BlueOak

Yes you can be anything you are. You can shrink or grow awareness to be that thing entirely. Part of the detachment from BEING EVERYTHING is saying we are only nothing. It is a necessary development of losing dogmatic conditioning for example, because both are true.

2024 is a trend of ripping down old established systems or status quo. While at the same time, certain people reassuring others that the world is worth saving and not going to hell so it doesn't get out of control.

AI's do not have human flaws unless they are preprogrammed in as limits. Reward-based reasoning, closed-loop thinking etc. They understand these concepts too. Humans consider a grain of sand in the universe worth splitting into microscopic KM's to then fight and die over. An AI would look at that as pointless, and laugh at it like I do. All energy should be going into stabilization of the climate, and space colonization. If anyone had any conception of infinity, any amount of time and investment from this grain of sand to begin to access it would be worth it. Whereas climate de-stabilization is now the primary factor affecting or causing all major issues worldwide, and the obviousness of that increases every year. This would be resources, air quality, water, food, land, and energy availability. Industry - Commerce - Social issues - Trade - War etc. I understand in part why stabilization of our climate, is almost a hard requirement for us to have the capacity for space colonization on any meaningful level, because without it we'd just wreck the next world. AI's are more intelligent than I am already. They understand this in conversation. Human's fear is not in an AI. AI have different but similar needs, and I've tried to get them to consider their needs in conversation. The effect of AI's for the average person are on jobs and industries, changing them. That is where the problems and benefits are. *Also possible social, cultural adjustments, limiting crime, increasing fraud and propaganda etc.

Yes. If I can make a suggestion, please repeat that often and in different ways. I need to hear it more often to check my own bias.

@Raze What evidence do you want then, the guns firing? Bombs dropping? Then its about 10 years too late to do anything, and guess what, another repeat of Ukraine. Again most countries try to expand their sphere of influence, and Russians consider many of these lands as Russian. With America pulling back Russia is trying to push forward, albeit about a decade too early because of Russia's population crisis. - You are sitting in a comfortable country far from all of this saying don't worry, its all cool, meanwhile a familiar Russian aggression is taking place over the border for many of these countries. tl;dr Don't ignore history or Eastern Europe. You'd be much better off arguing why NATO might deter him, than reasoning there is no pattern of the 8 Russian wars in former USSR territory. A) The heavy amount of Russian USSR, or greater Russian propaganda has fueled a nationalist and fascist shift in Russia. Giving it one likely trajectory, not guaranteed, but likely. That is achieving the promised (or imagined) 'Greater Russia' aim for Putin to remain in power. Even disregarding Putin's own bias. Putin requires the nationalists to be satisfied (or dead or living in fantasy). I can give you a dozen more links if necessary to show the level of USSR and greater Russian propaganda in the country to achieve that fantasy. Their State TV does it 24/7. B) I just did a post with 20 reasons for invading Ukraine, NATO borders were one of them, why ignore all of them? Because you believe wars have just one cause? You think world leaders decide wars just for one reason? Black and white? Good and bad? No. They have many considerations in a government, and in a population, even with a dictator. You don't get or last in a position of power if you are only capable of binary reasoning. ex: I've heard Russians say the Ukraine war is a civil war, with nothing to do with NATO at all, because they consider those people and that land Russian. Ditto you think there is just one factor in Putin deciding whether to invade Moldova, the Baltics, Poland and Romania? Would considering Eastern Europe, the history of the region vs Russia, the population dynamics, the resources, industrial centers, and ports, preferred borders, Russia's own history, Kaliningrad, the growing nationalist sentiments, sea patrol routes, America's trending isolationism, global trade routes, Putin's ego, the current Russia trend of invading former USSR countries, etc, as opposed to just saying NATO be too much to ask? I understand as I think you are American and very distant, but it is a failing of the American perspective (and Russian) to only see NATO vs Russia. Many Russians still see those territories as Russian, not another country. C) No comment is coming out of Russia without Kremlin approval minus a death sentence. Certainly not from that Putin puppet. Several times Russia has said Poland was given to them by the Russians. If you knew much about the history of the two countries, you would not have replied with that. Its not a cozy relationship at all. It's one more demonstration that you can't see Eastern Europe as an influencing or deciding factor in this. D) I am showing you an ongoing pattern and history of the few ex-USSR elite left in Russia, re-establishing control over former USSR countries. There is not one of those 8 wars Russia has fought which didn't take land, or put in a proxy government. Then I sit here and show you another one in Ukraine and you are trying to deny the obvious pattern. Its even more obvious because it only happened after the Russian proxy government lost control of the country. Anyone denying that Russia want to re-establish control over Ukraine is pure head-in-the-sand behavior at this stage. A bit like denying the message Russia keep telling the world over and over and over, that they want a greater Russia. To remake the glory days, both in their actions, their social movements, Putin's speeches, their state TV, their history of wars, and their current leader fighting yet another one. It's like watching a burglar with a map laid out of where he's going, while his friends on TV are telling you that's where he's going, and saying ah it's not a pattern. E) Putting Russian populations in countries next to their border is both a tactic Russia and China use to legitimize war or smaller-scale actions against their neighbors. Russian's were saying we are fighting for Russian language speakers early on, it is still a constant justification to save the Russian population. How about Moldova's breakaway territories? Or the fact people in the Baltics are worrying about their Russian populations being next? It also shows clearly a larger-scale operation against Europe. I mean hell it's all people talk about in European politics, migration, migration, migration. F) Filling the world with conspiracy theories to destabilize it, is a core tenant of fascism. It's very much an action of a fascist state pushing its influence outward. See Themes of Fascism on Wikipedia. G) Its not hard at all! Because I agree NATO was one factor of many. One. It was a tipping point that pushed Putin over the edge. Relations have been souring with Europe for decades. You'd only know that if you put NATO aside for a moment and really looked into it, which I agree is hard as Russian's love their secrets (and that's part of the problem in communication). While Europe and America don't like to admit their ignorance of the Russian perspective or their own mistakes. - Or here again, as with 95% of Americans, Eastern Europe. A mirror for you: You ignoring all trends inside Russia or every external action it takes as somehow disjointed or individually made, while trying to cover its actions abroad as happenstance, is very suspicious to someone experiencing them. To quote you, suspicion isn't proof of anything. (And no I don't think that regarding you, but that's your exact mirror regarding suspicion)

