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@mandyjw Well, there's different ways in interpreting the nanosecond 'judgment' one could make. There's the 'gut instinct' one where it comes from conditioning from our past experiences, it's subconscious but this doesn't necessarily make it an accurate assessment. There's also the 'intuitive' one where it suggests a 'spiritual' aspect to it that transcends just the conditioning of the physical which includes psychology but again this doesn't necessarily make it an accurate assessment, either. Of course, some may say there is an even more transcendent one where someone fully awakened would view it with genuine clarity but even still this conceptual belief doesn't necessarily make it an accurate assessment.

It depends on what one defines as 'rigged' but when the Democratic party does everything it can to stack the process against Bernie including closing polling places in areas he had a clear advantage to gain more percentage points in tight contests making it harder for his supporters to actually vote. Not to mention the media doing everything it can to craft a negative narrative about Bernie in attacking everything about him including his supporters which really does influence undecided voters about whether they want to be painted in that way themselves. Then other candidates do everything they can to block him from potential delegates to win it outright with a majority it does make one consider that word could be apropos to the situation. Yet, that doesn't mean they actually cheated the vote count which would be election 'fraud' as opposed to what one could just consider 'rigged'. Of course, that does not erase what you suggest about their ability to transcend the things that would prevent them from being ready for such a transformation.

In awakening quite often the clarity we view our own self with also exists with how we view others but it may not be as complete of a transformation immediately so it will be a benefit to your path to discern whether you are seeing others in the clarity of awakening or the veil of ego.

You could have pointed out that humans are a social animal that relies on building healthy relationships with the group so is 'love' based interactions but modern society has alienated us from our natural behaviors and explains why there are so many that need therapy to cope with the suffering. If your therapist doesn't understand this simple materialist explanation of that obvious current dynamic then maybe they aren't the proper therapist for you. You should also refrain from calling a disagreement an 'argument' because words can be a powerful influence on how the mind frames events.

The Democratic establishment and elites would rather have Trump as President instead of Bernie because it secures their place in the power structure while shielding them from any real scrutiny about their roles in oppressing anyone who isn't in their class. The bonus to the Trump Presidency is that they get to blame Trump for everything while they appear to be the 'resistance' and 'good' in comparison to him as well as cash in through all the fund raising they will do under the facade. That goes for the media, too, they are making bank on this circus.

The only chance Biden has is if the anti-Trump sentiment is so strong it drives up record turnout to get him out of office but it will have little to nothing to do with Biden the candidate and more about Trump the person. Trump will expose his weaknesses but Biden wasn't going to turn the diehard Reps or Trumpist fanatical base anyway, it would be new voters or averse ones. The only way Bernie would get the nomination was to win it outright or be close enough to the majority with such a large margin of lead over anybody else it would have been blatantly obvious it was stolen from him but anything relatively close between 2 or 3 candidates wouldn't work to that effect and imho super Tuesday all but ended that possibility. All that this shows me is how blinded people are to the reality of what's really going on in life and that they prefer to believe in the fairy tale stories the media or supposed 'authority' figures tell them or they follow the herd of popular opinion. Of course, this isn't surprising because it also reflects the nature of most people's inner life and not just the way they behave in their outer life.

I guess it's another 4 years of Trump along with more bigoted stacked judiciary for decades which ends with ecological collapse and billions of people worldwide suffering as humanity's population dramatically shrinks for the first time in eons. Not that it's sure that Bernie could have stopped any of this but he is the only hope to significantly address it and the only one that could beat Trump because Biden is a mumbling, bumbling shell of his former corrupt self living off Obama 'glory'. If I didn't have inner peace and liberation I'd have justification to be concerned but my well being isn't dependent on appealing and favorable circumstances. The world will only become increasingly anathema to those that are seeking healing. Do the inner work to find peace and liberation my friends because there's not much help coming from the outside. I've been watching and waiting for decades and it's only getting further from realization apart from inner life.

People in super Tuesday primaries get out and vote.... people who have upcoming primaries get out and early vote so you can avoid the lines and any potential issues with other proof requirements, you can always go back the another day if you need something else. I'm early voting today myself.... the establishment is lining up behind a guy who can't even form complete sentences, constantly forgets what he's saying in the middle of saying it and routinely tells people to vote for someone else...they'd rather lose to Trump but keep their power than to stand up for the people. If you want affordable health care, living wages, educational opportunities and an empowerment of the working, middle class and the 99% then there is only one candidate to vote for, everyone else is corporate bought out and I'm not even being hyperbolic. Bern the system!

Woah....Godwinian Host Chris Matthews to 'retire'..... he tried to take down Bernie and wound up destroying his long and storied career in the twilight of it.... Flava Flav kicked out of Public Enemy for his cease and desist letter to the Sanders campaign because fellow members will be performing at a rally in LA using the slogan 'fight the power'.... except Chuck D says that's not the reason but timing after so long is curious. It seems if you go at him all it does is boomerang back at you, just ask Liz and Petey...the force is strong with the Bern.

