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HBO produced a pretty interesting deep dive into Ra Ma Yoga, 3HO, Kundalini Yoga populizers focusing on "Yogi Bhajan" and "Guru Jagat" that was not so flattering. There seems to be a lot of fuckery in the "spirituality business." Essentially appropriating Sikh culture in a very hamfisted bastardized way, rape and abuse of it's "disciples" and indoctrinating disciples children into some messed up boarding school in India. I've done some Kundalini yoga and found it useful, but didn't really like the "westernized yogi lifestyle brand/ideology." It's a shame that even the most well intentioned positive ideologies end up devolving into the same corrupt path taken by many mainstream religions and ideologies: corruption, greed, abuse of power.

Can I ask what you find disgusting about Apple? Their abuse of human rights or their products?

Well said. I wish people would see politics as the mind virus it is. I lived through 4 years of trump, my hair didn't catch fire. I lived through 3.75 years of Biden and turned out fine. At the end of the day there are checks and balances and many intelligent people in government that will self right the ship.

The term woke is so meaningless and outdated. That said Lex has always been a bit of a fraudster to me - loudly proclaiming peace and love in the hamfisted aspergerian way he does seems like virtue signaling.

Failing is always tied to perception. If your goal was to stay alive you're every breath would be victory.

Overthinking isn't going to get you anywhere. The thing about god, enlightenment etc. it's always going to be a single player game. Leo can tell you about his journey but that's like watching somebody else do a pushup.

The word seems to have been dilluted a bit so it would be nice to get a high level deep dive into the psychology, philosophy and etymology of fascism.

It's fair to criticize jokes told on stage at a political rally with more scrutiny. For people who are fans of Tony it's easy to say "well he's a comedian performing comedy" but also fair to say "well his psycho supporters won't see it that way." Curious as to what you think of Konstantin Klein's take on this? I found it humorous but given your seemingly spiral dynamics blue style "Moral authority" I can see that you'd invalidate the entire premise of the argument.

Interesting bit of information. Highest IQ are in the top 10% but the top 1% actually has lower IQ and much higher EQ. Keep in mind these are all academic concepts and can easily fall into a "comparison trap."

I definitely thought this was about chicken wings

In my experience only two things have moved the needle, curious as to what others experiences are. 1. Hitting bottom - Getting to that point where you're in such a bad place committing to change and growth seem like the only path that will get you out. 2. Visualizing success - Only when I can "see it", and believe change is actually possible I can power through the discomfort required to make meaningful change.

Certain kinds of conversations just aren't very effective. Talking about "the underlying nature of human psyche" generally falls on deaf ears.

120,000 displaced Jews immigrated to Israel. 400,000 immigrated to the United States. There are no easy answers to complicated questions like where to move hundreds of thousands of deeply traumatized displaced refugees who felt abandoned by the nations that willingly or begrudgingly sent them to slaughter.

What did poor Nazi Germany ever do to deserve such horrible treatment?

None of us are immune from the web of self deception. Only a select few can truly "undo the cultural programming" and for whatever reason the actualization this forum represents will only ever apply to a % of our lives/behaviors. Vast majority of humanity will inevitably fall into outrage, bias, idiocy especially when talking about culture war topics.