Space Lizard

I've probably had covid many times already and didn't notice. As someone who keeps my immune system strong with a healthy lifestyle, I'm not worried about this virus and see no reason to get tested. If anything, the stress of testing positive would probably just make things worse. So much of health is in the mind; the modern medical industry, by spreading fear and a mentality of dependency on drugs and vaccines, is actively harming public health on a global scale, imo. Notice that places where the modern medical industry hasn't fully penetrated, like African countries where almost no one is getting vaccinated or tested, have almost no covid deaths. Interesting how that works, isn't it?

You should find a place for John Michael Greer, one of the most brilliant systems thinkers around, imo. Not sure where he fits in your scheme; he combines many ecological/historical/occult schools of thought, influenced by people like Nietzsche, Spengler, Manley P. Hall and Joseph Tainter. Greer is a genius at shooting down the narratives of fashionable modern intellectuals, while showing how ideas rejected by the "Religion of Progress" are highly relevant to our times. It's brilliant stuff, imo; real high level, worldview-changing, timeless thinking. See The Next Ten Billion Years or a recent piece, Tomorrowland Has Fallen, for examples of his thinking.

Why is there no middle ground? We've never been united and never had universal peace, but there's more humans alive than ever. Your statement is pure binary thinking, with no basis in reality that I can see.

Yes, that's a great way to put it. The Religion of Becoming/Progress is all about projecting one's ego into imaginary futures, rather than living in the here and now. Its basic values are Egotism and Hubris--we can be whatever we want to be, and bend the world to our wills to please our egos without limits; we are gods. I think this age of hubris ends when we encounter the limits of this worldview--huge environmental problems, natural disasters, resources shortages, technological apocalypse, societal breakdown or other catastrophes that demonstrate how unlike gods we actually are. Hard to say when this will happen, but I see signs of it already.

You can create your own purpose, unless your purpose is to find an external, objective purpose and source of meaning to follow, in which case you are out of luck. When we speak of “purpose”, we generally mean “what something was created for”. The purpose of a screwdriver is to turn screws, because that’s what its creator made it for. To find the purpose of human beings, ask what their creator made them for. If you don’t believe humans have a creator, then they don’t have a purpose. So there’s no point in looking for a purpose if you don’t believe in an external creator (e.g. God), and any purpose you try to create is going to be subjective and not your actual purpose, just an arbitrary thing you decide to do. The only way out if you’re an atheist, imo, is to stop looking for a purpose and just accept that life is its own purpose.

Yes. Becoming vs. Being. Progressivism vs. Traditionalism. It's a profound divide in the human psyche. It has gotten way out of balance in the modern age, with its emphasis on achievement, improving yourself and fixing the world. I think the next age will be much more conservative, as we re-learn how to value being again instead of always being on the hamster wheel of becoming.

LOL, again, how do you know this? The Western media makes things up all the time (remember Saddam's WMD's? The Trump/Russia collusion hoax?) Try thinking critically. Also try travelling. You sound very naive. It's an ideology; an abstract model, not to be confused with reality. Is this forum for people who blindly believe in models and media, or people who think critically?

You might want to base your opinions about countries on more than what's reported in Western media or some abstract metaphysical model. You are just talking ideology and propaganda until you have some actual experience to back up your opinions.

I'm not convinced that life is all that great, but I do enjoy nature. The forests, rivers, mountains and animals where I live always recharge me when I'm tired of people and all their crazy BS.

People like you are the solution--young people who refuse to have their youth taken from them by people who fear death more than they love life. You don't defeat terrorism by cowering in fear, and you don't defeat a virus by not living. Demand your life back; go out and live. Tell all the old death-fearing authoritarians to go to hell. They can't stop you from living, and don't have the right to even if they could.

I guess he's talking about where Western ideas about individualism and liberty came from, which aren't shared by most of the world's cultures. John Locke was one of the first philosophers of liberalism, which is what this philosophy is called. Thomas Jefferson established a new nation based on that philosophy. It has been very successful, but it has its problems. I'm reminded of a quote by Ken Wilbur about how the Declaration of Independence was really a declaration of egotism freed from traditional spiritual constraints. The way I see it, the USA was the first Luciferian society, based on glorification of ego, individualism and the overthrow of religious traditions. BTW, Terence McKenna was a bit of a crackpot who probably smoked too much pot. Whatever happened to his "timewave zero" prediction of a "singularity" in 2012?