The 'rigged' part is the super delegates being DNC head Perez appointed party insiders made up of establishment partisans and corporate lobbyists that want to keep the corrupt status quo in place by keeping the Republicrats in power instead of genuine progressives. So let's say there's no majority with Bernie at 45%, Biden 25% and Bloomberg 20% of delegates to push the convention to a second ballot they'll swoop in to hand the nomination to a weaker candidate and literally throw out millions of voters preference so erase the democratic process. By the other lesser centrists dropping out the establishment is hoping that the extra freed votes add percentage points to Biden and Bloomberg enough so they get above the 15% threshold in a few more states so qualify for delegates and take them from Bernie. Both Pete and Amy probably have been promised prime appointments in a potential cabinet and increased power in the Dem party going forward if they dropped out sooner than later so they don't eat up percentage points that don't lead to delegates. If Bernie gets the nomination he controls the direction of the party, can eliminate the super delegates and empower the young justice democrats completely changing the direction of the Democratic party for the next generation and possibly forever.

Social 'privilege' is a cognitive bias shared by enough of a populace that it creates a dynamic in society where there is accepted different treatment of different groups. It doesn't have to rise to be written into law for it to effectively act as 'institutional', either. It takes a sufficiently 'awakened' populace to transcend this discriminatory behavior among it's different groups in all forms and currently it doesn't seem like there are very many places in the world where this exists let alone is probable to happen.

I just noticed that the pic had some background color issues for me to fix

The people who have a problem with the message of this music video and are critical of the artist for making it are against free speech and they hate freedom. Haha.

This quote sums it up quite accurately.... "When You’re Accustomed to Privilege, Equality Feels Like Oppression"

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@Serotoninluv He started out by calling it a fee but he recently switched to calling it a tax, why? I don't know but it is a fee that bypasses congress. It might be because it's complicated to explain, he just says 'tax them'. Basically it's .50 cents on every $100 and gets hidden in something called the spread which is the small difference between the buy and sell price and already exists in trading with banks, brokers and market makers taking cuts making trillions among them with it. This just adds a smidge more and doesn't change anything except maybe a slight increase in the average daily range but won't hinder any trading and is impossible to pass on to a consumer in some way. It's all contained in the market's trading. At least this is what I suspect he means by it and from my understanding of the markets.

@Serotoninluv He will be able to do his college program without congress, too. He controls the SEC so he can arrange his .5% fee, yes that little, on all transactions but it will raise $250bil a year to pay for it. Plus he will have big rallies in all the states and districts of the people who are blocking his M4A plan which will pressure them to get on board or get voted out. Let's also realize that the elite 5% of the population that owns 80% of the stocks will crash the stock market if it looks like Bernie will win and definitely after if he does trying to cash out and hide their money. This will hurt all the average workers whose pensions and retirement plans are in the market because they can't divest as easily. Also the Bernie will go after 'wealth' because the rich are good at hiding their 'income' but 'wealth' isn't as easy to. Let's not forget the military industry will pay some radicals somewhere to go on a false flag terrorist spree to bait Bernie into staying in or starting another war because of course they will....that's what they do.

Well, when industries, the health insurance and pharmaceutical, are responsible for about 100k deaths a year and more than 500k bankruptcies, many had insurance, due to their influence on the market then yes, the gvmnt needs to step in and prevent this predatory and abusive behavior. We cannot.... I repeat cannot rely on the capitalist corporations or the nonsensical concept of the 'invisible hand of the market' to do the right thing, they only seek their self interest profits at every turn. So letting the Medicare system that doesn't seek profits, operates at almost a tenth of the cost, will be able to negotiate lower costs and can ensure to the health care providers that they will get paid to be the single payer system is the only sensible thing to do. Every other modern country and a few developing ones have proven that it is possible and works. It's not a 'take over' of the whole industry either if that's going to be your rebuttal. Most of the providers are private, it's just a single payer system funded by the money we pay anyway. Why doesn't a 'public option' or 'if you want it' work? Because it still puts the health insurance industry at the middle of pricing the system and they will push the sickest off on medicare after they milked them dry of funds. I don't agree with 'banning' private insurance either, though. Rich people want special treatment and privileges so private insurance could work between the more basic clinic providers and 'medspa' upscale providers or cover expedited/electives but the payment Medicare would pay would be the same with the ins making up the difference. Capitalism creates a system of false scarcity and limited access to drive up their profits but health care should not be treated the same as other commodities....that runs against the general welfare of it's citizens the Government is constitutionally bound to promote and protect.

