” and "palliative care".

Kaczynski's claim is that technology is going to spin out of control and that the rulers, who think they can control it, in fact cannot. I tend to agree. Technology increases exponentially. Look how quickly the Internet took over the world. And nanotechnology is going to be more powerful than the laser, computers, and the Internet combined. It’s effect hasn’t even begun. Despite all the hype, there has been no breakthrough in AI, but when it happens it will be another seismic event. It’s interest that the Bible begins with man being kicked out of the Garden of Eden for eating the fruit of knowledge. In the Tower of Babel story, men unite to build a tower to heaven which God foils with multiple languages. Our technology is increasing exponentially while our consciousness to use it responsibly is not. Will higher consciousness step in and sabotage the entire project before we destroy ourselves?

There are a lot of fakes posing as Shaman out there but "porn star" should be a big red flag.

I find it interesting that Americans who identify themselves as nationalist, like Trump supporters, are generally friendly to Russia and Putin. The vitriol tends to come from the liberals and the left. I understand why the American ruling class hates Putin, since he stopped them from looting Russian assets and for strategic reasons they oppose any strong leader of another country. Does this mean that the liberals are the biggest supporters of Western imperialism? Like Putin said, Russia is here to stay and we know how to defend our own interests.

If you look at the water in your hands long enough, you will notice the volume decrease and it starts to disappear until there is nothing left. Then you ask, where did the water go? If you divide a rock, and then divide the divisions, and divide the divisions of the divisions, is there a point where you can’t divide anymore because there are indivisible units? Democritus used common sense reasoning applied to simple observations like this to postulate the existence of atoms. When we ask “why?” we go down the rabbit hole to the unseen and the unknown.

Learn to grow mushrooms. You will not only clean your room but learn to sanitize it removing every bacteria and mold. Then you will have proved yourself worthy to receive knowledge.

During the 1970s, the psychology departments were dominated by behaviorism – the notion that we are stimulus-response machines, and the mind is a myth. This triteness was finally debunked by Chomsky – a linguist. The most popular therapy is now cognitive therapy, which its founders admit comes from stoicism, which is over a thousand years old. They had to go that far back to find something that works. What was the value of anything done in the 20th century? Now they have claimed mindfulness as a therapy, which goes back thousands of years. Again, why do they have to reach back to ancient methods. What have they done? Their one claim to discovery is the unconscious – but Hinduism knew about this thousands of years ago.

Tibetan Buddhism has a tradition of debating Buddhist logic. It would be interesting to get the answer of a Tibetan Buddhist monk. A Zen Master will just hit you over the head with a stick. That works too.

Buddhism is concerned with liberation. It’s not something you play with conceptually. It is something to be verified (or not) by direct observation. Observe the moment by moment changes in your images, thoughts, and feelings. Notice that everything you sense arises and then falls away. Deepen your awareness. Follow the impermanence all the way to liberation.

The interesting thing to note is that Peterson has mastered his subject of psychology and it does him absolutely no good in finding happiness or living life. I can sympathize because I have read hundreds of psychology books and have found very little wisdom in them. But then he writes another useless psychology book giving people advise. Most therapists are equally as lost. Western psychology is almost entirely useless.

What the Democrats will never admit is that Trump was the “trunk monkey”. This comes from a commercial several years ago. A man is stuck in traffic and this dangerous looking thug comes up to his window and starts threatening him. The man in the car calmly pushes a button on his dash with the label “trunk monkey”. The trunk opens and this large monkey jumps out carrying a tire iron and quickly takes care of the thug. In other words, when you are dealing with someone you consider dangerous and unreasonable, you vote for the trunk monkey, not Eckhart Tolle. Leftist politics use to be about the issues of worker rights and wealth inequality. Somehow the postmodernist academics hijacked the democratic party, and are focusing on “words” because postmodernists believe words are reality. In my opinion, this isn’t progressive but serves the interests of the financial oligarchs by diverting attention from the current trend towards extreme wealth inequality. Here is an example of academic obsession with words – the flip-chart is racist. http://joyfulpublicspeaking.blogspot.com/2019/02/is-flip-chart-racist-term.html