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I quit. Yes I had to rationalize it and do a risk assessment. Also for some people I think staying in a job is the better short-term solution as a means to an end. To invest their income into repositioning into something else at least. I don't think you can make the final decision to quit without getting over the cognitive dissonance. I'm not jobless and waiting to run out of money. I discovered the world is full of infinite abundance and tapped into it. People are emailing me begging to give me money and I've had to turn down at least 3 since the start of the year. Most younger coworkers are just as disillusioned as I was. Those that stay are just too afraid to take a risk (which I can totally understand, it's a big risk.) The older an employee is, the larger the cognitive dissonance is. They develop Stockholm syndrome and find more and more ways to justify their lifestyle and create more reasons to not leave. I do think that the pandemic has created a tidal wave that is just starting to unfold. We're just starting to see the start of things like the "anti-work" movement. People are realizing how little their employer really cares or looks out for their best interest. How having a job isn't really as stable as they thought, or any less risky than being self-employed. You might see the cognitive dissonance break in even the older generation and the whole system start to crumble over the next few years. Maybe. Combined with automation potentially rendering a lot of jobs useless in the next decade or two, it could get ugly.

There's a huge difference between not having reproductive rights vs. not being able to go to school, own land or a business, have a job, travel in public without a male guardian, etc. If you asked any woman if they'd rather live in Texas or Afghanistan, it's not even a question.

There's almost always something more productive you can do than just standing around in a big group of people. Plus as you've mentioned, the act of protesting comes with serious risk of injury or death or imprisonment if things go wrong. You probably can't donate an amount that will make a significant difference on an issue either. In my eyes, the most powerful weapon/tool we have is right here at our fingertips -- The internet. We have a printing press where we can print infinite flyers/pamphlets and distribute them for nearly free to people all around the world. You don't have to go out and do anything yourself, you can just convince other people to do it for you. I served in The Great Meme War of 2016 and if I really wanted to shift public opinion on something, I'd turn to memes again. Memetic warfare is real. It's not "just memes". They're mind viruses. They are the most efficient and furthest condensed form of propaganda you can create in terms of complexity. At a crazier level I believe there is an occult aspect to memes as well. Of course there's room for big intellectual blog posts, articles, and videos that explain topics in-depth too. But I'd always layer that with a compliment of memes. Memes are the way to get things done.

There's at least a sliver of truth in a lot of conspiracy theories. That's what makes them so insidious. And that's also why sometimes "fact checkers" like Snopes seem like they're bending the rules to make something false. Most recent news example I can think of - Yes the US government is distributing crack pipes to people. No it's not just crack pipes, yes it's part of some kind of medical safety kit. No the government isn't also providing crack and heroine or any other drugs to people. Snopes can take these facts and say "Government is providing crack pipes and drugs to people" (which very few conspiracy theorists are saying) is false, to dismiss the whole idea of giving out crack pipes. Adrenochrome is a real substance. The elites probably aren't drinking the blood of kids that they've terrified to get it. Illuminati was historically a real organization Jewish space lasers - Israel has a ground-based directed-energy weapon air defense system called Iron Beam. The US plans to have anti-missile laser weapons in orbit by next year, so it's hardly a conspiracy. Nesara was a real proposal Almost every election in every country likely has some degree of fudging the numbers going on (probably at an immaterial level that doesn't impact the outcome.) Chemtrails have been proposed as a solution to climate change for years (whether they're actually being used already is another story.) Soy is a natural estrogen I could go down most items on the chart and point out how they're at least partly true in some way. You need nuance. The government and other organizations are almost certainly ****ing with us and lying to us in numerous ways. Usually not in as exaggerated of a way that conspiracy theorists claim, but still in ways that people should find unacceptable. But if you're a skeptic you snap too hard in the other direction and dismiss all kookie claims outright.

Lots of books are no longer protected by copyright if they're more than 75 years old. Also a lot of esoteric books that I see recommended, they aren't for sale on Amazon or anywhere else. Only way to buy them is used, often hundreds of dollars, sometimes thousands. If there is no way to support the original creator then I don't consider it immoral. If you're downloading a Tim Ferriss book or something you could easily buy new, I consider that immoral. But if it's an out-of-print text by Alan Watts or similar that's been dead for 50 years nah.

