Wilhelm44

In your direct experience right now, what are you ?

You are saying that awareness is a manifestation of reality. That is the materialist view. Ralston is correct, reality is awareness. When have you ever been aware of anything outside of your awareness ?

If God has infinite power, then God can Will anything into existence instantaneously. Leo made a cool video on that, don't remember the title though. Yeah man, Ralston had a significant influence on Leo, so might be worth it to investigate further. Here's a video by one of his students which you might enjoy.

So you want Ralston to explain in words how Consciousness creates the world ?

If you want to get a clearer understanding of his work, it might be better to read one of his books than to watch his youtube channel. I think his latest book is called Ending unneccessary suffering.

Yes, everything is made of consciousness/awareness. I still dont see where the limitation part comes in. Could you explain briefly please ?

I dont understand what you are saying. Consciousness is infinite mind, how is that limited ?

Have you been to one of his courses ? I dont think he gives that much away on his youtube channel.

Ideally we want some kind of balance between socialism and capitalism. Going too far in either direction is the problem. Any talks of communism are silly really.

Cool, thanks !

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Plans to fund it all by taxing the top 1% of New Yorkers (those who make a million or more per year) only 2% more. Crazy to think how little it actually takes to make things better.

I hear you, I still feel it's foolish to have any kind of communism hashtags on his wall, might be something that will come to haunt him.

This last post seems to imply that he also has some affinity for communism ? These are questions that will need to be addressed, like it or not.

Aha, thank you, I hear you. It's a bit concerning though seeing him reposting something with the hashtag : communism

I am curious, how is he actually planning on freezing rent ? How will city run grocery stores be established ? And where exactly does the line get crossed from socialism to communism ? Or how easily does socialism turn into communism ?

I think the best we can do is to agree to disagree, because if I agreed with what you are saying now, then I would be disagreeing with scholars who are more versed on this topic than I am. Peace brother.

So is he actually pro communism ?

There are plenty examples of statement of intent from political and military leaders, see Raze's post, and the link I shared at the bottom of page 3. Why don't you just do yourself a favor, and watch the interview with Omer Bartov. Firstly, he is an Israeli who served in the military. Secondly, he is an actual scholar of genocide studies, who has written many books on the very subject. He is the last person who would be throwing the term genocide around loosely. And you keep mentioning the UN definition of genocide. I provided you with evidence that a special committee from the UN themselves concluded that it's genocide. As did Amnesty International. (I'm tired too, have provided enough evidence.) Peace

I took the time to actually watch this video: When you look at the pattern of what Israel has done: - you see political and military leaders talking about destroying Gaza, flattening it, talking about Palestinians as human animals, saying that there are no uninvolved people, that it's not simply against Hamas, but against the entire population, ie statements/expressions of intent. - it turns out that these statements were not only made in the heat of the moment, but were implemented, you can see systematic destruction of universities, schools, mosques, museums, hospitals, housing and infrastructure, making it impossible for people to live in the Gaza strip, making it basically uninhabitable, and also making it impossible for the people to revive their cultural and educational life, by killing vast numbers of academics. This means that the intention is to destroy the group as such. And this intention has been implemented over time. @samijiben (Initially you said you don't know what's happening in Gaza and you are just looking for an answer, but clearly you already had a pretty fixed position that it's not genocide, otherwise you would not have had such a strong emotional reaction in some of the previous posts.) So I have a feeling that no amount of evidence or logic is going to change your mind on this one. Which means your Steven Crowder analogy is actually quite apt.