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Obviously, because when you go far enough right into fascism, and all you are left with is a token democracy, where else do you go? The pendulum always shifts because people insist on a simple duality being the norm for ease of function and form. Sometimes societies go far enough right that they begin going socialist, as they end up on the other side of the spectrum. Control of population movements is an inherently socialist ideology. Some right-wingers will be triggered when I say this, but the more they try to socially engineer society, the more socialist they start to be. *Though we should say almost all media is right-wing, so they could give up half the media space and still maintain a near monopoly.

You don't go anywhere to get into a different state. Divine love isn't this state we are in now. It's a white, cloudy, light field reality, where you dissolve into eternal love. Yes, I have experienced that for about 5 minutes. If you are approaching what mythically is referred to as heaven, you wouldn't be saying, 'Prove me otherwise'. There would be no conditional form to your speech (or mine.) It'd be unconditional and open. This will be a reach for me at the moment. You'd be saying something like: 'I would love to hear your experiences and life journeys, all the things that you want to share with me about how you experience heaven.' It's something like that, more caringly worded with more love, if you are heading for those frequencies.

Russian advances are heavy until aid gets in place, large losses though: Odessa getting cluster bombs over it, usual Russian warcrimes: Updates on the overall situation, including the movement of aid. It should still be a week or two. You have to view in on YouTube, because Russians often try to get the aid streams age restricted (to restrict their exposure).

@Karmadhi Yes. Almost all modern wars people complained about in the 80s-90s were America pushing the power vacuum left by Russia, against its allies, or supported regimes. Now obviously, the power dynamic is going the opposite way, because all countries do it, Russia, China, and Iran, BRICS in general are testing America and Europe. If Europe wakes up and does the same, which is slowly happening, Russia is toast comparatively. If Ukraine falls that would be more likely to happen - which is why I am such a strong supporter of holding Russia exactly where they are. It's a status quo, nobody likes it but it's an outcome with a degree of certainty. All governments are right-wing, all operate on the principle of taking what they can get from their neighbors. They create the identity of the enemy and attack it. Zero-sum thinking.

From the message of mine where you answered inside the quote, I am unsure who is robbing you. Sure, you can beat yourself up, and then not do anything again and use it as an excuse, or you can do something now. If you live with your parents: If your family is robbing you, say your sibling, you can still tell them you will call the police unless they return the items. First, have a word with your parents and tell them what was stolen, if that doesn't work, mention the police to your siblings. That might be enough, even if you have no wish to pursue it. Finally calling the police out to the house is often enough to change behavior if it gets too much. If it's your parents robbing you, get out of there as soon as possible. That's not an environment you can remain in. A dog isn't going to defend against your own family, only deter an outside threat. You can still set up tracking and a camera in your room, for example, to prove where the items went. You can still get a locksmith to your room where your valuables are kept to lock it, this is a good choice anyway. I lived like that with my addicted brother for a long time, when he was stealing to support his habit. If you don't live with your parents: I know it sucks being stolen from, or betrayed, and it's going to suck for a while. One thing you can do to make yourself feel better is to say not again; take some of the steps above that we talked about; the more, the better. Call the police and report what was stolen; get them to follow up, and you might get luck with them checking the local pawn shops or second-hand shops—you can do this too in your own time. Often thieves are stupid, you might also have something very unique stolen, say an autographed unique photo, or an unusual piece of art, you could check on eBay, Amazon, etc i'm sure they have tools for reporting, but the police might use that as a lead too.

How are they getting in? @Sabth Here is what would do if I were in a rough neighborhood, most of these. Prevention: Warning signs of a dog, whether you have one or not. Get a big guard dog; nobody wants to rob somewhere that is guarded. Security lights that come on when people approach. Warning signs of an alarm, whether you have one or not. Security: Good locks and deadbolts. Security gate or door behind the main door. Good alarm system. Bars over the windows if they are getting in through them. Wireless doorbell camera to show you who is checking up on you. If they get in: Fake Wallet. Fake valuables on display. Maybe a fake lockbox and/or tracking device if you want to go all out, this will lead you right back to where they live if they are dumb. Put your real wallet in a place nobody wants to go, like your underwear drawer, or better yet somewhere nobody would think to look, like in a plant pot. I'm not clued up on devices, but I did a google and there are several options if you take your time to search. If someone were to rob my place, and I suspected they'd do it again, I'd make sure to get the expensive items tracked then call the police.

