Spiral Insights

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You will never be authentic if you try to live up to a social construct.

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There is an extreme pull in society towards going back to Blue/Orange now. Stronger than ever. Green and Yellow is growing too fast for the general population and alot of people are scared, their egos are not ready for a radical shift of thinking. Most are not at the open-minded/deconstruction stages and dont understand it. Many people will go back to traditional ways of thinking, the 1950s - 1980s, comfortable spaces. Choose your side, the future or tradition, but remember the Zen saying: Let go or be dragged. 

Edited January 6, 2021 by Rilles

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Hitler was NOT a Socialist. North Korea is not a democracy and a seahorse is NOT a horse!

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Why gender roles and feminine and masculine traits dont hold up to scrutiny.

Act like a man. 

If you say "men are active and outgoing".

Then you catch me being passive and introverted and say "men are not supposed to be that", do you see how the argument that men "are" outgoing is false? If it was true then I wouldnt have "act" outgoing to be a man. 

Why are we trying to live up to these roles? How can we be more of what we already are? How can a male be more male? It makes no sense. Either you are a male/man or youre not, then you would be female or transgender. Anything else is acting. Acting is not being authentic. Stop telling someone to "be more womanly" or "man up". There is nothing to be other than what you are.

Theres a nuance here to be added. There is nothing wrong with being active or passive, they are both useful in different situations, but they are not traits that make you more of a man or woman. They are just behaviours, sometimes you can change them sometimes you can not. 

Edited January 12, 2021 by Rilles

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Integrating RED

 

1. Be direct and immediate.

If you have some important call to make. Do it now! Dont wait!

If youre approaching a female. Dont wait! Do it now!

If you have something to say to someone! Do it now!

 

For my own benefit. I tend to wait around so damn much. I have probably demonized impulsivity alot in my life. 

Edited February 6, 2021 by Rilles

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2. Setting boundaries.

If someone in a social setting is insulting/saying something false about you/saying something you dont agree with. Tell them at that moment! Dont hold emotions in. Be outspoken!

Caveat: Dont be completely unhinged. RED is to be balanced with ALL the other Stages.

 

Edited February 6, 2021 by Rilles

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Science Through a Religious Framework

The Origin Myth

Big Bang

Primordial Soup

Evolution

Billions of years

Sperm race

 

Holy Places

Laboratories,

Universities

Institutes

Outer Space

Holy Places are hard to get into, only the for the most intelligent and hardworking. 

 

Philosophy

One life to live, Hedonism, Success, Progress

 

Metaphysics

Materialism/Physicalism

Linear Time

Objective reality behind the scenes

Randomness/chance

Death is the end

The brain

 

Practices

The Scientific Method

 

Salvation

The Scientific Progress will save humanity.

 

Holy Men

Science educators, professors that are all-knowing - Questioning them is taboo. Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Richard Dawkins, Carl Sagan etc. 

 

Authority

University Degrees, Peer reviews, PhDs

 

Persecution Story

Struggle against the church, Galileo, Copernicus, Enlightenment saved Humanity from the Dark Ages. Religion held us back.

 

Scripture

Scientific literature, peer reviewed papers, best-selling pop science. 

 

Dogmatism

Rationalism, mocks pseudo-science 

or post-rationalism as woo-woo, quackery

Creates cult like followings

Wont hesitate to censor "pseudoscience."

Science is the only truth.

Edited March 20, 2021 by Rilles

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"According to science" has become a phrase anyone can write in articles or videos to seem more trustworthy. 

 

This presupposes 3 things.

1.That the scientific study presented is accurate.

2.That the video or article hasn't cherry picked their research.

3.That science itself is 100% trustworthy.

 

But how many people actually look up the studies after they read an article or watched a video...

 

Go do a Google and Youtube search for "According to Science" and see how many use that specific phrase, youll be shocked. 

Edited March 20, 2021 by Rilles

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It truly baffled me today. How can people believe there is an objective world!

Reality is literally being experienced hands on by one subject! Me! Right now! Thats all I have ever experienced... This bubble! I have never been outside it.

I have never experienced birth, I just appeared at around 3 years old as an ego, out of nowhere I came! And the world came along with me! Reality and me are conjoined like siamese twins!

So much fantasy... so much thinking... so much delusion. Truth is right before my eyes... If I actually look.

Edited March 21, 2021 by Rilles

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Im certainly not Christian but damn... William Lane Craig is on point!

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Two Positive Feedback Loops

Positive does not mean good, positive means it adds up.

In the forum. 

 

1. Answering a forum post that you find wrong.

2. Someone replies to your post which angers you.

3. Now youre angry and reply again.

4. The new reply makes you even angrier.

5. Now youre riled up.

6. You keep replying because youre in an emotional state.

7. Youre stuck in a cycle.

Solution: take a deep breath, dont reply, sign off, do something productive.

 

 

Number Two

1. Alcoholic drinks to numb his anxiety.

2. Gets a hangover and more anxiety.

3. Drinks again to cure his anxiety and hangover.

4. Gets an even worse hangover and more anxiety.

5. Drinks again and so on.

6. Alcoholic has created an addiction.

7. Addiction leads to bad health.

8. Keeps drinking to forget his health problems.

9. Dies.

 

Solution: Dont drink to cure hangover/anxiety or even better dont drink at all.

Edited April 23, 2021 by Rilles