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It’s weird how people think it is some kind of sign of true religiosity to say they believe in God or believe in Christ or whatever it is. It’s like, okay? You believe in something. Meaning, you don’t know. You don’t know if it is actual, so you must believe. Believing in things is what children do, literally. They believe in Santa Claus. What does that really mean? It means they identify with the fabrications of their internal mental activity, probably from things that were planted into them by some else or a book. It means you’re stuck at the level of mind, which is not your spirit. It’s your mind, its ideas, its intellectualism, aka, not your spirit. From new agers to modern Christians, almost nobody I speak to these days really seems accept this concept that there is a direct experience to be had with an aspect of your being that you could only describe as spirit if you had the skill to soak into it directly, which very few humans have ever achieved, hense why remarkable people like Jesus, who could do it, are remembered forever. It is the idea that your spirit is literal, just like your physical body. It’s a literal thing that you can, under rare circumstances, absorb into entirely. In other words is “real”. Not a metaphor, not morality, not psychology, and definitely absolutely nothing to do with astrology, healing, past lives, dimensions, none of that. Mind goes away, body goes away, and all your ideas of God or whatever else are recognized as mostly pointless mental fabrications and your life is forever changed if you are to experience this aspect of reality for even 1 second. Therefore it’s much better to strive to “know” rather than believe. Believing is silly, there is something tangible to know directly, and it’s not easy to achieve!
This 20+ hour podcast series on Israel-Palestine really shook me. I feel as though understanding the origins of this situation is mandatory if a thinking person wants to have any sense of what is happening on the ground in our world today. It’s a terrible situation and the amount of propaganda drilled into the western minds’ brains that it’s all just some “crazy religious conflict” could not be further from the truth. 
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#1 - Fear & Loathing in the New Jerusalem, pt. 1
The Martyr Made Podcast · Episode
Sometimes the world just feels like a giant Walmart. What happened
With all the discussion around whether AI is self-conscious or not, the equally critical inquiry as to whether mannequins possess any semblance of awareness has been all but forgotten...
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The YouTube algo thinks I’m a women
Went for a coffee this morning and chatted with a store owner about his life in Egypt, and started to think about how one of the most pernicious aspects of the fiat system is how it causes the degeneration of culture.
Every couple of years they've had major currency devaluations by their central bank (due to taking on big loans from the IMF). This makes life more and more expensive for the locals there. It has become very difficult to buy a home. Think about a family living in a home for hundreds of years, past down through the generations, how much life has been lived in that. How much wisdom has been absorbed into the walls. And then all the sudden they're forced to sell so they can buy groceries. Much more is lost in that transaction than just the physical home. It contributes to the slow death of the story of the people.
Since there is a hollowing out of economic opportunity, the best and brightest decide to leave the country for greener pastures. While they bring aspects of their culture to wherever they emigrate to, parts of them inevitably fall away as their cultural identity slowly dissolves into the melting pots of the largely secular, developed world. So you have both an exodus and a thinning out of culture.
I find that quite sad because a place like Egypt has been around for such a long period of human history. Culture evolves alongside the demands of history, tuned to the challenges of earthly patterns of change. It is a loss that cannot be quantified.
everything is within walking distance, if you have the time 🚶
who are Uber drivers talking to on the phone?
The development of enduring qualities and skills is a lot more useful than having cool or emotionally loud “experiences” with anything regarding cultivating the mind, moving toward meditation…
Most of the stories of miracles and strange abilities and things of that nature from Jesus and Buddha and people of the like are literal. They’re not metaphors for psychology. They’re just descriptions of what they did and things that happened. The human mind / body system is capable of much much more than most conceive of
My life-long ferver for intellectual study has ended almost entirely over the last six months 🤷🏼♂️. Funny how a switch goes off and you’re just done with something that was once a large part of your identity.
Also LED bulbs. Incandescent maximalism is the way
I don’t know if there is anything more fiat than plastic plants