Wizardking

Amazing song. Kendrick speak on his past lives and then speaks with God in second half.

I read books about other topics than politics but don’t see how that is a better way of learning than watching YouTube videos and listening to podcasts/audiobooks, which is what I mostly do for politics nowadays. I only read to wind down before bed and practice attention. Do you believe reading is better? If so, why? And the issue of knowing if the author(s) can be trusted is still there. How do you navigate that?

Please note that I know I might be very naive and gullible but these are just my thoughts. I want to understand. Please help me come to a deeper understanding as I am in constant internal conflict on what to believe. Politically, I’ve always been quite center. I see both sides of most issues and may lean just slightly toward one or the other. This makes it hard to form strong opinions about what’s right or wrong. Growing up, I was surrounded by hatred of the right, whether from family, friends or teachers. Even though I tend to more often lean a bit left, I’ve always had a lot of understanding for the right. The hatred towards them has always rubbed me the wrong way. Especially when expressed by parents and teachers to impressionable kids. In school I would always question other students beliefs because I couldn’t understand how they could be so sure. To me they often just sounded brainwashed. They could never really back up their claims and it just sounded like they were parroting. I was a straight A student even though I only had a 40% attendance rate due to recurring periods of depression, so I used to believe that I was intellectually gifted, but in the past 3-4 years I’ve really been struggling with self-doubt. I see people with such strong opinions that I wonder if I’m missing something. It’s destroyed my trust not just in myself but in others too. I’ve tried to understand those who hold strong stances but I’m rarely convinced that they are justified. Regarding the election, I find it hard to understand the hatred towards Trump. I don’t see how people are so certain that he is “evil.” He and his supporters claim that the Democrats manipulate public opinion with propaganda and censorship and from what Ive seen this often seems to be true. Like Hunter Bidens laptop, censoring Covid vaccine discussions on Meta, shadow banning the Joe Rogan x Trump podcast. In general whenever I go online I only see left wing takes. Even though I may agree more with Kamala on most issues, I’m completely put off by what feels like attempts to manipulate public perception and I believe this is why she lost. Similarly, I struggle to understand the hatred towards Joe Rogan and Elon Musk. To me, they both seem rational, wise and well intentioned. But I’m aware I could be wrong. I know I tend to see the best in people and I’m open to the possibility of me having been fooled. In this age of polarized media, how do I find what’s true? Both sides present evidence for their perspectives and both seem to manipulate information to fit their agenda. Do you just go based on character? And wouldn’t the censorship and propaganda from the democrats then be a huge red flag in their character? I’d appreciate any insights that could help me sort through this conflict and make sense of it all. Thanks

I enjoy helping people, playing with ideas and creating things. I have made synopses for a couple books that I would like to slowly work on throughout my life.

@Leo Gura The reason is mainly that I would like to publish a book in the future and it would probably make a bigger impact on the world if people take the author more seriously. So I wouldn't say the reason is shallow. I want to help make the world better.

Great then I can continue stealing candy from my kids. Change of topic but I'd like to hear your thoughts on this, I want to help people with mental health and I'm going to have my own private clinic. I could do this without doing the masters degree in psychology but I would be taken more seriously if I was a licensed psychologist. Do you think the 5 years of study + 1 year of postgraduate practical training is worth it just so be taken more seriously? I think it's really stupid that people don't take people without degrees seriously but they obviously do

@Ero Isn't the issue that those conscious people would have to play unfair to compete with the corrupt? And that this would then make them corrupt?

And I suspect that "the ends justify the means" is the mentality that causes this and therefore whatever low level of that mentality we ourselves use will perpetuate that mentality in the world, correct? Meaning we need to try to avoid resonating like that no matter how small the "means" is if we want corruption to end?

Just the freedom to spend most of my time with my partner and my dog and my future children. I want to work a maximum of 4 hours per day but still be able to live nicely and travel while not having to worry about money. My main value is freedom. So I guess that is possible but it is growing harder over time due to the growing wealth gap.

But if we play fair in an attempt to break the cycle, won't we just get run over by those who don't? And if we speak up about this and try to change it, won't we be the nail that gets the hammer? What is the right line of action?

Every day I get more and more jaded from realisation upon realisation that almost everything is fake. The hypercompetitiveness in the world and the growing gap between rich and poor is causing a "the ends justify the means - mentality". Because it is so easy to get away with cheating it must mean that most likely anyone in the top of a certain field has gotten there by cheating. Look at olympic athletes: I guarantee you that every single one of them is on PEDs. It is so easy to get away with it that they do not have an option. Being the best today requires cheating. Just look at athletes: they can take PEDs off season and it will still increase their natural capabilities, a lot of them are busted but then still allowed to compete in the olympics (check this article https://www.reuters.com/sports/olympics/olympics-whats-swimming-doping-scandal-about-2024-07-26/ ) and also if these athletes were not on PEDs there would be thousands of videos on youtube of people unofficially beating world records (because they are using PEDs) but there aren't many of these videos because even on PEDs it's really hard to beat them. And PEDs do not have little effect by any means, they make a huge difference. This means that top athletes have got to be using. This is only one example. I have a lot more but I won't go in to them in this first post, we can discuss more if there's interest for it. The reason I post this is because this is making me a bit crazy. I'm overwhelmed and paranoid. It is impossible for someone to know something unless they experience it directly themselves. Therefore I personally can only have knowledge in a very very very small amount of areas since there is so much data to take into consideration. This leads me to the conclusion that we have to trust what experts say because we ourselves can't be experts in everything. BUT we also can't trust "experts" blindly because it has been shown again and again that they are capable of lying/being ignorant. That trust has been broken. How do we navigate in this world? Just go off of gut feeling? Make an assessment of someones character and hope that our assessment is right?

Duncan Trussell would be amazing. Might also be a way to get your foot in with Rogan.

I found this sentence that summarizes effective strength training: "Do 5-30 good technique reps that each take 2-9 seconds in multiple sets, taking those sets close to failure where the target muscle is the limiting factor, and repeat this approach as often as you are recovered enough to do so while at a caloric surplus" Thought the idea was interesting so now I want to see what you would say makes up the foundation of mental health. A little bit broader so it might be harder. This is the first sentence I came up with: "The foundation of mental health lies in cultivating self-awareness through emotional intelligence, fostering meaningful social connections and pursuing a sense of purpose, all while effectively managing stress." Feel free to add on if you think I've missed something.

I was wondering why a big part of the spiritual community talk about frequencies and vibrations whilst another big part does not. I don't think I've ever heard Leo talk about it, neither Eckhart Tolle. Are they using different terms for the same thing or why is it that some talk about it and some don't? What are your thoughts on frequencies and vibrations?