Natasha Tori Maru

You participated in derailing it. Feel free to bring it back in line. Threads go off track and roll right back onto topic - sometimes for pages and pages at a time. Use the report function if you want something done - that way all mods will asses and unanimously decide. Avoids bias (if you suspect that) and assists mods.

You aren't actually understanding or trying to understand and getting sidetracked by all these secondary points. All good, I can see I am not received. C'est la vie

Xe xer ximself monstrosity

Mother of GOD. I only just saw this thread now. Understood the assignment 🤣🤣🤣 The question is - and in true woke fashion - what pronouns would be claimed? 😂

I've had multiple at length discussions with you about this - it's your communication style that polarises people. You claim consistently that anyone speaking to you in good faith will know what you mean. But users aren't mind readers, and when you use imprecise language you can't expect people to understand a nuanced take. The constant black and white statements. Absolute 'all men' blanket generalizations, and inability to concede any points, is what digs your own grave. I'm not even a dude and I take offence to many of your statements. You don't appear to ever take anyone's argument in good faith but demand that others apply this to you.

I agree with this! I think the short form clips are a good low barrier of entry to begin some content. Easier when we do not have good energy levels, and, in my own experience, these small tasks snowball into higher total output. Action retrains habits. Action builds momentum. Action shapes thoughts and feelings. I never wait for inspiration. Paradoxically, I find doing performing many small tasks (squeezed into the day), injects me with a compulsion to drive harder at my larger projects. These smaller tasks act to build momentum and motivation, and I end up with MORE done, greater capacity and output. For this reason, I disagree with users who express consternation regarding smaller clips like this 'robbing' output and progress in Leo's larger projects.

Yeah, exactly. Like any medication it has pros and cons. If the benefits of taking the medication outweigh the cons (ie one is so fat that metabolically they are facing immediate issue with diabetes, cardiovascular strain and fatty liver etc) then taking the medication is going to help, despite the drawbacks of muscle/bone loss. None of these weight loss drugs replace regular exercise and healthy balanced diet. They just help you get out of the shit until you are in a better place to address other areas of life. I am not sure on this but I think the weight comes back when you get off the drug? Don't quote me on that. GLP1 agonists just prove that people cannot put down the fork (for whatever reason that may be).

Perhaps it would be like.... torturing yourself to death huehuehue sry back on topic I couldn't help it

All the best questions IMO. We love contemplating the ontology of a cup, but won't touch an emotion or feeling. All contractions of different forms. I practice extensive body scanning when investigating emotions and feelings.

In my understanding most of what people think is anger arises from another base - fear (and its associated emotions). Fear is the delusion of the self/ego. Many adore delving into intellectual / thought pursuits - and refuse to even investigate feelings and emotions. I believe anger is used as a loose term for a whole host of emotions and feelings many do not have nuance in detecting and expounding on (and that aren't in fact anger at all, when we inspect them closely). I do not know many who delve into their inner emotional world and approach feelings and emotions from an ontological lens. Prefacing that! - it could be simply the bias on this forum I think to proceed further we must dive into anger and how we each define it - I think this could be where confusion lies. Pure anger, in my worldview, phenomenologically often contains; aggression, aversion, heat, attack energy and a desire to push/resist/destroy the obstacle. Fear, urgency, protectiveness, moral clarity, frustration, upset, grief, consternation, confusion, nervous system activation, assertiveness, sadness, anxiety, shame, embarrassment, overwhelm, hunger, exhaustion, pain or discomfort. All of these sensations, feelings and emotions can act as a base for anger to arise from, or be wrongly mislabelled as anger. And I witness in my experience and would argue most people mislabel all of these complex, subtle contractions as anger. Passive aggressive behaviour arises from hidden forms of anger like sarcasm, deliberate procrastination or being chronically late. Oppositional defiant type behaviours. Self harm behaviours can also be another result of anger. Anger is NOT: clear perception, discernment, decisive action, fierce compassion, boundary enforcement. These all exist without the psychological contraction of anger. For example: I present an awakened teacher sharply correcting someone. This may externally resemble anger, but internally there may be no hatred, resentment, wounded pride, or personal grievance. Just clean intensity without aggression, attack or any desire to push/destroy etc. Moving toward the Buddhist type framing - Can there be aversion without a self-structure organising it?

