Hello from Russia

So what? Ukraine is divided as fuck even without Donbass, people will not vote for or relate to only 1 nazi organization In Russia we don't even have 1% of far right parties in Parliament, by your logic we have 0 nazis?

The problem with it though is that most liberals will flee for good and Russia will legimately fully become a nationalistic country with even easier automatic nationalistic reelection

Nice take actually and I think is so true. Because from what I see, both liberal minded Ukrainians and Russians are right now fleeing both countries at a very rapid rate The only people who are truly combative are indeed just right wing people on both sides

@Something Funny Sorry it's triggering, but one of my highest value is truth and it's just true that there are radical nazis in the region, at least we have a good evidence of it Whatever atrocities Russian army is commiting right now or Russia as a collective commited in the past towards Ukraine doesn't mean I support it/have supported it ever We are having some meta discussion here, I don't know why you have to go personal You don't even know If I'm actually Russian or not ethnically, lol

@Something Funny @Something Funny 5-10% isn't that big of a number. It would be people who pretty much directly support neo-nazi ideas with 1-2% or less the most radical ones who take the actual action You attack me as though I said that 99% of ukrainians are nazis when I am basically saying the opposite but just stressing that there (!) are actual nazis and they are kind of a big deal

@Something Funny ? Why are you pegging me like this as though I am advocating for Russian agenda here

Maybe, but it is reported they commited big atrocities in Ukrainian civic Donbass war, which is why there was such outrage here, i wouldn't competely dismiss iit Though I agree with you of course that West issue is more way more primal

Hehe, not really, but only because they all got heavily persecuted and killed/jailed in latest years Maybe before this we actually had more legit nazis that's true In a sense Putin has some integrity in his antinazi policy

But there are and they are very cruel and stage Reddish I've seen a lot of videos of them committing various kind of atrocities and basically revealing their consciousness and vibe. And the thing is, they have their military organizations I am sure most of them would love to turn Ukraine into full fascist state However, it's for sure not anything close to majority of Ukrainians that are like this Maybe it is like 5-10% of Ukraine population or something similar But the problem is is that they are highly weaponized and they participate in wars (Esp Donbass wars in 2014-2022) Whole Putins argument of why he calls Zelensky a nazi is because they seemingly supported these guys with various goodies and political weight

Try it for a bit just for experience sake

What's especially funny is that this is the war both against Liberals and against Far Right, cause there are (!) undeniably neonazis in Ukraine, but of course Zelensky and his administration is not them For some reason, our propaganda machine equates liberals and progressives with neo nazis as one thing and our public just eats it, lol (or denies the existence of nazis, which is quite ignorant as well to be honest)

@Leo Gura I like how Oleksey Arestovich, who is basically an Ukrainian version of Ken Wilber you could say, puts it that war in Ukraine is basically the battle of Stage Blue vs Stage Orange hemispheres The thing is, Ukraine as a nation is pretty separated culturally as well, it has deeply conservative people here, as well as a lot of progressives and liberal types and basically Zelensky is one of them (he is very green and probably even yellow+, I studied him in his artistic career for a bit) People who are stage orange and above basically for the most part vote for NATO and for EU integration, all this good stuff, while conservative folk for the most part rooting for Russia and Russian world (though some of them hate Russia of course and want everyone to just leave them alone with their Karpaty mountain) Nonetheless, a lot of more conservative people are fleeing to Russia (!) willingly and they are (!) pretty happy here as far as I can tell. They see Ukrainian NATO and EU shinanigsnd as a deep corruption of Ukraine, "siding with fa***** and perverts". A lot view it as an enhancement to their lives Of course it's divided geographically as well, Western Ukraine, which is basically closer to EU is more liberal, while the East & South that are closer to Russia are more conservative

Study him and his politics, bro He is basically like Trump, but more skilled and wise. Very good for conservative people, not so much for progressives and liberals In a sense, yachts are a childish pleasure, Putin and people like him like to play something more serious and get the joy out of it