How do you know this? Have you lived in both countries? I have, and I disagree. Both have their problems, their strengths and their weaknesses. There's no way to determine which side is "more conscious"; it's just a statement of personal bias.

Here's what the West brought to Afghanistan: teaching women about the importance of urinal art! So it's not hard to see why the West lost in Afghanistan. This is a civilization that actively works to destroy healthy values and spreads depravity wherever it goes.

I'm grateful that I never spend any time talking about what I'm grateful for, or being around others who do.

It's explainable from evolutionary psychology. Men are reproductively incentivized to take risks and be outrageous, because if they succeed they can have harems and large numbers of offspring. So they value risk-taking, competition and freedom. The successful male risk-taker gets all the women. This explains why men are more prone to extremes in general (intelligence, politics, behavior, etc.) Women are incentivized to be safe and seek social consensus, because they have to bear and rear children, and can't have harems. There's no reproductive pay off for women to take risks, be extreme and value freedom like there is with men.

They've been talking about computers making humans obsolete for around 70 years (like nuclear fusion and space colonization), but it hasn't happened. I'm not worried about it. This sounds like the latest round of the same old hype, fear-mongering and technocratic dehumanization.

Whatever UFOs are, there's no proof that they are aliens, let alone from a peaceful and enlightened civilization. It's all just stories at this point. There's a great quote about that from the movie The Third Man where Orson Welles' character says: It's a trade-off; you can have peace and stagnation, or war and progress.

Stop giving a fuck. De-socialize yourself. Become a barbarian. Get in tune with nature and your body. Check your testosterone level and supplement it if necessary. Seriously, this will give you all the self-esteem you need.

While the mainstream media has turned into propagandists pushing party lines and telling us what to believe, Rogan just asks questions, stays open-minded and talks to a wide variety of guests. That's why he is so popular, and why he is burying the partisan media. So of course they are trying to get him cancelled--he's a threat to their existence. But it's not working. Rogan should get this guy his show to talk about covid: Professor Ehud Qimron: “Ministry of Health, it’s time to admit failure” He's a top Israeli immunologist who calls out all the failures, misinformation and authoritarianism of the establishment. Why don't we ever see this guy in the mainstream media?

Nice argument, except we have zero evidence for any such civilization. From the evidence we have, world peace is not a thing. It's not clear that it would be desirable either, since our own intelligence is a product of struggle and violence. What you are talking about is essentially a religious fairy tale, similar to Christian prophecies of lions lying down with the lambs.

I never found that meditation develops compassion. If anything, I found that it develops a cold, detached, unemotional, even sociopathic state of mind. Same with psychedelic drugs. Compassion and wisdom don't come from meditating or psychedelics or otherwise retreating into your own solitary head, imo. You have to interact with people and experience suffering for that.

This site has some interesting information about Tantrism, specifically Tibetan tantric Buddhism: The Shadow of the Dalai Lama The authors may have a pro-China, anti-Tibet bias, but it's still interesting stuff.

Hinduism has taken spiritual cultism to a higher level than any civilization in history. If you know much about occultism, you’ll know that these gurus are essentially black magicians who use every occult trick to hypnotize and control people. The same tricks are used in other religions, but Hinduism makes it more personal: the gods are embodied in the gurus; they are superhuman. And they spread their cultism to other societies; it was Indians who brought the “god emperor” system to Tibet, and brought gurus like Osho to the West. The only civilization I can think of that took cultism to this level were the ancient Egyptians, but they’re long dead. Europeans attempted something like it with Hitler and it almost conquered the world. Because it is very powerful stuff that taps into deep human drives and needs. The word that describes all this is TANTRISM. That basically means using spirituality as a technology of power, via energy transmissions from guru to disciple. In Star Wars, the Sith were Tantrics. Tantric gurus have intense personal energy and charisma and use grand, magical spectacles (see Osho, Hitler), which they use to bend others to their will. This "Kailasa" is clearly a project of Tantrics.

I understand the sentiment, and probably would've agreed with it when I was about 20. But it's kinda juvenile. You're gonna get old, decline and die, guaranteed, so you're gonna have to come to grips with the fact that this philosophy won't work at some point. This is probably why every wisdom tradition teaches humility and non-materialism; because you will be humbled and realize the futility of chasing material success eventually, one way or another. This whole forum seems to have a rather juvenile take on spirituality, to be honest.

There's no reason to think so. This world is a violent struggle for power at every level, and we can't escape it. The world is Satanic, imo. The one thing Christians got right is that the Devil is the lord of this world.