But the assumption here is that these individuals do not have a self or ego? Anger is from attaching to the thoughts about spirituality. Attachment is from the self or ego. Criticism does not always carry anger.

@JoshB my stance isn't about suppressing or bypassing anger. I am 100% for allowing all emotion. My stance is that it originates from the self. If you must know, I have suffered mental and physical abuse/torture in the past. For years. I ended up with a TBI. I don't require compassion. I have processed the emotions that arose as a result.

As in, anger isn't from the self if you are abused?

This is my stance - ego/self origin. I haven't heard a compelling argument or example that suggests otherwise.

ROFL maybe thats what Peterson Academy really is 🤣🤣🤣🤣

@Leo Gura $399 / yr now Started @ $450 / yr Raised to $500 then $600 yr for one year then dropped back to $399 So probably a bit more not too shabby in the old pocket 🤑

Heh. I'm subscribed to the YouTube channel with notifications on and I still do not get notified when new videos are released. So there's that horseshit happening.

I do not know how many courses they have. But they hiked the price with nothing new to present. Maybe it started as a good faith earnest idea - and then slowly acted as the good old grift funnel that feels so familiar

I agree - but it is hearsay - with some direct quotes of what Mikheala said which was poor conduct IMO. People can be calm and rational after the fact, but that group-think conformity shit humans do, can incite frenzied drama when people back each other. They may have had legit criticism, and they may have been responsible for inciting shit. There was an upvote/downvote system encouraging the snowballing. I always think bullshit and the truth arrive together 🥲

That Conner call was a serious rebuke that needed to be doled out.

There was inconsistent policy around pricing - AFAIK Peterson Academy promised certain features. They raised prices without delivering the additional features twice from ~ $450 (original) to $500 to $600 in a year. Students asked for a timeline of delivery for new features corresponding to the price increases. There wasn't a clear response, and the community raised general issues around moderation, lack of clear conduct rules and claims that instead of an alternative University experience, the whole thing was turning into a paid premium lecture subscription service. The two women in the interview were expelled for questioning pay structure, service delivery, and participating in discussions around problems in the community/academy and potential solutions. One of them took issue to Mikheala apparently commenting to 'work harder and get a better job' when members raised issue with pricing increases twice in a year. Their criticism as they reported it seemed fair and justified IMO - supporters of Peterson Academy claimed they were creating negativity and trouble making. They didn't come across as burned left wingers with an axe to grind. Just left with 'wtf' after the experience.

I thought it was worth the share because the two students who joined approached the whole thing in good faith; they were so earnest and hopeful for Peterson Academy's success. The narrative moves from their initial hopes, enthusiasm and good energy into disillusionment and disappointment. But feel free to disregard without watching. Perhaps others will enjoy.

Re: Peterson Academy It's been in it's death throes for a bit now. The below is a first hand interview with 2 students who were expelled from Peterson Academy. They give an earnest tell-all on the inner workings and what they experienced. I watched it when it first came out a year ago - WARNING ⚠️ long. https://youtu.be/xyV34eMdmIY?si=wjuv3jf4TwmazyhB

Actualized Quotes #591 One hundred fucking percent!

I think Ralston could be getting old, ossified and curmudgeonly. Doubling down. Not that I don't adore his body of work! Cognitive flexibility tends to decline as we age. And he is what, 76? Not super old. But old enough for this to be a distinct possibility. And hey - it may not even be age. Too much flexibility can mean our thoughts are polluted by external pressures, that openness can be adaptation. There is a required amount of firm conviction when innovating and making unique breakthroughs. It strongly facilitates creation.