On LinkedIn or a forum I can understand. But why Facebook? Aren't those people mostly friends and family? Are you worried people are judging you or something? That seems like it'd be mostly people you're on good terms with. Don't you think it's a bit selfish to use Facebook to peer into other people's lives, then deactivate so they can't look back at you?

https://www.youtube.com/c/mindandmagick https://www.youtube.com/user/BespokeGroupUK If you want more of a step-by-step how-to, as well as an overall system and theory of how magic works, Initiation Into Hermetics by Franz Bardon is a fav of mine: http://www.themasonictrowel.com/ebooks/hermetic/franz_bardon_-_initiation_into_hermetics.pdf I don't necessarily agree with the elemental stuff found here and in much of wicca but it's still an interesting read, one possible system to consider. Skim through it and see if it resonates with you. If not, keep looking. In my example I had something more paranormal in mind. Think of it more like... making a request to the universe. Then the universe sets a series of actions into motion, so some kid ends up throwing their ball into your yard and leaving it there. Or a dog finds a ball somewhere and drops it in your yard. The "how" can happen an infinite number of different ways, usually in ways you didn't foresee. But like I think Michal__ is also alluding to, you want to start with stuff common enough that you could chalk it up to coincidence. Then gradually you can start doing weirder and more unlikely stuff.

10 - 15 years is too long. Challenge yourself to do it in 5. You can do it. You should already have solid foundations started in 1 -2 years if you're serious and not just messing around. SpaceX had a rocket in space in less than 5 years. Tesla had a car out in less than 5. Slack started 5 years ago and it has more than 6 million users and it's valued at $5 billion. Instacart started a decade ago and they're valued at $3.4 billion. An e-learning business isn't anything revolutionary. Stop being scared and take some giant leaps.

The course will explicitly tell you on passes where you should go back and replace values with other ones. I know you do it initially for toxic values, but I don't remember if you do it for negatively motivated ones. I'm also mixing it up in my head with congruence ratings, I think. I would just stick with it for now unless you think there are better values to put in their place. You can always make final adjustments at the end. Being negatively motivated toward a toxic value like money is bad, but being negatively motivated toward a positive value could be okay IMO.

Potential for what? It will probably depend on the thing. A potential mate.... a potential business opportunity... For both, what they have in common I guess is.... congruence with what I'm already doing, synergizes with the skills or desires I already have, ease of implementing/exploiting that potential. Perceived depth.

It has to be gradual or you'll most likely have a strong ego backlash. Like if you're a hardcore flat earther and want to change that, you can't just go watch a scientist explain how stupid flat earth theory is. Your brain will reject it and you'll go watch even more extreme stuff to justify your beliefs. Start off with someone in the middle who can present a balanced perspective and pros and cons, things that affirm what you believe to a degree to satiate your ego, while also planting just a hint of doubt to start moving you in the other direction.

High magic / ceremonial magic is too much work. For me it's the equivalent of going and sitting through a 3 hour church service, vs just praying at home for 5 minutes.

Ah I gotcha. I have not experienced any kind of having to repay my debts to the universe for bounties that I've harvested, or anything like that. I think there are types of magic where that sort of thing is more prevalent, and there is a definite element of karma. If you are casting curses on people, doing voodoo type stuff, there's a good chance that it's going to come back on you. Anything where you're trying to actively make someone else's situation worse, instead of improving your own situation, is probably going to backfire. My understanding is that if you curse someone, usually if they go to someone experienced with magic to remove it, the curse will usually get sent back to you. Love spells or anything where you're basically coercing someone into doing something they wouldn't normally do, without their knowledge, is pretty sketchy and probably ethically wrong. I think I did mine in a way where it ended up mutually beneficial for both parties so it was fine though. I realize all this stuff sounds crazy as hell. I'm generally more of an atheist and skeptic person. But I do what works, and magic has a very good success rate for me. If you're on the fence but interested, I'd start small with something innocent. You can use magic to make something happen like have an orange ball appear in your front yard. Stuff that isn't going to hurt anyone, that's easy enough for the universe to make happen for you even as a beginner because it isn't totally outside the realm of possibility. But weird enough that if you do it a couple times, you can't just write it off as coincidence. Magic bends probability more than anything. You still have to set yourself up in a situation where something can happen. If something is 50/50 odds, it's pretty easy to make magic tilt it in your favor. But if you're doing something with 1 in 10,000 odds it'll take exponentially more effort. That's why using magic to win the lottery is next to impossible. You're fighting 1 in 30 million odds, plus probably multiple other people trying to use magic or prayer in their favor as well.

