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@Tristan12 For what it's worth I read it. Watched a couple videos too. Your journey is fascinating, further documentation would be lovely.

Dedicated to all the pluggers out there 😘

Detached indifference is the default for me, being consistently conscious that it's all a movie/dream/game only strengthens that. So the realer the stakes appear the better, as such instances liven things up. I appreciate hardships, harm, suffering, and frustrations the same way I do fun, accomplishment, relaxation, eating tasty food and so on. Even if in the moment the former experiences don't feel nice and my mind sometimes judges them as negative, I pay that no mind so to speak. 'Cause from a meta perspective simply the ability to judge things as good or bad is amazing; soon enough you and I will return to God where we'll be wholly unbiased, so better enjoy all the bias while you still can. This nonchalant attitude can be quite detrimental to survival though and requires a certain weirdly loose perceptual structure. Hence meditation sends me into delirium instead of calming the mind or whatever it's supposed to do; the strange loop closes from another end.

So now we know what all the money you save on Audible memberships goes towards 😏

Tough position to be in for sure. Welp, in any case it's nice to see you talking to different kinds of people. Congratulations on getting the ball rolling. I'm not surprised either per se, it's more of a performative surprise, like expecting your child to be more mature but knowing deep down they can't and won't. In theory scientists would be more rigorous, but then practice deviates; which itself is a cute little Q.E.D. for irrationality of science.

I see, an unfortunate lack of preparation and reactionary attitude on their part. Maybe next time you could be more insistent on the topics you're going to discuss, considering yours is also the larger channel? e.g. make it even more explicit in that disclaimer you wrote, which at least the hosts should be required to thoroughly read even if it's not shown to the viewers. Though there's a delicate balance to strike as to not appear to be dodging questions.

Dios mío, staying awake on such a flight must be torture. I'd just pop a benzo or something to teleport through time.

I've only skimmed the two talks so far, but going by video/chapter titles alone it's puzzling why so much time is dedicated to discussions of morality and the like. Who cares about that, especially on a science podcast? P.S.: I don't know who set the topic, maybe it's an angle Leo took to deconstruct those matters preemptively. Not jumping to conclusions, just an initial reaction.

Not a good look indeed. Reminds me of the excessive DNR and other issues on the Terminator 2 UHD Blu-ray. If a professional studio with oversight by James Cameron himself can't get it right, who can blame a small YT channel for having poor taste.

I don't wanna pay shipping so if you order anything from that place in the near future lmk and I'll chip in to get a sample

The cult leader robe doesn't help the case . Perhaps it's on purpose to make things more challenging or filter out fools who judge by appearance alone.

Looks promising, on paper. But with several asterisks. At 10-20mg IV, as administered in the study, something like 4-HO-MET would be nearly indistinguishable from a DMT breakthrough, especially to the commoners used as subjects. Same could follow here. Though this one is somewhat unique; it's not only a 5HT2A agonist, but also a serotonin releaser. Nothing extraordinary, as a similar effect could be achieved through candyflipping MDMA with LSD or similar; just uncommon to see this in a single substance. Worth a trial for how cheap 100mg is. The fluoro substitution is a bit of a double-edged sword, on the one hand it tends to increase potency by a lot, but if the synthesis residuals aren't dealt with properly it can create some very nasty impurities. Vendor just posted the NMR though confirming the purity, plus I have an idea who's behind this "MindPort Lab" they say manufactured it. Personally I'm more excited for 5-AcO-DMT and 5-EtO-DMT that might come later this year.

It's time we had a dedicated topic on this matter. Sources are irrelevant (personal experience, videos, books, research papers, movie scenes... any resource will do). Scams, cons, heists, etc. also welcome, but the subtler the better. The best theft not only goes wholly unnoticed, but has you thinking you gain something in return (e.g. clickbait). In the end, it all boils down to corruption. If a crocodile is the perfect animal to symbolize traps, for corruption it is the octopus. It can camouflage, release ink to literally muddy the waters, squeeze through any hole no matter how small; yet when its tentacles grab you, they won't let go. And there's 8 of them, so while you're busy fighting one or two or even 7, there's always another to nab you from behind. Plus it's slimy. This is exactly how self-deception operates. And what is theft if not (self-)deception? Except Maya has infinitely many tentacles, is so well-camouflaged it's indistinguishable from your perception, and is completely intangible. https://www.actualized.org/forum/topic/110777-octopus-awakening Here's a visual I generated for this thread, heavily 'inspired' by an image taken from the Europol website and fed into an AI trained on stolen data, with a slightly different color scheme, a background overlay of the world map, and a correct placement of different industries the octopus has its tentacles wrapped around. Drugs/pharma between USA & Mexico, financial schemes in the Caribbean tax havens, law in the western EU (The Hague, Euroclear, Geneva), oil in the GCC, and construction (or more broadly, manufacturing) in China/India/Bangladesh. It's rather interesting that they all align pretty closely in a straight line just above the Equator. As though the places above or below are of little importance, serving only as sources of extraction of value. But enough foreplay. I'll get us started with a personal story, at the risk of tarnishing my reputation or catching a ban. This one takes place within the microcosm of digital piracy, yet contains layers upon layers of theft, lies, self-deception, gaslighting, and exploitation. Got plenty more just like it, crazier and broader in fact. Even though the examples we'll hopefully assemble here are useful, truly understanding the depth of this matter requires massive and intimate real-life exposure to it, and even then most of it you'll never know due to factors beyond your control. Example 1: So just this little anecdote from a fairly niche domain illustrates the degree of prevalence and entanglement of the issue. The same pattern is present not only all over this planet, but across the infinite dimensions of reality. Unless you're unflinchingly prudent, it will get you. Especially when your guard is down. However, there exists a certain precipice where you see through all the deception with complete clarity and fall in love with it head over heels. But we'll leave that for the spirituality subforum. Some Actualized.org videos directly pertinent to the matter at hand: - How To Avoid Getting Scammed, Cheated, Exploited, Conned, and Screwed In Life - How Corruption Works - The Social Matrix - How Society Is A Mass Hallucination (fun fact: this one is somehow shadowbanned even on the direct channel page search; by keywords 'social' and 'matrix', 'hallucination' works) I'd also throw over a dozen others onto the list, but as already stated that won't be anywhere near enough. Now, let's get the ball rolling. Of particular interest is the theft you've personally committed or are committing. Sharing that publicly will do wonders for your shadow integration work. Who's up for that? Though first consider that this could all be an elaborate honeypot disguised as philosophy designed to trick people into openly confessing to their crimes.