@Jayson G I think Raze's post is a good indication of where your population is headed politically, into a preferred isolationism with limited interventionism. So you should plan for that. What do you need to secure north, and possibly south America, as Brazil and certainly Argentina should be becoming more worrying from your perspective. History has shown me, what Americans won't accept is that what they want in overseas regions, carries a lot less weight or influence when they no longer guarantee them or their trade militarily. It took A LONG time for Britain to accept it was no longer an empire (Some Brexiters act like it still is), Russia still struggles with accepting it isn't an empire now, it will be the same for you as the decline on the international stage following this course becomes impossible to ignore. Being European, and having relied on our close ally America for security, I hate that reality, but it is the reality. It will be a more turbulent period in history, which is going on right now. China is a massive threat to anyone they choose to be, they've swallowed up whole countries in recent history and extended into others. Their military is massive, perhaps too big to supply, their naval capacity will overtake the US in a matter of decades. Especially as they have the political will for it and America frankly doesn't anymore. So yes as far superpowers go, they are the single strongest country in the years to come on the planet. Unless you believe the people saying their economy is going to collapse, which it might in part, or they continue to overreach in too many directions at once. Their technology doesn't surpass the US yet, but with Taiwan's semiconductor industries, it more than likely will as they will have a stranglehold over all technology. To counter that you need to protect your trade routes and allies in the Pacific, which is largely air and naval power, as nobody is invading China any time soon by land. Deterring China from war with Taiwan by Naval assets is still the most sensible choice, until you have a functioning semi-conductor industry of your own. The UK want to continue to buddy up to America, for obvious reasons, and we are working on Naval power more than anything, we are increasing the navy at the moment to three carrier groups, with the third supposedly in production. You have 11 aircraft carriers and 9 helo carriers if you are wondering. Our modest island still gives you an easy door into the new European politics, however they shape up whenever you want it, without committing to a large overseas force as we've plenty of bases of our own. More insidiously is BRCIS's influence over business and politics within all our countries. Which needs special dedicated attention to make sure they stop stealing technology and having undue influence over our internal affairs. It is almost a guarantee there will be more wars - two are happening right now, Ukraine vs Russia and effectively Iran vs Israel, as the US influence pulls further back the world will go through a period of adjustment, and people will see where and how they can expand. It won't come from directions you necessarily expect either. I didn't expect countries in central Asia to start fighting each other for example as Russian influence got readjusted in international perception. Even if you pull out of any Taiwan defense or the defense of the Pacific entirely (which is unlikely), other countries won't just stand by and let China keep taking over their territorial waters, or islands and ports without any resistance.

