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I’ve experienced so many different religions. From Christianity to Islam to even Egyptian polytheism. I’ve meditated and studied Eastern philosophies along with connective tension to the point where I can track and map many of the different movement elements of my consciousness and feel what’s at the core or soul of myself and look in between the cracks of my mind. 

All that work has given me experiences that make religion obsolete and primitive. However it also makes atheism obsolete where it comes across as more of a spiritual depression or symptom of disconnection, along with attaching to faulty paradigms. 
 

The more I understand how the universe and energy are designed and how there are a staggeringly uncountable amount of different things all counterbalancing each other and constantly shifting and changing is incredible. Self centric human religions are paltry attempts at translating and expressing that design and are filled with ego-protective projections of self-limitation on the way the universe works. I think many people feel this way about religion and reject it, but then don’t have a better alternative to connect with and default to atheistic malaise to one degree or another. 
 

Instead of religion I’ve been studying how love moves and what energies synergize with love to create a family and a Goldilocks zone much like our planet requires a Goldilocks zone to function in harmony and support life. To me that is better than any religion, it’s universal, dynamic, and it’s movement/chemistry based so it’s grounded in reality and internally consistent. 
 

The more I internalize and manifest that family of love the happier I am and the more amazing and magical things occur in my life. It’s incredible and brings me so much ****ing joy. Religion, atheism, and vague spirituality ain’t **** compared to Trusting Love’s Harmony. 

This is such a key reality we need to deal with before it is too late. This is not going away, it is accelerating because the pressure is all pushing towards acceleration with nothing to counterbalance it. The GOP is getting worse not better. They are already at war with the rest of our country and democracy, but the sheltered and entitled in power are too out of touch to understand this or care.

4 hours ago, Califan007 said:

 

What were the embarrassing details?

It seems they are framing it as "embarrassing" for the people who are truly behind all these websites to be found out. That, plus whatever stuff might be in the emails. There is a lot to go through apparently.

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But that veil abruptly vanished last week when a huge breach by the hacker group Anonymous dumped into public view more than 150 gigabytes of previously private data — including user names, passwords and other identifying information of Epik’s customers.

Extremism researchers and political opponents have treated the leak as a Rosetta Stone to the far-right, helping them to decode who has been doing what with whom over several years. Initial revelations have spilled out steadily across Twitter since news of the hack broke last week, often under the hashtag #epikfail, but those studying the material say they will need months and perhaps years to dig through all of it.

“It’s massive. It may be the biggest domain-style leak I’ve seen and, as an extremism researcher, it’s certainly the most interesting,” said Megan Squire, a computer science professor at Elon University who studies right-wing extremism. “It’s an embarrassment of riches — stress on the embarrassment.”

 

On 9/19/2021 at 11:08 AM, Die Hard said:

 

And if we feel the need to 'explain' (rationalize, justify).... explore why you feel compelled to do so.

 

What 'need' (ie. certainty, variety, significance, connection, growth and contribution) you are fulfilling for yourself and others?

 

Also, explaining presupposes they will understand.... and if they understand they'll agree.

 

And as evidenced by 90% of posts on ES (and everywhere).... most people won't agree regardless.

 

And if we want/need people to agree with us.... then the need we're attempting to fill is certainty (confirmation bias), 'significance' (being right) and 'connection'.

 

And if you need others to fill those needs for you.... then that's the deeper issue that no one wants to get to, the hard conversation that no one wants to have.

 

To add to this great post, humans have a natural and very healthy need for feedback. The validation or rejection from feedback helps us sort through and manage what we have internalized about ourselves, others, and the beliefs/understandings/connections we carry.

Just like our stomach has an appetite for food and healthy or unhealthy food carry with it different consequences. Our mind/ego/identity has an appetite for feedback and validation with similar consequences. 
 

The goal isn’t to have no appetite, like some kill the ego people might think. Instead the goal is harmonization of that appetite via threading the needle between self-individuation, connection, and curation of feedback sources. Doing so places a person in the Goldilocks zone of the feedback to identify formation dynamic. 

What that means is self-deriving feedback through a process of self-reflection, self-correction, and self-determination consistently enough that you develop boundaries for your own sense of dignity and self-respect. The boundaries we place on others creates space for ourselves and the boundaries we place on oursleves creates space for others. To do both is to honor ourself and others. These boundaries and space create lines inside you that stand up under pressure and tension from others while also letting others know how far and to what degree they can trust and rely on you to be the shape/character you present to them. 

Once you have those consistently up and running to the point where they can stand up to pressure, you can then build on them and refine things by choosing with intent what to accept and reject in your life so the feedback/validation/connections in your life are vibrant, substantive, and constructive. 
 

Hopefully, this makes sense. Caring or being vulnerable to the opinions of others is not an absolutely good or bad thing, but there is a process and a Goldilocks zone for it, where you adapt to be vulnerable to the right people in the right contexts and closed to the wrong people and wrong contexts. 
 

I’ve heard one of the hardest things about being a breeder is coming up with names for your crosses. 
 

I was thinking that if I ever crossed GMO with Peanut Butter Breath the name would have to be Musty Nuts. 

Anyone else feel like Beard from Ted Lasso is the **** love child of an Amish lady and the Dos Equis guy?

36 minutes ago, PhilLesh said:

 

A federal prison might be a whole other kettle of fish...that will take you when you least expect it.

I did time in Petersburg Va federal prison. 8 months isn’t even a fish stick, let alone a kettle. 

Jeez, what a soft mother****er 8 months ain’t ****. That’s short time. 

1 hour ago, Skinsinparadise said:

I don't think I've ever seen a 15 pass block grade. 

