Terell Kirby

Idk why we vehemently deny that the minds of the American public were corrupt enough to elect a fascist as President. It seems as though we deny because we were complicit in this disgusting political event, or (for those more developed) we don’t want to acknowledge the loneliness that one incurs from being a wise person who realizes that he/she has been living amongst a sea of fools.

The 'S'elf is Pure Consciousness & Awareness. The concept of no self in non duality and Buddhist circles is false. The Infinite Self is all that exists.

Damn, why is it we can't get away with endless pleasure whilst keeping our mind free from devilry and corruption? Seems God designs us to create our own mental traps and fall prey to them at the same time. It's an ingenious design..

Thoughts on how one develops discernment? Seems to be a product of wisdom gained from developing awareness of distinctions & opposites through a set of experiences in a particular field or arena. The Trump question focuses on how good one is at distinguishing a bad faith actor/con artist from someone with honest and pure intentions. The same mechanism is at play for people who get seduced into abusive relationships or ponzi schemes for example.

Such a victim mindset.

This has become more apparent to me in the past weeks with everything going on in politics. It’s been difficult to accept and come to terms with the evils of humanity. Through some deep suffering of my own, I’ve come to grips with the fact that to be human IS to be evil. Devilry, ego, bias and selfishness is baked into DNA-it all serves our survival needs. Some humans are more evil than others, not on moral grounds but on level of crudeness in how they go about surviving. Yet as long as our Consciousness is in human form-we’ll always be somewhere on the evil spectrum. What’s give me some solace is a reframe when it comes to my own personal development. The goal was never to cease being evil, but pushing to become less evil each and every day-well knowing that I can’t ever fully escape it in human form. I can also make genuine attempts accept human devilry as part of God’s creation (with Love).

Interesting article on how the Israeli defense and law enforcement uses facial recognition technology to enforce apartheid under the guise of security: https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/05/israel-opt-israeli-authorities-are-using-facial-recognition-technology-to-entrench-apartheid/

Mainstream media being anti Trump is an overstatement. They simply fact checked him on his constant lying-Trump brainwashed his base to look at fact checking as fake news. Alternative media like Joe Rogan is not in the business of fact checking, he’s in the business of getting clicks and views. 38 million views doesn’t make any it more truer or fact based than any other mainstream news source with less subscribers on YouTube. Which points to another issue with how people go about sense making, taking clicks/views/subscribers as a signal of truthfulness. It’s as stupid as it gets.

You can coin the term ‘epistemic rot’. The minds of the US populace have rotted-due to multiple factors like social media, click/rage bait, YT shorts, TikTok propaganda, Alex Jones, right wing media conspiracies, backlash against SJWs & trans. Vilifying globalist/elites. All of this fueled by crony capitalism, military industrial complex and lobbying. It’s much more twisted/sinister than we realize. Trump is only going to take us deeper into this.

There’s nothing logical about how the majority of people choose their leaders. It’s emotional and highly oriented towards survival and selfishness. Logic serves as a tool to rationalize selfish acts.

I don’t think an interview on any of these platforms would have made much of a difference. Kamala is not a candidate that appeals to right wing masculinity. It’s like requesting a trans person to interview on an anti trans podcasts in hopes it will sway an anti trans audience.

The definition of intelligence is highly subjective, doesn’t span across all domains. One can be intelligent spiritually and in other domains, but completely in the dark about global politics/ideology and its effects on systems. People who voted Trump are not “evil” on some made up moral basis. But they did something abhorrent and fundamentally irresponsible by ushering a low integrity, narcissistic leader into the White House. Whether you judge that as good or bad is up to you, but it doesn’t help to be lost in fantasies about what’s going on, and how survival, corruption and ego are at play.

well .. it’s more sinister than that. They actually take pride in their ignorance, they love to indulge in it, like a pig in mud.

You can be both and still be stupid in your understanding of political systems and the nuance in which they work.

The mistake is in thinking just because someone is “enlightened” or “awake” on some spiritual level, means they have a robust/deep understanding of political systems. These two things have no relation whatsoever. What I’m realizing is it takes an enormous amount of time to study and get a deep understanding of global politics and human psychology. You can’t do that if you spend all your time on a meditation cushion or doing yoga practice 24/7.