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I have a feeling Biden is going to decide not to run in 2024, specifically citing his age. That's going to cause a big national discussion about the age of presidents and knock Trump, Bernie, and even Hillary Clinton out of the race in one fell swoop, leaving De Santis by default. Especially if they put Kamala up against him.

Okay I watched the whole thing. And yeah, referring to people as demons multiple times when he's an atheist is kind of a weird thing to do. I agree with probably over 75% of the things in this document. But even for me the following items go too far: Questioning Biden's legitimacy as President – Actually insane Prohibiting teaching any form of sex ed in any grade – Actually insane Prayer / Bible back in school – Actually insane Abolishing EPA – Way too extreme, although they can rein it back in a bit. Oppose renewable energy sources that may be considered a nuisance – As opposed to living next to coal burning power plants? Repeal Sarbanes-Oxley – As an accountant, complying with SOX after Enron was a pain in my ass. But this is kinda crazy and bad even for rich investors. Making all jobs considered essential – Renders the distinction pointless. You want stuff like fire, power to get priority after a natural emergency. Supporting Israel and opposing Palestine – wtf does this have to do with Texas. (Also love how Vaush reads the section about them unconditionally supporting Israel and then accuses them of JQ-posting a minute later???)

If kids aren't allowed to make minor mistakes like showing nudes or putting their hands on a girl's waist, pretty much every guy that ever tries to interact with a girl is going to get cancelled. Teenagers are awkward and still learning. Girls have been radicalized into thinking every microaggression is literal rape that you can never let someone live down. Its gonna screw up the social dynamics. Lots of guys will walk away out of fear and frustration and basically become incel or mgtow. I've heard from zoomer relatives how they basically can't ask a girl out or do standard teen stuff because if it goes bad they'll be labeled creepy or be canceled. Possibly a new evolutionary dating strategy. Girls willing to still engage with "canceled" guys get the dating pool all to themselves. The ones who want to protest about it will end up single cat ladies if they don't change soon enough. It might be caused by kids having too much freedom... their own cell phones and accounts totally unmonitored by parents. In the past you had better social support. Kids hung out in the house with the door open so parents could monitor, go on double dates or even have a chaperone, your parents were responsible for picking you up and getting the girl safely home in time. Ironically it's stage green values of empowering your kid too much that allows these cancellable activities to happen. Families and communities with more conservative values have more safeguards in place to prevent them from happening.

It can get infinitely better and infinitely worse. Today will probably look pretty shit if people are still around in 5,000 years.

15 pages of people gossiping and ripping fellow forum members apart over disagreements about a minor e-celeb, gradually devolving further toward the latter. Just the spiritual community equivalent of the Johnny Depp trial. People getting invested in something that ultimately doesn't concern or affect them, to distract from examining themselves. You can safely move along without fear of missing out on anything, nobody will be talking about it in a month. Ultimately people here care about it more and will spend more time on it than Teal herself will. She doesn't have to say, do, or justify anything and she'll still walk away wealthier and having more followers than anyone here. Unless there was something criminal going on, I haven't wasted my time learning the details lol.

Part of the basics, is learning to research and learn for yourself what the basics are, instead of needing it spoon-fed to you. Having Google makes it easier than all the generations before you. You can simply type in "what should every guy / 18 year old know" "how to make it in the world" "how to move out of your parents house" and absorb it. Learn how to learn. That one basic unlocks everything else.

It doesn't for everyone. Some are happier and more fulfilled being followers. Why do you have this assumption / generalization? Even GaryVee says not everyone is meant to be a leader or entrepreneur.

