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Thanks man. I think that's what it's about, like you said - living in connection to the cosmic. You can still value things, achievement etc but they aren't our gods - they are peripheral, not central. As in, you anchor the human experience in a spiritual experience which is the core of being. That's why I wrote enlightened yet embodied. But to add more context, maybe enlightenment isn't what we're after, or should necessarily strive for. True enlightenment where you dissolve into the light - risks becoming untethered to reality, duality or form. This can be very un-settling. You are so blissed out or shocked by your mental concept of reality shattering - that you sit there stunned and either unable to comprehend it or surrender to it, but surrender from living in the world itself also. At that level you are simply creation, not creating. You exist as a glow, not a overflow. Some masters or ''gurus'' then need to depend on disciples to take care of them, they neglect their bodies entirely. Others return to form and share and act in the world. Whether religions knew it or not, I think this wariness of the spiritual realm is half true in that it can lead to dissolution so totally that it either makes you insane or inert. No doubt there was also just skepticism about it and a power trip to protect orthodoxy, but they aren't entirely wrong - Christianity was wary of mysticism, Judaisim of Kabbalah, Islam of Sufism. Maybe its better to strive for a spiritual life - where you are inspired, in-spirited, embodied yet alive and full of spirit. You don't become the ''light'' or enlightened, you are lighting, charged with spirit - still channeled through the vessel of the body, still embodied and grounded. The point of transcendence isn't to transcend form, but to have the transcendent (soul/spirit/source) transform you within and through form. Then you don't just sit there glowing, but overflowing. Religion in some ways pointed to this - in that a danger lies in blowing out the flame entirely to become the fire in totality. A flame is only held by a candle or a lamp - a vessel, or a form. There is a place for being pure presence, but there is a place also for being a presence that plays in the process of life. Come to think of it, religion didn't even entirely introduce new purposes to humanity - people still had the same ones before hand and pursued them - making a family, a living, being part of community and enjoying life. Religion simply sanctified them and aimed to point to the greater purpose of worldly purposes, therefore providing greater meaning to all these means to their ends, therefore providing a meaning that is endless. And yet, religion still has its trapping and tries to monopolize truth. This is why throwing the baby out with the bathwater isn't entirely wise - as in throwing religion into the bin as the new age community does. It's a fine line we must tread.

Pre-emptive rebuttal to “bUt RuSsIA bRoKE iNtErNAtiOnAl LaW” obviously brother! No one should just invade another sovereign nation. But: The abstractness of laws don’t negate the realities of survival. If the worlds imperial (belligerent) superpower literally has think tank pieces on how to “overextend” you through encirclement, including a naughty track record up to the present day - are you to just sit there thinking their creeping up to your border because they want to deliver cookies in person? Maybe Nuland doing so in Ukraine was a gesture of peace towards Russia lol Or maybe you don’t think the Western-US led order has been belligerent but instead has been benevolent. Wonder why we have chants of “Death to America” and an entire parallel financial structure being built by the Global South.

Spot on. It’s insightful to see what happened just two months prior to the invasion: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_2021_Russian_ultimatum_to_NATO December 2021 treaties offered, core demands rejected in January 2022, invasion begins February 2022. Core demands still not acknowledged or taken into account - hence the war continues. These core concerns simply don’t exist in the minds of Russophobes, just like the Epstein files don’t exist.

Getting ratioed. Although Dan shouldn’t conflate Judaism with Zionism. The disparity in likes is brutal lol. Why is it even Adam is the one speaking against the Epstein list coming out on PBD - Zionists must know it implicates Israeli intelligence networks via Robert Maxwell etc and they do anything to protect Zioland. The deeper down the rabbit hole we go, the more silent the T gets..jk obviously 😂

In your own words ''the Jews grabbed land connected to their ancestral home'' but then ''what happened before Israel is completely irrelevant'' - its totally relevant when Zionists want to make their case like you just did though. And according to the same logic, Palestinians ''aren't going to let it go'' either, which is why both need to learn to co-exist somehow cos both ain't fuckin leavin lol

@PurpleTree She’s interviewing Nick Fuentes tomorrow. Gonna be interesting - despite his shitty racist views his geopolitical analysis is solid - even though he never acknowledges why the US may want to be doing what it’s doing in the Middle East. His view is that it’s solely Israel wagging the dog that is the US. Some are going in hard on Trump, others are going through hard times about Trump 😂 I definitely think this shatters the myth of Trump the prophet of MAGA - bit similar to how the JFK shooting shook peoples trust in institutions. Trump ran on being the anti-establishment wrecking ball but he just wrecked their entire identity. Elons smelling the opportunity and forming a third party wherever that will lead - 2028 is gonna be interesting for sure. Who knows.. I do feel like a significant proportion of those who voted Trump were protest voting and just hoping on some change - many people are simply politically homeless. Given the opportunity they may jump to a viable third option. Even a 10-20% loss in votes fractures certainty in any of the two uni-parties winning. The bottom line is that the US empire is in retreat - it either lashes out (Trump) or wimpers out (Biden). There’s nothing it can do to stop the relative decline of itself and the relative rise of others who challenge it (BRICS) - short of all out war. Any actions taken to do so only expedite its downfall - make no mistake no matter which party came in power the end result would be the same - it’s only a matter of timeline. Exhibit from just last night: Hilarious to see MAGA folk cheering Brazil fucked around and is finding out. Little do they know lol