Why do you choose pantheism instead of panentheism? Personally I think the universe is wholly contained within God, but God is larger than just the universe. So I choose the latter. Maybe it's just a matter of semantics about what the universe is. I have to think that other universes exist outside of our universe. Unless the universe is defined as containing infinite smaller universes. But I guess I'd just define the "ultimate universe" containing all other universes as God. Or at the very least, I don't know if I'd include things that exist outside of our physical 3 dimensions as part of the universe.

You need to train willpower like a muscle. You can't go from 0 exercise to running a marathon without seriously injuring yourself. It's the same way with your brain, you can't go from doing nothing to working on something for 4 hours a day. In terms of psycho-cybernetics, forget all the visualization and subconscious stuff for a minute. IMO the most important part of the book is that your mind acts like a thermostat. It has a specific range that it feels comfortable in, and it won't let you go above or below that. But you can't just crank your thermostat up 10 degrees or your brain will freak out. You have to work at it slowly, maybe adding 15 minutes of an activity at a time, do that for a week and increase another 15 minutes. Slow and steady. In a couple months, doing 2 hours of homework/study a night or whatever else will be your "new normal" and almost automatic. Your mind has a thermostat for every area of your life. I have a specific amount of money in my bank account that I'm comfortable at, a weight when I step on the scale, etc etc... if I go too far in the positive direction I get complacent and lazy. If I go too far in the negative direction I freak out and work hard to get back where I want to be. Right now your brain is setting the bar too low in multiple areas of your life. That's not a judgement, it's an evolutionary/survival thing to try and get by on doing as little as possible. But you can consciously crank it up.

Have I experienced any of what? I just told you my direct experience and how I perceive things working. I experienced life-changing events as a result of doing magic. Actually to say I've only done sigil magic is not totally true, I've also petitioned my ancestors to help successfully overcome my wife's fertility issues and now I have a son. Almost 3 years of trying, including medical intervention, I do a ritual, and the next month she's pregnant, I'd call that a win. Dead old people are easy to deal with, just promise to name the kid after them and sacrifice some Werther's Original to them (not a joke lmao.) That stuff gets kinda scary though, you never know if you're really working with your ancestors or demons pretending to be your ancestors. You need to know how to protect yourself before you start messing with anything external.

My knowledge of magic is exclusively with sigil magick / chaos magick. I have used magic to get money, good-paying jobs, and relationships. Even to make a lesbian fall in love with me (as a guy.) Seemingly impossible or at least odd-defying stuff, over and over. My hypothesis is that, at least the type of magick I use, if you're summoning spirits or demons it might be different.... but the magick I use has a similar mechanism of action to prayer or Law of Attraction. You're putting your intention out into the universe. I don't think it's merely petitioning some entity to act on your behalf though. I think intention and spoken word literally has the ability to hack the structure of the universe. The Bible says "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." Don't underestimate the power of words. Words carry the weight of God and the entire universe with them. When you are able to name something, you gain power over it. If you are able to organize words in specific ways, you can rewrite destiny, shift timelines, or however you want to think of it working. I also do work with thoughtforms / egregoires. I'm literally creating spiritual beings and sending them out into the world to do my bidding. I use sexual transmutation to breathe life into words and images, and they go out in the world and do stuff with me. You have to be careful because they take the path of least resistance, and you can easily end up in that weird situation where the genie is granting your wishes in undesired ways you couldn't foresee. It's all of the above. It's a placebo. It's your subconscious doing the work and finding opportunities. It's you acting as God. There are real spiritual entities like demons out there that will work for you and intercede on your behalf. Depends on what kind of magic you're doing. It's like saying "if I plant a seed, what kind of vegetable will grow?" Well it depends what kind of seed you use. I'm working on a podcast atm and sigil magic is episode 6, where I'll go into a lot more depth and how-to, but it won't be out till late March. PS: Yes I've used magic to try and win the lottery, and no it didn't work, I'm not that powerful or willing to devote enough time/energy to it. Worth a shot

On the plus side I didn't feel paranoid or have a panic attack. I questioned the timeline at one point, because my dog actually threw up and I wasn't sure if that was real or not. Had to confirm with my wife and run through all the events that had happened to make sure I didn't imagine any of it. Mostly it was just very overwhelming and I wanted it to be over. If I was in public or if anything unexpected happened I think I could've gone totally off the rails. But luckily I could piece everything back to when I ingested in a logical way and the events made sense for what was happening. Time was just super distorted and everything took a huge amount of effort. Walking downstairs to get some water might as well have been a 15 minute walk. Other times time shortened. Also physical distance got longer and shorter, I could walk somewhere that normally took like 10 steps in 2. It was odd. But yeah if anybody out there is on the fence about trying psychedelics (or any kind of drug) I'd err on the side of caution. Even trying to go slow and start at low doses didn't save me lol.

