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@zazen Yeah, in my opinion, if you can't trust your partner without a legal document saying that you are together. You should really consider if you want to be with that person in the first place, let alone have children with that person. This should be common sense.

A new Cold War is more likely. Where the west will cut off trading streams with Russia, and start strengthening Ukraine. I highly doubt Putin would be that stupid to downright attack NATO allies, and if he would, I hope the new generation of Russian leaders will be smart and courageous enough to stop that from happening.

Yeah it’s time to close this thread down

I don’t see his supposed creative genius. His earlier stuff was okay, later he became more mainstream. It’s all pretty ‘meh’ to me. He’s just another hiphop artist in my book, a dime in a dozen.

If you think everyone around you is just a figment of your imagination, being sociopathic really shouldn’t bother you. And if everything is just your imagination. Then why are you still bound by certain laws? Like the laws of physics; if you know you are imagining everything you should be able to fly off into the sky like Superman.

Life is all about finding yourself and living out who you are through your work, projects relationships, your way of being and expressing yourself. It’s pretty much impossible to be bored when you are living authentically. I would say that your boredom comes from you not living from your authentic self, thereby not feeling the enticement and appeal of the outer world. Because what are we really here for? To create something out of nothing. That’s what fills our souls. Creating something of our own. And of course creation can have an infinite amount of manifestations. But there are specific things that you came here for to create, and enjoy.

Yeah but not everyone knows that. Some people may not be that familiar with this community and come across a mod offering teaching services for money. That new person might think that that mod is teaching what Leo is teaching because he is a mod on actualized.org. Obviously there’s an ethical problem there.

@mandyjw i agree it’s not unethical per se. If the mod has a disclaimer that he is not affiliated with Leo or actualized.org.

No it's not about being cool and trendy. I legit don't believe the concept of marriage would add something to my relationship. It's not about resisting getting married, it's about not seeing the point of doing so in the first place. I still respect other people getting married if they desire to do so.

@somegirl Yeah some people will marry purely out of sentimental reasons. But if you aren't sensitive to that kind of stuff, marriage doesn't make sense. Just like some people really like to keep photographs and yearbooks from the past, while for other people that means nothing to them. Really, marriage is just a 'story' you and your partner tell each other to make your relationship feel more 'special', And if you are sensitive to that, go ahead and marry.

It's just social conditioning that the man is always supposed to be taller than the woman in the relationship. If you are secure and confident in yourself, she probably won't care much about your height.

@Mafortu So he took down the solipsism video, and then he took down the video where he explained why he took down the solipsism video? That's some inception shit

Legal marriage is bullshit, but committed relationships are as relevant as ever. But people are scared that their partners will dump them if they don't have financial and legal skin in the game. And, of course, there's the traditional peer pressure of having to get married or else your aren't a 'real man'. That kind of crap.

I'm talking about fathers in general. The vast majority of fathers, who love their daughters and want the best for them, don't want them to become a sex worker. Even if they are treated well. And yes, that's an assumption because I have not done the statistical sociological research on this, but I'm fairly confident on this assessment.

@Knowledge Hoarder I don't really think it's about how women are treated in that industry. Even if the women are treated as queens, you still probably would not want your daughter to become a porn star or a prostitute.

I agree Carl Richard is a bad mod. But like I stated before it's not entirely his fault as there is a lack of opportunity to give feedback about decisions the mods make. It's very opaque, the mods can basically do anything and get away with it. Unless Leo somehow finds out and takes the time to actually investigate certain decisions.

LA is the home of failed musicians, actors, artists, painters, directors, comedians, writers, producers etc. I can guarantee you that most of the homeless people in LA fall into that category. So when they fail of becoming extremely succesful they go to the other extreme of saying that nothing matters, that it's all one, all peace and love etc. It's a big ego coping mechanism to deal with the extreme pain of total failure. LA is really a place of these extremes, you either become very succesful, or become a total fuck up and deal with the consequences. Whether that's a good or a bad thing is up to you to decide. The whole spirituality thing in LA is basically one big collective coping mechanism for failure. But the extremely succesful people also had to sacrifice a lot of their own dignity and self worth, probably, to get where they have ended up. I think a lot of succesful people end up leaving LA is because they are tired of playing the fake Hollywood game. They want something more real and down to earth after a while. It's not just the outrageous housing prices and taxes that are driving people away.

Would you be fine if your 18 year old daughter decided to go into sex work?

I hope he comes back to the forum at least to drop a statement to defend his position. As I saw in the other thread people accusing him of being a spiritual scam artist.

Only mature men and women can be friends. If one of them is immature it will eventually lead to problems. That's why, usually, you see a distinct divide between boys and girls in high school. In university it's a little less. And if everything went well and both the man and the woman have matured they can work, and be friends, as equals when they are adults. Of course some people never grow up, even when they reached the adult age. So things like jealousy, power games, lust and possesiveness come into play and destroy the possible friendship.

It's the strangest thing that unhappiness can apparently sell. The more time and money you spend on a website like Onlyfans, the more unhappier you become. At least that's what I would think. It's no coincidence that the drug use, mental health issues and suicides are the highest in the sex work industry. @Knowledge Hoarder Maybe part of the appeal is that some of their loser followers think that maybe one day she will his girlfriend. By paying a girl like that money makes them imagine an illusory world where they actually have the chance of having a girlfriend.

Once bought a PS3 game on an internet marketplace. Once it came the disc was scratched up and wouldn't play. Seller said she didn't know, that it probably happened during shipping blablabla. Said she wouldn't refund. I just cut my losses and learned to be more careful buying stuff from internet marketplaces. And the sad thing was; it wasn't even a great deal or something. It was pretty much second hand market value I paid for it. Because usually; when a deal seems too good to be true, it's usually not true.

You don’t really have to be extraordinary to start a profitable business and be your own boss. You just have to have basic determination and follow through, and be willing to live with financial uncertainty and take risks. To be honest, I’ve met real morons(below 100iq points for sure) who have been able to live off their own business just because they can work somewhat hard and have an inflated sense of bravado

I can understand him being demoted because his posts weren’t very helpful and I can imagine you see him being a bad representation of actualized.org. I don’t understand why he should be banned though. He’s not hurting anyone and he should have the freedom to express his own views on topics. Even if you disagree with them or deem them unhelpful

Entj, my guess is the majority of people drawn to serious consciousness work tend to be intuitives. I could be wrong though.