Rather it's incomplete without also having consciousness of God. Incompleteness is a form of corruption, which makes all lessons corrupt by themselves.

The consequences come crashing down hard on them in Revenge of the Sith and well beyond it. Provided they understand it's not about the princess as a person or some authority, but about the role the figure of a princess plays in the governance and well-being of her planet's population, what undermining that particular planet means for the state of affairs across the galaxy in the current context, and so on.

95% of your own audience doesn't understand half of it even with 1000+ hours of clearly laid out and structured teachings containing a mountain of nuanced examples. What hope does a fictional movie franchise have?

But the common folk do evil stuff to benefit themselves, without a care for the greater good; at best they delude themselves into thinking they care. Nor are they conscious that whatever they do will be directed towards the greater good regardless of intention (and they shouldn't know that as it would be the easiest thing to abuse). They're already in a very tricky situation, stuck on a shithole planet without money while protecting an important political figure. There could be better ways to solve the problem, but not within the runtime of a typical movie. Maybe a montage or some such would take care of this, but it's both more technically involved and harder to grasp for the common folk that are the majority of intended audience. Watto didn't even seem that poor, he had a whole shop and at least 2 slaves. Plus considering his level of development a dice gamble is something he himself proposed and would honor to maintain his reputation. Why fight some guys just doing a routine patrol job that probably have families to go back to, risking hurting them or yourself and attract unnecessary attention? Even a smoke cloud will cause some ruckus. It's like that story you told about cutting queues to Vegas nightclubs, you bribe the bouncer instead of fighting him or using a smoke grenade to sneak inside. Yes, their order as a whole was very problematic and they ultimately got dragged into the war as pawns of the devil, but that was more of a structural and long-standing issue with their code and other dogma, not specific actions they took in those instances. By the time of Phantom Menace the order has already probably been corrupt for centuries.

@Leo Gura I don't see how perfectly Good Jedi could be written without making for a boring story or them getting quickly destroyed by the Sith. This standard of integrity is unrealistic within the established cosmology of SW, as well as our world. Without additional nuance this reads as though a proper Jedi would be a doormat following deontological ethics that allows whatever to take its course. But a Jedi wouldn't stand by and watch as the Nazis genocide the Jews. You said as much in the Balance video and elsewhere. Is there a difference between defeating Hitler through physical force and mind-tricking him into surrender? Perhaps. Luke himself in ROTJ pulled the mind-trick at least twice, and in the end he defeated evil through faith in goodness and selflessness. Obi-Wan also used the trick to convince a death stick dealer that he no longer wanted to sell drugs. Sure, he infringed on the dealer's sovereignty of mind and robbed him of a potential personal realization of his corruption and thus a beginning of redemption. But realistically, given the survival conditions on low levels of Coruscant and the dude's entire life story & worldview, could something like that even be expected? Obviously not. Taking all that into account, Obi-Wan does an evil thing in service of a greater good from a utilitarian perspective. Which is how the universe as a whole operates. Couldn't a good person hurt others while realizing and accepting that they may and likely will get hurt in return? That would be coherent/consistent. Trying to achieve perfect integrity in the relative domain is itself not integrous, by definition. Squaring a circle only works on the absolute. Knowing this to be a metaphysical limitation of its own creation, God forgives all evil. Striving to be good and truthful is paramount to be sure, but in practice it's more appropriate to frame in terms of a mathematical limit to infinity that gets infinitely close, yet never quite reaches. Consciousness of God is then the dissolution of the asymptote unifying the diverging curves into a perfect continuity. After all, even Stage Red phrases like "might makes right" have their origin in God. God is right because it is the highest might, and vice versa.

Thanks! Right-o, artificial constraint is an awesome technique

The new server specs are actually quite modest compared to what I assumed is required to smoothly run a website like this. Guess efficient code and other optimizations make a significant difference. People really do get complacent with their code as hardware advances since it's reasoned that it'll eat all the overhead anyway. I love watching breakdowns of how creative developers of the past had to get to make an entire game with its assets fit & run on an NES or some other shitbox, or land a mission on the moon for that matter. That's art.

You got a point there, if someone could be convinced that their view is false, that automatically proves its falsity, even if the argument was mere sophistry; these are divine properties of Authority and Truth. But it's a double-edged and counter-intuitive sword. The precise issue is most people couldn't find their own ass with both hands and a map. Truth is right here, right now, but telling this to someone who's not directly conscious of it does more harm than good; it's best they believe for the time being that it's something found 'out there'.