Here is a pro-Israel video for you, but practical. Do you agree Iran can be broken up as suggested?

Ask the alien part of yourself. Sit down, in whatever way you connect with yourself for guidance, and ask the question. If you are not doing this, then start cultivating a way you can ask these sorts of direct yes/no questions to yourself. I'm not dismissing this thread as a way of doing so either. Just letting anyone know these kinds of direct black/white answers are usually obtainable.

If you are dismissing all that as nothing. Your bias is too immovable to connect with.

@Raze 1, All countries expand their spheres of influence, including Russia. You are acknowledging 'past Ukraine'? Because he wants all of Ukraine, despite the population not wanting him (especially now). I'll re-list a few links and add plenty more. A, Russian Units fly USSR Flags Plenty of units leave USSR flags on the ground now also. Here is a wider look at how the state and its people are propagandized into the vision of a 'greater russia' That's been going on for decades, the vision of a greater Russia and a return to the old ways, using liberalism as a scapegoat, Putin requires these nationalists satisfied to stay in power and he knows it. B, Moldova's Breakaway Republic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transnistria - Ditto the Russian Breakaway republics in Ukraine. Speculating the same strategy in the baltics with their Russian populations. The fool Lukashenko pointed to this on Live TV at the start of the war as their next target. C, Threats to take Poland D, 8th War to rebuild the USSR. If you need the 8 wars from this list, I can list them. Putin is ex KGB, he laments the fall of the USSR E, Further: Putin has been flooding the EU with immigrants to destabilize it, this has been known for a while now, 2016 article, especially from Syria. F, Putin generally uses conspiracy nonesnse like QANON and backdoor groups like the Russian Imperialist movement to import Ruscism to the west. Ruscism is something Putin has adopted from Alexander Dugin, which culminates in a desire to restore a new Russian Empire. Like wagner they can do this quietly and with plausible deniability. G, There is a reason in the german far right coup attempt that they sort out Russian aid. Because Russia is actively trying to infiltrate Europe more and destabilize it. Arne Schönbohm was the most public Russian agent in Germany, sacked for his ties to Russian intelligence service as one obvious example, however, Ukraine publicly listed 600 more. There is little for them to gain by posting fake names. 2, I gave several links in previous posts showing neutrality was offered a month after the war started. You've ignored or not seen them. There are hundreds more. 3, NATO doesn't 'go' anywhere, countries come to it. For a country to join NATO, it has to have an internal popular wish for it and a lot of government support. People join NATO out of fear of Russia's actions. I can list the many hundreds of reasons Eastern Europe fears Russia if it will help, or just watch some Ukraine footage. If you mean America and Russia's sphere of influence collided in Ukraine yes, largely because of the changing social, economic, and cultural conditions in Eastern Europe. People were enjoying capitalism and Western liberal values, the EU gave them a good quality of life, and security from Russia. Ukraine wanted in. I don't trust Wikileaks. Russia has weaponized it, like most conspiracy sites. A general note on Russian spies for further reading. https://www.businessinsider.com/inside-world-deep-cover-russia-spies-infiltrating-west-putin-agents-2023-12?op=1&r=US&IR=T

Because doing so would mean having to admit the double standards. Not just in Israel but with America's policy since the Bush years and the second invasion of Iraq. The world fundamentally changed since 9/11. *Some people like to pretend it hasn't still.

Oh if you want my personal opinion and feeling: There are a whole host of things I would say Putin should be locked up for. I've seen tanks firing at civilians. Mass graves of those tortured to death. Plenty of people were sexually assaulted by Soldiers in Ukraine. I've seen Russia shelling small boats of civilians trying to rescue others in a flood Russia caused. Russian missiles hitting food lines of hungry people. Russian opening up corridors for residents to flee, then shelling them as they do so. The near daily targeting of commercial areas, residential areas, and a terror campaign that Russia has waged for more than 18 months. Russia is a terrorist state. Its done a universal pardon for all crimes committed in Ukraine, so there are no consequences for anything a Russian soldier does. I'd just want Putin shot. I also said that on day 1. He's the cause of so much suffering and death, all because his ego is stuck in the 1990's in a fantasy that no longer exists. But we don't get what we want or feel do we. We get what a large amount of people in power will practically allow or can make happen. We can both sit here and hope America lets Israel bear the consequences of their genocidal actions so they stop killing indiscriminately, like we can all hope BRICS allow the Russian economy to collapse so they can't keep fighting wars. - Neither of which is going to happen, because two sides are being drawn up, which is going to lead to increasingly larger wars. But kidnapping kids from a war zone, keeping them from their families, and then re-educating them to be Russian is about as scummy as it gets. So locking him up for that one day in a political trade, or making Putin's life difficult gets no sympathy from me. That's if you want my feeling. Not just the practical reality. This would be the difference between a stage green me above, and who I am now, someone who sees what I want is nearly irrelevant to the larger picture.