Meaning ordinarily is thought to be found in a purpose which has objective ends to be achieved. So we think we find meaning in walking a path, which is a means to an end. But because existence is endless, true meaning and purpose is a means to the endless. The world of form is a formality in which the formless plays. There are meanings and purposes found in the world of form, yet people walking these paths still struggle to find meaning in them. Because as long as you have a means to an end, the meaning will eventually come to an end with it. In the world of form, temporary meaning is found in temporary purposes - once one purpose is fulfilled we look for the next. Child becomes student, student becomes employee, employee becomes boss, boss becomes parent which becomes grandparent - but whats the grand purpose and meaning? In the world of the formless, there is no form to have a utility, to have a means to BE through and a purpose to strive towards, yet it is itself meaningful and purposeful because it is BEing - and being is the ultimate meaning and purpose. So we don't ordinarily walk towards meaning - we are meaning itself walking. Worldly purposes are purposeful and meaningful only because BEing and BEings walk through them. Remember the saying - we are human beings have a spiritual experience? It's also true that we are spiritual beings or BEing itself, having a human experience. The world of form is a formality where the formless plays. If meaning is being, then what is being? Being is be-longing. We have a longing to be, but to be what? Alive itself which is being itself. But alive at what level and intensity? Cosmically of course - as cheesy at that sounds. We fulfill this longing for the whole in parts - along a ladder of belonging which starts in a small circle that expands . First we belong to a family unit, then a tribe, then a nation, then a religion that is larger than a nation - religion is the circle at the threshold between being a circle and demolishing the circle to belong to the cosmic. The tragedy of today is that we have forgotten cosmic belonging while dismantling all smaller belongings - we are't held by any tradition yet are not embraced by the transcendent. We are essentially astronauts with cords cut off, floating in space but not yet at home in space itself - not yet a star among stars, shining bright and alive at the peak - enlightened yet embodied.

The OG on the subject;

Make no mistake - the US empire itself is an utter disgrace, regardless of which figurehead president and admin is in place. If anyone is under any illusion that they can shit more easily on the current admin simply because it’s not their favourite political party - beware that the same actions occurred under your beloved Democrat liberals, including all the wars started or expanded under the Clinton’s or Obamas. The fact that the imperial boomerang has finally made its way home domestically and shoved up the nations ass by the hands of Orange Hitler - doesn’t change the fact that the US has been an imperial empire for decades regardless of which political party was in the hot seat. I welcome you to suspend yourselves from this childish schoolyard political circle jerking and not only shit on the empire, but diarrhoea on it in full glory. May America the nation rid itself of the Empire and shine bright and good. This is the distinction needed to resolve any cognitive dissonance about how to “feel” about America. Separate the nation from the Empire. Most people are good, few are bad, and even fewer are evil. That is our only hope. Free Palestine of occupation, free America of ultra Zionism and Empire. Free the people of their illusions of “Democracy” = developed and good. Don’t also fall into the MAGA/Nick Fuentes viewpoint that all the Middle East wars are at the hands of Israel - the US itself has interest and incentive for its own actions in the Middle East. Even with the latest Iran tussle - the US empire wants to maintain primacy and the petro dollar which Iran is trading outside of along Russia and China. Iran existing as it does outside the system is a threat to the US Empire, not the nation of America. Empires don’t tolerate blatant examples of defiance. Their interests are mostly aligned. People may ask, if interests are aligned why the need for AIPAC? The existence of AIPAC is to influence how that alignment is conducted - under whose tactics and timeline. Their like a couple who agree on wanting kids (hegemony and regional dominance) but the woman (Israel) pressuring the man (US) to have kids now and on her timeline (neutralise Iran now!!). Hence I say: free America from the cold calculations of Empire, which thinks in pragmatic but heartless empire logic - but also free it from Ultra-Zionism which thinks in fanatic logic. Partisan politics over socio-cultural issues blinds us to the continuity of politics by the uni-party dealing with Empire - hence the recent frustration even amongst Trump supporters at actions on Iran and just now at covering up Epstein. Don’t mistake your vote on socio-cultural issues as a say in national security or foreign policy - where’s your democracy there? Those decisions are made above your pay grade, even though you and others around the world pay for them in blood.

The US spends as much as the next 9 countries combined on military - while China manufactures as much as the next 9 countries combined. Stark difference in orientation and outcomes: Original vid:

You’d think the following was filmed after October 7th..