I had a dentist appointment this morning, just a standard cleaning, and had almost a quasi-spiritual experience. You'd think the dentist chair would be the last place you'd feel more conscious or closer to God. But for some reason, it always focuses my mind in that direction. Maybe it's because I heard someone (maybe Peter Ralston) once say that if you were completely enlightened, you could get your teeth drilled with no freezing and just embrace the pain. I didn't have an enlightenment experience, it was more intellectual than anything, but still pretty interesting. The pain was pretty excruciating. I haven't been flossing as often as I should, I'm a mouth breather, allergies, and other factors mean my gums were already quite red and inflamed. All while the hygienist was scraping the plaque off my teeth, I could see my blood getting sucked up into the little vacuum tube she was holding. At one point I became aware of the fact that it was possible that this is all there is. I was in the present moment. It's possible that all that had ever existed was me laying back in that chair, looking up at a light in pain, having someone scrape a metal stick under my gums. Basically infinite dentist hell. I considered the possibility that nothing existed outside the tiny room I was currently in. There was a big window in front of me, but at the angle I was laying I couldn't even see the light from outside, and it's possible the external world no longer existed. I felt a bit depersonalized a few times because of the pain. Not necessarily in a negative way like a bad THC trip I had in the past. It was like the pain made my consciousness recoil further and further back into my body, until at some point I wasn't my body any more. Usually I keep my eyes open the entire time, but the pain was enough that it was more comfortable to close my eyes occasionally. I felt as if I might have fallen asleep 5 or 6 times over the course of my appointment, or just blacked out, but I don't think I actually did. I feel a bit changed even now, a couple hours later. Like some karma was scraped away along with the plaque. I feel humbled, more powerful, calmer, and a bunch of other feelings all at once. Anyway, thanks for coming to my TED talk. Next time you're at the dentist, try to go through the whole process as consciously as possible and try to embrace the pain.

The purpose of automation is to replace people. To have a machine that doesn't need to eat, sleep, or take breaks. Just routine maintenance. Between 1990 and 2007, every robot deployed replaced 3.3 workers. I would guess that over time, AI and robots will only become more efficient and replace more people. If every 1 robot puts 3+ people out of work, then it's not possible to train everyone to repair the robots and advanced machinery. It only takes a team of maybe a dozen instrumentation & electrical technicians to keep an entire factory running, where hundreds of people previously worked. It's not just machinery, everything is getting automated. Even the arts. Soon 99% of books will be written by AI and you won't know the difference. People will only buy human-written books as an artisanal thing, like the equivalent of buying hand-made shoes today. There is nowhere to run to or an area of work to re-train in. Eventually AI will replace everything. Your best hope is probably to save up enough money to get a machine or AI to work for you instead of someone else. That's just from a perspective that assumes people will actually want to work. In various countries, we saw a real-world example of what happened when citizens were given temporary UBI at the start of the pandemic. Most people were lazy, stayed home and watched Netflix. They weren't learning new skills or bettering themselves or thinking about the future. In many cases, if the covid benefits were equal or better than what you got paid at your old job, many people simply didn't go back to work until the benefits ran out. I think the rich people are going to give a living wage, because they don't have another option if they want to keep society together. I think it might even be better than current welfare payments. Just enough to keep you home and comfortable and not causing trouble. Many people will turn into consumerist machines that basically just watch ads to survive. It'll still be possible to climb out of it and make a better life for yourself. But when you can do nothing and be lazy, only a small percentage of people will have the drive and initiative to actually do it. I mean, if we extrapolate out historic inflation alone, this isn't that unrealistic. A cheeseburger at McDonalds costs $2 today, in the 50's they were 19 cents. That's a 950% change. By the year 2094 you should expect a McDonalds cheeseburger will cost $21. If you take your date out for a couple Big Mac meals in the year 2100, after tax you'll be looking at like $320. It'll apply to everything. A head of lettuce will probably cost you $20 too. A car will be $300,000, a house will be $6 million. I don't think we'll be eating bugs in 5 or 10 years. But I have made my garden larger this year to grow more fresh food for myself, and I'll make it even bigger next year, and install a vegetable garden in the yard of any friend/family who wants one. (I think by next spring, things will be bad enough that people will be asking me.) It's good to have food sovereignty even if things don't get bad enough that you have to rely on it. A general trend for the future... if you want something, you have to create it for yourself. Don't expect or rely on anyone to give it to you... not your employer, not your government. 100% responsibility. Your paycheque or government handouts can disappear in an instant.

I've never seen him on camera before, I get major "Duper's Delight" vibes from his videos.

