What does independence day mean to you?

[Ethan1]

Curious to hear thoughts & opinions on independency. July 4th 1776 was the declaration of independence. Now it's been.. 246 years since. Modern day society hasn't been around that long. 

 

Questions.. 

 

What does it mean to truly be independent? What does it mean to be interdependent? 

How do we resolve traditionalism vs progressivism division & fighting? 

How can we respect opinions and ideas to create discussions? 

How do we bring people together and create a more functional culture founded on truth & love? 

How do we free ourselves from corporatism, corruption, and division?

How do we get people from different backgrounds and cognitive biases to come together?

How do we reunite a divided country and world? 

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Open for more questions.

Open to more ideas. 

Open to solutions to problems. 

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Edited July 4, 2022 by Ethan1

[BlueOak]

Most influences in this world are aligned with keeping the world separated and divided. I would say this is because those people are divided and separated, so it is a self-perpetuating cycle. You will hear it as a common thread through all discussions here, through all media, through all politics, through how language is structured.

Most things start at language, which frames how we interact with and shape the world. If you want the single biggest lever to what you want to achieve here, look at the language. Look at your language. You can see Tony Robbins discuss it when he says to ask a better quality of question, for example, rather than why can't I do something, ask how can I do something. This basic adjustment changes the approach and the intended response.

To achieve more of what you are looking to do. We must look at how we divide ourselves through language rather than come together. This not only starts us off in the right place but means we are correcting ourselves through use of language, which shapes, or forms thought and self-identity.

What you've done here for example in the diagram/model is divide up what should be one. So you've started off with the division you want to heal. These arrows should be arriving at the same place or should be a combined arrow in the end, so all parts of human nature come together on any one issue.

Edited July 5, 2022 by BlueOak

[Devin]

To achieve those aspirations, an individuals part is to just try to be loving in your normal interactions and decisions, when someone hurts you, you just continue trying to be loving. Do what you can but not to the extent of making yourself miserable.

[Danioover9000]

@Ethan1

On 04/07/2022 at 9:32 PM, Ethan1 said:

Curious to hear thoughts & opinions on independency. July 4th 1776 was the declaration of independence. Now it's been.. 246 years since. Modern day society hasn't been around that long. 

 

Questions.. 

 

What does it mean to truly be independent? What does it mean to be interdependent? 

How do we resolve traditionalism vs progressivism division & fighting? 

How can we respect opinions and ideas to create discussions? 

How do we bring people together and create a more functional culture founded on truth & love? 

How do we free ourselves from corporatism, corruption, and division?

How do we get people from different backgrounds and cognitive biases to come together?

How do we reunite a divided country and world? 

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Open for more questions.

Open to more ideas. 

Open to solutions to problems. 

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   Personally I don't know, as I'm not American, so Independence Day means little to me. However, I have had 4 years in the USA, and from an outsiders point of view, While America is a nice place to holiday and perhaps live for many years, the national days and reinforcement of those ideologies felt cultish to me at that time, even when I couldn't identify that feeling at that time.

   My simple take to resolve your questions, is to do what Leo suggests in both his recent video on not knowing, the contemplation videos and the letting go video. It's good to research and do constructions and learn from history, but important to let them go and deconstruct them, to not be a prisoner to one's concepts of reality. Detach from those ideas, so that you can free yourself a little bit more from the physical and mental steess of those ideas.