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At least leo does claim so haha

No, one person can't stop a genocide but small actions matter. Not because they solve everything, but because they signal alignment, build collective pressure, and keep the truth alive in a world that would rather look away. Speaking out. Organizing. Donating. Boycotting. Educating. Holding your own government accountable. These aren’t grand heroic gestures, they’re acts of moral positioning in a world shaped by systems, not individuals. And even if you can't stop a genocide, you can refuse to justify it. You can refuse to rationalize your own comfort while others are being erased and calling it a higher level of understanding. That’s not perfectionism. That’s just decency.

Hello @Leo Gura Don’t you think the existence of ideologies, including leftist ones, is precisely what drives humanity forward? What are leftists supposed to do in the face of something like Israel’s actions in Gaza? Remain passive and say, “I’m beyond ideology, so I won’t fight for stolen rights or against colonial violence”? I’m genuinely curious what someone like you, who claims to hold the “correct view,” is actually doing to confront such brutal injustice. Because from where I stand, the claim to be above ideology often amounts to quiet alignment with the status quo, whether consciously or not. Power doesn’t disappear simply because you reflect deeply enough or build a billion dollar business. The moral demand for justice, equality, and dignity is not a distraction from truth. It is truth in motion. It is the expression of the human spirit striving toward freedom. However limited, imperfect or ideological that impulse may be, it is not delusional. On the contrary, it is through such demands that truth first begins to emerge in the world. To say one must rise above all ideology and avoid moral or political engagement is not transcendence. It is abdication. And when faced with something as grave as genocide or imperial violence, retreating into abstract frameworks is not neutrality. It is complicity. Truth demands justice, not abstraction

@Butters Yeah PBD is a good example

Hey everyone, If you ever took a business course, you probably have noticed, how most business gurus try to sneak in some of their right wing poison to the course. Whether anti abortion bs, climate change denial or some conspiracy theory, you name it. It's true, that biz is very related to capitalism, which naturally explains the conservative political views, but is there any way to learn the basics of business without having to endure their political propaganda? I'd be happy if you can provide any resources.

Schopenhauer, for his radical intellectual honesty when it comes to his metaphysical finds Hegel, less for his writing style more for his ability to synthesize great deal of western philosophy before him in one system and not glossing over metaphysical philosophy Nietzsche, for his love of life

Going through personal development journey, I'd assume most people would have to step outside their comfort zone and expose themselves to unpleasant experiences they fear, whatever their goal might be, it's necessary. Just like hitting the gym and intentionally damaging the muscle, solely for the reason they'll be stronger, we cause damage to the ego and peel off its layers and reconstruct stronger ones by exposing ourselves to such experiences. My question is how do you determine where it gets extreme and it might hurt you more than it actually helps? and where do you draw the line? I'd like to compare it with a soldier who gets back with ptsd from war.

This is what @Leo Gura means, when he talks about moderation. It's tough shit.

@Matthew85 Check out this trip report. It kinda helped me with such questions https://www.actualized.org/forum/topic/59682-5g-magic-mushroom-trip-report-with-lemon-tek-i-am-an-imagination-of-nothing/?page=1

But what drives "gravity" to pull things down? Or what drives gravity to be the way it is? Unity by its own concept (regardless if you awakend to it or not) must include everything within itself—not even nothing can be outside it. One cannot have the whole or unity on one side, and the parts, forms, or differences on another. You see? To grasp a concept which contains everything in its full difference and contradiction in respect to itself, yet is not an empty abstraction like pure being or empty nothingness is not an easy task. So unity is only unity by virtue of the parts and differences which make it up, and these differences only are differences insofar they find themselves in a united whole and their respective place to each other within the context of the whole. This separation and these Differences, when looked at from a higher consciousness, they'll seem tautological. So they're differences that really aren't differences lol

@Oeaohoo Thanks for the answers! Very helpful Yeah I was trying to understand this. I think he claims it's and has always been Absolute Spirit but it's deceiving itself. My problem with his claim that the Absolute is a result, is by definition, nothing can precede the Absolute how could the finite possibly precede the Infinite.. but yeah

@Oeaohoo You're kinda contradicting yourself tbh At first you claim with time the separation grows Then you say this which is quite the opposite?! Anyway the Platonic concept of anamnesis and of the Neoplatonic theory of emanation would be rather closer to Hegel's Idea of Progess. For Hegel, truth is not only, as for Plato, something that does not change and is eternal, but truth is, on the contrary, a result. Which is my essential question. Is oneness a result of historical development and all people would be involved in it or more like just YOU as an individual awaking? Maybe it's an overlap?! If it's the later what's the point of societal Progress anyway?

So they grow ever more in seperation and suddenly at some point it happens? how does that happen? and how do you know? and what's "end of time"? then what?

The problem with this kind attitude is that you end up with insights with no relation to the bigger picture if you don't put them in context. I see Hegel here making sense of consciousness development for society as a whole. Philosophy is not necessarily always mental gymnastics, you have to think about what you directly experience. I guess you were buddies and you know a lot about him So what's the point of Progress if not consciousness realizing itself and collapsing into Oneness?

So I was reading Hegel's lectures on the Philosophy of History and found these paragraphs interesting, where he proposes that the objective and Goal of Geist (Spirit) is ultimately to know itself. @Leo Gura it reminds of your claim that God will eventually awaken to itself but I'm kinda confused of whether it's a historical development of Nature/Mankind that takes millions of years or it's rather an individual awakening? I know you can say wake up for yourself now nevertheless I'm interested in your interpretation of history. "The principle of Development involves also the existence of a latent germ of being — a capacity or potentiality striving to realize itself. This formal conception finds actual existence in Spirit; which has the History of the World for its theatre, its possession, and the sphere of its realization. It is not of such a nature as to be tossed to and for amid the superficial play of accidents, but is rather the absolute arbiter of things; entirely unmoved by contingencies, which, indeed, it applies and manages for its own purposes..." "Between the Idea and its realization — the essential constitution of the original germ and the conformity to it of the existence derived from it — no disturbing influence can intrude. But in relation to Spirit it is quite otherwise. The realization of its Idea is mediated by consciousness and will; these very faculties are, in the first instance, sunk in their primary merely natural life; the first object and goal of their striving is the realization of their merely natural destiny — but which, since it is Spirit that animates it, is possessed of vast attractions and displays great power and (moral) richness. Thus Spirit is at war with itself; it has to overcome itself as its most formidable obstacle. That development which in the sphere of Nature is a peaceful growth is, in that of spirit, a severe, a mighty conflict with itself. What Spirit really strives for is the realization of its Ideal being; but in doing so, it hides that goal from its own vision, and is proud and well satisfied in this alienation from it..."