Does it though? I requested this a while back and ended up researching, it seemed like just the forum could be given dark mode with a simple plugin for Invision. Links to support threads for the software included here: To be fair, I used a browser plugin to enable dark mode and I didn't like how the forum looked with it, and went back to light mode. If you're on Android, just turn on eye comfort mode + dark mode + extra dim in your settings. Or better yet stop looking at screens in the dark altogether

Move away from the things I've highlighted in red, and move toward the things I've highlighted in green. There is obviously a lot of conflict inside of you. Your friends and family and society have told you that money is very important. Maybe you have a sense of scarcity that bad things will happen to you if you don't have enough money. You need to find a way to overcome that. In the Life Purpose Course like you said, money is considered a toxic value. You didn't quite do the exercise right, because you're supposed to discard all toxic values and replace them with a higher conciousness value. I would recommend re-doing all the Values Assessment sections of the course. This time, don't allow yourself to answer money or wealth for anything, and see how your outcome changes. These are totally crazy unattainable goals. Even most multi-millionaires don't own private jets. Even a used Gulfstream jet will cost you $15 million. Plus paying a pilot salary, all of the maintenance. Where are you going to go on a regular basis that requires private aircraft? To own 100,000 apartments if they are $50,000 each will cost you 5 BILLION dollars. 100k apartments is like an entire city. It's an absolutely insane goal. You aren't just talking about being a millionaire at that point, you're talking about being like Elon Musk. You will never reach that level through copywriting. You have to figure out how these crazy ideas got into your head, and acknowledge that they are totally unattainable and impractical. Where did the number 100,000 come from instead of starting with 10 or 100 apartments? I had the same problem when I started off, I really wanted to own a Lamborghini. Then the more I researched, the more I realized Lambos are actually pretty shitty unreliable cars, constantly having problems. I could spend $100k on a car and still have it break down in a parking lot just like a $2000 car, why would I want that? Then I have to also worry about the extra stress of someone stealing or damaging it. Plus I don't even drive that much or enjoy driving. It was all just an idea put in my head by society, not what I actually wanted.

It's mostly about sincerity and focus. The little things like eyes open or closed, hands folded or not don't matter. Just give God your full undivided attention and respect, don't lie. Don't try to multitask and pray while eating or listening to music or thinking of something else, give it 100%. Just lay yourself bare, admit your faults and limitations and ask for help and divine guidance. It's an all-powerful all-knowing being, you don't have to worry about speaking the right language or doing the right movements to connect. It's like a 24/7 hotline always just waiting and listening for you to start talking in whatever way works for you.

It's not a bug, it's a feature. When you let people treat you like a doormat for years, they develop specific expectations for you. Suddenly in contrast, standing up for yourself seems like a very selfish thing to do, when they're used to you bending over backwards for them and dropping everything whenever they need you. It's very hard to break free of that and create a new frame of reference. If you're familiar with the Youtuber MrGirl, he describes going through something similar and losing most of his friends and family as well. It's painful in the short term, but in the long run it's better to replace them with people who will accept you for who you genuinely are, instead of having to capitulate to guilting and shaming when you don't do what someone wants. Like you said, you're still doing all the reasonable things a nice guy would do. You aren't being an asshole. Or you can go back to being a doormat if you just want to do what's easy and comfortable. Congrats on your personal growth. Cool testimonial for the book, now I'm going to check it out.

To me, unity is a binary off/on thing. Literally, joined as one. You're either unified or you aren't, you can't really be partially unified or improve unity partway. Alternatively it could stay as "improve" instead of "create" but change it to a non-binary word like social cohesion or co-operation. Of course it's semantics, it's a mission statement. But little changes in wording make a big overall difference. Are you uniting a country behind a single cause, or just making people be more friendly and courteous to their neighbours? You guys are missing the point, it's a life purpose. Not what's all-around most optimal. If one of someone's core values or strengths is logic, then they don't have to add emotion or intuition into it. In this case, logic is almost like a medium. Like if someone's life purpose was storytelling through music, you wouldn't say "actually film is superior for storytelling most of the time because it incorporates a visual approach as well as just audio."

If you're going to obsess about it for months or years, I'd just get it out of the way to free up the mental bandwidth. I can tell you that it's overrated but until you experience it for yourself you probably won't believe me.

I would probably phrase it "create unity" instead of "improve unity". In some cases (the most difficult cases), there is no pre-existing unity there to grow and improve upon. You have to create it from scratch.

A few thousand dollars a year, not enough to live off of. For the next couple years you might not even earn that in the stock market. Leveraging it as a down payment and getting a mortgage on a house to rent would probably be best. But you're not going to travel the world and also be a good landlord, especially as a beginner. What happens if your tenant doesn't pay or their toilet breaks and you're in Thailand? And there probably isn't enough margin between the mortgage and the rent you charge to hire a property management company and have any reasonable amount of profit left over. If you're a lazy landlord you're gonna get fucked. Especially if you're lazy when evaluating tenants, but also if you don't have the foresight to save money for replacing big items like furnaces or roofs every 5 - 10 years. Being a landlord isn't an easy passive income source. It's creating a part time job for yourself. Yes a 400% difference What kind of question is this. You mean in terms of quality of life? If all it took was 100k in savings to live off passive income, EVERYONE would be retired. Unless you mean 100k of disposable income every year. Earn your first 100k and then you can worry about how to use it to be lazy. Earning 100k will help you grow up.