Meditation, walks, diet, exercise to burn off excess energy. Working on the environment you sit in day to day helps a lot, also water quality. Choosing the right music to work to also helps. I have four Udemy course tabs open right now. I consider the collective learning of them all my concentration. I've been picking and choosing what parts of them I require to be ready to start work two days from now. In between, I might come here or watch a video for a break. I also find people speak too slowly for me, so I watch them at 2x speed (recently, I found a program to find a 2.5x speed setting for the site) Part of the evolution of our minds is a collective intelligence within ourselves, to keep in mind more of life at once, either compressing the information, or having more things in focus when we communicate. So I understand we are supposed to be going through this process to some degree, where old patterns present in societies' methods of delivering information are burned away, and we are left with a faster pace. - This is a long ongoing pattern of our development. Even with that understanding, I think 5-minute clips on TikTok are unhelpful when set against the usual pace of real life. It's just too far removed from how we have to operate in physicality, and it leaves a lot of people in a state of depression when moving from one mental state to the other.

An easy test for anyone is to try to concentrate on something for over an hour or two, take one of Leo's videos, and see if you can sit down for something you want to watch and focus on it for that time without distraction. If you can't, you are training your mind to concentrate for 5 minutes at a time, and you would benefit from training in the opposite direction for longer periods. People with ADHD should especially take note here. I consider myself to have it on some days, not as a medical diagnosis, but because I have days where I am more easily distracted than others, despite not wanting to be distracted. If you think back to periods gone by, people needed to concentrate for days, weeks, maybe months, or years on projects.

Generally, the experience is more salient than the predicted result of the experience. A way to expand this is to make the result of the experience part of the experience in your mind.

The subtle invasive influence China exerts over Western audiences is troublesome. There is already far too much of an authoritarian shift worldwide into the current global crises. I will be happier if it's purchased by a company with Western interests; then we get our own bias reinforced, and the status quo maintained in our own countries. On a more general note, as has been indicated, the medium of short videos is crippling people's focus. The ability to focus on single tasks for any length of time becomes harder if you are dividing your attention so much. I would rather the whole concept be trashed, but people like their junk food videos, until enough education is given to them on why they are harmful (by suffering life experience) they won't realize it.

1) Again, I understand your point of view is a single block vs another block. NATO isn't one block, as you like to call it; it's many countries. They join NATO because Russia causes fear as a way of governing and interacting with the world. NATO doesn't seek them out, they go to NATO because of Russia. 2) Putin has forever poked Europe, meddled in elections, and invaded West, that's their foreign policy and always has been. People join NATO to secure their own country, and if Ukraine had either kept their nukes or been in NATO none of this would have happened to them.

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Many conditions are linked to diet, lifestyle, and emotions, so the more honest you can be, and the more specific you can be about your daily health, the more accurately someone can help you. It's not just sugar or fat intake. It could be a lack of something just as easily. There are an abundant number of people on this forum who can offer dietary advice, some of whom likely make a living off of it, given how much they know. If you want to know the cause of the condition, you have to look into this and any deficiencies or excesses you might have, both in diet, exercise, stress levels, behavior etc. I know you are in a spiritual forum looking for a spiritual answer, and yes, all diseases have a spiritual component, which in my experience, often originates from an emotional/psychological response if you follow that thread back far enough. Just consider this a spiritual message to start at the basics first and work up from there. Do you know if you have any vitamin or mineral deficiencies, for example? Do you know how much cardio and resistance training the average person needs to do in a week, depending on their job or activity level? How much are you doing? What's your weight at, and what height are you? What's your emotional state on a day-to-day basis. What medications are you taking? Get very honest and reflective on your life, wherever you seek advice.

I was also going to ask about your diet. Describe an average day's food. Then describe a bad day's diet—things you might eat in a week or so when you cheat. My advice is if you want healing, become the healer. Let's start with diet though.

Everything effects the subconscious mind. Its everything you have experienced but not consciously kept in memory.

Being around more aware people can help you raise your awareness. Unless efforts are made to address the problems you see, you'll just be more aware of them. The byproduct of seeing these things come up in yourself and others gives the option of changing a pattern or suffering with it (to one day change) So yes, these communities are generally places of healing indirectly, for those unaware of themselves. I understand that no place can be for all people, and you've always got to keep a line somewhere on behavior at some point. I don't know the specifics of what happened, I used to talk to that poster but I saw what you described. In my mind, though, from how they responded when I reached out, they needed more love in their life (we all do).