True, the problem is Putin is not stupid We have tons of new subsidy programs going right now for people who are patriotically minded and want to help build infrastructure for them. They are basically flushing money onto people right now and giving them a life purpose as into rebuilding the great Russia together. A little bit like Maga feel, but way more subsidies and more smart people following it I myself even got some free tax exemtps and goodies, lol, despite me having almost 0 to do actively participating inside Russian economy, all the business I've done for the past 3-5 years was abroad clients

The thing is, Russian people as a culture and as an etnic are very conformist but up to a point. If people are treated badly enough for long enough time or the bullshit that is going on is too big, historically, Russians just make a revolution So I wouldn't lose hope that much on that matter. I'm sure if things get out of hand, Russian ordinary people will actually start doing something

New agers were then right all time long?

But how do you know?

Do you find buddhism and buddhist stuff useful nonetheless? I am amidst creating a life purpose theme for myself that is tailored directly into helping higher consciousness teachers become more visible & empowered. Every time you criticize buddhism or other people/tradition it makes me bit questioning myself/these people more, which is good, but a bit derailing, haha, cause I value your takes a lot I feel like despite some epistemic dangers, of course, of making these people more popular and them spreading their teacings, there is still an enormous value to be had for people, if not for truth directly, but for all other aspects of life and their overall development. Right now I feel rather inadequete to judge the ability of different teachers to lead to truth, that's why I'm not making my core focus on it and focus more on very deep holistic health & wellness and highly in-depth personal development guys. Guys that are at least 2-3 stages above people like Andrew Tate if I recall his name correctly (Watched only like 1 vid of him) and other mainstream teachers and actors There are backlash\backfire reactions & negative effects to everything. But I feel like with these guys, their negative effects are much more healthy/not really that damaging. Even if a person catches some damaging new age belief or two, I find it's still much more better than what he may catch listening to conservative self-development content on youtube or wherever Just curious about your opinion on this, @Leo Gura, there are for sure gradations of stuff. I think if you made a balanced critique on New Age culture like you did with Jordan Peterson episode, it'd be very useful for everyone to hear your points, especially since you like to sort of dismiss these guys a lot, yet you share way too many simillarities and teach a lot of what these guys are teaching/aspiring towards. With some parts maybe where you are superior to them (epistemology, truth-seeking, etc), but with some where I feel they have a bit more comprehension of practical health and wellness methods, and might have some more practical insight/experience with conscious living when it comes to optimizing your surroundings for example, building physical community, various forms of activism, etc etc, as well as some some more in depth stuff on relationships and emotional\psychological health, unique takes on finding a life purpose, etc etc. Your relationship stuff is great, for example, but it's more focused on very initial stages of relating. Which is amazing and great too and of course it's an artform. But in a sense it's fairly easy compared to the depth of relating when you're relating with your long term partner/spauce, your friends, within community you live in, with other people even, if you're a politician for example, or some kind of a boss that has people under him. The way these people relate is often truly remarkable and inspiring and it's a bias of theirs of course which they happenned to flourish in. The way mainstream PUA's relate to different people around them makes me puke in comparisson, despite them being very charming when it comes to girls of course

@Leo GuraSince you've awaken, what do you think about things like Indian comosology since you've awoken that describe the structure of reality in crazy detail?

If we ll be saying tao, everyone will be thinking we are some crazy daoists or whatever Here is a branding problem

Why do you prefer to call it God? Rather than some more abstract things such as potentiality or infinity

I 100% agree with Leo here

Hehe, you don't even imagine how much worse it is in the countries like Russia where most of the people can only speak Russian and basically have 0 alternative

Lol, I misread Jordan Peterson as "Peter Ralston", meh

Sounds like huge values mismatch I'd look for other job/way of making an income It's not easily solvable with social gimmicks though if you exude enough charisma you could probably get along with those people, but is it worth it in the end of the day anyways?