Some people care about The Truth at all costs, even if it's ugly or uncomfortable. They'd want to know even if The Matrix was real and they were just being used as a human battery. If you had the option to never find out that Santa Claus wasn't real, would you want everyone to lie to you for your entire life just because you don't want it to be true? Even your parents and eventually your partner would be in on it. If you had kids, even the kids would have to lie to you if they found out. Some people want to know that Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, and everyone else in existence isn't' real. At any cost. From a scientific rational paradigm, say if you're an atheist or agnostic... when your life ends, none of this matters anyway, so how is it any different? If it ends with you losing all your memories, thoughts, feelings, sense of self... then does it matter if it's real or not? I do lots of boring and tedious tasks in video games all the time, knowing full well it's not real. It doesn't have to ruin the fun. It's still fun to troll NPCs, just like it's fun to beat up random NPCs in Grand Theft Auto (and even in the game there are consequences to your actions.) There doesn't have to be a point or meaning to it. The fact their AI is so good that they're indistinguishable from the player makes it really fun.

She's hot, I only watch her because she's hot. If the same message was coming from an ugly dude I wouldn't be watching it.

She's very nice to look at, but her message gets a bit same-y. I subscribed at one point but unsubscribed after a few videos because it was just the same message over and over. I wonder what she's like as a person off-camera. She always seems "in character" and is very one-dimensional, only talks about enlightenment stuff, never lets the audience in to know her as a person. I have a hard time imagining her actually functioning in day-to-day life. But if she talked the way she talks in her videos 24/7, she probably would be a ranting homeless person. Funny to imagine this same person screaming at their kids. Even someone like Ralph Smart (Infinite Waters), you can get the impression that he knows he's playing it up a bit and putting on an act, and he has a bit of a sense of humor about it. Anna seems to take herself very seriously. Someone like Teal Swan is also really serious but idk... she actually talks like a human being. Anna is like an enlightenment cyborg hahaha

Morning person. I can do brute physical stuff like yard work, chores, or exercising at any time of day. But anything requiring mental energy, I pretty much have to do it before noon or I'm useless. Occasionally I do get a burst of motivation and energy at night a couple hours before bed though. What you interpret as the mysteriousness of night, I see as danger and uncertainty. Going back to caveman times, sitting around a campfire not knowing what is lurking outside your ring of safety in the darkness. I do like night during the winter when everything is covered with snow and visible though.

High conciousness business interactions are win-win. Your product or service should be providing more value to your end customer than the money they pay you. As long as you aren't scamming people or ripping them off with an inferior product, and you do everything reasonably possible to create a satisfied customer, it's hard to end up in a win-lose situation. See if part of this feels like imposter syndrome, like you are worried you aren't good enough to deserve people's money, as well. The global market for goods and services is so vast that for all intents and purposes we live in a world of infinite abundance. Your work won't be even a drop in the sea. So don't even worry about taking business from competitors either. Do you feel bad when you go to a job interview, knowing it'll be you at someone else's expense? Is the feeling strong enough to give up the job for them? Do you think they'd do the same for you? If your product or service is better than your competitor, you're saving the end user from their inferior product and offering them a better solution. You should only feel guilty if you're offering less for more money.

72F and sunny today, 86F later this week. We've had shootings in my city within the last month though and crime is steadily getting worse with the economic downturn so don't think you're gonna escape that . I passed an investigation of overnight gunfire on the way to get coffee this morning. There are people here working on it at both a provincial and federal level. People compare the Ontario Premier (who just got re-elected with a majority lol) to Trump a lot. Only about 5% support the crazy right-wing party at the moment though and I don't see them getting enough traction for critical mass. We had our mask mandate lifted in March and about half the people I see in shops are still voluntarily wearing them, it's a totally different environment more like Scandinavian countries. Our "Progressive Conservatives" are the right-most mainstream party and are more in line with the US Democrats than the Republicans. The actual right wing parties fall into the "Other / Independent" category and doesn't even get mentioned, behind the Green party.