I feel the same way... I hate family/friends reading or watching stuff I make. You just gotta get over it. If you hope to ever have a large Youtube channel, people are eventually going to find your stuff. So these 2 ideas are incompatible. I say just rip the bandaid off. Post your Youtube channel to your Facebook and other social media and let everyone know. Let yourself cringe for a couple days and it'll pass. Most likely nobody will ever even talk about it to you in person, you'll probably get a couple likes and that's it. And if someone wants to make fun of you or say your Youtube channel is crap, maybe you don't need people like that in your life and it's a good opportunity to filter them out. What have they done that's so great?

I feel like most genres are timeless, so I wouldn't be concerned about it. There are still jazz musicians, old-school hip-hop musicians, EDM musicians, etc making new music today and they have a big audience. If you try to keep up with what the current fad is, you'll always be chasing. I would just make what is authentic to you. If it's good enough, it'll be timeless. Individual musicians can become one-hit wonders and their songs can be overplayed, but I don't know if I feel the same way about genres. The window where a genre is overdone is pretty narrow in my opinion. Maybe a couple of years after peak popularity. After a few years have passed, people are already nostalgic and looking back and wanting more. Pretty much everything comes back around... swing music came back as electro swing, the style of the 80s came back as synthwave, etc. No matter how niche you go, there will always be those 1,000 true fans (or more) waiting to support you.

I think a lot of the stigma around musicians in their 40s are "failed musicians". It's people who hedge their bets and never fully commit to following their musical dream. It's people who have a full-time job working retail or in an office, who just do a gig at a local pub to 30 people, one time a month. They never even record in studio or attempt to put out a CD (or release on Spotify or whatever today's equivalent is.) Think of the character Andy from Parks & Rec, he's in the early stages of being a failed musician. If you haven't seen the show, then you've for sure known a failed musician in real life. Changing their band name 5 times, members constantly leaving and being replaced, never growing. If music is your life purpose, I think becoming a failed musician is unlikely though. It's more of a danger if music is in a grey zone between hobby and career and you're hedging your bets. I'd say put everything into your music for at least 5 years without worrying about whether you're making progress or not. Then when you're 32 you can evaluate and see if you're making progress, or if you've become a washed up musician. You can set criteria for yourself now, like that you'll be making $XX,XXX income per year from your music in 1 year, 2 years, 5 years or have XXX,XXX downloads. Or you can ask family members and friends for their honest opinion at that point. Once you're a popular musician making millions of dollars a year, nobody cares or judges whether you're 40. It's only if you end up failing and then keep making small bets that lead nowhere. Being that guy with a day job who occasionally does music super-seriously for 3 hours a week, and uses that to justify spending thousands on professional equipment, is what people find so cringe. If Ronald Jenkees was able to turn music into a living 12 years ago with no record label or personality, in 2022 with all the new options like Spotify and other platforms, then I think anybody can make it with enough effort. He's good enough that his music stands for itself and it doesn't matter who he is or what he looks like. He never made it to Skrillex or Deadmau5 levels but I bet he's consistently making 6-figures a year still. Just make your music so good they can't ignore you. Think Susan Boyle as well. Everyone's all laughs until she actually opens her mouth. At that point it doesn't matter how old you are or what you look like.

I can't find the original video anywhere. If it's "viral" then it shouldn't be hard to find, but this reaction video is the only example I see anywhere. And in several instances you can hear that it's clearly not the N word being bleeped out. Find me the original uncensored clips, otherwise this is fake news.

Imagine thinking that a place is a shithole, and then continuing to wallow around in shit for 5 more years.

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What do you think endemic means? Why is a vaccine necessary for it to become endemic? The common cold is endemic but there's no vaccine for it. The flu is endemic and we haven't had vaccines for it until recently. Chickenpox has always been endemic and we didn't get a vaccine until 1995. Eventually everyone gets it and either recovers or dies, with or without vaccine. Then it's endemic. Endemic just means we're never getting rid of it. It can be endemic and still mutate into new variants. It doesn't mean it has become stable. Nothing is stable, evolution is always happening.