If Ukraine gives up its sovereignty over those territories, as you keep asking for, they will need to see something in return for it. Otherwise, you'll never have the peace you say you want to see. From my perspective, Russia changed the conclusion for NATO after waging a war for more than two years, a campaign of terror against the civilian population in Ukraine. They threatened everyone in Europe with nukes every few weeks, committed food/energy blackmail, flooded refugees over the borders both through their aggressive actions and destabilizing countries, meddled in our elections, and committed cyberattacks and espionage. Europe has changed. Its relationship with Russia is going to be different for many decades. The fact that you don't like the conclusion doesn't mean it isn't logical: In NATO: Russia doesn't invade Ukraine again, because they cannot win that war while America is guaranteeing Europe. (This calculation changes if Trump gets in power.) Outside of NATO: Russia invade, which, after peace would be their 9th war in former USSR territory, then their 10th in Moldova. If Trump is in power, the 11th war has every chance of being in Estonia, for the many reasons I've listed and discussed. This is why all the efforts are being made to ensure the east of Europe is heavily defended. Nobody here trusts Putin, and nobody here wants to go through this again.

I love these topics as they expand awareness about what alien intelligence would be; growing people's awareness from a simple humanoid alien concept that looks like us with blue, green, or grey skin; through to intelligence so 'alien' to ours that we can't perceive it effectively anyway, only in shards or metaphorical echoes. I see metaphors everywhere if I choose to look at them. My cluttered desk is a metaphor for distractions; my leftover musical equipment, a metaphor for failed creative pursuits; my plain walls are a metaphor for boredom; the 15 tabs on my browser are a metaphor for split attention; and the noise of birds through a shuttered window is a metaphor for things I love to hear but shut out. All of this is happening at the same moment in my reality as I type this. Is that what the hypermind is like? where you perceive 20 different strands of interconnected communication you are arranging for your reality at the same time?

@Bobby_2021 https://www.cfr.org/article/how-much-aid-has-us-sent-ukraine-here-are-six-charts Roughly half of which is not going to the military. By February 2024. 46 billion dollars went in military aid Do you want to know how much of the US military budget 46 billion is over two years? https://www.barrons.com/news/us-congress-passes-huge-886-bn-defense-budget-for-2024-823a5dcb The US military budget in 2024 was $886 x 2 years = 1772 Billion That is roughly 2 and half percent of US defense spending, give or take. 2% defense spending is worth it to reduce the Russian threat over time. I know you don't believe this is happening, but others obviously can see it happening directly. I can track it happening. The US spends a hell of a lot more than this currently maintaining security in the east of Europe, for them it's a financial no-brainer. Accelerate Russia's population crisis, and take away its USSR stockpiles, then it is half the threat it was conventionally to the region I understand you don't accept the pattern of wars, or Putin's words about wanting to restore a Greater Russia. So you don't see this as real. Others do. Others have experienced this cyclic Russian growth many times in their countries. What you should minimally accept is the US makes decisions based on profits, almost exclusively. Neutering Russia is a way to cut spending in that region long term. While yes giving loans and selling weapons for $$$ at the same time.*By the way EVERYONE is buying weapons not just Ukraine, America's arms industry is filling backorders for the whole continent and beyond.

A hypermind is multiple metaphors happening at once? *This is what happens all day but it seems a more perceived, clear representation of it.

They cannot recreate the benefits of globalism with half the globe.

1, There were no Nazi groups in power in Ukraine, so this is a fantasy. The few hundred azov were made into a national guard unit before the war started. Putin has created more far-right sentiment in both countries and possibly decades of violence and hatred to follow in the occupied regions. Should I list the extremist groups in Russia that make up Putin's base? 2, There are more weapons than ever in Ukraine, so this is a failure. 3, This is more likely than ever. It is one way to guarantee he doesn't fight a 9th or 10th war to rebuild the USSR. Previously, it was impossible due to the occupation of Crimea and people not wanting a war with Russia.

Yeah, it leaves a bad taste to argue about it. Morally, there is almost no difference, it's lives being lost, and intent. Functionally, Genocide, or the starvation of Gaza is how it is achieved, not through the callous slaughtering of individuals in the streets, which is a war crime. The intent of Israel as a population is what's important to recognize and try to see through all the mess, some want hostages back, very few want peace, some want Hamas destroyed, and some want the entire region wiped, some want a wider war with Iran. Israel operates out of fear of the surrounding countries, and that fear has led the army to declare all Palestinians Hamas. So the population is 'the enemy'. In that scenario, yes, genocide is the appropriate term. It's like what was happening in Ukraine at the worst of it, where the Russian army realized people didn't want them there and did some horrific acts to civilians. This is the east Turkestan region China has occupied that I was referring to earlier. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Uyghurs_in_China

Correct. *With the stipulation, it's an ethnic cleansing. Which isn't much better for anyone involved, but if you are quoting me I need to be specific. Ditto Russia in the east of Ukraine. Ditto China in Tibet, I was going to post East Turkistan too but that's a genocide.