Joseph Maynor

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  1. Yo. Don't hate the animal in us. Love that part of us. That's us! People get all high-and-mighty and get a stick up their ass with their focus on the Principled Self to the exclusion of their Animal Self. Embrace the Animal Self, it's an incredibly useful model.
  2. I dabbled in learning some Turkish prior to a 2-week vacation to Istanbul at the end of 2015.
  3. Turkish is a rather fascinating language that has some synthetic elements in it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_language
  4. Other Minds is an inference (an assumption) within the One Consciousness. Ditto for any other consciousness if you're dealing with reality on the level of Truth. If you're dealing with reality on the level of No Truth, probably you don't give a shit about this issue in the first place.
  5. Gottfried Leibniz was all about this project -- as were the early Bertrand Russell, Alfred North Whitehead, and Ludwig Wittgenstein. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tractatus_Logico-Philosophicus
  6. We gotta design sure-fire, sustainable systems that make actual change, even if it's just one tiny thing.
  7. But Bernie will never win. You gotta be able to actually effect a change in Political Work as an aspect of Personal/Interpersonal Development Work.
  8. It's a little deeper. It's a Paradox of Surrender and No Surrender.
  9. Law Of Attraction means a very specific thing that's best understood through the lens of Energy Metaphysics. Law of Attraction means that reality as a system tends to reflect back the energy that's put into it. It's a mirror aspect of reality that one can apply. This also explains self-fulfilling prophesy effects quite well; enough for practical use anyway.
  10. When you were a child did you need to know Truth to live?
  11. Are Enlightened people supposed to believe they're right?
  12. Enlightenment can be a big factor in terms of achieving emotional mastery. If I were trying to achieve emotional mastery, the first place I would look is to do enlightenment work.
  13. Wow. This is such a great topic. I'm looking forward to reading the responses here.
  14. Most recently this one in terms of my awakening regarding the Integral end of the Paradox Of The Sole-Survivor And The Integral.
  15. I just used that as fodder for making a joke. I like you, don't worry. I'm not taking as much personal anymore. Even my shitty performance on my own schedule this week I'm not taking personally. Momentum is hard to build, all I can do is just keep plugging away. I know I can get to peak performance again because I was there before.
  16. Lol. I'll take it!
  17. If you listen you can still hear God's voice. The only thing that's changed is the window-dressing -- the doll house you made to understand God. The projections you made onto God have changed.
  18. I like this video too. It's dead on. Yang energy.
  19. It's not just having ideas that makes Political Work an aspect of Personal/Interpersonal Development Work. It's getting great ideas implemented.
  20. This is a Threshold Guardian on the Hero's Journey for you paradoxically. Don't quit. Be a man and dust yourself off friend. Get back up and just cool off for a while. Realize you're shooken up right now and you're gonna be looking for an outlet for that energy. What you need is for people to tell you how much they appreciate you on here. We should all give you 5 reasons that we appreciate you and you'll melt like an ice cream cone. You're smart You got great Dragon-energy to use one of Zzenn's terms You got good courage You've got a purpose that you're trying to actualize You got at least some knowledge of which you speak
  21. Woah, you bet I'm gonna study this model.
  22. Start living your life now by working on practically improving your life and improving the lives of other human beings. No more hiding away from life in philosophy -- it's time to go live this one life you have today. It's time to do and speak instead of just speak. Integrate Karma Yoga with your Jnana Yoga. Apply the Paradox of Action and Truth. Truth without action is a bore; and action without truth is a fool.
  23. I'm trying to understand. Stage Blue is not very high up the Spiral. It's just odd to me that Leo would be so Stage Blue after all this work and all this time. But I guess my curiosity has run its course here. See ya.