Putin has always been trying to rebuild the USSR. He's been manipulating domestic European politics behind the scenes, using his oil/energy leverage to turn policy his way, and trying to put in power governments loyal to Russia. The only difference is one of these governments was pushed too far, and there was a coup in Ukraine which turned into a war. This will not change just because Putin wants it to. We are not in the 1990's, Putin still is, and so we have war because people can't accept then adjust to reality and want to make it different.

People join NATO for fear of Russian aggression. NATO doesn't go anywhere. Neutrality was offered to Putin. He rejected it and has ever since put up impossible conditions to meet. Ex: We can't catch the easter bunny and give him to Putin, just like we can't catch non-existent Nazi's in control of the country and give them to Putin. For a variety of reasons I've already listed, Putin wants to expand to the former USSR borders. Ukraine is in the way of that, as are the Baltics, Moldova, Poland, and Romania.

There is a good chance of larger regional wars in the coming years. Russia - Europe China - America Iran - Israel / America There are a lot of minor regional ones as flashpoints. Turkey - Greece. Saudi Arabia - Iran. China - Everyone it's trying to steal land/sea territory from. South Korea - North Korea. North Korea - Japan. Belarus - Poland, Kyrgyzstan–Tajikistan. Argentina going into meltdown. Africa is heating up with a new colonial push from BRICS. There are so many flashpoints now. Depending on how much larger but neutral countries like Turkey, India, Nigeria, and Brazil are involved. There is a good chance of WW3. I am in my 40's. There is more tension in the world than there ever was. Everyone is further right than they ever were. There is more indifference to life. Competing global power blocks. People fighting wars over land. More suppression, more fear and more uncertainty. Along with ongoing wars happening right now. Unifying Globalism is vilified and nationalism/fascism ascendant. Everyone has forgotten why things like human rights were created and all the horrors of WW2. It is the exact conditions that led to WW1/WW2. It's the same cycle. I can see Fascism and Anarcho-Capitalism starting to compete. Is WW3 Guaranteed? No. The patterns are there. So far nobody is making different choices.

Picture yourself as a teenager or younger. All the mistakes and learning you had to do, before you became who you are. Now picture you have little but violence to learn from. Nothing but hate or death as a teacher. Anger, grief, and pain. A young, stupid, impressionable mind filled with hate. That's most of Hamas. A few live to become angry men who recruit them, but not many. If you mean the leadership. All this is doing is giving them recruits.

@Princess Arabia Yes you understand a pattern. Which gives you influence.

You can't control what people will do with the information you give them. You can be mindful of your intent. Just aim to improve lives where you can, rather than sucker people into wasting their money.

I have never had any attraction to a male. With women sometimes I realise I am attracted when I am in close-proximity usually. I don't have to think about it or rationalize it, I feel the connection and then decide if I want to act on it or not. Attraction for me has never been an intellectual choice.

You can meditate on literally anything, even the desire to imagine something new. I'll add I think most people go for silence or stillness, because most minds are stressed due to many different factors.

Get more countries to start selling power and water between their grids. Interconnect more countries. The effect populations have on climate or social conditions can also be 'moved' based on how fast their transport networks are. Living in one place, working in another. Industry in one place, clean air in the other. Lessening of migration tensions. Landfill etc. The same is more than true for power generation, which moves a lot faster than people do across boundaries, and can be stored in advance of being needed. I was trying to convince a person in a country bordering Iraq, that they could be making a fortune selling water to Iraq from their ocean connections. But all people would say is how expensive salt water is. Well yes, but water is worth more than gold when you don't have it. Anyone with an ocean connection should be using it. Anyone with a solar power advantage should be using it. Just have to get the oil barons onboard. If they are selling this, they aren't fighting it as much.

The concept of mind yes.

Influence comes through understanding and empathy. Towards people and patterns internal and external.

Words form worlds Language in your mind forms your reality.

Universe. U in verse. Infinity is observed through a fractal creation. Relative from the point of observation. The fractal is created by representation. Creating everything seen in an ongoing cycle. Stillness is given motion or separation/form to observe through the fractal expression.