It's in the US constitution..... allowing a corporation, group or individual to deny health care to someone because of belief, race, gender, nation of origin, creed or even profit violates their rights as a citizen. So to ensure the general welfare it is the government's duty and imperative to establish and protect the citizen's rights and to promote the general welfare of all it's citizens.... that includes but isn't limited to health care, clean water, safe food, safe housing, education, a safe working environment, living wage, fair market practices, preserving a clean environment, a stable currency and others all of which contributes to their general welfare.

Until you unplug your butt of all the conceptual suppositories and let go of your anal gurus you will not find peace of mind, the ego would rather be 'right' than release it's identity inducing machinations so that awareness will be liberated from self suffering.

One can actively participate with the evolving conditioning process so experience the cessation of self suffering in liberation. This is my message and why I suggest the choice/no choice conversation is ultimately a distraction from it. The instances where it spontaneously happens randomly without any active participation in the conditioning process are especially rare, even more rare than when it happens with active participation which appears to be quite rare in itself. To one that doesn't experience the cessation of self suffering it is an abstract religious concept yet to one that does experience liberation it is realized. So which are you? Peace.

Truth is the state of being true......once one transcends the esoteric double speak the reality of what is becomes clear. Only if one trusts in the double speak of abstract religious concepts can one be confused by the obviousness of what is. There is an objectively true biomass of the earth but whether one can know it or not does not erase that there is an accurate fact of it. Not sure what point you thought you made by this. Roger and apparently you like to rely on the materialist interpretation of the manifest when it suits you and then toss it aside in deference to the belief of the imaginary abstract when it suits you. We can be an active participant in the natural evolution of the conditioning that creates our 'attitude' so even if we choose not to decide we still have made a choice. It's not the sense of self or the forming of identity that causes self suffering, it's the attachment to the self identity that is the source of self suffering. After liberation we still remember our self's name but we don't self suffer because others forget it.

You say your statement about the only 'truth' isn't the truth? That means it isn't the truth that the only truth is your own experience...... so why even say it at all? This double speak makes the 'pointer' virtually useless. There is a difference between contradictory and paradoxical..... if you are unaware of the difference maybe at some point you will. Well, one of the meanings of 'true' is something being 'accurate' so there is no real difference between trusting something is 'accurate' rather than 'true'. Both fall within the meaning of belief. If this sense of 'doership' is natural and we can't get rid of it as you suggest then why tell oneself a 'non-doership story' at all? It sets up an environment of conflict within our inner life and how does one find peace through a path of conflict? Which is why I suggest an 'attitude', to use your word, of acceptance of what is instead of resisting what naturally happens. If one does transcend this sense of 'doership' through whatever methods works so also perceives a 'non-doership' which you say won't erase the natural 'doership' anyway then it can be realized in it's completeness, or oneness. It also opens the potential for the purpose and usefulness of this sense of 'doership' and state of 'non-doership' to be revealed to those who are perceptive to it. Agreed, except I like to make the distinction of self suffering, what you call psychological suffering, and how physical suffering continues in life even though one ceases self suffering in liberation. In liberation our toe still hurts when we stub it and we still feel the pangs of hunger but we don't self suffer because of physical suffering. Which brings us back full circle to my initial point in the form of a question I described as a 'trick'... or would it be more accurate to call it an illusion? Yes... it may be. I tell a story of acceptance of what is and teach that we can use this natural sense of 'doership', even if one ultimately views it as an illusion, to create a different conditioning that can lead to the cessation of self suffering in liberation. This offers a coherent path to those who may be vexed by the apparent contradiction of 'doership' and 'non-doership' which may be serving as a stumbling block to their liberation from self suffering. It's not a matter of one story or another being right or wrong, true or false, it's more about what works and I see very little evidence in the lives of seekers that the story of 'non-doership' as it is being widely taught by the 'non-dual' teachers through the millennia is working to lead very many people to liberation.

When I say it people are critical of me but when Adyashanti says it he's an amazing teacher....haha

Possibly. Well, truth just means the state of being true and being true, in the context of spiritual experience, means loyal to one's own beliefs and belief just means what is trusted as true. There is an objective aspect to experience and a subjective aspect to experience with them overlapping in our consciousness and perception of it. Truth in the context of the objective and the subjective with regard to our perception of experience can diverge to a great degree. Yet very many purport it to be a 'truth' and even though you say it isn't meant to be a 'truth' your words reveal you clearly trust it is true. Do you suggest that the feeling of agency is responsible for psychological suffering and that it is unnecessarily 'held in place' by someone that experiences liberation? It appears you do and if you do may I ask what leads you to hold those beliefs? I'm not sure what you mean by 'peace of mind' but in my own experience I view peace of mind as agreement between the conscious and subconscious.... of course there could be agreement on guilt, blame and expectations so that could create self suffering. Again, I'm not sure what you mean by 'attitude' but I suspect you mean a psychological perspective and what causes one to have an 'attitude' is a slowly evolving process from effects of experience.