Falcons “hold my beer”

Yup, the Gators play Alabama next and I hope he’s ready to go after that cramp or muscle pull he had at the end. I’d love to see him get the majority of the playing time, but we’ll see what happens. 

I’m glad Ron brought up Bobby McCain. We got killed last year when opposing offenses went deep and Bobby should help tremendously with that issue. I think we’ll still need another season to shore up our linebackers and run defense, but hopefully Landon Collins helps with that and Jamin can take over for Bostic in sub-packages by the time we get to that run of division games in the schedule. 

It’s both sad and ironic how blind distrust of the government leads these people to blindly trust these q-anon traitors. They’re all marks waiting to get played by the next person who can offer them a hit of feeling special, safe, righteous, and protected. 
 

The dope really does sell itself. 
 

Blind distrust is just as dumb as blind trust. It’s a shame so many people don’t realize that. 

hurdy dur frazzle dazzle

18 minutes ago, TD_washingtonredskins said:

I've been re-watching the Simpsons with my wife and I've noticed it too. I personally classify it as "devolving" because I miss the idea that you can poke fun at things without it meaning you hate those same things. There was a brief time there (at least I think there was) where we could point out and joke about differences (sexuality, religion, race, etc.) without it ending up on the news. I liked those times...and not just dishing it out, but receiving those jokes about me as well. 

I hear you, so you're saying the "devolving" action is people being unable to differentiate between using a person's differences or flaws for entertainment/humor versus hating them?

For me, I see the whole making fun of each other thing as low hanging fruit entertainment. There are other ways to find or create humor than making jokes about a person's sexuality, religion, race, etc. and I don't think there was ever a time when everybody was cool with being made fun of. Instead what was more likely the case is that entertainment and media coverage was dictated by people who had similar levels of callousness and that is changing now as society changes and works on re-orienting itself.

And it's not just that people are being overly sensitive or "weak". One of the things I liked most about being around certain sections of federal prison was how hyper respectful everyone was of each others space and identity. Violations were handled in such an extreme manner that it kept everyone considerate and on point around each other and I wouldn't consider those guys weak for that. It seems that people on the outside are learning to have boundaries and speak up more about what they don't like, while handling it in a less violent way than those on the inside.

2 minutes ago, PartyPosse said:

Because social commentary and commentary on the naive perceptions by Americans is actually a healthy way of dissecting how we view the way we think. Context should matter but it doesnt. The emphasis should be on Homer’s outdated and naive views on others and how foolish it looks, but that aspect seems to get completely ignored when the immediate reaction is “oh you can’t say that!” It’s why CRT is such a hot topic. Easier to just pretend that racism is not a very prevalent force in America than try to understand it’s history. That’s why it’s a de-evolution in my mind.

I'm not sure everyone would agree with the way you're framing the simpsons and the high-brow intent that the simpson's creators had when making whatever jokes we might be talking about. When I came into this thread it was more about people complaining that they can't have the jokes themselves on tv anymore, rather than lamenting the loss of social commentary. There are a lot of people complaining nowadays about standards being raised and having to be less of an asshole to others and more considerate.

I will say that there is a way to thread the needle and have a social commentary about our past in such a way that points it out as something to be moved on from. And I will also agree that context should matter and people should be able to explain themselves, but on the other hand people also have the right to say "I don't like being messed with, to entertain yourself".

On 9/5/2021 at 11:34 AM, PartyPosse said:

If you ever go back and watch the first ten seasons of Simpsons, you’d be shocked at how much was in there they couldn’t get away with now. It made me realize how hyper-sensitive we as a society have gotten in such a short period of time and actually made me a little fearful by how fast we’ve devolved.

How is what you call hyper sensitivity seen as de-evolution? Who is to say that this isn't an evolution from a society that was overly callous?

It’s interesting to see Reyes is the #3 TE and RSJ is #4. 

26 minutes ago, stevemcqueen1 said:

 

Me too man.  Me too.  In retrospect, I am glad it didn't happen earlier in the time of half-assed film adaptations.  It needs a prestige TV Series with a tech trillions budget.

 

I don't even care if they finish the damn thing, just make the seasons that they do produce good.  There are enough epic stories within the series that they don't have to finish the entire arc.

 

Also, they're going to need to change a lot of stuff in the adaptation because I just don't think certain things will work well on screen.  Rand's polyamory for one.  That always felt like a stretch in the books and it'd be even weirder and less believable in the shorter medium of a teleplay.

Yup, I ageee 100%. I wouldn’t mind if they hired some good creative female direction and updated some of the relationship dynamics all throughout the series. It has a  little feel here and there of adolescent boy wish fulfillment in how the women talk and respond to things that will make some people nowadays get all side-eyed. 
 

I’m already jonesing for the parts of the series that focus on Mat once he makes certain bargains and gets his gang around him. 

My dude reppin that Morocco bloodline. 
 

Been waiting for a Wheel of Time series to be done right for like 3 decades now. I wonder how many seasons they've committed to? There are like 37 million books in the series and they're all 700-1000 pages long.

My wife and I are so excited, we somehow got our hands on a super rare strain from one of our favorite breeders in the country.

It's a (GMO x Root beer) x (Root beer x Root beer) Double Back Cross called Mean Mugs which smells and tastes like root beer, chocolate, and coffee when you smoke it. The pure strain of Root beer is only sold in small batches for charity auctions, but only 200 packs of this particular cross were released for a one time deal.

12 minutes ago, Hersh said:

 

How many of your predictions have actually come true?

For real, dude is a disciple of the darkest timeline. 

In that pic Milne looks like he could be Reyes little brother.